Search Results: Authors starting with P from Itchen Books

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, with complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page. Inscribed by the author to the title page in black ink "To a fellow scribe, Bests, Chris" (not dedicated, and no ownership inscriptions). Crushing to upper rear panel of dustwrapper.

Very good. Signed by author. Inscribed by the author to the title page in blue ink. First edition. 232pp.

1st Collectors Edition / 1st printing, with complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page. Includes a new afterword by the author. (Originally published by Canongate in 1989). Very Good condition, with just a touch of shelf wear to the lower edges and minor dusting to closed upper page edges. Appears unread. In Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. Handsigned by the author to the reverse of the front endpaper. No personalisation or other inscriptions.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing with complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page. Handsigned to the title page by the author Orhan Pamuk. (No other inscriptions). Very Good condition (?unread?), with just a little browning to the upper closed page edges near to the binding.
Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely; A personal selection of the best from twenty-five years' work of the 2006 Nobel Laureate, including autobiographical reflections on Pamuk's first passport and his first trip to Europe as well as discussions of literature, culture, and politics. The U.K. edition is the true first edition in English.

1st Edition, undated but c1949. Specially printed private edition, numbered and signed by the author. This is No. 98, signed in blue ink to the limitation page. No other inscriptions. In original worn / rubbed/marked dustwrapper which is not price-clipped published price 12/6), but largely complete. An instructional volume on sex and sexual development.

Near Very Good condition, with no inscriptions. Upper rear hinge is separating, otherwise clean and bright. The dustwrapper is printed on the back of "Bird Flight for Bird Lovers" by Jack Parham following war shortages of paper, and has edge chips, mainly to where the upper spine meets the rear board, and 1.5cm loss to mid spine. Illustrated with black/white line drawings and section of sepia photographic plates.

Original exceedingly rare Russian Language 1st (Pirate) Edition of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Meets all the issue points for the true 1st Edition - "Roman" to title page, 634 pages, publishers imprint in cyrillic, and 2 page introduction (lacking from later Russian editions). Unusually tight, bright, Very Good condition, with no inscriptions and only light toning to closed page edges. Several gatherings are unevenly browned as usual, due to differing paper stocks used in printing. Issued without a dust-jacket.The publication of the Russian text of Doctor Zhivago was attended by odd circumstances. It first appeared in a 'pirated' (or possibly semi-authorised) edition, a short time before Feltrinelli's official edition came out in Milan. The 'pirated' version, however, bore Feltrinelli's imprint and were produced by Mouton, the reputable firm of Dutch printers with whom he was negotiating, and to whom he had sent the manuscript. Declassified documents reveal that the CIA sought to embarrass the… Read More

4pp. Illustration by Gordon Bradshaw. Translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater. Limited Edition of 180 copies only. Very Good+ in original printed envelope.

106pp. Includes illustrations. + 4pp publisher's advertisements. Very good condition. Minor marks to boards, and neat Presentation plate to front pastedown. A scarce title. "This title is what it's title proclaims to be, viz., a series of 'Homely Chats' intended for 'Homely People'. The aim of the Author has been to provide for those who, in the rush of life, find little opportunity for solid reading; and to present to them, in the language of the Market, rather than the Pulpit, wholesome advice, dispensed in such homeopathic quantities, as he trusts will be suited to the requirements of the busiest life.".

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1980. Very Good condition with no inscriptions. The author's second published collection of poetry, some of which had been previously published in literary journals and periodicals.

Undated, but circa 1910. Foxing to closed page edges and page margins, and a little bowing to boards. Loss of blank corner to page 149/150. Generally in Good, complete condition.
Edited, and with an introduction by Ernest Pertwee. Contributors include : G.R Sims, Ella Wheeler, J.G Saxe, Rev John Pierpont, Will Carleton, H.A Beavan, Frank Adkins, Rev Dawson Burns, Charles Wakely, John G Whittier, Eliza Cook, Rev Charles W Denison, Cardinal Manning, Horace Smith, Thomas Spurgeon, Charles Mackay, T.R Thompson, I Edgar Jones, A.W Dale, Frederick Langbridg, E.G Tandy, Bishop of Wakefield, Rev Robert Maguire, Gertrude Moore, Jessie Elder, Louise S Upham, William Cullen Bryant, Will Carleton, Adelaide Anne Proctor, W Blackwood, M.S Haycraft, J.R Lowell, Robert Buchanan, George Macdonald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rev W.H Cologan and Sir F.R Cruise (on 'Alcohol : Is it a Food ?).

