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BEARD, Peter.
Peter Beard, Art Edition, No. 251–2500. 2006
£6,000
Limited to 2,250 individually numbered copies, each signed by Peter Beard. This copy with an additional illustration in black ink by Beard on the limitation page and inscribed...
Folio (345 × 500 mm). Original half brown calf with burgundy cloth boards, photographic illustration to front board, titles to spine gilt, Japanese silk cotton... Read more
BEARD, Peter; Isak Dinesen; Kamante.
Longing for Darkness. Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa. 1975
£4,500
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Peter Beard to author Lois Wyse with an elaborate ink drawing across both front endpapers, "To Lois with the rest of the picture coming...
Tall quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in white, image of Blixen to upper board and of, tan endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. An... Read more
(BEATLES.) PETO, Michael
Now These Days Are Gone. 2006
£1,800
First edition, first impression. Limited to 2,500 copies. This is no. 144 of 350 deluxe copies signed by Alan Langlands (Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee)...
Quarto. Original full red leather, titles to front cover in white and gilt, all edges gilt. With the red leather tipped slipcase inset with four portraits of The... Read more
(BEATLES.) WILLIAMS, Kay, & Pauline Sutcliffe.
Stuart. The life and Art of Stuart Sutcliffe. 1996
£400
First edition, first impression. Limited to 2000 copies. This is no. 144 signed by Pauline Sutcliffe, Kay Williams and Astrid Kirchherr. Kerchherr was engaged to Sutcliffe who was an...
2 vols. Quarto. Original illustrated brown cloth with black leather spine, titles to spine blindstamped; Long octavo. Original black boards with titles to label on... Read more
BEATON, Cecil.
India. 1945
£750
First de luxe edition, first impression, from the library of the author, purchased from Elkin Matthews in 1981 and sold as lot 14 at Sotheby's Hodgson's sale on April 9, 1981. With...
Quarto. Original red boards, titles to upper board gilt. Black and white illustrations by Cecil Beaton throughout. Bookplate of David John Gilson. Boards lightly... Read more
BEAUVOIR, Simone de.
Force of Circumstance. 1965
£225
First US edition, first printing of the third volume of the author's autobiography, originally published in France in 1963. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper by...
Large octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt on blue ground and to upper board gilt, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the rubbed... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
An Exhibition. 1971
£750
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies signed by Beckett on the limitation leaf.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver, grey endpapers. With the original plastic dust jacket. 8 plates. An excellent copy. Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Assez. 1966
£750
First French edition. Number 47 of 100 Hor de Commerce copies, not for sale and to be presented by the publisher/author. Inscribed by Beckett to the writer Andre Marissel and dates...
Small quarto. Original cream wrappers lettered in black, edges uncut, with original glassine jacket. Half-title page inscribed by Beckett, 2 leaves comprising pp.13-16... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Comédie et actes divers. 1966
£750
First French edition, six short plays translated from the English by the author.
Octavo. Original cream car wrappers lettered in blue and black, publisher's device in blue to rear wrapper, in original glassine jacket. Half-title inscribed by... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Comment c'est. 1961
£2,750
First Edition, First Impression. From the true first printing of 110 copies, this is one of just 10 numbered copies hors de commerce. With the author's signed presentation...
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black and blue. Housed in a black cloth solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Backstrip just a touch sunned but an... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Comment C'est. 1961
£1,250
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black and blue. An excellent, uncut copy. Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
EH Joe & Other Writings. 1967
£975
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Tara with love from Sam". The recipient was the daughter of Beckett actor Jack MacGowran, who played...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the price-clipped jacket with publisher's price sticker to the front flap. Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Le Depeupleur. 1970
£650
First Edition, Special Paper issued in advance of the trade printing. One of 99 numbered copies on the better paper. With the author's signed presentation inscription on the half...
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Wrappers slightly dusty, backstrip a little tanned but an excellent, unopened copy. Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Malone Dies. 1956
£975
First US Edition, First Printing, Cloth Issue. One of 500 numbered copies bound in cloth. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page dated 1970.
Octavo. Original natural linen, titles to upper board and spine in black. With the original acetate bearing the rubber-stamped dollar price on the front flap. A... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
More Pricks Than Kicks. 1934
£37,500
First edition, first impression of the author's first published book of fiction (preceded only by the poem Whoroscope and his essay Proust). This is certainly Beckett's scarcest...
Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine in blue, top edge stained tan. With the dust jacket. Housed in a quarter green morocco folding case. Pages just a little... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien. 1955
£1,500
First edition, first impression, one of a limited edition of 1130 copies. Inscribed by the author on the half-title "For M. O. White, his friend Samuel Beckett, Paris, March 1955".
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Wrappers lightly rubbed and nicked with a few small spots, an excellent copy. Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Séjour. 1970
£975
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 125 numbered copies signed by the author and artist on the verso of the half-title.
Long quarto. Set of 10 unbound, folded leaves in white paper wrappers printed in black. With the original cloth slipcase. Frontispiece and 4 engravings by Jean... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Signature Series. Lessness. 1970
£225
First English language edition, first impression, originally published in French as Sans in 1969. This copy bears on the front free endpaper the ownership inscription of Jack...
Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Evidence of bookplate removal from rear pastedown. An excellent copy in the very... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Waiting for Godot. [1956]
£12,500
Evergreen paperback edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "For Nancy [Cunard] with love from Samuel Paris April 1956", and with Cunard's...
Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black. Housed in a quarter black morocco box. Browning to two leaves from inserted newspaper clipping, wrappers lightly marked... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Watt. 1959
£3,750
First US edition, first printing, clothbound issue. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett" and signed beneath by Barney...
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Very minor rubbing at the bottom tips of the spine but an excellent copy in the nicked and... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot
Our Exagmination Round His Factification For Incamination of Work in Progress. 1929
£1,875
First Edition, First Printing, Trade Issue. Signed by Beckett at the start of his contribution. This early critique of Joyce's final work was published some 10 years prior to the...
Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black, edges untrimmed. Housed in a black cloth solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Pages tanned as usual, edges of... Read more
BEDFORD, F.G.H.
The Life and Letters of Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford… [1961]
£250
Uncommon, privately circulated memoir, COPAC has BL only, as also OCLC. The Bedford family was associated with the Royal Navy for more than 150 years. The subject of this biography,...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine. Portrait frontispiece and 5 other plates, illustration to the text. Just a little rubbed, old tape mark to the... Read more
BEERBOHM, Max.
A Survey. 1921
£475
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 275 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.
Quarto. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and upper board and all edges gilt. With the dust jacket. With an orange quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Tipped-in... Read more
BEERBOHM, Max.
Catalogue of an Exhibition Entitled "Ghosts". 1928
£1,250
Limited to 55 copies signed by the artist.
Octavo. Original grey paper wrappers printed in black. Housed in a black cloth slipcase with chemise. Light partial browning to wrapppers, a very good copy. Read more
BEERBOHM, Max.
Observations. 1926
£325
First Edition, Limited Issue. One of just 280 numbered copies signed by the artist each with a separate signed plate in a pocket at the end. One of the great caricature artist's best...
Quarto. Original green cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, all edges gilt. 52 tipped in plates, and 1 loosely inserted. Minor browning to endpapers spine... Read more
