Setting copy used for the British edition. A particularly interesting setting copy of this American classic in the scarce first issue dust-jacket, ...

The poet laureate, Cecil Day Lewis wrote a number of detective works under the name Nicholas Blake, of which this title is by far the best regarde...

Manuscript dedication to the artist Sir Gerald Kelly (1797-1972): 'Some of these stories are failures completely. One or two are not bad but I lik...

The Five Jars by M.R. James, master of the ghost story, is the author's only novel, taking the form of a fairy tale in which the narrator describe...

The first edition of the author's first novel, the first in a trilogy that was completed in 2012. The book was popular and critically well-receive...

A parody of self-plotted stories describes the interactions of hooded Skrump, shaggy Naeelah, shadowy Figbash, and limping Hooglyboo.'First Beaufo...

First edition, trade issue, signed by Gorey on the last leaf; folio; publisher's stapled wrappers.

Interesting collection of essays on social and political issues. This is Wells as thinker.First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's red cl...

The Five Jars by M.R. James, master of the ghost story, is the author's only novel, taking the form of a fairy tale in which the narrator describe...

A novel nominally set around a mine rescue, ordinary people coming together and forgetting their differences in the face of a catastrophe, from th...

The fourth publication in the author's Sac Prairie Saga, chronicling life in a Wisconsin village from the mid-19th century onwards, a far cry from...

A fine example of this first novel by an author more well-known for his Broadway adaptations, featuring gleefully morbid jacket artwork by Edward ...

An excellent copy of a 'future war' classic. An exceptional first edition of this intriguing work of science fiction, categorised by Bleiler under ...