Signed & Inscribed
The Honourable Jim
London; Hodder and Stoughton [1924]. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by the Author to title page: 'To William & Ada / de Jongh / With fondest love / from / Emmuska Orczy (flourish)'. 8vo.; pp.320. Publisher's red cloth lightly worn, edges spotted, first gathering foxed, occasional marking throughout. In its pictorial dust..... More
Twenty Poems.
Dublin: Privately Printed, 1934. [Irish Poetry] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 14cm), pp.26 [2]. Number 103 of 300 copies thus. Separately INSCRIBED in blue ink to half-title: 'For John Slocum, | who has done so much | for Irish-American relations! | N. Sheridan.' Publisher's grey card covers, sewn..... More
The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, followed by an account of the Family of Buchanan.
Montreal: Printed for Private Circulation, 1911. [Canadian Legal History and Genealogy] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] xiv; 475 [3] 5 [1] viii [4]. With 13 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the subject, each with a tissue guard. Number 126 of just 300 copies SIGNED by..... More
Seize The Moment. America's Challenge In a One-Superpower World.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1992. [Politics] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.322. In a leather-style binding blocked in gilt, likely by The Easton Press (although unspecified). With warm presentation note to half-title; "To Sheila MacKellow | with appreciation for her | loyal friendship..... More
A Screw Loose: My story so far.
London: B and T Publishers, 1977. Signed First Edition. Octavo. Bound in wine cloth with gilt titles to spine. Red dust wrapper bears titles in red and white to spine and front and rear covers. The binding is tight. The text is clean, and shows no signs of spotting. The..... More
The Pattern.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937. [Crime Mystery] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[12] 290 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author 'with thanks' in black ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Top edge red; fore-edge untrimmed. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
Between The Woods and The Water. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to The Iron Gates.
London: John Murray, 1986. [European Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, an advance or review copy with errata slip. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 248 [2]. With a map printed on turquoise paper. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With a printed errata slip loose to preliminaries. Publisher's..... More
Scottish Eccentrics.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. [Scottish Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Mr. & Mrs. F.G. Scott, | with love | from | Mr. & Mrs. "Hugh MacDiarmid," | Whalsay..... More
The Cement Garden.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. [Modern literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.138. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page 'To Myra'. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Ron Bowen, priced at £3.50 net. Some spotting..... More
Sisters Under the Skin.
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1979. [Photography] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), unpaginated, with numerous photographic portraits of notable women by Parkinson, many with accompanying text or quotations by various authors. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's burgundy cloth with silver titles..... More
Herb Ritts Calendar 1994.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. INSCRIBED TO MEMBER OF LED ZEPPELIN. Small Quarto, unpaginated. With 28 black and white photographic images, subjects including Dizzy Gillespie, Madonna, Mel Gibson and David Bowie. Warmly INSCRIBED TO JOHN PAUL JONES by the artist in gold ink/paint to front free endpaper: 'To..... More
MacDiarmid: An Illustrated Biography of Christopher Murray Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid).
Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing, 1977. [Literary Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, an association copy. Quarto (32 x 22cm), pp.176. Number 22 of just 50 copies SIGNED in blue ink by both MacDiarmid (to title page) and the author (to final leaf of preface). Also with five official photographic prints, and a...... More
History of the Seventh Regiment of New York 1806-1889.
New York, NY: Published by the Seventh Regiment, 1890. [American Military History] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY. Complete in two volumes. Large octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 498 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 543 [3]. With numerous in-text vignettes and woodcuts, as well as 11 engraved portraits, including a frontispiece to..... More
Huntsmen Past and Present. Illustrated from contemporary prints and from original watercolour drawings by the Author.
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Quarto, with 21 plates in colour and black and white, pp. [14], 91. Publisher's vellum spine with buckram boards, t.e.g. Fine. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Limited Edition of only 150 copies of which this is no.45. 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
The Mirror and the Light.
London: Fourth Estate, 2020. [Historical fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm). Publisher's cloth, with the specially-designed dust-jacket, housed in the black cloth-covered slipcase. One of 500 copies thus. A fine, as-new copy, still in the original shrink-wrap. The final part of the 'Wolf Hall' trilogy, charting the rapid..... More
With Blood and Iron.
London: Jarrolds, 1964. [Naval Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.288. SIGNED by the author in black ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Smith. Miss Cond's usual exemplary condition, with a...... More
Ronnie.
London: Macmillan, 2007. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 358. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £20. Signed "Love Ronnie.07" to title page. Illustrated with four photographic suites. Textblock very lightly toned, binding and wrapper lightly handled with a...... More
Indian States and the New Regime.
Sitamau: [Privately printed], 1937. [Indian history and politics] INSCRIBED ADVANCE COPY. First edition. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 469 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'Presented to the | most Honourable the Marquess of | Zetland, P.C., G.C.S.I., | G.C.I.E., etc. | the Secretary of State..... More
From Hamburg to Hollywood.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Music / Film Photography] LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.130. No 1026 of 1750 copies SIGNED by Jurgen Vollmer. Foreword by Sir Paul McCartney. 140 illustrations from photographs. Quarter bound with gilt-stamped covers, all edges silver, housed in a Kodak-style lid and tray box. With..... More
Fairy Tales.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1982. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.128. With a mixture of full colour plates and black and white vignettes by Foreman. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black ink, each to a separate bookplate on the verso of..... More
British Pop.
Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. [Pop Art] INSCRIBED EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. Quarto softcover (27 x 20cm), pp.474 [2]. SIGNED by the artist Peter Blake in black ink, and additionally INSCRIBED by Livingstone in blue ink: 'For Edward | Marco Livingstone | 16.IV.09.' Both to title page. Text in..... More
Peter Blake: One Man Show.
Farnham: Lund Humphries, 2009. [Art] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.240. Illustrated throughout in colour. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST PETER BLAKE in black ink to title page: 'For Edward | Peter Blake.' Publisher's green cloth with white titles to spine. Illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Lightly sunned..... More
Tropic of Cancer.
London: John Calder, 1963. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 318. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page; possibly a secretarial hand. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Large blue ink ownership to..... More
Fight Club.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2014. [Psychological thriller] SIGNED COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2]; 208. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the limitation page. Grey full morocco over boards, gilt ruling and embellishment to both. Gilt titles, gilt embellishment, and raised bands to spine. Watered silk..... More