Search Results: Titles starting with B from Scorpion Press

Expensive and expansive production. It contains articles by the photographer Steve Diet Goedde as well as Midori and Vicki Goldberg. Clean, tight and square. No inscriptions or marks. One for the collector.

The second volume of fetish photography from Steve Diet Goedde. This one contains a preface by I S Levine. Square, tight and without any marks or blemish.
The size and weight may mean a surcharge on postage.

This is the advance proof in pictorial wraps of Morrison's Beloved. British edition. The front cover proclaims - A magnificent novel of freedom, and the freedom to love. An unread collector condition copy, but with a faint hint of foxing to foredge

An expensively produced volume of photographs of the Hollywood starlets. Includes a section on Monroe. Perhaps the ultimate glamour book. As new

Michael Holroyd, husband to novelist Margaret Drabble is a noted biographer. This the compete set of four volumes. all first editions and printings of his work on playwright and socialist George Bernard Shaw. The books are unread and in fine condition except for slight scuffing of the jackets near the top and corners. The books were signed at the Hay Literary Festival some years ago.

Before Vera and the Jimmy Perez books Ann Cleeves started as a crime writer with the bird-watcher series with George and Molly Palmer-Jones. This is her very first book, A Bird in the Hand, written some 36 years back. A nice presentable copy signed on the title page (at a crime convention - probably in Nottingham). The book is fine except that the pages are browning (being cheap paper stock). Square and tight, no marks. The jacket has no faults.

Sebastian Faulks Birdsong (1993). Set before and during the Great War and told through three different windows of time up until the 1970s, it captures the drama of the era in national and personal terms. By any measure a classic. And a classic that will endure because of the powerfully writing, as well as the subject matter.

The first printing would have been about 1000 copies, given that Faulks was a fairly new author and only mid-list at best. It was subsequently very quickly reprinted many times over. Faulks has now withdrawn from book signing, but happily signed this new rebinding of the first printing. It is an edition of 12 lettered copies, with an illustrated limitation page. Issued by the Scorpion Press in 2022. Ordinary signed first printings on the market are sometimes priced at over $1500!.

This is first edition/printing of an early Evelyn Waugh novel. Only the novels Vile Bodies and Decline and Fall precede it. The book has been rebound with a dark blue leather spine with a gilt title label. It has light double tooled band at the top and base of the spine, and around the label. It it has a tool line at the edge of the leather where it joins the marbled sides. The endpapers are not original. The sides are a gold wavy pattern, and the top edge has been given a light colouring. A pleasing rebind, probably carried out some years ago. The condition overall is nr fine, Slight fox spots to pp 298 - 302 and on half title o/w clean, tight and sound. Please do request supporting photos.

Collectable copy of the first appearance in hardcover.

This is the first signed limited of one of Stephen Booth novels. They are set in the Peak District. The series characters are well constructed: PC Ben Cooper is trying to get over his father's death and his mother's mental illness. The book is really a good novel of the English landscape combined with a fascinating mystery and detective work.

This book is from stock as is new. Only 85 signed and numbered copies with a beautiful appreciation by the late Reginald Hill.

This novel is generally regarded as Greene most famous. He was a prolific writer, and only the story The Third Man is perhaps more famous, simply because of the movie.
This copy is very good minus. The binding is sound and is generally clean except for a previous owners name to the ffep, The book block is yellowed as is the case with most first edition copies. A few pages have imperfections. Mark to bottom of book blook. A Rare classic.

An extensive study of the history and development of the British Army. Carver is no apologist in that he voices the important point that the diehards at the top refused to accept change - especially the developments in technology and weaponry. Lavishly illustrated with photographs. Published at £30.00 GBP. As new.

Thomas Burke's escapist mystery stories are a significant aspect of underground and criminal London literature. Perhaps the very opposite of the Golden Age genteel society murder mystery. The stories are from the classic "Limehouse Nights" whose stories feature Chinaman and muscular sensual narratives set in London's docklands with violence, and robbery not far away.
This is a first edition in good order for its age - now over 100 years old. The pages are yellowed with age, but all are present. The binding is still good and the design of the covers are bright. They protected by the jacket - still quite colourful. It is nicked at the top and bottom of the spine but still intact. Uncommon in this condition.