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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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War. 1948-54
£7,500
First editions, first impressions. With a fly-leaf signed and dated 1950 by Winston Churchill to volume 1.
6 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and rampant lion device to spines, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt... Read more
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Typed letter signed to his editor J. Derek Grimsdick ("J.D.") concerning the Berlin broadcasts. 1953
£7,500
Highly important typed letter, with autograph corrections and signed by him with initials, to his English editor, J. Derek Grimsdick of Herbert Jenkins, concerning Wodehouse's...
2 pages, American letter, lightweight Saxon Onion Skin paper, creased where folded twice for posting, typed on one side only. Custom red morocco-backed slipcase and... Read more
MILNE, A. A.
When We Were Very Young. 1925
£7,500
First deluxe issue (seventh edition overall). The first of the books to be bound in deluxe leather by Methuen, this is an extremely rare edition. No deluxe edition was planned when...
Octavo. Publisher's deluxe red calf, titles to spine and pictorial design to upper board gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. With the publisher's box. Housed in... Read more
WILDE, Oscar.
Intentions. 1891
£7,500
First edition. Of 1,500 copies printed, this copy one of 900 for UK (600 printed for US). Inscribed by Wilde on the copyright page "Roy, from his friend the author. June 91."
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full green morocco, gilt titles and box design to spine, raised bands, gilt rules to boards, gilt inner dentelles, white... Read more
[CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne] TWAIN, Mark.
The Complete Writings. 1929
£7,500
The Stormfield edition. Limited to1024 numbered sets with a card signed by Twain tipped onto the limitation page. "It was Mark Twain's most cherished desire that a definitive and...
37 volumes, octavo. Recent full green morocco, spines gilt in compartments, burgundy morocco labels, marbled endpapers, decorative roll to boards and top edges gilt,... Read more
(DULAC, Edmund) Stevenson Robert Louis.
Treasure Island. 1927
£7,500
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 50 numbered copies on handmade paper signed by the illustrator on the limitation leaf.
Quarto. Original vellum, black calf label in gilt to spine. In a quarter aluminium and tan cloth slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 11 plates, engravings throughout. An... Read more
(PICASSO, Pablo.) (LIFAR, Serge.) LAURENT, Jean, & Julie Sazonova.
Rénovateur Du Ballet Français (1929—1960). 1960
£7,500
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the fly leaf by the choreographer "A Madame Baron, grande amie des arts, cordialment , Serge Lifar, Cannes le 3.9.63." Together with a...
Octavo. Original stiff wrappers. Colour illustration and titles to front cover by Picasso, titles to spine in black and blue, top edge uncut, other edges untrimmed,... Read more
SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest.
South 1919
£7,500
First edition, new [i.e. second] impression, one month after the first, printed on superior paper stock and so less prone to the heavy browning which tends to mar the first...
Octavo. Original midnight-blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in silver and with large block of the Endurance in silver to the upper board, publisher's device... Read more
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Mrs. Stowe's Writings. 1896
£7,500
Signed limited edition, one of 250 sets signed by Harriet Beecher Stowe and dated in her hand January 5th 1896, just a few months before her death. A very attractively bound set...
17 volumes, octavo. Green half crushed morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed.... Read more
HOCKNEY, David.
That's the Way I See It. [1993]
£7,500
First edition, first impression. With an original full-page gouache painting by the author on the half-title of a hand in brown against a background of blue and a black ink grid,...
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and design to upper board in yellow, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 365 illustrations, 315 in colour. An... Read more
ELIOT, T. S.
The Holy Bible and Book of Common Prayer. [c.1938]
£7,425
Presented by T. S. Eliot to his godson Tom Faber (son of Geoffrey Faber) at the age of 11, each book with the inscription, "Thomas Erle Faber from his godfather Thomas Stearns Eliot...
2 volumes. Publisher's black morocco. Both volumes somewhat rubbed but in very good condition. Read more
(NAVAL; French.)
Tableau de la Marine de France divisée par Escadres, 1787. c.1787]
£7,250
Elegant, superbly-finished presentation tabulation of the strength of the French navy at this historically crucial period, just four years after its vital role in the American War of...
Large landscape single-sheet (1030 × 690 mm). Entirely calligraphic table in brown, red and green ink; broad gilt rules; handsome water-colour sprigs of flowers;... Read more
HARDY, Thomas.
