"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Signed & Inscribed
The Dipsy Chanty And Other Selected Poems.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop 1899. Limited Edition to 950 copies of which this is No. 466, SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard. Post octavo, pp.93; [2], blank. Bound in the publisher's limp, green suede boards with yapp edges, embossed gilt to front board, blocked with the image of a tall... More
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The Story of The Gadsbys. A Tale Without a Plot [Indian Railway Library Series]
Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., London: Sampson Low Marston and Company [1890]. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY KIPLING. A 'Wheeler' pamphlet published in India at 1 Rupee or in the UK at 1 shilling. Publishers pictorial card covers with vignette illustration of a child to rear cover. Internally clean but for... More
The Historian. A Novel.
London: Little, Brown, 2005. [Gothic fiction]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 642; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, titles in blue to spine, endpapers showing a map of Cold War Europe, typographic dust-jacket designed by Duncan Spilling. Signed by the author to the title page. Shallow moon shaped indentation... More
Oriental Assembly.
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1939. [Travel / Adventure] FIRST EDITION, publisher's file copy edited by A.W. Lawrence, with his SIGNED notes for a later printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 291. With four illustrations including frontispiece, as well as 111 photographic images on plates. In publisher's brown cloth with... More
The Mission Song.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2006. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, limited issue. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 339; [6], with a map of Africa at rear. Publisher's hardback in pictorial cloth slip-case. A fine, unopened copy in the publisher's slipcase title and pictured in silver, with original shrinkwrap intact. One of... More
Absolute Friends.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004. [Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, purple endpapers, purple dust-wrapper with red and white titles, priced at £18.99. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine/as new copy. A theatrical masterstroke... More
A Delicate Truth.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013. [Spy novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.310; [1], Acknowledgements; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, navy blue endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Signed by the author to 'Exclusive Signed Edition' leaf, and with... More
The Looking-Glass War.
London: Heinemann, 1965. [Cold War thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Post-octavo (20 x14cm), pp.[x]; 246. Publisher's hardcover in dust-wrapper. With autograph in ballpoint to flyleaf. A fine copy of the book in rich red jacket, entirely free of fading. Price-clipped with minor laminate shrink else a crisp fine example. Simply stunning-... More
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[Manuscript Letter Signed].
no place: no publisher, 31st March 1997. [Letter] MANUSCRIPT LETTER. Handwritten letter on headed with printed addresses of the author's London and Cornish homes (29 x 20cm), mounted in a smart grey cloth hardcover wallet, lettered in gilt to the spine. The letter reads: "Dear Mr Snell, | Thank you... More
The Night Manager.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.443. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £15.99. With autograph of John le Carré in blue ink to title page; he has also noted the month and year of... More
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. [Espionage thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 18/- net. Signed by the author as John le Carré to the title page. A lightly used copy with a little... More
The Little Drummer Girl.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.430. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted brown, in bronze-effect dust-jacket. With author's signature in blue ink to title page (not dated or dedicated). Trivial toning to text block; jacket price clipped. An... More
The Little Drummer Girl.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. [Spy Novel] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.[14] 430 [4]. Number 419 of just 1048 copies specially produced for the Book-of-the-Month Club, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's tan quarter buckram with green cloth over... More
The Mission Song.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2006. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 339; [6]. With a map of Africa at rear. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine/as new copy. A naive young interpreter stumbles into... More
Single and Single.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. [Legal thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.336. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of £16.99. Signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. Internally fine, some very faint splash marks to the edges... More
Smiley's People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.327; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth, plain endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. With author's signature in black ink to title page, contemporary to publication but without date or dedication. A lightly handled copy in similar price-clipped wrapper with... More
The Czar's Spy. The Mystery of a Silent Love.
New York, NY: The Smart Set Publishing Co., 1905. [Spy Fiction] SIGNED COPY, an early book club edition from the same year as the first. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 314. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the publisher's advertisement facing the title page. Contemporary red half crushed... More
The Stretton Street Affair.
London: Cassell and Co., 1924. [Spy fiction] ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Gift inscription to title page: "To Enid Agabeg | from Uncle | William Le Queux ". Internally clean, very light spoting to page... More
The Champington Mystery.
London: Digby, Long and Co., 1900. First edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.308; 16, publishers advertisements dated October 1900. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Inscribed boldly to Hugh Sartoris on the front pastedown by the author. Internally clean, with an unfortunate shallow... More
Jimmy Page. A Photographic Autobiography.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2010. [Rock music] FIRST EDITION. Folio, with 650 photographic illustrations. Limited edition, number 902 of 2500 copies SIGNED by Jimmy Page. Quarter bound in black morocco leather over unique perspex covers with screen-printed photograph portraits, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In a leather and silk slipcase... More
British Royal Bookplates and Ex-Libris of Related Families.
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1992. [Bookplates] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[8]; 259; [5]. Illustrated throughout in black and white. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'To Ted | with every good wish, | Brian North Lee'. Also with one of just 100 special... More
Peasants' Priest. A Play. Acting Edition, for the Festival of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral.
Canterbury, H.J. Goulden Ltd. 1947. 8vo., pp. 47. SIGNED by the author. Cream paper covers, with a hint of handling, else Fine. Housed in collector's cloth chemise case, titled in gilt to spine. FIRST EDITION, Limited to 750 copies. More
Shutter Island.
New York, NY: William Morrow, 2003. [Psychological horror]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.325; [blank]. Publisher's red quarter cloth over black paper covered boards, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Chip Kidd. Signed by the author to the title page. Promotional label stating "Autographed Copy" to... More
John.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2005. [Music autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 404. Hardback cloth in dust-jacket, with photographic plates. Signed by Cynthia Lennon to publisher's bookplate. An absolutely fine unread copy. Cynthia's long-awaited and revealing personal account of her life as the first and later former... More
Doctored Evidence.
London: William Heinemann, 2004. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 245; [3]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, map endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £15.99. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine/as new copy, warehoused by ourselves since publication. More