First edition in Allen Lane/Kestrel form. Allen Lane, London. 1982. Hardback with DW. 479 pages. Dust-wrapper price-clipped and with sl. shelf-wear. Top edge a little grubby; pre-lims sl. foxed. Sl. lean. View More...
Chatto & Windus. London. 1931. First edition, UK. Hardback with wrapper. Pages slightly browned and outer edges of pages foxed otherwise a remarkably clean and tight copy in a slightly worn wrapper that is browned to spine and lightly foxed and has been internally reinforced at head of spine. View More...
First edition. DW. With SIGNED opening page of short story "Apogee" - first draft, which has been typed up on A4 paper and loosely inserted. Nr. Fine/VG+ in very slightly worn wrapper, that is also very slightly sunned to spine and has surface scratches to lower panel. The short story is titled "Apogee", and was not published, but later in 2000 a short story called "After Apogee" was published. Aldiss has signed and labelled it along right hand margin "Brian Aldiss Sept '91". View More...
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1944. 6th edition (or fifth reprint of first edition). In very scarce DW - the same design as the first edition. Edges of boards slightly sunned,slight lean to spine, endpapers foxed, edges of pages spotted, pages lightly browned. With part of original wraparound film band loosely inserted. Generally a clean and sound copy in wrapper that is lightly foxed and soiled to rear panel and is worn along edges and chipped and creased at head and tail of spine. View More...
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1944. 6th edition (or fifth reprint of first edition). In very scarce DW - the same design as the first edition. Edges of boards slightly sunned,slight lean to spine, slight offsetting to spine of title from wrapper, endpapers lightly foxed, edges of pages spotted, pages lightly browned. Generally a clean and sound copy in wrapper that is lightly foxed and soiled to rear panel and is worn along edges and chipped and creased at head and tail of spine. View More...
First edition. DW. SIGNED by Inglis to title page. With SIGNED SLIP from Kingsley Amis to page oposite title. E/ps, upper bd and wrapper illustrated by Quentin Blake. E/ps sl. browned o/w VG+ in wrapper. View More...
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Printed in the School of Art, University of Reading. 1953
Seller ID: 18552
First edition. Presentation copy from the author, "To James and Elsa Bartley in affection Kingsley Amis, 1954." Original limp bds., printed wrapps. browned and lightly soiled. Sl. browning to reverse of contents page. VG+. James is James Bartley, "Jo", (1906-1967), was a lecturer in English, University College, Swansea, a specialist in drama, particularly Irish, active in producing plays at the university. He is mentioned a number of times in Amis's Memoirs and often mentioned in letters. He was a friend and drinking partner from Amis's years as a Swansea academic. From "Memoirs", page 123. "J... View More...
Jonathan Cape. First edition, first issue. DW. Flat signed by author to title page, no other inscriptions or dedications. Near fine in wrapper. View More...
First edition. 16 plates. Original green cloth, printed in brown and illustrated in black at upper bd. Text to spine gilt, spine sunned. T.e.g. Some occ. foxing o/w near fine. View More...
First edition. Victor Gollancz, London. 1930. Hardback NO DW. Black cloth, yellow type to spine. 286 pages. Presentation copy from the author - signed inscription to front free end-paper, " C. B. A. from Martin Armstrong Oct. 1930". Edges foxed and a slight lean to the spine. View More...
First edition. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 2003. Hardback with DW. 378 pages. A nice copy of this first, flat-signed by author on title-page. A lovely clean and fresh copy. View More...
Duckworth, London. 1998. First Edition, First Impression. SIGNED by the author to title page. Lovely clean copy in wrapper with Hatchards of Piccadilly circular sticker to front cover. View More...
Jonathan Cape, London. 1975. First edition. Hardback with DW. The boards are very slightly faded along top margins. The contents are very clean and fresh with no ownership inscriptions. The wrapper is NOT price clipped, it is a little browned and very slightly soiled o/w a very good, clean copy. View More...
First edition. DW. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO ANGHARAD RYDER. TOGETHER WITH TWO TWO-SIDED AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED AND FOUR AUTOGRAPH POSTCARDS FROM BALLARD TO RYDER. The letters are very interesting and also personal, for example he tells Angharad to be selective in her small safari through his novels, "...there's a pretty clear spectrum running from the visionary & idealistic (Crystal World and Unlimited Dream Co) to more or less out and out porn, as in Crash - though to me that's my most idealistic book of all...." He talks about the part-autobiographical nature of "Empire... View More...
Chatto & Windus. London. 1962. First edition. Top edge of pages foxed otherwise a clean and sound copy in price-clipped wrapper that is browned to spine and rear panel. View More...
Fourth Estate. London. 2010. DW. first edition, first issue with correct number line. Signed and dated by Barker to title-page, "5/6/10 'That duck is a wrong 'un. It has the eyes of a killer!' Nicola Barker." A fine copy in wrapper. View More...
First edition. Cassell, London. 1958. Hardback with DW. 201 pages. House name stamped to end-papers; ownership inscription to front free end-paper. Wrapper slightly foxed with slight discolouration to spine. View More...
First edition. Jonathan Cape, London. 1989. Hardback with DW. 310. Pull-out colour plate. Sl. shelf-wear to DW which has sl. staining (tea?) to flaps; fore-edge similarly sl. soiled. Signed by author on title-page. View More...
First edition. 1966. Hardback in DW. Outer edges of pages foxed, slight lean to spine otherwise a clean and sound copy in wrapper which is worn to edges with old tape marks to extremities. View More...
First edition. Michael Joseph, London. 1953. Hardback with DW. 240 pages. Sl. shelf-wear to dust-wrapper with sl. rubbing to extremities; small magenta crayon marks to front flap. Fore-edge sl. grubby. View More...
Picador. First edition, first issue with correct number line. DW. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE CHILDREN'S WRITER JACQUELINE WILSON. "Dear Jacqueline, Very, very best wishes and good luck with the writing, Bella Bathurst." Near fine in wrapper. View More...
First edition. DW. Address sticker with author's signed presentation to title page. "Angharad - best wishes, Nina Bawden". Pages sl. browned o/w fine in wrapper. ISBN 1860499112. View More...
First edition. Hutchinson, London. 1963. Hardback NO DW. Green/red speckled cloth, gilt type to spine. 192 pages. Line drawings. A very nice copy. View More...
Canongate. 2007. First edition, UK. DW. SIGNED and dated by author to title page. Outer edge sl. foxed. Near fine in wrapper that has sl. shelfwear. View More...
Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1948. First edition. Hardback with DW. Boards are very slightly soiled, fore-edges foxed and endpapers very lightly spotted o/w contents are clean and sound in very slightly worn wrapper that is browned to spine. View More...
