Signed & Inscribed
The winter of the Birds.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. [Children's fiction]. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.204. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Anthony Maitland. Signed and inscribed to flyleaf: "For Caroline | with very best | wishes | Helen Cresswell | Old Church Farm | 1978"..... More
The Great Train Robbery.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Locomotive thievery] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.255, [1]. Publisher's mid brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally fine. Bright dust-wrapper, not faded or clipped, with just some light..... More
The Passage Trilogy: The Passage; The Twelve; The City of Mirrors.
London: Orion Books, 2010; 2012; 2016. [Vampire / Zombie Horror] SIGNED COMPLETE FIRST UK EDITIONS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 766 [10]; pp.[2] xvi; 568 [8]; pp.xviii; 600 [8]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to the title page of volume I, and subsequently to a Goldsboro Books 'Limited..... More
The Passage.
London: Orion Books, 2010. [Vampire / Zombie Horror] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 766 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to 'Limited Signed First Edition' leaf tipped in ahead of the title page. Publisher's dark grey cloth with silver titles to spine and black..... More
American Prince: My Autobiography.
London: Virgin Books, 2008. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xv [3], 364 [2]. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations, and two sections of colour plates (eight double-sided plates in total). SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title, and hand-numbered 582 of 1000 copies produced in this special edition. In publisher's..... More
Bad Blood.
London: Harvill Secker, 2013. [Swedish Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] 342 [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, dated Stirling, 14.09.2013. Publisher's red paper over boards, with black titles to spine and black endpapers. Publisher's photographic dust-jacket, priced at..... More
Two Fables.
Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986. [Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. Number 45 of 300 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations, and a colour frontispiece, by Dean. Publisher's red quarter calf, with gilt titles to..... More
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. [Indian Colonial History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxxvi; 522 [18]. With three suites of eight double-sided colour-illustrated plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's cream cloth, with black titles to spine and red monogrammed endpapers. With the dust-jacket..... More
Wild Decembers: a Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1932. SIGNED PRODUCTION COPY. Octavo, pp.97. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Flyer for the Apollo Theatre production pasted to front paste-down. SIGNED by the author and nineteen members of the cast and crew from the May production of the following..... More
Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work.
London: Quartet Books, 2010. [Literary Biography] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, revised third edition. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[2] 534. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Edward | with best wishes | Michael Darlow | 1st August 2011. Publisher's soft covers priced at £22.50. Light wear..... More
The Scorch Trials.
London: Chicken House, 2010. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.361; [1]. One of 3000 copies SIGNED by the author. Hardback in pink dust-jacket, with black paper-covered slipcase. In the original shrink-wrap. Fine/as-new. The second book in the 'Maze Runner' series. More
The Promise.
London: Walker Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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..... More
The Life and Times of Madame Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin.
Reims: Printed for Champagne Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin by the Curwen Press, 1961. [Champagne] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Large octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[8] 54 [2]. With frequent black and white illustrations by Drian. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's yellow patterned soft covers, with the original..... More
Stuff and Nonsense, and So On.
London: Constable & Co., 1927. [Comic Verse] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 110 [2]. With frequent vignette woodcut illustrations by Bold. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf, dated February 1934. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Label..... More
Centenary at Jalna.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1958. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 302 [2]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf, and dated 14-7-58. Publisher's tan cloth with green titles to spine and upper. With the green illustrated dust-jacket, clipped and re-priced to 15s. Top..... More
Garden of Beasts. A Novel of Berlin 1936.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 404 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £16.99. Low grade paper somewhat toned, with a little..... More
Garden of Beasts. A Novel of Berlin 1936.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 404 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £16.99. Low grade paper somewhat toned, with a little..... More
Only When I Laugh [Larf].
New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 1987. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, also the FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.241; [5], blank. Publisher's green buckram blocked in gilt to spine, pale green endpapers, matching cloth slipcase. Copy No. 71 of 250, signed by Len Deighton. A fine copy in..... More
Arena 13.
London: The Bodley Head, 2015. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 280 [16]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and black endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by James Fraser, priced at £12.99. Promotional..... More
Death of a Chancellor.
London: Constable, 2005. [Crime Fiction]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (22 x 14cm). Pp.[vi]; 313; [1], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dustjacket. A fine, unread copy. A Lord Francis Powerscourt detective novel, set in the late Victorian period. More
Laolus and Other Poems.
Aligarh: At The Jamia Press, 1924. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[2] 145 [1]. A limited private press edition of 500 copies, this copy out-of-series. INSCRIBED by the author in black in to half-title: 'To | Margaret Shaw | For her ??? of Arcadia, | with all..... More
The House of Words.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1963. [Publishing Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 304. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'To | Dennis White | with many happy memories | of the long years together |..... More
Struggle for the World: The Cold War from its Origins in 1917.
London: Collins, 1965. [Cold War] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.512. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Dennis | with warm regards | Desmond Donnelly.' Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. Top edge red. With the red..... More
Roger Moore.
London: W.H. Allen, 1983. [Film Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, ex libris Peter Cotes, with associated material relating to a Dorothy Squires legal action, including letters to and from the author. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.224. Generously illustrated with many black and white photographs. SIGNED in black ink by Roger Moore..... More
Signed Karin Dor and Mie Hama Title Card for the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED TITLE CARD. One colour title card for Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) and Mie Hama (Kissy) in black marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More