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Signed & Inscribed
The Shepherd.
London: Hutchinson, 1975. [Short Christmas Story] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.54 [2]. With seven illustrations by Foss, including a frontispice. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt and red titles to spine. With the..... More
The Fox.
London: Bantam Press, 2018. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 307 [7]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and red endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. Edges very slightly toned. A fine..... More
The Negotiator.
London: Bantam Press, 1989. [Spy Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.448. With an unusually effusive INSCRIPTION by the author in black ink to half-title: 'For | David and Ruth | Warmest best wishes, | love as ever' dated 04/05/89. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine..... More
Break In.
London: Michael Joseph, 1985. [Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.272. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates. Inscribed by the author to the halt-title page: "Hi Arthur! | See you at the | next Breeder Cup at | Santa Anita. | Dick..... More
The Edge.
London: Michael Joseph, 1988. [Equestrian Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.283 [5]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates, priced at £11.95. Edges a little toned and spotted. Light handling..... More
Field of 13.
London: Michael Joseph, 1998. [Thriller / Suspense] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.253; [5], blank. With the publisher's bookplate signed by the author in blue ink. Bound in brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Photonica, priced at £16.99. Edges of low-grade paper stock..... More
Longshot.
London: Michael Joseph, 1990. [Equestrian Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 277 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by John Slater, priced at £13.99. Edges a little toned and spotted. Light..... More
The Light's on At Signpost. Memoirs of the Movies, Among Other Matters.
London: Harper Collins, 2002. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 338. With two suites of black and white plates. Publisher's brown cloth hardcover, bronze titles, yellow endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Autograph of George Fraser in black ink to the title page. Signature obtained in person..... More
The Reavers.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2007. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.viii; 230 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and illustrated endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Max Schindler, priced at £18.99. A fine, as-new copy..... More
According to Yes.
London: Michael Joseph, 2015. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[10] 376. SIGNED by the author in black marker to 'Exclusive Signed Edition' preliminary leaf. Publisher's white cloth with black and blue titles, priced at £20.00 (no jacket as issued). Blue endpapers. 'Signed Copy' sticker to front..... More
Liberty or Death. India's Journey to Independence and Division.
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
Bearders: My Life in Cricket.
London: Orion Books, 2006. [Cricket Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 322 [4]. With two suites of four double-sided photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink: 'For Jeff Hunt | All good wishes,' to title page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With..... More
That Was The Week That Was.
London: W.H. Allen, 1963. [Television Comedy] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.156 [4]. With black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. INSCRIBED by the photographer Lewis Morley in black ink to half-title: 'For Edward | Thanks to Frost who didn't realise what a hit he would become Lewis.'..... More
Troy.
London: Michael Joseph, 2020. [Greek Myths] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xii; 394 [10]. With two suites of four double-sided colour plates, as well as a map, time-line, and tree of divine lineage. SIGNED by the author in black ink to 'Exclusively Signed' leaf tipped into preliminaries..... More
The Right of the Child: A Chapter in Social History. With a Foreword by Countess Mountbatten of Burma and an Introduction by Captain L.H. Green.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. [Humanitarianism] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.159 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to V.H.A. (Violet Attlee) to fly-leaf. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Spine sunned with..... More
The Imposter.
London: Atlantic Books, 2008. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 249; [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, dated 10 June 2008 (the month of publication). Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Ghost, priced at..... More
Death Is Forever.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.248. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket with no price to front flap- copies without a printed price were intended for export. With presentation note to title page in black ink; "To..... More
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The Secret Families. [Inscribed Typescript with Associated Correspondence].
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. [Spy Thriller] INSCRIBED ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT. 437 sheets of type-written A4 paper, with the title leaf INSCRIBED by the author in black ink: 'To Gary, | With all good wishes — | yours | John Gardner.' Also with a separate Compliments leaf on US..... More
Gun Island.
London: John Murray, 2019. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 312 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's navy cloth with silver titles to spine. Green patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Stephen Johnston, priced at £20. A...... More
Ian Fleming: The Bibliography.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. SIGNED by the author. Royal quarto (33 x 22cm), with black and white illustrations throughout plus four suites of eight colour plates. Set in Albertina type and printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in full green cloth with black endpapers, gilt lettering and ornament. Fine/new..... More
Undercover Princess.
London: Penguin Books, 2017. [Children's literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 378. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine, decorative endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Qing Han with printed price of £12.99. Signed by the author to a tipped in title page. Fine. The first instalment of the..... More
Annabel: An Unconventional Life.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004. [Memoirs]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xi; [3]; 274. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with three photographic suites. Signed by the author to the title page. Fine. More
Twelve Part Songs. Omnipotent Lord; Little Celandine; Gitanella; Bright Star of Eve; My True Love Hath My Heart; Take Me, Mother Earth; The Farewell; Go, Lovely Rose; The Bell; Far From My Native Mountains; Adam Could Find No Solid Peace; Le Loup et L'Agneau (The Wolf and the Lamb), a Fable from La Fontaine, with French and English Words.
London: Goddard & Co., no date [1872-1873]. [Part-Song Collection] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS, with two significant associated inscriptions. Two six-part series bound as one volume. Large octavo (27 x 19cm). SIGNED by the composer in blue ink to title page of each Part Song. Additionally INSCRIBED in pencil to the composer's..... More
Labour of Love.
London: Bloomsbury, 2017. [Drama] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 120 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced by hand to sticker on back cover at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. A political comedy from the writer of 'x+y' (2015)..... More
The Wind in the Willows.
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1971. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST SHEPARD COLOUR EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[4] 262 [2]. Heavily illustrated with Shepard's drawings, produced in colour for the first time. Number 231 of 250 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to limitation page. Finely bound..... More