
New Arrivals
The Guns of Navarone.
London: Collins, 1957. [WWII Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.318 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 14s to front flap. Contents clean, no inscriptions, some spotting to top edge, jacket clean and bright with virtually no wear at all..... More
A Burnt-Out Case.
London: William Heineman, 1961. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 256. Publisher's black cloth with titles in silver to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by Lacey Everett, priced at 16s. Very mild toning and spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise a lovely crisp..... More
The Fist of God.
London: Bantam Press, 1994. [Gulf War SAS adventure] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND DATED (May 1994) by the author. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.494; [2]. Bound in publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper by Bill Gregory. A fine copy in like dust-wrapper. Jacket artist Bill..... More
The Day of The Jackal.
London: Hutchinson, 1971. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.358 [4]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the glossy dust-jacket designed by Tom Simmonds and Trevor Vertigan, priced at £2.00 / 40s. Contents clean, no inscriptions, light offset from jacket flaps. Bright..... More
An Officer and A Spy.
London: Hutchinson, 2013. [Thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the first edition. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xvi]; 480. Publisher's illustrated softcovers marked 'Not For Sale or Quotation'. Soft reading crease and slight lean else a fine copy. Epic historical intrigue from the author of Fatherland and The Ghost. Described by the..... More
The Dame.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1969. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[viii]; 183; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine, untrimmed textblock edges, dust-wrapper designed by Muni Leiblein with printed price of $4.50 to flap. Toning to textblock edges, slight bumping to lower spine..... More
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. [Espionage thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222; [2], blank. Publisher's VARIANT brown cloth, rather than blue, with gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket priced at 18s. Book is fine, jacket a little edgeworn with a few short tears. Overall an attractive copy of the..... More
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
London: The Reprint Society, 1964. [Spy Thriller] first UK book club edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.240. Publisher's red quarter paper with gilt titles to spine and black paper over boards. Top edge black. With the red dust-jacket. Some light spotting to edges, minor wear to jackets. Near fine. A...... More
Our Man in Havana.
London: William Heinemann, 1958. [Comic Spy Thriller] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 273 [3]. Recently bound in navy blue half morocco, with raised bands, twin gilt-lettered labels to spine, matching cloth over boards. Edges lightly trimmed, with the original dust-jacket bound in at rear. Contents lightly..... More
A Twist of Sand.
London: Collins, 1959. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by John Rose, with a reference to Jenkins' journalist colleague Ian Fleming on the rear flap. A fine copy of the book, which appears unread..... More
Innocent.
London: Mantle, 2010. [Legal Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 406 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket priced at £17.99. A fine, as-new copy. A sequel to..... More
Before I Go to Sleep.
London: Doubleday, 2011. [Psychological Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.366 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and burgundy endpapers. With the dust-jacket deigned by Claire Ward, priced at £12.99. Toned to edges, with some..... More
The White South.
London: Collins, 1949. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles blocked to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 9s 6d. Gilt tarnished, a few old tape marks, chipped to spine ends. Very good. A murder-mystery based in the Antarctic, adapted for the..... More
Modesty Blaise: The Silver Mistress.
London: Souvenir Press, 1973. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.254. Publisher's cyan cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £2.20. Ownership sticker to top left of front pastedown. Very lightly sunned to jacket spine. Near fine. The sixth full-length Modesty Blaise thriller, developed..... More
The Stretton Street Affair.
London: Cassell and Co., 1924. [Spy fiction] ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Gift inscription to title page: "To Enid Agabeg | from Uncle | William Le Queux ". Internally clean, very light spoting to page..... More
The Silent Speaker.
The Crime Club, Collins, 1947. [Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Publisher's orange cloth, light wear, slightly sunned, very good indeed. In dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly creased, small tears, spine sunned, a few small chips, overall very good. A Nero Wolfe novel. Another case for the eccentric oversized New York armchair detective Nero..... More