Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press.. 1992.Ronald Firbank meets Led ZeppelinFirst edition. 228x150mm. pp. [6], 7-226. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original illustrated dustjacket. Front free endpaper has the embossed library stamp of Mel. R. Runner. Some very slight bumping to head and foot of spine with slight creasing at head and foot of spine of dustjacket but otherwise in near fine condition throughout. A lovely copy of a strange book. "Alembic is an unsettling novel about madness and alchemy, epistemology, and rock and roll, magic and perversion".

with an introduction by Boris Vian.Paris: The Vendôme Press. 1948.A fusion of prime US pulp and French sado-eroticism.First edition in English. 193x140mm. pp.201 [1]. Original wrappers. Slight creasing to upper cover and spine, a small tear and some marking and soiling to lower cover and a short tear at foot of spine at joint with lower cover. Some ink underlining in a few places. Internally very good. A nice copy of a rare and scandalous book. I shall spit on your graves first appeared in French in 1946.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1914.the first appearance of a new Dracula storyFirst edition. 8vo. 182x120mm. pp. [8], 200. Red cloth, decorated and lettered in blind on upper cover. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Illustrated dustjacket in a later state with the price of 1/3net replaced with 2/- but in all other regards the jacket is the same as that of the first impression with its chilling illustration by Handforth. There is a split to the cloth at the joint with the lower cover and some fading to spine.

London: William Heinemann Ltd.. 1949."sitting in the kitchen sink"First edition. 182x120mm. pp. [4], 338. Illustrated with engravings by Ruth Steed from drawings by Dodie Smith herself. Blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Fading to spine and to edges of boards. Illustrated dustjacket (supplied from another copy) with some creasing, chipping and closed tears.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd.. 1962.First UK edition, published the same year as the first printing in America. 200x130mm. pp. [6], 250. Blue cloth, illustrated and lettered on spine. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight creasing to edges of jacket and light soiling to lower cover but overall very good and internally fine.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. 1831. Third edition published with the first illustration of Dr Frankenstein's monster Third edition, published as volume IX of Standard Novels series issued with the first part of The Ghost-Seer. 162x100mm. pp. xii, 202; [2], 163 [5]. Frontispiece and illustrated additional title page. Black half calf, marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Housed in a green cloth covered dropback box. Rubbing to boards and scuffing to head and foot of spine. Corners bumped. Internally very good but with some foxing and slight soiling.

London: Hutchinson and Co.. 1942.Rare supernatural crimeFirst edition. 184x130mm. pp. 184. Pale blue cloth, lettered in red. Original illustrated dustjacket. Top and bottom edges of jacket a little chipped and two small closed tears to foot of jacket. Internally very good but with some toning to the edges. Overall a very good copy. Rare (Worldcat recording ten copies) and especially so in the dustjacket.Margaret Long wrote under seven pseudonyms, principally as Marjorie Bowen. As Joseph Shearing she wrote crime mysteries, based on true stories overlaid with the supernatural.

London: New Literature (Publishing) Ltd.. 1961.an inverted parable of the cruelty of colour prejudiceFirst edition. 209x135mm. pp. 196. Orange cloth, lettered in black. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight bowing to the boards and some creases and closed tears to the edges of the jacket and chipping to head and foot of spine of jacket. Overall a very good copy an extraordinary novel set among the Jamaican Maroons - a community of indigenous Caribbean Arawakan people who mixed with enslaved Africans who had broken free.

Cape Town: David Philip. 1981.Signed by Rive.First edition. 210x145mm. pp. [8], [8 photographs], [2], 221 [1bl]. Signed by Richard Rive on the title page. Red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Original dustjacket with photograph of Rive on upper cover. Slight soiling and light shelfwear to dustjacket but otherwise a near fine copy of Rive's "rumbustious, always perceptive autobiography" which was developed and expanded from his ground-breaking key-note speech at the University of Indiana's African Literature Association conference in 1979.

London: Chapman & Hall.. 1882.First edition. Two volumes. Small 8vo. 178x115mm. pp. vi, 199 [1bl]; vi, 208. Collates complete although the pagination in signature H of volume is somewhat awry, the printer having mixed up some pages - but the text is all present. Green cloth, brown morocco label on spine, lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Decorated, floral endpapers. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden Bart whose ownership inscription is in both volumes. Slight rubbing to corners but otherwise in fine condition throughout.

New York: Simon and Schuster. 1968.First edition, first printing. 195x125mm. pp. 215 [1bl]. Blue cloth. Original illustrated dustjacket. Spine of jacket has some fading and a repaired closed tear and there is some light foxing to lower cover.

Lovedale, South Africa: Lovedale Press.. [1930].The first novel in English by a black South African. In the rare dust jacket.First edition. 8vo. 185x120mm. pp. [12], 225 [1bl]. Green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine. Original illustrated dustjacked, chipped and a little torn along top and bottom edges but overall very good and rare in any condition. Internally there is some foxing.