Signed - Inscribed - Limited

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; oblong 4to; publisher's pictorial boards, printed endpapers, with the original polythene dust jacket with the price label intact. An excellent copy in the somewhat nicked and lightly baggy jacket. This is the first example in the dust jacket we have handled.

Limited edition, inscribed by Douglas Cooper to William McCarty, one of 500 copies; oblong 4to, (24.3 x 30.5 cm); inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper, frontispiece, 24 full-page hors-texte illustrations, very light spotting to prelims, some minor marginal toning, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's grey paper-backed boards, front cover lettered in black, stain to bottom edge of front cover, board edges and spine slightly toned, overall an attractive copy; 21pp text, 24pp descriptive text.

Reprint, author's presentation copy; 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket. A very nice copy in the dust jacket.

First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's orange cloth, titles to spine gilt, spine faded and a little cocked, boards slightly bowed. Overall a very good copy.

First UK edition, first impression; presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's black boards, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket; light tape residue to the endpapers, from an old jacket protector, spine rather dull but a very good copy in the frayed and torn dust jacket rather faded at the spine.

First edition, first impression, deluxe issue, being one of only 60 copies, signed by the Author; 8vo; 3 tinted plates, vignettes and pictorial endpapers by Rex Whistler; publisher's purple vellum with gilt vignette to upper cover, yapp edges, top edge gilt, others uncut, dust-jacket with slight discolouration to strip along top of both panels, slight bowing (as usual) and soiling to vellum covers.

1pp., 29 lines typed on single sheet, (21.6 x 35.5 cm), signed 'Edward James' in blue ink on the recto; folded several times.

First separate edition, first printing, first issue, 1 of 100 copies, this additionally signed and dated and with a quatrain written out by Hughes; 4to; publisher's marbled paper wrappers, titles and device to both wrappers in black, rivet holes at backstrip as issued. An excellent copy.

First edition, third printing; presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, titles to spine gilt, red topstain, with the dust jacket; slightly shaken but an excellent copy in the lightly frayed dust jacket somewhat faded at the spine.

First edition, first impression; presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's orange-red boards, spine gilt and turquoise, with the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the somewhat toned dust jacket.