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Ski-ing on Water.
London: Frederick Muller, 1956. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 143. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustjacket. Some occasional spotting to the textblock and marking to the edges, slight wear to the cloth. A couple of closed tears to the front panel of the dustwrapper, small loss at..... More
Day of Judgement.
London: Collins, 1978. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Reg Boorer, priced at £4.95. Lightly sunned to spine else a fine copy, perhaps carefully read once. More
Cricket for Beginners.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1924. [Cricket] SECOND IMPRESSION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.121 [3]. With occasional diagrams and illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with black titles and illustration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced to head of spine but not quite legible. Internally clean. Mould damage to spine..... More
[You Only Live Twice, United Artists, 1967] Related documents.
UK, 30th March 1967. [James Bond film history] Typed arbitration decision by screenwriter Jack Pulman, regarding a dispute over the credits of the film You Only Live Twice between script writers Roald Dahl and Harold Jack Bloom. A detailed six-page arbitration including two pages of synopsis of Bloom's treatment compared..... More
Biggles Flies South.
London: Oxford University Press, 1938. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. With a colour frontispiece by Leigh, and a sketch-map and six black and white illustrations by Nicolle. Publisher's tan cloth with brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge brown. School prize inscription..... More
Big Sur.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1963. [American literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14 cm), pp.241. Publisher's blue hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced 18s. A fine copy of the book with some loose associated news-clippings tucked in. Bright jacket has some remnants of tape strips along top and lower..... More
The Dharma Bums.
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1958. [Beat Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 244; [4]. Publisher's black cloth with titles in green and silver. Top edge light green. With the dust-jacket designed by Bill English, priced at $3.95. With occasional light marginal pencil marks. Light bumping to..... More
The Dharma Bums.
London: Pan Books, 1962. [Modern Literature] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.188; [1]; [3], publisher's advertisements. Illustrated softcovers with printed price of 2'6 to front cover. Toning to textblock. Near fine. Published a year after 'On the Road,' Kerouac's 'The Dharma Bums' continues in the same vein of..... More
Heaven and Other Poems.
California, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1979. [Poetry] SECOND PRINTING. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 59 [3]. Frontispiece of Kerouac's comic strip drawn for the Cassady children. Publisher's silver paper wraps, black titles to spine and upper, printed price $3.00 to rear. Price label to half title, else internally bright and..... More
Lonesome Traveller.
London: Pan Books Ltd., 1964. [Short Essays] FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo paperback (18 x 11cm), pp.158 [2]. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at 2/6. Heavily toned, as usual, otherwise remarkably bright and crisp, with minimal wear and creasing to covers. Near fine. A collection of essays by the Beat..... More
Maggie Cassidy.
London: a Panther Book by Hamilton & Co., 1960. [Beat Novel] FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo paperback (18 x 11cm), pp.2-156 [4]. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at 2/6. Heavily toned, as usual. First leaf very neatly cancelled, otherwise remarkably bright and crisp, with minimal wear and creasing to covers..... More
The Town and the City.
New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, [no date] Circa 1956. [Modern Literature] GROSSET'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY EDITION, early paperback edition. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 499; [1]; [6], publisher's advertisements. Illustrated softcovers with printed price of $1.45 to front cover. Toning to edges of textblock, light creasing to spine and back..... More
Tristessa.
London: World Distributors, 1963. [Modern Literature] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.122; [6]. Illustrated soft-covers with printed price of 3'6 to front cover. Toning to textblock, creasing to top corner of front cover, wearing to ink to spine. Very good. Picking up where 'On the Road' left off..... More
Visions of Gerard and Tristessa. Two Short Novels.
London: André Deutsch Limited, 1964. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by William Belcher with printed price 18s to flap. Light spotting to textblock edge, fading to board top edge, minor rolling. Wear and..... More
The Sea-Wolf.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1904. [Seafaring Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 366 [6]. With six black and white illustrated plates by Aylward, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles and colour decoration blocked to spine and upper. Top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed. Repairs..... More
The Abysmal Brute.
Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1913. [Modern literature] FIRST CANADIAN EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[4]; 169; [3]. With the tissue-guarded frontispiece illustrated by Gordon Grant. Publisher's green cloth to boards, titles and pictorial decoration in yellow and black to upper and spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Interior bright with..... More
Milligan's Ark.
Surrey: M. and J. Hobbs, 1971. SIGNED FIRST EDITION.Quarto. Publisher's illustrated laminated boards, in matching pictorial dust jacket. Signed boldly by Spike Milligan to title page. A bright copy, near fine, in similar wrapper. A collection of cartoons and funny verses about animals, all by famous people, to help the..... More
The Americans.
New York, NY: Grossman Publishers / Aperture, 1969. 83 Photographs by Robert Frank with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Revised and Enlarged Edition of Frank's classic, moving photo-portrait of American life, from drive-ins, diners and Angels through cowboys, casinos and cocktails. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt..... More
Undiscovered Ends.
London: Cassell and Company, 1957. [Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. xi; 212. Inscribed by the author in blue ink to flyleaf, illustrative frontispiece painted by Alistair MacLeod, 13 pages of half tone illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 18s..... More
First Blood.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. [Western] FIRST UK EDITION, REVIEW COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.158. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine,pictorial dust-wrapper with printed price of 7s 6d net. With publisher's review slip loosely inserted. Lightly spotted, slightly bumped to top of spine, some sunning on spine..... More
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Parts One and Two. Special Rehearsal Edition Script.
London: Little, Brown, 2016. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 343 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. Gold illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. Near Fine. A two-part play leading on from J.K Rowling's previous seven books..... More
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Parts One and Two. Special Rehearsal Edition Script.
London: Little, Brown, 2016. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[vi]; 343; [1]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device on front board. Gold illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Duncan Spilling, with printed price of £20. Some light edgewear, otherwise fine, as-new. A two-part..... More
Naked Under Leather [MOVIE CAMPAIGN BROCHURE]. [The Girl on a Motorcycle].
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1968. [Movie Memorabilia] DISTRIBUTOR'S CAMPAIGN BOOKLET and HERALD SAMPLE. Folio (38 x 26cm), a single folded sheet with two leaves inserted. Illustrated in black and white to front cover, concerning the film 'Naked Under Leather' starring Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon. Also with the Herald sample..... More
Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men.
London: a Panther Book by Hamilton & Co., 1960. [Beat Anthology] FIRST THUS. Octavo paperback (18 x 11cm), pp.319 [1]. Publisher's colour photographic soft covers, priced at 3/6. Heavily browned, as usual, with light wear and creasing to covers. Very good. More
Poems for Roy Fuller on his seventieth birthday.
Oxford: the Sycamore Press, 1982. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 14cm), pp.[12]. Publisher's grey card covers with a red device to front cover, and sewn with red thread. Light toning to margins; light rubbing to covers. Near fine. More