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Arthur and George.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. [Historical Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 360 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the original printed paper band to rear board..... More
Me and You.
London: Doubleday, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[26]. Illustrated in colour throughout by the author. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). A fine copy. A modern re-telling of Goldilocks and..... More
Willy's Stories.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 27cm), pp.24. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black paper-covered boards, and marbled-illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Light surface scratches..... More
[Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell Photographic Archive and Long-Play Record, including] World Water Speed Record 1956: Donald Campbell's Southward Run on Coniston Water [and] See Sir Malcolm Campbell Breaking the World's Water Speed Record Using Castrol Motor Oil [Flick Book].
London: His Master's Voice, 1937, 1956, and 1984. [Land and Water Speed Records] ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, SIGNATURES, FLICK BOOK, NEWSPAPER, AND LONG-PLAY RECORD, LEO VILLA ASSOCIATION. Two ink signatures by Malcolm Campbell on separate scraps of paper, one with a small newspaper photograph cut out and laid on, dated 22/07/1935. One..... More
The President is Missing.
London: Century, 2018. [Political Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 513 [9]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges red and American flag endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £20.00. A sticker removed from front cover. A fine, as-new copy. More
Life Lines. Politics and Health 1986-1988.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989. [Politics] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xii; 291; [1] blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Slatter-Anderson featuring a photograph by David Montgomery with printed price of £13.95. Illustrated with a suite of black and white plates..... More
Roald Dahl. A Biography.
London: Faber & Faber, 1994. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, with strike-line ending '1'. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 307; [1], blank. Illustrated with two suites of eight photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth, photographic jacket priced £17.50. Minor toning to text block else fine. Biography of the award-winning children's author and..... More
Complete Universal Horror Library. The Werewolf of London; Creature from the Black Lagoon; The Wolfman; Dracula's Daughter; The Bride of Frankenstein; The Mummy.
New York, NY: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1977. [Classic Horror Film Novelisations] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes, all being paperbacks in a uniform cover design. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.xii; 194; pp.xii; 194 [2]; pp.xii; 212; pp.xii; 212; pp.xiv; 210; pp.x; 166. All featuring frequent images from the black..... More
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer.
London: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2008. [Classics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 514. With two suites of four double-sided photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and black endpapers..... More
Amontarista Plana.
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2014. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.48. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, with love' to half-title. Publisher's orange soft covers. Light rubbing to spine. Near fine. The author's second poetry collection. More
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I Piso Pleura tou Kathrephti. [The Rear Side of the Mirror].
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2012. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.56. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, from the heart' to half-title. Publisher's grey soft covers. Rubbing to spine and a couple of bumps. Very good. The author's first published..... More
![Item #55980 Simeia twn Kairon. [Signs of the Times]. Roula GRIGORIADOU-CHATZIMINA, born 1946](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55980.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591288264)
Simeia twn Kairon. [Signs of the Times].
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2018. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.50 [6]. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, with love' to half-title. Publisher's blue soft covers. The lightest of rubbing to spine. Near fine. More
Muhammad Ali. His Life and Times.
London: Robson Books, 1991. [Boxing Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.544. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED from the author to 'Malcolm' in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket featuring a...... More
Crow Lake.
Toronto, ON: Alfred A Knopf, 2002. SIGNED TRUE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.294. Fore edge untrimmed. Bound in publisher's teal paper-covered boards, in a photographic dustjacket depicting a lake. Fine condition. Spotless throughout, as new. Dustjacket in like. The book is signed by Mary Lawson to the title page. This edition..... More
The Sleepless.
London: Heinemann, 1993. [Horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[4]; 474; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, dust-jacket designed by Button Design Co., with printed price of £15.99. Textblock lightly toned with some very slight spotting to edges. Wrapper lightly handled. Near fine. More
Atomic Adam.
London: Fulham Gallery Ltd., 1967. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Folio (34 x 24cm), one sheet of green paper folded twice, in a grey card jacket, with titles to both. Printed in purple and silver. Folds out to broadly A2 size, with the poem printed again in a larger decorative format..... More
Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by Pullman in blue ink to title page.Text printed in red and black. With facsimile plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. Publisher's black cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Scarecrow and his Servant.
London: Doubleday, 2004. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 230 [2]. With frequent in-text line drawings by Bailey, somewhat in the style of Ardizzone. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'Greetings to Oliver — | Philip Pullman.' Publisher's green cloth with gilt..... More
Puss in Boots. The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline.
London: Doubleday, 2000. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Slim Quarto (30 x 26cm). SIGNED by the author. Illustrated throughout by Ian Beck. Publisher's pictorial boards in matching dust-jacket, pictorial endpapers. A fine/as new copy, carefully warehoused ny ourselves since publication. More
Lyra's Oxford.
London: David Fickling Books, 2003. [Fantasy] FIRst Edition. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.55. Publisher's red cloth boards, titles in black to spine, paper title label to upper board. Grey endpapers, with fold-out map. A touch of light wear to cloth. A crisp, near fine copy. 'Lyra's Oxford' is the accompanying..... More
![Item #62802 The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage [and] The Secret Commonwealth. Philip PULLMAN,...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/62802.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660666821)
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage [and] The Secret Commonwealth.
Oxford and London: David Fickling Books in association with Penguin Books, 2017. [Fantasy Fiction] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (16 x 25cm), pp.[10] 545 [4]; pp.[12] 686 [6]. Vignette chapter head pieces by Chris Wormell. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt speckling to boards. Blue and..... More
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage.
London: David Fickling Books, 2017. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, third printing thus. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.546. Publisher's gilt and silver decorated black cloth, with wave-decorated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. A fine copy. Pullman returns to the world of the His Dark Materials..... More
![Item #54504 À Outrance [His Dark Materials]. Philip PULLMAN, born 1946](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54504.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1566395048)
À Outrance [His Dark Materials].
Fyfield, Oxfordshire: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2009. [Epic fantasy] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, with signed illustrations and two-line manuscript quote. Copy no.41 of 65. Small folio (34 x 25cm), pp.43; [1], blank; [1], Imprint; [3], blank. Typeset in Caslon, text and engravings printed by Hand and Eye Letterpress, London. Three wood..... More
Count Karlstein, or, the Ride of the Demon Huntsman. Illustrations By Diana Bryan.
London: Doubleday, 2002. [Gothic Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST PRINTING thus; originally published in 1982, this edition is newly illustrated. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher's cloth, fine, in very near fine wrapper. By the prize-winning author of 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Author's signature to the title page in blue ink. Pullman's first..... More