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![Northern Lights [The Golden Compass]. His Dark Materials. The Lantern Slides Edition. Philip...](/pictures/thumb/58713.jpg?v=1610475065)
Northern Lights [The Golden Compass]. His Dark Materials. The Lantern Slides Edition.
London: Scholastic, 2008. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[10] 403 [19]. One of 3000 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket illustrated by Lawrence, as well as the..... More
Agent Running in the Field.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019. [Spy Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 281 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink directly to the title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and navy endpapers. With the red dust-jacket priced at £20..... More
Daisy Saves the Day.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED BOOKPLATE, the second printing. Small quarto (28 x 26cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author to bookplate on the verso of the fly-leaf. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, and blue illustrated endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket..... More
Willy's Stories.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 27cm), pp.24. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black paper-covered boards, and marbled-illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Light surface scratches..... More
Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Animal Fables.
Dorking: Templar Publishing, 2004. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[64]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and black endpapers. With the contrasting illustrated dust-jacket, priced at ££14.95. Top corners..... More
The Promise.
London: Walker Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 26cm), pp.40. With colour illustrations to every page by Carlin. SIGNED by the artist in black ink to half-title. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and pavement illustrated endpapers. With the contrasting illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine..... More
Fairy Tales.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1982. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.128. With a mixture of full colour plates and black and white vignettes by Foreman. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black ink, each to a separate bookplate on the verso of..... More
The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook.
London: The Bodley Head, 1992. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[64]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author ink black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and green endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £9.99..... More
Mixed Rushes.
London: Printed for the author by the John Roberts Press, 1974. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.[16]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, and dated Christmas Day 1974. Publisher's plains soft covers, with the blue dust-jacket. Light wear to to jacket, with..... More
![Common Adventures: a Book of Prose and Verse [and] Nicolas Flamel: a Play in Four Acts, from the...](/pictures/thumb/56618.jpg?v=1609867923)
Common Adventures: a Book of Prose and Verse [and] Nicolas Flamel: a Play in Four Acts, from the French of Gerard de Nerval.
Dublin: The Orwell Press, 1926. [Irish Short Stories and Drama] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[12] 53 [1]. Number 183 of just 200 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's plain card covers with grey endpapers. All edges untrimmed; partially unopened. Lightly..... More
The Negotiator.
London: Bantam Press, 1989. [Spy Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.448. With an unusually effusive INSCRIPTION by the author in black ink to half-title: 'For | David and Ruth | Warmest best wishes, | love as ever' dated 04/05/89. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine..... More
The Story of Lamb House Rye: The Home of Henry James.
Rye: Adams of Rye, 1966. [Guide Book] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet in soft covers, stapled (22 x 14cm), pp.84. With black and white photographs. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to inside cover: 'For | Joyce and John Harkness, | Souvenir of their visit | to Lamb House..... More
The Novice. Summoner, Book One.
London: Hodder Children's Books, 2015. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 390 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's navy cloth with silver titles to spine and silver apotropaic device to upper, with blue patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed..... More
Ved Vejs Ende. The Elder Statesman.
Herning: Poul Kristensen, 1965. [Drama in Translation] INSCRIBED FIRST DANISH EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.114 [6]. All text in Danish. INSCRIBED by the translator in black ink to the first blank, dated October 1965, with a longer message written onto the back of a business card. Publisher's grey soft..... More
A Minstrel in France.
New York, NY: Hearst's International Library Co., 1918. [Great War Memoirs] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[20] 338 [6]. With eight black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author 'yours sincerely, Harry Lauder' in black ink to blank following half-title. Contemporary green half..... More
The Wrong Side of Goodbye.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2016. [Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 388 [6]. Number 63 of 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to..... More
Dark Sacred Night.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2018. [Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 433 [9]. Number 61 of 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to..... More
East of Croydon.
London: Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018. [Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 382; [4]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in metallic blue to spine, blue endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Kate Barsby with printed price of £20. Signed by the author to the title page. Slight..... More
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