Search Results: Authors starting with J from Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Crime and Con-Artistry] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.viii; 87 [1]. With four engraved plates by "Phiz", including a frontispiece. Publisher's green limp cloth covers, with gilt titles and decoration to upper. All edges gilt, with yellow-coated endpapers. A highly attractive armorial bookplate for Andrew J. Kirkpatrick to front pastedown. Light spotting and toning throughout. Crisp and clean, with light wear and a little grubbiness to binding. Near fine. Where Mr. Scrooge feels the surplus population should simply go away and die, the pseudonymous Mr. Jackdaw instead recommends they swindle their daily bread — in fact he regards it as a patriotic duty.

London: Michael Joseph, 1963. [Strange Tale] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Charles Gorham, priced at 18s. Blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Toning and spotting to edges, with some light wear to cloth. Jacket sunned to spine and extremities, with a few small chips and closed tears. Very good. Another strange tale by the author of 'The Haunting of Hill House' (1959), first published in the US in 1962.

London: The Poetry Society, 1943. [Poetry] FIRST SEPARATE UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.20. Publisher's typographic yellow paper covers, stapled twice, and priced at 1s. Lightly toned throughout, with a browned chipped patch to top edge. Moderate wear and toning to covers, with a few small creases and chips. Very good. A long poem praising the Jewish character and protesting the relentless harrying of the Jewish people through history.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.269 [3]. With 10 black and white plates illustrated by Owen, including a frontispiece, as well several further vignette engravings. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine, and black titles and decoration to upper. A little light spotting to first and final few leaves. Spotting and toning to all edges. Light wear to cloth with a little bumping to corners. Very good.

London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., 1907. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 298 [6]. With 38 illustrations by Owen. Publisher's orange illustrated cloth, with gilt titles to spine, black decoration to spine and upper, and black titles to upper. A neat ownership. Minor wear to cloth, with some spotting. A very good copy.

London: Methuen & Co., 1901. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 295 [49]. With 12 line-drawn plates by Stacey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine, and all in black to upper. Spotting throughout; quite heavily to edges. Toning to endpapers. Only very light wear to cloth. Very good. A collection of sixteen short stories, including the strange tale 'Jerry Bundler,' originally written as a play and first brought to the stage in 1899.

Hatje Cantz, 2013. [Bondiana] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.440. Illustrated with full-page captioned colour photographs throughout. Publisher's brown cloth in printed dust-jacket. A fine copy. From the comprehensive James Bond collection assembled by Jon Gilbert (with his pencilled ownership signature). His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. An artistic photo essay, which was followed by 'Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies'. This first element of Simon's vast project is a photographic inventory of the women, weapons and vehicles of James Bond films made over the past fifty years. Rather aptly bound in homage to the original tome upon which this work took it's name, using a similar jacket design and typography to James Bond's bird-watching manual.

London: Fisher Unwin, 1916. [Social psychology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.213; [1], Imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's mid-green cloth lettered and ruled in blind to front cover, blocked in gilt to backstrip. Edges spotted, light foxing within, small, neat owner name to paste-down, covers are rather fresh looking with some light rubbing to tips. A near fine copy of a rare and important book. An early classic of crowd mentality and the psychology of war, detailing Trotter's concept of the herd instinct, which he first outlined in two papers published in 1908. A James Bond source book, which clearly influenced Ian Fleming. Trotter's theory is cited in 'Live and Let Die' (Cape, 1954, p.220), and revisited in both 'From Russia With Love' (1957) and 'Thunderball' (1961). The first edition is scarce, with no other copy available for sale at the time of writing; we have handled just one copy previously (Item 63215, £650). Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy, with his pencilled notes and ownership… Read More

London: Kegan Pau,l Trench, Trubner & Co., [1925]. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo, pp.94; [2], blank; [8], ads. Publisher's hardcovers in typographic dust-wrapper, priced 2/6. Pencil ownership of bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Fine, in slightly nicked jacket. Rare- no other UK copy currently listed. Fleming's own copy (signed, without jacket), sold for £3000 [Sotheby's, 22/9/23, lot 3] Text on eugenics and human conditioning, developed largely by Sir Francis Galton, whom Fleming also read (See Lilliy Library catalogue, item 23, Galton's Finger Prints). Fleming's book collection also included Darwin's Origin of Species, Gobineau's Race Inequality, Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes, Hitler's Mein Kampf, Braid's Neurypnology [Memsmerism], Binet's Intelligence, Mendel's Heredity, Thornton's Over-Population, Davies On Evils, and Sorel On Violence. Eugenics was discredited as unscientific and racially biased, particularly following adoption of its doctrines by Hitler in his quest for Nazi supremacy. Radical eugenics… Read More

London, 20th June 1961. Typed letter SIGNED by Saltzman to screenwriter Mankowitz. A detailed letter discussing various matters, including a note on the status of the fledgling Bond picture Dr No; "James Bond is jumping and Cubby and I have just to decide which distributor to make a deal with." 1pp. Autographed in blue ink at foot. Fine condition. Harry Saltzman (1915-1994) co-produced the first nine James Bond films with Albert R. Brocolli. He also set up Lowndes Productions which produced three classic Harry Palmer spy films starring Michael Caine. Wolf Mankowitz (1924-1998) introduced 'Cubby' Broccoli to Harry Saltzman, who formed Eon, the company responsible for producing the James Bond films. Mankowitz was a screenwriter for their first picture Dr. No (1962), and also contributed script ideas for the non-Eon Bond movie Casino Royale (1967). From the James Bond collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with accompanying provenance.

