Modern First Editions and English Literature

Cornwell (Bernard) Copperhead, first edition, signed by the author, double-page map, original boards, dust-jacket, small nick to spine-head, 8vo, 1994

De Bernires (Louis) Captain CorelliÕs Mandolin, first edition, signed and dated by the author, first issue binding, original white boards, a f...

De Bernires (Louis) Captain CorelliÕs Mandolin, first edition, signed and dated by the author, first issue binding, original white boards, a f...

De Bernires (Louis) Captain CorelliÕs Mandolin, first edition, signed and dated by the author, first issue binding, original white boards, fai...

De Bernires (Louis) Captain CorelliÕs Mandolin, first edition, signed and dated by the author, later issue binding, original black boards, upp...

Dexter (Colin) The Riddle of the Third Mile, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1983. £150 - 200

Durrell (Lawrence) The Alexandria Quartet, number 100 of 500 copies, signed by the author, original cloth, t.e.g., spine titles blocked in gilt, embos

Eliot (T.S.) A Song for Simeon, number 439 of 500 copies signed by the author, colour plate by E. McKnight Kauffer, original boards, gilt, edges uncut

Fleming (Ian, contributor).- The Kemsley Manual of Journalism, first edition, original cloth, 1950; and 7 others by Fleming, 4to and 8vo (8). £...

Fleming (Ian) Live and Let Die, first edition, original boards, second state dust-jacket slightly soiled and chipped, 8vo, 1954. £300 - 400

Fleming (Ian) Moonraker, 1955; Dr No, 1958; Goldfinger, 1959, first editions, original boards, head of spine of first mentioned nicked, 8vo (3). &#...

Fleming (Ian) Moonraker, inscription dated 1955 on front pastedown, upper cover very slightly damp-marked, dust-jacket slightly worn and very slightly

Fleming (Ian) Diamonds are Forever, first edition, occasional spotting, original boards, dust-jacket slightly chipped at head of spine and corners, 8v

Fleming (Ian) Diamonds Are Forever, 1956; On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, ...

Fleming (Ian) Diamonds are Forever, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, rubbed, torn & nicked at fore-corners, torn at spine with loss,...

Fleming (Ian) The Diamond Smugglers, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket faded to spine and slightly frayed, 8vo, 1957. £30 - 40

Fleming (Ian) From Russia, With Love, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket a little rubbed and frayed to extremities, spine slightly darkened,

Fleming (Ian) From Russia, With Love, front cover and dust-jacket slightly affected by damp, 1957; On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service, ownership s...

Fleming (Ian) From Russia, With Love, very slight spotting to early ff. and extreme page edges, Book Club dust-jacket with ChoppingÕs design, 1...

Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket slightly soiled, 8vo, 1959. £300 - 400

Fleming (Ian) For Your Eyes Only, first edition, sellotape marks to endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, 8vo, 1960. £100 - 150

Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, 1961; The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and another, by John Gardner, 8vo (

Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, first edition, original boards, slightly rubbed at edges, 2 small marks to extreme fore-edge of some pages, 8vo, 1961. &...

Fleming (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, very slightly knocked, tape-repairs on inside of spine-ends and upper fore-corners of jacket, price-clipped, 1962;

Fleming (Ian) On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket slightly rubbed at extremities and repaired to verso...

Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice, first edition, small abrasion to upper fore-corner of front free endpaper, original boards, very slightly knocked,

Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, original boards, dust-jackets, slightly rubbed at corners, 8vo, 1965. £80 - 120

Forsyth (Frederick) The Fourth Protocol, 1984 ¤ Ludlum (Robert) The Scorpio Illusion, 1993 ¤ Puzo (Mario) Omertˆ, 2000 ¤ Barker (Pat)...

Fowles (John) The Collector, first edition, small thumb-mark on verso of 1 preliminary f., foxing to extreme page edges, original boards, dust-jacket,

Francis (Dick) The Sport of Queens, Autobiography, plates, 1957; Nerve, spine slightly worn, 1964; Odds Against, 1965; Flying Finish, 1966; Blood Spor

Francis (Dick) Enquiry, first edition, shipÕs library stamp on front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket creased and a little rubbed, s...

Fraser (George MacDonald) Flash for Freedom, 1971; Flashman in the Great Game, 1975; Flashman and the Redskins, 1982, first editions, original boards,

Galsworthy (John) Loyalties. A Drama in Three Acts, number 35 of 315 copies, signed by the author, plates, original buckram, dust-jacket, rubbed, torn

Gash (Jonathan) The Grail Tree, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1979. £100 - 150

Goddard (Robert) Past Caring, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, very slightly scratched on lower wrapper with small nick, light crease line

Goddard (Robert) Past Caring, 1986; In Pale Battalions, 1988, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (2). £400 - 500

Graves (Robert) New Poems 1962, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1962. £20 - 30

Greene (Graham) Stamboul Train, neat ownership signature on front free endpaper, 1932 ¤ Waugh (Evelyn) Black Mischief, bookplate, 1932; Scoop, ...

