Rare & Collectible Books

Gavin Lyall / The Conduct of Major Maxim

 A deserting corporal, a cabinet convulsion in East Germany, a double killing in a West German town, a seedy South London fight club, a widowed piano teacher in Yorkshire: they are all somehow related, and someone must find the connection before...

Mark Smith & Jamie Thomson / The Rack of Baal ( Falcon 3 ) - Choose your Own Adventure

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

James Carty - A Class Book of Irish History ( From the Act of Union ) - Vintage School Text 1959 Fallon

Published by CJ Fallon, 1959, and book 4 of a series covering Irish history , this book centers on Ireland After the Act of Union, covering the period 1801 to the establishment of the free state.  Some scribbles nad doodles internally , 176 pages,...

Michael Bond - Here Comes Thursday ( Vintage Puffin PB ) 1982 ( Originally 1966 )

Thursday the Mouse fell from a balloon having just escaped from the Home for Waif-Mice and Stray-Mice. The Pecks adopt him into their family of church mice and they name him Thursday because the day he arrived was a Thursday to remember. Part of a wider...

Mike Lithgow - Vapour Trails : The Men Who Fly at Supersonic Speeds - Vintage PB 1957

Michael John Lithgow, (30 August 1920 – 22 October 1963) was a British aviator and chief test pilot for Vickers Supermarine Aviation who became the holder of the World Absolute Air Speed Record in 1953 flying a Supermarine Swift ...

Thor Heyerdahl - The Ra Expeditions - HB 1971

Ra is the story of Heyerdahl's voyage from North Africa( Morocco )  to South America in a 45 foot reed /papyrus boat modelled on those depicted in the pharoah's wall paintings. A violent storm ended the first expedition but within a year the seven...

Osbert Lancaster - Sailing to Byzantium : An Architectural Companion ( Illustrated) - HB - 1969

For the weary, determined tourist to Greece, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and environs, wall-eyed after a surfeit of Byzantine churches, Mr. Lancaster's cheerily biased, pleasantly, instructive tour will be a happy restorative. In an introductory...

Edna O'Brien - The High Road - HB US 1st Edition- 1988

USA 1st Edition, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1988.  A passionate and lyrical novel of lost and regained love, of tragedy and salvation. Anna, the yearning narrator, is tormented by her stormy past and escapes to a lush Spanish island hoping to...

Lothar-Gunther Buchheim - Das Boot - PB 1993 ( Originally 1973)

Published by Serie Piper, ( numbered 1800) , this reporint 1993, Munich .  Das Boot  English: The Boat) is the title of a 603-page 1973 German novel by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim (1918-2007), which deals with the author's personal...

Fergal Grannell - The Franciscans in Athlone - PB - 1978

When did the friars come to Athlone? Where in Athlone is the site of the first friary? Is is true that the church in the Old Abbey graveyard was, in fact, never completed? These and other questions indicated how helpful it would be to have the story of...

C. S. Lewis / The Last Battle ( Chronicles of Narnia - Book 7 ) ( Vintage Puffin Paperback)- 1976

This Puffin reprint, 1976, originally 1956.  Cover art and interior art by Pauline Baynes.  Spine uncreased, binding tight, light edgewear to corners.    During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest challenge―not an...

Enid Blyton - The Island of Adventure - Vintage PB 1978

A Piccolo paperback , 1978. 5th printing thus, first published in 1944. Tanning to pages. Unabridged The Island of Adventure is the first thrilling instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton, one of the best-loved children's writers of all...

Jim Gasperini - Time Machine 1 - Secret of the Knights : Choose Your Own Adventure- PB (

It is teh year 1340. You have travelled back to the age of Knights. A squire has just accused you of being a sorcerer, you must prove yourself in a duel... You can try to defend yourself or escpae throug teh angry crowd, Your decisions can lead you to...

Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Thérese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - HB 1958

Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. Also known as "the Little Flower," her autobiography, written at the request of her Carmelite Superiors in the last years of her...

Walter de la Mare - The Burning-Glass - HB - Faber 1945

A 1945 collection of poems from de la Mare, published by Faber UK. Hardcover, 1st edition, lacks dustjacket, uneven sun fade to spine, titles in gilt, internallu unmarked. 

Walter de la Mare - Broomsticks - HB -1925 ( Short Stories)

Published in London by Constable & Company Ltd,  1925 With woodcut illustrations by Bold, original pictorial orange cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition.  A collection of...

Walter de la Mare - Three Vintage POETRY - The Fleeting & Other Poems ( 1933 ), Stuff and Nonsense ( 1927) , Memory & Other Poems ( 1938 )

Three vintage hardcover Contable poetry collections from Walter de la Mare, all in unoiform pale green/ khaki cloth covers, two with titles tro front and spine, one without.  All in uniformly sized hardcover, all without dustjackets   Stuff...

