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Dada and Surealism Reviewed.
London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.xii; 475 [33]. With black and white illustrations throughout, and a suite of colour images at rear. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket. Quite heavy rubbing to jacket edges and joints, otherwise..... More
Sextants at Greenwich. A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes, Cross-Staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles, and Artificial Horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. [Navigational Instruments] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 25cm), pp.xii; 323 [1]. Illustrated largely in black and white, with few colour plates. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and a blind sextant device stamped to upper board. Brown endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket and..... More
His Illegal Self.
London: Faber and Faber, 2008. [Modern fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 272; [10]. Publisher's grey paper covered boards, titles in black to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of £16.99, dark green endpapers. Signed by the author to the title page. With a Hatchards bookmark..... More
The Great Spy Race.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in Richard Chopping-esque pictorial dust-jacket designed by Broom Lynne. Top edge a little dusty, spine a shade toned else a clean, fine copy. Typical 'sixties James Bond cash-in, complete with a...... More
Signed Karin Dor and Mie Hama Title Card for the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED TITLE CARD. One colour title card for Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) and Mie Hama (Kissy) in black marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
Two Ravens.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1977. [Historical Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 199; [3]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket showing an Icelandic wood carving, priced at £3.95. Textblock a little browned, with some spotting to top edge. Slight reading lean, spine ends..... More
The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1976. [Comedy]. SIGNED COPY, the third impression, paperback. Quarto (31 x 24cm), unpaginated. SIGNED by Eric Idle and Neil Innes in blue and black ink to verso of front cover. Full of mad witty nonsense, as expected. Publisher's card covers with false title, 'The Wonderful World of..... More
Guess How Much I Love You.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Quarto (28 x 26cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour throughout by Jeram. Light blue endpapers. Publisher's light blue paper-covered boards, with the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine copy. More
Complete Diaries: The Python Years, 1968-1979: Halfway to Hollywood, 1980-1988; Travelling to Work, 1988-98.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006, 2009, 2014. [Comedy/travel] FIRST EDITION, three volumes, octavo (24 x 16 x 15cm), SIGNED by the author to final volume. First book includes a talking CD. Publisher's cloth hardcovers titled to spines, in pictorial dust-jackets. Each with photographic sections. A lovely fine, unread set... More
The Fundamental Pictures.
London: Alexander Roussos, 1997. SIGNED COPY. Oblong, pp.[48]. SIGNED by the artists in black ink to title page. Colour reproductions of art works. In publisher's card covers. A fine copy. Artwork encompassed by the title of the first piece, 'Spunk Blood Piss Shit Spit'. More
John Lennon. The Life.
London: Harper Collins, 2005. [Music biography] FIRST EDITION, with photographic plates. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.853; [1], blank. With two suites of black and white plates. Black cloth blocked in silver to spine, black endpapers, in glossy dust-jacket priced at £25. Absolutely fine/as new. A monumental, doorstop account of the..... More
The Soldier's Wife.
London: Doubleday, 2012. [Modern literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.320. Signed by the author to the title page. Publisher's dark blue cloth, titles in silver to spine, dark blue endpapers. Pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Henry Steadman with printed price of £18.99. Toned to edges, binding and wrapper..... More
Signed Francesca Tu Still from the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour still from Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Francesca Tu (Osato's Secretary) in blue marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
Fish Dream of Trees, and Other Curious Verses.
London: Two Hoots, 2017. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[48]. Illustrated in colour throughout by Scheffler. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards with cyan endpapers, untitled. Publisher's illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Promotional sticker to jacket. A fine, as-new copy. First published in German in 2016..... More
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