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Signed & Inscribed
John Buchan. A Biography.
London, Rupert Hart-Davis. 1965. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, light edgewear, a near fine copy. No dustwrapper. Graham Greene's copy of this detailed biographical work. Buchan's influence shows clearly throughout many of Greene's works and he is mentioned several times in the biography. Greene's distinctive signature may be... More
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
London: Pan, 1984. Inscribed First Edition. Octavo. pp. [5], 191. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in silver to spine. Black dust jacket, designed by Gary Day-Ellison, with holographic panel to front cover, and titles in white to front cover and spine, unclipped. Includes publisher's compliment slip. Binding shows... More
Arctic Island Hunter.
London: George Ronald, 1961. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.136. With 12 black and white photographic plates and two maps. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'To Mary, / with the warmest Baha'; / greetings / Paul Adams'. In publisher's light blue cloth with red... More
Roads to Glory.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Demy Octavo. pp. 278. no. 199 of 360 copies, signed by the author to limitation page. With original glassine jacket. In quarter blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and orange / white patterned paper-covered boards. All edges untrimmed. Near-fine with... More
Reaching for the Moon.
New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2005. SIGNED. Slim quarto, unpaginated. Publisher's pictorial boards and dust-jacket, blue endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wendell Minor. Signed by Buzz Aldrin to the title page. Slight shelf wear, near fine. More
A Kind of Anger.
London: Bodley Head, 1964. Inscribed First Edition, second printing. Octavo. pp.311. Bound in publisher's blue and red cloth, with titles in silver and gilt to front board and spine; green endpapers. Red dust wrapper, designed by Janet Halverson, with wheel of bullets and capsules, titles in white and black to... More
The James Bond Dossier
London: Jonathan Cape. 1965. FIRST EDITION. THE AUTHOR'S COPY, in a bespoke quarter leather binding of half red morocco, gilt, commissioned by the publisher for presentation to Amis. Obviously a unique copy, this was likely bound by Ian Fleming's own binder Arthur Last, the style matching closely the author's copies... More
The song of songs.
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1976. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto, unpaginated. Bound in white cloth blocked in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, housed in a black paper covered slipcase. Illustrated throughout. Number 29 of a limited edition of 206 copies, 165 being bound in cloth as with... More
Peter Blake.
London: Tate Gallery. 1983. Second Impression. Square octavo, pp. 136. Published to accompany the 1983 Peter Blake exhibition at the Tate, with signed "The Owl and the Pussycat" print in original envelope. Paper back with glossy black covers, Some creasing and rubbing to the covers, a very good copy. More
The Garden of the Night.
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1979. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto, unpaginated. Bound in dark blue quarter cloth blocked in gilt over blue textured paper boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, housed in a dark blue paper covered slipcase. Illustrated throughout. Number 10 of a limited edition of 235... More
Zohrab the Hostage. By the Author of Hajji Baba.
London, Richard Bentley. 1832. First Edition, INSCRIBED COPY. 3 volumes. 8vo. In contemporary red cloth with red leather labels to spine. Edgewear, rubbing and very light chipping to extremities. Cracking to head of spine on volume I, thin crack and shallow loss to spine volume III. Internally clean and bright... More
The Soldier's companion: containing instructions for the drill, manual, platoon, and rifle exercise, as commanded by His Majesty: intended for the use of the volunteers of this country. To which are prefixed a few observations on first forming a military corps. ornamented with figures of the various positions of a soldier under arms. Respectfully dedicated to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, Commander In Chief of the British Army.
Printed at the Minerva Press, for Lane, Newman, and Co., n.d. The Forty-Fifth Edition, With Amendments and Improvements. Published circa 1800; a Seventy-Third edition held at the BL has a suggested date of 1802. With MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL bound in, written by a Royal Marine NCO. Booklet, pp.[42], with three engraved... More
The Talking Horse and Other Stories.
London: Smith, Elder, and co., 1893. Presentation Copy, "New Edition". Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with panelling embossed in black to boards, titles to front board, and titles in gilt to spine. Binding is rubbed, with noticable fading to spine; somewhat shaken, linen visible in joint at p.1, and... More
Case Histories.
London: Doubleday, 2004. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 304. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket designed by Michelle Thompson. Signed by the author to the title page. Near fine. More
The Country Cousin.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. SIGNED First Edition. Octavo. pp. 239. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original dust jacket featuring a very light monochrome image of a man sitting at a desk next to closed blinds. Brown and red titles. Inscribed to recto of front... More
The Embezzler.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. SIGNED First Edition. Octavo. pp. 277. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge red. With original dust jacket in grey, featuring printed numbers and a graph. Titles in red and black to spine and front cover. Inscribed... More
Letters From Iceland.
London; Faber and Faber. 1937. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's bright green cloth titled in red, slightly darkened to spine. Minor edgewear and bumping. In a very good dustwrapper with minor edgewear and creasing, a trifle soiled to the rear panel. Signed by W.H. Auden to the front flyleaf. A lovely... More
Birds And Beasts In Africa, and The Angler In South Africa.
London: Macmillan and Co, and Johannesburg: Hortors Ltd, 1938 and 1923. Pair of Baden-Powell association copies, with a letter of authenticity from the scout association: 1) The Angler In South Africa. Inscribed "To The Chief Scout" by H.V. Marsh, the Assistant Commissioner of Natal during Baden-Powell's trip to South Africa... More
A Treatise on White Magic, or the Way of the Disciple.
New York, NY: Lucis Publishing Company, 1934. INSCRIBED, Second US Edition. Octavo, pp.xiv, 640 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front free endpaper. In publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Some light rubbing to joints and fore-edges; very good indeed. 'with... More
The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road.
London: Viking, 1991; 1993; 1995. SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. In three volumes. Demy Octavo. pp. 252; 280; 278. All three volumes signed by the author to title page in black ink. Vol.1 in publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine; vols. 2 and 3 publisher's black cloth with silver titles... More
Arthur and George.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[6]; 360; [2]. SIGNED by the Author on the title page. In publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the publisher's printed paper band to rear board, issued in place of a dust-wrapper. A.... More
Auld Licht Idylls (Cosway Style Binding) Edited by Viuola Meynell
London, Hodder and Stoughton 1888. FIRST EDITION. in Cosway-style binding, with autograph letter from the author tipped in. 8vo, 2pp ads. Exquisitely bound in full blue levant morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with Cosway style glazed miniature watercolour of author to doublure, cloth endpapers trimmed in gilt, covers elaborately tooled... More
British Olympic Association Official Report of the XVth Olympic Games, Helsinki, July 19 - August 3, 1952.
London: World Sports 1952. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 114. Bound in contemporary brown cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Inscribed by Olympic runner Harold Abrahams, who wrote the article on the athletics events and was one of the main characters in the film 'Chariots of Fire', and was married... More