The 1950s marked a dynamic period for literature, witnessing a diverse array of literary movements and voices. Post-war disillusionment gave rise to existentialist themes in works like Camus’s “The Stranger” and Sartre’s “Nausea.” Beat Generation writers like Kerouac and Ginsberg rebelled against societal norms with their spontaneous prose and poetry, epitomised in “On the Road” and “Howl.” Meanwhile, the emergence of influential authors like Salinger (“The Catcher in the Rye”) and Nabokov (“Lolita”) challenged conventional storytelling. Amidst Cold War anxieties, sci-fi flourished, with Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” warning against censorship. Overall, the decade was a vibrant tapestry of innovation, dissent, and literary exploration.
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John Hunt – The Ascent of Everest – First UK Edition 1953 – SIGNED by Alfred Gregory
£485.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1953. A near fine book without inscriptions. In a very good, lightly nicked dust wrapper with some light fading…
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Mark Twain – A Tramp Abroad – First UK Edition 1880 – A true first issue
£275.00A first edition, first printing of ‘A Tramp Abroad’ published by Chatto and Windus in 1880. A very good copy with a neat bookplate to the front endpaper. A beautiful…
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Eleanor Farjeon – The Little Bookroom – illustrated by Edward Ardizzone – First Edition 1955
£185.00A first edition, first printing published by Oxford University Press in 1955. A very good book with fading to the spine and spotting to the front board and to the…
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Alfred Wainwright – A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells – Book One The Eastern Fells – First Edition 1955
£975.00A first edition of ‘A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells: The Eastern Fells’ published. The book was published by The Westmoreland Gazette in 1955. Without the dust wrapper as…
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Heinrich Harrer – The White Spider – The History of the Eiger’s North Face – First Edition 1959 – SIGNED by Kurt Diemberger
£275.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The White Spider’ published by E P Dutton in 1960. A very good book with a small name and date to the front endpaper…
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Nevil Shute – A Town Like Alice – Proof Copy
£975.00A proof copy of ‘A Town Like Alice’ published by Heinemann in 1950. Typical condition for a proof copy of this age – the spine has been laid down and…
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Daphne Du Maurier – The Apple Tree [Containing ‘The Birds’] – First Edition 1952
£185.00A first edition, first printing of The Apple Tree by Daphne Du Maurier, published by Gollancz, London in 1952. A very good book without inscriptions, boards bound in publisher’s original…
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Nevil Shute – On The Beach – First UK Edition 1957
£95.00A first edition, first printing of ‘On The Beach’ published by Heinemann in 1957. A very good book with spotting to the page edges, in a very good unclipped wrapper…
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THor Heyerdahl – Aku-Aku – First Edition – SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by Heyerdahl as well as by the publisher Philip Unwin
£875.00A first edition, first printing published by George Allen and Unwin in 1958. Signed by the Author on the free front endpaper, ‘To Frances Widdows/from/Thor Heyerdahl/London, 2.4.1958’. Beneath, the publisher…
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Daphne Du Maurier – The Scapegoat – First UK Edition 1957 – with MGM Press Book
£185.00A first UK edition, first printing of The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier, published by Victor Gollancz, London in 1957. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, light pushing…
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Agatha Christie – Cat Among The Pigeons – First UK Edition 1959
£300.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Cat Among The Pigeons’ published by Collins in 1959. A fine book without inscriptions, in a near fine unpriced, unclipped wrapper with some light…
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Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tiffany’s – First UK Edition 1958
£600.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ published by Hamish Hamilton in 1958. A very good book with one neat name to the front endpaper and some toning…
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Ian Fleming – Live and Let Die – SIGNED by 4 of the Cast and Crew
£2,750.00A first edition, third printing published by Cape in 1956. A very good book in like unclipped wrapper with a little chipping to the head of the spine. and some…
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Richard Matheson – I Am Legend – First Paperback Edition 1954
£385.00First paperback edition, first impression, published by Gold Medal Books in August 1954 and featuring cover art by Stan Melzoff. This is a very good copy. The true first edition…
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Winston S. Churchill – A History of the English-Speaking Peoples – Volumes 1-4 – First UK Editions 1956-58
£485.00First editions, first printings of ‘A History of the English-Speaking Peoples’. Published by Cassell in London, 1956-1958. [English History]. With occasional in-text maps and plans present – some bookplates. In…
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Alan Sillitoe – The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner – First Edition 1959 – with SIGNED letter
£450.00A signed first edition, first printing published by W H Allen in 1959. A very good book without inscriptions with some browning to the spine. Some light wear to the…
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