Baby Epciure.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front in yellow. With the dust jacket. Cloth unevenly faded, light rubbing to ends and corners, endpapers a little mottled but all else sound and clean....
View ArticleDer Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts.
First published in 1930. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "A. Rosenberg". Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) was an influential Nazi idealogue. His book, espousing "historical" racial...
View ArticleIcaro.
First edition in English, US issue, first printing, presentation copy from the translator Ruth Draper, inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Walter Oakley, with the regards of Ruth Draper. October...
View ArticleParadise Regained.
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to John Julius Norwich on the front free endpaper, "John Julius & Mollie, from Steven, 1992, A single cracker for Christmas". John Julius...
View ArticleDeath Of A Salesman.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in brown, pictorial design to front board in brown, pictorial endpapers, top edge black. With the dust jacket. Spine very slightly rolled, a hint of fading...
View ArticleThe Audacity of Hope.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, light brown endpapers. With the dust jacket. Lightly bumped at spine-ends, very faint markings to top and fore edges, rear board very slightly...
View ArticleA Fable.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, white lettered in white and silver, repeating cruciform decoration to front cover in white and blue, top edge blue, fore edge untrimmed, blue endpapers. Housed in the...
View ArticleThe Unknown War
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy of the final volume of The World Crisis, with "To Elbert A. Wickes, Inscribed by Winston Churchill, March 1932" to the front free endpaper. Wickes was...
View ArticleGift from the Sea
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Helen and Hanson Baldwin from Anne Lindbergh - March 1955", and additionally...
View ArticleNearest the Pole.
First edition, inscribed by Peary on the title page "yours sincerely, R. E. Peary, U.S.N." Also includes, tipped in to front free endpaper, a typed letter signed (dated 14 May 1907) by Peary, and...
View ArticleFrench Replies to Haig.
First edition, first impression, scarce in the dust jacket. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed from the author, presenting the book: "Edgar, with every good wish, from Gerald. March 27th...
View Article“Gas!” The Story of the Special Brigade.
First edition, first impression, uncommon in the dust jacket. From the library of Captain W. H. Livens, with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper; tipped-in to the verso of the front...
View ArticleA Dish of Apples.
Small quarto. Original cream buckram boards, titles to spine and front board gilt, pictorial image to front board blocked in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Colour...
View ArticleTales From Shakespeare.
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original mauve ribbon ties. Colour frontispiece and 12 tipped in colour plates,...
View ArticleImagina.
Quarto. original blue cloth, titles to front board and spine blue, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and colour plate by Rackham, illustrations in text by Lauren Ford....
View ArticlePeer Gynt.
Quarto. Original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In the original publisher’s card slipcase. Tipped-in colour...
View ArticleThe Norman Conquests.
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author "To Dr Murray, with all good wishes, Alan Ayckbourn, Scarborough March '84" on the front free endpaper. The recipient was Irish bibliophile Dr...
View ArticleBilly Liar on the Moon.
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author "To Philip Murray, with best wishes, Keith Waterhouse" on the title page, and signed by him upside-down on the rear free endpaper. Dr Philip...
View ArticleThis Sporting Life.
Presentation copy of the second impression, the same year as the first, inscribed "For Jim, from David Storey, 1960" on the front free endpaper. This Sporting Life, Storey's first novel, won the 1960...
View ArticleIs a Ship Burning?
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy of the author's second novel, inscribed "For my mother, with gratitude and love, Richard Sale, Sept. 1937" on the title page. Uncommon, with only ten...
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