"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
Signed & Inscribed
The Olympic Games Book. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh.
London: James Barrie, 1956. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED to David B. Evers, husband of opera singer Sybil Evers. Octavo, pp.223. The item includes some contemporary entries detailing the times and records of athletes. Bound in publisher's blue paper wraps, with red titles to spine and front. Olympic rings depicted at head... 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
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon-Jones with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1972. [Illustrated]. FINELY BOUND. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.xxvii; [blank]; 224. Twelve colour plates, numerous in-text illustrations. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in blue quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles and tooling to spine, top edge gilt. A handsome presentation of... 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
New Arrivals, Old Encounters.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. [Science Fiction]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted blue, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Bill Botten. Inscribed on the title page: "Brian Aldiss | for Roger | 24.X.81 | Folkestone". Fine. 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
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. 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. INSCRIBED First Edition. In three volumes. Octavo. INSCRIBED 'From the Author' to the title of Volume I. 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... 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
Conradin: A Philosophical Ballad.
Broad Campden: The Essex House Press, 1908. [Private press]. SIGNED COPY. Slim quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.26; [2]. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, black titles to upper, cream cloth spine. Number 136 of a limited edition of 250 copies. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To our dear Commodore | from his... 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
The Works. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1907-1909. First Edition thus, with colour illustrations fully revised by Charles Brock for this edition. Six volumes, octavos (20 x 13 x 16cm). Each volume with twenty four coloured illustrations. Bound in half scarlet calf by Riviere with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration... More
Three Plays: Joking Apart; Just Between Ourselves; Ten Times Table.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1979. Signed First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Dust wrapper's front cover shows three play titles under a proscenium arch in striking red and white, with titles to spine and with publisher's advertisements for further Ayckbourn plays to rear... 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