Autographs & Signed Books (all items)
First editions, rare books and manuscripts, including autograph letters, association copies, signed books, inscribed books, books with letters, original manuscripts, and signed limited editions.
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ANDERSEN, Hans Christian.
To Be or Not to Be? 1857
£4,750
First edition in English (the Danish version had been published in Copenhagen earlier that year). With the author's signed presentation inscription in Danish on the front free...
Octavo. Original purple cloth, boards blocked in blind, titles and decoration to spine gilt, yellow-coated endpapers. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Housed in a... Read more
ANDERSON, Maxwell.
Key Largo. A Play in a Prologue and Two Acts. 1939
£625
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in red, pictorial endpapers, grey top-stain. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly... Read more
ANDERSON, Rachel, et al.
Muck and Magic. Stories from the Countryside. 1995
£300
Limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed on the half title page by 18 of the authors and illustrators, published to raise funds for farms for city children.
Octavo. Publisher's green cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, pictorial paper label to centre of front cover, pictorial endpapers. Complete with glassine dust... Read more
ANSEN, Alan.
Contact Highs. Selected Poems 1957–1987. 1989
£150
First edition, first printing, paperback issue. From the library of Alan Ansen, with his handwritten corrections to the front free endpaper.
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black with an illustration from a photo. Wrappers lightly rubbed and a little toned along the edges, edges to contents a... Read more
ANSEN, Alan.
The Old Religion. 1959
£125
First edition, first impression of the author's first book. One of a limited edition of 300 copies. With an inscription by the author on the cover recording the address of the poet...
Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. Wrappers rubbed and marked and, along with the contents, a little warped, mark to limitation leaf. A good copy. Read more
APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume.
The Poet Assassinated. 1923
£575
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 1250 numbered copies, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, "To my friends Katharine and Charles Sheeler,...
Octavo. Original white cloth backed blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Boards rubbed and tanned at spine and edges,... Read more
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(ARABIAN LITERATURE) MORIER, Sir James Justinian.
[Oriental romances; a collection of his fictional works in first edition.] 1824–47
£9,750
First editions of all nine works, including four presentation copies from the author, most inscribed "From the Author" at the head of title, but the sixth inscribed to Sir Robert...
9 works in 24 volumes. Bound in handsome uniform mottled calf by Rivière & Son, boards with small Greek key border in gilt, spines gilt in compartments with red... Read more
(ARCADIA PRESS) Masters, John.
Casanova. 1970
£250
Signed Limited Edition of 265 numbered copies of which this is number 224, signed by the author.
Quarto. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full purple morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, pictorial onlay to front board of the Jack of Hearts, inner dentelles... Read more
ARCHER, Leonard C.
Black Images in the American Theatre. 1973
£120
First edition. Inscribed by Archer, "To Lena Horne with deep appreciation for your personal principles which added pages to Black Images in the American Theatre, sincerely Leonard C....
Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. 18 pages of illustrations. Light toning, else very good in slightly rubbed and spotted... Read more
ARMITAGE, Merle.
Post-Caviar. Barnstorming with Russian Grand Opera. 1939
£475
First edition, first printing. Inscribed and with an autograph letter signed by the author. This copy was originally in the library of typographer and graphic designer Will Ransom....
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in red, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the... Read more
ARMSTRONG, Louis.
Ma Vie. Ma Nouvelle Orléans. 1952
£1,750
First edition, not published in English until 1954 when Prentice-Hall issued it under the title Satchmo. My Life in New Orleans. This copy rather ramblngly inscribed on the...
Octavo. Original pictorial wraps. Wraps a little rubbed, a few minor scuffs to the spine, text browned, but overall very good. Read more
(ARMSTRONG, Louis) PERSSON, Jan.
Louis Armstrong, Stockholm, 1962. [c.2005]
£1,250
Satchmo unfolds his trademark handkerchief. A lovely character study by leading Danish concert photographer Jan Persson. Armstrong toured Europe in 1962 with a band that featured...
