BETJEMAN, John

London: Chapman and Hall, 1933

8vo, pp. 136. Fold-out map to rear. Original pink three-quarter boards, letter in black to front panel. Printed spine label. Bottom edge uncut. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

Paris: Aux Galants Passe-Temps, 1937

8vo, pp. 252. Rebound in red boards lettered in gilt on spine, original wrappers bound in.

First edition. French text. No. 495 of 2000 copies.
Lesbian spanking novel from the stable of Jean Fort, the clandestine publisher of mostly sado-masochistic erotica. Fort was active in P

[COWARD, Noel] LESLEY, Cole; PAYN, Graham and MORLEY, Sheridan

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979

4to, pp. 216. Original white boards, lettered in silver on spine.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON PUBLICATION DAY TO BOB HOLNESS: 'Dear Bob, with our thanks, Coley, Publication Day. Graham, + Sheridan'. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED IN FULL BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON TITLE PAGE.<

[Roxburghe Club] FOGAZZARO, Antonio

San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club, 1930

Large 8vo, pp. 29. Original green stiff paper wrappers, spine label and silk ties. Green slipcase.

No. 76 of 250 numbered... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

MANN, Thomas

New York: Knopf, 1940

8vo, pp. 453. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition in English, trade issue, stated first and second printings... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

GREY, Zane

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, N.d. [1917]

8vo, pp. 335. 4 pp. advertisements at rear. Original illustrated blue-green boards, lettered in purple on front panel and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

MANN, Thomas

New York: Knopf, 1936

8vo, pp. 567. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine and in blind to front board. Leading edge uncut. Top edge stained red.

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

[ed. WIERSBE, Warren]

Wheaton: Miracle Books, 1959

8vo, pp. 32. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.

First edition.
'Whether you're "solid" (according to the rock 'n roll dictionary ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

FRENCH, Allen

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917

8vo, pp. 310, uncut. Original olive green boards, lettered in blue on front panel and spine. Small patch to spine, possibly a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

DEPEW, Albert N.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1918

8vo, pp. 312. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. Two small stamped names to front pastedown and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

PULLMAN, Philip

London: Scholastic, 2000

8vo, pp. 550. Original black boards, lettered in gold on front panel and spine.

First edition.
The third book in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

BIMSON, Walter R.

N.p. 'Privately printed by Walter R. Bimson for a few of his hunting and fishing companions' February 1, 1965

20 pp. pamphlet, stiff paper wrappers.

First and only edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'Taylor Smith /... [more]

PARR, Martin

London: Phaidon, 2000

4to, pp. 144. Original red boards, in a photographic dustwrapper. Blue endpapers.

First edition.

A fine copy in a fine,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[intro. McEWAN, Ian] PARR, Martin

London: Cape, 1993

Oblong 4to, pp. 57. Original photographic stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. Parr's photographic study of holidaymaking, at home and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[AUDEN, W.H.]

Menston: Scolar Press, 1973

4to green stiff paper folder, printed in black, holding green pamphlet and 25 loose pp. printed on Amalfi, and bearing the pamphlets contents in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

London: Faber, 1986

8vo, pp. 307. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition of the author's first book, a novel written entirely in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

ISHIGURO, Kazuo

London: Faber, 1986

8vo, pp. 206. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition, second issue (printed by Richard Clay). Winner of the Whitbread... [please click on the image or book title for more details]