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Ackroyd, Peter. Hawksmoor. Hamilton 1985. [72837 ]
INSCRIBED by Ackroyd on the title page. Fine in dustwrapper (pages a little browned as usual) £125 

Ackroyd, Peter. Chatterton. Hamilton 1987. [72839 ]
INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Fine in very slightly spine-faded dustwrapper £25 

Ackroyd, Peter. London Lickpenny. Ferry Press 1973. [72779 ]
INSCRIBED by Ackroyd on the title page. One of 500 copies. Cover design by Duncan Grant. VG+ in self-wrappers as issued £80 

Ackroyd, Peter. The House Of Doctor Dee. Hamish Hamilton 1993. [72973 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £15 

Ackroyd, Peter. The Fall Of Troy. Chatto & Windus 2006. [72655 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £17 

Ackroyd, Peter. English Music. Hamilton 1992. [73052 ]
INSCRIBED “To David from Peter Ackroyd” on the title page. Fine in dustwrapper £25 

Ackroyd, Peter. Dressing Up. Thames & Hudson 1979. [72781 ]
INSCRIBED by the author. A history of transvestitism. Near Fine large paperback (spine a little faded). There was also a casebound issue. £45 

Ackroyd, Peter. The Diversions Of Purley. Hamish Hamilton 1987. [72838 ]
INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Fine in very slightly spine-faded dustwrapper £40 

Ackroyd, Peter. Country Life. Ferry Press 1978. [72780 ]
INSCRIBED by Ackroyd on the title page. 1 of 350 copies. Fine in stapled card covers £85 

Ackroyd, Peter. Chatterton. London Limited Editions, Hamish Hamilton 1987. [72948 ]
No 85 of limited edition of 150, SIGNED by the author Fine in dustwrapper £50 

Ackroyd, Peter. The Last Testament Of Oscar Wilde. Hamish Hamilton 1983. [72786 ]
INSCRIBED by Ackroyd on the title page. Fine in dustwrapper (pages a little browned as always) £90 

Adams, Richard and Hooper, Max. Nature Through The Seasons. Kestrel Books 1975. [72719 ]
Illustrated by David A. Goddard and Adrian Williams. Science texts by Max Hooper. VG+ in dustwrapper £20 

Adams, Richard. A Nature Diary. Viking 1985. [72723 ]
Illustrated by John Lawrence. SIGNED by both author and artist. Fine in dustwrapper £25 

Adams, Richard. Watership Down. Reissue, Allen Lane / Kestrel Books 1982. [72756 ]
SIGNED by Adams on the title page. Fine in very slightly spine-faded publisher price-clipped dustwrapper £80 

Adams, Richard. Traveller. Hutchinson 1989. [72972 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £15 

Adams, Richard. Shardik. Allen Lane 1974. [72947 ]
INSCRIBED & dated by the author to the title page. Publisher’s review slip laid in. VG+ in slightly edge-worn, price-clipped dustwrapper, with a couple of nicks and tape repairs to reverse £30 

Adams, Richard. The Plague Dogs. Allen Lane 1977. [72940 ]
INSCRIBED - “Yours very sincerely, Richard Adams. 18th October 1983” Near Fine in VG++ price-clipped dustwrapper - tiny nick to spine, minor edgewear & tape repair to head of spine £35 

Adams, Richard. Maia. Viking 1984 [72957 ]
SIGNED by the author to the title page. Near Fine in dustwrapper £25 

Adams, Richard. The Legend Of Te Tuna. First thus, Sidgwick & Jackson 1986. [72763 ]
Beautifully illustrated by Ul de Rico. Fine in dustwrapper £18 

Adams, Richard. The Iron Wolf And Other Stories. Allen Lane 1980. [72963 ]
SIGNED by the author. Illustrated throughout by Yvonne Gilbert and Jennifer Campbell. Fine in dustwrapper £30 

Adams, Richard. The Girl In A Swing. Allen Lane 1980. [72783 ]
The suppressed first issue (with the publisher's name on the title page and the heroine's name printed as Käthe throughout). Fine in dustwrapper £120 

Adams, Richard. The Day Gone By. Hutchinson 1990. [72949 ]
His autobiography. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Fine in dustwrapper £20 

Adams, Richard. The Bureaucats. Viking Kestrel 1985. [72722 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £18 

Adams, Richard. Nature Day And Night. Kestrel Books 1978. [72716 ]
Illustrated by David Goddard. Science texts by Max Hooper. Fine in dustwrapper £20 

Aldin, Cecil. (illustrates) “The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club” by Charles Dickens. Chapman & Hall, Lawrence & Jellicoe 1910. [69635 ]
24 colour plates behind captioned tissue guards. Two volumes, VG indeed nice copies in original light brown cloth (very slight wear to hinge of volume 2) £175 

