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Jonathan Cape, London., 1963. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 492 pages.Fine in very good indeed dustwrapper creased at the front flap and slightly marked at the spine.

André Deutsch, London., 1972. Advance proof copy of the first edition. Octavo. 144 pages. Wrappers.Some very faint fading to top part of each cover; at the front this has caused some tanning to the half-title page. Very good. The first edition as published is scarce enough, so this proof probably counts as rare.

André Deutsch, London., 1972. First edition. Octavo. 144 pages. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

TNR Publications, London., 1978. First edition. Octavo. 15 pages. Wrappers. Five poems.Signed by the author on the title-page.Fine.

TNR Publications, London., 1978. First edition. Octavo. 15 pages. Wrappers. Five poems.Inscribed by the author on the title-page: "James Fenton - Best wishes".Near fine.

TNR Publications, London., 1978. First edition. Octavo. 15 pages. Wrappers. Five poems.Fine.

Longmans, Green, London., 1936. First edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 345. A novel based on a real figure, Thomas Dermody (1775–1802), an Irish poet who wrote under various pseudonyms including "Mauritius Moonshine" and "Marmaduke Myrtle". A brutish character, he fled Ireland and finally drank himself to death in Lewisham of all places.Free endpapers partially tanned. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper, designed by Philip Gough, with a darkened and water-stained spine. Scarce.

Heinemann, London., 1952. First edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 241. Pages unopened. White and blue calf, leather title-label on spine. Top edge gilt. Printed on laid paper. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author, bound in full two-tone calf, top edge gilt. Laid paper.Spine a little discoloured and bruised at head and tail of spine. Very good indeed in the remains of the original glassine dustwrapper and in the slipcase which is very good indeed.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press., 1963. First edition thus. Elephant folio. pp xviii, 220, [145] (facsimile plates). "The greatest abortive masterpiece in English literature," according to Northrop Frye. Small patch of fading at bottom edge of upper cover, otherwise near fine in very good dustwrapper nicked and chipped at the edges and with a four-inch closed tear at tail of spine. Scarce.

Duckworth, London., 1956. First edition thus: eight colour plates and numerous black and white head- and tailpieces by Philippe Jullian. On the front free endpaper is the small and neat ownership signature of Canadian writer, critic and editor John Metcalf.Small patch of fading to head of spine. Near fine in very good, slightly nicked and rubbed dustwrapper faded and marked at the spine.

[The Friends of Chichester Cathedral, Chichester.], [1952]. First edition. Octavo. 16 pages. Stapled wrappers. An address delivered to the Friends of Chichester Cathedral on June 16th, 1951.Covers faintly creased. Very good indeed.

Routledge, London., 1942. First edition. Octavo. 38 pages. Card wrappers - there was no hardbound issue. The author's first book, containing several war poems. He had already edited an anthology of war poetry.Fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper.

Hutchinson, London., [1925]. First edition. Octavo. 324 pages. Forty plates, eight in colour, from drawings by Major Benton Fletcher. Petra, Kerak, Philadelphia, Jerash, etc.Near fine in the scarce dustwrapper which is good, defective at head of spine, chipped, nicked, slightly marked and dusty.

Bradbury & Evans, London., 1848. First edition, first issue with the suppressed woodcut of Marquis of Steyne on page 336 and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, initial advertisement leaf for "Great Hoggarty Diamond" present. Octavo. pp xvi, 624. Etched frontispiece, additional vignette title-page, and 38 plates, wood-engraved vignettes. Fine 19th century binding by Ramage of full dark green morocco, spine gilt in compartments, inner gilt dentelles, cream watered silk doublures and endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth bound in at rear. Leather book-label of Estelle Doheny on front pastedown.Front joint rubbed. Some foxing in places. Plates browned at the edges. Very good indeed.

La Nouvelle Édition, Paris., 1945-1946. Three issues (all published). Quarto. Wrappers. Série Luxe - there were also a Série Grand Luxe and a Série Nominative. The first issue was published under the direction technique of Henry Babou. Contributors include Paul Valéry, Jean Paulhan, Albert Camus, Jacques Prévert, Jean Prévost, Fernand Léger et al. Hors texte plates and drawings by Modigliani, Dufy, Miro, Audiberto, Masson, Braque, Léger, Matisse et al. Unopened.Cover edges slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine of third number splitting. A near fine set in the publishers' glassine and in a custom-made cloth folder within a leather-backed slipcase with gilt lettering and raised bands. The slipcase is worn at the spine.

Thames and Hudson, London., 1988. First edition. Translated by Wendy Salmond. Edited with an introduction by John E. Bowlt. Quarto. 190 pages. 342 illustrations, 72 in colour.Fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine and with one small nick.

Sidgwick & Jackson, London., 1975. First edition. Octavo. 200 pages. Photographs. Vassall passed naval intelligence to the Soviet Union over a period of eight years. His account of how he was recruited by the use of blackmail has been disputed. The Vassall Case was a huge news story at the time but was soon eclipsed by the Profumo Affair. Ah, those heady days of espionage and treason.A bit of teastaining to the margins of pages 127/8, not affecting the text. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Bump to bottom corner of front cove. Very good in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly creased at the edges. Uncommon.

Oxford University Press, London., 1970. First edition thus: Oxford English Novels series. Edited with an Introduction and notes by Roger Lonsdale. pp xliv, 187. One of the scarcer titles in the series.Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a very faint scratch to front panel.

Constable, London., 1929. First edition thus. Edited, with a Historical Introduction and Notes, by Guy Chapman. Octavo. Two volumes: pp xxvi, 176; viii, 162. 8 plates including a colour frontispiece of Fonthill Abbey. One of 1000 copies. Full blue buckram, decorated gilt spines. Top edge gilt. Printed by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. Pages unopened. The first complete edition of Vathek as Beckford planned it and in the language (French) in which he originally wrote it. Prelims faintly spotted. Very good indeed in very good, marked dustwrappers a little creased and nicked at edges and with a puncture at front hinge of that of Vol. 2.

Jonathan Cape, London., 1972. First U.K. edition. The scarcer hardbound issue. Translated from the Polish by Ralph Manheim. Small octavo. 109 pages. Cape Editions 50.Fine in fine dustwrapper.