DOYLE, Arthur Conan

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915

8vo, pp. 306, 6pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original read boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

London: Picador, 2001

8vo, pp. 124. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First UK edition.
Review copy: London Review of Books slip laid in.

THIRLWELL, Adam

London: Cape, 2003

8vo., pp. 279. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.

CUSK, Rachel

London: Faber, 2006

8vo., pp. 240. Original grey boards, lettered in black on spine.

First edition. Shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize.

SHAW, Irwin

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1973

8vo, pp. 312. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gold on spine.

First U.K. edition. Novel set at the Cannes Film Festival.

BURN, Gordon

London: Secker and Warburg, 1995

8vo, pp. 232. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.

Burn's follow-up to his Whitbread-winning Alma Cogan.

GLYDER, John

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1949

8vo, pp. 256. Original orange boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition.

TENNANT, Emma

London: Cape, 1973

8vo, pp. 142. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition of Tennant's second book, and the first... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

O'BRIEN, Edna

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972

8vo, pp. 151. Original brown boards, lettered in orange and white on spine. Dustwrapper.

First edition. A fine copy.

HUGHES, Richard

London: Chatto & Windus, 1961

8vo., pp. 352. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.

RICHLER, Mordecai

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968

8vo., pp. 207. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First UK edition.

[Olympia Press] O'CONNOR, Philip

Paris: Olympia Press, 1960

8vo, pp. 170. Original green stiff paper wrappers. Pictorial dustwrapper.

First edition.
Extracts from the book appeared in the Olympia Press publication Evergreen Review,... [more]

GEE, Maggie

London: Telegram, 2009

8vo, pp. 321. Original black boards, lettered in black on a gold spine. In the dustwrapper.

First edition.
Longlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards.

McMILLAN, Terry

London: Doubleday, 1992

8vo, pp. 366. Original blue boards, lettered in gold on spine. Pictorial dustwrapper.

First U.K. edition.

YATES, Dornford

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1949

8vo, pp. 286. Original black boards, lettered in gold on spine.

First edition. One of the Chandos books, written in the characteristic Yates style -- a style once described by Alan... [more]