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Artemis Fowl.
London: Viking, 2001. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 278 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles in Gnommish to spine. With the bronze metallic effect pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tony Fleetwood, priced at £12.99..... More
Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. [Military history] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.304. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, red endpapers, top edge red, dust-wrapper displays a Paul Nash painting, priced at £4.95. With many photographic plates. With presentation note..... More
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[Complete Strega Borgia Chronicles]. Pure Dead Magic; Pure Dead Wicked; Pure Dead Brilliant; Deep Trouble; Deep Water; Deep Fear.
London: Doubleday, 2001-2006. [Children's Fantasy Humour] COMPLETE SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 17cm), pp.220 [4]; pp.253 [3]; pp.316 [5]; pp.304; pp.335 [1]; pp.332 [4]. With chapter headings illustrated by the author. Each volume SIGNED by the author to title page in ink matching the colour..... More
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Half Bad, [together with] Half Wild [and] Half Lost.
London: Penguin Books, 2014, 2015, 2016. [Fantasy trilogy] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes. Octavo (23 x 14cm). Signed by the author to each title page, the final volume additionally lined 'wounded, not lost'. Publisher's silver-coloured hardcovers in silver dust-jackets, with varying coloured endpapers. 'Signed Copy' sticker to front cover. A...... More
The House of Silk.
London: Orion Books, 2011. [Detective Fiction] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.294. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half title. A fine/as-new copy in jacket, in a silver-titled black cloth slipcase, in the original shrinkwrap. Anthony Horowitz's first Sherlock Holmes continuation novel, followed..... More
The World Cup of Everything.
London: Coronet, 2017. [Trivia / Quiz] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[6] 391 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's illustrated cloth (no jacket as issued), priced at £14.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. Corners lightly bumped. Near fine. A...... 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
I Me Mine.
Guildford: Genesis Press [Genesis Publications], 1980. [Music autobiography] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION (No.482). Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.404; [2], blank. With sepia plates and illustrations. Original half brown morocco with 'guitar' gilt-stamped to boards, gilt edges, in original slipcase. Number 482 of 2000 copies only, signed by the late former..... More
The Man Who...
Bristol: Scorpion Press, 1992. [Detective Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] x, 230. Number 121 of just 125 copies SIGNED by all the contributors in various inks to preliminary leaves. Also with an illustrated frontispiece tipped in. Book mark for 'Murder by the Book' bookstore in..... More
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