Recent Arrivals from Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1932. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 308 [6]. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. With the original orange cloth spine and upper bound in at rear. Edges quite heavily toned, with some occasional… Read more about this item

London: The New Age Press, 1908. [Essays and Criticism] VINTAGE, EARLY EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4] 104 [2]. Cream quarter cloth, brown typographic paper over boards. Lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Some light toning and spotting to preliminaries, rubbing to spine gilt and toning to cloth. Very good. 'The Sanity of… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, [no date] Circa 1956. [Modern Literature] GROSSET'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY EDITION, early paperback edition. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 499; [1]; [6], publisher's advertisements. Illustrated softcovers with printed price of $1.45 to front cover. Toning to edges of textblock, light creasing to spine and back cover, minor edgewear. Very good. 'The Town and the… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, [no date] Circa 1954. [Modern Fiction] THRILLER BOOK CLUB EDITION, early edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; 243. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in dark blue to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 10s. 6d. to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, bumping to corners, light tearing to jacket extremities. Very good. 'Detection… Read more about this item

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. [Naval biography] FIRST EDITION, sixth impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320. With black & white plates. Publisher's green cloth hardcovers, in jacket illustrated by Roy Sanford, priced 18s, with Ian Fleming review on front flap. Discreet gift inscription, contents and page edges clean, used jacket has some chips and tears. Very good. Fleming's review for… Read more about this item

London: Robert Hale, [no date] Circa 1956. [Modern Literature] THRILLER BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 10s. 6d. to front flap. Bumping to edges, rolling to spine, tearing and chipping to edges of jackets, crown of spine archivally repaired. Very good. This… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 1955. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.254; [2]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12/6 to front flap. Toning to edges of dust-jacket, rolling to spine, sunning to top edge of front board and crown of spine, some tearing to edges of jacket. Very good.… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 1996. [Modern Literature] UNCORRECTED SCARCE PROOF. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 249; [1]. Illustrated soft covers with publication date of May 1996 and UK price of £15.99 printed on back cover. Loosely inserted is a publisher's promotional letter. Light toning to cover, bumping to crown of spine. Near fine. 'Next of Kin' is set in the heart… Read more about this item

London: George Newnes, 1950. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to front board and spine, top edge tinted blue, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 7'6 to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, previous owner's details on a label adhered to title page, white spotting to cloth, jacket… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner, 1960. [Adventure Thriller] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's lilac hardcovers, top edge tinted blue, illustrated dust-wrapper by Robert Jonas. Contents clean, small and discreet name to pastedown, p/c jacket with a little edge wear, frayed to spine ends. Very good indeed. Author Berkely Mather was much admired by Ian Fleming,… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; iv; 366; [2]. Publisher's grey cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt to boards and spine. With in-text illustrations, diagrams, and mounted plates throughout. Spotting to textblock edges, spotting to spine, severe reading lean. Very good. Falkener offers his book to readers in hopes 'that some… Read more about this item

Johannesburg: AD. DONKER, 1981. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 X 13cm), 213; [1]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in white to spine, typographic dust-jacket. Some bumping to back board, rolling to spine, wearing to edges of jacket. Very good. According to the publisher's blurb, this edition of Roy Campbell's poems was the most comprehensive collation to be published in South… Read more about this item

London: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. [Modern Literature] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 246; [2]. Illustrated softcovers with expected publication date of 4 May 1995 and provisional price of £14.99 to back cover. Loosely inserted is a publisher's letter. Some light knocking to edges and creasing to spine. Near fine. The publisher's letter loosely inserted suggests that… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson & Company, 1955. [Literary annual / the arts] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.276. With photographic plates. Publisher's hardback cloth in a pictorial p/c dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping. Very good in a used jacket, chipped to spine ends and extremities. A book of the arts, with contributions by Fred Bason, Laurence Whistler, Joan Hassall, Nancy… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [no date] Circa 1957. [Modern Literature] THRILLER BOOK CLUB EDITION, early edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.223; [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, 10cm tear to jacket spine and other small tears archivally… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, 1942. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 208. Publisher's red cloth lettered in blue to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 8s. 6d. to front flap. Photographic plates of poets throughout. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock and preliminaries, rolling to spine and bumping to corners, some gentle tearing, spotting, and sunning to… Read more about this item

London: Sceptre, 1999, 2001, 2003. [Modern Literature] FIRST SIGNED EDITIONS. Three Volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 343; [3], pp.[6]; 327; [3], pp.[4]; 338; [10]. All illustrated soft covers. SIGNED by the author to title page. Vol I) creasing to spine. Near fine. Vols II and III) Light spotting to edges of textblock. Near Fine. Jack Arnott is a… Read more about this item

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1949. [Philosophy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.125; [3], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in green to front board and spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 6s. to front flap. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of Russell. Toning to cloth, bumping to corners and rolling to spine, wearing to jacket edges,… Read more about this item

London: Henry E. Walter, [no date] Circa 1949. [Modern Literature] VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.304. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Peter Fraser with printed price of 6/- to front flap. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, toning to edges of textblock, previous owner's prize label to flyleaf, rolling to spine, chipping… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall [and] John Camden Hotten, no date [circa 1870]. [Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, ex libris Sir William Thomas Madge. Twenty-one volumes bound as fifteen. Octavo (18 x 13 x 53cm). Each title with eight illustrated plates, including a frontispiece (excepting Life and Speeches). Quite thin paper with small print. INSCRIBED in 'Sketches by Boz' by the… Read more about this item