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The Disputed Crown. A Novel of Eleventh Century England.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1982. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxii; 297; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with silver titles to spine. With the brown dust-jacket reproducing an image from the Bayeux tapestry. Some spotting to top edge and a very slight reading lean. A crisp, clean near..... More
Gildenford.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1978. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 323; [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Walter Hodges. Some spotting to top edge, otherwise a crisp, clean, near fine copy. The author's first novel, set in the..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [c.1914]. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), with twenty mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green and red to upper, gilt to spine. Contents are a little foxed, binding lightly handled, one neat/accidental pull to crown..... More
Great Golfers. Their Methods at a Glance.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. [Golf] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xxiv, 482, [2] advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine and gilt golfer to upper board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 268 action photographs. Light spotting to endpapers and edges. Cloth lightly rubbed to extremities, marginally..... More
Beyond the Fringe.
London: Souvenir Press, 1963. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's dark blue cloth, orange titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 13s. 6d. With six double sided black and white photographic plates. Light spotting to edges. Wrapper slightly edge worn, some marking to rear panel..... More
A Word to Gandhi.
London: William and Norgate 1931. FIRST EDITION, octavo, pp.142. Travel writer ROBERT BYRON'S REFERENCE COPY with his pencil signature and annotations; Byron published 'An Essay on India' the same year. Original yellow card covers printed in black. Some expected rubbing and toning to extremities but generally near fine. Byron has..... More
Gozo: Island of Oblivion. A Graphic Literary Itinerary.
Melfi: Edizioni Libria, 1997. [Maltese Sketches and Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 28cm), pp.133 [7]. A collection of sketches of buildings on Gozo, accompanied by various appropriate quotations, and by eclogues by John Cremona. Publisher's cream soft covers with flaps, priced at 50,000 lire. Spine and part of rear..... More
My Life So Far.
London: Ebury Press, 2005. [Autobiography] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.599. Publisher's hardcovers in photographic dust-wrapper, SIGNED by the author on the title page. As new, carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. A fully illustrated autobiography by the Oscar-wining actress, controversial political activist and groundbreaking fitness guru. Signed..... More
Startime with Emile Ford and the Checkmates [Souvenir Programme]. Presented by Tom Arnold, by arrangement with Leslie Grade. A Fast Moving Starama of Music and Fun Staged by Charles King. [Featuring] The Dancing Starlets; Joe Baker and Jack Douglas; The Fordettes; Those Colleens; Harry Bailey; "The Picture;" Jimmy Lloyd; "Circus Time;" "Les Tres Belles;" Medlock, Marlowe and Susan; "Green Leaves of Summer."
Great Yarmouth: Printed by John Buckle for the Royal Aquarium, no date [circa 1960]. [Music Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[8]. A profile of Emile Ford with black and white photographic images, as well as the programme for the evening's entertainment. Publisher's black illustrated soft..... More
A Flame of Fire.
London: Henry E. Walter, [no date] Circa 1949. [Modern Literature] VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.304. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Peter Fraser with printed price of 6/- to front flap. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, toning to edges of textblock, previous..... More
That's the way I see it.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. [Modern Art] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 23cm), pp.248. With 365 illustrations, most in colour. Publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine and a yellow illustration to upper board. Illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket. A little rubbing to cloth; jacket edges bruised. Near..... More
On Photography: A Lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, November 1983.
New York, NY: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1983. [Photography and Art] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.29 [3]. With three in-text illustrations. Publisher's gently marbled soft covers with orange titles to upper. Rare. Very light rubbing to edges. Near Fine. From the library of the writer, media and film executive..... More
[Four Frank Ifield Concert Programmes and a Handbill].
1963 - 1966. [Concert Programmes] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLETS. Various sizes from 23 x 15 to 24 x 18cm. Various concerts played by Frank Ifield, including a handbill for a concert at the Gaumont, Bradford, in April 1963. Publisher's paper covers, some in colour, some stapled. Hole-punch marks to one programme..... More
The Children of Africa. Written for all English-Speaking Children.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1886. [Christian-Colonial Ethnology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]. With frequent engraved illustrations, and a large folding map of Africa to preliminaries. Publisher's blue cloth with elaborate gilt, orange and black titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
An Adventure.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. [Paranormal Activity] FOURTH EDITION, third impression thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.118 [2]. With four folding maps at rear. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blind ex-libris stamp of Alan H. Hooker to fly-leaf. A touch of light spotting to endpapers, otherwise..... More
An Adventure. With Appendix and Maps.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Paranormal Activity] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 205 [3]. With a number of in-text maps and plans, and four black and white map plates at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt fleur-de-lis device to upper. All edges..... More
V.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Post modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 492 [6]. Elegantly hand-bound in black half oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, and matching black cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, with original cloth spine bound in at rear. A...... More
The Female of The Species.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1928]. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8], advertisements. In publisher's light blue cloth blocked in black to spine and upper. Edges clean, no inscriptions. A lovely fine copy, lacking the scarce jacket. The fifth Bulldog Drummond thriller... More
Tiny Carteret.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1930]. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Spurrier, priced at 7/6 to spine. Light offsetting to endpapers; text lightly browned. Spine lightly sunned. Rather worn jacket..... More
Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon.
London: Faber and Faber. 1974. [Modern Literature] NEW EDITION. Octavo, pp.192. Publisher's cloth boards, with the blue typographic dust-jacket. Some light wear to cloth and jacket edges. Very good. Tom Stoppard's uproarious first novel, concerning a flambouyant aristocratic dandy living to excess in swinging London, first published in 1966... More
The Godsend.
London: Souvenir Press, 1976. [Horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.208. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £3.25. Some light wear to extremities. Near fine. More
The Curse of Lono (with fine painting of Thompson).
Köln: Taschen, 2005. [Original artwork] FIRST EDITION THUS, trade issue, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, with superb ORIGINAL PAINTING. Folio (39 x 30cm), pp.208. With numerous fantastical colour illustrations by Steadman, many double-paged. Publisher's white hardcovers screen-printed in black, colour-illustrated dust-jacket. To the half-title is a most personal painted caricature of..... More
The Patch on the Quilt [and] William de Luxe [in] Pearson's Magazine. Number 308.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, August 1921. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 89-182. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Internally clean, with fairly light wear to covers, and a purple bookseller's stamp to upper. Very good... More