Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury, First edition, third printing. 8vo., pp.317, [i]. Light toning, very slight separation between half-title and title. Pictorial boards. Top edge a little foxed, very good indeed. Dust jacket very mildly creased at ends of spine, near fine. Third instalment in the Harry Potter series. Ref: 54861show full image..
Sartre, Jean-Paul: Words. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.173, [i]. Dark brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Head-cap a little crumpled but still fine. Dust jacket tattered at top edge, price-clipped, rear flap creased, good. Translated by Irene Clephane and published in the same year as the first French edition (Mots). Ref: 54676
[Scott, Walter:] The Monastery. A Romance. London; Edinburgh: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and for Archibald Cons 1820. First edition. 3 vols., 12mo., pp. [iv], 331, [i]; [iv], 333, [i]; [iv], 351, [i]. Each volume with its half-title; the second and third volumes each with a second half-title bound after the title-page. The misspelling 'attentoin' appears in volume one, in the final line of p.226; volume two has "Chapter II" on both p. 26 and p. 63, and "Chapter III" on pp. 89 and 123. A few spots and smudges, but very good. Near contemporary half brown calf, spines gilt terracotta and blue marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Rubbed, joints and edges worn, a few chips, very good. Ownership inscription of Robert Taylor in an old hand to the head of each title-page, though barely visible in vol. I. The first edition of The Monastery, in three volumes. Published with a print run of 10,000 and a price ?1 4s (?1.20). Like all the other Waverley novels before 1827, it was published anonymously. Ref: 54924show full image..
Sillitoe, Alan: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. London: W.H. Allen 1959. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.176. Internally very clean. Sage green cloth, gilt title to spine. Slightly cocked, some faint stains to cloth, stripe of toning near gutter to each free endpaper, illegible ms initials to front pastedown, good. Dust jacket a little creased at edges, price intact, very good. The author's second book, a Hawthornden Prize-winning collection of short stories; published one year after the success of Saturday Night & Sunday Morning. The eponymous lead story was the basis for the highly-regarded movie (of the same title) directed by Tony Richardson. Ref: 54668show full image..
Sillitoe, Alan: The Ragman's Daughter. London: W.H. Allen 1963. First edition. first impression. 8vo., pp.189, [i]. Very mildly toned, a little faint foxing to first leaf. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Edges very slightly rubbed, faint foxing to endpapers, very good. Green Foyles Bookshop sticker to front pastedown. Dust jacket a bit creased at edges, a few marks, price intact, very good. First appearance of these seven stories in book form, Ref: 54669
Sinclair, Ian: (McKean, Dave, illust.:) Landor's Tower or The Imaginary Conversations. Uppingham / London: Goldmark / Granta Books, 2001. Limited edition, first printing, signed by the author and the illustrator. 8vo., pp.[viii], 345, [xxi]. Deep red cloth, gilt title to spine, fine. Matching cloth-covered slipcase. Very faint shelf wear, near fine. Limited edition of 250 illustrated signed copies issued by Goldmark, this copy numbered 95. Ref: 54878show full image..
Smith, Stevie: Tender Only to One. Poems and Drawings. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. First edition. 8vo., pp.[ii], 77, [i]. Lightly foxed. Blue cloth, silver title to spine, top edge blue. Endcaps a little rubbed, corners slightly bumped, still very good. Dust jacket a bit grubby, spine toned with a little loss at each end, good. First edition copy of Smith's second collection of poetry. Ref: 54975show full image..
[Thackeray] Harden, Edgar F.: A William Makepeace Thackeray Chronology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First edition. 8vo., pp. xvii, 396. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Spine slightly cocked, mild signs of use with jacket lightly creased to edges, still a good copy. In the publisher's Author Chronologies series. Ref: 53936
Toy, Barbara: The Way of the Chariots. Niger River - Sahara - Libya. London: John Murray, 1964. First edition. 8vo., pp.[xiv], 156, [ii] + 8 leaves of photographic plates. Light blue cloth, white title to spine and upper board. A few sunned patches including head and tail edges, top edge a little foxed, still very good. Dust jacket a slightly toned at edges and folds but mostly visible only on the reverse, a few slight marks, very good. Ownership inscription to ffep, Nicholas Stuart-Lee, Oxford October 17th 1974. Memoir of Toy's journey by Land Rover from Timbuktu to Tripoli, including the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southern Algeria where she investigated ancient rock drawings. The title refers to the apocryphal great highway supposed to have been driven by prehistoric chariots from the Mediterranean to the Niger. Ref: 54791show full image..
Waterhouse, Keith: Billy Liar. London: Michael Joseph, 1959. First edition. 8vo., pp.190, [ii]. First and last four leaves a little foxed. Burgundy cloth, gilt title to spine. Very mildly cocked, free endpapers toned, still very good. Dust jacket spine a little toned, edges slightly tattered with small 2.5cm loss at tail of spine, still generally very good. The original novel version of Billy Liar, later adapted into a three-act stage play (1960) by Waterhouse and Willis Hall and then into a film (1963), directed by John Schlesinger and starring Tom Courtenay. Ref: 54980show full image..
