Winter 2025 Newsletter

Autumn/Winter 2025 Selection

In this selection we focus on a small selection of gift ideas for the coming season - and thus consider people's hobbies, interests, gentle obsessions even. So these apparently random picks do have some logic, spanning football to fine dining; nature to New York; horror to horticulture, zoos to zucchini and so on.

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1291 The Tin Drum.
Günter Grass. 
London: Secker & Warburg, 1962. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. A fine book in a very good dust jacket, this book is a very clean copy of... (#1291) 
Price: £110.00  

 

1906 Dark Shadows Falling.
Joe Simpson. 
London: Jonathan Cape, 1997. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Signed by the author to the title page. Ephemera from the signing event: Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester invitation card... (#1906) 
Price: £75.00  
1886 The Red Devils' Disciples.
Tom Tyrrell. 
London: Kaye & Ward, 1970. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Very scarce and interesting account, from a fan's perspective, of a typical day out at Old Trafford... (#1886) 
Price: £50.00  
1867 Elizabeth Hallett's Hostess Book.
Elizabeth Hallett. 
Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1937. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Fascinating social and cultural artefact, with a slight Scottish twist, demonstrating and instructing in the art... (#1867) 
Price: £65.00  
1840 Vet in Harness.
James Herriot. 
Michael Joseph, 1974. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Fourth in the All Creatures Great and Small series and the basis for several films and TV series... (#1840) 
Price: £130.00  
1841 Vet in a Spin.
James Herriot. 
Michael Joseph, 1974. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Sixth in the All Creatures Great and Small series and the basis for several films and TV series... (#1841) 
Price: £75.00  
1023 The New York Trilogy.
Paul Auster. 
Faber, 1988. Edition: 1st UK, 3rd impression. Book Condition: Fine. Paul Auster's collection of stories here brought him to notice and provided the foundation for his future career. This book... (#1023) 
Price: £165.00  
1554 A Winter in the Hills.
John Wain. 
London: Macmillan, 1970. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Near fine. Near fine copy of this foray - according to the blurb - into the "foreign country" that is... (#1554) 
Price: £60.00  
1384 The Lewis Trilogy -- The Blackhouse; The Lewis Man; The Chessmen (set of 3 books).
Peter May. 
London: Quercus, 2011-2013. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impressions. Book Condition: Fine. A splendid first edition set of May's famous Lewis Trilogy. All books are in fine condition with no marks... (#1384) 
Price: £210.00  
1587 Witch's Blood.
William Blain. 
Cedric Chivers, 1970. Edition: Reprint. Book Condition: Fine. A rare version of the Dundee-set classic, about presumed witch Elspet Renkyne and the curse she puts upon future generations of Dundonians... (#1587) 
Price: £40.00  
1685 Good Things.
Jane Grigson. 
London: Michael Joseph, 1971. Edition: 1st UK, 1st Impression. Book Condition: Very good. The accompanying illustrations of family life, produce and equipment elevate this book well above the ordinary and... (#1685) 
Price: £110.00  
1909 Brooklyn / Long Island (set of 2 books).
Colm Tóibín. 
London: Penguin-Viking / Picador, 2009-2024. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. The accomplished and much admired series from Tóibín. Both books signed by the author, with Brooklyn dated by... (#1909) 
Price: £350.00  
1916 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
Susanna Clarke. 
London: Bloomsbury, 2004. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, limited slipcased. Book Condition: Fine. Limited first edition numbered 974/1450 and signed by the author to a special page. As new in... (#1916) 
Price: £175.00  
1688 La pâtisserie est un jeu d'enfants.
Michel Oliver. 
Paris: Plon, 1977. Edition: Reprint. Book Condition: Very good. Lovely later edition of the 1964 classic, text in French, introducing children to the wonders of French patisserie making.  The unjacketed... (#1688) 
Price: £85.00  
1629 The Diddakoi.
Rumer Godden. 
London: Macmillan, 1972. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Signed by the author to the front end paper. Such a special book, it won the Whitbread prize for... (#1629) 
Price: £1,100.00  
1499 The Story of Babar the Little Elephant.
Jean de Brunhoff. 
New York: Smith & Haas, 1933. Edition: 1st US, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Rare US and historic first edition from 1933 and the first English edition before the... (#1499) 
Price: £475.00  
1486 Bunter Comes for Christmas / Billy Bunter Comes for Christmas (set of 2 books).
Frank Richards. 
London: Cassell/Quiller, 1959/1982. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Two slightly different versions of the same book: the first is the original 1959 first edition which is... (#1486) 
Price: £30.00  
1385 A Child Alone - The Memoirs of 'BB'.
BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford). 
Michael Joseph, 1978. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Autobiography from renowned author, illustrator and naturalist. The book is generally tight and clean with black boards fresh.  Fine... (#1385) 
Price: £55.00  

