Signed & Inscribed
Signed Karin Dor and Burt Kwouk Still from the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour film still from Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) in blue marker, and by Burt Kwouk (Spectre 3) in black ink. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
Signed Karin Dor Still from the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour film still from Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) in black marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
Three Women of Herat.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. [Middle East Travel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, with personal letters. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 225 [3]. With illustrated head pieces by the author, and six double-sided colour photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Teo Best wishes | love Veronica. | October..... More
Apple Tree Yard.
London: Faber and Faber, 2013. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 348 [12]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Edges very slightly toned, with a promotional sticker..... More
A Natural Curiosity.
London: Viking, 1989. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 309 [5]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by John Caple, priced at £12.95. Jacket spine sunned, otherwise a crisp, near..... More
Not After Midnight and Other Stories.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1971. [Short Stories] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, Second Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.285; [3]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Flavia Tower. With presentation note on flyleaf, to her best friend and cousin Ursula Pike, together with a lengthy..... More
The Apple Tree [The Birds].
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1952. [Macabre/Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.264. Publisher's red cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Val Biro, priced at 10/6. With author's inscription to the title page: For Roy. With best wishes / from / Daphne du Maurier / 1988..... More
[An Archive of Books and Letters Inscribed to her agent John Reece]. The Daphne du Maurier Tandem (My Cousin Rachel and Mary Anne); The Scapegoat; The Flight of the Falcon; The House on the Strand; Vanishing Cornwall; The Apple Tree; The Breaking Point; Not After Midnight; The Progress of Julius; Golden Lads; The Winding Stair; Growing Pains.
London: Victor Gollancz; [and] Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company; [and] New York, NY: Avon Books; [and] Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1964;. [Modern Literature and Biography] INSCRIBED BOOKS AND LETTERS. Thirteen books, one autograph postcard, and one typed letter signed: 1) The Daphne du Maurier Tandem, comprising Mary Anne..... More
The Scapegoat [with a Typed Letter Signed].
London: Victor Gollancz, [and] Menabilly, Cornwall, 9th March 1957. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.368. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Together with a typed letter on headed notepaper addressed to Ivor Brown..... More
My Friends the Miss Boyds.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1959. [Children's Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4] 282 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in ink to the fly-leaf. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket designed by Virginia Smith with printed price of 15s to front flap. Toning to..... More
Social Security No. 438-10-1408.
New York, NY: A Milestone Book, Comet Press Books, 1958. [Psychological memoir]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 73 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, dated 24th November 1959. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green endpapers. With original cream..... More
Life's Not a Rehearsal. The Autobiography of Margaret Durdant-Hollamby, MBE, Founder of the Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks.
Sevenoaks: Durdant-Hollamby, 1998. [Theatre] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 239 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and architect's drawings to endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced..... 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
Washington Black.
London: Serpent's Tail, 2018. [Historical Adventure] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[10] 419 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth, with gilt titles to spine and green illustrated endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Joe Wilson, priced at £14.99. A...... 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
Ved Vejs Ende. The Elder Statesman.
Herning: Poul Kristensen, 1965. [Drama in Translation] INSCRIBED FIRST DANISH EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.114 [6]. All text in Danish. INSCRIBED by the translator in black ink to the first blank, dated October 1965, with a longer message written onto the back of a business card. Publisher's grey soft..... More
Frederick Sandys 1829-1904. A Catalogue Raisonné.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club in association with Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, 2001. [Catalogue Raisonné] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.366 [2]. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Brian & Paula | with..... More
A Charmed Life: The Autobiography of David Essex.
London: Orion, 2002. [Music Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 248. With three suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's purple cloth, with gilt titles to spine and lilac endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey through the Beat Generation.
Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 2007. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.192. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. SIGNED by the author in black ink to front free endpaper. Publisher's glossy paper-covered boards with light blue endpapers and matching dust-jacket. Some minor creasing to the top and..... More
The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog.
London: Andersen Press, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 28cm), pp.[26] With naive colour illustrations by Busby to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's matt colour-illustrated paper over boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). Some minor..... More
Young Lonigan.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1943. Octavo, pp. 201. red cloth with black titles to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. War economy standard paper is quite brittle with uneven browning. Some closed tears, wear and some small areas of loss to the..... More
With Gilbert & George in Moscow.
London: Bloomsbury, 1991. [Art and Russia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.191 [1]. With frequent black and white and occasional colour photographs. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George to Michael Barnett in red ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and red..... More
A History of Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells.
Chichester: Phillimore and Co., 2003. [Kent Topography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 484. With black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece map. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, being number 100 of 500 copies thus, hand numbered to a label on the verso..... 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
The Art of H. Davis Richter.
Benfleet: F. Lewis. 1935; 1944. SIGNED FIRST EDITION subscribers' copy, number 94 of 200 copies, with associated signed first edition of 'Paintings and Poems'. Text by Fell; poems by Lady Sackville. pp. xx, 55, (44 plates in colour and monochrome); 35, (colour plates to each facing page). 'The Art' in..... More