" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher
Signed & Inscribed
Heart-Shaped Box.
New York, NY: William Morrow, 2007. [Strange Tales] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 376. Signed by the author in red ink to title page, dated 3.31.07. Publisher's quarter black cloth with red titles to spine and grey paper over boards. Red endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by... More
Heart-Shaped Box.
London: Gollancz, 2007. [Horror] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x17 cm), pp.[8]; 368; [8]. Signed by the author in red ink to title page dated 3.20.07. Black hardboards with gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper design and illustration by Edward Bettison. Clean and bright copy. As New. Written by the... More
High Adventure. With Maps by A. Spark and Sketches by G. Djurkouic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. [Exploration] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. SIGNED by Edmund Hillary to half title. Illustrated with maps, sketches and photographs. Frontispiece in colour. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust jacket with printed price of 16s net. A clean, bright... More
Boogie Woogie.
London, Duckworth and Co. 2000. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION (No.119 of 500), 8vo. Publisher's bright red cloth with pale yellow mottled endpapers, spotless pages, a fine copy. Signed by author and on covers by artist Damien Hirst, who designed the wrapper. More
31 Songs.
London: Viking, 2003. [Popular Music] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[12]; 196. Illustrated throughout in black and white. SIGNED by the author in thick blue ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Hatch Show Print, priced at... More
The House of Silk.
London: Orion Books, 2011. [Detective Fiction] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.294. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half title. As new, in jacket, in titled slipcase, in original shrinkwrap. Anthony Horowitz's first Sherlock Holmes continuation novel, followed up by Moriarty in 2014. More
Forever and a Day.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2018. [James Bond continuation novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Trade edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 287; [9]. Publisher's black hardcovers with boat/bullet design in gilt, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Kris Potter. Signed by Anthony Horowitz to the title page. A fine, as new copy. Horowitz's... More
Fine Clothes to the Jew.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. [Folk Music/Lyrics/Verse] Third Printing INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.90; [4]. Publisher's purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper, illustrated dust-wrapper. With presentation note to flyleaf; "For Mrs Holmes- | these songs | and poems - | Sincerely... More
Collected Animal Poems: The Iron Wolf; What is the Truth?; A March Calf; The Thought-Fox.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED TO VOLUME I. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 7cm) Publisher's black cloth, white dust-wrappers, publisher's white pictorial slipcase. Signed by Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, in Volume 1. Illustrated by Chris Riddell in volume 1 and by Lisa Flather... More
Birthday Letters.
London: Faber and Faber, 1998. [Poetry] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First edition, second impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.ix; [1]; 198. Publisher's light blue paper covered boards, titles in cream to spine, dust-jacket featuring a painting by Frieda Hughes with printed price of £14.99. Signed by the author to the... More
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The Iron Man [The Iron Giant], together with The Iron Woman. Signed.
London: Faber and Faber 1985. 1985 and 1993. 2 volumes, FIRST EDITIONS thus: 'The Iron Man' signed and inscribed by both composer Pete Townsend and author Ted Hughes, and the sequel being inscribed by Hughes. Publisher's uniform hardcovers in pictorial jackets. Fine/near fine. 'The Iron Man: The Musical' based on... More
The Dwarf's Chamber.
London, Ward Lock. 1896. First edition. 8vo. 386pp + 6pp ads. Publisher's black cloth title in gilt to spine and decorated in white and red to front board. Light edgewear, bumping to head of spine, the book would be catalogued as near fine were it not for an unfortunate centimetre... More
The Tiger Skin.
London: William Heinemann Limited, 1924. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY. A work from feminist, novelist, and founder of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. Large post octavo, pp.133. Inscription reads 'To "K.K." from Violet Hueffer, nov. 1924'; Violet Hunt lived with author Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer) from 1910-1918... More
Image in the Water.
London: Little, Brown, and Company, 2001. [Political novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, Association copy. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 243; [5]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Signed and dated to the title page. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. Edges of textblock slightly toned. Near fine... More
The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1976. [Comedy]. SIGNED COPY, the third impression, paperback. Quarto (31 x 24cm), unpaginated. SIGNED by Eric Idle and Neil Innes in blue and black ink to verso of front cover. Full of mad witty nonsense, as expected. Publisher's card covers with false title, 'The Wonderful World of... More
Sea and Islands.
London: Collins, 1967. [Yachting Travel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.288. Twelve double-sided photographic plates showing both colour and black and white images, and occasional in-text diagrams and maps. Signed by the author in black ink to the title page. Also inscribed on the flyleaf to a sailor... More
My Guru and his Disciple.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1980. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 338; [6]. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket drawn by Don Bachardy. Signed and inscribed on the title page: "For John Hall | Christopher Isherwood | with best wishes". Corners and end-caps slightly bumped... More
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The Lord of the Rings [New Line Cinema, 2001]. Signed mounted digital print.
no place, n.d. [ca.2001]. Black and white portrait image of 'Bilbo Baggins' as portrayed by Ian Holm in the Lord of the Rings Film series. Signed by Mr. Holm in silver pen. In an elegant and simple plain mount, ready for framing. Overall dimensions 40 x 34cm. More
Bit of a Blur. The Autobiography.
London: Little, Brown, 2007. [Britpop] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 274 [4]. With 12 double-sided colour photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in thick black marker to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards with titles to spine and tan endpapers. With the matching blue dust-jacket... More
The Other House.
London: William Heinemann, 1896. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Two Volumes. Octavo. Publisher's light blue cloth. Light edgewear and scuffing, bumping to spine and some very light rubbing to extremities. Some darkening to the spine but essentially clean, strong and tight. Shows extremely well. Internally clean and fresh, front inner hinge cracked... More
Streams.
Lindfield: Lemon Publications, 1975. [Poetry] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.145; [1]; unpaginated blanks to rear. Publisher's printed wrappers. Signed and inscribed on the title page: "To Guy | Have a jolly jubilee | mate | Peter | The Bend | Lindfield. 77." With a foreword by Spike Milligan. Slightly rubbed to extremities. Very good. More
Statement Against Corpses. Short Stories by B.S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose.
London: Constable, 1964. [Short stories] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.204. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket designed by Richard Weaver, showing printed price of 21s. net. Inscribed by both authors to the flyleaf: "With best wishes | Bryan Johnson | Zulfikr Ghose". Toned to... More
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry.
London: Collins, 1973. [Fiction] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.180; [8]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £2.00 net. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page; "for Gordon Williams | who thinks this is | charming.... | Bryan | 16... More
Never Greener.
London: Bantam Press, 2018. [Romance] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16 cm), pp.[8]; 403; [5]. Signed by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Head Design. Clean and bright copy. Fine/as new. Modern novel exploring the relationships... More
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin.
London: Hutchinson, 1961. [Politics] GRAHAM GREENE'S COPY, First Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 411; [1]. SIGNED by Greene in blue ink to front free endpaper. Also with Greene's occasional small blue ink marginal notes, and a long list of page references to rear pastedown. Publisher's black cloth with gilt... More