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W.E. Johns – Biggles’ Combined Operation – First Edition 1959
£75.00First edition, first printing. Published by Hodder & Stoughton in London, 1959. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper has some minor wear at the spine…
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C. Day Lewis – Christmas Eve – Ariel Poems – First Edition 1954
£35.00First edition, first printing. Published by Faber & Faber in London, 1954. This is a fine copy. With the original blue-grey card envelope, with the authors, illustrator titled alongside the…
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Richmal Crompton – William The Bold – First Edition 1950
£325.00First edition, first printing. Published by George Newnes Limited in London, 1950. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, designed by Thomas Henry, is bright and…
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Ernest H. Shepard – Drawn from Memory with Drawn from Life – First Editions
£325.00First editions, first printings. Published by Methuen in 1957 and 1961. These are near fine copies. Both wrappers are bright and clean, with some identical wear to the spine tips…
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Susan Colling & E.H. Shepherd – Frogmorton – First Edition 1955
£50.00First edition, first printing. Published by Collins in London, 1955. The dust wrapper, with illustrations by E. H. Shepard, has some slight handling marks to the rear panel and some…
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Winston S. Churchill – The Second World War – First UK Editions 1948-54 [The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy]
£875.00A set of first edition, first printings of ‘The Second World War’ published by Cassell between 1948-1954. All are in very good to near fine condition in very good (or…
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Thor Heyerdahl – The Kon-Tiki Expedition – First UK Edition 1950
£325.00First edition, first printing. Published by George Allen and Unwin, London, in 1950. This is a near fine (or better) copy. The dust wrapper has some very slight wear at…
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Leonard R. Gribble – They Kidnapped Stanley Matthews – First Edition 1950
£85.00First edition, first printing. Published by Herbert Jenkins in London, 1950. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is nicely illustrated with a photograph of Matthews on the…
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W.E. Johns – Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy – First UK Edition 1961
£65.00First edition, first printing. Published by the Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1961. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, as ever, is nicely illustrated by Leslie Stead….
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Roald Dahl – The Complete Roald Dahl Children’s Novels First Edition Collection – Consisting: The Gremlins, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Magic Finger, Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Danny The Champion of the World, The Enormous Crocodile, The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine, The BFG, The Witches, The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me, Matilda, Esio Trot, The Vicar of Nibbleswicke and The Minpins
£7,500.00A set of the first edition, first printings of Roald Dahl’s seventeen novels for children. Published between 1943 to 1991 by numerous publishers including George Allen and Unwin and Cape…
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Tom Finney – Finney on Football – SIGNED First Edition 1958
£125.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Finney on Football’ published by Nicholas Kaye in 1958. A very good book with a spotting to the page block. SIGNED on the front…
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L.M. Boston – The Children At Green Knowe – First Edition 1954
£1,250.00A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1954. A near fine book with a previous owner’s bookplate to the front endpaper (not filled in) and two small digits…
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Daphne Du Maurier – Mary Anne – First Edition 1954
£125.00A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1954. A very good book, without inscriptions. Some spotting to the text block, title page, copyright page and dedication page. In…
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Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha – First UK Edition 1954 – in the first issue dust wrapper
£975.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Siddhartha’ published by Vision and Peter Owen in 1954. A near fine book with one name to the front endpaper with a little wear…
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Nevil Shute – The Rainbow and the Rose – First UK Edition 1958
£75.00A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1958. A near fine book with one neat name to the top of the front end paper. Some slight browning to…
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Michael Bond – More About Paddington – Proof Copy in Dust Wrapper 1959
£1,500.00A proof copy in dust wrapper published by Collins in 1959. The book (limp softcover) is bound in blue and white covers. No inscriptions. In the very good proof wrapper…
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