"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
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Signed & Inscribed
![The Secret Families. [Inscribed Typescript with Associated Correspondence]. John GARDNER](/pictures/thumb/57544.jpg?v=1597078428)
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
![The Lies of Fair Ladies. [Lovejoy]. Jonathan GASH, born 1933, John GRANT](/pictures/thumb/56634.jpg?v=1589906762)
The Lies of Fair Ladies. [Lovejoy].
Bristol: Scorpion Press, 1991. [Mystery] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 243 [7]. Number 65 of just 99 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page (with another signature below). Publisher's deluxe quarter cream leatherette with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over..... 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
Oscar Wilde: A Study.
Oxford: The Holywell Press, 1905. [Literary Biography] LIMITED EDITION, EX LIBRIS H.G. WELLS. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[12] 110 [2]. From an edition of 500 copies, this being one of just 50 copies printed on hand-made paper. INSCRIBED by Science Fiction author H.G. Wells in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Ex..... More
![Complete Strega Borgia Chronicles]. Pure Dead Magic; Pure Dead Wicked; Pure Dead Brilliant; Deep...](/pictures/thumb/56744.jpg?v=1591116129)
[Complete Strega Borgia Chronicles]. Pure Dead Magic; Pure Dead Wicked; Pure Dead Brilliant; Deep Trouble; Deep Water; Deep Fear.
London: Doubleday, 2001-2006. [Children's Fantasy Humour] COMPLETE SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 17cm), pp.220 [4]; pp.253 [3]; pp.316 [5]; pp.304; pp.335 [1]; pp.332 [4]. With chapter headings illustrated by the author. Each volume SIGNED by the author to title page in ink matching the colour..... 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
Olly: The Life and Times of Frederick Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquis of Ripon.
No place: [Privately Published], 2012. [Game Shooting Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.x; 222. Liberally illustrated with both colour and black and white illustrations. Number 259 of 1500 copies signed by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to..... More
![Dead Souls] Chichikov's Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia. Nikolai GOGOL, Bernard Guilbert...](/pictures/thumb/51054.jpg?v=1583755548)
[Dead Souls] Chichikov's Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia.
New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. [Russian Literature] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. In two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 308; pp.[8] 309-484 [6]. With occasional in-text chromolithographic illustrations by Lucille Corcos. Number 648 of 1200 copies SIGNED by the artist in red ink to 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
Opium: The Demon Flower.
New York: Montrose Publishing Co., 1926. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xvi, 310. Black cloth with gilt title to spine and upper board, in light brown dustjacket. Some spotting to prelims, titles to spine heavily rubbed, sight wear to the extremities of the cloth. Dustwrapper shows some wear with rubbing..... More
The Queens of Innis Lear.
London: HarperVoyager, 2018. [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 568 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to publisher's bookplate to flyleaf. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blue endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Micaela Alcaino, priced at £12.99. Edges lightly..... More
The Story of St Thomas's 1106-1947.
London: Faber and Faber, 1947. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo, pp.72. With eight colour plates and 41 further illustrations. SIGNED by 35 members of the hospital nursing staff, in blue and black ink to the front free endpaper. In publisher's cream paper-covered boards with blue and red titles and hospital..... More
![Half Bad, [together with] Half Wild [and] Half Lost. Sally GREEN, born 1961](/pictures/thumb/57080.jpg?v=1592242101)
Half Bad, [together with] Half Wild [and] Half Lost.
London: Penguin Books, 2014, 2015, 2016. [Fantasy trilogy] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes. Octavo (23 x 14cm). Signed by the author to each title page, the final volume additionally lined 'wounded, not lost'. Publisher's silver-coloured hardcovers in silver dust-jackets, with varying coloured endpapers. 'Signed Copy' sticker to front cover. A...... More
Half Lost.
London: Penguin Books, 2016. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[12] 338 [2]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's silver paper-covered boards and green endpapers. With the silver and orange dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front..... More
Half Wild.
London: Penguin Books, 2015. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[12] 402 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's silver paper-covered boards with green endpapers. With the silver and green dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front..... More
The Smoke Thieves.
London: Penguin Books, 2018. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[10] 500 [2]. Signed by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to upper. Orange endpapers. With the black and gold dust-jacket with a roundel cut-out for titles below..... More
Dogs in Art.
London: Reaktion Books, 2019. [Art history] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.280. Publisher's grey paper covered boards, titles in yellow to spine, dust-jacket featuring a detail from a painting by Nicolas Toussaint Charlet and a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, yellow/green endpapers. With 164 illustrations, 158 in colour..... More
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 156 [4]. Number 360 of 500 copies SIGNED by the author in green ink to preliminary limitation page. Publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt titles to spine, and mottled grey endpapers. With the..... More
The Great Jowett.
London: Bodley Head, 1981. [Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Slim octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.44; [2], blank. Publisher's reddish orange cloth blocked in black and gilt, grey endpapers, clear plastic jacket. Number 244 of 525 copies signed by the author. Bookseller ticket to pastedown. Slightly sunned to the spine, plastic jacket..... More
Three Plays. The Living Room, The Potting Shed, and The Complaisant Lover.
London: Mercury Books / Heinemann, 1961. [Drama] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION, GREENE FAMILY COPY, INSCRIBED by the author to his wife. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.237; [2], blank. Publisher's softcovers. With presentation note to flyleaf; For Vivien / with love from / Graham [underlined]. Light handling and soiling, spine toned; near..... More
A Visit To Morin.
London: Heinemann, 1959. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Slim octavo (24 x 16cm), green cloth in printed dust-wrapper. Only 250 copies. With hand-written note to flyleaf; For Angus/ with 1960 Christmas wishes / from Graham. Binding is near fine; very good wrapper is toned with a...... More
When the Movies Were Young.
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1925. [Early film] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; [2]; 256; [6]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, textured paper covered boards, paper title labels to spine and upper, fore and tail edge untrimmed. With a photographic frontispiece and fifteen further double sided..... More
This Day's Madness.
London: Jarrolds, 1960. [Zulu Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. SIGNED by the author 'with best wishes' in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to blue background on spine, and gilt device to upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Sax. Blue ink..... More
![Simeia twn Kairon. [Signs of the Times]. Roula GRIGORIADOU-CHATZIMINA, born 1946](/pictures/thumb/55980.jpg?v=1591288264)
Simeia twn Kairon. [Signs of the Times].
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2018. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.50 [6]. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, with love' to half-title. Publisher's blue soft covers. The lightest of rubbing to spine. Near fine. More