Fiction from Bird's Books

London: Chatto and Windus, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition, fourth impression June 1919. Printed just a month after the first impression. 12mo. 86pp. Quarter cloth with marbled boards, faded paper label to spine. Illustrated with a portrait frontis of the author aged nine years old and a facsimile of the first page of the original manuscript.… Read more about this item

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. C. E Brock. Stories of English Village Life. 8vo, cloth boards with gilt titles on front. 187pp illustrated with 12 photographs of English Country Scenery and line drawings by Brock. Ten short stories set in the English countryside. Slight edge wear and mark to front. A… Read more about this item

London : David Nutt, 1901. Hardcover. Good +. Seton Thompson. And 200 Drawings. 8vo, original olive-green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and front. Vignettes of animals and tracks on front and spine. Sunned. 358pp with full page drawings and line illustrations throughout the text. Some edge wear. Repaired tear to one page and other minor chips.… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1963. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo, dust jacket over blue cloth boards with silver gilt titles on spine. 248pp. First UK edition. Dust jacket sunned with some chipping and a couple small pieces missing. Inner book generally very good and clean inside. Previous owner’s initials, dated 1963, handwritten on front free endpaper. 2… Read more about this item

London: John Lehmann, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Vaughan. First English edition translated by Betty Asquith. 8vo, cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Pictorial dust jacket generally good with some old repairs and in protective cover. Jacket design by Keith Vaughan. 128pp. Nice and clean inside, slightly cocked. A novel set in the French port of… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1962. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo, dust jacket over blue cloth boards with silver gilt titles on spine. 201pp. First UK edition. Dust jacket with some chipping and marks. Inner book generally in excellent clean condition. Previous owner’s initials, dated May 1962, handwritten on front free endpaper. 2 stories originally published in the… Read more about this item

London: Penguin, 1951. First edition thus. Softcover. Fair. First edition thus in the green ‘Mystery and Crime’ series Penguin, no.812. 250pp plus publisher’s catalogue at rear. Edge wear to spine and some grubbiness. Generally good.

London: Penguin, 1951. First edition thus. Softcover. Fair. First edition thus in the green ‘Mystery and Crime’ series Penguin, no.816. 221pp plus publisher’s catalogue at rear. Edge wear to spine and some grubbiness. Handwritten name and date on front.

London : Lehmann, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Marie Laure. First UK Edition. 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards with titles on spine. 198pp. Unclipped dust jacket chipped and with edge wear. Inner book very good and clean. Handwritten dedication on front free endpaper dated 1950. From the Modern European library series. First published in… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Stephen Bone. Slim 8vo, tan cloth boards with titles on spine. 135pp with coloured frontis and other decorations by Stephen Bone. Tear to outer spine and some other edge wear. Very good + and clean inside. The first in the Orchid Trilogy. The Military Orchid is a comic masterpiece… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. P Vinton. First Edition. 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Upper edge red. 183pp. Dust jacket price clipped, some edge wear, repair and loss of jacket to upper spine. Inner book very good and clean, slight sunning on upper spine. ‘The… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo, red cloth boards with titles on spine. 157pp. Spine sunned. Inner book very good and clean, some age toning. Spine cracked at front pastedown. Scarce. A novel

London: The Bodley Head, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good +. Slim 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over terracotta cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, upper edge red. 128pp. Dust jacket not price clipped with some edge wear and a small piece absent. Very good + / near fine and clean inside. There has been an inscription on… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, 8vo, coloured illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 192pp. Dust jacket unclipped , slightly sunned at spine and with a little edge wear. Nice and clean inside, in very good condition. The lives of two brothers and those around… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. P Vinton. First edition with signed dedication to Desmond MacCarthy (British writer, member of the Bloomsbury group & critic) by author. 8vo, coloured illustrated dust jacket by P Vinten over blue grey boards with gilt titles on spine. Upper edge red. Some chipping / tears to edges of… Read more about this item

London : James Barrie, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Spine sunned. 178pp. Some edge wear, very good and clean inside.

London: The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Julian Trevelyan. 8vo, coloured illustrated dust jacket by Julian Trevelyan over green boards with gilt titles on spine. Some chipping / tears to edges of price clipped dust jacket. 186pp. Part 3 of the Orchid Trilogy. Part fiction and part autobiography, these reminiscences ‘cover loosely linked periods in… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/Fair. 8vo, coloured illustrated dust jacket over purple boards with gilt titles on spine. Lower part of dust jacket at spine absent, boards sunned here. 256pp with portrait frontis of author. Previous owner’s name handwritten on front endpaper. ’An Excursion’. This describes two journeys; a visit to Enna, Sicily,… Read more about this item

London : Grant Richards, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, black cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. 260pp with colour frontispiece by Felicien Rops. 7pp publisher’s catalogue dated Spring 1915 at rear. Binding cracked inside at pastedowns. Nice and clean inside. Firbank s first novel which deals with the vain Mrs… Read more about this item

Toronto: The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, 1962. Hardcover. Very good /Good. Wilson, John Francis. Landscape folio, pictorial dust jacket over cloth boards with vignette of the hero on front. Unpaginated and illustrated throughout. Tears and chipping to dust jacket as pictured. Inner book in lovely clean condition. A gently droll look at the life of an unassuming… Read more about this item