Search Results: Titles starting with I from Neil Pearson Rare Books

New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1948. 8vo, pp. 249. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Short closed tear to lower edge of front free endpaper, browning to cheap paper stock, a very good copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little edgewear. First edition. The second and last of the author's novels, and scarce in the first edition. HUBIN, p. 243

Paris: Olympia, 1957. Small 8vo, pp.219. Original bound green cloth boards, red endpapers, black paper labels printed in gold and white to spine and front panel. A near fine copy in a very good illustrated dustwrapper, some wear to leading edges and spine ends, a single very small (3mm) chip to rear panel and junction with spine. First edition of the author's first book. An anomalous inclusion on the Olympia list, I Hear Voices is a modernist take on the story of a mentally ill man, confined to bed, trying to make sense of his life; Olympia's subscribers will have searched in vain for the nymphomaniacs and dominatrices usually to be found in this imprint's output. Abelman went on to write for television: his later credits include Dixon Of Dock Green. Kearney:5.60.1.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961. 8vo, pp. 223. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine, unread copy in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with just a little fading to spine. First UK edition, first issue, preceded by eight months by the US edition. A lovely copy. McIlvaine A-84b

London: Faber, 1985. 8vo, pp. 600. Original red boards, lettered in silver on spine. A fine copy in dustwrapper. First edition. Carey's second novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

New York: Cardoza Publishing, 2005. 8vo, pp. 208. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dustwrapper. 8 pp. bw illustrations. First edition.

London: Park Lane Films, 1957. Shooting script, 33 mimeographed pp., stapled in to oversized red card wrappers. Typed title label to front cover, typed ownership label ('Park Lane Films Ltd., Quadrex House, Park Lane, W.1.') to inside front cover. Contents very clean, covers a little creased at edges, and with one small (1cm) closed tear to leading edge. MORDECAI RICHLER'S FIRST SCREENPLAY, FOR ONE OF PETER SELLERS' MOST RARELY-SEEN FILMS. In 1955 Peter Sellers was a huge radio star, thanks mostly to The Goon Show, but the film career which would later define him was yet to begin. 1955 was the year he appeared in The Ladykillers, his first major feature, with his idol Alec Guinness. Both the film and Sellers' performance garnered excellent reviews, but somehow it failed to launch him, and for the next two years he continued to work on The Goon Show, appearing on screen only in spin-offs from his radio work -- most notably The Case Of The Mukkinese Battle-Horn (1956), the… Read More

Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Company, 1904. 8vo, pp. 318. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. Top edge gilt. Silk bookmark. Very minor rubbing and bumping to corners and spine ends, gilt on spine a little dulled, but still a near fine copy. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION TO FELLOW NOVELIST BURTON KLINE: Burton Kline- with the love of his friend always, Chas. Warren Stoddard 29-Sept-04. Kline [1877-1958] was editor of the Boston Transcript and New York Tribune, and an author in his own right, mostly of short stories. Another instalment of Stoddard's wanderings among (and into) the olive-skinned natives of the South Seas. In this one, published thirty-one years after South-Sea Idyls, Stoddard edges towards candour. In the Story Kane-Aloha he writes: 'It does not matter if in my calmer moments reason cautions me to beware -- my head and my heart don't hitch -- they never did -- and so I have written as I have… Read More