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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O’CONNOR, Flannery.
The Violent Bear it Away. 1960
£6,500
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title "For Louis Dollarhide in appreciation – Flannery O'Connor, Millidgeville, April 8,...
Octavo. Original grey cloth backed red boards, titles to spine in white and grey, black end papers. With the dust jacket. Boards very lightly rubbed, lower corner... Read more
(FLEMING, Ian) CHOPPING, Richard (illus.)
Goldfinger. 1959
£6,500
Signed by the artist Richard Chopping lower left. This is a proof copy of the dust jackets signed off by Richard Chopping before going to print. Goldfinger was the second of seven...
50.5 cm x 75.8 cm (19 ¾ x 29 ¾ inches). One sheet with the dust jacket of Goldfinger printed in triplicate, untrimmed. Presented in a black wooden frame with... Read more
DURRELL, Lawrence.
Ten Poems. 1932
£6,500
First edition, first impression of this extremely rare pamphlet, the earliest obtainable Durrel publication, his second work after Quaint Fragment (of which only six copies are known...
Octavo. Original brown wrappers printed in black. Housed in a brown quarter morocco solander case and chemise. Wrappers professionally restored to the spine and verso... Read more
MOORE, George Edward.
Principia Ethica. 1903
£6,500
First edition, first impression, presentation copy to his sister, with the author's autograph inscription at the head of the half-title, "To Hettie with best love from George....
Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges uncut. Housed in a brown cloth slipcase and chemise. Bookplate of Robert Reedman. Extremities just a little... Read more
SEUSS, Dr.
Horton Hatches the Egg. 1940
£6,500
First edition, first printing. With a full page drawing on the pastedown by Dr. Seuss of Horton the elephant holding up a notice board with the inscription "For Charles Henderson...
Quarto. Original brown buckram, titles to front cover in red, rebacked with a grey morocco spine. Illustrated throughout by Dr. Seuss Very slight rubbing to edges,... Read more
STEINBECK, John.
Of Mice and Men. 1937
£6,500
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "For L h. Cantor with greetings from Steinbeck 1937".
Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine and upper board in brown and black, blue top-stain. With a supplied dust jacket. Housed in a brown half morocco slipcase... Read more
CATHER, Willa Sibert.
The Troll Garden. 1905
£6,250
First Edition of the author's first book. With the author's signed inscription, "Willa Sibert Cather / Lincoln / August twenty-sixth / 1905". With the contemporary ownership...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, decoration to upper board in blind. Hinges cracked but perfectly sound, trifling paper flaw to rear... Read more
DUPUGET, Edme-Jean-Antoine.
Essay sur l'Usage de l'Artillerie dans la Guerre de Campagne et dans celle des Sieges. 1767
£6,250
A handsome and highly interesting manuscript. The first published edition was issued by Arckstée & Merkus in Amsterdam in 1771, credited to "un Officier du Corps," the author...
Small quarto (203 × 163mm), manuscript, [vi], 294pp., [iv], 47pp. Contemporary mottled sheep, red morocco label, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with... Read more
EVANS, Walker.
Message from the Interior. 1966
£6,250
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the photographer "Lincoln, from Walker". Lincoln Kirstein is most noted for his hand in founding the New York...
Quarto. Original grey mottled cloth, titles to white paper label to front board in black, titles to spine in white. Twelve works of photography reproduced in sheet-fed... Read more
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
MILNE, A. A.
The House at Pooh Corner. 1928
£6,000
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 350 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author and artist on the limitation leaf.
Quarto. Original blue cloth backed white boards, printed paper label to upper board. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Small book plate... Read more
WELLS, H. G.
The War in the Air 1908
£6,000
First edition, first impression. With Wells's fine contemporary presentation inscription to the half title page, "W. W. Jacobs from H. G. Wells". An excellent association: Jacobs was...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt. 16 illustrations by A. C. Michael. Contents a little spotted, endpaper lightly browned, boards... Read more
BONE, Muirhead.
War Drawings. 1917–8
£6,000
First edition, first impression. The Edition de Luxe was limited to 50 sets with each of the 60 lithographic proofs signed by Muirhead Bone in pencil, and with his embossed monogram,...
