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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 Dead Side of the Mike.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1980. [Crime thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.176. Publisher's red cloth, titles in gilt to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of £4.95 net. Inscribed by the author to the copyright page: "with love | from | Simon | 11th June 1980". Cloth sunned..... 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
Sometime in New York City.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1995. [Rock Music biography] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by Bob Gruen and Yoko Ono. No.1026 of 3500 copies. 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 boards, all..... 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
Driving Ambition: The Official Inside Story of the McLaren F1.
London: Virgin Books, 1999. [Sports Car] FIRST EDITION, with poster at rear. Quarto (30 x 30cm), pp.272. Illustrated in colour throughout. With a large folded poster loose at rear. Black paper-covered boards with silver titles to spine, and blind decoration to upper. With the photographic dust-jacket. Jacket price-clipped. Light rubbing..... 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 Townsend 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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