The Menace from Earth.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to front board in yellow, to spine in silver and yellow, yellow endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Leaves toned, jacket with two tiny nicks to top edge,...
View ArticleR is for Rocket [with] S is for Space.
Limited editions, both titles one of 500 numbered trade hardcovers (291 and 406 respectively) from a total edition of 800, each copy additionally signed by Bradbury on the title page, and S is for...
View ArticleInterplanetary Flight. An Introduction to Astronautics.
First edition, first impression, presentation copy of Clarke's first book inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Frank Richards, with best wishes, Arthur C. Clarke, Oct '51". Very scarce signed and...
View ArticleThe Transformation of Lucius, otherwise known as The Golden Ass.
Octavo. Original japon-backed marbled boards, titles to spine gilt, grey endpapers, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in the publisher’s white card slipcase. An excellent copy with the jacket...
View ArticleOmar Repentant.
First edition, first printing, number 89 of 100 copies on Japan Vellum signed by Le Gallienne, and with an additional quatrain not appearing in the trade edition. Le Gallienne had published a...
View ArticleHockney’s Alphabet.
Folio. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in blue and gilt, housed in a grey cloth slipcase. 26 colour drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet by David Hockney. Written contributions by;...
View ArticleGroupies and Other Electric Ladies.
Quarto. Original photographic paper boards, titles to front board and spine gilt and white, black endpapers. With the photographic dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Just a hint of...
View ArticleProfiles in Courage.
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Patty Cavin, with very best regards, John Kennedy". Patty Cavin was a pioneering woman...
View ArticleThe Basketball Diaries Age 12–15.
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, title to spine white, and front cover silver, blue endpapers. A little rubbing to extremities, small mark to top edge of text block. An excellent copy. The post The...
View ArticleThe Sheltering Sky.
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Paul Bowles. Tangier, April 1985." American-born Bowles moved to Tangier in 1947, where he lived until his death in 1999....
View ArticleThe Executioner’s Song.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in silver and copper, yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket. Edges of covers a little faded; an excellent copy in the jacket with short closed tear to head...
View ArticleDiego Rivera. His Life and Times.
First edition. This copy inscribed on the half-title, in translation; "With my very kindest remembrances, Diego Rivera, Nov. 28 1942". The recipient was Bernard "Barney" Collins, a New Mexico-born...
View ArticleShip of Fools.
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine and author’s name to front board in red, dark red patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket with extremely minor rubbing...
View ArticleThe Hawk in the Rain.
First US edition, first printing, presentation copy of Hughes's first book inscribed to the poet and actress Isabella Gardner on the title page, "To Isabella Gardner with good wishes Ted Hughes."...
View ArticleThe Complete Poetry
Octavo. Original tan morocco, titles gilt to spine, top edge gilt. Woodcuts in the text. Spine sunned, extremities rubbed, sound and internally fresh, very good condition. The post The Complete Poetry...
View ArticleLiber Amoris or The New Pygmalion.
E. M. Forster's copy, inscribed to him on the front free endpaper "Morgan Forster, from Christopher Morris, May 1962 with affection and esteem", with the "This book belongs to E. M. Forster". Morris...
View ArticleAttractive inscribed photographic portrait on textured paper by Howard Coster.
Signed by Shaw at the top of the image and by Coster (in pencil) on the mount; additionally inscribed by Shaw on the mount: "To Mary Lawton, G. Bernard Shaw, 13/11/36". An excellent association: Shaw...
View ArticleTyped letter signed concerning the Hollywood film The Beginning or the End...
The great Italian-born physicist gives permission for his depiction in the 1947 MGM docudrama The Beginning or the End: "Gentlemen: In connection with the motion picture you are about to produce...
View ArticleVoyage dans les États-Unis d’Amérique,
First edition. Presentation copy of this important account of travels in the United States and Canada during the last decade of the 18th century inscribed by the author's son, François XIII, duc de La...
View ArticleA. J. Munnings, R.A.
Quarto. Original vellum over bevelled boards, gilt lettered spine and front cover, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Colour frontispiece, 27 mounted colour plates (with captioned...
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