Folio (560mm x 470mm) cloth-backed heavy card portfolio with ties housing 6 light card fascicules each containing a loose contents leaf and 10 signed proof... Read more
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
For Whom the Bell Tolls. 1940
£6,000
First edition, first printing, in the second issue dust jacket with the photographer's credit.
Octavo. Original light brown cloth, titles to spine black on red ground and to upper board in black, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth... Read more
WHITMAN, Walt.
Leaves of Grass. 1876
£6,000
Author's Edition, Inscribed by the author to Robert Spence Watson on the front free endpaper. Robert Spence Watson (1837–1911) was a Gateshead-born Quaker, an ardent traveller...
Octavo. Contemporary white half calf, rebacked to style with red morocco label added, marbled boards, yellow endpapers. Some rubbing to corners, internally very... Read more
(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) COOPER, A. Egerton.
"Profile for Victory". 1943
£6,000
Signed and dated in ink below the image by Winston Churchill and A. Egerton Cooper. The original "Profile for Victory" portrait of Churchill hangs in the The Carlton Club, London....
Sheet size 66.5 x 51 cm. Framed size 72 x 57 cm. Offset lithograph after an oil painting by Cooper showing Churchill half length sitting in a leather chair and holding... Read more
SEWELL, A[nna].
Black Beauty: his grooms and companions. The autobiography of a horse. [1877]
£6,000
First edition, presentation copy from the author's mother, inscribed by her on the front free endpaper: "Mary Sewell, To her good friend Mr Bull In Memory of the Author". As the...
Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and upper board lettered and decorated in black and gilt, lower board decorated in black, brown endpapers (Carter's C binding, with... Read more
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
For Whom The Bell Tolls. 1940
£6,000
Second printing. With the author's signed presentation to the front free endpaper, "For Hal Sweet wishing him all the best always Ernest Hemingway Hong Kong March 17/ 1941". With the...
Octavo. Original oatmeal cloth, titles to spine in black on a red ground. With a first issue dust jacket supplied from another copy. Contents a little toned,... Read more
[GALSWORTHY, John]
The Works. 1922–36
£5,950
The Manaton Edition, the first collected edition of Galsworthy's works. One of a limited edition of 780 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume I. Very handsomely...
30 volumes, octavo. Recent green morocco, spines gilt in compartments, brown morocco labels, marbled endpapers, single line rules to boards and top edges gilt, others... Read more
CHANDLER, Raymond.
Playback 1958
£5,750
First US edition, first printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "For Whitey Birss with all the thoughts and gratitude. I'd rather...
Octavo. Original tan cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine in black, top edge stained tan. With the dust jacket. Housed in a burgundy cloth drop down... Read more
RAY, Man.
40 Rayographies. 25 Février - 25 Mars 1972. 1972
£5,750
First edition, first printing. One of 60 (including 10 hors commerce) copies on Arches paper accompanied with an original Rayograph mounted on veneer over board, signed lower right...
Quarto. Original stiff wrappers. With the card dust jacket and original glassine. With 65 illustrations. Small nicks to head of dust jacket spine and glassine... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
On Being Ill. 1930
£5,750
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. Hand printed by the Woolfs insofaras Virginia set the...
Octavo. Original vellum backed green cloth, titles to spine gilt, marbled endpapers. With the dust jacket. Some very faint browning to vellum spine. An excellent copy... Read more
JAMES, Henry.
Typed letter signed to Henry White and his wife Margaret. 1914
£5,500
A lengthy personal letter addressed to "Dearest, dearest Harry and Daisy!", sending word of mutual friends, discussing the horrors brought on by the outbreak of the First World War...
Six and a quarter pages, quarto, on printed letterhead of 21, Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, S.W. Folds, with a very small strip of browning along one edge of one... Read more
(LEWIS, C. S.) JAMES, Henry.
The Other House. 1947
£5,250
Originally published in 1896, this copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper with sixteen lines of notes by C. S. Lewis, who signs his name at the top of the page and then writes,...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the supplied dust jacket. Spine faded, gilt titles dulled, white and black spots to upper board, faint spotting... Read more
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.
Nature. 1836
£5,250
First edition, corrected state (with page 94 correctly paginated), of Emerson's landmark first commercially published book: BAL 5181. One of about 1500 copies. A fine association...
12mo.; foxed; brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; spine laid down and rebacked; gutters reinforced. Read more
