The Great Fire of London by ACKROYD, Peter - 1982

London, United Kingdom: Elkin Matthews, 1903. Inscribed to ffep "To the standard-bearer from his old freind the Author" and with a poem "Aloft he waved his standard in the breeze (A week old Star wrapped round his bread and cheese) The while he cried "Woe, woe betide ! If I shout not excelsior!" CONDITION Burgundy waxed cloth bds with bright Gilt title (spine faded with sl. frayed spine ends and buffed cnrs, scratch to front) pp 108, tight with browned eps, odd mark internally, cnrs folded to 4 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

The World's Work (1913) Ltd. Hardback. Good. London: The World's Work (1913) Ltd 1937 stated First Published 1937. Yellow cloth boards, no wrapper. No inscrioptions. Moderate scattering of foxing to page ends. Internally clean and sound. Boards generally soiled. 312 pp. Prompt UK dispatch.

One of 100 large-paper copies printed on hand-made paper. Overall size c.9.3/8 x 6.1/4 inches. c.24 x 16 cm. Original lithographic portrait of the author by Wilson Steer as frontispiece. pps 8 + 204. Usual browning to free end-papers o/w internally near fine. Binding slightly soiled and rubbed, more so on corner tips but a very good copy of the fragile boards.

313+[7 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4' x 5") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with black lettering in gilt rectangular box to spine and black lines running through from spine to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Young Fane, attached to the American Embassy in London, gets into trouble in Germany through the machinations of the beautiful Liselotte, who is an agent of Dr Grundt, called Clubfoot. Objects which Fane has lost are later offered for sale to the United States Government and the young attaché is being hunted down by G-men, but Fane has disappeared somewhere in Central Europe. His twin sister, Patricia, organizes an expedition to find him before the Secret Service men can lay hands upon him. For this endeavor she enlists four soldiers of fortune. The story of the operations of Patricia's friends, the G-men, and Clubfoot's gang moves with speed and mounting tension. Condition: Some intermittent foxing, previous owner's name on front pastedown, slight stains to covers,… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.

First edition 1st printing, Very Good to Near Fine book with old price sticker pull/abrasion top corner of front end page, soft at spine ends, boards slightly bowed and lightly rubbed corners and bottom edges with some color loss; in a Very Good jacket with light edge wear, bit of soiling, and rubbing, slight color loss front panel, spine mildly sun faded, 1/2 inch closed tear at front top of spine. This copy of Stone's first book has been signed by the author on the title page.

First UK edition, Fine minus, unread book with very slight crimping at bottom of spine; in a Fine dust jacket. This copy has been signed by Martel on the title page and dated May 9th, 2003. Martel’s fantasy tale of Pi and the Tiger adrift in the Pacific won the Man Booker Prize for 2001 (book was first published in 2001 in Canada). The movie based on this book was directed by Ang Lee and released in 2012. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards , winning four, including Best Director.

New York: Pantheon, 1999. Signed on the title page and dated Nov. 4, 1999 by the author. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

283+[7 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with green lettering to spine and lettering to cover bordered with a green rectangle border in original jacket. (Firsts, Volume 14, Number 9, pages 31) First edition.The Casino Murder Case is a 1934 novel written by S. S. Van Dine in the series about fictional detective Philo Vance. In this outing, a murder investigation is connected with a private casino on New York's Upper West Side, and the wealthy and unorthodox family that operates it. It was adapted into a film in 1935.Condition:
Jacket with light edge wear else very good to fine in a near fine jacket.

London: Peter Davies, 1953. 247 pages. Original emerald green cloth (faded at extremities) with red titling on the spine. Fore-edge, bottom edge and first few pages slightly foxed. The price-clipped dustwrapper is very slightly worn and marked. The red titling on the dustwrapper spine is partially faded, but legible.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.