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AMIS, Kingsley.
Lucky Jim. 1953
£1,375
First Edition, First Impression. Author's cut signature to front free endpaper.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full green morocco, titles and box design to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers,... Read more
AMIS, Kingsley.
Lucky Jim. 1953
£875
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full crimson morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to... Read more
AMIS, Kingsley.
Stanley and The Women. 1984
£50
First edition, signed by the author.
Octavo. Original red paper over boards, spine lettered in silver, with dust jacket. Signed by author on half-title. Spine of dust jacket a little faded with... Read more
AMIS, Kingsley.
What Became of Jane Austen and Other Questions. 1970
£125
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the rubbed jacket. Read more
[AMIS, Kingsley.] TANNER, Lt.-Col. William (‘Bill’).
The Book of Bond or Every Man His Own 007. 1965
£125
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine in red, blue and gilt. With the double sided printed dust jacket. Design and art direction Raymond Hawkey. Photography... Read more
AMIS, Martin.
Dead Babies. 1975
£400
Uncorrected proof copy, scarce.
Octavo. Original pink wrappers printed in black. Wrappers a little rubbed, creased, and tanned. A very nice copy. Read more
AMIS, Martin.
Dead Babies. 1975
£525
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Lower corner bumped, short closed tear and crease to page 215. An excellent copy in the... Read more
AMIS, Martin.
Einstein's Monsters. 1987
£60
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Contents faintly toned. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
AMIS, Martin.
Success. 1978
£175
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, yellow top-stain. With the dust jacket. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Small bump to top corner. An... Read more
AMIS, Martin.
The Information. 1995
£50
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, maroon endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Read more
AMIS, Martin.
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America. 1986.
£125
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Read more
AMIS, Martin.
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America. 1986
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket with publisher's over-price sticker to the... Read more
AMIS, Martin.
The Moronic Inferno. 1986
£125
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the half-title.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket A fine copy in the price-clipped jacket with over-price sticker to front flap. Read more
AMIS, Martin.
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions. 1993
£50
First edition, signed by the author.
Octavo. Original black paper over boards, spine lettered in gilt, red endpapers, with dust jacket. Signed and dated by author on half-title. Spine of dust jacket a... Read more
AMIS, Martin.
Yellow Dog. 2003
£40
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the dust jacket. Read more
AMORY, Copley.
Persian Days. 1928
£225
First edition. Entertaining and well-illustrated travelogue by the then American chargé d'affaires at Tehran. Amory's route took him from Tehran out through Isfahan, Shiraz and...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, gilt block of the Royal Mosque at Isfahan to the upper board. In the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 31 other plates,... Read more
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Le Guide Ou nouvelle description d'Amsterdam, 1720
£800
Third, enlarged and best edition, with running text for the first time instead of dialogues and with 20 instead of 17 plates, of this mercantile guide to Amsterdam. The plates show...
Octavo (166 × 105 mm), in 2 parts as issued. Rebound in antique-style panelled calf, red morocco label, date in gilt at foot, edges uncut. 20 double-page folding... Read more
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, Frederick Irving.
The Notorious Sophie Lang. 1925
£750
First Edition, First Impression. This first of the author's three novels filmed in 1936. Sophie Lang was a jewel thief. Not published in America. Scarce.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. Mild even browning to endpapers, spine very slightly faded but a really smart copy. Read more
ANDERSON, Hans Christian.
A Poet's Bazaar. 1846
£600
First edition. An account of the author's travels across Europe, beginning in Germany and visiting Italy and then Turkey before travelling back up the Danube through Eastern Europe.
3 volumes, octavo (198 × 120 mm). Early 20th-century red half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Portrait... Read more
ANDERSON, Hans Christian.
The Sand-Hills of Jutland. 1860
£175
First English language edition, scarce.
Octavo (192 × 120 mm). Early 20th-century red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Binding lightly... 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, R. C.
Oared Fighting Ships. 1962
£65
First edition. The standard work.
Octavo, original blue boards, title gilt to spine. In the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 21 other plates, one of them folding, numerous figures to the text. Very good... 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
ANNIGONI, Pietro, & Alex Sterling.
Spanish Sketchbook with a Photographic Record of the Journey. 1957
£450
First edition, first impression. Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Annigoni. Together with an autograph card signed by Annigoni laid inside the book.
Quarto. Original cream boards, titles to front cover and spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Drawings by Annigoni and photographs by Sterling. Near fine, dust jacket... Read more
