
BENNETT, Arnold
Don Juan de Marena
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1923
8vo, pp. 178. Original blue-grey three-quarter boards, spine label to white spine. Unprinted blue-grey dustwrapper, spine label to spine, with... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. FEHSENFELD, Martha Dow and OVERBECK, Lois More] BECKETT, Samuel
The Letters of Smauel Beckett 1929-1940
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
8vo, pp. 782. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition. FRANK KERMODE'S ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BUCHAN, William
John Buchan: A Memoir
London: Buchan & Enright, 1982
8vo, pp. 272. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Red endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portraits of John Buchan... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CUDLIPP, Hugh
The Prerogative of the Harlot: Press Barons and Power
London: Bodley Head, 1980
8vo, pp. 304. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel.
First... [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]
McCOWEN, Alec
Young Gemini
London: Elm Tree Books, 1979
8vo, pp. 87. Original vermilion boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ATTENBOROUGH, David
Life on Earth
London: Readers Digest Association/William Collins/BBC, 1980
Oblong 4to, pp. 368. Original laminated photographic boards. Grey endpapers. Lacking the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ATTENBOROUGH, David
The Living Planet
London: Reader's Digest Association/William Collins/BBC, 1985
Oblong 4to, pp. 368. Original photographic boards, lettered in silver on black to spine. Grey endpapers.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODDIS, Roger
The Woddis Collection
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1978
8vo, pp. 96. Original laminated photographic boards.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT PASTEDOWN TO BOB 'BLOCKBUSTERS' ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GIELGUD, John
Early Stages
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987
8vo, pp. 208. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
Revised edition, first published in 1939. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
TREVOR, William
Felicia's Journey
London: Viking, 1994
8vo, pp. 213. Original black boards, letter in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
LICHFIELD, [Lord] Patrick
A Royal Album
London: Elm Tree Books, 1982
4to, pp. 151. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers. Printed dustwrapper, photographic portrait of Lichfield with... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
KOBAL, John
The Art of the Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers 1925-1940
London: Allen Lane, 1980
4to, pp. 292. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First UK edition, published in the US earlier... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MONEY, Keith
John Curry
London: Michael Joseph, 1978
4to, pp. 224. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine, and with Curry's facsimile signature in silver to front panel. Pale blue... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GREGG, Hubert
Agatha Christie and All That Mousetrap
London: William Kimber, 1980
8vo, pp. 170. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BOB... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WEST, Timothy
A Moment Towards the End of the Play...
London: Nick Hern Books, 2001
8vo, pp. 286. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper, portrait of the author to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
KORDA, Michael
Charmed Lives
London: Allen Lane, 1980
8vo, pp. 498. Original brown boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First UK edition, INSCIBRED BY THE AUTHOR TO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MURRAY, John G.
A Gentleman Publisher's Commonplace Book
London: John Murray, 1996
8vo, pp. 120. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, second reprinting. ALS FROM HALLAM ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ALLGOOD, Jill
Bebe and Ben
London: Robert Hale, 1975
8vo, pp. 192. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BOB... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"A.M." All kind wishes, Jill Allgood July 1975'. TLS FROM ALLGOOD TO HOLNESS LAID IN, THANKING HIM ONCE AGAIN FOR HER APPEARANCE ON HIS SHOW.
From 1975 to 1985, Bob Holness co-presented a morning radio show on London's LBC, and over the years amassed a large collection of inscribed copies of books whose authors had appeared on the show.
An excellent copy.
GREGG, Hubert
Thanks For The Memory
London: Gollancz, 1983
Small 8vo, pp. 223. Original brown boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