The Writings. [1915]
£6,750
The Autograph Edition. One of a limited edition of 153 sets, this set printed ad personam for Katherine Fay and signed by Hardy and the publisher in volume I. This edition, the...
20 volumes, octavo. Recent tan morocco, spines gilt in compartments, brown and green morocco labels, marbled endpapers, decorative roll to boards and top edges gilt,... Read more
BERNSTEIN, Leonard.
Typed letter signed to Renee Longy Miquelle. 1945 [1959, 1966]
£6,750
First editions, first printings. Each book bearing the composer's signed presentation inscription, "To Renee who taught me much about the Joy of teaching Love Lenny", "For Renee with...
Single leaf folded for mailing with the envelope. Octavos. Original cloth, with the dust jackets. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box made by The... Read more
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FRANCIS, Dick.
[Complete set of the novels to 2001.] 1962–2001
£6,750
First editions, first impressions. Of the 39 volumes, ten are signed or inscribed by the author and all are handsomely bound in deep green morocco.
39 volumes. Recent dark green morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, single line ruling to boards and all edges gilt. Some minor browning to page... Read more
CONRAD, Joseph.
The Works. 1920
£6,750
The Sun-Dial Edition, one of a limited edition of 750 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume I. A beautifully bound set.
24 volumes, octavo. Recent brown morocco, spines gilt in compartments, burgundy and green morocco labels, marbled endpapers, single line rules to boards and top edges... Read more
MILNE, A. A.
Collection of photographs of Christopher Milne, 1925 & 1976
£6,750
Two letters and three photographs suggesting a source for E. H. Shepard's illustrations of Christopher Robin in the Pooh books. The first letter is in the hand of Milne's wife,...
2 letters, the first being a one page autograph letter by Daphne Milne and signed by A. A. Milne, the second a double-sided typed letter signed by Christoper Milne. 3... Read more
CONRAD, Joseph.
The Collected Works. 1925
£6,750
The Memorial Edition, the last edition of Conrad's works published during his lifetime. One of 99 signed sets out of a planned limited edition of 377. Unfortunately, Conrad died...
23 volumes, octavo. Recent full brown morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, roll to boards and top edges gilt, others... Read more
MILNE, A. A.
Now We Are Six. 1927
£6,750
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 20 numbered copies on japon vellum signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation leaf.
Quarto (217 × 172 mm). Contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, red cloth sides, top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Binding... Read more
BALDWIN, James.
Go Tell It on the Mountain. 1953
£6,750
First edition, first impression of the author's first novel. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Gene, in admiration of his perseverance, Jimmy B".
Octavo. Original red-brown cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth solander box made by The Chelsea... Read more
FLEMING, Ian.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service. 1963
£6,750
First edition, first impression. The eleventh James Bond book. Signed on the front free endpaper by Ian Fleming.
Octavo. Original black boards, ski-track to front cover in white, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black half leather Chelsea Bindery... Read more
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Autograph working manuscript. 1892]
£6,500
A working manuscript, beginning with a dialogue sketch from Catriona, the 1893 sequel to Kidnapped (1886). What follows are about 16 lines of unpublished poetry, in part: "I am come...
Single leaf, folio (319 × 200 mm), 16 lines written on one side and 4 on the verso, with some deletions. Browning and a little chipping at edges, still good. Read more
BUSSY, Dorothy & Simon.
A series of letters to art historian and biographer Auguste Bréal. 1919-40
£6,500
Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) had translated Bréal's book on Velazquez back in 1905 and the present letters have an easy intimacy throughout. In the first she introduces J....
Dorothy Bussy: 15 autograph letters (one incomplete), signed or initialled; 2 pages foolscap, 21 pages small quarto, 9 pages octavo. Simon Bussy: 28 autograph letters,... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
A Room of One's Own 1929
£6,500
Signed Limited Edition. Limited to 492 copies of which 450 were for sale. Our copy is number 450.
Octavo. Bound in the publishers' original cinnamon cloth. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Spine slightly faded, a small... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. 1957
£6,500
First edition, inscribed by the author in volume 3, "Wendy [Russell] from Winston S. Churchill October 1957". Wendy Russell (1916–2007) was the American long-term companion and...
4 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered gilt, in the printed dust jackets. Near fine set. Read more
