"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
Signed & Inscribed
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 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
The Early Challenges of the America's Cup (1851-1937).
London: Columbus Books, 1986. [Yacht Racing] SIGNED SPECIAL EDITION. Oblong Quarto (24 x 34cm), pp.160. With fine colour illustrations by Anthony John, and SIGNED by him in black ink to title page. Half-title includes a label stating 'Special Edition in Commemoration of Sir Thomas Sopwith (1887-1989).' Publisher's cream cloth with..... 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
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
The Dead Heart.
London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 199 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine and navy endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £15.99. Light wear to outer..... 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
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
Sea and Sussex. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell.
London: MacMillan and Co., 1926. [Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, this being one of 500 Large Paper Copies on hand-made paper. Quarto (296 x 236mm), pp.xvi; 94. With mounted colour plates not included with the pagination. Publisher's quarter vellum' over slate-grey paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Light marking only..... More
Dancing in the Dark. My Struggle: Book 4.
London: Harvill Secker, 2015. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 548 [6]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to signature box on flyleaf. Publisher's navy paper-covered boards with silver titles to spine. Navy photographic endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket by Asbjørn Jensen, priced at..... More
The Secretary.
London: Transworld, 2019. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[294]. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards in pictorial dust-jacket, designed by Stephen Mulcahey. Signed by the author to the title-page. Small blob of binders glue to front edge, neatly opened. Signed sticker to the dust-wrapper. Near Fine. After eighteen years..... More
The Community of the Future.
London: Oxford University Press, 1950. [Law and Ethics] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[4] 828 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and two double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'To the..... More
Fall of Man in Wilmslow.
London: MacLehose Press, 2015. [Cold War Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.366 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by James Nunn, priced at £18.99. Some light..... More
The Wall.
London: Faber and Faber, 2019. [Dystopia] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 276 [6]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's light blue paper over boards with navy titles to spine and matching light blue endpapers. With the grey dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. 'Signed..... More