Recent Arrivals from Shellhouse Books

John Long, 1965. 1st edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, label erasure to front board, a few fox spots in the prelims and two fox spots across the fore-edges of a few leaves, in a nice, unclipped dustjacket, new price label over original. Signed by the author to the title page. A very good first impression of her second crime novel,… Read more about this item

Macmillan, 1919. 1st edition. Hardcover. Original cloth with Sturge Moore design, spine fading as often, pages and endpapers very clean indeed. Nice copy of the first impression of the first trade edtion, after the earlier limited-issue Cuala Press edition. Written during the First World War, this collection contains several of Yeats's finest poems, such as the title poem and 'An… Read more about this item

Cape, 1924. 1st edition. Hardcover. Excellent green cloth with black lettering and rules to spine and front boards, very slightly bumped at extremities, in the incredibly rare dustjacket, not price-clipped, slightly browned, some repairs to edges and ends and some rubbing at spine folds. An astonishingly scarce copy in the original wrapper. To quote the wrapper blurb, 'Through the medium… Read more about this item

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very nice cloth and clean pages, in very nice dustjacket, not price-clipped. Attractive copy of the fourth of the author's guides to getting on in life.

Cape, 1938. 1st edition. Hardcover. Excellent brown buckram, binding tight, all pages and illustration and foldout maps in very clean condition. The dustjacket is browned, with a piece of loss at the top edge of the spine and some corner and panel-edge wear. A good working copy of the first collection of Lawrence's letters.

Chapman and Hall, 1930. 1st edition. Hardcover. Original snakeskin-patterned boards, a little bumped at the extremities and browned at the spine, binding square and tight, with very clean pages and endpapers. Very good first impression of Waugh's second novel, his satire on the 'Bright Young Things' of the decade.

Cape, 1933. 1st edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth very clean with a slightly browned spine, binding square and tight, brown topstain as issued, no name or inscription on fep, pages and plates also very clean indeed. A rare Publisher's Advance Copy for Review, as per the loose slip inside, announcing publication on July 24th. In 1932 Peter Fleming took part in… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Cape, 1935. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket. Extremely clean brown buckram boards with bright gilt spine lettering and scimitar device, outer and lower edges untrimmed as issued, pages also very clean indeed, some leaves still uncut, all illustrations and maps present. In the original cream, unclipped, very near fine dustjacket, fractionally lighter around the spine, with two light… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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'.