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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Metaphysical Poetry] FIRST BULL ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto, unpaginated. With 29 very fine tipped-in colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rene Bull. Also blue border decorations and vignette illustrations to every page. Recently bound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and..... More
The Historian. A Novel.
London: Little, Brown, 2005. [Gothic fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 642 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with white titles to spine, and endpapers showing a map of Cold War Europe. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by..... More
The Night Manager.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.443; [5]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £15.99. Signed, with a brief four-line inscription by the author to the title page, dated within a month of..... More
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
London: The Reprint Society, 1964. [Spy Thriller] first UK book club edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.240. Publisher's red quarter paper with gilt titles to spine and black paper over boards. Top edge black. With the red dust-jacket. Some light spotting to edges, minor wear to jackets. Near fine. A...... More
The New London Family Cook.
London: Albion Press, Printed for James Cundee, 1808. [Cookery]. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.634. Full tan diced calf, respined to style with a red title label, marbled endpapers. With a portrait frontispiece and ten further plates. Textblock is nice and clean with just occasional light spotting, embossed library stamps to..... More
The Sixpence that Rolled Away.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some..... More
Bring Up The Bodies.
London: Fourth Estate, 2012. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 410; [1], Acknowledgements; [2], blank. SIGNED by the author to the title page, dated 14th August 2012. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Andy Bridge, priced at £20, illustrated endpapers. A...... More
Love in the Time of Cholera.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.352. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Andrew Kulman, priced at £11.95. A crisp, clean copy with a little light handling. Fine. More
Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2014. [Film Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.272. Handsomely bound in half brown oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, matching cloth sides. Autographed to the half title. With the dust-jacket bound in at the rear, featuring a relaxed Roger Moore..... More
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine.
London: Chatto and Windus Ltd., 1974. [Modern literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.328: Publisher's green cloth boards and pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Sutcliffe, priced at £2.50. A clean, near fine copy. More
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The Thursday Murder Club [and] The Man Who Died Twice.
London: Viking, 2020 and 2021. [Crime Mysteries] FIRST EDITIONS, second volume SIGNED. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 380 [11]; pp.[12] 444 [10]. Second volume SIGNED by the author in black ink to a Waterstones 'Exclusive Signed Edition' leaf to preliminaries, dated September 2021. Publisher's black cloth with silver..... More
Tom's Midnight Garden. Illustrated by Susan Einzig.
London: Oxford University Press, 1958. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 229; [1], blank. Elegantly hand-bound in half green oasis morocco, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, gilt decoration, red title label, marbled sides, all edges gilt. Contents clean, exterior unmarked. A fine copy in..... More
Poems.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1968. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, first edition. Slim octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 24; [6]. Errata slip loosely inserted. Publisher's red quarter morocco over black cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt. Number 104 of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Slightly toned to..... More
Winter Trees.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.55; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles in typographic dust-wrapper price at £1.00. A lovely fine copy in dust-wrapper. These poems were all written in the nine months before Plath's untimely death in 1963... More
Soul Music. A Discworld Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1994. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24x 16cm), pp.286. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Josh Kirby with printed price of £14.99. Textblock lightly toned, binding and wrapper lightly handled, one tiny closed tear to rear panel of the jacket. Near fine... More
Ronnie.
London: Macmillan, 2007. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 358. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £20. Signed "Love Ronnie.07" to title page. Illustrated with four photographic suites. Textblock very lightly toned, binding and wrapper lightly handled with a...... More
Wood On Canvas. Every Picture Tells A Story. Forewords by Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1998. LIMITED EDITION, text and art by Ronnie Wood, DOUBLE-SIGNED DELUXE ISSIUE. One of only 100 deluxe copies, from a run of 2500 (the remainder being designated 'Collector' copies). Folio (overall dimensions 40 x 32cm), pp.144, four-colour printed leaves, some folding-plates, fully bound in black leather, blocked..... More
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
London: Bloomsbury, 2000. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the artist Giles Greenfield. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.636; [4], blank. Publisher's purple cloth, all edges gilt, gilt titles to spine and upper with pictorial illustration laid down, autographed by Greenfield. A fine, unread copy. Over many years Adrian Harrington..... More
Maigret's First Case.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. [Crime Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191; [1], blank. Elegantly bound in red half calf over marbled sides, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt. A few light spots else clean within, exterior unmarked. A near fine copy in..... More
Harper and Wilton.
London: Colophon Press, 1996. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 17 [5]. Number 59 of 110 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear. Printed by letterpress on Velin Arches paper. Publisher's brown quarter morocco, with gilt titles to spine..... More
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur.
London: Colophon Press, 2001. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 15 [7]. Letter Z of 26 lettered copies thus, from a total limitation of 157, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear, with a holograph quotation from the text. Printed by..... More
Voices at Play. Stories and Ear-pieces.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1960. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 248. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Victor Reinganum, priced at 16s net. Very light handling only. A crisp, fine copy in like jacket. Muriel Spark won the 1965 James Tait Black Memorial Prize..... More
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. [American Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 340 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to a bookplate on the half-title. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter..... More
Alice of Old Vincennes.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900. [American Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION, an advance copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 419 [13]. With five black and white illustrated plates and a colour frontispiece, all by Yohn. Publisher's light blue cloth with black and gilt titles, as well as decoration in white..... More
The Mennyms.
London: Julia MacRae Books, 1993. [Children's Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[2] 213 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and light brown endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Patrick Benson, priced at £9.99. A fine copy with just a touch of light handling. The first..... More
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