Large ( 505 × 405 mm) exhibition print from the negative, image bled off, titled and signed in pencil by Persson verso. Studio label. Very good. Read more
ARNOLD, Eve; Jill Freedman; Ernst Haas; André Kertész; Duane Michals; Inge Morath; Barbara Morgan; Eva Rubinstein; Nea
Ten Photographers. 1978
£5,000
First Edition. Limited to 75 copies. Each photograph signed and numbered below the image by the artist.
Folio. Clamshell portfolio bound in fawn linen, titles to spine and upper board in grey. 10 individually matted original silver prints, each signed and numbered by the... Read more
ASHBERY, John.
Rivers and Mountains. 1966
£375
First edition, first impression, hardback issue. From the library of Alan Ansen, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Alan Ansen, 'We are nearing the Moorish...
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in black, yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket. Lower edges a little rubbed. An excellent copy in the rubbed and marked... Read more
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ASIMOV, Isaac.
[The Foundation trilogy:] 1951–53
£3,750
First editions, first printings. Volume I in binding variant A (cloth) with correct page dimensions, and the first state dust jacket with rear panel advertising three titles. Volume...
3 volumes, octavo. Original blue, red cloth and turquoise cloth, titles to spines in pink, black, and brown, galaxy designs to upper boards of volumes I and II. With... Read more
(ASQUITH, Herbert Henry) SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles.
Poems and Ballads. 1900
£500
A new edition, originally published in 1866. This copy, from the library of Ottoline Morrell, was given to her as a gift by future Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, with whom she...
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and ruling to boards gilt, black coated endpapers. A few small marks to boards, upper board creased, front hinge... Read more
ATKINSON, M. E.
Going Gangster. A Novel for Boys and Girls. 1940
£225
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the half-title "M. R. H. with the author's good wishes, Christmas 1940, M. E. Atkinson".
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled, top edges of boards faded, spotting to edges,... Read more
ATWOOD, Margaret.
The Edible Woman. 1969
£1,750
First edition, first printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "To Daryl with much affection Peggy A 1969". Together with a signed note from the...
Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine in gold. With the dust jacket. Housed in an orange cloth slipcase. An excellent copy in the slightly creased dust... Read more
ATWOOD, Margaret.
The Edible Woman. 1969
£850
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page. A lovely copy.
Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket that is very slightly faded along the spine panel and... Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
W. H. Auden. A Selection. 1961
£2,250
First edition, first impression. From the library of Stephen Spender with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. With many corrections and deletions to the text by...
Octavo. Original green boards, device to upper board in blind, titles to spine in silver. A very good copy. Read more
AUDEN, W. H., & Chester Kallman.
Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings. 1939–1973. 1993
£80
First edition, first impression. From the library of Alan Ansen, poet and Auden's personal secretary, with Ansen's handwritten notes to the front free endpaper. Also includes an...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt on black ground. With the dust jacket. A few light marks to edges. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
AUDEN, W. H., & Louis MacNeice.
Letters From Iceland. 1937
£2,750
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed on the half-title by Auden and Isherwood, "To Miss May Cameron with best wishes and thanks for our first American interview Wystan Auden...
Octavo. Original oatmeal cloth, title labels to upper board and spine printed in blue, top edge stained blue, map endpapers. Housed in a quarter blue morocco drop down... Read more
(AUSTEN, John) ARISTOPHANES.
The Frogs. 1937
£75
First edition thus. One of a limited edition of 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist on the limitation leaf.
Tall quarto. Original white cloth, titles and pictorial design to spine and upper board in black, top edges in silver, others untrimmed. In the publisher's brown card... Read more
(AUSTEN, John) RICHARDSON, Dorothy.
John Austen and the Inseparables. 1930
£75
First edition, first impression. Signed by the artist on the half-title.
Octavo. Original blue boards, printed paper labels to upper board. Engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout by John Austen. Boards very lightly rubbed and... Read more
AYER, Alfred J.
The Foundations of Knowledge. 1940
£1,250
First edition, first impression of the author's second book. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Aunt Clara with the author's love, Freddie. Minehead, January...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Faint partial tanning to free endpapers. An excellent copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket. Read more
