The Artist in his World, with 8 Descriptive Poems by Alasdair Gray - AN UNCOMMON DOUBLE-SIGNED COPY by McCulloch, Ian, with Gray, Alasdair - 1998

San Francisco: Hungry Mind / Midnight Paper Sales, 1996. Signed by Sherman Alexie. First edition / First printing. Number 52 0f of 90 copies. Letterpress broadside. 15" x 11 Fine. Excerpt from Indian Killer. This broadside was produced for Sherman Alexie's Reading at the Hungry Mind on November 15, 1996. Uncommon.

Printed on hand-made paper and limited to 220 copies (No. 137) signed by the author and unusually also signed by the illustrator, Robert Gibbings. Bookplate on front fixed end-paper. Overall size c.9.1/4 x 6.5/8 inches, c.23.5 x 17 cm. A very good copy indeed.

Paris: Lesclapart. Very Good. 1767. Hardcover. Complete in 2 volumes ; contemporary brown speckled calf with ornately gilt decorated spine: red leather title label & dark brown volume label. Triple gilt ruled cover edges surrounding an imprinted gilt armorial emblem on each cover. Marbled endpapers. Page edges dyed red. [xxxvi, 442pp, 1]. [418pp, 1]. Text is tight, clean & intact. Spine ends & edges lightly rubbed. Very old faded ink inscription on verso of title pages. Small booksellers plate on front endpaper. French text. Poetry. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 860 pages .

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards and slipcase lightly soiled and . rubbed, dedication page creased.. 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 301 signed and numbered copies. Coward’s signature on colophon page. Cream linen binding with gilt-stamped black leather spine label. Top edges gilt. Housed in red cardboard slipcase. viii, 371pp, index. Many black and white photos. Witty and entertaining autobiography of the British actor, playwright, intelligence officer, and composer. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.

W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1920. Collins King's Classics edition. 8vo. Inscribed by Symons on the front free endpaper " To Dora Gordine from Arthur Symons November 14: 1928(?)". A very good tidy copy in publishers beige cloth with dark green label, lettered and with wavy line border, all in gilt, to the spine. Top edge gilt. Dora Gordine was a noted Estonian Sculptor who regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy and Leicester Galleries in London as well as shows at The Fine Art Society & The London Jewish Museum of Art. Symons was a great champion of her work. Reviewing one of her Leicester Galleries exhibitions in a 1938 edition of the Spectator, Symons wrote; 'Her profound sense of pure form in sculpture, heedless alike of realism and of exaggerated abstraction, is united with the subtlest delicacy of modelling, and these qualities combine to endow her bronzes with an abnormal power, an almost uncanny life, which only the sculpture of the greatest civilisations of the past has… Read More

Mamet, David. Homicide. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First Edition, First Printing.
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 220 x 135 mm), xv, [1], 126 pages in illustrated wrappers (soft cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page of this paperback original, a screenplay for a crime drama Mamet directed starring Joe Mantegna and William H. Macy. "Homicide" was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won Mamet a "Screenwriter of the Year" award from the London Critics' Circle Film Awards.
CONDITION: Near Fine, with a couple of light ink marks to the bottom edge.

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1996. Signed on the title page by Richard Dawkins. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, pale gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

One of 100 large-paper copies printed on hand-made paper. Overall size c.9.3/8 x 6.1/4 inches. c.24 x 16 cm. Original lithographic portrait of the author by Wilson Steer as frontispiece. pps 8 + 204. Usual browning to free end-papers o/w internally near fine. Binding slightly soiled and rubbed, more so on corner tips but a very good copy of the fragile boards.

Belfast: John Henderson, 1844. Hardcover. Good/no d/j. 12mo. Exceptionally scarce Belfast-published collected works of the Scots-born poet who emigrated to the US in 1794 and is regarded as the founder or American ornithology and an inspiration for Audubon. Includes fascinating memoir with much on Wilson's life in America and the creation of his nine-volume masterwork, American Ornithology. Frontispiece and engraved title showing Wilson and birds of prey respectively. This, second title and contents rather spotted, but thereafter all is generally clean and bright until the last couple of pages of the glossary and rear endpaper. Block marbled to all edges. Binding tight. Former owner's name neatly to first blank. Well worn half leather with worn marbled paper. Some loss to leather titlepiece. 12mo. xxxviii + 504pp