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.
Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
16 tipped-in colour plates.
Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton [c.1930] £350
King Kong by Edgar Wallace.
A VG clean copy (minor discolouration to front board, very slight wear to top of spine, contemporary removable pencil inscription) in original green cloth with flyleaves illustrated with scenes from the RKO movie which was issued in 1933. Very scarce. Kiddle W94.
Grosset & Dunlap, New York 1932. £1250
The Happy Highwayman by Leslie Charteris.
VG in slightly edge-worn and dusty dustwrapper.
Hodder & Stoughton 1939. £675
The Gold Bat by P.G. Wodehouse.
A lovely Near Fine tight clean copy (spine very lightly faded, foxed throughout) in original pictorial cloth. There is a prize label from The Captain magazine pasted to the front paste-down endpaper dated 1907 and signed “The Old Fag” (this book had been serialised in The Captain prior to publication). The first issue, without the later 8-page advertising insert.
Black 1904. £2000
The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene.
Greene’s account of his Mexican journey. VG+ (spine darkened, very slightly bumped, some very slight foxing) in price-clipped dustwrapper, dusty to the spine, slightly edge-worn and rubbed, with some minor loss to the extremities.
Longmans 1939. £850
The Picturegoers by David Lodge.
The author’s first book. Near Fine (minimal foxing to endpapers) in dustwrapper, unusually not faded to the spine.
MacGibbon & Kee 1960. £300
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon.
Near Fine (small Australian bookseller’s label to fep, very light foxing to edges and extremities, spine ends a little bumped) in dustwrapper (a very little gentle edgewear, scuffed patch on both flaps, short closed tear and associated creasing to rear panel).
Methuen 1937 £950
The Second Shot by Anthony Berkeley.
Very Good indeed (front board very lightly marked, very little foxing to edges) in similar, original dustwrapper (price-clipped to spine with neat Melbourne bookseller’s label covering, presumably with a view to export; one or two short closed tears with associated creasing).
Hodder & Stoughton 1930. £950
The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.
Very Good indeed, paperback original in dustwrapper, very slightly worn to top and bottom of the spine.
Olympia Press, Paris 1959 £1950
Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice.
VG+ (previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown; a little foxing to fore-edge) in dustwrapper – spine ends a little nudged. Connolly 100.
Faber & Faber 1939. £250