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

London: Sphere, 2014. [Cricket Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 324 [4]. With four suites of four double-sided colour photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. A fine, as-new copy.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1943. [American Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 359 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'For | Captain John Booth | from | Elizabeth Trotter | and inscribed, most | affectionately and | admiringly | by | Booth Tarkington | Cleeve Gate, | May 26, 1943.' Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red, others untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, and somewhat shaken. Spine sunned and toned, with moderate general wear to cloth. Good.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[xx]; 301; [2], advertisements. Illustrated with numerous photos, plates and in-text line drawings, including several in colour. Bound in early quarter brown calf over blue cloth sides with red morocco title label to spine, ruled in gilt to same, original pictorial endpapers retained, top edge gilt. Old repair to half title (likely when rebound), some light spotting but contents generally clean, edges spotted, binding pleasingly aged with spine sunned and corners a little bumped. Very good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.183 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Jenny Tylden-Wright, priced at £6.95. Very slightly faded to jacket spine, otherwise a crisp, near fine copy. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and the author's first book.

London: Faber and Faber, 2016. [Diaries] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 721 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles blocked to spine, and patterned endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25. A fine, unread copy.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1954. [Sci-fi] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 202. With six full-page illustrations by Cornwell and a colour halftone frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, titles and pictorial motifs blocked in navy to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Light spotting throughout interior and to edges. Prize bookplate to flyleaf. Jacket price-clipped. Toning to jacket backstrip, toning and spotting to rear panel. Very good. A thrilling instalment of the Kemlo series, following a boy who was raised on a satellite and regularly galavants around deep space.

London: Cassell, 1950. [Reference] FIRST EDITION, second printing. Bibliographer's copy. Illustrated quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.i-xiv; 424; xvi-xlvi, advertisements. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 25'- net. Contents clean, p.o. bookplate/label to f.e.p. A fine copy in a slightly chipped jacket. Shows very well indeed. Ian Fleming's first appearance in book-form, following a privately distributed ring-bound manual for Kemsley journalists. This copy is from the comprehensive Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes and ownership. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert C26. See also Appendix B, page 663.

Kemsley House [Privately Published], [1947-8]. Small booklet (binding 133 x 95 mm; leaves 126 x 76 mm) comprising 64 ring-bound leaves and black card free endpapers, all in a pigskin binder, front cover lettered in gilt "Ian Fleming". Housed in a custom black cloth box. Coloured map ("Kemsley Newspapers Publishing Centres") on p. 99. Corners very slightly rubbed, minor tears to punched holes; a near near-fine copy. First and only edition. This is an exceptional association item comprising the author's copy of a handbook for journalists, devised by Ian Fleming as Foreign Manager of Kemsley Newspapers. As stated by Gilbert "this title represents Fleming's first book". This significant rarity first came to light when Fleming's substantial collection was transferred to the Lilly Library and the librarian, David Randall, identified it as Fleming's first book in 1972 (see The Book Collector). Randall stated that in the Lilly Library copy, pages 11-20 were blank, but marked "In Course of Preparation".… Read More

London: Cassell 1950. [Reference] FIRST EDITION. Illustrated quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.i-xiv; 424; xvi-xlvi, advertisements. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 25'-net. Some spotting to top edge. Wrapper lightly handled, spine toned with some chips to head and tail and one small hole to same. Very good. Ian Fleming's first appearance in book-form, following a privately distributed ring-bound manual for Kemsley journalists. His contribution was a very readable essay (pp.238-246) in which he discusses his department and provides an insight to the news-gathering techniques of the Foreign service, whilst describing the qualities required for his 'ideal foreign correspondent'; who must be able to 'drink with the meanest spy or the most wastrelly spiv,...be grounded in the history and culture of the territory in which he is serving,...be intellectually inquisitive,... able to keep a secret,... physically strong,... fast with a typewriter,... and able to drive a car.'… Read More

London: Cassell, 1950. [Reference] FIRST EDITION. Illustrated quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.i-xiv; 424; xvi-xlvi, advertisements. Publisher's beige cloth, gilt titles to spine on red panel. Some trivial handling; a clean, fine copy without the wrapper. Ian Fleming's first appearance in book-form, following a privately distributed ring-bound manual for Kemsley journalists. His contribution was a very readable essay (pp.238-246) in which he discusses his department and provides an insight to the news-gathering techniques of the Foreign service, whilst describing the qualities required for his 'ideal foreign correspondent'; who must be able to 'drink with the meanest spy or the most wastrelly spiv,...be grounded in the history and culture of the territory in which he is serving,...be intellectually inquisitive,... able to keep a secret,... physically strong,... fast with a typewriter,... and able to drive a car.' After the war, Lord (later Viscount) Kemsley was quick to take Fleming under his wing by offering… Read More

