Search Results: Authors starting with F from The Plantagenet King

Chatto & Windus. First UK edition published by Chatto & Windus in 1930. This is a very good or better copy. The wrapper has small amounts of loss to the top and bottom of the spine. There are two splits to the edge of the inside flap. There is a couple of small chips to the corners along with a tear to the inside lower flap. There are two tiny holes to the spine. Overall though, the jacket is fairly complete and not price clipped. The panels are clean and without marks. The book is in excellent condition, with only a bumped top corner for wear and some light sporadic foxing to the side text block. The dark green top stain is bright and the pages are very clean. Overall a very good or better copy.  Faulkner's first novel, originally published in the US in 1926, it wouldn't be until 1930 that it was published in the UK and most likely in a small print run. The novel on the front wrapper exclaims "Not a War Book", it follows a wounded aviator's return home,… Read More

John Murray. First edition published by John Murray in 1991. This is a fine copy. The jacket is unclipped and without wear. The spine is not faded at all. The book is sharp with no issues. The pages are clean with no foxing or ink marks. The author Patrick Leigh Fermor has signed his name to the front free end paper. A superb signed copy in fine condition.  . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1991.

Secker & Warburg. First UK edition published by Secker & Warburg in 1954. This is a very good copy. The notoriously fragile wrapper is better than is usually found. There are small amounts of loss to the corners and some wear to the spine ends. The panels of the jacket are clean and it isn't price clipped. The book has a couple of faint marks to the front boards. Otherwise the book is in excellent condition. Overall a very good copy.  The highly illustrative jacket design is by Anthony Baynes. Fielding's account of his activities as a wartime agent in crete during WW2. A rare book to find in this condition.   . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1954.

Jonathan Cape. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 8vo., brown publisher's cloth, backstrip printed in gilt, with white 'Ski' motif to upper panel; in the original unclipped Richard Chopping dust jacket (16s. net), featuring a black and white illustration of the author to the lower flap; pp. [viii], 9-288; a fresh, bright copy, with minor bumping and scratches to the edge of the text block the only defects; jacket clean and unrestored, with the red lettering to spine, often faded, here bright and clear; some very marginal toning and creasing to extremities, but otherwise an excellent copy.  First edition, first impression. Binding A in brown cloth.  After the mixed reviews arising from his previous book, The Spy Who Loved Me, Fleming endeavored to return to his tried and tested formula with OHMSS. The villain Blofeld reappears, as well as the SPECTRE organisation, and Fleming sets much of the action in Alpine Ski resorts, having recently traveled to Engadine, near St Moritz.… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape. First UK edition. The jacket is in excellent condition and hasn't been price clipped. It is crisp. There is no sunning or browning. There is a tiny tear to the top of the spine and a small mark to the right side of the front panel. The book is very clean with no previous owners inscriptions and only a smattering of foxing marks to the upper text block. Overall this is a near fine copy. A rare near fine copy in the Richard Chopping designed jacket. Gilbert A13a (1.2) . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1965.

Jonathan Cape. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964 8vo., black cloth, japanese characters in gilt to upper board; lettered in silver to backstrip with publisher's device to foot; wood-effect endpapers; in the classic Richard Chopping dust jacket (16s. net) featuring a poisonous toad grasping a dragonfly under the shelter of a pink chrysanthemum; pp. [xiv], 15-255, [i]; essentially a fine copy, some very minor toning to edges of jacket and shelf-wear to the lower panel the only defects.  First edition, first impression, first state. Binding A in black cloth.   The final book in Fleming's 'Blofeld Trilogy', following Thunderball and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It features the usual descriptions of intelligence-gathering and code-breaking networks which Fleming himself was familiar with, having run covert operations during the war. In the Autumn of 1962 the author had travelled to Japan, adamant that his next novel would be set in the 'Land of the Rising… Read More

Pan. The complete first edition set of the James Bond novels, all published by pan between 1955 and 1968. This is a very good set. The spines for all the copies are in tact and all are well bound. Pleasingly there is no previous owner's ink in any of the copies. The most valuable book is OHMSS and that has a repair to the bottom of the spine but otherwise is in nice condition and in a protective cover. Casino Royale also has very little wear. All the volumes have browned pages as can be expected and some minor wear to the covers. Two or three volumes have creases to the covers. Overall a very good set and rare with all volumes being first print and the earliest state according to Gilbert the bibliography of Fleming's works.  . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1955.

