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Doctor Copernicus.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1976. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 242 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue just-jacket illustrated by Philip Mann. Spotting to edges. Jacket spine sunned with black New Fiction Society label to base. Very good. More
The Black-Eyed Blonde. A Philip Marlowe Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Henry Holt, 2014. [Detective mystery] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Number 86 of 100 copies thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 290; [4]. Publisher's glit-stamped black leather over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as new. A new novel..... More
John Clare and Picturesque Landscape.
Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 1983. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 158 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light blue endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket titled in red and black. Light spotting to edges. Jacket a little bruised and rubbed, with a closed tear..... More
Arena 13.
London: The Bodley Head, 2015. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 280 [16]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and black endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by James Fraser, priced at £12.99. Promotional..... More
The Magic of Lewis Carroll.
London: Thomas Nelson, 1973. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.288. With in-text illustrations and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and green endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket drawn by Victoria Burroughs with printed price £3.00 to flap. Clean pages with spotting to top edge of textblock, sunned..... More
Henny Penny.
London: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2006. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Windham to every page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-75.
London: William Collins, 2018. [Military History] SIGNED COPY, fourth printing. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxx; 720. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. With four suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, and photographic endpapers. With the..... More
A Lotus Grows in the Mud.
London: Bantam Press. 2005. [Autobiography] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.447. Publisher's hardcovers in photographic dust-wrapper, SIGNED by the author on the title page. As new, autographed at Hatchard's of Piccadilly and carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. More
Sometime in New York City.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1995. [Rock Music biography] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by Bob Gruen and Yoko Ono. Number 2160, of 3500 copies only. Folio. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Bob Gruen on matt art paper with traced overlays. Text by Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Original black leather over silkscreened aluminium..... More
Changing Trains: An Autobiography.
London: Hutchinson, 1996. [British Politics] EX LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition, association copy. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 273; [1]. With four double-sided black and white plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. Slightly bumped to..... More
Who I Am.
London: Harper Collins, 2012. [Rock Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.538. Publisher's grey hardback cloth, photographic endpapers, pictorial jacket priced £20. Illustrated with two suites of photographic plates. With signature of Pete Townshend to title page, obtained at a book-launch signing session with the retailer's original 'Signed..... More
Love Lessons.
London: Doubleday, 2005. [Young adult fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.264; [2], blank. Pictured throughout by Nick Sharratt. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers lettered in white, black endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £12.99. Signed and inscribed in pink ink by the author to the title page. Lightly handled..... More
My Mum Tracy Beaker.
London: Doubleday. 2018. [Young fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 407; [3], advertisements. Pictured throughout by Nick Sharratt. Publisher's illustrated hardcovers, purple endpapers, die-cut metallic effect dust-jacket priced at £12.99. Signed by the author to a tipped in exclusive edition page with 'Signed Copy' label to cover..... More
My Mum Tracy Beaker.
London: Doubleday, 2004. [Young fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.224. Pictured throughout by Nick Sharratt. Publisher's illustrated hardcovers, red endpapers. Signed by the author to title page, in our presence (Olympia Book Fair Signing event). Absolutely fine. A lovely copy, warehoused by ourselves since publication... More
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