
RUSHDIE, Salman
Shalimar The Clown
London: Cape, 2005
8vo, pp. 398. Original black boards, lettered in guilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
A fine ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HUGHES, Ted
Selected Poems 1957-1967
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 109. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First UK edition, softbound issue, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
SHERRIN, NED
Scratch An Actor
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996
8vo, pp.323. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR: 'Best Wishes, Ned... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HAZLEWOOD, Nick
Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000
8vo, pp. 384. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY FRANK... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Sarah's Youth
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1938
8vo, pp. 311. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE, AND... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HARRYHAUSEN, Ray and DALTON, Tony
Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life
London: Aurum Press, 2003
4to, pp. 303. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED BY RAY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[comp. DALTON, Tony]
Ray Harryhausen: A Life in Pictures
London: Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, N.d. [2010]
4to, pp. 96. Original photographic stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BARR, James [pseud. FUGATE, James]
Quatrefoil
New York: Greenberg, 1950
8vo, pp. 373. Original black boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition of the author's first book, inscribed by Barr to Richard Yates on the front free... [more]
EHRENBERG, Felipe
PussywillowCulompton: Beau Geste Press, 1973
8vo, unpaginated [pp. 66]. Original illustrated and variegated stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red to spine.
MOODY, Rick
Purple America
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997
8vo, pp. 298. Original purple and black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's fourth novel,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ELIOT, T. S.
Poetry And Drama
London: Faber, 1951
8vo, pp. 35. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First UK edition of this lecture, first delivered at Harvard... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems Two
London: Trigram Press, 1972
Small 8vo, pp. 61. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine. Green endpapers, illustrated dustwrapper.
First trade edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BETJEMAN, John
Poems In The Porch
London: SPCK, 1954
8vo, unpaginated. Original illustrated stiff paper wrapper, lettered in blue and red to front panel.
First edition, INSCRIBED ON HALF-TITLE BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
McCOWEN, Alec
Personal Mark
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984
8vo, pp. 236. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MORTIMER, John
Paradise Postponed
London: Viking, 1985
8vo, pp. 374. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ACTOR LEO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GALSWORTHY, John
Over The River
London: Heinemann, 1933
8vo, pp. 322. Original three-quarter green boards, lettered in gilt to vellum spine. Publisher's device in gilt to front panel. Top edge gilt, leading ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MORECAMBE, Eric
Over The Moon, Sick As A Parrot
London: Hutchinson/Stanley Paul, 1982
4to, unpaginated. Original photographic laminated stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY MORECAMBE: 'Best Wishes,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GRAY, Simon
Otherwise Engaged and other plays
London: Methuen, 1987
Small 8vo, pp. 135. Original photographic stiff paper wrappers, author's photographic portrait to rear wrapper.
Reprinted collected edition.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[McKERN, Leo] [HERRMANN, Edward] selected by WAVELL, A. P.
Other Men's Flowers
London: Cape, 1992
8vo, pp. 448. Original burgundy boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrappers lettered in red and black to front panel and spine.
Reprinted... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"If" -- the complete version will be sent! E.'.
This last refers to a referenced parody of Kipling's poem which begins: 'If you can keep your girl, when all around you, / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...'. In the film Hermann and McKern's characters discover that they have been in love with the same woman all their lives.
[LARKIN, Philip] EWART, Gavin
Original Carbon Typescript of an Unpublished Poem for Philip Larkin
London: N.p., 1985
2 typed carbons, with corrections, and a 1p. cover TLS from Gavin Ewart.
ORIGINAL AMENDED CARBON TYPESCRIPT OF A POEM BY GAVIN EWART..... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
