Search Results: Titles starting with I from Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: Arthur Barker, 1934. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 9cm), pp.494 [2]; pp.[2] 575 [2]. With a folding family tree of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to rear of each volume. Bound in dark blue half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over boards, and top edges gilt. Contents clean, free from the usual spotting, exteriors as new. Fine copies in attractive recent leather bindings. Arguably the defining piece of Roman historical fiction from the twentieth century, Graves' classic fanciful autobiography of Rome's fourth Emperor builds a tangled web of family feuds and internecine murder from hints provided by Tacitus and Suetonius. The story was dramatised by the BBC in 1976, staring Derek Jacobi, and has since inspired the tone of the acclaimed series 'Rome' (2005-07). Graves was a gifted classicist at Charterhouse and later Oxford, but decided to pursue literature and poetry after he completed his degree.… Read More

London: Arthur Barker, 1934. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 9cm), pp.494 [2]; pp.[2] 575 [2]. With a folding family tree of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to rear of each volume. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over boards, and top edges gilt. Some light spotting to edges and first / final leaves, otherwise crisp, clean copies in attractive new leather bindings. Arguably the defining piece of Roman historical fiction from the twentieth century, Graves' classic fanciful autobiography of Rome's fourth Emperor builds a tangled web of family feuds and internecine murder from hints provided by Tacitus and Suetonius. The story was dramatised by the BBC in 1976, staring Derek Jacobi, and has since inspired the tone of the acclaimed series 'Rome' (2005-07). Graves was a gifted classicist at Charterhouse and later Oxford, but decided to pursue literature and poetry after he completed… Read More

London: Werner Laurie, 1953. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.223. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in white to spine in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Barton. Some slight offset toning to endpapers, dust-jacket shows very well, very slight loss at head of spine panel, a near fine copy.

London: Samuel French, No date [c.1930s]. [Script] SECOND EDITION. Booklet (22 x 14cm), pp.77 [3]. Publisher's typographic softcovers, priced at four shillings to front. Light internal toning. Glue marks to hinges with front starting. Covers toned and lightly creased, mild wear to joints and spine ends. Very good. A 'morning-room,' or 'drawing-room' play, initially performed to entertain party guests, includes witty, comedic plots centring genteel and aristocratic characters. This play, like the title suggests, ends with Mrs. Bennett gazing toward the heavens in gratitude for the marriage of her three daughters (before pleading for suitors for the two remaining).

London: The Folio Society, 2020. [Autobiography] FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 234 [4]. With six colour plates by Larkin, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and pink illustrated cloth over boards. Orange endpapers. With the publisher's orange paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy showing just a hint of handling to slipcase. The famous first volume in Angelou's seven-volume autobiography, first published in 1969, and previously published by The Folio Society in 2000 in a different binding, without an introduction or illustrations.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1953. [Far East Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.176. With eight black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth over boards with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Very light spotting to edges and endpapers. Light spotting and browning to rear jacket panel, with some light toning to spine and a few chips and closed tears to top edge. Very good. Concerning the author's experiences living and working in wartime and post-war China.

London: Collins, 1961. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.448. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blue ink gift inscription to 'Clem' to flyleaf. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Spine sunned to grey, with gilt completely dulled and some rubbing to cloth. Very good. A novel by the author of 'Fame is the Spur' (1940). From the library of Clement Attlee (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1945-1951), and his wife Violet.

London: Bantam Press, 2019. [Modern fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titles to spine, and yellow endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Richard Ogle, priced at £20.00. 'Signed Copy' sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. A light Romance from the best-selling author of the 'Shopaholic' series.

Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2012. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.56. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, from the heart' to half-title. Publisher's grey soft covers. Rubbing to spine and a couple of bumps. Very good. The author's first published poetry collection.

London: Evans Brothers, 1954. [WWII novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.224. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. With ten photographic halftone illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 12/6 to front flap. Interior lightly toned and spotted in a few places, including both endpapers. Cloth faintly sunned to spine and extremities. Dust-jacket toned and spotted, mostly to lower. Wear to extremities. A very good copy in the rare jacket. The tale of an Austrian medical student who gets captured by the Russian army at Stalingrad and taken to a P.O.W camp. A novelised true story, recounted from the protagonist 'Pepi' to Godfrey Lias after he escaped and returned home. Narrated candidly by Lias, who himself served in both World War I and II.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 380 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in green ink to title page: 'John R. Cronland | with all kind thoughts | from Neil Bell | Brixham | June, 1950.' Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Lowen, priced at 12/6. Internally crisp and clean, with perhaps a touch of toning to edges, and a little light wear and bumping to cloth. Jacket rubbed to edges, with some chipping. Very good.

