Modern First Editions
"SIMON" [Pseud. BURFORD, Roger and BLAKESTON, Oswell]. Death on the Swim
Wishart & Co. 1934
£248
8vo., original cloth with paper covered front board with a design by Paul Rotha of a skeleton holding a drowning female swimmer. A little cocked otherwise a very good copy. First edition …
ACKROYD, Peter. Chatterton.
Hamish Hamilton. 1987.
£75
8vo. Original cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards with glassine wrapper. Text slightly browned, otherwise a very good copy. First edition, limited edition of 150 specially bound copies …
LARGELY UNPUBLISHED HAROLD ACTON TYPESCRIPT ESSAY ON JOHN BETJEMAN
ACTON, Harold. Essay on Betjeman
1976.
£998
ACTON, Harold. Signed autograph letter to Bevis Hillier (1976), together with a 3-page typed essay on John Betjeman by him which was written specially for Young Betjeman ("The …
ADAIR, Gilbert. Love and Death on Long Island.
Heinemann. 1990.
£28
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First UK edition.
ALDINGTON, Richard. All Men Are Enemies
Chatto & Windus. 1933.
£148
8vo. Original quarter yellow buckram over patterned paper boards, top edges gilt; small bump at head of spine, some internal foxing, otherwise very good. One 110 numbered copies, signed by the author.
ALGREN, Nelson. A Walk on the Wild Side.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. 1956.
£168
8vo. Original blue boards with yellow spine; slight hint of fading at the top edges of the boards, otherwise fine in a near fine dust-jacket with some minor scuffs at spine ends. First …
ALI, Monica. Brick Lane.
Doubleday. 2003.
£45
8vo. Original black cloth; a fine copy in a very good dust-jacket with slight creasing to spine. First edition.
ALI, Monica. Brick Lane.
New York Scribner 2003
£28
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A near fine copy. First US edition.
AMIS, Kingsley.(Introduction) The Savoy Food and Drink Book.
Pyramid. 1988.
£18
4to., original cloth with price-clipped dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition. Published to mark the centenary of the famous hotel.
AMIS, Kingsley. Stanley and the Women.
Hutchinson. 1984.
£30
8vo. Original cloth and dust-jacket; a near fine copy. First edition.
AMIS, Kingsley. The Riverside Villas Murder.
Jonathan Cape. 1973.
£38
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition.
AMIS, Martin. Einstein's Monsters.
Jonathan Cape. 1987.
£30
8vo. Original black cloth; a fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. First edition.
AMIS, Martin. The Information.
Flamingo. 1995.
£50
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Ink mark on lower edge, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition, inscribed by the author "To Alex, Martin Amis".
AMIS, Martin. Time's Arrow.
Jonathan Cape. 1991.
£78
8vo. Original cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards with glassine wrapper. A fine copy. First edition, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author and specially bound.
ONE OF 26 LETTERED COPIES
AMIS, Martin. Two Stories. Denton's Death & Let me Count the Times.
Moorhouse & Sorensen. 1994.
£380
4to., original hand-binding of cloth backed aluminium by Jan Ascoli with dust wrapper. A mint copy. First edition, limited edition of 326 copies printed at the Libanus Press, this one of …