Greene (Graham) ItÕs a Battlefield, 1934; The Ministry of Fear, original yellow cloth, 1943; The End of the Affair, chipped and soiled dust-jac...

Greene (Graham) Monsignor Quixote, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1982. £30 - 50

Grisham (John) The Client, 1993; and 7 others by the same, all first English editions, in original boards and dust-jackets, all fine copies, 8vo (8).

Gulik (Robert van) The Chinese Maze Murders, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine very slightly discoloured otherwise a fine copy, 8vo, T

Gulik (Robert van) The Given Day: An Amsterdam Mystery, first edition, plates, slight stain to inner margin of first few ff., original pictorial wrapp

Harris (Robert) Fatherland, uncorrected proof copy, signed presentation copy from the author, folding ÒnewspaperÓ article loosely inserted...

Harris (Thomas) Hannibal, first edition, signed by the author on title, with loosely inserted letter of authentication from ÕAuthors & Arti...

Highsmith (Patricia) The Talented Mr Ripley, first English edition, ownerÕs inscription on front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, v...

Hollinghurst (Alan) The Swimming-Pool Library, 1988; The Folding Star, 1994; The Spell, 1998, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (4).

Housman (A.E.) The Name and Nature of Poetry, first edition, a.l.s. from the author mounted on front free endpaper, original printed boards, spine-end

Huxley (Aldous) Those Barren Leaves, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, dust-jacket cut in three places without loss, spine soiled, 8vo, 1925

Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, ownership inscription erased from front free endpaper, original cloth, spine slightly worn, 8vo, 1932.

Jecks (Michael) The AbbotÕs Gibbet, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, a mint copy, 8vo, 1998. £120 - 180

Kavanagh (Dan) Duffy, 1980; Fiddle City, 1981; Putting the Boot In, 1985; Going to the Dogs, 1987, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo

Kersh (Gerald) The Horrible Dummy, 1944; and 5 others by the same, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (6). £100 - 150

Le CarrŽ (John) The Looking-Glass War, jacket spine faded, 3 small tears at top-edge, 1965 ¤ Greene (Graham) The Human Factor, jacket browned a...

Le CarrŽ (John) A Small Town in Germany, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1968. £60 - 80

Leacock (Stephen) The Hohenzollerns in America, jacket rubbed & marked, 1919 ¤ Tomlinson (H.M.) All Our Yesterdays, 1930 ¤ Coward (Noe...

Leonard (Elmore) The Switch, first English edition, original boards, dust-jacket, a mint copy, 8vo, 1979. £100 - 150

Lewis (Wyndham) The ChildermassÉSection I [all published], number 206 of 225 copies signed by the author, small ownerÕs signature on front...

Lunn (Jonathan) Killigrew R.N., first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, a mint copy, 8vo, 2000. £80 - 120

Crowley (Aleister) The Diary of a Drug Fiend, first edition, original cloth, rubbed at edges, extremities slightly frayed, spine ends slightly creased

Crowley (Aleister) The City of God; A Rhapsody, number 153 of 200 copies, signed, inscribed by the author to Silvia Thorne-Drury, portrait frontispiec

Fraenkel (Michael) Bastard Death; the Autobiography of an Idea, first edition, number 183 of 400 copies, original boards, dust-jacket, slightly tanned

LouØs (Pierre) The Song of Bilitis, first English edition, number 367 of 925 copies, front hinge weak, original cloth, 8vo, The Fortune Press, ...

Mailer (Norman) The Naked and the Dead, first English edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, a fine copy, 8vo, 1949. £40 - 60

Miller (Henry) Black Spring, first edition, original beige pictorial wrappers printed in reddish brown, slightly soiled at edges, from the library of

Miller (Henry) Max and the White Phagocytes, second issue, edges of leaves slightly tanned, original printed wrappers with 3 white panels on dark gree

Miller (Henry) Tropic of Capricorn (Fragment), first appearance, pp102-114, Paris, Delta Number 1, 1938; Epilogue to Black Spring, Paris, The Booster,

Miller (Henry) Tropic of Capricorn, second edition, variant without price on spine, errata leaf tipped-in on title, original dark pink wrappers with 3

