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The Twilight Hour. Celtic Visions from the Past.
London: Little, Brown, 2003. [Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.128. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, dust-jacket. Signed by Simon Marsden. Uncommon signed. A fine/as new copy. More
History of Battle Abbey.
London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1877. [English History and Topography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.[8] 357 [3]. With a coloured folding plan of the abbey facing p.1. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the title page: 'Augusta Carrington | from her very affec.[tionate]..... More
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. [American Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 340 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to a bookplate on the half-title. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter..... More
Anvil of Stars.
London: Century, A Legend Book, 1992. [Science Fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 442 [4]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, and hand numbered 132 of 200 copies thus 'Edinburgh Edition (2)'. Publisher's red and black buckram, titled in white to spine and..... More
Moscow, 1911-1933, being the Memoirs of Allan Monkhouse.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. [Metro-Vickers Affair] INSCRIBED COPY, second impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.349 [3]. With 16 black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'To Rena, | Please accept this book for | what it is—not, as its pub- | -lishers describe..... More
Collected Poems. New Edition.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1990. [Scottish Poetry] SIGNED NEW EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 456 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, and dated December 1990. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Heavy..... More
Scottish Eccentrics.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. [Scottish Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Mr. & Mrs. F.G. Scott, | with love | from | Mr. & Mrs. "Hugh MacDiarmid," | Whalsay..... More
Flashman on the March. From the Flashman Papers 1867-68.
London: Harper Collins, 2005. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; [2]; 317; [7]. SIGNED by George MacDonald Fraser in blue ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, and with the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Gino D'Achille, priced at..... More
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
London: Bloomsbury, 2004. [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 782 [8]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Contains several rather haunting illustrations, including frontispiece, by Portia Rosenburg. Publisher's black cloth with black titles stamped to spine. With the black dust jacket with white lettering..... More
SilverFin (Young James Bond series).
London: Puffin Books, 2005. [James Bond Spin-Off] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm). Publisher's hardback in dust-wrapper, housed in an illustrated slipcase. One of 999 copies thus, SIGNED by the author. A fine, as-new copy, still in the original shrink-wrap. The first episode in the acclaimed 'Young Bond' series..... More
Blood Fever.
London: Puffin Books, 2006. [James Bond Spin-Off] SIGNED FIRST HARDBACK EDITION, following the trade paperback, LIMITED to 999 copies. SIGNED by the author. Octavo, (20 x 13cm), pp.[x]; 372; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth boards blocked in gilt to the spine, red endpapers, pictorial jacket priced at £25, in illustrated..... More
Eragon. Inheritance, Book One.
London: Doubleday, 2004. [Fantasy novel] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[14]; 509; [5]. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Publishers blue cloth hardback, with pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by John Jude Palencar. With the original 'Eragon' bookmark loosely inserted. Gentle toning of paper to some sections..... More
Gallows Thief.
London: Harper Collins, 2001. [Historical Fiction/Crime novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[vi]; 281 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. With a nineteenth century coloured map of London as endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced..... More
The Art of Darkness: Staging The Philip Pullman Trilogy.
London: National Theatre, 2003. [Theatre] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.120. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. SIGNED by both Butler and Pullman in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black soft covers, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. All about how the 'His Dark Materials'..... More
Vagabond. The Grail Quest.
London: Harper Collins, 2002. [Historical Fiction]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 371; [1], blank. With map, vignette illustrations and pictorial endpapers. Publisher's hardcover in dust-wrapper. Signed by the author to title-page. Signed upon release and carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. An as new/unread copy. A young..... More
Sharpe's Escape. Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810.
London: Harper Collins, 2004. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 351; [7], blank. Signed by the author in blue ink to the title-page. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Signature obtained in person upon release. An as-new/unread copy..... More
Collecting Ian Fleming. The Making of a Bibliography.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. [Bibliography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, being the first separate edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[vi]; 7; [7], Endmatter. Edition limited to 60 numbered copies signed by James Fleming (publisher of The Book Collector) and his brother Fergus (co-publisher at Queen Anne Press). In addition, this copy..... More
Bond Behind the Iron Curtain.
The Book Collector, 2021. [Literary history] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.125; [2], advertisements; [1], blank. With sixteen illustrations, several in colour. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, hammer and sickle device to front board, black endpapers, typographic dust-wrapper. Signed by the author at Firsts London..... More
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The Apple Tree [The Birds].
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1952. [Macabre/Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.264. Publisher's red cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Val Biro, priced at 10/6. With author's inscription to the title page: For Roy. With best wishes / from / Daphne du Maurier / 1988..... 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
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
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