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— Oscar Wilde
Signed & Inscribed
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
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. More
Lyrebird.
London: HarperCollins, 2016. [Romance] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.416; [2]. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Heike Schussler. Signed by the author to the title-page. Signed sticker to dust-wrapper. Fine. A young woman with a remarkable talent for mimicry is..... 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..... 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 Anti-Death League. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz, [1966] 1972. [Modern Literature] SIGNED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.352. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at £2.75. One of an unspecified small number of the second printings issued on behalf of the New Fiction Society..... More
Andersen's Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London, George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. [Fairy tales] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED deluxe issue. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.288. With twelve full-page coloured plates with tissue guards and many full page and in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's gilt-stamped parchment over boards, top edge gilt, others..... 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
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
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
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. More
The Jennings Companion.
Chichester: Summersdale Publishers, 1995. [Literary Companion] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.187 [5]. With occasional in-text illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'to Graham | with my best wishes | D. Bathurst | October 1995.' Also with the original yellow prospectus for the..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
Years of Hope: Diaries, Letters and Papers 1940-1962.
London: Hutchinson, 1994. [Politics] INSCRIBED COPY, third impression. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 442 [6]. With a suite of four double-sided black and white plates. INSCRIBED by Benn in red ink to title page: 'For Lys + James | in unity | Tony Benn.' Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles..... More
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..... More
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..... More
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945.
London: Faber and Faber, 2007. [Theatre] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.viii; 435; [5]. With a suite of four double-sided colour photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: "For Edward | Best Wishes | Michael Billington | 19th November 2007". Publisher's orange cloth..... More
The Debt We Owe: The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund 1919-1989.
Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 1989. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8], 216. With a colour frontispiece portrait of Viscount Trenchard, and 12 double-sided black and white plates. INSCRIBED by the author to Guy Huntrods, a prominent Tunbridge Wells based veteran, for his 75th birthday, in bright blue ink to title page. Also..... More
The Romance of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
London: Raphael Tuck and Sons, 1933. [Architecture]. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.78 [2]. With 12 photogravure illustrations and a chromolithographic frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front free endpaper: 'F. M. Bridge / from / H. W. Blackburne. / august 1933.' Publisher's blue cloth..... More
Peter Blake.
London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1983. [Exhibition Catalogue] INSCRIBED COPY, First edition, second impression. Octavo (21 x 21cm), pp.136. Illustrated in colour and black and white. INSCRIBED by the artist in black ink to half-title: 'For Edward | Peter Blake.' Publisher's black soft covers. Corners lightly bumped; very light wear to..... More