Miller (Henry) Money and How It Gets That Way, first edition, edges of leaves a little tanned, original black wrappers, gilt lettering, slightly rubbe

Miller (Henry) The Colossus of Maroussi, first edition, original cloth, spine paper label, dust-jacket, tanned, near fine, 8vo, San Francisco, The Col

Miller (Henry) The Wisdom of the Heart, original red cloth, yellow printed labels laid-on, dust-jacket, soiled, tears to extremities, upper edge creas

Miller (Henry) Sunday After the War, offset reprint, original cream buckram, maroon lettering on spine, dust-jacket, slightly tanned at lower edge, No

Miller (Henry) The Cosmological Eye, offset reprint, original brown cloth, spine title gilt, slightly tanned dust-jacket, edges slightly creased, Norf

Miller (Henry) Murder The Murder, text in red, original printed wrappers, Delphic Press, 1946; The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1947; The Wisdom of the

Miller (Henry) The Books in My Life, first edition, plates, original buckram, dust-jacket, fine copy, 1952 ¤ Augustin (Saint) The City of God, ...

Miller (Henry) The Rosy Crucifixion Book Two Plexus, 2 vol., first edition, number 804 of 2000 copies, original fawn brown wrappers, black lettering w

Miller (Henry) The Time of the Assassins; A Study of Arthur Rimbaud, 1956; The Rosy Crucifixion Nexus, 1964; Remember To Remember, Grey Walls Press, 1

Miller (Henry) Reunion in Barcelona, number 49 of 500 copies, signed by the author, publisher T.L.s. advising the future publication of this title, 19

Miller (Henry) Between Heaven and Hell; a Symposium, original printed wrappers, Big Sur, 1961; Tropic of Cancer, first English edition, original board

Miller (Henry) Letters to Emil, edited by George Wickes, Carcanet Press, 1990; Letters to Ana•s Nin, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann, New York, 1965; Coll

Nin (Ana•s) Under a Glass Bell, 1947; A Spy in the House of Love, first English edition, [1955]; Delta of Venus, New York, 1969; and another copy; A L

Nin (Ana•s) The Diary, 7 vol., original cloth, dust-jackets, head of spines a little creased, the Swallow Press, New York, 1966-80; The Journals, 2 vo

Perls (Alfred) My Friend Henry Miller, first edition, frontispiece, plates, original boards, dust-jacket, a fine copy, 8vo, 1955; Round Trip, origina

Miller (Henry) Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, New York, 1962; Letters to Ana•s Nin, plates, 1965 ¤ Durrell (Lawrence) Spirit of Place. Lette...

Milne (A.A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, small tear in front free endpaper, ink inscription on recto

OÕBrian (Patrick) Desolation Island, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket faded at spine, 8vo, 1978. £100 - 150

OÕBrian (Patrick) The Fortune of War, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1979. £150 - 200

OÕBrian (Patrick) The Fortune of War, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket with minor crease to lower edge of upper cover, 8vo, 1979. &...

OÕBrian (Patrick) The Fortune of War, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1979. £100 - 150

OÕBrian (Patrick) The Fortune of War, 1979; The Ionian Mission, 1981; TreasonÕs Harbour, 1983, first editions; and 4 others, OÕBrian,...

OÕBrian (Patrick) The SurgeonÕs Mate, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket slightly darkened to spine, 8vo, 1980. £400 - 500

OÕBrian (Patrick) TreasonÕs Harbour, first edition, biro numbers and library withdrawn number on title, stamp and sticker removal mark on ...

OÕBrian (Patrick) The Far Side of the World, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1984 £80 - 120

OÕBrian (Patrick) The Commodore, 1994; The Hundred Days, 1998, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 7 others, including 3 US firs...

OÕFlaherty (Liam) The House of Gold, 1929; Thy NeighbourÕs Wife, presentation copy signed by the author on front free endpaper, 1923, firs...

Peake (Mervyn) Titus Groan, original cloth, dust-jacket, jacket secured to lower pastedown, trace of adhesive on upper pastedown, 8vo, 1946. £...

Proulx (E.Annie) The Shipping News, first English edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket with prize wrap-around, 8vo, 19

Rankin (Ian) Westwind, first edition, signed by the author and with his tic-tac-toe design on title, original boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1990. £...

Rankin (Ian) The Black Book. An Inspector Rebus Novel, 1993 ¤ Carr (John Dickson) The Third Bullet and Other Stories, 1954 ¤ Browning (Rob...

Richards (Grant) Valentine, signed presentation copy from the author, 1913 ¤ Walpole (Hugh) Reading, number 140 of 150 copies, signed by the au...