New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 249; [1]. Publisher's white quarter cloth over orange paper covered boards, black titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket designed by Michael Kaye and Cynthia Krupat. Signed by the author to the title page. Some slight marking..... More

Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 2007. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.192. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. SIGNED by the author in black ink to front free endpaper. Publisher's glossy paper-covered boards with light blue endpapers and matching dust-jacket. Some minor creasing to the top and..... More

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1943. Octavo, pp. 201. red cloth with black titles to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. War economy standard paper is quite brittle with uneven browning. Some closed tears, wear and some small areas of loss to the..... More

London: Michael Joseph / Penguin Books, 2008. [Spy novel] LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, number 390 of 500 copies issued. Publisher's pictorial hardback covers with all edges silvered, 'poppy' patterned endpapers, ribbon page marker. Octavo, pp.295 plus [1] note on Faulks, [1] note on Fleming, [10] adverts for..... More

London: Edward Arnold, 1893. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S COPY with numerous notes. Octavo, pp.214. Adverts dated October 1893. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's pictorial red cloth with coated yellow endpapers. A heavily used/working copy, with boards detached and soiled, lacking spine, etc. Features many notes in ink and pencil, plus reviews copied out..... More

London: Picador, 1996. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.310. SIGNED by the author to title page. Publisher's cloth in original photographic dust-jacket. Book is near fine (appears unread); price-clipped wrapper is lightly handled. A rare signed copy of this immensley popular book about the neurotic thirty-something with her biological clock ticking. Basis..... More

London: Jonathan Cape and Queen Anne Press, 2014. [Children's illustrated] LIMITED EDITION, no 80 of 100 copies only, this set being additionally SIGNED BY THE ARTIST John Burningham to each book. 3 volumes, tall octavos, complete. Pp.48, 48, 48. Publisher's white hardcovers in glossy pictorial dust-wrappers. A facsimile of the..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping, priced at 16s. Inscribed by the author to his close friend John Hayward; "To John..... More

New York, NY: New American Library, 1963. [Spy novel] FIRST U.S. EDITION. A superb association copy, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HUGH HEFNER. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.299; [1], blank. Cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards, decorated in gilt to spine, ochre top edge and endpapers, illustrated jacket priced at $4.50. With..... More

London: Ebury Press. 2005. Autobiography. FIRST UK EDITION, 8vo., pp.599. A very fine copy in dustwrapper, SIGNED by the author on the title page. More

Boston, MA: Little Brown and Company, 1950. FORESTER FAMILY COPY. First US Edition. Octavo, p.310. Publisher's blue cloth, very good indeed, lightly worn to the extremities and with some slight edgewear and discolouration. In a dust-wrapper. This copy is INSCRIBED by the author to his wife Dorothy, on the front..... More

London: Harper Collins, 1997. [Indian history]. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xxiii; [1]; 467; [5]. Publisher's black cloth, tiles in silver to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with two suites of black and white photographs. Signed and inscribed to the title page. Edges slightly toned. Near fine. More

Frome: The Chicken House, 2005. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[2]; 682; [6]. With occasional vignette illustrations by the author, as well as a map and chapter head illustrations by Carol Lawson. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's green cloth with gilt..... More