1274 Between the Red Lines.
George W. Houghton. 
London: George Newnes, 1949. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Good. A journey of discovery in which father and son embark on a tour where they use no roads... (#1274) 
Price: £25.00  
975 Joseph's Yard.
Charles Keeping. 
Oxford University Press, 1969. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Classic children's large-format story book about a boy who plants a rose in his messy back yard. This... (#975) 
Price: £75.00  
2403903 Adventures of Topsy and Tim.
Jean & Gareth Adamson. 
Blackie, 1970. Edition: 1st UK thus. Book Condition: Very good. This is a compendium of Topsy and Tim's Monday, Tuesday and At The Football Match books, previously published in the... (#2403903) 
Price: £50.00  
2403905 Gorilla.
Anthony Browne. 
Julia Macrae, 1983. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Extremely rare true first edition copy of Anthony Browne's Carnegie prize-winning and best-loved story book. Just what happened... (#2403905) 
Price: £1,200.00  
1757 The Folio Book of Christmas Crime Stories.
The Folio Society. 
London: Folio Society, 2004. Edition: 1st UK thus. Book Condition: Fine. Lavishly produced and illustrated volume, to usual Folio Society standards, containing contributions by Christie, PD James, Allingham, Marsh and... (#1757) 
Price: £25.00  
1720 The Girl Who Played with Fire.
Steig Larsson. 
London: Maclehose-Quercus, 2006. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. The second instalment in what was to become one of the most explosive trilogies in modern European thriller writing... (#1720) 
Price: £90.00  
1937 Colette - representative complete works (15 books) in English including Claudine, Ripening Seed, Gigi, Mitsou.
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle). 
London: Secker & Warburg, 1951-63. Edition: 1st thus UK. Book Condition: Very good. A delightful and important set of Colette works in English, an attempt to gather a representative 'Complete... (#1937) 
Price: £225.00  
1943 Pig Iron.
Benjamin Myers. 
Hebden Bridge: Blue Moose, 2012. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: As new. Extremely rare and stunning 1st h/bk example of Myers' early 2012 novel with the troubled traveller... (#1943) 
Price: £275.00  
1942 Lancashire Westmorland Highway.
Jessica Lofhouse. 
London: Robert Hale, 1953. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Signed to front end paper by this well-known regional author. This book is in splendid condition and... (#1942) 
Price: £30.00  
1939 Who on Earth is Tom Baker - An Autobiography.
Tom Baker. 
London: Harper Collins, 1997. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Very clean and tidy example of this signed 1997 autobiography from acclaimed Dr Who actor Tom Baker. With... (#1939) 
Price: £75.00  
1935 Wild Chorus.
Peter Scott. 
London: Country Life, 1949. Edition: 10th impression. Book Condition: Fine. Flat-signed by the author to the title page. Superbly presented book, with the highest production standards. No marks or inscriptions... (#1935) 
Price: £50.00  
1923 In Your Garden & In Your Garden Again (set of 2 books).
Vita Sackville-West. 
London: Michael Joseph, 1951-1955. Edition: 1st UK, 1st and 2nd impressions. Book Condition: Very good/Fine. Scarce set of two books from the aristocrat, socialite, novelist - and gardener. Famous of... (#1923) 
Price: £120.00  
1917 Great Chefs of France.
Anthony Blake & Quentin Crewe. 
London: Mitchell Beazley, 1978. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Superbly produced period piece giving intimate insight into the lives and works of the top French chefs... (#1917) 
Price: £115.00