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Classic Literature] First Edition, the UK and US editions being published simultaneously. Crown octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 261; [1]. Publisher's mid-brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Blue ink ownership to front pastedown, dated 1911. Spine sunned, with rubbing to head and tail caps; a little shaken. Good. Lord Theign owns a painting which has for generations been known as a Moretto, but which may in fact be a Montavano. An inexpensive Moretto holds no interest whatsoever for the acquisitive Mr Bender, whereas the valuable Montavano most definitely does. In typical Jamesian fashion the vulgarities of the attribution and notoriety of the painting are kept off stage. Edel A70b.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, Hybrid issue. Two volumes, Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.265; 271. With a 24-page catalogue at the rear of volume II, dated January 1881. Publisher's blue-green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. Contents clean. A used set with some shelfwear, egdes of boards rubbed, some wear to joints and corners, inner paper joints parted, 'Mudie' labels to upper covers, neat shelf number '692' to prelims. Remains presentable. A most unusual 'issue', recorded in the bibliography and consisting of the corrected (second) printing of the sheets in the first impression blue-green binding. Only 250 corrected sheets were published and should be bound in brown cloth with yellow endpapers and re-cut brasses to spine; we note two other copies of this 'hybrid', one at University of Texas (recorded by Edel and Laurence), and a copy sold at auction (Swann Galleries, 1989). Rare thus. Henry James classic short novel is a deceptively simple… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1898. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression, earliest state. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 310; [2], blank; [32], catalogue. Title page printed in two colours. Publisher's mid-blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover, with four irises in blind to centre of same, edges untrimmed. Contents clean, shaken within case, covers clean, spine darkened and rubbed, some advert leaves unopened. A used but acceptable copy of a particularly scarce book in the earliest binding (displaying irises not tulips). Only 1500 printed. This copy has a slightly different catalogue to that noted in the bibliography, in that Frederic's Illumination appears on the fifth leaf. First edition in book form of the classic ghost story "The Turn of the Screw", FIRST EDITION of "Covering End". Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw' is an important dark tale which welcomed elements of psychology into literature. Supino 52 [52.1.0], p.325.

London: Faber and Faber, 1994. [Crime fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.426. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. Autographed in back ink to the title page. Minor toning to text block as usual, else fine in like, fresh wrapper. An Adam Dalgleish detective novel.

London: Faber and Faber, 2003. [Crime novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.371. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's maroon boards, titles and publisher's imprint in white to spine, yellow endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ghost with a printed price of £17.99. James' iconic detective, Adam Dalgliesh, investigates a string of murders, apparently copying the MOs of an exhibit called "The Murder Room", which includes lurid details of crimes committed in the inter-war years. The cerebral Dalgliesh also finds his way delicately through a complicated romance with Emma Lavenham.

London: Faber and Faber, 1980. [Crime novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.276. Publisher's maroon paper boards, titles and publisher's imprint in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £5.95. Text block toned (heavier to top edge). Near Fine in Fine jacket.

London: Faber and Faber, 2005. [Crime Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 323 [3]. SIGNED and dated '27 Oct 2005' by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's navy paper over boards, with cream titles to spine and green endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Lee Gibbons, priced at £17.99. Possibly read once. A clean, near fine copy. The 13th Adam Dalgliesh detective mystery.

London: Faber and Faber, 1982. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.384. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the purple illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £7.95. Edges slightly dusty else fine in a clean, fine wrapper. The second Cordelia Gray case.

London: Printed for Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1825. [Kent history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxxi; [1]; 238; [2]. Contemporary brown calf with single gilt borders to boards, recently rebacked in brown calf, modern grey endpapers, edges speckled red. Some spotting to first and last leaves but generally very clean and bright, some annotation to the prefatory remarks, top edge a little darkened. Binding rubbed and a little worn, more so to corners. Very good.

London: Harding, Lepard, and Co., 1826. [History] New Edition. Six volumes, all folding tables present. Octavos (23 x 14 x 25cm) pp.L; [2]; 568, pp.vi; [2]; 568, pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 533; [5], pp.[2]; v; [3]; 539; [3], pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 581; [5], pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 740; [4]. Bound in half brown calf over marbled boards with twin black title labels, four wide spine bands, edges marbled in red. Light and occasional spotting, bindings nicely aged, rubbed to side but with no significant flaws. An attractive set. Originally conceived when James was imprisoned as a British national in the United States when war broke out in 1812 between the two powers, it was first published between 1822 and 1824. This history was for a long time seen as an important reference source with the Navy Records Society publishing an index in 1895. It has been cited by both Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester as an important source of information for their novels. The perceived anti-American bias of the book moved Theodore Roosevelt as an… Read More