Search Results: Signed Books from Alex Richardson

London: Methuen, 1993. Reprint. Hardback. Octavo. 182 pages. Illustrated with b&w line drawings by Caroline Holden. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: "14th October 1993 / To Darling Marcia / with all my / very best wishes / Sue Townsend / (47 1/2)". Also signed and inscribed by actor Nicholas Barnes on the reverse of the half-title page: "To Darling Marcia / Can't wait to meet! / Love & best wishes / Nicholas Barnes / (R4's Mole)". Very Good in Very Good jacket. Text a bit tanned at the edges. Jacket slightly worn along its top edge and lightly rubbed on its faces.

Ballymena: Ballymena RFC, 1987. Paperback. Quarto. [xiv prelims] 190 pages. Numerous b&w photographs and illustrations with the text. Forewords by Paddy Madigan and Ewart Bell (Presidents of the Irish Rugby Football Union) and John Hewitt and Willoughby Wilson (Presidents of the Ulster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union). Autographed by Willie John McBride, the club's then Vice Chairman, on the title page. Good. Text has a few small marks on its fore-edge. Reading crease down the spine.

Stamford: Peter Maskell Publishing Services, 2010. 1st edition. Hardback. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Octavo. 197 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Preface by Pat Marston Walker; Introduction by Peter Maskell; Foreword by Chris Yates. Number 234 in a limited edition of 570 copies, signed by Pat Marston Walker on the title page and Peter Maskell on the limitations page. Good in Good jacket. Page edges rather tanned. Jacket also tanned along the top of its front; small dink near the front spine fold; some rubbing to each face; a crease in the bottom corner of the front flap.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. [xiii prelims] 578 pages. 32 pages of colour and b&w plates. Signed by the author on the title page. Good in Good jacket. Previous owner's inscription at the top of the title page.

Billingshurst: The Bookplate Society in association with The Keridwen Press, 1988. 1st edition. Paperback. Octavo (21 x 15 cm). 35 pages, 23 of which are b&w reproductions of the bookplates. (Also a b&w photograph of the artist as a frontispiece.) Part of a limited run of 500 copies, 140 of which were numbered and signed by the author. This is copy number 75: the number is inked on the reverse of the title page, the signature on the Introduction page that follows it. Very Good in Good jacket. Text a little shelf-soiled in its bottom corner, near the fore-edge. Jacket has faded around the spine, which is also a bit tanned at its foot.

New York: Assouline Publishing, 2008. 1st edition. Hardback. Brown boards with the subject's and publisher's names blind-stamped to spine and front. Octavo. 79 pages, 56 of which are full colour plates. Signed by Malandrino on the front free endpaper: "London June 11/09 / Catherine Malandrino". Good in Good jacket. Text tanned at the edges. Jacket a little creased at the edges and spine ends, with some rubbing to the front and a tanned back.

Kings Lynn: Crowswing Books, 2005. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. 198 pages. Part of a limited edition of 470 copies. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in Near Fine jacket which has just a little wear at the corners.

Sparkford: Haynes Publishing, 2002. 1st edition. Hardback. Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Quarto (25.7 x 25.6 cm). 208 pages. 16 pages of colour plates; numerous b&w photographs within the text. Foreword by Teddy Mayer. Signed by the author on the title page. Very Good in Good jacket. Page edges a bit tanned. Jacket also tanned at the edges, particularly around the spine and on the back panel.

Amsterdam: Privately Printed, 2022. 1st edition. Hardback. Green boards with gold decoration to front and lettering to spine. Octavo. 88 pages. Numerous b&w illustrations by Rebecca Yanovskaya throughout the text. Issued in an edition of 250 copies signed, numbered and stamped by the author. Very Good. Ink smudge in the top corner of the front free endpaper.

Privately Printed, 1996. Paperback. 12mo (19 x 13.1 cm). Booklet of 16 pages sewn into blue wraparound card covers. Pagination: [4 blanks], half-title page, [1 blank], title page, copyright page, [2 pages], [1 blank], limitation notice, [4 blanks]. Printed for Reed and Alan Clodd by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press, September 1996. Number 73 in an edition of 80 copies, signed, numbered and corrected by the author. (Note: Another copy of this book (number 11) for sale online is described as having a "metallic" blue card cover. The cover for this one is of ordinary card. My best bibliographical guess is that the metallic card was reserved for the early copies in the run, perhaps the first twenty?) Good. Cover has some creasing along its edges and a couple of tiny spots to the title plate on its front.

