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Catalogue 47 - Winter 2016
A range of highlights in all fields.
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The Book Of Bond, Or Every Man His Own 007 (Writing as Bill Tanner)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 14cm). Publisher's black cloth, gilt endpapers. Illustrated throughout. With Raymond Hawkey-designed 'reversible' book-jacket for work in the field; the pictorial dust-wrapper can be rapidly disguised as a bible. A near fine copy in similar jacket. An unusual piece of Bondiana... 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 James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY IN RARE JACKET. Publisher's paper covers, with pictorial proof dust-wrapper, based on the familiar 'trompe l'oeil' designs which decorated the Ian Fleming first editions. Very bright jacket with inevitable wear to the unsupported oversize area, otherwise a fine copy, housed in a custom-made... More
Cyder. A Poem in Two Books
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1708. FIRST EDITION. Small, slim octavo pp. 89. Later half brown calf, cloth sides, gilt titles to spine. Engraved frontispiece showing and orchard and workers, woodcut head-pieces and capitals. Light rubbing to extremeties, two holes neatly repaired to title page where a previous owner's name... More
Extracts from Regimental Orders, for the Use of the First Battalion Grenadier Guards.
[Private Compilation]. n.d. [c.1878]. ORIGINAL HANDBOOK, printed material interleaved with MS notes. Octavo, pp.36, xcv. With approximately half the booklet consisting of blank unpaginated leaves. Printed material interleaved with MS notes in black and red ink, paginated by hand in Roman numerals. Some annotations to printed leaves. Folding poster 'Arrangement..... More
Another Beatles Christmas Show.
[London]: NEMS Publications, 1964-1965. Quarto. In soft paper covers, with cover illustrations by Lennon, showing various figures exchanging yuletide holly branches. Cover slightly foxed to edges and spine, only intrusive to rear cover. Internally clean. Programme for the second Beatles Christmas show, running 24th December 1964 until 16th January 1965... More
Notes From the New Underground.
Viking Press, New York 1968. FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE COPY. An anthology; contributors include Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. Publisher's cloth in glossy dust jacket. A very good copy (some minor chipping to wrapper), with review slip loosely inserted. Includescv lengthy interviews with both George Harrison and Paul McCartney, just two... More
In His Own Write and A Spaniard In the Works. With an Introduction by Paul McCartney.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION. Illustrated by Lennon in his own amusing and unique style. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.157. Grey cloth boards in glossy price-clipped dustjacket. Two small marks to flyleaf (offset to pastedown), one short tear to jacket at crown otherwise fine. The first time the... More
Shout. The True Story of The Beatles.
London, Hamish Hamilton / Elm Tree Books 1981. FIRST EDITION, with photographic plates. Red cloth in glossy dust jacket featuring the Robert Freeman 'With The Beatles' LP photograph. Slightly bumped, wrapper sunned to spine else a near fine copy Sunday Times Correspondent Philip Norman's Shout was a ground-breaking biography of... 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
Chuck Berry the Autobiography.
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. [Rock and Roll]. SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 346. Publisher's black quarter cloth over grey paper covered boards, red metallic titles to spine, red endpapers, photographic dust-jacket. Signed to the half-title page. A couple of very faint thumb marks to edges... More
Man's Estate: Adventures in Economic Discovery.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.480. With notes and an index. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original cream dust-jacket with red titles to spine and covers. Top edge red. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Some minor chips and... More
Bob Marley: Rebel Music and Roots Reggae. Compiled by Ross Halfin
England: Genesis Publications, 2004. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION, no.12 of 350 copies SIGNED by photographer Kate Simon and guitarist Eric Clapton, who recorded Marley's song 'I Shot the Sheriff'. Folio volume, original full brown leather, blocked in colours, all edges yellow, printed on five different paper stocks, one of which is... More
How 007 Got His Name.
London: Collins, 1966. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.62, with two photographic illustrations comprising a frontispiece portrait of the subject and Ian Fleming's only meeting with James Bond. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by Barbosa, after Richard Chopping's designs for the jackets of the original 007 novels. A.... More
David Bowie - The Jean Genie.
(Brighton): Self-published, 2006. SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson's 'Collector's Series'; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition. The Jean Genie comprises six silver gelatine prints and one colour digital print of David... More
Sindh, and the Races That Inhabit the Valley of the Indus.
London: William H. Allen and Co., 1851. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vii; 422. With fold-out frontispiece map on pale blue paper as issued. In an exquisite later binding of half polished calf with full gilt back over marbled sides, edges untrimmed. Some expected toning to paper and uncut edges, light and... More
The Crime Collection. The Works include: Murder on the Orient Express, Evil Under the Sun, Death on the Nile, etc.
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969. 24 volumes. Octavo (21 x 86 cm). Elegantly bound in half dark blue calf with raised bands, cloth boards, gilt decoration to spine. Internally clean, externally fine. The only major collection of Christie's novels to date, presented in an attractive recent leather binding. Known originally as... More
24 Nights / Twenty Four Nights. The Music of Eric Clapton. The Drawings of Peter Blake.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1991. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by Eric Clapton and Peter Blake. Slim Quarto. Colour plates and illustrations. Book and scrapbook, with additional material. Original green morocco boards, gilt edges, together with a laminated stage pass, guitar picks, and a pack of guitar strings, plus limited double CD '24... More
Promotional photograph, SIGNED by the recording artist.
[1989]. Black and white portrait of the guitarist, boldly SIGNED across image in marker pen (dated '89), with printed details below. Approx. dimensions 5 x 4 inches, in professional window mount, ready for framing. From the collection of Alphi O'Leary, Eric Clapton's head of security 1973-1996. East-end bruiser Alphi O'Leary... More
Promotional photograph, SIGNED by the recording artist.
[1999]. Black and white portrait of the guitarist by Norman Watson, boldly SIGNED by Claptaon in silver marker pen (dated '99), with printed details below. Approx. dimensions 5 x 4 inches, in professional window mount, ready for framing. From the collection of Alphi O'Leary, Eric Clapton's head of security 1973-1996... More
The Moonstone.
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1868. FIRST U.S. EDITION, being the FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, also first single volume edition. Published the same year as the UK triple-decker. Publisher's blind-stamped vertical-ribbed lilac cloth, with decorative gilt titles to spine, peach-coloured coated endpapers. Bookplate of Oelrichs to pastedown, bumped to upper... More
Le Ballon Fantome.
Tours: Maison Alfred Mame, n.d. [1909]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.142; [2]. French language. With frequent in-text wood engravings and full-page lithographic plates by Robida. In publisher's colour-illustrated grey cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and upper board, with further gilt decoration. All edges gilt and light blue endpapers. Light... More
I Shot The Sheriff. Original Photographs.
Brighton: [Self-published], 2006. SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson's 'Collector's Series'; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or De Luxe (best) edition. 'I Shot The Sheriff' comprises seven silver gelatine prints of Bob Marley arriving, backstage... More
Son of a Box of Punks. Original Photographs.
Brighton: [Self-published], 2006. SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson's 'Collector's Series'; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or De Luxe (best) edition. 'Son of a Box of Punks' comprises seven silver gelatine prints of punk and... More
20th Century Boy. Original Photographs of Marc Bolan
Brighton: [Self-published], 2006. SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson's 'Collector's Series'; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition. '20th Century Boy' comprises six silver gelatine prints and one colour digital print of Glam-Rock... More