Literature
Jurgen. A Comedy of Justice
London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1949. Number 283 of 500 copies (with the first 100 'specially bound and contain one extra engraving'). More
A Crime against Cania
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Number 125 of 250 copies signed by the author. The ninth book in the Golden Cockerel series of first editions by contemporary authors. Chanticleer 99. More
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
Waltham Saint Lawrence, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928 (first thus)/ 1908. Number 308 of only 500 copies. More
Love-Tales from Tallemant rendered from the French
London, Grafton & Co., 1925. Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press. Number 634 of 1000 copies. More
La Belle O'Morphi. A Brief Biography
[London], Golden Cockerel Press, [1947]. Number 506 of 750 copies (of which numbers 1-100 were specially bound); With the pencilled ownership signature of [Professor] Heinz Kent. A colour postcard depicting a painting of 'La Belle O'Morphi' (Marie-Louise O'Murphy, 1737-1814) by Boucher is loosely inserted. More
Shelley at Oxford. The Early Correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his Friend T.J. Hogg together with Letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock and a hitherto unpublished Prose Fragment by Shelley. Edited by Walter Sidney Scott
London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Number 338 of 500 copies (the first 50 being a deluxe issue in full morocco). Cockalorum 163. More
Lord of the Flies
London, The Folio Society, 2009 (first thus). Preface by Ian McEwan. More
The Pyramid
London, Faber and Faber, 1967. '... patterns compounded of sex and calf love, rebellion and submission, dottiness, class distinction, tragedy and near-farce'. More
Rites of Passage; Close Quarters; Fire Down Below [the three-volume Sea Trilogy]
London, Faber & Faber, 1980, 1987 and 1989 (all first editions). [3 items]. More
The Citizen of the World, or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher residing in London to his Friends in the East
London, The Folio Society, 1969 (first thus). The ten-page introduction by Rosalind Vallance is essential. More
She Stoops to Conquer or, The Mistakes of a Night
Norwalk, The Easton Press, 1978 [first thus]. Illustrations by T.M. CLELAND. More
Little Deaths. Stories
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1993 (first edition). Inscribed by the author 'For Barry and especially Julia - my best and most rigorous proofreader! Peter, November 1993'. More
Pages from the Goncourt Journal
London, The Folio Society, 1980. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Robert Baldick. More
Our Hospital ABC [cover title]. Our Hospital Anzac British Canadian. Pictures by Joyce Dennys. Verses by Hampden Gordon & M.G. Tindall
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, [1916]. Wartime nursing staff feature in many of these well-executed and appealing illustrations. A couple in which they do not appear are more than topical: 'C is for Canada / gallant and true / whose sons make the Huns / look decidedly blue', and..... More
Boabdil or "The Twilight of Granada" and Other Poems
London, Hodgson, 1928. More
A letter (in French) signed by Maksim Gorki ('M. Gorcy') to one Willem Vogel, discussing his views on religion
Not having time to offer a full critique of a manuscript Vogel has sent him, Gorki writes that he will limit himself to a brief sketch of his own conception of religion, which is entirely contrary to Vogel's. 'La religion surgit de la sensation de la liaison entre l'homme et..... More
Father and Son. A Study of Two Temperaments
London, The Folio Society, 1972 (first thus). More
Early Children's Books and their Illustrations
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library/ Oxford University Press, 1975. More
Alias Blackshirt
London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1934/ 1933. Dustwrapper by Philip Simmonds; Harrap's Shilling Library. 'Bruce Graeme was a pseudonym for Graham Montague Jeffries [1900-1982], who also wrote as Peter Bourne and David Graeme. He was born in London and served in the Queen's Westminster Rifles in 1918. He married..... More
From England to the Back Blocks
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1898. More
K is for Killer
London, Macmillan, 1994 (first UK edition, with the first-issue dustwrapper). The front panel of this dustwrapper features a hand, not an eye. More
Until This Day. [To a Friendship in New Guinea (cover sub-title)]
Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, [1944]. A short story set 'in the jungle of New Guinea with a young soldier during the last hours before his death'. More
New Times and Old Rhymes
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1921. More
Catacrok! Mostly Stories, Mostly Funny
London, Cassell, 1956. More