Signed & Inscribed
On His Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Ian Fleming Publications, sold through Goldsboro Books, 2023. [James Bond novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, one of 1000 numbered copies. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 161; [7], endmatter. Publisher's glazed boards (issued without jacket). Fine / as new. Purchased at the book launch even held at Goldsboro by..... More
Princess Smartypants and the Missing Princes.
London: Hodder Children's Books, 2016. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 130 [6]. Illustrated by the author throughout. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at £5.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Bond Behind the Iron Curtain.
The Book Collector, 2021. [Literary history] FIRST EDITION, double SIGNED copy. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.125; [2], advertisements; [1], blank. With sixteen illustrations, several in colour. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, hammer and sickle device to front board, black endpapers, typographic dust-wrapper. Fine / as new. Fleming..... More
Marilyn. A Biography.
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1973. [Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.[2] 270 [2]. Heavily illustrated with both colour and black and white photographs by various artists. SIGNED by the author and the editor in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's white padded cloth..... More
Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine, beige endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20 net. With author's signature to the title page. A clean, fine copy. Signed..... More
The History Boys.
London: faber and faber, 2004. [Drama] SIGNED COPY, the second impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxxiv; 109 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's black paper-covered boards, with red endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99, and a National Theatre Bookshop bookmark. A...... More
The Enemy. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 393 [1]. Number 83 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Keepers of the House.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.183 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Jenny Tylden-Wright, priced at £6.95. Very slightly faded to jacket..... More
Gallows Thief.
London: Harper Collins, 2001. [Historical Fiction/Crime novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[vi]; 281 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. With a nineteenth century coloured map of London as endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced..... More
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1959. [Wartime naval history] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 138. Illustrated with maps. Publisher's blue cloth titled in silver to the spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at $3.50. Contents clean, owner bookplate to pastedown, jacket with a few small nicks and..... More
Exit Music.
London: Orion, 2007. [Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 380 [10]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, additionally inscribed, with doodled smiley face motif. Publisher's black cloth, with red metallic titles to spine and red endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
The Complaints.
London: Orion, 2009. [Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 381; [7]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth, with silver titles to spine and purple endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £18.99. A clean, fine copy. The..... More
The Downing Street Years.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. [Politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Royal octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 914. With nineteen double-sided photographic plates divided into five suites. Signed by Baroness Thatcher in blue ink to a tipped-in blank between half-title and title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Eragon. Inheritance, Book One.
London: Doubleday, 2004. [Fantasy novel] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[14]; 509; [5]. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Publishers blue cloth hardback, with pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by John Jude Palencar, priced at £12.99. With the original 'Eragon' bookmark loosely inserted. Gentle toning of paper..... More
The Art of Darkness: Staging The Philip Pullman Trilogy.
London: National Theatre, 2003. [Theatre] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.120. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. SIGNED by both Butler and Pullman in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black soft covers, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. All about how the 'His..... More
The Night and The Music. The Matthew Scudder Stories.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Telemachus Press, 2011. [Crime novel] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Limited to 100 copies. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 237; [1], blank. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue leather-cloth over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as new. A collection of cases..... More
Sketches in Bedlam; or Characteristic Traits of Insanity, as Displayed in the Cases of One Hundred and Forty Patients of Both Sexes, now, or Recently Confined in New Bethlem, Including Margaret Nicholson, James Hatfield, Patrick Walsh, Bannister Truelock, and Many Other Extraordinary Maniacs, who have been Transferred from Old Bethlem. To the Above are Added a Succinct History of the Establishment, Its Rules, Regulations, Forms of Admission, Treatment of Patients, &c. &c. By a Constant Observer. Skulduggery Pleasant.
London: Sherwood, Jones & Co., 1823. [Psychiatry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xl; 312. Attractively bound in period-style half speckled calf with twin red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled covered sides, deckled edges uncut. Contents with a few minor marks, half title repaired and..... More
Original Sin.
London: Faber and Faber, 1994. [Crime fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.426. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. Autographed in back ink to the title page. Minor toning to text block as usual, else fine in like, fresh..... More
The Skull Beneath the Skin.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.384. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the purple illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £7.95. Edges slightly dusty else fine in a clean, fine wrapper. The second Cordelia Gray case. More
On His Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Ian Fleming Publications, 2023. [James Bond novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 161; [7], endmatter. Publisher's glazed boards (issued without jacket). Autographed obtained by bibliographer Jon Gilbert, via Ian Fleming Publications. NOTE: We have seen some copies of this book misdescribed. The '007' half-title on all..... More
Djibouti.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Harper Collins, 2012. [Crime novel] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Number 98 of 100 copies thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 279; [1], blank. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue leather-cloth over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as new. Suspense novel..... More
Devil May Care. The Bentley Special Series Edition.
Penguin Books / Doubleday, in association with Bentley Motors, 2008. [James Bond thriller] FIRST EDITION. LIMITED EDITION, Large Paper copies, number 102 of 300. With a note to this edition, a foreword by the chief designer of Bentley Motors, and a brief biography of Ian Fleming. Superbly bound in full..... More
My Word is My Bond.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2008. [Hollywood memoir] The UK COLLECTOR'S EDITION, One of 1000 copies in the publisher's de luxe cloth, in matching slipcase. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo, pp.336. Black cloth blocked in silver. Titled 'Limited Edition' on half title, not to be confused with the trade or American..... More
Mummy Never Told Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 26cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour by the author throughout. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards, priced at £10.99, SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, light grey endpapers. Autograph obtained at an event at Illustration..... More
The Man Who Supercharged Bond.
Yeovil: Haynes Publishing, 2009. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, inscribed 'with best wishes'. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.352. With two suites of sixteen photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title, together. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced..... More