Signed & Inscribed
Poems.
London: The Faun Press, 1950. INSCRIBED. Small octavo, pp.[2] 25 [1]. One of just 250 copies. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to the recto of the first leaf: 'To Chloe, remembering in / friendliness and gratitude / many occasions, and the / once that told us that /...
Mostly Harmless.
London: Heinemann, 1992. [Modern literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 217; [32]. Publisher's grey cloth, titles in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of £12.99. Signed by the author to the title page. Lightly toned to edges, small water stain to the cloth at the...
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...
The White Tiger.
London: Atlantic Books, 2008. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[6] 321 [1]. Signed by the author to the title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, red endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £12.99. A fine copy.
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...
Contes.
no place no date [circa 1960]. [Inscribed illustrations] TWO SIGNED PUBLISHER'S PROOF PLATES. One page of text and two publisher's proof plates mounted, framed and glazed. Both plates warmly inscribed and signed by Alexeieff to Max Begg. Overall size (71 x 41cm). Fine.
Alentejo Blue.
London: Doubleday, 2006. [Modern fiction]. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm). Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles, without dust-jacket as issued, blue cloth slipcase with gilt titles. Still in the original shrink wrap with "Signed by the Author at Waterstone's" label. Some tears and loss to the shrink wrap. Fine.
The Care of Time.
New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. [Spy Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 277 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'With best wishes from | an ever-grateful patient | Eric Ambler | London 14 May 82'. Publisher's purple quarter cloth...
The Mask Of Dimitrios.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone novel. Octavo, pp.320. Publisher's cloth, lightly worn with a few small marks, spine sunned. A very good copy. With an important presentation note to the title-page; Roy Baker / from Eric Ambler / 16 August 46...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mixed moments.
London: David Bailey/Olympus Optical Co., 1976. [Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Folio (30x21cm), pp.142. With 160 images, being human studies, portraits and nudes. Hardcover in jacket. Photographer's pencilled autograph to flyleaf. A little bumping, top of spine slightly bumped and soiled, minor wear. Near fine.
Arthur and George.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 360; [2]. Signature of Julian Barnes to the title page. In publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the original printed paper band to rear board, issued in place of...
Time Exposure.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1946. INSCRIBED COPY. Second edition. Octavo, pp. viii, 136. A collection of photographs produced between 1923 and 1945. Association copy, inscribed by Beaton to actress Harriette Johns, who had starred in Alexander Korda's 1947 movie 'An Ideal Husband' for which beaton designed the costumes. Red...
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Dramatische Dichtungen in drei Sprachen [Collection of plays including 'Waiting For Godot'].
Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1981. [Drama] FIRST EDITION THUS, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (21 x 14cm), unpaginated. Publisher's full blue leather covers with gilt titles and rules to spine, grey endpapers. Autographed by Beckett in blue ink to flyleaf. A very fine copy. 100 copies only. A collection of Beckett's dramatic...
Whoroscope.
Paris: The Hours Press, 1930. FIRST EDITION of the author's first separately published work, EX LIBRIS DENNIS HEALEY. pp.[ii]; 4; [2], notes. Number 37 of 100 copies SIGNED by the author. Original russet-coloured printed card covers with wraparound paper band, announcing the young author as prize-winner of a contest sponsored...
David Beckham: My World.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. [Football] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[2]; 224. A large collection of colour and black and white photographs by Dean Freeman, with accompanying text by Beckham (assisted by Cripps and Dickinson). Number 604 of 1500 copies Signed in black ink to limitation...
Die Another Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm). The novelisation of the James Bond movie. Publisher's hardcovers, autographed to the dust-wrapper in silver marker. The signature was obtained privately by us- the author did not appear in the UK to promote this, his...
The World is Not Enough.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. FIRST EDITION. The novelisation of the Bond movie. SIGNED by the author to the title page. The signature was obtained during one of the author's many book launch events held at our shop. Hardcover in photographic dust-wrapper. Absolutely fine throughout, being carefully dark stored by...
The World is Not Enough.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. FIRST EDITION. The novelisation of the Bond movie. SIGNED by the author to the title page and. The signature was obtained during one of the author's many book launch events held at our shop and was subsequently SIGNED by actress Dame Judi Dench who played...