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John.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2005. [Music autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 404. SIGNED by Cynthia Lennon to publisher's bookplate on title page. Hardback cloth in dust-jacket, with photographic plates. A fine, as-new copy. Cynthia's long-awaited and revealing personal account of her life as the first wife..... More
The Man Who Supercharged Bond.
Yeoville: Haynes Publishing, 2009. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.352. With two suites of sixteen photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25. A fine, as-new..... More
Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer.
London: Puffin Books, 2015. [Fantasy novel] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.495 [7]. Signed by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth blocked in silver to spine, orange endpapers, metallic-effect illustrated dust-wrapper priced at £14.99. Waterstones 'signed' sticker to jacket. A fine as-new..... More
Summer of Love. The Making of Sgt Pepper.
Guidford: Genesis Publications, 2007. [Music History] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 1605 of 2000 copies. Large quarto (35 x 28cm). Elaborately bound in pink fine-grained leather with gold-blocked lettering on the spine, illustrated covers, gilt edges, housed in original silk-screen printed box with ribbon pull, the whole protected in a green..... More
The Historian. A Novel.
London: Little, Brown, 2005. [Gothic fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 642; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, titles in blue to spine, endpapers showing a map of Cold War Europe, typographic dust-jacket designed by Duncan Spilling, with publisher's price medallion to upper. Signed by the author to the..... More
Orientations.
London: Ivor Nicholson, 1937. [Colonial Biography] AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM AUTHOR. First edition, fourth printing. Octavo (27 x 17cm), pp.[2]; xviii; 624. With seventeen illustrations including a frontispiece, and four maps, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt device stamped to upper. Top edge blue..... More
Dark Sacred Night.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2018. [Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 433 [9]. Number 74 of 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to..... More
The Late Show.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2017. [Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 405 [5]. Number 62 of 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to..... More
The Burning Room.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2014. [Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 388 [6]. Number 181 of 200 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to..... More
Absolute Friends.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. [Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, and purple endpapers. With the purple dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £18.99. A fine, as-new..... More
Agent Running in the Field.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019. [Spy Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 281 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink directly to the title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and navy endpapers. With the red dust-jacket priced at £20..... More
The Rhodesia That Was My Life.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1968. [Colonial Law and Politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.271 [1]. With three double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a portrait of the author as a frontispiece. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's green cloth with..... More
Not Now, Bernard.
London: Andersen Classics, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED THIRTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[26]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. One of just 300 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to a bookplate on the fly-leaf. Publisher's colour-illustrated cloth with purple endpapers..... More
Snowline.
London: Collins, 1973. [Narcotics Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.253 [3]. With a sketch-map to preliminaries. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf: 'With every good | wish to | Miss Eileen Cond. | Berkely Mather.' Publisher's burgundy cloth..... More
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and A Vision for the Future.
London: Witness Books, 2020. [Climate Science and Futurology] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 266. With two suites of four double-sided photographic plates, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to 'Limited Signed Edition' leaf tipped into preliminaries. Publisher's green and black..... More
Psychedelic Renegades. With Photographs of Syd Barrett.
UK, Genesis Publications Limited. 2001. [Rock Photography] SIGNED LIMITED DELUXE EDITION. Folio (31 x 26cm), pp.160 with approximately 120 monochrome and colour images, some folding plates. Number 84 of 320 copies SIGNED by both Mick Rock and Syd Barrett, the former in black marker to limitation page, the latter to..... More
Goldfinger.
London: The Folio Society, 2018. [James Bond] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 274. With seven colour plates by Dalton, including a frontispiece. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's metallic grey cloth, with silver and bronze titles to spine and upper. Grey..... More
James Bond, the Spy I Loved.
London: Twenty First Century Publishers, 2006. [James Bond Film Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 178 [6]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue marker 'To Simon' to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic soft covers. A fine, as-new copy. Rare thus. More
Trigger Mortis.
London: Orion Books, 2015. [James Bond Continuationl] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 310 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and large skull motif blocked to upper in silver. Blueprint-style endpapers. With the silver blueprint-style..... More
The Vivero Letter.
London: Collins, 1968. [Lost Treasure Thriller] FIRST EDITION with SIGNED LETTER and INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.317 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by D'Achille, priced at 25s. With a typed letter SIGNED by the author to Eileen M. Cond, discussing..... More
The Break in the Line.
London: Collins, 1970. [Spy Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.254 [2]. With a sketch-map to preliminaries. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate to fly-leaf: 'To another "sucker | for mountains" with the author's | thanks and good | wishes |..... More
The Far Eastern Trilogy: The Pagoda Tree; The Midnight Gun; Hour of the Dog.
London: Collins, 1979; 1981; 1982. [Historical Fiction] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS WITH LETTERS. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.322; pp.336; pp.346. Volume I signed by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate to fly-leaf, and with a loose autograph letter signed by the author on headed..... More
Tiger Street.
London: T.V. Boardman and Company, 1951. [Mystery Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.239 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'To Eileen Cond | a very especially-signed | copy for a most | appreciative friend. | All good wishes | for happy days –..... More
Redfern's Miracle.
London: T.V. Boardman and Company, 1951. [Romantic Mystery] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to distinctive bookplate on flyleaf: 'To Eileen Cond | with my wishes | for happiness | Elleston | Trevor.' Also SIGNED in black marker to title..... More
Chorus of Echoes.
London: T.V. Boardman and Company, 1950. [Mystery Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.279 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'To Eileen M. Cond | with all good wishes | from Elleston Trevor | September 1950.' Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine..... More