Featured Books
Listed below are some of the more notable books we have recently acquired.
Please contact us if you have any queries about any book on this page.
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith.
VG+ (a few light spots of foxing) in very slightly edge-worn dustwrapper (lightly foxed to the rear but this is not visible externally), with a couple of short repaired closed tears. An unusually nice copy of this poorly-made book.
Heinemann 1949. £1400
Many Dimensions by Charles Williams.
“Novel in which an ancient stone moves a scientist through time”. Locke Spectrum of Fantasy I, p.232. VG (spine very slightly darkened, bookplate) in dustwrapper, which is lightly browned with a small piece torn from the front flap (only just affecting a couple of letters of text), and has very minor loss to top of spine. Very scarce in dustwrapper.
Gollancz 1931. £795
Rhymes Without Reason by Mervyn Peake.
Peake’s classic collection of glorious nonsense verse and fantastic illustration. Near Fine in VG slightly dusty dustwrappper, with a tiny chip and related crease to top of spine.
Eyre & Spottiswoode 1945. £175
Stowaways In The Abbey by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Fine (previous owner’s ink inscription, light foxing) in lovely bright price-clipped dustwrapper with minimal edge-wear.
Collins 1940. £275
Pigs Have Wings by P.G. Wodehouse.
Near Fine in fresh bright clean price-clipped dustwrapper – a lovely copy!
Herbert jenkins 1952. £150
Mr. Campion: Criminologist by Margery Allingham.
Seven short stories. Precedes the UK edition by two years, and contains two more stories. Queen’s Quorum.
Fine in attractive VG+ dustwrapper (priced at $2 as called for), slightly worn to the spine ends
1st US edition, The Crime Club, Doubleday 1932. £295
The Wheels Of If by L. Sprague de Camp.
SIGNED by the author to the flyleaf.
VG+ (previous owner’s bookplate; spine ends a little pushed; light stain to rear board) in like dustwrapper – tape repairs to corners and spine ends.
1st US edition, Shasta 1948. £150
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake.
Comprises “Titus Groan”, “Gormenghast” and “Titus Alone”. Three volumes, all attractive virtually Fine copies in VG dustwrappers, with minor browning and dustiness, and a tiny chip to the top of the spine of volume one – an attractive set. “Titus Groan” is the correct first issue.
Eyre & Spottiswoode 1946, 1950 & 1959. £1495
The Clue Of The Silver Key by Edgar Wallace.
VG (ink ownership inscription, gift inscription on a small piece of paper pasted to the front paste-down endpaper) in pictorial very slightly browned 7/6- Hastain-designed dustwrapper.
Hodder & Stoughton [1930]. £325
The Burgomaster Of Furnes by Georges Simenon.
Very Near Fine in unfaded crisp dustwrapper (later publisher’s price label to front flap).
Routledge and Kegan 1952. £110