BARR, James [pseud. FUGATE, James]

New York: Greenberg, 1950

8vo, pp. 373. Original black boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on front panel and spine.

First edition of the author's first book, inscribed by Barr to Richard Yates on the front free... [more]

MOODY, Rick

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997

8vo, pp. 298. Original purple and black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

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

ELIOT, T. S.

London: Faber, 1951

8vo, pp. 35. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.

First UK edition of this lecture, first delivered at Harvard... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

JOHNSON, B.S.

London: Trigram Press, 1972

Small 8vo, pp. 61. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine. Green endpapers, illustrated dustwrapper.

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

BETJEMAN, John

London: SPCK, 1954

8vo, unpaginated. Original illustrated stiff paper wrapper, lettered in blue and red to front panel.

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JAMES, Clive

London: Cape, 1983

8vo, pp. 79. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Bob with thanks -- Clive James 1983'.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

MORTIMER, John

London: Viking, 1985

8vo, pp. 374. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ACTOR LEO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

GALSWORTHY, John

London: Heinemann, 1933

8vo, pp. 322. Original three-quarter green boards, lettered in gilt to vellum spine. Publisher's device in gilt to front panel. Top edge gilt, leading ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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]

SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]

London: Methuen, 1941

Square 8vo, pp. 134. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Leading and bottom edges uncut.

First edition, SIGNED BY EDITH... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

SPARK, Muriel

London: Observer Books, 1971

8vo, pp. 159. Original yellow three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to tan spine, illustration in gilt to front panel. Yellow endpapers, silk... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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.<

HEATH, Edward

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976

4to, pp. 204, index. Original mauve boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1919

8vo, pp. 309. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

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

LEONARD, Elmore

New York: Delacorte Press, 1991

8vo, pp. 295. Original grey and black boards with gilt lettering.

First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page.

[HANCOCK, Tony] [trans. AUDEN, W.H.] HAMMARSKJOLD, Dag

London: Faber, 1965

8vo, pp. 186. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition, sixth impression, INSCRIBED IN 1968 TO TONY HANCOCK BY TED NOFFS, ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

GROOM, Jon

Munich: Edition X, 1994

Folio. Original brown boards, lettered in grey on spine. Double-thick pages, unopened but with blank inners.

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