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The Edge Chronicles: Vox
London: Doubleday, 2003. [Children's fantasy adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.395; [6], blank. With illustrations. SIGNED by author-illustrator Chris Riddell in black ink to the title page. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Riddell, priced at £12.99. Text block slightly tanned otherwise..... More
How to Be Good.
New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2001. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 305 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black marker to title page: 'To Bill, | Best wishes, | Nick Hornby.' Publisher's red quarter cloth with black titles to spine, yellow paper over boards..... More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
Satan's Tears. The Art of Alex Niño.
Detroit, MI: The Land of Enchantment, 1977. [Comic Book Art] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (35 x 27cm), pp.x, 301 [1]. With 20 colour plates, and all other illustrations in black and white, many folding. Number 965 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the artist in black ink to limitation page..... More
Goldengirl.
London: Cassell, 1977. [Sports Dystopia] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 377 [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £3.95. Light rubbing, bumping and sunning out outer edges of binding and..... More
Spider Girl.
London: Cassell, 1980. [TV Documentary Dystopia] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 292. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black quarter cloth with silver titles to spine and red paper over boards. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £5.95. A fine copy. A...... More
Staring at the Sun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 195 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Cathy Wood, priced at £9.95. A fine, as-new copy. More
Suffer the Little Children.
London: William Heinemann, 2007. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 264. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. Lightly browned throughout. A fine copy. The sixteenth in..... More
Uniform Justice.
London: William Heinemann, 2003. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 272 [8]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £15.99. Lightly browned throughout. A fine copy. The twelfth..... More
Friends in High Places.
London: William Heinemann, 2000. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 250. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £15.99. A fine, as-new copy. The ninth in the popular..... More
The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog.
London: Andersen Press, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 28cm), pp.[26] With naive colour illustrations by Busby to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's matt colour-illustrated paper over boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). Some minor..... More
The Conquerors.
London: Andersen Press, 2004. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 29cm), pp.[26]. With naive colour illustrations by the author to every page. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to copyright page: '& for John - my dealer, | David McKee 2004.' Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards..... More
Ahmed and the Feather Girl.
London: Francis Lincoln Children's Books, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.[26]. With bright colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards, and magenta endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced..... More
The Tanks. The History of the Royal Tank Regiment and its Predecessors Heavy Branch Machine-Gun Corps, Tank Corps, and Royal Tank Corps 1914-1945. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
London: Cassell, 1959. [Military History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xx; 462 [2]; pp.xiv; 555 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf of volume I: 'For R.W. Thompson, | in appreciation of his own most interesting | and stimulating exploration of war history..... More
The Well of Lost Plots.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003. [Alternative History Adventure / Humour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[14] 360 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, with blue publisher's 'Eat More Toast' stamp. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by..... More
It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955. [Artist Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xii; 617 [3]. Heavily illustrated by the author with 96 new drawings, 170 reproductions, and eight colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-lead: 'Inscribed for her mother, |..... More
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