Signed & Inscribed
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The Debt We Owe: The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund 1919-1989.
Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 1989. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8], 216. With a colour frontispiece portrait of Viscount Trenchard, and 12 double-sided black and white plates. INSCRIBED by the author to Guy Huntrods, a prominent Tunbridge Wells based veteran, for his 75th birthday, in bright blue ink to title page. Also..... More
The Right of the Child: A Chapter in Social History. With a Foreword by Countess Mountbatten of Burma and an Introduction by Captain L.H. Green.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. [Humanitarianism] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.159 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to V.H.A. (Violet Attlee) to fly-leaf. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Spine sunned with..... More
Music, A Joy for Life.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1976. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Square Octavo, pp.204 [4]. With numerous b/w illustrations and a colour plate section. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to front free end-paper. A fine copy... More
Sloop Of War.
London: Hutchinson, 1977. [Naval Adventure] INSCRIBED COPY, the third impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.319 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Donald James – | with best wishes | Alexander Kent.' Publisher's maroon cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and maps to grey endpapers..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The First and Fourth Renderings In English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Willy Pogany.
London: George Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1930. [Illustrated Poetry] LIMITED EDITION, a Presentation Copy, one of 750 copies SIGNED in pencil to the frontispiece by Willy Pogany, numbered 'Artist'. Small Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.175 [1]. With twelve mounted colour plates including a frontispiece, an original etching signed in pencil..... More
T.E. Lawrence To His Biographer, Robert Graves [and] Liddell Hart. Information about himself, in the form of letters, notes and answers to questions, edited with a critical commentary.
London: Faber and Faber, 1938. [Letters and Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS. Two volume box set. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] x; 187 [1]; pp.[2] x; 233 [3]. Each with a black and white frontispiece, and printed on fine, handmade paper. Both being copy 172 of 1000 thus, SIGNED by Graves..... More
The Desolate Antarctic.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1950. [Antarctic exploration] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION WITH TLS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 172. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. Illustrated with photographic plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to W.G. Whincop to the half title..... More
Complete Diaries: The Python Years, 1968-1979: Halfway to Hollywood, 1980-1988; Travelling to Work, 1988-98.
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
Sketches in Bedlam; or Characteristic Traits of Insanity, as Displayed in the Cases of One Hundred and Forty Patients of Both Sexes, now, or Recently Confined in New Bethlem, Including Margaret Nicholson, James Hatfield, Patrick Walsh, Bannister Truelock, and Many Other Extraordinary Maniacs, who have been Transferred from Old Bethlem. To the Above are Added a Succinct History of the Establishment, Its Rules, Regulations, Forms of Admission, Treatment of Patients, &c. &c. By a Constant Observer. Skulduggery Pleasant.
London: Sherwood, Jones & Co., 1823. [Psychiatry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xl; 312. Attractively bound in period-style half speckled calf with twin red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled covered sides, deckled edges uncut. Contents with a few minor marks, half title repaired and..... More
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