Allingham, Margery. Cargo Of Eagles. Chatto 1968. [72462 ]
Near Fine in VG slightly browned Youngman Carter dustwrapper £30 

Allingham, Margery. The Mind Readers. Chatto 1965. [72458 ]
VG in somewhat browned Youngman Carter dustwrapper £20 

Allingham, Margery. The Mysterious Mr Campion. Chatto & Windus 1963. [72459 ]
Comprising: The Case of the Late Pig; Dancers in Mourning; The Tiger in Smoke, and a short Christmas story. Near Fine in dustwrapper £45 

Alvarez, A. Hers. Weidenfeld 1974. [72858 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £20 

Amis, Kingsley. Collected Short Stories. Hutchinson 1980. [72769 ]
SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in spine-faded dustwrapper £75 

Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim’s Politics. Conservative Political Centre, London 1968. [72540 ]
A lecture given by Amis at the CPC National Summer School at Christ Church, Oxford, 1967. Near Fine in original card covers £45 

Amis, Kingsley. The Alteration. Cape 1976. [72539 ]
With the ownership signature of writer Julian Mitchell on the flyleaf, underneath which he has written “Critics forum”. Fine (but pages browned as usual) in dustwrapper £40 

Amis, Martin. Night Train. Cape 1997. [72629 ]
A detective story. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. Fine in dustwrapper £25 

Amis, Martin. Night Train. Cape 1997. [72659 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £22 

Amis, Martin. London Fields. London Limited Editions 1989. [72768 ]
No.81 of an edition of 150 SIGNED specially bound copies. Fine in quarter cloth binding with marbled paper covers in tissue dustwrapper £80 

Annuals. Chums Annual 1935-1936. Amalgamated Press, London 1936. [69569 ]
Near Fine (very slight foxing) in the rare pictorial dustwrapper, which is a little torn with minor loss, but basically intact - a very attractive volume £150 

Annuals. Chums Annual 1937-1938. Amalgamated Press 1937-38. [69690 ]
VG lovely bright copy (flyleaf hinges slightly cracked, binding very slightly marked and dusty) £75 

Annuals. Chums Annual 1939. Amalgamated Press, London 1939. [69572 ]
VG (front flyleaf hinge starting, bookplate, very light foxing) in the rare pictorial dustwrapper, which is slightly edge-worn and rubbed - a very attractive volume £150 

Annuals. Chums Annual 1941. Amalgamated Press 1941. [69688 ]
VG lovely bright copy (front flyleaf hinge slightly cracked, small annotation on flyleaf) £75 

Anthology. Wheels - A Second Cycle. Blackwell 1917. [67891 ]
Contains some of the earliest published work of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, Aldous Huxley and Nancy Cunard. Scarce. VG (tiny bookplate) in decorated paper-covered boards, lacking the spine label. Blind-stamped “For Review” on the title page, with review slip laid in. Cover design by C.W. Beaumont. £95 

Anthology. Wheels - A Sixth Cycle. Blackwell 1921. [67894 ]
Contains some of the earliest published work of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell and Aldous Huxley. The final annual issue of this publication. Scarce. VG in decorated paper-covered boards, with a cover design by William Roberts. £125 

Anthology. Wheels - An Anthology Of Verse. Blackwell 1916. [67890 ]
Contains some of the earliest published work of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell and Nancy Cunard. Scarce. VG (light foxing) in decorated paper-covered boards £125 

Auden, W. H. and Isherwood, Christopher. On The Frontier. Faber and Faber 1938. [70092 ]
Group Theatre leaflet laid in Near Fine (very slight foxing) in attractive dustwrapper with a short closed tear to the rear panel £125 

Bailey, H.C. Honour Among Thieves. Macdonald 1947. [72548 ]
Fine in VG slightly edge-worn and creased dustwrapper £28 

Bailey, Paul. A Distant Likeness. Cape 1973. [72849 ]
Near Fine in dustwrapper £20 

Bainbridge, Beryl. The Bottle Factory Outing. Duckworth 1974 [72844 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £30 

Bainbridge, Beryl. Sweet William. Duckworth 1975. [72855 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £20 

Bainbridge, Beryl. Mum & Mr. Armitage. Selected Stories Of Beryl Bainbridge. Duckworth 1985. [72853 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £26 

Banks, Iain. The Bridge. Macmillan 1986. [68657 ]
Uncommon. Fine (pages browning very slightly as always) in dustwrapper £145 

Banks, Iain. Walking On Glass. Macmillan 1985. [68625 ]
His second novel. Fine in dustwrapper £95