Recent Arrivals from Shellhouse Books

Alison Green Books, 2009. 1st edition. Fine in fine dustjacket, very clean cloth and pages, minuscule rubs at corners, not price-clipped. Signed by the author and artist in Edinburgh on 24-8-2019 , with an original Alex Scheffler ink doodle of Tabby on the title page in his customary book-signing mode. Delightful copy of a delightful work - 'MEEE-EW and the… Read more about this item

Gollancz, 1946. 1st edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with slightly faded spine lettering, pages all clean and tidy, no foxing, in a very good dustjacket, bar some spine-browning, some chipping at spine ends and corners, a piece of loss over the author's first name on the spine and a small hole lower down the spine. Dedicated to Philip Larkin, a friend… Read more about this item

, 0. 1st edition. Hardcover. This 80-page ledger, in black boards, is a unique work, a labour of love by an unknown creator who has recorded, in neat ink handwriting, the names of c.570 fighting ships in the British Navy in World War One, an almost complete complement. On mounted card there are recognition profiles and separate funnel markings and… Read more about this item

John Murray, 2006. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustwrapper, fractionally creased at spine ends. The story of a terrible assortment of amateur cricketers - the Captain Scott X1 - and its attempts to play in every continent bar Europe in one three-week period. Very funny, deserving to be ranked amongst the best cricketing writing in the game's literary history.… Read more about this item

Granta, 2018. 1st edition. Hardcover. Mint in mint dustjacket. Signed by the author. 'A writer of immense talent', says Colm Toibin on the jacket. The Sunday Times called it ' A magical debut, immensely engaging and brilliantly written, a miniature masterpiece...a superlative display of how brevity can speak volumes', and named it as Novel of the Year. A widower in… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Brockhampton Press, 1949. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very nice cream cloth, very clean pages with no foxing, colour frontispiece and monochrome drawings throughout by George Brook, in a near fine dustjacket, not price-clipped, a little nibbling at spine ends. Presents very well and altogether a very attractive copy of the first impression of the first book in the author's famous Secret… 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… 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.