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One’s Company – A Journey to China [with Rare wraparound band]
FLEMING, Peter First edition, first printing. 8vo. 319pp. Green boards with red lettering to spine & red bird motiff to front board. Pictorial buff dustwrapper with rare original wrapaound "Book Society" band. A fine copy with fresh unmarked boards. Internally complete and clean. No inscriptions. Some spotting to leading textblock edge. The near fine/fine dustwrapper is crisp with original wraparound band tipped to front & rear flap [as issued]. Lightening to red hues on spine. Original price of 8s6dnet to front flap. An exceptional copy of Peter Flemings second travel title with scarce wraparound band. Fleming's account of his journey through Russia and Manchuria to China in the 1933 when he was the special correspondent to The Times. "No previous journey had been made to the anti-communist front by a foreigner"- $738
- $738
Billy Liar
WATERHOUSE, Keith First edition, first printing. 8vo. Dark red boards with gilt titles. Geometric patterned dustwrapper by William Belper. A fine copy with clean boards. No marks to textblock edges. Usual toning to leavers. No inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is complete, crisp and fresh with no toning or fading to spine. Original price of 13s6dnet on front flap. An exceptional copy. The novel which was the basis for the 1963 classic film with Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie. Yorkshire teenager, Billy Fisher is unable to stop lying especially to this three girlfriends; he is trapped in his boring job and living with his working class parents - he dreams of Ambrosia, the name he has given for his fictional idyllic country where he will release the shackles of his everyday.- $631
- $631
The Conquest of Happiness
RUSSELL, Bertrand Rare in dustwrapper. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Pale blue boards with navy blue titles. Buff typographical dustwrapper. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Internally complete and clean. Spotting to textblock edges & neat contemporary ink name & date to endpaper. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete. A couple of very small nicks to extremities and toning to spine. Original price of 7s6dnet to front flap. Russell attempts to diagnose the myriad causes of unhappiness in modern life in our prosperous Western societies and put forward a number of paths of remedial action. Not all the paths are so palatable to modern ways of living - ".to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness"!- $864
- $864
Princes and Princesses
LANG, Andrew First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt decoration to front board & spine. All edges gilt. A fine copy with fresh clean boards with very bright gilt. Internally complete. Small neat inscription dated 1908 to front endpaper. Some spotting to endpapers which are original and unsplit. Text clean & fresh. A very attractive copy with none of the usual fading/toning to spine. Beautifully illustrated by H. Ford. Fourteen stories of fearless, heroic Princes and fair maiden Princesses.- $208
- $208
A Passage to India
FORSTER, E. M. First edition, first printing with 3pp of advertisements at rear. 8vo. Burgundy boards with black titles. A near fine copy with light wear only to boards. Internally clean. A few tiny spots to titles only o/w very clean indeed. Endpapers original and unsplit. No inscriptions. A really lovely copy. Kirkpatrick A10a. A Connolly "100 Modern Movement Title" A novel set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian Independence movement in the 1920s. Selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century literature by the Modern Library.- $612
- $612
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The Outsider [Signed]. My Life in Intrigue
FORSYTH, Frederick Signed, inscribed & dated [2015] to titlepage. Black boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. No marks to textblock edges. The fine dustwrapper is crisp and fresh with no fading to orange lettering on spine. Original price of £20 to front flap. For more than forty years Frederick Forsyth has been thrilling us with stories from The Day of the Jackal to the Odessa File but what many do not know is that many of his most intriguing stories have been in his own life involving the IRA, the Stasi, the IRA, arms dealers in Hamburg etc and they are detailed in this book for the first time. Its a memoir like no other!- $63
- $63
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The Fourth Protocol [Signed]
FORSYTH, Frederick Signed & dated by Author to titlepage. First edition, first printing. A fine copy with clean and fresh boards. Internally clean and fresh with no inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper has the lightest wear. Original price of £9.95net to front flap. a lovely signed copy. The author's fifth novel and probably his best Cold War novel. A West End jewel robbery kicks the action off and unfolds a plan of spine chilling ingenuity designed to shatter the defences of the West and change the face of British society forever.- $88
- $88
