Recent Arrivals from Shellhouse Books

Viking, London, 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine, very clean boards and pages, in a very fine dustjacket, no wear, not price-clipped. Signed by the author. Extremely nice copy of the first impression of the concluding title in her brilliant Great War trilogy, winner of the Booker Prize.

Chatto & Windus, 1956. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine red boards with gilt lettering, very slight offset strips on endpapers, very clean pages. In the original unclipped dustjacket, very slight nibbling at front corners and small nick at head of spine. Nice copy of Huxley's essay expounding his 'belief that physiological fact does not invalidate spiritual meaning', a companion volume to… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, 1954. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very near fine blue boards with gilt spine lettering, slight offset strips on endpapers, pages very clean, no foxing or marks at all. In the near fine original dustjacket, not price-clipped, a little nibbling to a corner and to spine ends, slight flap edge browning. Overall, a nice copy of Huxley's famous essay… Read more about this item

Viking, London, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine, very clean boards and pages, in a fine dustjacket, not price-clipped, no wear. Signed by the author. An extremely nice copy of the first impression of the second novel in her brilliant Great War trilogy, concluding with her Booker Prize-winning title, The Ghost Road.

Viking, London, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine, very nice clean grey boards, very clean white pages, in a fine dustjacket, no wear, not price-clipped. Signed by the author. An extremely nice copy of the first impression of the first novel in her brilliant Great War trilogy, concluding with the Booker Prize-winning title, The Ghost Road.

Bodley Head, 1973. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine blue cloth, very clean pages, in a very near fine dustjacket. Trevor's sixth novel, in nice condition.

Gollancz, 2007. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very fine in very fine dustjacket. Signed by the author on the half title page, no 937 of 1,300 such copies, in the slipcase matching the cover design. Extremely nice copy of the author's first novel of which Neil Gaiman says, 'A genuinely scary novel, the kind of book that stays in your mind… Read more about this item

George Routledge and Sons Ltd, 1865. 1st edition. Hardcover. Original green calf with gilt front decoration, small mark towards top edge, lightly rubbed at extremities, pages lightly toned at margins, 19 of Doyle's charming drawings throughout the text illustrating Planche's version of 'The Sleeping Beauty'.

Faber, 2000. 1st edition thus. Hardcover. Fine boards, very clean pages, excellent dustjacket, illustrated in full colour by Jackie Morris with her signature and original pen-and-ink sketch on the title page. The first appearance in this format, and a unique copy.

Faber, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket. Winner of The Guardian Prize.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. 1st edition. Hardcover. Cream paper-covered boards and grey cloth spine with gilt lettering, a little rubbed, square binding, endpapers with slight browning, pages clean bar a little occasional spotting, with 24 tipped-in colour plates by Kay Nielsen, each with captioned tissue guards, and over 15 monotone decorations throughout. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, then King Edward V11… Read more about this item

PS Publishing Ltd, 2005. 1st edition. Card covers as issued in very fine condition, extremely clean pages, in all a very nice copy indeed of the first softcover impression of the author's stories, mostly horror and supernatural. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection and the Britsh Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

Bodley Head, 1969. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine blue boards with gilt spine lettering, very clean pages and endpapers, in a very near fine dustjacket, clipped and repriced. The author's fourth novel, as per his own list, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

O'Brien Press, Dublin, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very fine in very fine dustjacket. Illustrated by Brian Bourke. The first issue, preceding the Bodley Head edition, of William Trevor's only story specifically for children, and his only novel to appear from an Irish publisher.

William Blackwood & Sons, 1915. 1st edition. Hardcover. Resewn and rebound in new blue cloth, black spine titling, new endpapers, pages tinged at edges as so often. Following its serialisation earlier that year in Blackwood's Magazine, this was the first appearance in book form of the author's first and best-known novel, featuring Richard Hannay.

Bodley Head, 1965. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pages extremely clean, in an unclipped, near fine dustjacket, just a bit browned around the spine and the edge of the front panel. Nice example of the author's second novel, as per his own preferred list.

Faber, 2000. 1st edition thus. Hardcover. Very fine boards and pages. Illustrated by Jackie Morris.

Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. 1st edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, each in original hessian-backed blue paper boards, buff-coloured quarter bound, titles in black on spine labels, small mark at foot of spine of vol 1, a little bumping at heads of spines, very minor spotting on boards, pages very clean, many uncut. Altogether a very good set indeed… Read more about this item

Faber, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket. Signed by the author and also signed and inscribed by Lisa Baskin, wife of the illustrator Leonard Baskin. Hughes's collection of verse is surprisingly scarce as a signed copy, especially with this additional association.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1924. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed in green silk moire cloth with bright gilt lettering and decoration, slightly faded spine, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper, pages clean bar some very light occasional spotting, with 12 tipped-in colour plates by Kay Nielsen with captioned tissue guards, and 40… Read more about this item