Modern First Editions and English Literature

Acton (Harold) Memoirs of an Aesthete, second impression, plates, 1970; More Memoirs of an Aesthete, plates, 1970; Tit for Tat and other Tales, 1972;

Ambler (Eric) Passage of Arms, 1959; The Night Comers, 1956; The Intercom Conspiracy, 1970, first editions, 1st & 3rd with autograph inscription...

Benson (E.F.) Queen Lucia; Miss Mapp; Lucia in London; Mapp and Lucia; LuciaÕs Progress; Trouble for Lucia, 6 vol., reissue, forewords by Miche...

Betjeman (John) Continual Dew, illustrations, original decorative cloth, gilt, chipped dust jacket by McKnight Kauffer, 1937; Old Lights for New Chanc

Blanch (Lesley) Pavilions of the Heart; the Four Walls of Love, 1974 ¤ Longford (Elizabeth, Countess of) Wellington; the Years of the Sword, 19...

Childers (Erskine) The Riddle of the Sands, a Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved, first edition, front free endpaper, half title & foldi...

Clark (Kenneth) Moments of Vision, one of 500 copies, illustrations by Reynolds Stone, half title signed by the author, front free endpaper inscribed

Fleming (Peter) Bayonets to Lhasa, first edition, plates, maps, elegant autograph inscription to Handasyde Buchanan signed by the author, original clo

Grossmith (George and Weedon) The Diary of a Nobody, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, some full page, by Weedon Grossmith, 3pp.

Guinness (Jonathan and Catherine) The House of Mitford, 1984 ¤ Mosley (Diana) (38). £100 - 150

Handasyde, pseud. [i.e. Emily Handasyde Buchanan] For the Weekend, 16pp. advertisement at end, London & New York, 1907 ¤ Howard ( Lady Cons...

McLean (Ruari) Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, first edition, 1963; The same, second edition, enlarged and revised, 1972 ¤ De Vries ...

Mitford (Nancy) The Pursuit of Love, 1945; Love in a Cold Climate, 1949, first editions, both with affectionate autograph inscriptions to Mrs Buchanan

Mitford (Nancy) The Blessing, 1951; DonÕt Tell Alfred, 1960, first editions, both with autograph inscriptions to Mrs Buchanan signed by the aut...

Mitford (Nancy) Madame de Pompadour, plates, 1954; Voltaire in Love, plates, 1957, both with affectionate inscriptions to Mrs Buchanan signed by the a

Mitford (Nancy) The Sun King, 1966; Madame de Pompadour, 1968 ¤ Cecil (Lord David) The Cecils of Hatfield House, 1973; A Portrait of Jane Auste...

Moorehead (Alan) Gallipoli, 1956; The Blue Nile, 1962; CooperÕs Creek, 1963 ¤ Nutting (Anthony) Lawrence of Arabia. The Man and the Motive...

Pascoe (Charles Eyre, edit.) Everyday Life at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Other Great Public Schools, frontispiece, illustrations, some full page, origin

Sitwell (Dame Edith) Popular Song, Ariel Poems No. 15, illustrations by Edward Bawden, original printed wrappers, [1928] ¤ Woolf (Virginia) The...

Sitwell (Sir Osbert) ÒLeft Hand, Right Hand!Ó. The Cruel Month, second printing, 1945; The Scarlet Tree, 1946; Great Morning, 1948; Laught...