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— Abraham Lincoln
New Arrivals
Absolute Friends.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004. [Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, purple endpapers, purple dust-wrapper with red and white titles, priced at £18.99. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine/as new copy. A theatrical masterstroke..... More
British Pop.
Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. [Pop Art] INSCRIBED EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. Quarto softcover (27 x 20cm), pp.474 [2]. SIGNED by the artist Peter Blake in black ink, and additionally INSCRIBED by Livingstone in blue ink: 'For Edward | Marco Livingstone | 16.IV.09.' Both to title page. Text in..... More
Twiggy. A Life in Photographs.
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2009. [Fashion Photography / Sixties Culture] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.144. Publisher's glossy printed boards, dust-jacket. Signed by Twiggy to the title page. A fine copy. More
The Scarlet Letter. A Romance.
Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (18 x 12cm) pp.[iv]; 322, title page printed in red and black. Elegantly bound in full deep red oasis morocco, with black title labels lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt decoration to spine, marbled endpapers, top..... More
Snowdon on Stage. With a Personal View of the British Theatre 1954-1996.
London: Pavilion, 1996. [Performing Arts] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.157; [3]. Publisher's white paper covered boards, titles in black to spine, blind stamped to upper. Dust-jacket, with printed price of £35.00. Inscribed by the two contributors to the half title: "To Edward | with very best |..... More
America.
New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1985. [American Culture / Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.224. Black and photographs to every page with commentary by Warhol. SIGNED by Warhol in marker pen to the front cover, and again to the blank facing the contents page, also with..... More
Cafe Lehmitz.
AB Tiprod, ETC, 1982. [Photography / Counter Culture] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Text in Swedish. Oblong octavo (27 x 24cm). With 88 black and whiite photographs. White cloth hardcovers blocked in black, photographic dust-jacket. Book is fine, jacket near fine with a couple of small marks and tears. An attractive copy..... More
Cakes and Ale. or The Skeleton in the Cupboard.
London: William Heinemann, 1930. [Satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 270. Printing error 'won' for 'won't' on p.147, line 14. Publisher's mid-blue cloth binding blocked in gilt and black, original printed dust-wrapper. Text block a little toned, light spotting (mostly to preliminaries), jacket crisp and fine with some..... More
The Far Country.
London: William Heinemann, 1952. [Romantic adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.333; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, debossed monogram and publisher's devices to boards, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Val Biro, with printed price of 12s 6d net. Contents clean, edge of text block a little..... More
Cafe Royal Cocktail Book.
London: Publications from Pall Mall Ltd., 1937. [Mixology] CORONATION EDITION. First (and seemingly only) edition. Octavo (19 x 14cm), unpaginated. Smartly bound in recent dark blue half calf over blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. Original cloth spine and upper panel bound in at the rear. With numerous in-text..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1909]. [Illustrated] FIRST EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm). with 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards; quatrains with brown border decoration. Red half calf with raised bands, matching cloth sides, gilt titles, blue morocco label, top..... More
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Stamboul Train [Orient Express].
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 307. Recently bound in navy half calf over navy cloth boards, without design or title on front or back cover, title and author's name in direct gold lettering to spine. Light brown stains on several pages. Text block very slightly spotted..... More
Wolf Hall.
London: Fourth Estate, 2009. [Historical fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 653; [1]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Andy Bridge, priced at £18.99, decorative endpapers. Lightly toned to edges, trivial shelfwear. A fine copy. The Booker Prize winning novel that charts the..... More
South by Java Head.
London: Collins, 1958. [Naval adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 14s. Very light toning to edges, jacket a little spotted to rear; a fine copy. A wartime adventure set on the South China Seas; the third thriller..... More
Summer Moonshine.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. [Classic Humour] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Fenwick, priced at 7/6 to the spine. Some spotting to edges, preliminaries and advertisements. Dustiness to..... More
Spring Fever.
London: Herbert Jenkins, no date [1948]. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Ford. A superb fresh copy of the book with small jigger (production fault) to p.136-7, in lovely fine..... More
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
London: Bloomsbury, 1998. [Children's] FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.251; [3] advertisements. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers in dust-jacket. Signed by the illustrator Cliff Wright to rear panel. Trivial toning, minor bump, neat production fault to rear endpaper beneath flap, crisp, clean dust-wrapper. Near-fine. Second in..... More
The Sea, The Sea.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1978. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, with a signed card from the author. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 502 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pictorial dust-jacket reproducing a detail from a famous Hokusai woodblock print and an uncredited detail from a wall painting..... More
Lolita.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.319; [1]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, top edge tinted red, original light brown dust-jacket. Text block a little toned; jacket with one or two small marks and creases but generally bright and..... More
The Vagrant Mood. Six Essays.
London: William Heinemann, 1952. [Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Tall octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.241. Autograph of W S. Maugham in blue ink to limitation page (Number 242 of 500 copies). Publisher's quarter white leather binding, blue calf boards ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Head..... More
High in the Clouds.
London: Faber and Faber, 2005. [Children's fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto(26 x 21cm), pp.88. A children's adventure story, fantastically illustrated in colour. Illustrated hardcover boards in dustwrapper. Autographed by Sir Paul McCartney to the half-title. With the original instruction card from his only promotional signing event at Waterstones on 14th..... More
The Who Live. The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band In the World.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2000. [Rock Music] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by photographer Ross Halfin. Foreword by Pete Townsend. Strictly 1500 copies were available worldwide, this being copy number 1233. Includes a CD album of 'THE WHO LIVE AT LEEDS' pressed in gold especially for this edition. Folio, bound in quarter black..... More
Sisters Under the Skin.
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1979. [Photography] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), unpaginated, with numerous photographic portraits of notable women by Parkinson, many with accompanying text or quotations by various authors. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's burgundy cloth with silver titles..... More
November Girl.
New York, NY: Madison Square Press, 1967. [Cult photography book] FIRST EDITION. Folio (35 x 28cm), unpaginated. Publisher's cream coloured cloth in original dust-wrapper priced at $9.95. Photographed throughout in black and white. Some moderate handling, jacket frayed at crown, few small scratches to rear. Very good. More
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The Book-Bag [Book Bag].
Florence: G. Orioli, 1932. [Modern Literature] LIMITED EDITION. First separate edition. SIGNED by the author, beneath portrait frontispiece. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.109; [3], blank. Printed on handmade paper. Publisher's ivory cloth over pale blue paper-covered boards, edges untrimmed. striking two-tone dust-wrapper. Some minor dustiness and handling, bookplate of Norman..... More