Portsmouth: Milestone Publications, 1985. 1st edition. Hardback. Original brown cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 171 pages. Numerous b&w photographs within the text. Foreword by Digby Fairweather. Signed by Nat Gonella and Ron Brown on the title page. Good in Good jacket. Some fading to the edges of the boards; foot of spine pushed in. Endpapers tanned. Jacket has some wear to its edges and spine ends.

Wisley: AAPPL Artists' and Photographers' Press, 2007. 1st edition. Hardback. Issued in pictorial boards without a jacket. Quarto. 112 pages. Illustrated in full colour throughout. Signed and inscribed by the artist on the reverse of the front free endpaper: "To Samantha / Lots of love / A Sudworth". Good. Boards worn and rubbed at the edges, particularly along the spine folds and around the head of the spine. Both faces are rubbed and marked.

London: Picador, 2020. 1st edition. Hardback. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 59 pages. Several b&w drawings by Tim Robertson within the text. Foreword by Val McDermid. Signed by the author on the title page. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has some creasing around the head of its spine and a faint mark on its back.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. Hardback. Issued in pictorial boards without a jacket. Octavo. 390 pages. Number 738 in a limited edition of 750 copies, signed by the author. Very Good in Very Good slipcase. Spine leans slightly and is a bit tanned. Slipcase has some wear at its corners.

Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1999. 1st edition. Hardback. Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [xiv prelims] 225 pages. Numerous b&w photographs within the text. Foreword by Raymond Baxter. Pasted onto the front free endpaper is a bookplate signed by both Cunningham and Golley. Good in Good jacket. Text a bit tanned at the edges. Jacket has some wear and creasing along its top edge, as well as a few faint marks on its faces.

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. [x prelims] 499 pages. 40 pages of colour and b&w plates. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half title page: "For Larry, / with thanks, and admiration, / Denise Gigante / 3/27/12". Good in Good jacket. Back board has a couple of small bumps on its top edge. Several pages of the text creased in the bottom corner. Jacket a little worn along its top.

Epping: Bowker, 1978. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. [xiii prelims] 221 pages. Numerous tables and figures within the text. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "With the writers best wishes / A Q Morton". Good in Fair jacket. Rear board has a creased bump in its bottom corner. Text brown at the edges; small grease spot to the front free endpaper. Jacket has obvious wear to its edges, spine ends and corners, particularly along the top. Its spine is sunned, as are portions of its faces, both of which have also picked up several marks.

Kibworth Beauchamp: Matador, 2022. 1st edition. Paperback. Octavo. [xxxvi prelims] 143 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. "An encrypted transcription of the final 'Penelope' chapter of Ulysses" exploring "the liminal space between visual art and literature". Very Good.

Marlborough: Libanus Press, 2006. 1st edition. Hardback. Quarter bound in oatmeal buckram over black boards. Paper title label to spine. Octavo. Unpaginated. Poems in English and French. One of a limited edition of 250 copies, signed and inscribed by the poet on the front flyleaf: "To John / with all best wishes / John / 6-11-09". Very Good. Front board a bit scuffed in places. Text has a small mark on its fore-edge. [John Edward Clement Twarowski White, CBE, FSA (1924-2021). British art historian, Professor at University College London, RAF pilot, poet and almost-Buddhist.]

Marlborough: Libanus Press, 2004. 1st edition. Hardback. Quarter bound in oatmeal buckram over violet boards. Paper title label to spine. Octavo. Unpaginated. Poems in English and French. One of a limited edition of 250 copies, signed and inscribed by the poet on the front flyleaf: "To John / with all best wishes / John / 6-11-09". Very Good. Tiny spot on the top edge of the text. [John Edward Clement Twarowski White, CBE, FSA (1924-2021). British art historian, Professor at University College London, RAF pilot, poet and almost-Buddhist.]