Browse by Subject Category—Fiction
The First 49 Stories
Ernest Hemingway's stories 1923–36
Ernest Hemingway
Jonathan Cape, London, 1964
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The History of the Hobbit, Part Two: Return to Bag-End
First printing of the second part of John Rateliff's history of Tolkien's classic
John D Rateliff, and J R R Tolkien
HarperCollins, London, 2007
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Odd—But Even So
15 Queer and Quaint stories from P C Wren
P C Wren
John Murray, London, 1942
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Killing a Mouse on Sunday
1963, Emerric Pressburger's novel set in Francoist Spain
Emeric Pressburger
The Reprint Society, London, 1963
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Semi-Detached House & The Semi-Detached Couple
1928, Emily Eden's two novels
Emily Eden, with introductions by Anthony Eden and John Gore
Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
No Directions
1946, an early printing of James Hanley's Blitz novel
James Hanley, dustwrapper design by Enid Marx
Nicholson & Watson, London, 1946
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1906, a second impression of E M Forster's first novel
E M Forster
William Blackwood & Sons, London, 1906
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Brackenford Story (Signed copy)
Signed by Michael Home, pseudonym of crime writer Christopher Bush
Michael Home, pseud. Christopher Bush
Macmillan, New York, 1952
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Room with a View
1909, a lovely copy of the second impression of E M Forster's third novel
E M Forster
Edward Arnold, London, 1909
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Midnight Tales
1946, twenty uncanny tales including The Beast with Five Fingers
William Fryer Harvey
J M Dent, London, 1946
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Murder at Mt Fuji
First US edition of Shizuko Natsuki's Japanese crime classic
Shizuko Natsuki, translated by Robert B Rohmer
St Martin's Press, New York, 1984
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Vera
A very good 1921 first edition of Elizabeth von Arnim's novel
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Macmillan, London, 1921
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Adventures of a Pretty Woman
1927, a romance from Florence Warden
Florence Warden
Benman's, London, 1927
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Woman in Black (Signed copy)
Signed by Susan Hill, first printing in the Vintage Classics paperback range
Susan Hill
Vintage, London, 2018
£25.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
The Never-Ending Road and Other Sketches in War-Time
1916, a selection of writings from J E G De Montmorency, some of a supernatural flavour
J E G De Montmorency
C North, The Blackheath Press, London, 1916
£50.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A 1947 edition of Oscar Wilde's only novel
Oscar Wilde
Unicorn Press, London, 1947
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Bruno, Chief of Police
The first printing of the first book in the series
Martin Walker
Quercus, London, 2008
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Bessie Cotter
A 1946 edition of Wallace Smith's novel of a prositute's life in Chicago
Wallace Smith
The Obelisk Press, Paris, 1946
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover
Strait is the Gate
1924, the first UK edition of Andre Gide's classic novel
Andre Gide, translated by Dorothy Bussy
Jarrolds, London, 1924
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The English Teacher
1945, the first edition of R K Narayan's novel
R K Narayan
Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ramage, and Ramge and the Drum Beat
1965 & 1967, first printings of the first two Ramage adventures
Dudley Pope
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1965
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Folio Society's illustrated edition of Ken Kesey's classic
Ken Kesey, introduction by John Sutherland, illustrations by David Hughes
The Folio Society, London, 2015
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Slipcase
Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (1579)
and Euphues and his England (1580), published 1868 in Arber's English Reprint series
John Lyly, carefully edited by Edward Arber
Alex Murray & Son, London, 1868
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Rainbow Fish, Four Short Novels
Rainbow Fish, Death of a Virgin, The Other Land, and Dead End of the Sky
Ralph Bates
Jonathan Cape, London, 1937
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Miraculous Horde and other stories
Ralph Bates's short stories from the Spanish Civil War
Ralph Bates
Jonathan Cape, London, 1939
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