[Japan], 1963. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.155. With three black and white photographic plates [JFK, 88th Congress and Ambassador Reischauer]. Text in English, followed by Japanese, each segment with separate title-page printed on green card. Bound in dark blue silk, blocked in silver-gilt to spine and upper. Contents very clean, Japanese ink chop and inscription to endpapers, spine sunned, gilt rubbed from same. Generally near fine. An especially rare publication, with no copies appearing in global library searches. This collection of Kennedy's speeches was published on 15th November, exactly one week before the President's assassination. The speeches were assembled to appeal to the Japanese market by Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (1910-1990), the eminent Japanologist, respected American educator, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1961-66) who was personally appointed by Kennedy. Having seen diplomatic ties with the US suspended for a decade after the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan was… Read More

Tunbridge Wells: The Foundling Press, 2002. [Drama] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 25; [3]. With illustrations by Gentleman. Number 40 of just 300 copies in this edition. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Gentleman. Light bruising and a couple of marks to jacket; a touch sunned to spine and front cover. Near fine.

London: Faber and Faber, 1992. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Ocatvo (20 x 13cm), pp. VII; [1]; 88. Soft cover with Faber and Faber patterning in orange and yellow and small illustrated boys. Toning to edges of textblock, bumping to corners and spine. Very good. This is Armitage's second poetry collection and in 2019 he was appointed poet laureate. Armitage's style is perhaps most distinct because of his unique and powerful voice that strongly carries his native Northern Vernacular.

London: Collins, 1947. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a bookplate loose to preliminaries detailing provenance. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Browning and spotting to preliminaries; light rubbing to cloth. Jacket toned to spine, with large losses to head and tail; minor chipping and rubbing to edges. Very good. The seventeenth 'Norman Conquest' thriller, in a series which would stretch to over 50 books by the late 1960's. From the library of Anthony Lejeune (1928-2018), critic and writer for 'The Tablet' and the 'National Review.'.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. [Modern literature] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xii; [2]; 394; [6]. Publisher's blue cloth, white titles to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Rob Howard priced at $5.50 to front flap. Light pencil annotations here and there. Gentle wear to jacket extremities. Near fine. An anthology of eight tales from the king of detective fiction. It was Chandler's wish that these stories not be reprinted or collected during his lifetime, as he had borrowed extensively from their plots to furnish/complete his other novels.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to rear. Near fine. First appearance in book form- contains short stories published in the 1930s in "Black Mask" magazine.

London: Collins, 1947. [Pirate adventure novel] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth with silver titles blocked to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Leslie Stead. Contents clean, edges a little toned, jacket with a few small chips and tears, price clipped. Very good. Smuggled illegally into his native land after many years' absence, army deserter Jim Pryce finds himself deposited on a Cornish beach. Little does he suspect, setting out along the road to Penzance, that he is about to walk straight into a mine disaster, and into a story involving his own history.

London: Hot Key Books, 2018. [Young Adult Science Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 461 [13]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's white cloth with red metallic titles to spine, and illustrated endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Cherie Chapman and Chris Malbon, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy with a Waterstone's 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover.

London: Granta, 2000. [Travel / exploration / adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 398; [6]. With two suites of photographic plates, double-page map and vignette illustrations. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth blocked in silver, in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £20. Autographed to the title page in our presence. A clean, fine copy. The second book from the acclaimed writer, nephew of adventurer Peter Fleming and novelist Ian Fleming. His first book, the best-selling 'Barrow's Boys', was adapted as a BBC Radio 4 play in 1998.

London: Macmillan and co., 1901. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 413 [3]. With 10 black and white illustrated plates. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, and gilt elephant motif stamped to upper. Top edge gilt. Contents clean, some expected toning to edges of text block, rear hinge cracked, cloth lightly rubbed and handled with a few spots to rear cover. A very good copy. Kipling's famous Indian adventure, and one of the author's most enduring thrillers. Basis for the classic 1950 movie starring Erroll Flynn and Dean Stockwell. An early spy novel which undoubtedly influenced Ian Fleming and a whole generation of spy writers; the British spy Harold 'Kim' Philby was so nicknamed by his father after elements from this text.