London: Evans Brothers, 1954. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION, PRODUCER'S COPY. Two volumes; one working copy, and one ring-bound 'Producer's Copy.' Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.94 [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's green paper covers with black titles to spine and front cover, priced at 5s. Producer's Copy ring-bound with black leatherette covers, gilt titles to upper, and a blank leaf between each leaf of text, intended for notes. Producer's Copy internally clean with only light wear to covers. Near fine. Working trade edition has neat pencil notes to most pages, with heavier wear to covers. Price scored out, with loss to head and tail of spine. Good. Adapted from Isherwood's novel 'Goodbye to Berlin,' this 1951 / 1952 Broadway play itself inspired both a film of the same name (1955), and the later hit musical 'Cabaret' (1966).

London: Orchard Books, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 26cm). Number 130 of 1250 copies SIGNED by the author to slipcase. Publisher's colour-illustrated white cloth with red and white titles. With the illustrated white cloth-covered slipcase, priced at £30.00. Book still in the original shrink-wrap, case unmarked. A fine, as-new copy. The first in the popular 'Charlie and Lola' series, first published in 2000, and winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal.

London: Cassell Illustrated, 2007. [Cricket]. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.256. Illustrated in colour throughout. INSCRIBED by the author 'To Max', in black ink to front free endpaper. Publisher's glossy paper-covered illustrated boards with matching dust-jacket. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy.

London: Chancellor Press, 1994. [James Bond omnibus] FIRST EDITION THUS. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.847; [1]. blank. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers in illustrated dust-wrapper, illustrative dust-jacket in the same design. No inscriptions or ownership markings. Pages a little toned otherwise fine. An attractive omnibus edition with action-packed movie-style illustrated artwork. Rather elusive. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, E12.

Time, Inc., 1962. [Biography] Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps, with photographs throughout. Original price: 20c. Light wear. near fine. Contains an interesting profile of the author published during his lifetime, accompanied by photographic illustrations, written by Tim Green. Upon Fleming's death in 1964 many articles and obituaries were published, but earlier profiles of the author are rather less common. Also features articles on Janet Leigh (shown on the cover) and President Kennedy.

London: Secker Harvill, 2023. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.821; [11], endmatter. With black & white photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth blocked in silver to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. Fine / as new. A comprehensively detailed biography of Ian Fleming, packed with new information.

London: Faber and Faber, 2011. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo, pp.397. With 16 monochrome photographs on 4 plates in the centre of text block. Publisher's hardback cloth, spine lettered in gilt, orange endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. No inscriptions or price-clipping, minor production creasing to rear; a fine/as new copy, carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. "The true story of Fleming's wartime Commando unit, the real-life inspiration for James Bond" (from the blurb). The factual account of the formation of this elite fighting outfit, filmed as 'Age of Heroes' (2011) starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer. Gilbert, page 602.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine, beige endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. A clean, fine copy. 'The most comprehensive biography of Ian Fleming' - Gilbert. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Otto Penzler, purchased by ourselves at Swann Auctions in 2010, with a printed book label and pencil note to that effect, original sale slip inserted. Penzler's Mysterious Press, New York, published books by the James Bond continuation novelists John Gardner and Jeffery Deaver. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.592.

London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. [Bibliography] LIMITED EDITION, number 115 of 150 copies SIGNED signed by Fergus Fleming (co-publisher at Queen Anne Press) and his brother James (publisher of The Book Collector), Ian Fleming's nephews. Additionally signed by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. All three authors have written essays contained herein. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.x;150; [viii], Endmatter. With numerous pages of illustrations, some in colour, several not used in the original journal publication. Handsomely bound in Ratchford's full red Colorado cloth with gilt lettering and ornament, black endpapers, contrasting red and black endbands. As new. To celebrate its 65th anniversary, The Book Collector magazine devoted its Spring 2017 issue to Ian Fleming, who had launched the publication in 1952. Essays were provided by editors old and new, family and colleagues of the author, as well as Fleming scholars, historians, bibliophiles and regular Book Collector contributors. Subsequently, fine… Read More