ROBINSON, PETER
Various Places: Various Publishers Books and jackets are in fine condition. All are in the DCI Banks series. They are listed here: "Gallow View", 1987, 1st Canadian, signed; "A Dedicated Man", 1988, 1st Canadian, signed; "The Hanging Valley", 1st Canadian, signed; "The Hanging Valley", 1992, 1st US, unsigned; "Past Reason Hated", 1991, 1st Canadian, signed; "Past Reason Hated", 1993, 1st US, unsigned; "Wednesday's Child", 1992, 1st Canadian, signed, heavy card covers; "Final Account", 1994, 1st Canadian, signed, heavy card covers; "Innocent Graves", 1996, 1st Canadian, signed, heavy card covers; "Dead Right", 1997, 1st UK, signed; "In a Dry Season", 1999, 1st US, signed; "Aftermath", 2001, 1st Canadfian, signed; "Aftermath", 2001, 1st US, signed; "Close to Home", 2003, 1st US, signed; "Strange Affair", 2005, 1st US, signed; "Piece of my Heart", 2006, 1st US, unsigned; "Friend of the Devil", 2007, 1st Canadian, signed; "Friend of the Devil", 2007, 1st US, signed; "All the Colours of Darkness", 2008, 1swt UK, signed; "All the Colors of Darkness", 2009, 1st US, signed; "Children of the Revol;ution", 2013, 1st UK, signed; "Abattoir Blues", 2014, 1st UK, signed; "Sleeping in the Ground", 2017, 1st UK, signed; "Careless Love", 2018, 1st UK, signed; "When the Music's Over", 2016, 1st UK, signed; "Many Rivers to Cross", 2019, 1st UK, signed; "The Price of Love and Other Stories", 2009, 1st US, unsigned, with an Inspector Banks novella. Postage will be extra for this large group of titles.. Signed by Author. First Editions. Various Bindings. Fine/`Fine. Octavo.
DICKENS, CHARLES
London, 1933
London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ltd, 1933. SIXTEEN VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Top edges tinted blue. Title in gilt on spines. Dickens' signature in blind-stamp front covers. A total of twenty-four stories in sixteen volumes. Illustrations through the text from the original publications. Only blemish is a faint water-stain at bottom of front cover of "Pickwick Papers", with brown stain bottom of pages 1-140, not involving text. See photos. A very nice set of the Dickens novels, excellent shelf appeal, and quite affordable to the beginning collector who is not quite ready for frst editions!! Average of 650-700 pages each volume. See Podeschi D207.;. Reprint Edition. Blue Cloth. Nearly Fine/No Dust Jackets. Small Octavo.
JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM
Edinburgh, 1852
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1852. SIX VOLUMES UNIFORMLY-BOUND.Spines decorated and lettered in gilt.Top edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Various dates from 1852-1854. Top of spines chipped, with 1/2 " piece missing top of spine Volume 3. Occasional old water-stains sparing plates. Collated complete with 197 full-page hand-colored plates with tissue guards, six portraits and six vignette title-pages. Several plates are loosened. Each volume has a biographical memoir at front with portrait frontispiece of the featured natural historian. Volumes 35-40 of the larger series. Volume 1, "Fishes", Volume 2, "British Fishes, Part 1", Volume 3, "British Fishes, Part 2"; Volume 4, "Fishes of the Perch Family"; Volume 5, "Fishes of British Guiana, Part 1"; and Volume 6, "Fishes of British Guiana, Part 2". See photos. . Later Bantam Reprint. Red Cloth. General Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jackets. Small Octavo.
COOPER, SUSAN FENIMORE
New York, 1861
New York: W.A. Townsend and Company, 1861. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid-down, hinges repaired. Blind-stamped cover and spine designs, lettering in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Most pages toned, some foxing occurring, usually peripherally. A large and heavy book of 400 pages. Illustrated throughout with forty steel engravings, seven wood engravings, and 120 head and tail vignettes, many by F.O.C. Darley. Illustrated title-page and frontispiece portrait of Cooper. The full-page illustrations are protected by tissue-guards. A nicely-repaired and preserved tribute to the author by his daughter. See photos. . First Edition. Full Brown Leather. Edges and Corners Worn./No Dust Jacket. Small Thick Quarto.
LANGWORTH, RICHARD M., EDITIED BY
New York, 2008
New York: Public Affairs, Perseus Books, 2008. Foreward by Lady Soames, Churchill's youngest child. Introduction by Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert. A monumental undertaking, this is an authoritative, attributed, annotated, and cross-referenced collection of Churchill sayings. 627pp.. First American Edition. Black Cloth Spine Over Boards. Fine/Fine. Medium Demy Octavo.
LOVELL, MARY S
New York, London, 2011
New York, London: W.W. Norton and Company, 2011. "The Churchills were an extraordinary family- ambitious, impecunious, impulsive, brave and arrogant-and they were connected with everyone who mattered in British royalty, society, industry and politics. Winston-recently voted "the greatest Briton"- dominated them all". 624pp.. First Edition. Black Cloth Spine Over Boards. Fine/Fine. Medium Demy Octavo.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1899. Rebacked with original spine laid-down. Marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. A very clean copy throughout. This book was made for Representative Charles B. Landis of Indiana, a member of the investigative committee. The first 143 pages are entitled, "Election Case of Brigham H. Roberts". Pages 95-108 are repeated. This is followed by "Case of Brigham H. Roberts, of Utah", from the 56th Congress, 1st Session, January 1900, Report 85, Part 1, 77 pages. Following are printed speeches of the members of the committee;, Robert Taylor, Charles Littlefield, Charles B. Landis, R.H. Freer, S.W.T. Lanham, and David A. DeArmond. These are then followed by copies of the Congrsssional Record, Volume 33, from 12/05/99 through 1/30/00. These are carefully folded in bound-in. Brigham Henry Roberts (1857-1933) was a historian, politician, and a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He was a member-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah's at-large district. His seat was refused by the House because of his practice of polygamy. A prolonged battle ensued to claim the seat, and he was unsuccessful. This book contains the information as it was occurring. A very unusual piece of Mormon history, likely the only such copy in existence. Please see photos. Flake 9163 and 9165.. First Edition. 1/2 Brown Calf. Light to Moderate Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Demy Octavo.