AUDEN, W.H.

London: Faber, 1966

8vo, pp. 94. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Errata slip.

First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which appeared six... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

AUDEN, W.H.

London: Faber, 1936

8vo, pp. 68. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

First edition.

Auden was less than impressed by Faber's choice of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

GREENE, Graham

London: Bodley Head,

8vo, pp. 123. Original grey three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to red spine. Illustrated endpapers.

First edition.

Two... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

NORTON, Mary

London: J.M. Dent, 1951

8vo, pp. 154. Original blue boards, lettered in red to spine. Line drawing in red to front panel. Illustrated endpapers and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

London: Flamingo, 1997

8vo., pp. 340. Original purple boards, lettered in silver on spine. Dustwrapper.

First UK edition of the author's first book, and winner of the Booker Prize.

BOURJAILY, Vance

New York: Scribner's, 1955

8vo, pp. 250. Original black boards, lettered in black and yellow on spine.

First edition.
Bourjaily's second novel, about an atomic scientist haunted by post-Hiroshima guilt. Some... [more]

GREEN, Julian

New York: Pantheon, 1957

8vo, pp. 222. Original white hessian boards, initialled in brown, black spine lettered in gilt.

First edition in English, first published as Le Malfaiteur in Paris the previous... [more]

[ed. JOLAS, Eugene]

The Hague: Servire Press: February 1933

8vo, pp. 179. Original outsize printed paper wrappers,inevitably worn at edges.

First edition.
With contributions from Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Eugene Jolas and Stuart ... [more]

THOMPSON, Jim

New York: Signet, 1958

8vo, pp. 127. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine weakened at pp. 46-7.

First edition.
Thompson's ultra-hardboiled thriller was the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

LEONARD, Elmore

New York: Delacorte Press, 1990

8vo, pp. 292. Original black and white boards, lettered in green on spine.

First edition of perhaps the author's most famous book,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

VERCEL, Roger

New York: Random House, 1938

8vo, pp. 305. Original grey boards, lettered in black-on-red on spine. Top edge stained mauve.

First English-language edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

CHATWIN, Bruce

London: Cape, 1982

8vo, pp. 249. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.
Chatwin's third book, and his first novel.

HIGGINS, Jack

London: Collins, 1976

8vo, pp. 277. Original grey boards, lettered in silver on spine.

First edition.
WWII thriller from the author of The Eagle Has... [please click on the image or book title for more details]