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The Vanished World [Double Signed]
BATES, H. E. Signed by both Author and Illustrator on the titlepage. Blue boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper by John Ward. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Internally clean and complete. A couple of light marks to leading textblock edge. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete with a couple of closed tears. Original price of £2.50 net to front flap. The first volume in Bates' autobiography covering his ancestors, childhood, education and life up to the acceptance of the Two Sisters in 1925. A wonderful recollection of memories, nature and village life as the world was before fast cars, television, the internet etc - the vanished world indeed! Wonderfully illustrated throughout by John Ward.- $82
- $82
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I Will Repay [sequel to the Scarlet Pimpernel]
ORCZY, Baroness A rare title. First edition, first priniting. Folding letter frontispiece. Blue boards with gilt title & red Liberty cap "bonnet rouge" to front board. A very good copy. Front & rear board clean. Old repair to rear spine hinge - endpapers original - small crack toward foot of rear endpaper. Internally complete. Old ink name to half title. The sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel & extremely scarce possibly due to low print run because of the relatively unknown publilsher, Greening & Co.- $441
- $441
The Heart of the Matter
GREENE, Graham First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with silver gilt titles & red topedge. Red & white typographical dustwrapper. A very good+ copy with unmarked boards and unfaded red topedge. Spotting to leading edge of textblock. No inscriptions. The very good dustwrapper is complete and most importantly with a bright red spine. Considerable edgewear & dusting to all extremities with number of open & closed tears with archival tape repairs to verso. Original price of 9s6dnet on front flap. Irrespective of the wrapper's wear its completeness and most importantly its bright unfaded spine allow it to become an affordable collectible copy. Ranked 40th in the 1998 Modern Library 100 best English Language novels of the 20th century. Details a life changing moral crisis for Major Henry Scobie whilst living in a colony on the west coast of Africa during World War II.- $315
- $315
The Luck of Bodkins
Sixth printing c1948. Orange boards & black titles. Pictorial dustwrapper by Abbey with the same artwork as the first printing. A fine copy with clean boards. Internally crisp and fresh with no inscriptions. The very good+ dustwrapper has some edgewear with nicking and few closed tears. Original price of 5/-net to front flap. An attractive copy. McIlvaine A54A. Monty Bodkin attempts to woo Gertrude Butterwick on the R.M.S. Atlantic but is hugely distracted by Miss Lotus Blossum - the brightest star in Hollywood.
Galahad at Blandings
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards. Internally clean with no inscriptions. No marks to textblock edges. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete with light edgewear and a couple of short closed tears. Mild lightening to spine. Crossed through original price of 16/-net to front flap. Blandings Castle is overrun with overbearing sisters, over efficient secretaries and the lovestruck. But to make matters worse an old flame has turned up which is too much for the poor Earl who just wants a quite life with his pig!
Carry on Jeeves
Tenth printing c1948. 8vo. Orange boards with black titles. A fine copy with no marks to boards. Internally very clean indeed and appears unread. No marks to textblock edges & no inscriptions. The very good dustwrapper has edgewear to extremities with a few small chips to head of spine. Tear to top left back panel/back flap fold with old strengthening internally & a small ghost of old tape externally at top of tear. Otherwise panels & spine clean and white. Original price of 5/-net to spine. McIlvaine A34a. A collection of ten Jeeves & Wooster short stories.
Uncle Dynamite
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Orange boards with black lettering to spine. Pictorial dustwrapper by Frank Ford. A fine copy with fresh boards. No inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper is clean & crisp with light wear & a light leech mark from an old (now removed) small piece of tape to top right corner of back wrapper panel. Original price of 8/6net to front flap. McIlvaine A68a. The second Uncle Fred novel in which his nephew Pongo smashes the prized statue of his lady love's father - but it doesn't end there when the replacement bust is found to be stuffed with jewels!
If I Were You
Fourth printing c1936. 8vo. Orange boards with black titles. A near fine copy. Fresh copy with one small mark to spine & a few tiny specks to boards. Internally clean with no inscriptions. Endpapers original and unsplit. An unusually clean & attractive copy with none of the usual fading or dulling to spine. McIlvaine A44b. A classic Wodehouse farce exploring the double themes of hair restoration and heir restoration!
