Selected Poems.
First edition thus translated, with a typed letter signed from surrealist Marcel Jean (1990-1993) laid in. The letter, Paris 19 July 1969, thanks the recipient John Lyle, a bookseller, for sending him...
View ArticleMisfortunes of the Immortals.
First edition thus, presentation copy to Betty Parsons, limited edition of 610 copies (of which one of 110 copies were specially bound and signed by Ernst). This copy of the unsigned edition, which...
View ArticleFour Quartets.
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, black and white patterned paper, gilt edges. A fine copy. The post Four...
View Article25 Years of the Rolling Stones in the USA. Crossfire Hurricane.
Quarto. Original full white leather screenprinted in three colours with Mick Jagger on the front cover and Keith Richards on the back, titles to spine in black and white. Housed in a four colour...
View ArticleWyman Shoots Chagall.
Octavo. Original quarter blue leather with screenprinted canvas boards. Together with the CD and blue cloth slip case with titles screenprinted to the cover in yellow. With the original packing box....
View ArticleWood on Canvas. Every Picture Tells a Story.
Octavo. Original quarter black leather with blue art paper covered boards, titles to spine in silver, titles to front cover on printed label. Together with the CD and black leather slip case with...
View ArticleRolling Stones Masons Yard to Primrose Hill 1965 – 1967.
Quarto. Original black silkscreened boards with black morocco spine, titles to spine blindatamped. Housed in a two colour screenprinted slipcase. With the original packing box. Photographs by Gered...
View ArticleI Con.tact. Rolling Stone Archive.
Oblong Quarto. Original full black leather, titles and illustration to front cover silkscreened in silver and white, titles to spine in white. A silkscreened metal magnifying glass in a plastic wallet....
View ArticleThe Story of a Ship-Wrecked Sailor.
First UK edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Gabriel, '85." First published in the US earlier the same year, and originally published in Barcelona under the title...
View ArticleThe French Lieutenant’s Woman.
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the half-title. From the library of Irish book collector Dr Philip Murray, author of The Adventures of a Book Collector (2011). The post The...
View ArticleWakefulness.
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed by the author to the painter R. B. Kitaj on the title page, "For Kitaj with love John June 24, '98". Ashbery has written on Kitaj's work, and...
View Article[Complete set of the signed limited edition Pooh books:] When We Were Very...
4 volumes, quarto. Original red, blue, orange, and light blue buckram-backed paper boards, printed labels to front covers. With the dust jackets. Housed in a custom solander box with four separate...
View ArticleTales From Ovid.
First edition, signed limited issue. Number 28 of a limited edition of 300 numbered copies signed by the author and specially bound by Smith Settle. It won the Whitbread Award in 1997. The post Tales...
View ArticleFrench Country Cooking.
Signed limited edition, second impression (the same year as the first). Number 10 of 50 copies, signed by the author on the title page. The author's landmark second book, first published in 1951, was...
View ArticleThe BFG.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To all Briggs children, with love Roald Dahl. Sept 1982." Their father, Michael Briggs, operated...
View ArticleAntheil and the Treatise of Harmony.
First edition, first printing, Brunnenburg castle copy, one of 360 unnumbered copies from a total edition of 400. This copy has the blind stamp "Brunnenburg, Tirolo (Merano), Italia". Brunnenburg...
View ArticleThe Exile: no. 1 – 4.
First editions, all published, with the scarce first number in the first issue, in exquisite condition, and uncut. This is a compelling association set; the fourth number has the blind stamp...
View ArticleGeneral Instructions and Local Regulations for the Squadron and Naval...
An extremely rare station order book printed a few months before the onset of the Boxer Rebellion, untraced in libraries and secondary literature. From the library of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, not...
View ArticleThe Works.
28 volumes, octavo. Original quarter brown buckram spines over blue paper boards, white printed spine labels, author’s monogram blocked to front boards, patterned endpapers, deckled edges. With the...
View ArticleMagpies in Picardy.
First edition, first impression, in the very scarce dust jacket designed by Claude Lovat Fraser. This copy has laid in a note inscribed by Wilson's bereaved parents in pencil, "Rev: J. F. A. Wicksteed...
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