

Modern First Editions
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Crime Wave At Blandings
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1937
8vo, pp. 330. Original blue boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Yellow endpapers, leading edge uncut. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
JOHNSON, B.S.
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
London: Collins, 1973
8vo, pp. 180. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED AND ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
French Leave
London: Heinemann, 1928
8vo, pp. 287. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE, AND... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Mount Music
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1919
8vo, pp. 309. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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KITCHIN, C.H.B.
The Secret River
London: Secker & Warburg, 1956
8vo, pp. 359. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Their Mutual Child
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919
8vo, pp. 284. Original blue boards, lettered in white to front panel and spine.
First edition.
Published in the UK... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Summer Moonshine
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938
8vo, pp. 312. 8 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Top edge red.Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Indiscretions of Archie
London: Herbert Jenkins, N.d. [1921]
8vo, pp. 320. Original pale blue boards, lettered in dark blue to front panel and spine, publisher's device bland-stamped to rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
O'BRIAN, Patrick
The Surgeon's Mate
London: Collins, 1980
8vo, pp. 315. Original blue stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to both panels and spine.
Proof copy of the seventh book in the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
Culture And Leisure
Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America/Unesco, 1966
4to, 12 mimeographed pp., secured with staple to top left.
First edition.
A philosophical... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CRANE, Clarkson
The Western Shore
New York: Harcourt, Brace 1925
8vo, pp. 303. Original black boards, lettered in brown on front panel and spine.
First edition.
Clarkson Crane (1894-1971)... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ONDAATJE, Michael
The English Patient
London: Bloomsbury, 1992
8vo, pp. 302. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic author's portrait to rear flap. Blue endpapers,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Intrusion Of Jimmy
New York: W.J. Watt, 1910
8vo, pp. 314. Original green illustrated boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Tissue guard to frontispiece.
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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Summer Moonshine
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1937
8vo, pp. 322. Original orange boards, lettered in orange-on-green to spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, preceding the UK edition by four months.
Serialised in the Saturday Evening Post before publication in book form -- for which Wodehouse was paid $40,000.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Uncle Fred In The Springtime
New York: Doubleday Doran, 1939
8vo, pp. 292. Original blue boards, lettered in blue-on-brown to spine. Leading edge uncut. illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, published on 25 August 1939; the UK edition appeared one week later. Serialised in Saturday Evening Post in April/May of that year.
'Uncle Fred was an afterthought, a late-1930s addition to Wodehouse's world, an irrepressible bounder of sixty-something whom Wodehouse saw as 'a sort of elderly Psmith'. ... [He] would be one of Wodehouse's most enduring heroes, later starring in Uncle Dynamite (1948), Cocktail Time (1958), and Service With A Smile (1962). But in Uncle Fred in the Springtime, he gets his name in the title, a sure indication of Wodehouse's delight in his company.'
A very nice copy in the scarce dustwrapper.
DURRELL, Lawrence
The Black Book
Paris: Obelisk, 1938
Octavo, pp. 260. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition.
No. 1 in the Villa Seurat series, established by Henry Miller and Laurence and Nancy Durrell as an imprint of the Obelisk... [more]
GUDAITIS, Anthony
A Young Man About To Commit Suicide
New York: William Faro, 1932
8vo, pp. 224. Original hessian boards, spine label lettered in red. Paper on rear pastedown a little split at spine.
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PROULX, E. Annie
The Shipping News
New York: Scribner's, 1993
8vo, pp. 364. Original blue stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and spine.
Uncorrected advance proof copy, SIGNED BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
