"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Signed & Inscribed
That Summer.
London: faber and faber, 2000. [Wartime Romance] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.x; 261 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's photographic soft covers, with the dust-jacket priced at £9.99. A little light handling and some toning to edges and margins. Near fine..... More
Traction Man Meets Turbodog.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 23cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour to every page by the author. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy... 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
Amontarista Plana.
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2014. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.48. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, with love' to half-title. Publisher's orange soft covers. Light rubbing to spine. Near fine. The author's second poetry collection. More
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I Piso Pleura tou Kathrephti. [The Rear Side of the Mirror].
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2012. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.56. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, from the heart' to half-title. Publisher's grey soft covers. Rubbing to spine and a couple of bumps. Very good. The author's first published..... 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
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old.
London: Michael Joseph, 2016. [Diaries] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 376 [4]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Victor Meijer, priced at £12.99. 'Signed Copy' sticker to jacket. A...... More
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED COPY, the twentieth impression. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[8] 272 [8]. INSCRIBED by the author in purple ink to title page: 'To Myra, | best wishes | Mark Haddon.' Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and burgundy endpapers. With the dust-jacket..... More
William Pitt the Younger.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004. [Political Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 652 [10]. With three suites of four double-sided colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page; 'For Roger | with best wishes | William Hague.' Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Mandarin Cypher.
London: Collins, 1975. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.256. SIGNED by the author ink black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, designed by Craig Dodd, price-clipped and re-priced at £2.95 by the publisher. Light wear to cloth..... More
Exit West.
London: Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017. [Modern literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 229; [5]. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine, black endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £14.99. Signed by the author to a tipped in 'exclusive signed edition' page. Tiny..... More
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Two Stories. The Mare's nest [and] The Long Shadow.
London: E. Lahr, 1931. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.27 [5]. Number 147 of just 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear of the volume. In publisher's quarter blue cloth with cream paper-covered boards and black titles to cream paper label on spine. With..... More
The Song of The Cotton Picker. With photos by Carl Julien.
Clinton, South Carolina: Jacob's Press. 1942. First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. Publisher's red rexine, leather effect cloth with onlay photgraphic title label to front board. Bright and sharp, small square of fading to head of spine. In a very good dustwrapper, frayed and chipped to head of spine..... More
Two-And One Over.
London: W. Colins Sons and Co. Ltd., no date [1945]. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 342; [4] publisher's advertisements. Publisher's dark blue cloth blocked in red to spine and upper. Inscribed by the author to flyleaf: "With love to K.P.C. | from A.H. | April 1925"..... More
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2010. [Literary Criticism] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.320. With illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Edward — | So good to meet you in | Chichester. Good luck with | the Friends. All my best, | Alex..... More
The Cross of Lazzaro.
London: Hutchinson, 1965. [Disaster Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.232. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by David Fawcett. Miss Cond's usual exemplary condition, with a...... More
The Old Trade of Killing.
London: Hutchinson, 1966. [Treasure Hunt Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.236 [4]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's brown cloth with yellow titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Val Biro. Miss Cond's..... More
The Spring of Malice.
London: Hutchinson, 1962. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.349 [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's brown cloth with silver and red titles to spine, a red device stamped to upper, and grey endpapers. With the..... More
Sunset at Sheba.
London: Hutchinson, 1960. [Colonial Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.223 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's brown cloth with yellow and red titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Mudge Marriott. Miss Cond's usual exemplary..... More
I, In The Membership of My Days. Poems.
New York, NY: Random House, 1973. [Irish Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.135; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, in pictorial dust-wrapper. Dated and inscribed by Richard Harris to flyleaf. Bumped to foot of spine, wrapper a little sunned to spine. Near fine. A collection of poems by..... More
Enigma.
London: Hutchinson, 2006. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.390. Black cloth with silver titles to spine, pictorial endpapers and typographic dust-wrapper. Boldly signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. A little shelf wear, edges of text block toned, top edge dusty/spotted, jacket price-clipped..... More
The Fear Index.
London: Hutchinson, 2011. [Corporate / Cyber thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.viii; 323; [5]. Publisher's red cloth, black titles to spine, diagrammatical black endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £18.99. Signed by the author to the title page. Trivial handling; a fine copy. Intrigue concerning artificial intelligence..... More
Munich.
London: Hutchinson, 2017. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 342. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's photographic paper-covered boards, with photographic endpapers and all edges red. With the dust-jacket designed by Glenn O'Neill, priced at £20.00. 'Signed by the Author' sticker..... More
Pompeii.
London: Hutchinson, 2003. [Historical thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.342. Publisher's hardback cloth binding, illustrated map endpapers printed in two colours, pictorial dust-jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Edges toned, covers a little bumped, jacket fine. Harris' acclaimed novel about the Roman Empire and..... More