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Upcoming rare books fairs and events we are attending in the UK and beyond.
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Our latest list looks at how writers push the boundaries of what fiction can be and the worlds that it conjures into being. It’s something of a mad tour through the gothic imagination, the occult, race, sex, politics, philosophy, satire and psychology.
First U.K. edition. 245x160mm. pp. 383 [1bl]. Le Carré’s signature on title page. Publisher’s red cloth with black lettering to spine. Original dust jacket. Red ribbon book mark. In mint condition throughout. “... le Carré delivers the masterpiece he has been building to since the fall of communism: an epic tale of loyalty and betrayal that spans the lives of two friends, from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe, to the present day of terrorism and new alliances” (taken from the U.S.
View full detailsFirst U.S. edition. 250x160mm. pp.[2bl] 3-455 [3bl]. Signed by Le Carré on half-title. Publisher’s red cloth, spine in black cloth with gilt lettering. Front cover embossed with publisher’s mark. Fore edges untrimmed. Original dust jacket. Externally and internally in near mint condition. “...
View full detailsFirst U.S. edition. Le Carré’s signature on title page. 243x170mm. pp. [8] 4-302 [7]. Publisher’s black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Original dust jacket. Fore edges untrimmed. Maps of North Asia printed onto front and back pastedown and free endpapers. In near mint condition. A lifelong rivalry pulls former British intelligence agent Tim Cranmer back into the game, putting the life he has built into jeopardy.
View full detailsNew York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1991. First U.S. edition. Signed by le Carré on title page. 240x165mm. pp.[8], 335 [3]. Publisher’s black cloth, gold lettering to spine and front cover. Original dust jacket. Light fading to head of boards, corners slightly bumped. Internally excellent, overall in very good condition. As intelligence agent Ned approaches retirement, he looks back over his career in the field. Ethical disquiet is increasingly at the forefront of his mind and mentor George Smiley can only offer uncomfortable truths.
View full detailsFirst edition. Inscribed and hand-stamped by Hockney on title page. 273x224mm. pp.248. Publisher’s blue cloth with yellow lettering on spine and embossed illustration by Hockney featuring his initials on front cover. Original dust jacket. Light markings to head of dust jacket flaps. Slight bump to tail of spine, light foxing to edges. Overall in very good condition. The playful inscription in red and green ink reads “to Migan David Hockney”; stamps read SPECIAL, PERSONAL and ‘hand stamped by D.H.’ An illustrated memoir by one of the most successful British artists of all time.
View full detailsLondon Andre Deutsch Limited. 1955. First edition. Signed. 222x143mm. pp.(iibl) x,126, (iibl). Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Original dust jacket. Illustrated throughout; illustrations on front and back pastedown and free endpapers. One minor tear and chip to head of dust jacket. Internally excellent; overall in excellent condition. Sandy Wilson's signature in blue ink on front half-title. Beautiful, signed copy of the script for Sandy Wilson's smash hit musical, with Wilson's own charming illustrations.
View full detailsThe Third Volume of the Life and Adventures of Timothy Ginnadrake, containing a concise account of the City of Bath, From the Year 1670 to the Present Time. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the author.. n.d. but volume 3 is dated 1771.18th century Bath. History and SatireFirst edition. Three volumes. 12mo in 6s (166x90mm). pp. [xvi], iii-xviii, 168; 204; xiv, 15-240, [12, list of subscribers]. Engraved frontispiece portraits to volumes one and two. List of subscribers at beginning of volume one and at the end of volume three. Armorial bookplate of William John Mercer to front pastedowns.
View full detailsVarious. 1980s.An archive of material relating to an unreleased film about Brian Jones, the founder of The Rolling Stones. The project was led by Genesis P-Orridge, the artist, musician and co-founder of industrial music pioneers, Throbbing Gristle. P-Orridges worked on the proposals for the film with the writer Jon Savage who wrote the seminal work, England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond. The archive consists of: 1. A copy of the seven inch vinyl single Godstar by Psychic TV and published by Temple Records.
View full detailsLondon: Published by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars. 1856.First edition. 278x215mm. pp. [6], 30. Three engraved plates of specimen bank notes for a ten pound and a hundred pound banknotes. Publisher's printed wrappers with a new lower cover and spine. Tear to top right corner of upper cover with minor loss, chipping to fore-edge and some small marginal holes in the final leaf (not affecting the text) but overall a very good copy of a commercially rare work, only two copies appearing in the auction records.
View full detailsSan Francisco Chronicle Books. 1993.Description:First edition. Inscribed and hand-stamped by Hockney on title page. 273x224mm. pp.248. Publisher's blue cloth with yellow lettering on spine and embossed illustration by Hockney featuring his initials on front cover. Original dust jacket. Light markings to head of dust jacket flaps. Slight bump to tail of spine, light foxing to edges. Overall in very good condition. The playful inscription in red and green ink reads "to Migan David Hockney"; stamps read SPECIAL, PERSONAL and 'hand stamped by D.H.'An illustrated memoir by one of the most successful British artists of all time.
View full detailswith an introduction by Boris Vian.Paris: The Vendôme Press. 1948.A fusion of prime US pulp and French sado-eroticism.First edition in English. 193x140mm. pp.201 [1]. Original wrappers. Slight creasing to upper cover and spine, a small tear and some marking and soiling to lower cover and a short tear at foot of spine at joint with lower cover. Some ink underlining in a few places. Internally very good. A nice copy of a rare and scandalous book. I shall spit on your graves first appeared in French in 1946.
View full detailsLondon: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1914.the first appearance of a new Dracula storyFirst edition. 8vo. 182x120mm. pp. [8], 200. Red cloth, decorated and lettered in blind on upper cover. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Illustrated dustjacket in a later state with the price of 1/3net replaced with 2/- but in all other regards the jacket is the same as that of the first impression with its chilling illustration by Handforth. There is a split to the cloth at the joint with the lower cover and some fading to spine.
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