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London: Heinemann, 1962. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very good +/very good. 8vo (20.5cm). The second volume in the author's Balkan Trilogy. Pale blue cloth in the attractive illustrated and unclipped dustwrapper by John Raynes, which is slightly rubbed around spine ends and tips, with minor edgewear and to rear panel, minor soil, darkening. Book and text block unfoxed, clean and… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909. First Edition. Half Buckram. Very good. 4to (33cm). A plain pale reddish buckram to spine over plain boards. No. 56 of 350 copies, printed on handmade paper and set in Cambridge type. Vol I: Books I to III. pp. 544, including to rear the two pages of Errata. Vol II: Books IV to… Read more about this item

UK: Penguin, 2008. First edition thus. Trade Paperbacks Box Set. Fine/Very good (box). The box set of all 14 007 novels, issued by Penguin to mark the centenary of the author's birth in 1908. In the pictorial glossy laminated box, 19 x 27 x 12cm. Minor rubs to the edges and as often with this collection, due to… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 1966. First edition. Original Cloth. Near fine. Illustrations by B S Biro. 8vo. pp. 181. A very well kept copy, in slipcase with a few minor marks.

New York: Tanam Press, 1980. First English edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Translated from the German by Martje Herzog and Alan Greenberg. A diary by the German film director, originally published in German in 1978, of a pilgrimage he undertook from Munich to Paris. Herzog undertook the walk on being told that a close friend, German film historian Lotte H.… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Original Cloth. Near fine/near fine. 8vo (24cm). In publisher's original black cloth, gilt titles to spine. xxv, 469. Illus with b&w photographs. Unclipped dust wrapper, with Hatchard's Signed Copy wraparound bellyband. Signed by Sisman to title page. Some light wear, use, very minor edgewear to wrapper. Faint toning to page… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1946. First Edition. Boards. Near fine/Very good +. John Leech. Slim 8vo (18.5cm). Printed paper over boards. With gilt decoration to cover. No. 32 in the King Penguin series. Illustrations in colour and b&w by John Leech. pp. 138. In the scarce, price clipped dust jacket with slight rubs, to folds and edges, small… Read more about this item

Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1889. First Edition, first state. Original Cloth. Very good +. A. Fredericks. A masterpiece of Victorian comic writing, gently poking fun at convention, with several renowned setpiece scenes. Original publisher's blue grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, black stamped title and silhouette of a boat to front cover. Small… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co., 1932. Reprint. Half Leather. Near fine. John Tenniel. 8vo (19.5cm). Gilt top edges, pale blue linen over boards, dark blue morocco to spine and outer corners. Gilt rules to leather edges on covers, five raised bands to spine, with gilt titles and date to base. Matching pale blue marble card endpapers. The bindings… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 1983. Second impression, 1984. Cloth. Very good. 8vo. Introduction, Christopher Falkus. Drawings by George Adamson. In the houndstooth yellow and red cloth boards, brown cloth spine with gilt titles. pp. 371. In a well kept slipcase, with a couple of small marks to one side. Faint sun fade to spine, front gutter a little slack,… Read more about this item

London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2003. First paperback edition, with revisions. Trade Paperback. Fine. Illustrated card wraps. pp. 144pp. 122 illustrations. All but as new.

USA: Hogarth, 2015. First edition, 11th printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Sm 8vo. pp. 188. Unclipped dust jacket. All but as new.

London: Methuen & Co, 1932. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very good. 8vo (19.5cm). Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to faded spine. b&w frontis author portrait. viii, 402. A prize label to flyleaf. Light wear, else a clean, tight, sound copy.

London: Picador, 2012. First Edition, thus. Laminated Boards. Fine/fine (slipcase). 8vo (24cm). In the illustrated slipcase. pp. 277. Appears unread. Numberline starts at 1. The slipcased issue appeared after the paperback original in 2011. Unpublished in Bolano's lifetime. A very well kept copy, appears unread, in a bright, clean, slipcase.

London: Folio Society, 1972. First edition thus. Original Cloth. Near fine. Drawings Ian Ribbons. 8vo. Bright yellow pictorial cloth, gilt titles to spine. A very bright, sharp copy, with slight fade to spine, in a slipcase with a crack to base of one side of slipcase.

UK: Allen Lane, 2015. First edition, 6th printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 8vo. pp. 293. In unclipped dust jacket with a little edgewear to topmost edge. Signed by author to title page. A bright, fresh copy.

London: Vintage Classics, 2017. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 8vo. (20.5cm). Pale yellow boards, black lettered titles to spine. Pictorial patterned endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket, illustration by Levente Szabo. Introduction by John Cork. pp. 303 + "From the Archives", illustrations of 'Live and Let Die' ephemera. An all but immaculate copy, unread and a very tight… Read more about this item

London: Vintage Classics, 2017. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo., (20.5cm). Terracotta boards, black lettered titles to spine. Pictorial patterned endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket, illustration by Levente Szabo. Introduction by John Cork. pp. 372 + "From the Archives", illustrations of 'Goldfinger' ephemera. An immaculate copy, unread and a very tight binding. Uncommon in this issue and condition.… Read more about this item

London: Elliot Stock, 1876. First edition, thus. Full Leather. Very good. Being a facsimile reprint of the first edition / with an introduction by Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. 12mo., (18cm). Panelled black morocco, with floral blind stamped border. Five raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, inside gilt dentelles. Matching gilt blocked decorations of acorns and oak leaves… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. Van Twiller Edition (First edition, thus). Decorative cloth. Very good/near fine. Illustrator Edward W. Kemble. Lrge 8vo (22.5cm). The ornate Van Twiller edition, with bevelled boards, white cloth, gilt stamped decoration to spine, cover, over blue patterned design. Top edges gilt. Both in the uncommon original brown dust wrappers. Vol I: xvii,… Read more about this item