A Nest of Ninnies.
Limited edition of 26 copies signed and lettered by the authors. This copy is lettered "D"; there were also 2,474 unsigned copies. A Nest of Ninnies was originally published in 1969. The post A Nest of...
View ArticleFantastic Mr. Fox.
Octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt title to spine in dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Mild bumping to front cover in the dust jacket with sunning to spine, light wear to extremities. A...
View ArticleCeltic Fairy Tales.
First and limited edition. Number 98 of 125 numbered large paper copies signed by the publisher and printed on Japanese vellum. Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916), historian and folklorist, produced a number of...
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37 numbers in 32 issues + several supplements, various formats, original wrappers, many pictorial. Housed in a black flat back cloth box with the title stamped in blind down the spine. Copiously...
View ArticleThe Principles of Scientific Management.
First trade edition in a presentation binding with the name of Olaf Nelson gilt stamped to front board. The style of binding and manner of gilt-stamping the name to front board is identical to other...
View ArticleBright November.
First edition, first-issue binding. A significant presentation copy of the author's first published book, inscribed by him to "David Williams, sincere good wishes from Kingsley Amis, December 1947" on...
View ArticleThe Glass Cell.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Slight spotting to edges of text block. An excellent copy in a price-clipped...
View ArticleThe Seven Secrets.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt and to front board gilt on white ground. Front free endpaper detached, half-title lacking. Extremities rubbed, board corners lightly bumped, rear inner...
View Article[The first six Mark Treasure novels:]
First editions, first impressions, apart from Treasure Preserved, which is a first US edition, first printing. Presentation copies inscribed by the author to a close friend and his wife. The...
View ArticleBeet Queen.
First edition, first printing. A major literary association copy bearing the author's signed presentation inscription to the half title page, "To Peter Matthiessen. Admiration, good thoughts, good road...
View ArticleShe Died Because…
First edition, first impression of Hopkins' second mystery novel With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Alas, Nicholas Blake knows my methods, I can hardly hope...
View ArticleThe Strange Will.
First edition, first impression. With both authors' signed joint presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To Countess de Valance de la Barre from the authors Hazel Goodwin Keeler and Harry...
View ArticleThe Steeltown Strangler.
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine in yellow. With the pictorial dust jacket. Endpapers a little tanned, bookshop rubber stamp to front pastedown but an exceptional copy in the slightly...
View ArticleThe Constitution of Liberty.
First US edition of Hayek's "positive statement of the principles of free society that in scope and breadth is more like a new Wealth of Nations" (dust jacket blurb), published on the hundredth...
View ArticleThe Book of Los.
First facsimile edition, number 98 of 538 copies printed on Arches pure rag paper, made to match the paper used by Blake. Blake scholar Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), the brother of John Maynard,...
View Article[Handsomely bound set of inscribed copies.]
Inscribed by the author to "Joseph Guedalla, in remembrance of a great service. With sincere regards, Frances Hodgson Burnett, August /88" on the initial blank of the first volume, and similarly...
View ArticleHowards End.
First edition, first impression, first issue. Maurice Baring's copy, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, and his engraved bookplate to the front pastedown. One of 2,500 copies...
View ArticleA Suitable Boy.
First edition, signed extra-limited issue, letter "Q" of 26 copies signed and inscribed by the author with a unique holograph quotation from the book. There were also 100 quarter-bound copies, numbered...
View ArticleDead Cert.
Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, edges tanned and lightly spotted, contents toned. A very good copy in the toned dust jacket with a few...
View ArticleJenks: A Passion for Motor Sport.
First edition, this a copy of the special BRDC edition, signed on the front free endpaper by the president, Lord Hesketh. Selection from Jenks's more than 40 years of contributions to Motor Sport. "His...
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