Waterland.
First edition, first impression. This copy is inscribed by the author: "To Mike (Graham Swift's signature)". The book label reading: "Ex Libris Hardy Amies" denotes that this copy once belonged to the...
View ArticleFar East.
Octavo. Original orange cloth lettered in yellow, top edge stained red. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece after a painting by the author, 44 black and white photographs on plate paper, 14...
View ArticleThe BFG.
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author and illustrator on the front free endpaper, dated 1982, the year of publication. Though unmarked as such, it is from the library of Dahl's literary...
View ArticleExposition de la théorie des chances et des probabilités.
First edition. This is a significant association copy, with the ownership inscription of the logician and philosopher John Venn (1834–1923), the inventor of the eponymous diagram, on the title page:...
View ArticleThe Importance of Being Earnest.
First edition, signed limited issue, number 87 of 100 large paper copies signed by the author. This copy is from the library of Wilde's Swedish translator, Michael Gripenberg, with his bookplate to the...
View ArticleSummoned By Bells.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title by the author, "To Vincent Harris, from John Betjeman in gratitude for a Hyhgate [sic] evening on June 14 1961. Chapter I...
View ArticleLights out for the Territory.
First edition, first impression, number 137 of 250 specially bound copies, signed by the author and photographer. Walking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of...
View ArticleSlow Chocolate Autopsy.
First edition, first impression, number 154 of 200 specially bound copies, signed by the author and illustrator. Norton, the hero, travels through London's underbelly trapped in space but not in time....
View ArticleThe Day of the Tortoise.
Octavo. Original green boards. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Peter Farmer. Spine a little rolled, endpapers and edges foxed; an excellent, bright copy in the jacket with toned spine and some...
View ArticleA Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in a lightly toned jacket. The post A Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth. appeared first...
View ArticleThe Vicar of Wakefield.
Quarto. Publisher’s original vellum boards, gilt title to spine and front board, triple rule to front board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour...
View ArticlePart of My Life.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Spine a little rolled. A very good copy in a jacket with a few small chips and light toning to spine panel. The post Part...
View Article“Your semester grade was A+”
Autograph post card from W. H. Auden to Donald Pearce, as professor to student in the English class of the University of Michigan, reading "English 135. Your semester grade was A+. Thank you very much....
View ArticleMenu and signed postcard from Jack Dempsey’s International Restaurant.
A attractive pair of items from Dempsey's famous New York eatery, the card inscribed"For Dorothy, Thanks and good luck from Jack Dempsey"; "After retirement from the ring, he made his headquarters in...
View ArticleLanguage and Silence.
First edition, first impression, of the author's collected essays on language and politics. Laid in are three typed letter signed from George Steiner to Roger Ian Sharrock, then professor of English at...
View ArticleThe Opportunity in Life Underwriting.
First edition, first printing. With a typed compliments note on Beneficial Life Insurance letterhead signed by Heber J. Grant tipped-in on the front free endpaper. The post The Opportunity in Life...
View ArticleThe Arabella and Araminta Stories.
First edition, limited edition large paper copy, one of 15 copies only printed on Royal Japanese paper, containing original extra illustrations on the endpapers by Ethel Reed, in a large-paper folio...
View ArticleJournal of a Cavalry Officer;
First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to his son; "William Wellesley Humbley with the best love of his father, The Author, Cressener House, St. Neots, Jany. 10 1882". Extremely uncommon,...
View ArticleJohn Maynard Keynes. Hopes Betrayed 1883–1920; The Economist as Saviour...
3 volumes, octavo. Original orange and black cloth, spines lettered gilt or white. With the dust jackets. 16 photographic plates in each volume, portrait frontispiece in Volume 3. A couple of small...
View ArticleA small archive of Christmas greetings cards and other correspondence.
An attractive collection of correspondence from the Swiss-born American writer and illustrator Roger Duvoisin (1900–1980) and his wife Louise (Loulou) Fatio to their friends, Helen and Max. Roger...
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