Signed & Inscribed
Break In.
London: Michael Joseph, 1985. [Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.272. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates. Inscribed by the author to the halt-title page: "Hi Arthur! | See you at the | next Breeder Cup at | Santa Anita. | Dick..... More
Lester: The Official Biography.
London: Michael Joseph, 1986. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2]; xii; 338. SIGNED by Lester Piggott in black ink to the half-title. With four suites of photographs. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Gerry Cranham. Price clipped to..... More
Longshot.
London: Michael Joseph, 1990. [Equestrian Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 277 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by John Slater, priced at £13.99. Edges a little toned and spotted. Light..... More
The Light's on At Signpost. Memoirs of the Movies, Among Other Matters.
London: Harper Collins, 2002. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 338. With two suites of black and white plates. Publisher's brown cloth hardcover, bronze titles, yellow endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Autograph of George Fraser in black ink to the title page. Signature obtained in person..... More
The Reavers.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2007. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.viii; 230 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and illustrated endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Max Schindler, priced at £18.99. A fine, as-new copy..... More
According to Yes.
London: Michael Joseph, 2015. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[10] 376. SIGNED by the author in black marker to 'Exclusive Signed Edition' preliminary leaf. Publisher's white cloth with black and blue titles, priced at £20.00 (no jacket as issued). Blue endpapers. 'Signed Copy' sticker to front..... More
Liberty or Death. India's Journey to Independence and Division.
London: Harper Collins, 1997. [Indian history]. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xxiii; [1]; 467; [5]. Publisher's black cloth, tiles in silver to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with two suites of black and white photographs. Signed and inscribed to the title page. Edges slightly toned. Near fine. More
Bearders: My Life in Cricket.
London: Orion Books, 2006. [Cricket Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 322 [4]. With two suites of four double-sided photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink: 'For Jeff Hunt | All good wishes,' to title page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With..... More
That Was The Week That Was.
London: W.H. Allen, 1963. [Television Comedy] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.156 [4]. With black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. INSCRIBED by the photographer Lewis Morley in black ink to half-title: 'For Edward | Thanks to Frost who didn't realise what a hit he would become Lewis.'..... More
The Right of the Child: A Chapter in Social History. With a Foreword by Countess Mountbatten of Burma and an Introduction by Captain L.H. Green.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. [Humanitarianism] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.159 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to V.H.A. (Violet Attlee) to fly-leaf. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Spine sunned with..... More
Ludmila. A Story of Liechtenstein.
Liechtenstein: QUICK, 1960. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FOURTH IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.53. Eleven illustrations including frontispiece by Franz Deak. INSCRIBED by Baron von Falz-Fein, father of Ludmila, in blue ink to dedication page. Publishers green cloth, gilt title upper front board. Photographic yellow dust-jacket, not priced. Ownership inscription to..... More
Death Is Forever [James Bond series].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.248. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket with no price to front flap- copies without a printed price were intended for export. With presentation note to title page in black ink; "To..... More
The Secret Families [Inscribed Typescript with Associated Correspondence].
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. [Spy Thriller] INSCRIBED ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT. 437 sheets of type-written A4 paper, with the title leaf INSCRIBED by the author in black ink: 'To Gary, | With all good wishes — | yours | John Gardner.' Also with a separate Compliments leaf on US..... More
Gun Island.
London: John Murray, 2019. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 312 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's navy cloth with silver titles to spine. Green patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Stephen Johnston, priced at £20. A...... More
Oscar Wilde: A Study.
Oxford: The Holywell Press, 1905. [Literary Biography] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[12] 110 [2]. From an edition of 500 copies. With five illustrated plates, including a frontispiece caricature of Wilde. Publisher's slate blue paper-covered boards with red and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. All..... More
Ian Fleming: The Bibliography.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. SIGNED by the author. Royal quarto (33 x 22cm), with black and white illustrations throughout plus four suites of eight colour plates. Set in Albertina type and printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in full green cloth with black endpapers, gilt lettering and ornament. Fine/new..... More
Undercover Princess.
London: Penguin Books, 2017. [Children's literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 378. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine, decorative endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Qing Han with printed price of £12.99. Signed by the author to a tipped in title page. Fine. The first instalment of the..... More
Twelve Part Songs. Omnipotent Lord; Little Celandine; Gitanella; Bright Star of Eve; My True Love Hath My Heart; Take Me, Mother Earth; The Farewell; Go, Lovely Rose; The Bell; Far From My Native Mountains; Adam Could Find No Solid Peace; Le Loup et L'Agneau (The Wolf and the Lamb), a Fable from La Fontaine, with French and English Words.
London: Goddard & Co., no date [1872-1873]. [Part-Song Collection] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS, with two significant associated inscriptions. Two six-part series bound as one volume. Large octavo (27 x 19cm). With the composer's blue ink stamp-signature to title page of each Part Song. Additionally INSCRIBED in pencil to the composer's sub-conductor..... More
Dogs in Art.
London: Reaktion Books, 2019. [Art history] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.280. Publisher's grey paper covered boards, titles in yellow to spine, dust-jacket featuring a detail from a painting by Nicolas Toussaint Charlet and a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, yellow/green endpapers. With 164 illustrations, 158 in colour..... More
The Great Jowett.
London: Bodley Head, 1981. [Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Slim octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.44; [2], blank. Publisher's reddish orange cloth blocked in black and gilt, grey endpapers, clear plastic jacket. Number 244 of 525 copies signed by the author. Bookseller ticket to pastedown. Slightly sunned to the spine, plastic jacket..... More
Three Plays. The Living Room, The Potting Shed, and The Complaisant Lover.
London: Mercury Books / Heinemann, 1961. [Drama] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION, GREENE FAMILY COPY, INSCRIBED by the author to his wife. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.237; [2], blank. Publisher's softcovers. With presentation note to flyleaf; For Vivien / with love from / Graham [underlined]. Light handling and soiling, spine toned; near..... More
That Summer.
London: faber and faber, 2000. [Wartime Romance] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.x; 261 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's photographic soft covers, with the dust-jacket priced at £9.99. A little light handling and some toning to edges and margins. Near fine..... More
Traction Man Meets Turbodog.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 23cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour to every page by the author. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy... More
When the Movies Were Young.
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1925. [Early film] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; [2]; 256; [6]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, textured paper covered boards, paper title labels to spine and upper, fore and tail edge untrimmed. With a photographic frontispiece and fifteen further double sided..... More
Amontarista Plana.
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2014. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.48. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, with love' to half-title. Publisher's orange soft covers. Light rubbing to spine. Near fine. The author's second poetry collection. More