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The Kingmaker's Daughter.
London: Robert Hale, 1978. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.205; [3]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Barbara Walton, priced at £3.95. Lightly browned throughout, with a couple of minor adhesive marks to flyleaf. Some spotting and rubbing to jacket..... More
Grimble.
London: Collins, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 44. With frequent in-text illustrations by Francis. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the red dust-jacket also illustrated by Francis. Internally fine. Jacket price-clipped and sunned to spine with some small closed tears. Very good..... More
Only When I Laugh [Larf].
New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 1987. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, also the FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.241; [5], blank. Publisher's green buckram blocked in gilt to spine, pale green endpapers, matching cloth slipcase. Copy No. 71 of 250, signed by Len Deighton. A fine copy in..... More
The Antiquary.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 438; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
The Luck of the Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches.
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. [Western Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, Second Issue, including 'Brown of Calaveras'. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2]; viii; 256; [2]. With the ownership inscription of Stafford Nothcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887) to flyleaf, dated 1871, Washington. Publisher's pebble grain cloth with gilt..... More
Many Inventions.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; x; 365; [7]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and decoration in gilt and blind to spine and upper board, green endpapers. Neat ink ownership to first blank, and a single ink correction to..... More
Jade Woman.
London: Collins Crime Club, 1988. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.197; [3], blank. Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper. Collins' FILE COPY, marked as such to flyleaf. Sight wear at crown, minor toning otherwise an unused example. The publisher's editorial copy, although never corrected as such. Scarce (possibly..... More
Jade Woman.
London: Collins Crime Club, 1988. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.197; [3], blank. Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper. A splendid, fine copy. Another instalment in the hugely popular, long-running adventures of Lovejoy, the roguish antiques dealer-turned-sleuth, famously televised starring Ian McShane and Phyllis Logan... More
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945.
London: Faber and Faber, 2007. [Theatre] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.viii; 435; [5]. With a suite of four double-sided colour photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: "For Edward | Best Wishes | Michael Billington | 19th November 2007". Publisher's orange cloth..... More
Rupert's Adventure Book [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual No.5, 1940].
London: Annual Concepts [Express Newspapers], 1992. Facsimile Edition of the 1940 Rupert Annual. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.126. Stories pictured in colour throughout. Publisher's colour Illustrated boards. Sunned to spine else a lovely fine copy. More
One's Company — A Journey to China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. [Travel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.319; [1]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map. Contemporary tan half morocco by FOX of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to brown labels, further gilt tooling to spine..... More
[MOVIE POSTER] The World Is Not Enough.
Litho in USA, 1999. [Film promotion] U.S. one-sheet poster [Style A] for the 1999 MGM/United International Pictures film starring Pierce Brosnan as Ian Fleming's James Bond, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli's EON Productions. Single sided, approximate dimensions 27 x 40 inches. Never folded. Minor handling; fine condition..... More
[MOVIE POSTER] Licence (License) to Kill.
Litho in USA, 1989. [Film promotion] U.S. one-sheet poster for the 1989 MGM/UA film starring Timothy Dalton as Ian Fleming's James Bond, produced by Cubby Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson's EON Productions. Approximate dimensions 27 x 40 inches. Designed by Tony Synegar, with photography by Keith Hamshere and Douglas Kirkland..... 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 Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.55.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Jarrold, 1990. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.99. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £4.25 intact. With commemorative jacket, featuring a colour poster of Rupert to reverse side. Absolutely fine/as new. Designated '70th Anniversary Edition' (Rupert..... More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.56
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Jarrold, 1991. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.99. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £4.25 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen. Copyright Edition.
London: William Heinemann, 1906-1910. [Literature] FINELY BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF. Eleven volumes, octavo (19 x 14 x 37cm). Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary deep blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt and leather onlays to spines. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Internally fine. Binding lightly handled. A sumptuous presentation of..... More
Pat Nixon The Untold Story.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1986. [Politics] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.484; [4], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth, printed dust-wrapper priced $19.95. Later printing. With warm presentation note to half-title; "For Sheila MacKellow | with every good wish from | Julie Nixon Eisenhower | July 1988"..... 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
Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to..... More
The Life of Graham Greene: Volume One, 1904-1939 [together with] Volume Two, 1939-1955 [and] Volume Three, 1955-1991.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989, 1994, 2004. [Literary Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, large octavo (24 x 16 x 16cm). With three suites of black and white photographs within each volume. Publisher's cloth hardcovers in jacket. Inscribed by the late Norman Sherry to title pages in blue ink 'For Edward..... More
Len Deighton's Continental Dossier. A collection of cultural, culinary, historical, spooky, grim and preposterous fact compiled by Victor and Margaret Pettitt.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [European culture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), unpaginated. Publisher's glazed photographic boards with all-over design in colour. Printed on glossy paper stock, folding cloth map at rear. Lightly handled, top corners bumped, some fading to spine; a very good copy. Book Collector No.287 (pp.32-62) 'The..... More
Rogue Male [aka Man Hunt].
London: Chatto and Windus, 1939. [Classic man-hunt adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression, with later state / printing of the jacket. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 271 [1]. Publisher's purple cloth lettered in white to spine. With the 'sniper' design dust-jacket priced at 4/6 (earliest jackets were priced 7/6). Page edges..... More
Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race. Derived from a Comparison of the Languages of Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Being an Inquiry How Far the Differences in the Languages of the Globe are Referrible to Causes now in Operation.
London: Samuel Clarke, 1843. [Anthropology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.lx; 103; [1]; 20, advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Yellow coated endpapers. Bookplate of writer and illustrator Maud J. Vyse to pastedown. Some light spotting and toning. Occasional pen annotation. Residue where a label has been..... More