Sam the Sudden
Ninth edition. 8vo. Pale orange boards with black titles. Pictorial dustwrapper with same artwork as the first printing. A near fine copy with clean boards. Some light spotting to edges. No inscriptions. Small ink publisher's number stamp to endpaper (as often found). The very good dustwrapper has edgewear with nicking & tiny chips to spine tips. Original price of 2/6net to spine. Sam Shotter has settled in the sleepy suburb of Valley Fields and appears to have been unwittingly sitting on a small fortune and is smack bang next to the girl of his dreams!![Who Am I? [Signed with Original Drawing]](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/31401356926-1.jpg)
Who Am I? [Signed with Original Drawing]
Signed by artist with drawing of Hedgehog to haltitle & loose large postcard sized letter from artist with another illustration - this time of a teddybear. First paperback edition. A very good+ copy with some edgewear to extremities. No loose or missing leaves. A lovely signed copy with original illustration. "One morning a small prickly animal awakes from his winter sleep - and can no longer who he is" The Small Bachelor
Ninth edition. 8vo. Green boards with black titles. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Internally complete with fresh leaves. Small publisher's ink number to endpaper. Some light spotting to textblock edge. Original & unsplit endpapers. Appears unread. The very good dustwrapper has nicking to extremities with a light mark towards foot of spine & lightening to some spine lettering. Early reprint with the same original artwork to wrapper as first printing. Not the smaller & thinner edition or the later Methuen sunburst edition. McIlvaine A37a. What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? There are so many obstacles - not least the fearsome Stepmother.![The Ascent of Everest [Signed]](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/31401356927-600x800.jpg)
The Ascent of Everest [Signed]
Signed & inscribed by Author to dedication page - "For Tony Husbands/With best wishes, on/another mountain occasion/John Hunt/2.5.71". First edition. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper by W. Heaton Cooper. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Internally complete & clean. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete with light wear to extremities and a couple of very short closed tears. An attractive signed & inscribed copy to a fellow climber. The official account of the successful 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition led by the author, Colonel John Hunt and in which Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit. Tony Newton Husbands was a climber particularly associated with Snowdonia and North Wales. Husbands was a long serving member of the Climbers Club [1945] and The Swiss Alpine Club becoming particularly notable at committee level in the 1980s; he died in 1995 and his obituary is in "The Alpine Club Journal" for 1996. Doctor Fischer of Geneva
First edition, first printing, first issue with "leave alone" on line 4 of page 9. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles. Typographical dustwrapper. A fine copy with unmarked boards. Internally unread with no inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is fresh and clean with none of the usual toning to spine. A Superior copy. A "black entertainment which also a profound study in human greed"
A Sort of Life
First edition, first printing, first issue with "Sir John Barrie" on p177 rather than "J. M. Barrie" on later issues. Green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Purple topedge (as issued). Purple typographical dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. No marks to textblock edges. Internally spotless. The fine dustwrapper is fresh and clean with one light scratch to rear panel. Original price of £1.80net to front flap. A lovely first issue copy of Greene's first autobiographical volume. Not the usual price clipped dustwrapper. Destination Unknown
First edition. first printing. 8vo. Orange boards with black titles. Green typographical dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards and no inscriptions. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete with light wear to extremities & very slight toning to spine.Original price of 10s6d net on front flap. Wagstaff & Poole p.204. A Hercule Poirot novel. A number of scientists go missing and one woman appears to hold the key to the mystery but she is dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash.
The James Bond Dossier
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher's black boards with gilt titles & blind stamped bullet holes to front board. Pictorial dustwrapper by Richard Chopping in his usual trompe l'oeil style. A near fine copy with no marks to boards. No inscriptions. A couple of fox spots o/w fine. The fine dustwrapper is complete & fresh. None of the usual heavy toning to the white lettering on wrapper spine. An attractive copy. A dossier compiled by Amis on the most famous spy in the world. A Question of Proof
Author's first novel. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Orange boards with black titles. A good copy. Heavy wear to covers with nick to bottom left foot of spine. Heavy dusting to boards with dulling to spine. Internally complete with ink name to endpaper. Light handling marks in text and a number of small marks to p236-237. No loose or missing leaves. A very uncommon title. The faculty and student body are shocked at Sudeley but scarcely saddened when the headmaster's obnoxious nephew, Algernon Wyvern-Wemyss is found dead in a haystack on sports day. One of the masters becomes a suspect and calls in his clever friend Nigel Strangeways to help clear things up but then another murder takes place!