Literature & History

First combined edition, first printing, SiGNed by the author, 8vo. Publisher's grey cloth, title to spine in black on a brown ground. With the photomontage dust jacket. An excellent copy in the somewhat browned dust jacket with a couple of minor scuffs.

First edition, flat signed by the author on title-page; 8vo (224 x 147 mm, 8¾ x 5¾ mm); publisher's black cloth boards, illustrated dust-jacket, lightly bumped at head of spine, spine of dust-jacket slightly sunned with light crease to front flap, a near-fine copy.

Number 131 of a limited edition of 175 copies, signed by the author; folio (304 x 242 mm), title in red and black, illustrations by Leonard Baskin, numbered prospectus loosely inserted; publisher's pictorial limp vellum, gilt, a little yellowed (as usual), top edge gilt., others uncut, original slip-case, small dent to one edge, otherwise very good, a near-fine copy.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; neat ownership signature to front free endpaper; publisher's orange cloth, titles to spine in black, with the pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly marked and frayed dust jacket.

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.

First edition, first printing; 8vo; publisher's blue cloth-backed grey boards, titles to spine in silver, with the dust-jacket with artwork by Gail Geltner. An exceptionally nice copy in the dust jacket.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's black boards, titles to spine in silver, with the dust jacket. A stunning copy in the dust jacket.

First edition, first impression, inscribed to Paul Gallico, 8vo; publisher's dark grey cloth, spine lettered in silver, front cover with knife motif stamped in blind and silver, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping; red endpapers, top edge severely browned (as with several of Gallico's Bond books) and with some leed to upper margin of some leaves, but otherwise a very decent copy in the little worn dust jacket.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; Publisher's orange cloth, titles to spine in black, some differential fading to the upper board and spine (to which this publication is prone) but a very decent copy in the somewhat marked, internally repaired dust jacket.

Limited edition, number 841 of 1,000 copies signed by the author and printed on handmade paper; 8vo; portrait frontispiece of the poet, publisher's japon-backed green boards, titles printed in brown on paper label on spine, green endpapers, some edges untrimmed, grey paper dust-jacket with label to spine. A superb copy in the very lightly tanned dust jacket.