London: Victor Gollancz, 1943. First edition. Blue cloth hardback. Lacks dust jacket. Boards a little sun faded and lightly rubbed. A collection of short stories, written and engraved by Claire Leighton. Illustrating her love of America, its land and its people. Full of gorgeous woodcuts. Fall in love with the USA all over again! 124 pages. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).

London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1934. First edition. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. Barbara Lucas wrote this novel aged just 21. Lucas was the granddaughter of the British poet and essayist Alice Meynell. This novel tells the story of two sisters, the daughters of artists, who resolve to not lose sight of their own talents, and become like their mother - a plodding middle-class housewife. Dust jacket has some chips and creases, with a little loss to head of spine. Book clean and tidy inside. A scarce slice of 1930's fiction! 314 pages + 24 pages of adverts to rear. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).

london: Survivors' Press, 2006. First Edition. A collection of poetry, produced as part of "Survivors' Poetry" a mental health charity to promote writing. Clean dust wrapper, with a little marking to the front cover only. White soft covers are spotless. Inside, the work is also spotless. 38 pages. 210 by 150mm (8¼ by 6 inches)

. Première édition. Un recueil de poèmes, produit dans le cadre de "Survivors' Poetry", une organisation caritative de santé mentale visant à promouvoir l'écriture. La jaquette est propre, avec une petite marque sur la couverture avant seulement. Les couvertures souples blanches sont impeccables. A l'intérieur, l'ouvrage est également impeccable. 38 pages. 210 x 150 mm

London: Methuen & Co, 1895. Second edition. 301 pages followed by 32 pages of publisher's advertisements dated January 1895. From the library of the author Maarten Maartens. He has written his real name inside on the FFEP. Boards are bumped and rubbed, and there is sun fading to the spine. Page edges are spotted, but inside not so much. 190 x 135 mm (7½ x 5¼ inches).

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1961. Green paperback. Has green decorative border on title page. Previously owned by Julian Mitchell, the British playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist. Best known for his play 'Another Country'. B/w illustrations by the author are also in text. 241 pages. 175 x 110 mm (7 x 4¼ inches). Very small closed tear to title page. Previous owner's signature to front (as detailed). Also some handwritten poetry to the back blank end paper. Possibly also in Julian Mitchell's hand? Overall a very good copy, with added interest!

London: Oxford University Press, 1972. In pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Dust jacket is price clipped. Book is in a very good condition, and appears virtually unread. 95 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).

London: Wm. S. Orr and Co, 1855. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, decorated and lettered gilt. All edges gilt. Frontispiece by Alfred Crowquill, decorative title page and numerous illustrations through the text by Richard Doyle, Alfred Crowquill and John Leech. A handsomely illustrated book of verse, first published in 1849. 180 by 140mm (7 by 5½ inches). 254, [x ads]. pp

London: Macmillan, 1984. First edition. Slightly faded on spine of original unclipped dust wrapper. In August 1939, five cousins gather at their aunt's house in Cornwall for their carefree annual summer holiday. Soon, war will change everything. Very minor bumping to top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket in very good state with no tears. Red cloth boards in very good condition. Half title page has offsetting but otherwise clean and unmarked. 297 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. Very nice copy of this first edition, signed and dated) by the author to the title page. Spotless cloth. Clean and tidy dust wrapper, now held in archival protection. 230 by 140mm (9 by 5½ inches). 309 pages.

London: Thomas Miller, 1841. First edition. Green cloth binding, with beautiful embossed elaborate gold decoration. Scarce in this original edition. With title vignette and sixteen other steel vignettes. All gilt is bright and attractive. Spine is sun faded, and has some wear to the head and tail. Internally very good, binding is a little loose, but holding. A few spots of foxing throughout. [6] + 148 pp. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).

London: Methuen, 1984. First edition in dust wrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. Clean dust wrapper. Slight creasing to the laminate. Book itself is in very good condition. 422 pages. 220 by 140mm (8¾ by 5½ inches).

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1955. UK first edition, first impression. Hardback in unclipped dust jacket. The dust jacket is still bright, but has some very light signs of handling. Some small areas of loss. Head of the spine in particular. Inside the book is crisp and spotless, except for the following: over what was once the details of how to inquire about performance rights of the the play, there is a label reading Eric Glass Ltd. 110 [1] pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).

London: Aldine House, 1898. Blue cloth with gilt copy of the title page. In excellent condition. Printed in brown ink, with plates and vignettes by Brock throughout. Intermittent foxing else very good. Part of the Illustrated English Poems series. 50 pages. 210 x 160 mm (8¼ x 6¼ inches).

London: The Grey Walls Press, 1949. First Edition, but perhaps a later issue. Original grey hardback boards with title on spine, lettering in black. In original unclipped dust jacket. Pagination: 11, [3] + 62 pages (full-page illustrations in both colour and b/w). The dust jacket is spotted. FFEP has Sherratt Goathland written in pen at bottom right corner. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).

Oxford: The Fantasy Press, 1954. Limited Edition. This is copy #15 of 170. Set by hand in 10 point Bembo type and printed on Antique Laid paper. The elegant full-page line drawings in red ink are by Oscar Mellor.
Hardback in blue illustrated cloth, with silver figure to front board and silver titles to spine. In original plain tissue paper dust jacket. Book is in a fine condition, and dust jacket is in a very good / fine condition with just very small 'nicks' to top edge [iv], 112 pp. 215 x 130 mm (8½ x 5 inches).

London: Ward, Lock and Co. Attractively decorated hardback boards. Floral inlay to front board. No date. Circa 1872. 12 coloured illustrations by the Leighton Brothers. An unusual book. Pagination starts from page 49, as does the contents list. So pages are numbered 49 - 92. Clearly complete in itself, and too large for a sample. Perhaps this was intended as part of a larger work? It appears to comprise half of the only similar copy we can find (which has 92 pages and 24 plates but clearly a different title page and frontis). We can find no other similar online. See photos. Beautiful Leighton Brothers illustrations. 285 x 210 mm (11¼ x 8¼ inches).

Kettering: Woodlines Publishing, 2000. First edition. Signed dedication by the author to the half-title. Soft covers. A collection of short stories and poems. In very good condition. 90 pages. 200 x 145 mm (7¾ x 5¾ inches).