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

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1968. 8vo, pp. 206. Original orange boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine. Light spotting to front board, and equally light edgewear to spine ends, a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, a little marked and rubbed and with wear to spine ends. 12 pp. photographic plates. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE: 'To Cole -- Who loves deeply -- Pearl'. Published in 1968, the year Bailey won a Tony for her performance in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly!

New York: Rinehart & Co., 1956. 8vo, pp. 251. Original grey boards, lettered in red and silver to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Browning to cheap paper stock, but a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little light edgewear. First edition. A Johnny Liddell title -- one of twenty-nine in the series. A near fine copy. HUBIN, p. 230

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. 8vo, pp. 348. Original grey three-quarter boards, lettered in silver to black spine. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photogrpahic portrait to rear panel. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with just the lightest of edgewear. First edition of the book which introduced the world to Hannibal Lecter, and an excellent example.

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1946. 8vo, pp. 255. Original tan boards, a little cocked, printed in black on spine. Pictorial dustwrapper, a little worn at folds and with a 3cm crease at top of edge of rear panel, but a very good copy in a dust-jacket to match. First edition.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953. 8vo, pp. 276. Original pale green quarter boards, lettered in red on dark green to spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket, photographic portrait of the author to rear panel. Small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, slight discoloration along lower edge of front panel. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, a little faded at spine, and with a little light edgewear. First edition of the author's first novel, and the first in the Gregory Keen series. The black Australian Lindsay Hardy [1914-1994] began adult life as a salesman before enlisting in 1939; he suffered shrapnel injuries to his legs at Alamein, and permanent damage to his left arm from a Japanese grenade in New Guinea. He moved to the US after the war, suffered the usual writer's nightmare in Hollywood, and left for New York to write Requiem for a Redhead, drawing on the radio series featuring Gregory Keen he'd written in Australia. Refused residential status in… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. 8vo, pp. 204. Original dark brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait of the author to rear panel. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The fourth title in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series of Perry's historical detective novels featuring the late Victorian husband and wife sleuths. A fine copy.

Leeds: E.J. Arnold & Son, 1966. 8vo, pp. 69. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Corners very slightly bumped, otherwise a fine copy. First edition of this collection of three half-hour comedies by the creators of Steptoe and Son and Hancock's Half Hour, first broadcast in the TV series Galton and Simpson's Comedy Playhouse of the early 1960s. A fine copy.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1971. 8vo, pp. 249. Original printed orange wrappers. Spine a little rolled, a little light edgewear and bumping. About near fine. Uncorrected advance proof copy. EDITOR JOHN BLACKWELL'S COPY WITH HIS INITIALS TO FRONT WRAPPER, AND HIS CORRECTIONS THROUGHOUT. John Blackwell joined Secker and Warburg in the late 1960s when the imprint was still an independent company run by Fredric Warburg himself, and was a constant presence through the company's innumerable corporate takeovers, mergers and changes of managing director. As well as editing Sharpe, John Blackwell played literary midwife to J. M. Coetzee, Michael Moorcock, Tom McGuane, Malcolm Bradbury and Louis de Bernieres, among many others. His emendations in this, his own copy, are made in red ink, and are mostly typographical and grammatical corrections; here and there, deletions have been made in blue.

N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC], 1965. 22 mimeographed pp., secured with pin to top left. Name of Douglas Smith inked by production staff to top right of title page. Some age-toning and light bumping, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition. PROGRAMME ANNOUNCER DOUGLAS SMITH'S COPY, WITH HIS NAME TO TITLE PAGE. The radio show Round The Horne ran between 1965 and 1968. The brainchild of Barry Took and Marty Feldman, the pair wrote the first three series together, Feldman leaving before the show's fourth and final outing in 1968. Week after week, razor-sharp writing combined with peerless characterisations to produce one of British radio comedy's finest, funniest, and filthiest flowerings. It was customary for shows of the period to have an announcer introducing proceedings but in Round The Horne Douglas Smith was given jokes and roles in sketches on top of his traditional duties, integrating him firmly into the fabric of the show. This script bears Smith's name, written in ink by… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins, N.d. [1948]. 8vo, pp. 251, 4pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original orange boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Light offsetting to endpapers, spine ends a little bumped, but a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, (white) rear panel a little marked, wear to spine ends, top edge a little creased and edgeworn. First edition. AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE LAID IN. A nice copy of this comic novel -- a copy which has survived far better than the reputation of its author, who has been comprehensively forgotten. COPAC's listing of Glyder's work shows him to have been active between 1928 and 1949, and two films were made from his novels: The Compulsory Husband [1930] and The Compulsory Wife [1937]. Apart from that, nothing: Glyder's name has not troubled the scorers in any of the standard reference works.

London: Hutchinson, 1988. 8vo, pp.72. Original black and brown three quarter boards, lettered in gilt to cover and spine. Spine a little sunned, otherwise a fine, unread copy. First edition.