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— Mark Twain
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
Moonrise.
London: Bloomsbury, 2018. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6] 385 [9]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's yellow and blue soft covers, priced at £7.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. 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
Revolting Rhymes. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. [Children's classic] SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Slim octavo (27 x 21cm), unpaginated. With full colour illustrations by Quentin Blake. Publisher's glossy pictorial boards, without wrapper as issued, with publisher's price label (£3.95) to rear cover. An early printing, INSCRIBED by the author in thick blue..... More
Two Fables.
London, Viking Ltd. 1986. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Number 225 of 300 copies. Octavo, pp.[64]. Quarter red leather over black cloth boards, gilt titles to spine and upper board. Signed by Dahl on the limitation page. Illustrations by Graham Dean, including one colour print, as frontispiece. Slightest shelf wear, near fine..... More
The Enormous Crocodile With Pictures by Quentin Blake
London: Jonathan Cape 1978. INSCRIBED, Second Impression. Publisher's glossy pictorial boards; INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR facing title page: "To / TIMOTHY / WITH LOVE / Roald Dahl / 1981" [underlined]. Some edgewear, extremities a little pushed, very good. Roald Dahl received the World Fantasy Award [Lifetime Achievement] in 1983. Book..... More
Vox.
London: HQ, 2018. [Dystopia] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 326 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. Red endpapers. With the red and black dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. A variation..... 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
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The Saville Club 1868-1968. [a souvenir booklet].
London: the Saville Club, 1968. [London Gentlemen's Club Centenary magazine] SIGNED BY CONTRIBUTORS. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.31 [1]. Also with the Centenary Dinner menu loose at rear. Liberally SIGNED by various contributors and club members, including Stephen Potter, John Pudney, Winston Graham, Ralph Richardson, Eric Linklater, Michael Ayrton..... 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
Maze Runner: The Fever Code.
Frome: Chicken House, 2016. [Young Adult Science Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 330. SIGNED by the author in black marker to first blank. Publisher's black and red paper-covered boards, with grey endpapers and promotional bookmark loose to preliminaries. With the red translucent dust-jacket, priced at..... 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
X-Ray. The Unauthorised Autobiography.
New York, NY: The Overlook Press, 1995. [Popular Music] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 420 [4]. INSCRIBED by the author 'To George' with a short indecipherable note in black ink to title page. Also with a loose progamme for 'An Evening with Ray Davies' (May 1996)..... More
How I Play Snooker.
London: Country Life, 1949. [Snooker] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.176; [2]. Publisher's green cloth titled in white to spine and upper board, blind stamped design of a snooker table to upper board, photographic dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author to the flyleaf: "To..... More
This Year: Next Year.
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small Quarto, unpaginated. SIGNED by both artist and author in black ink to verso of front free endpaper; hand-numbered 100 of 100 copies. Brightly illustrated throughout with lithographs by Jones. In publisher's colour-illustrated cloth boards, with matching jacket and illustrated endpapers. Some..... More
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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. 173 of 250, signed by Len Deighton. Discreet price label mark..... More
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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
Pests. A Play in Three Acts.
Mansfield Woodhouse: Chris Martin, 1994. [Drama] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.56. Dark blue quarter cloth over marbled paper sides, titles in silver to spine, housed in a blue cloth covered slipcase. Number 29 of 50 special copies signed by the author to the limitation page. Slipcase..... 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
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Fire on the Mountain [together with] Games at Twilight and other stories.
London: Heinnemann, 1977, 1978. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITIONS, ONE INSCRIBED. Two volumes, octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[10];145; [5]; pp.[6]; 137; [1]. Publisher's brown and blue cloth respectively, gilt title to spine, dust-jackets designed by Philip Mann with printed prices of £3.50 and £3.90. The second volume inscribed by the author..... 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
Rock Faces. The World's Top Rock 'n' Roll Photographers and Their Greatest Images.
Hove: RotoVision 2004. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Pp.160, illustrated throughout. A specially bound limited edition of 500 numbered copies and a further 52 for private distribution, signed by Craske and further signed by Aidan Walker of RotoVision publishers. Complete with accompanying 10 x 8 photograph of Aerosmith frontman Stephen Tyler..... More
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong.
London: Little, Brown, and Company, 1997. [Politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris Lord Moynihan. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 461; [3]. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £22.50. Bookplate detailing provenance to flyleaf. Jacket..... More
Desert Vivant.
Paris: Societe Francaise Du Livre, 1954. [Film] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto. A fine copy, respined in cloth to style. Inscribed by the great and powerful Mr. Disney in customary flamboyant style to the verso of the half title. A sumptuous photographic collection of the animals and scenery of the Living..... More
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[Complete Winston Churchill Series, Comprising] Winston's War, Never Surrender, Churchill's Hour [and] Churchill's Triumph.
London: Harper Collins / Headline, 2002-2005. [Wartime Novel Series]. SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. In four volumes. Octavo, ALL SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title pages. In publisher's cloth with original pictorial dust-jackets. A fine as-new set. With an unrivalled insight into the workings of power, Dobbs offers a...... More