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![Appointment with Death. [Hercule Poirot]. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame](/pictures/thumb/60762.jpg?v=1636215904)
Appointment with Death. [Hercule Poirot].
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1938. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.252 [10]. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins with gilt decoration, and..... More
Philosophical Dissertations on the Egyptians and Chinese.
London: Printed by T. Chapman for J. Edwards, 1795. [Ethnography] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 339 [3]; pp.[6] 320 [2]. With the folding map of Egypt to volume I and the folding map of China to volume II. Recently bound in brown half calf..... More
Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies.
London: Collins, 1960. [Ornithology] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256; [1], blank. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine, cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 35s. Contents clean; a fine copy of the book in a slightly nicked..... More
Mary Poppins Comes Back.
London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson Ltd., 1935. [Classic Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.303; [1], imprint; [1], blank. With black and white illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth blocked in green, illustrated endpapers, top edge green, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 5s. Some marginal soiling to pp.80-81 else contents clean..... More
Mary Poppins.
London: Gerald Howe Ltd., 1934. [Classic Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 206; [1], imprint; [1], blank. With black and white illustrations. Publisher's sunflower yellow cloth blocked in blue, illustrated endpapers, top edge blue, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 5s. A few thumb marks and smudges to prelim..... More
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. [Espionage thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222; [2], blank. Elegantly hand-bound in full blue oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, original cloth spine bound in at rear, top edge gilt. Contents clean, exterior unmarked. A fine copy in..... More
The Secret Pilgrim.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.335; [1], Note. Publisher's hardback cloth with navy blue endpapers, dust-wrapper priced at £14.95. Likely read once. A near fine copy in like jacket. An espionage novel with George Smiley in a supporting role. More
A Delicate Truth.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books 2013. [Spy novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.310; [1], Acknowledgements; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, navy blue endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Signed by the author to 'Exclusive Signed Edition' leaf. A fine..... More
![HAMMER STUDIOS] Paranoiac. MOVIE POSTER](/pictures/thumb/60897.jpg?v=1636132387)
[HAMMER STUDIOS] Paranoiac.
Brussells: Printed by J.Lichtert and Sons, [1963]. An original SIGNED Belgian mid-size / window card style poster for the 1963 thriller 'Paranoiac' from Hammer Films, directed by Terence Fisher, Freddie Francis and starring Janette Scott and Oliver Reed. 22 x 14 inches. Condition A- (one franc postage stamp affixed). This..... More
The Mystery of The Blue Train.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., no date [1928]. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] viii, 295 [7]. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins with gilt..... More
Poirot Investigates.
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1924. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii, 298 [20]. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins with gilt decoration, and..... More
Ring for a Noose.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1963. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Rose, priced at 12/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Rose (31 x...... More
Long Shadows.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1958. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (29 x...... More
...Or Be He Dead.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, not priced. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (23 x 18cm)..... More
Another Man's Murder.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1958. [Crime Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (22..... More
A History of British Birds.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1870. [Ornithology] HAND COLOURED PLATES. Second edition, six volumes, quarto (27 x 19 x 27cm). Illustrated with 365 fine hand coloured plates. Publisher's embossed green cloth with gilt pictorial titles to spines, gilt stamped birds to centre of upper, black coated endpapers. The preferred second..... More
![POSTER] Bond Bound. Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design. Ian Lancaster FLEMING](/pictures/thumb/60896.jpg?v=1636045824)
[POSTER] Bond Bound. Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design.
UK: Printed by Empress, London, 2008. [James Bond book design] Advertising poster for the 'Bond Bound' touring exhibition, held during the Ian Fleming Centenary year. Typographic style, designed by Webb and Webb (a photographic version was also produced). Approximate dimensions 33 x 23 inches, on heavyweight paperstock. Rolled. Fine/as new..... More
My Word is My Bond.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2008. [Hollywood memoir] The UK COLLECTOR'S EDITION, One of 1000 copies in the publisher's de luxe cloth, in matching slipcase. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo, pp.336. Black cloth blocked in silver. Titled 'Limited Edition' on half title, not to be confused with the trade or American..... More
BIG: Beatles in Germany.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Beatles History and Photography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 25cm), pp.138. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, and occasional colour images. Number 1272 of 1750 copies SIGNED by Tony Sheridan, Günter Zint, Ulf Krüger to limitation page. Also with an original West German Gingerbread..... More
![MOVIE POSTER] Die Another Day. Ian Lancaster FLEMING](/pictures/thumb/60893.jpg?v=1636045823)
[MOVIE POSTER] Die Another Day.
UK, [2002]. [Film promotion] Advance-style British quad crown poster for the 2002 M.G.M. film starring Pierce Brosnan as Ian Fleming's James Bond. Photography by Patrick Demarchelier. Approximate dimensions 30 x 40 inches. Rolled. Fine condition, with a little edgewear and minor rubs (Poster Grade 'A'). Clean to reverse side (magnets..... More
Lord Randolph Churchill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Political Biography] FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Octavo (23 x 14 x 10cm), pp.564; pp.531. Frontispiece portrait of Lord Randolph Churchill to each volume as well as several other portraits and illustrations. Publisher's burgundy buckram blocked in gilt to spine and upper covers, edges untrimmed. Contents..... More
London Cries: with Six Charming Children, printed direct from stippled plates in the Bartolozzi style, and duplicated in red and brown, and about forty other illustrations, including ten of Rowlandson's humorous subjects in facsimile, and tinted; examples by George Cruikshank, Joseph Crawhill, etc., etc.
London: Field and Tuer, ye Leadenhalle Presse, no date [1883]. [Street Selling] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[3] 48 [2]. Leaves printed only to recto. In recent red half morocco with gilt titles to spine and orange cloth over boards. Brown endpapers, with the original brown title label..... More
The Yeomen of the Guard. Or, The Merryman and his Maid. With Eight Illustrations in Colour by W. Russell Flint and Drawings in Pen and Ink by Charles E. Brock.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. Large Octavo. Publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt to spine and upper, the latter with gilt illustration. Illustrated throughout the text with drawings in black and white. Binding lightly rubbed and marked. Lovely colour plate illustrations, internally clean. Very good indeed. 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
Scorpius.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.190; [2], blank. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced £10.95 to flap. A fine, fresh copy. Becoming a difficult title. An original novel starring Ian Fleming's James Bond. Hubin; Crime Fiction IV. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming..... More