
BENCHLEY, Robert
The Early Worm
New York: Henry Holt, 1927
8vo, pp. 263. Original green boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Dicky, for ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
PROULX, E. Annie
Heart Songs
New York: Scribner's, 1988
8vo, pp. 151. Original mauve and tan three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Leading edge uncut.
First ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GARDNER, John
Licence Renewed
London: Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, 1981
8vo, pp. 270. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
An Incorruptible Irishman 1767-1843
London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1932
Large 8vo, pp. 265. Original blue boards, lettered in black on red spine label to spine, Bushe coat of arms in gilt on red label to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[WODEHOUSE, P.G.] MOYLE, Seth
Cheque From the Frank A. Munsey Company
New York: N.p., 1912
Company cheque, hand-dated Sept. 4th 1912, made out to Seth Moyle, and signed by him on reverse.
HANDWRITTEN CHEQUE TO WODEHOUSE'S NEW YORK... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GREENE, Graham
The Return Of A. J. Raffles
London: Bodley Head, 1975
Small 8vo, pp. 80. Original orange boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition. No. 202 of 250 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
[intro. BROWNLOW, Kevin] LOVE, Bessie
From Hollywood With Love
London: Elm Tree Books, 1977
8vo, pp. 160. Original red boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper, portraits of the author to front and rear panels.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BOB 'BLOCKBUSTERS' HOLNESS: ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
PARKINSON, Norman
Lifework
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983
Large 8vo, pp. 200. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Grey endpapers. Photographic dustwrapper.
First edition... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[McKern, Leo] OLIVIER, Laurence
TLS Laurence Olivier to Leo McKern
London: N.p., 1982
1p. TLS on headed notepaper.
1pp. TLS FROM LAURENCE OLIVIER TO LEO McKERN, WELCOMING HIM TO THE CAST OF KING LEAR.
In 1959, Laurence Olivier hired....[please click on the image or book title for more details]
HEGLEY, John
Uncut Confetti
London: Methuen, 2006
8vo, pp. 85. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers with fold-over flaps.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ALAN RICKMAN: .... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. SELLERS, Peter] MILLIGAN, Spike and HOBBS, Jack
William McGonagall: The Truth At Last
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]
FONTAINE, Joan
No Bed of Roses
London: W.H.Allen, 1978
8vo, pp. 319. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrappers. Photographic dustwrapper, portrait of the author to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SHAW, Robert
The Sun Doctor
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]
[MILLIGAN, Spike] GUILD, Robin
The Complete Victorian House Book
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989
4to, pp. 320. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED TO SPIKE MILLIGAN BY HIS WIFE: ' Spike Darling -- This is more a present for 'us' to enjoy. Love Shelagh xx P.S. See page 22. Xmas 1989.' (p. 22 carries a picture of Holly Lodge in Highgate, at which Shelagh has written 'Lynsey [de Paul]'s house x').
Spike Milligan was married to Shelagh, his third wife, for the last nineteen years of his life until his death in 2002. Shelagh died in 2011.
ATKINSON, Kate
Behind The Scenes At The Museum
London: Doubleday: 1995
8vo, pp. 333. Original blue boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Winner of the Whitbread... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GRAY, Spalding
2 pp. ALS TO DAVID GOTHARD, CO-FOUNDER OF THE RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON
7 June 1985.
2 pp. ALS, 280 x 215 mm, in the original envelope, written on the stationery of the Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis.
Wooster Group co-founder and monologist Spalding Gray had met David Gothard at the... [more]
CARR, J.L.
A Month In The Country
London: Cornucopia Press, 1990
Large 8vo, pp. 106. Original olive green boards, title labels to front panel and spine, with original unprinted acetate wrapper. Pink... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HEANEY, Seamus
Door Into The Dark
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 56. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First paperback edition of Heaney's second commercially published collection, first published in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SARRAUTE, Nathalie
Tropisms And The Age Of Suspicion
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]
BETJEMAN, John
First And Last Loves
London: John Murray, 1969
8vo, pp. 244. Original pink and white illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
Later edition, AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY BETJEMAN ON... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
