Recent Arrivals from Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, Second printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253 [3]. Publisher's black cloth-effect material over boards, blocked in silver and red metallic foil to spine and upper. A rather worn former library copy with some marks within, as expected. No stamps to text pages. Contents complete, although some pages are proud or loose, with… Read more about this item

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1971. [Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [3], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilttitles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Michael Cole, priced £1.40 / 28s. Top edge dusty else a near fine copy in like wrapper, sunned to spine. A yachting mystery set around the treacherous Kanaga Rock, Australia.

London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1964. [Detective novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket, priced 15s. Contents clean, neat owner name, soft crear to rear panel else a clean, bright, fine copy. An Inspector Ghote mystery. 45.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, First State, Binding A. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping priced 16s. Contents clean, edges gently toned. Near fine in like jacket. The last title in what… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, BINDING A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.95. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards, blocked in silver, patterned grey endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. Publisher's price label to flap showing 16s/80p. A fine copy. First published in Britain on 23rd June 1966, this is the final original… Read more about this item

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1971. [Detective novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.186. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Salim Patell, priced £1.35 / 27s. Top edge dusty. A clean, near fine copy in like wrapper, gently toned to spine. The third mystery for the mild ex-schoolteacher Miss Seeton.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1961. [Detective novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's grey cloth with orange titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Jenifer Armour, priced 13/6. A clean, fine copy in a near fine jacket with a few minor nicks and tears An Inspector Grogan mystery, set in the remote Bishop's Bay, New South Wales. … Read more about this item

London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1961. [Detective novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by John Rose, priced 13/6. No ink stamps, some reading marks within, lacks flyleaf, tape marks to cloth and endpapers where jacket was once affixed, discreet ink notation to rear pastedown,… Read more about this item

New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2022. [Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.394. Number 59 of 75 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards, grey endpapers. Fine /… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1926. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8], ads. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black. Contents clean, binding rather bright. Autographed by Freeman on the title page, for his local library. This copy has a small library stamp to c.p., tag to rear endpaper, neat 'withdrawn' notice to front endpaper and… Read more about this item

New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2021. [Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.394. Number 4 of 60 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards, grey endpapers. Smudge to… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, third impression overall. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges green, with green endpapers. A touch of… Read more about this item

London: C.A. Pearson, January - June 1920. [Science Fiction] FIRST APPEARANCE of this title; this version has the bonus of illustrations, none of which featured in the book-form edition. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 28cm), pp.712; pp.754. Consecutive half-yearly volumes uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt and black, coated yellow endpapers. Contents clean, general title pages… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1905. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, second impression overall. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges grey, with grey endpapers. A black ink… Read more about this item

New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Telemachus Press, 2011. [Crime novel] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Number 89 of 100 copies thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.324. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue leather-cloth over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as-new. Mystery novel featuring New York private eye Matt Scudder.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.317; [3], ads. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black, blue endpapers, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 7/6. Typed notice with one ms. correction (possibly authorial) tipped in to p.11 Contents clean, binding rather bright. Autographed by Freeman on the title page, for his local library. This… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.336. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black. Contents clean, binding rather bright, jacket flap tucked in. Autographed by Freeman on the title page, for his local library. This copy has a small library stamp to c.p., tag to rear endpaper, neat 'withdrawn' notice to front… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1912]. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black and gilt. Contents clean, binding rather bright with light rubbing to rear. Autographed by Freeman on the title page, for his local library. This copy has one discreet stamp, tag to rear e.p., neat 'withdrawn' notice to… Read more about this item

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1942. [Murder Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, no ink inscriptions, inside paper joint cracked, cloth a little bumped and used, some sunning to spine. A very good copy lacking the scarce jacket. Agatha Christie's second Miss Marple novel, and one… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with an UNRECORDED state of the ads. Octavo (18 x 12cm) pp.[iv]; 322, title page printed in red and black. Earliest state of the text with the following points; 'reduplicate' p.21 l.20. 'characterss' p.41 l.5. 'Catechism' p.132 l.29. 'known of it' p.199 l.4. Publisher's brown cloth… Read more about this item