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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
Zabbar: Privately printed for the authors by the Gutenberg Press, 1994. [Maltese Naval Architecture] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.480. Heavily illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. SIGNED in blue ink to the half-title, and dated 19/08/97. Publisher's blue leatherette with blue titles to spine. With the..... More
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
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
London: Faber and Faber, 1997. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 328. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Huntley/Muir, priced at £15.99. Very light handling only. A fine copy..... More
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. Near fine but for an unfortunate production fault to p.105, where the leaf has snagged in the gutter (text perfectly legible once..... More
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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