The Place of Art in a University. A lecture. (INSCRIBED) by HERBERT READ - 1931

University of Washington Chapbooks, Seattle, 1930. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow distinguished art critic W.B.Honey. Small 8vo. 33pp. Card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. In very crisp state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first American edition - this copy inscribed by the author: "for Alan Smith with all good wishes from John Lehmann 1976". Slim 8vo. 137pp. Blue cloth, silver lettered and ruled at the spine. Covers just a little spotted in places. A bright copy in slightly tanned and rubbed dust wrapper. A two-page foreword by the author precedes eighty-one poems. The recipient of Lehmann's inscription, Alan Smith, was a noted English bookseller and bibliographer, compiler of the Poetry London checklist..

The Bodley Head, London, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of Theroux's debut novel (which was preceded by the US edition). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 208pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny smattering of foxing to the top edge and a single tiny blemish to the front free endpaper. Near fine in Yvonne Skargon-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but fractionally marked and with a single lengthy closed tear to the front panel..

Softcover with dust jacket in very good condition.
Signed by Sam Maloof, 'To Deborah, Blessings, Peace, Sam Maloof 1997.'
This is a very clean copy with no marks to internal pages. Cover has signs of shelfwear and minor scuffing, as well as minor edgewear. Spine is very tight.

New York: Harper Collins West, 1994. First Edition, Stated. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Fine. (xii) 212 pp. SIGNED in ink by Author Barnaby Conrad on the title page. Illustrated dust jacket. Foreword by Herb Caen. Illustrated, including from drawings by Author Conrad and various guests at his establishment. Cloth-backed boards. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Author Conrad was an artist, bullfighter, restaurateur and author of 27 fiction and non-fiction books. He was once secretary to Sinclair Lewis. El Matador, Conrad's elegant saloon on Broadway in San Franisco's North Beach, was a very popular meeting place in the 1950's for locals and visiting celebrities. From Herb Caen's foreword: "In San Francisco, for a gaudy decade when the world was young, everybody who was anybody came to the Matador and among the anybodies was a bonanza of Somebodies." An indispensable book for veteran San Franciscans everywhere. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books… Read More

University of Washington Chapbooks, Seattle, 1930. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow distinguished art critic W.B.Honey. Small 8vo. 33pp. Card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. In very crisp state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first American edition - this copy inscribed by the author: "for Alan Smith with all good wishes from John Lehmann 1976". Slim 8vo. 137pp. Blue cloth, silver lettered and ruled at the spine. Covers just a little spotted in places. A bright copy in slightly tanned and rubbed dust wrapper. A two-page foreword by the author precedes eighty-one poems. The recipient of Lehmann's inscription, Alan Smith, was a noted English bookseller and bibliographer, compiler of the Poetry London checklist..

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984, hardcover, 208 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Signed and inscribed by the Author 'For Anthony, Some shared places, with much affection George Nov 11/86' on the half-title page, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, corner and spine end bumps, light foxing to text block edges. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, corner chips, light wrinkle to top of front panel, short closed edge tear at front flap, in new Brodart sleeve. The third volume of autobiography by the popular jazz singer, screenwriter, pop music, film and TV critic deals with his early formative years in Liverpool. Mapped endpapers show Melly's neighborhood in Liverpool circa 1930. ISBN 9780297782773

Blishen, Edward. Donkey Work. London, Hamish Hamilton. 1983. 1st Edition. 8vo. Black hardback, gilt titles to spine. With unclipped dustwrapper designed by Edward Blishen. Pp249. Dustwrapper binding and pages all in near fine condition. Inscribed on front free endpaper To Sim and Arnold/ - in memory of Hyola/ & anticipation of Ffestiniog/ from/ Edward/ 1988. The dedication is to Arnold and Sim Rattenbury to whom he was later to dedicate his last book Mind How You Go, published posthumously in 1997.

The Bodley Head, London, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of Theroux's debut novel (which was preceded by the US edition). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 208pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny smattering of foxing to the top edge and a single tiny blemish to the front free endpaper. Near fine in Yvonne Skargon-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but fractionally marked and with a single lengthy closed tear to the front panel..