Sir Isaac Pitman. London: Sir Isaac Pitman (1924). First edition. 8vo., Dark blue cloth boards, lettering to the spine; pp. [xi] 112 +[24]; A very good copy without the dust wrapper. The spine is dulled and the lettering without gilt. The corners have been pushed with some edgewear and the odd mark to the boards. The first and last couple of pages with light browning.  John Ambrose Fleming here explains how wireless telegraphy and telephony works. He writes in the preface that it is for the general reader to possess a brief sketch of the general principles. Fleming invented both the radio transmitter and the vacuum tube that was a key component of radio receivers and radar for many years.  . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1924.

Jonathan Cape. First edition published by Jonathan Cape in 1966. This is a near fine copy. The first state jacket is complete with no tears or loss. It is unclipped displaying the correct price of 10s. 6d. net. The spine is toned. There is a tiny amount of rubbing to the top edge of the front panel. The boards are in great shape. There is gentle pushing to a small part of the top edge of the upper board. There are no previous owner's plates or inscriptions and no ink. The final james bond novel published posthumously. [Gilbert A14a] . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1966.

Jonathan Cape. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962 8vo., black publisher's boards with dagger motif blocked in silver to upper board; lettered in silver along spine with Jonathan Cape device to foot; red endpapers; preserved in the original unclipped Richard Chopping dust jacket (15s. net); pp. [x], 11-221, [iii]; including an illustration of 'Dreamy Pines Motor Court' to p. [vi-vii]; light compression to edges and spine tips; upper edge a trifle spotted; otherwise a very fresh, bright copy; the unrestored jacket near-fine, with light creasing and browning.  First edition, first impression.  The shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's Bond novels, told from the perspective of a young woman (Vivienne). The infamous protagonist himself does not appear until halfway through the novel, when he appears to rescue Viv from the clutches of two dangerous criminals. The adult content proved controversial, and reviews were mixed, prompting Fleming to try and suppress reprints… Read More

Van Longhum Slaterus. The first appearance in print of Anne Frank's Diaries, this being fragments of her diary published in De Nieuwe Stem in 1946. This volume, in the publisher's hardback binding is in near fine condition. It is in an oatmeal cloth with blue lettering on the upper board and spine. The pages are very clean and the binding strong and square. There is a circular previous owner's bookplate on the title page. The contents is listed in contributor order and 'Frank, Anne. 'Dagboekfragmenten' (diary excerpts) is listed.  The diary excerpts are 11 pages from page 431 to 442.  Otto Frank typed his daughter's diaries out and then initially gave a draft to people within his close circle to read. One of these people was professor Jan Romein. He initially wrote an article about what he had read on the front page of the newspaper 'Het Parool' in April 1946. He was also on the editorial board of literary journal De Nieuwe Stem… Read More

The Hogarth Press. London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1924-1950 5 Vols, all 8vo., with the final volume, published 25 years after the others, in smaller format; dark green publisher's cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt; outer edges untrimmed; cloth marginally rubbed to extremities, but retaining its deep colour in all places; prelims and outer edges with scattered spotting; one faint dark mark to the lower corner of the text block present for some of the volumes; some offsetting and toning to the endleaves; occasional pencil markings within text; contemporary ownership name and date written in pencil to ffep of vol. II; other than a couple of minor finger marks and spots, very clean examples, especially so internally.  First editions, first printings all. Authorised translations in English under the supervision of Joan Riviere. With the Hogarth Press at the time run by both Virginia and Leonard Woolf, the papers were intended to be published in four… Read More