"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Signed & Inscribed
Bye, Bye Birdie.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.[4] 25 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Illustrated with line-drawings by the author throughout. Blue endpapers. Publisher's paper-covered boards, priced at £12.99. A few minor marks to boards and rear endpapers. Near..... More
Collected Animal Poems: The Iron Wolf; What is the Truth?; A March Calf; The Thought-Fox.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED TO VOLUME I. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 7cm) Publisher's black cloth, white dust-wrappers, publisher's white pictorial slipcase. Signed by Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, in Volume 1. Illustrated by Chris Riddell in volume 1 and by Lisa Flather..... More
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The Iron Man [The Iron Giant], together with The Iron Woman. Signed.
London: Faber and Faber 1985. 1985 and 1993. 2 volumes, FIRST EDITIONS thus: 'The Iron Man' signed and inscribed by both composer Pete Townshend and author Ted Hughes, and the sequel being inscribed by Hughes. Publisher's uniform hardcovers in pictorial jackets. Fine/near fine. 'The Iron Man: The Musical' based on..... More
The Cultured pearl.
London: Hammond, Hammond and Company, 1961. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.284; [1] blank; [3] publisher's advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in green to spine, striking dust-jacket designed by Sax with printed price of 15s. net. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally fine, some..... More
Cape Town to Clyde.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932. [Early Flight] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 91 [1]. With a frontispiece and one further illustrated plate, as well as two folding maps. INSCRIBED in blue ink to flyleaf: 'To Captain Bob Ostler | with the author's | compliments & thanks..... More
The Dwarf's Chamber.
London, Ward Lock. 1896. First edition. 8vo. 386pp + 6pp ads. Publisher's black cloth title in gilt to spine and decorated in white and red to front board. Light edgewear, bumping to head of spine, the book would be catalogued as near fine were it not for an unfortunate centimetre..... More
The Tiger Skin.
London: William Heinemann Limited, 1924. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY. A work from feminist, novelist, and founder of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. Large post octavo, pp.133. Inscription reads 'To "K.K." from Violet Hueffer, nov. 1924'; Violet Hunt lived with author Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer) from 1910-1918..... More
Image in the Water.
London: Little, Brown, and Company, 2001. [Political novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, Association copy. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 243; [5]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Signed and dated to the title page. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. Edges of textblock slightly toned. Near fine..... More
The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1976. [Comedy]. SIGNED COPY, the third impression, paperback. Quarto (31 x 24cm), unpaginated. SIGNED by Eric Idle and Neil Innes in blue and black ink to verso of front cover. Full of mad witty nonsense, as expected. Publisher's card covers with false title, 'The Wonderful World of..... More
Sea and Islands.
London: Collins, 1967. [Yachting Travel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.288. Twelve double-sided photographic plates showing both colour and black and white images, and occasional in-text diagrams and maps. Signed by the author in black ink to the title page. Also inscribed on the flyleaf to a sailor..... More
Bit of a Blur. The Autobiography.
London: Little, Brown, 2007. [Britpop] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 274 [4]. With 12 double-sided colour photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in thick black marker to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards with titles to spine and tan endpapers. With the matching blue dust-jacket..... More
The Other House.
London: William Heinemann, 1896. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Two Volumes. Octavo. Publisher's light blue cloth. Light edgewear and scuffing, bumping to spine and some very light rubbing to extremities. Some darkening to the spine but essentially clean, strong and tight. Shows extremely well. Internally clean and fresh, front inner hinge cracked..... More
The Murder Room.
London: Faber and Faber, 2003. [Crime novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.371. Publisher's maroon paper boards, titles and publisher's imprint in white to spine, yellow endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ghost with a printed price of £17.99. Autograph of P.D. James in black ink to the title..... More
The Last.
London: Viking, 2019. [Nuclear Apocalypse Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[10] 392. SIGNED by the author in black marker to 'Exclusive Signed Edition' preliminary leaf. Publisher's black cloth with titles in blind to spine, and black illustrated endpapers. With the red dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine..... More
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry.
London: Collins, 1973. [Fiction] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.180; [8]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £2.00 net. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page; "for Gordon Williams | who thinks this is | charming.... | Bryan | 16..... More
A Tour in Westmorland. With a Poem by Margaret Cropper.
Kendal: Titus Wilson and Son, 1948. [Topography] FIRST EDITION, with INSCRIBED letter, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 128. With 33 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map at rear. With an AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER in black ink on Athenaeum Club headed..... More
The Sun and Her Flowers.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2018. [Poetry] SIGNED COPY, a new edition, first thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 248 [8]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to first half-title. With in-text illustrations by the author throughout. Publisher's yellow cloth with white titles stamped to spine and upper and blue..... More
Music & Light: Ceol and Solas. Irish Traditional Music Photography.
Enniskerry: Silver Spear Press, 2008. [Irish Music Photography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 25cm), pp.[12], with 130 black and white photographs, each captioned at rear [16]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'To Susan | Forward in all | directions! | much love | Tony..... More
Man of War.
London: Heinemann, 2003. [Naval Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.276; [2], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Geoffrey Huband, priced at £16.99. Autographed in black ink to title page. Signature obtained in person upon release. An as new/unread copy..... 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
An Aubrey Beardsley Lecture. With an Introduction and Notes by R. A. Walker and some Unpublished Letters and Drawings.
London: R. A. Walker. 1924. [Art criticism] LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.103; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, black leather title square with gilt to spine. Top edge gilt, others left untrimmed. Number 145 of 500 copies printed, of which 450 were for sale, signed by..... More
Men versus Devils.
London, Sands and Co. 1901. First Edition, INSCRIBED by the author to flyleaf 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth with blind-stamped decoration to front and back boards. Titles in gilt to spine and front board, top edge gilt. Ownership. Contains 8 full page black and white illustrations by John Hassall, including frontispiece..... More
I Owe You One.
London: Bantam Press, 2019. [Modern fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titles to spine, and yellow endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Richard Ogle, priced at £20.00. 'Signed Copy' sticker..... More
Shopaholic to the Rescue.
London: Bantam, 2015. [Romantic comedy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.320. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Lucy Truman and designed by Becky Glibbery. Signed by the author to the title-page. Signed sticker to dust-wrapper. Fine. The ninth instalment of the series following the life of Rebecca..... More
The Dipsy Chanty And Other Selected Poems.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop 1899. Limited Edition to 950 copies of which this is No. 466, SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard. Post octavo, pp.93; [2], blank. Bound in the publisher's limp, green suede boards with yapp edges, embossed gilt to front board, blocked with the image of a tall..... More