My Uncle Oswald.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Ex-libris embossed stamp to front free endpaper, else an excellent copy in like wise dust jacket. The post My Uncle Oswald....
View ArticleThe Enormous Crocodile.
Quarto. Original pictorial boards, spine lettered in black, front board lettered in red and black, green endpapers. Published without a dust jacket. Illustrated throughout the text in colour by Quentin...
View ArticleSomeone Like You.
Octavo. Original cream cloth, titles to spine and front board in black on purple ground, top edge purple, fore edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Spine a touch cocked, boards slightly splayed,...
View ArticleServices of Capt. the Hon. E. R. Fremantle, R.N.,
First and only edition, rare: Copac locates only one copy in British and Irish institutional libraries (Cambridge), OCLC adds no further copies worldwide. A familial presentation copy, inscribed on the...
View ArticleDrama in Malta.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front fre endpaper: "To Brigadier Edwards hoping that this may recall some memories, with best wishes from Koko...
View ArticleThe Stones of Venice.
Signed limited edition, one of 1,500 copies signed by the author at the end of the preface. Ruskin's magnum opus, one of the key texts of the aesthetic movement, was first published 1851–53. Ruskin's...
View ArticleBorn Free and Equal.
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy from the photographer, inscribed (on the verso of the front wrapper) to his longtime friend and fellow photographer: "For Beaumont Newhall, with...
View ArticleWhoroscope.
First edition, one of 300 copies (this copy unnumbered), of Beckett's first separately published work. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the limitation leaf: "for Dr. Philip Murray from...
View ArticleBy the Man Himself.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and front board lettered in white and orange, red top-stain, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. 8 photographic plates. Top-stain faded, boards a little rubbed at...
View ArticleBeau Brummell.
Royal quarto. Original red cloth-backed grey boards, pink paper label to front board, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt. In the original green card slipcase. With 2 illustrations by W. A. Dwiggins in...
View ArticleOscar and Lucinda.
First UK edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author "For Philip Murray, with my best wishes, Peter Carey, Sydney 22/8/88" on the title page. Oscar and Lucinda won the 1988 Booker Prize and the...
View ArticleThe Weather in Japan.
Octavo. Original white boards, spine lettereed in gilt, illustrated to front board in blue within recessed panel, green endpapers. With the printed glassine dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust...
View ArticleOn the Yankee Station.
First US edition, first printing, inscribed by the author "To Philip Murray, with all good wishes, William Boyd" on the title page. On The Yankee Station was originally published in the UK in 1981. Dr...
View ArticleThe Blue Afternoon.
Octavo. Original black boards, gilt-lettered spine, fleur-de-lys patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, a scattered light foxing to edges. A very good copy in the bright dust...
View ArticlePoems.
First edition, first impression, case-bound issue. Inscribed by the author "For Phil Murray, warmest regard, Michael Longley, Sligo 85" on the title page. Poems was also issued in paper wrappers. Dr...
View ArticleThe Master of the Moor.
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author "To Philip Murray - best wishes, Ruth Rendell" on the title page. Dr Philip Murray is a noted Irish bibliophile and author The Adventures of a...
View ArticleNight and Day.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Front free endpaper with American bookseller’s ink-stamp and small portion of offsetting from inked-out price on jacket...
View ArticleConversation in the Mountains.
First edition, number 51 of 400 copies signed by Banville on the limitation page, of which 350 were for sale. Conversation in the Mountains reproduces the text of Banville's radio play Todtnauberg, an...
View ArticleHawksmoor.
First edition, first impression, inscribed by Ackroyd "For P. Murray, from Peter Ackroyd, London: January 28, 1986" on the title page, with an additional signature by the author. The recipient was...
View ArticleLondon Lickpenny.
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author "Peter Ackroyd, London: November 25, 1990" on the title page. London Lickpenny was Ackroyd's second book. The post London Lickpenny. appeared...
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