English Language poetry collection. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Includes illustrated photographic plate of Crown Princess Michiko with her daughter, and further plate of the author's mother. Warmly inscribed to the half-title page by the author for Christopher Fry, (Poet and playwright 1907-2005), bearing her Shirayuri Women's College address and dated August 1979. Very Good, clean, tight condition, in Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped.

Advanced Reading Copy. Pre-publication Uncorrected Proof. Very good. Mark where sticker has been removed from rear cover. No inscriptions. With flaps. 296pp.

Near Very Good condition with a brief note in pen to the corner of the front cover "Visited with EGB Saturday, 17 November 1923". No other inscriptions. Includes cast list and period advertisements.The play introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole. It premiered in Prague in 1921 and was translated from Czech into English by Paul Selver in 1922. The American première was at the Garrick Theatre in New York City on October 9th, 1922, where it ran for 184 performances, a production in which Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien played robots in their Broadway debuts. London first saw the play at St. Martin's Theatre on April 24th, 1923, a production that included Basil Rathbone as "Harry Domain". Capek first utilised the word 'robot' (from the Czech robota) to refer to a mechanical humanoid machine, displacing older words such as "automaton" or "android" in languages around the world. Karel Čapek named his brother Josef as the true inventor of the word. Isaac Asimov,… Read More

2x 1st Edition / 1st Printings of 'Lanny', in variant bindings and dustwrappers. The standard trade 1st Edition and the exclusive edition with an additional scene. Both are true 1st Printings, bearing the complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page.
Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2019 and the Man Booker Prize 2019. It was also shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, with complete numberline 1-9 to copyright page. Handsigned to the title page. No dedication or other inscriptions. Very Good+, clean, tight condition.

An original complete booklet of 10x detachable printed colour tinted souvenir postcards. Illustrating scenes of Bruges. Published by Nels / Ern. Thill / G. Godderis-Tanghe. No writing and not postally used. All 10 postcards + tissue guards are present. Very Good condition.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing. Undated but 2013. Illustrated with black/white frontispiece, text illustrations and 32 page colour 'Sketchbook Diary - Selected Openings' facsimile section. Final volume of Violet Powell's autobiography. Very Good+ clean, crisp, tight condition with no inscriptions. In Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £24) and has a little bruising to the upper edge and a 2mm circular abrasion to the front panel.. Final volume of Violet Powell's autobiography.

20pp. Illustrated with photographs of cast, author and scene from the play. Rare original 1933-1934 Duchess Theatre programme for 'Laburnum Grove' - A New Comedy by J.B Priestley. Printed date code "Jan 29" to corner of centre page. Good condition. The first staging of J.B Priestley's play which Premiered at the Duchess Theatre on 28th November 1933. Cast; Margery Pickard, Ethel Coleridge, Melville Cooper, Edmund Gwenn, Francis James, James Harcourt, Mary Jerrold, David Hawthorne, Douglas Payne etc.

24pp. Illustrated with photographs of cast in scenes from the play. Rare original 1931 His Majesty's Theatre programme for 'The Good Companions' - Adapted by J.B Priestley and Edward Knoblock from J.B.Priestley's novel . Printed date code "Aug 31" to corner of centre page. Good+ condition. The first West End London staging of J.B Priestley's play which Premiered at His Majesty's Theatre on 14th May 1931. Cast; Beatrix Feilden-Kaye, Frank Pettingell, Clive Morton, Jack Clewes, Edward Chapman, Edith Sharpe, William Heilbronn, Ellen Pollock, John Gielgud, Deering Wells, Adele Dixon, Lawrence Baskcomb, Constance Anderson, Mark Turner, Alexander Field, Larry O'Brien, James Stadden, Nat Lewis, Edwin Ellis, Bernard Dudley, Viola Compton, Margaret Yarde, Gerald Hornby, Walter W. Langford, Doris Rogers, Betty Hardy, Dorothy Seacombe, Harry Terry etc.