"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
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Social Security No. 438-10-1408.
New York, NY: A Milestone Book, Comet Press Books, 1958. [Psychological memoir]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 73 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, dated 24th November 1959. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green endpapers. With original cream... More
Huntsmen Past and Present. Illustrated from contemporary prints and from original watercolour drawings by the Author.
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Quarto, with 21 plates in colour and black and white, pp. [14], 91. Publisher's vellum spine with buckram boards, t.e.g. Fine. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Limited Edition of only 150 copies of which this is no.45. More
After Strange Gods. A Primer of Modern Heresy.
London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1934. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.68. Blue cloth hardcovers with gilt titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket priced at 3/6. Faint erasure to pastedown, minor spotting, jacket with old tape to... More
"Quantum of Solace" (released through United Artists/Columbia Pictures). Advance Production Notes for the film.
Eon Productions Limited, 2008. SIGNED COPY. Extensive Press notes issued just before release of the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" [Based on an original story written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, using characters created by Ian Fleming]. 46 pages, stapled. With a synopsis, notes on locations, biographies of... More
The Virgin Suicides.
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
A Ray of Darkness.
London: Arthur Baker, 1952. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to flylef. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, as well as the rare red and yellow 'Recommended by the Book Society' wrap-around band... More
The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey through the Beat Generation.
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
The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., n.d. [c.1920]. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, First Brock Illustrated Edition. Large Octavo. Charmingly inscribed in ink to first blank: 'Unto: / Sweet Mistress Jeanne / from / her very devoted, humble servant / Barnabas', signed and dated (1931) by the Author. Title page in... More
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company 1944. First 'Tower Books' edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR by the author to Massachusetts bookseller, Hans Rohr, dated January 17th 1944. Publisher's blue cloth hardback without dustwrapper. Some wear to corners and spine tips. Very good. More
Young Lonigan.
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
A History of Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells.
Chichester: Phillimore and Co., 2003. [Kent Topography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 484. With black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece map. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, being number 17 of 500 copies thus, hand numbered to a label on the verso... More
Hartmann the Anarchist.
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
The Art of H. Davis Richter.
Benfleet: F. Lewis. 1935; 1944. SIGNED FIRST EDITION subscribers' copy, number 94 of 200 copies, with associated signed first edition of 'Paintings and Poems'. Text by Fell; poems by Lady Sackville. pp. xx, 55, (44 plates in colour and monochrome); 35, (colour plates to each facing page). 'The Art' in... More
Bridget Jones's Diary.
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
Bridget Jones's Diary.
London: Picador, 1996. [Modern fiction] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.310. Later printing (strike-line '12') to the copyright page. Publisher's cloth in original photographic dust-jacket. Lightly handled; a near fine copy. More
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
London: Picador, 1999. [Modern literature] SIGNED COPY. First edition, eleventh printing. Octavo (23 x 15 cm), pp.[10]; 422. Signed by author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket cover photograph by Nick Turpin. A clean copy, light spotting to top edge, pushed... More
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Game in Season: Mr Abbott's Sporting Tour. [1981 English Cricket Season].
no place: Privately Printed, 1984. [Cricket] INSCRIBED. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[16]; 130; [10]. Generously illustrated with 72 black and white photographs, as well as a photographic frontispiece. Printed on light yellow paper. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half title: 'With love & best wishes to the... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
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
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Octavo (195 x 35mm), pp.288. Colour frontispiece of the author by Charles Amherst Villiers. Signed by Ian Fleming to limitation page marked 'presentation' Publisher's quarter vellum over black cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, in original clear plastic... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (a James Bond novel).
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
Licence Renewed. James Bond 007.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1981. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.270; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper with original printed price (£6.50) to the front flap. With author's presentation note to title page; "To Eugene Spiers... More
My Life So Far.
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
The Earthly Paradise.
London; Michael Joseph. 1954. FORESTER FAMILY COPY. Mermaid books edition. 8vo. Publisher's illustrated paper covered limp boards. Minor edgewear and scuffing with some light inoffensive bubbling of the laminate. Very good indeed. INSCRIBED by Forester to his nephew on the front flyleaf: "To Stephen, from His Uncle (Poor Chap), C.S.... More