Search Results: Literary from Shellhouse Books

Heinemann, 1930. 1st edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author, no 410 of the limited edition of 1025 copies issued. Very fine contents, with frontispiece drawing of the author, in original tan cloth, a trifle rubbed, slightly darkened spine with gilt lettering. A very nice copy of the author's anti-war novel, his best-known work.

Clarion Press, 1997. 1st edition. Fine in pictorial softcover, one of 250 copies only. Illustrated in colour by George Large, and with an additional loose colour print from the book signed by him.

Clarion Press, 1996. 1st edition. Fine in softcover, one of only 250 copies. Illustrated in two colours by George Mackie, with an additional loose illustrated print signed by him.

Hutchinson, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very near fine, some light creasing at the corners of a few pages, else very clean throughout, in a very near fine dustwrapper, slight corner nicks. Nice copy of the hardest of the author's novels to find. Signed by the author on his agent's compliments slip, laid in.

Bodley Head, 1971. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author on a laid-in donations slip. Incredibly attractive copy of the author's sixth novel.

Clarion Press, 1996. 1st edition. Fine in paper covers, one of only 250 copies, three full-page illustrations in two-colour line by Sonia Lawson, with an additional loose illustrated print signed by the artist. Also with the Clarion Newsletter which accompanied the book's publication, in which Fay Weldon writes about her story.

John Murray; Robinson, 0. 1st edition of each title, published in 1992 and 1994, respectively. Hardcover for the first-named, softcover as issued for the second. The first is very fine in fine dustwrapper, the second very fine in red covers with printed title label to front. The author displays all his customary wit and charm in his account of the mostly postwar transfer to the National Trust of fourteen of Britain's finest country houses. Ruthenshaw is his charming country house supernatural ghost story. Nice pairing of these two titles.

Clarion Press, 1996. 1st edition. Fine in paper covers, one of only 250 copies printed, illustrated in colour by Paul Hogarth, and with an additional loose colour print from the book signed by the artist.

Clarion Press, 1996. 1st edition. Fine in paper covers, one of 250 copies. Sillitoe's story is illustrated by Victor Ambrus, with a loose print from the book signed by the artist.