Patrick Skene Catling - Freddy Hill : The Story of a Modern Man of Pleasure - Vintage PB - 1970

A 1970'S satire of the erotic classic , Fanny Hill, this switches the gender to Freddy Hill, a young lothario. Probably seen as ' rac at the time of publication', (  and for the time it was) now it seems very tame. What is funny is how much of...

David Kossoff - A Small Town is a World - The Rabbi Mark Stories - Vintage PB

Pan paperback, a mix of wry religion, human nature in stories form an ( imaginary) small town - Klanestetl - in Poland. 

Nadine Gordimer - July's People - Vintage PB -1982 ( Originally 1981)

South Africa, 1980. For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who...

Charles Jackson - The Lost Week-End - HB UK 1960 ( Originally 1945)

The classic tale of one man's struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson's best-known book--a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature. It is 1936, and on the East Side of...

Rudyard Kipling - The Five Nations - HB 1st Edition 1903 - Poetry

A hardcover first UK Edition, ( Methuen london, 1903) of Kipling's ' Five Nations' , including the text of Recessional ( firts published in the Times Newspaper in 1897.  Recessional" contains five stanzas of six lines each. As a recessional is...

F.A Worsley - Under Sail in the Frozen North - HB 1st Edition 1927 ( With Map) - Polar Exploration

Under Sail in the Frozen North by Frank Worsley, HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION, 1927, ondon.  Hardcover , without dustjacket with gilt-printed sailing ship on cover board, no dust jacket. Fully illustrated and fold-out map of Spitzbergen and environs at...

E Lipson - Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries 1815-1939 - PB 1972 ( Originally 1940)

'A historically concise and connected analytical account of the interaction and history of the chief European states between 1815 and 1939.  With folded maps and illustrations. 

Charles Cruickshank - The German Occupation of the Channel Islands - PB -1975

Charles Cruickshank provides a full account of the German invasion, the subsequent landings of various British agents, raids and an attempt to end the occupation using psychological warfare. He also looks at how the islanders and Wehrmacht lived, the...

Georges Conchon - The Hollow Victory - HB 1961 ( Translated by Elisabeth Abbott)

Originally published in France as *La Corrida de la Victois*, and winner of the Prix des Libraires, 1959, this is teh first edition in English, 1961, published by Alvin Redman.  Translation by Elisabeth Abbott.  Set in Madrid at the end of...

E.H Carr - The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 - HB -1950 ( A History of Soviet Russia : Volume 1 )

Somwhat confusingly titled Violume 1, the book itself was subsequently published by Pelican in three PB's , and also there were further hardcover volumes ( forming a History of Soviet Russia)  this has the contents of books 1 to 3 , Volume 1 in...

Sophocles - The Three Theban Plays : Antigone / Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonus ( Translation by E.F Watling)

Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox. Collected...

Mary Renault - The Charioteer - Vintage PB 1963 ( Originally 1959)

A reprint edition, Four Square Books, (  NEL ) UK, 1963, having been originally published in 1959.  Mary Renault’s landmark novel about a wounded soldier who returns from the front and must choose between relationships with two very...

Ray Jones / The Mouse that Roared (Vintage Paperback)

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C.S. Lewis / The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Vintage Paperback)

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C.S. Lewis / The Horse and his Boy (Vintage Paperback)

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Robert Albert Jr / Codes for Kids (Vintage Paperback)

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C.S. Lewis / Prince Caspian (Vintage Paperback)

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C.S. Lewis / The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Vintage Paperback)

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Dick King-Smith / The Fox Busters (Vintage Paperback)

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M.E. Atkinson / Castaway Camp (Vintage Paperback)

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C. S. Lewis / The Last Battle ( Vintage Paperback)

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Gillian Baxter / Special Delivery (Vintage Paperback)

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Alfred Hitchcock / The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon (Vintage Paperback)

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Sheila Burnford / The Incredible Journey (Vintage Paperback)

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Sacha Carnegie / The Banners of War ( Destiny of Eagles : Volume 2 ) (Vintage Paperback)

One bitter Siberian night in the winter of 1758, Henryk Barinski escaped from the imprisonment to which the Russian Secret Chancellery had sentenced him. Helped by fur trappers, he made his way to England, but before he could reach London, he was press...

Jack Higgins / Day of Judgment (Vintage Paperback)

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Alan Garner / The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Vintage Paperback)

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Jack Higgins / The Last Place God Made. (Vintage Paperback)

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Jack Higgins / Storm Warning. (Vintage Paperback)

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Jack Higgins / The Keys of Hell (Vintage Paperback)

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Mario Soldati / The Confession (Vintage Paperback)

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Arthur Miller / The Misfits (Vintage Paperback) ( Dell PB - Film Tie - in )

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Sean Hignett / A Picture to Hang on the Wall (Vintage Paperback)

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Jack Higgins / Solo (Vintage Paperback)

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Richard Cox / The KGB Directive (Vintage Paperback)

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