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Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2002. [Rock/pop] SIGNED BY BOWIE AND ROCK. Deluxe Edition, number 171 of 350 copies bound in full leather, with additional photographic print, from a total run of 2500 copies. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.346. Printed on fourteen different paper stocks, including clear acetate, trace leaves and a...... More
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[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
Virginia Woolf.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. [Literary Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 892 [6]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Meredith | from Hermione Lee | September 1996.' With three suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth..... More
An Esotericist Looks at Cosmology. The Hermetic Journal, Issue 24.
Privately Printed, 1984. ROBERT LENKIEWICZ'S COPY. Quarto, pp. 29-36. Hand-bound by Lenkiewicz between two plain plywood boards, with cream hand-lettered cloth pasted over as a spine. In two gatherings, each pasted to a board. Text appears to be photocopied. An unspeakably rude binding, but solid and functional. Good. From the..... More
Fire and Blood. A History of the Targaryen Kings from Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III.
London: HarperVoyager, 2018. [Fantasy worldbuilding] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.719. Illustrated throughout by Doug Wheatley. Publisher's black cloth with titles in gold to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Claire Ward and illustrated by Larry Rostant. A fine / as new copy. As fans of Martin have come..... More
A Feast For Crows. Book Four of A Song of Ice and Fire.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005. [Fantasy Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 753 [21]. With maps to preliminaries, an appendix, and a preview of 'A Dance with Dragons' at rear. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Larry Rostant, priced..... More
Atonement.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2001. [Wartime romance-suspense] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 372 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and black endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy. A modern..... More
Black Dogs.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.174; [1], blank; [1], Note. Publisher's black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, scarlet endpapers, photographic dust jacket by David Moores, priced at £13.99. Author's signature to title-page in black ink. A fine copy. The critically acclaimed..... More
Black Dogs.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.174; [1], blank; [1], Note. Publisher's black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, white endpapers, photographic dust jacket by David Moores, priced at £13.99. A fine copy. The critically acclaimed fifth novel from the Booker Prize-winning author... More
The Cement Garden.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.138. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge grey, grey endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ron Bowen, priced at £3.50 net. Some slight spotting to edges. Cloth lightly rubbed to to top and bottom board edges..... More
The Child in Time.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 220 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket showing a detail from a painting by da Vinci, priced at £10.95. A fine, as-new copy. More
The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television by Ian McEwan. [Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration, and Solid Geometry].
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. [Television Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's oatmeal cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd, priced at £5.95. A minor bump and a light mark to jacket front cover. A fine copy. Not to be confused..... More
On Chesil Beach.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 166 [4]. Number 516 of 1200 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's quarter brown cloth with metallic blue titles to spine, and blue and brown paper over boards. With the..... More
Saturday.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. [Modern literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.279; [1] acknowledgements. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-wrapper with printed price of £17.99. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine copy. Signed by the author upon release and carefully stored..... More
The Len Deighton Companion.
London: Grafton Books, 1987. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.332; [4], notes. Publisher's grey cloth hardcover lettered in silver to backstrip, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £12.95. A lovely fine copy which appears unused. An indispensable guide to the world of Len Deighton, the renowned spy novelist, military..... More
The Wind Singer.
London: Mammoth, 2000. [Children's Literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 341 [3]. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper board. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Mark Edwards. A fine as-new copy. More
Pat Nixon The Untold Story.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1986. [Politics] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.484; [4], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth, printed dust-wrapper priced $19.95. Later printing. With warm presentation note to half-title; "For Sheila MacKellow | with every good wish from | Julie Nixon Eisenhower | July 1988"..... More
Paris.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 734; [2]. Publisher's red cloth, metallic blue titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of £18.99. Signed by the author to the title page with a Hatchards promotional band around the wrapper. A faint..... More
Hockney: The Biography. Volume I, 1937-1975: A Rake's Progress.
London: Century, 2011. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xx; 363 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations and colour plates; illustrated endpapers. With an associated Royal Academy bookmark. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25.00. A fine, as-new copy. From the..... More
Homage to Cheval. Poems & a Drawing by George Szirtes.
Berkhampsted: the Priapus Press, 1980. [Poetry] PRIVATE PRESS. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 15cm), pp.[12]. Four poems and a frontispiece illustration by the author. One of just 150 copies edited, hand-set and printed by John Cotton at the Priapus Press. Publisher's pink card wraps, sewn. Very light handling. Near fine... More
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