PHILLPOTTS, Eden and Adelaide

London: Duckworth, N.d. [1927]

8vo, pp. 128. Original patterned three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt on white hessian spine.

Commemorative edition, produced to celebrate the play's first anniversary, this copy... [more]

HEANEY, Seamus

London: Faber, 1972

8vo, pp. 80. Original printed card wrappers.

First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This issue precedes the hardbound edition.

This,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[illus. SELLERS, Peter] MILLIGAN, Spike and HOBBS, Jack

London: M. & J. Hobbs/Michael Joseph, 1976

8vo, pp. 144. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Yellow illustrated endpapers. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]".... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990

8vo, pp. 177. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition of the author's fifth novel, SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

WHITEHOUSE, Mary

London: Wayland, 1977

8vo, pp. 224. Original mauve boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BOB 'BLOCKBUSTERS' HOLNESS: 'To Bob ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

WILLIAMS, Heathcote

London: Cape, 1988

Large 8vo, pp. 191. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper. Bookplate to foot of front pastedown.

First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[GIELGUD, Sir John]

N.p. 1985 [The show was eventually transmitted in 1988-9].

Large 8vo, pp. 10, printed on rectos only, bound between yellow wrappers with a split pin.

Sir John... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[ed. CARTER, Graydon]

New York: Rodale, 2009

Large 8vo, pp. 215. Original blue boards, lettered in blind on spine.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND TO THE FILM DIRECTOR... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

PARKIN, Molly

London: Blond & Briggs, 1975

8vo, pp. 208. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'Oct '75. For darling John and ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

HEGLEY, John

London: Methuen, 2006

8vo, pp. 85. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers with fold-over flaps.

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SARRAUTE, Nathalie

London: John Calder, 1963

8vo, pp. 136. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First UK edition, inscribed by Sarraute on the half-title: 'A David Gothard, en souvenir très amical. Nathalie Sarraute.'... [more]

JOHNSON, B.S.

London: Panther, 1967

8vo, pp. 285. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.

First paperback edition of Johnson's first book, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO JUNE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

GROTOWSKI, Jerzy

Holstebro, Denmark: Odin Teatrets Forlag, 1968

8vo, pp. 262. Original printed stiff paper wrappers.

First edition, SIGNED BY GROTOWSKI ON TITLE PAGE. With a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

HASTINGS, Michael

London: Royal Court Theatre, 1984

8vo, pp. 41. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS ACCOUNTANT ON FRONT FREE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

GRAVES, Robert

N.p. Privately Printed, 1944

178 x 131mm, pp. 4. Single sheet, folded once.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES ON THE FRONT LEAF: 'Honor with love from Robert. New ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

(BAUDELAIRE, Charles) (illus. NOLAN, Sidney) (trans. LOWELL, Robert)

London: Faber, 1968

4to, pp. 60. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Two brochures for the Sidney Nolan Trust laid in.

First ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[POWELL, Michael] GIBBON, Monk

London: Saturn Press, 1951

4to, pp. 96. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Cockerel device in gilt to front panel.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

SHAW, Robert

London: Chatto & Windus, 1961

8vo, pp. 275. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition. C. DAY LEWIS' COPY, WITH HIS ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

MORTIMER, John

London: Viking, 2000

8vo, pp. 213. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition, later impression (incomplete number... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

SOMERVILLE, E. OE

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930

Large 8vo, pp. 200. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Edges uncut.

First edition. One of 375 copies SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]