First UK edition. 1988-1990. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 5 vols. 8vo. black boards gilt in unclipped jackets. The first comprehensive collection of Dick’s shorter fiction, originally published in a limited edition of 400 sets by Underwood/Miller in 1987. The individual volumes comprise (1) Beyond Lies the Wub, (2) Second Variety, (3) The Father-Thing, (4) The Days of Perky Pat and (5) The Little Black Box. Provenance: The A&B Cox collection of science fiction works nos. 880/4110, 4168, 4298, 4199 & 4402, with bookplates. A near fine set.

First Edition 1881. Brisbane: Gordon & Gotch. 8vo. original pictorial boards (a little rubbed & marked). A very good copy of an uncommon work.

Beyond Human Endurance. The Ravensbrück Women Tell Their Stories First English 1970. Warsaw: Interpress Publishers 8vo. original printed paper wraps, French flaps (slightly frayed). Harrowing stories of the mostly Jewish young women who were forced subjects of human vivisection at a Nazi concentration camp. The tests involved deliberating wounding and infecting the victim’s legs in order to trial new drugs for use by the German army. A very good copy of an uncommon work.

First thus 1962. London: William Heinemann. 8vo. original green cloth gilt in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed & sunned). Inscribed on front endpaper by Noel Coward, ‘For Mary, Happy Christmas and Love, Noel’. A very good copy.

Thiebaud, K.E. and Hoyt S. Vandenburg (fwd.) Air Force Manual 52-6 – Restricted Security Information Reissue 1956. Washington: Department of the Air Force. 4to. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed & marked). A technical manual presenting the science and method of nuclear warfare, issued in very small numbers (limited to 116 copies) to US Air Force Staff. The flippancy with which the subject is sometimes presented belies its seriousness, and clearly predates the onset of radiation related illnesses suffered by US serviceman involved in the programme. A very good copy.

First US 1939. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 8vo. original green cloth in dustwrapper. A classic tale of foiled revenge, pursuit and survival in the English countryside, as the protagonist goes underground to escape his hunters. Notable for its gripping scenes within the claustrophobic confines of an old badger sett dug into the banks of a ‘holloway’ in Dorset. Acknowledged as the inspiration of David Morrell’s ‘First Blood’ (‘Rambo’), and lauded as a significant literary contribution to the field of British landscape writing Robert MacFarlane. A superb copy signed by the author.

First 1933. Wynberg, The Speciality Press of S. Africa Ltd, for the author, Havana, Cuba 8vo. original green cloth gilt, errata slip. A most unusual book of tall tales set in South America, purportedly true, by an Englishman resident in Havana. Some were apparently first published in Wide World Magazine, and are here appropriately accompanied with racy illustrations. A very good copy with lengthy presentation inscription by the author, and his occasional corrections to the text.

The Marquess of Douglas, Squadron Leader and Flight Lieutenant D. F. McIntyre First 1936. London, William Hodge & Company, Limited 8vo. original grey cloth in clipped dustwrapper. The story of the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition, in which two Westland aircraft flew over the summit of Mount Everest on 3rd April 1933. This second book on the expedition was jointly written by the two pilots involved. A very good copy in the uncommon jacket.