Recent Arrivals from Books on the Hill

William Heinemann LTD, London. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, the first to be made direct from the Russian New Impression 1946. 617 pages. With dust jacket. Red clothbound hardback, Crown octavo size. Now known as the Devils in English. As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan… Read more about this item

1st Edition. 1st Printing. Dated 1964, published by Jonathan Cape: London. Hardback with Dust Jacket. Condition: Original grey boards with silver writing, with gold Japanese writing on front cover and printed inside jacket. Designed endpapers unmarked. Overall, very good condition, hardly read. No foxing.

1st Edition. 1st Printing. Published in 1961 by Jonathan Cape: London. Hardback with Dust Jacket. Condition: Well read. Original grey-brown cover with skeleton hand embossed. Creased pages from having been read. Pencil marks. Inside there is a signature marking, which has been erased but left an imprint. The original jacket is fairly worn, torn on edges, scuffed, and marked. A beautiful… Read more about this item

1st Edition.  1st Printing. 1963 Published by Jonathan Cape: London. Hardback with Dust Jacket. Condition: Original grey-brown boards, white ski track on cover. Tiny tear to top front of dust jacket, some slight scuffing to jacket spine, but overall, in good condition. No foxing.  Good condition, one page (chapter 14) has been turned in corner but almost barely read condition.

Constable: London, 1990. First Edition. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Condition: Small wear to dust jacket top of spine. Clipped price on dust jacket. Missing first end page but binding is secure.

First Edition. Published by Folio Society in 1977. Hardback. Condition: Very Good, without slip case, boards with paper sides printed with full colour design. Gilt Spine title.

First Edition dated 1932. Herbert Jenkins Limited: London. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with black titles to front board & spine. Condition: orange cloth discoloured on front board and spine. Foxing throughout but still legible. Previous owner inscription. Back of title page publishers logo coloured in pencil (small emblem). Placed in a plastic protective cover by the team.

First printing undated, Herbert Jenkins Limited: London. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with black titles, 252 pages. Condition: Discolouration to spine of hard back and damage to top of spine. Slight loose binding at the bottom of the interior.

Condition: small tears to the top and bottom of dust jacket due to wear. Hardback in great readable condition.

Pictures by Margret Tempest. Little Grey Rabbit series. Pale green pictorial boards. Charming colour pictures throughout. 79 pages. Condition: damage to top and bottom of the spine due to being well read. I good readable condition. tears and folds to top and bottom of dust jacket, inside price clipped. Discolouration of dust jacket.

Condition: In good readable condition. Wear to top and bottom of hardback spine. No dust jacket.

First Great Britain edition, 1986. Carcanet publishing and translated from French by Janet Louth. Condition: Hardback with dust jacket, dust jacket damaged by tape but otherwise in good readable condition.

Studio Vista Limited, 1964. Hardback. Dust jacket shows slight wear and tear marks. Discolouration mark on second page. All other pages in good condition.

Archibald Constable and Co and Hurst Robinson and Co., 1822. Hardback. Published in three volumes initially anonymously as with all the Waverley novels prior to 1827 the plot centres on the arrival of a shipwrecked captain named Cleveland on Shetland which spoils a young man's developing relationship with the Troil sisters and the subsequent bitter rivalry between the two… Read more about this item

Alfred A Knopf, 1964, 1972. First American Editions. Hardback. Chocolate Factory was originally published in the US three years before being published in the UK. True first issue of this children's classic with the six line colophon on the last page of the book and no isbn number on the dust jacket. A fine copy of the book with… Read more about this item

1977. Hardback. Very good condition with minimum foxing. Hardback book in dust jacket. Jacket designed by John Gorham. Pencil mark inside of a price, edition and publishing date.

Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1865. Hardcover . Contains illustrations. Two inscriptions from the previous owners. Condition: cover and spine slightly worn with loose pages throughout.

Viking , 1986. Hardcover . The final volume of Dirk Bogarde�s autobiography, Condition: Small creases to the top of the spine of the dust jacket, otherwise in good readable condition.

William Heinemann Ltd, 1966. Hardback. Dust jacket on hardcover does show wear and tear marks. It has been placed in a plastic sleeve by Books On The Hill staff for protection. Contains an inscription, Small indentation line across pages.

Chapman and Hall, 1840. Illustration by 'Phiz'. Worn at the edges and top and bottom at spine. Foxing on outer pages and illustrated pages. Great Condition, stamps from previous ownership.