Search Results: Titles starting with F from Lucius Books

London: Faber and Faber. 2009. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original black paper-covered boards lettered in white to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Neil Gower. A fine copy, presenting as unread, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout. In the fine dustwrapper. Not price-clipped (£40.00 to the front flap). A very attractive copy. Published for the eightieth anniversary of Faber and Faber, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated volume documents the remarkable history of Faber book cover design. At the centre of the story is Berthold Wolpe, who was responsible for a huge number of the jackets included here (and some of the most memorable jackets of the last century); but nearly every artist and designer of note has at some point worked with the company, including Shirley Tucker, Barnett Freedman, and Pentagram, who provided the distinctive Faber house style of the 1980s and 90s. The book is introduced by the novelist and… Read More

New York: Charnel House. 2003. First edition. First edition. Signed limited edition. Publisher's original sailcloth with suede label, stamped with a dove illustration in white to the upper board. Housed in the original sailcloth slipcase. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the fine original slipcase. Limited edition of 500 hand numbered copies, with this being copy 296 and signed by Dean Koontz in black on the limitation page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Ambit. 1965. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout and free of stamps or inscriptions. In the very good price clipped, which is a little rubbed and has two small closed tears to the front panel. Limited edition of 60 copies of which this is numbered 17 and signed by the author in black ink to the limitation page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Anvil Press. 2009. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author and with an ALS laid in. Publisher's original card covers. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Loosely laid in is an autograph letter signed from the author to a fellow award winning poet looking forward to an upcoming event and sending this book. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "Pat, / it's been such / a real pleasure to hear you / - a true poet / lots of love / Martina". Facing the Public was a TLS Book of the Year in 2009 and won the Premio Ciampi International Prize for Poetry in 2011. Provenance: from the library of the multi-award winning poet Pat Borthwick. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Longman and Co. 1871. First edition thus. First edition thus. Contemporary full red morocco by Riviere, decorative borders and corner pieces in gilt to the upper and lower boards, six raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and titles in gilt to the spine. Gilt decorated inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Folio. A highly attractive example, the binding square and firm showing a little rubbing and scuffing to the extremities, the inner and outer hinges remain firm. The contents although spotted remain firmly bound and without loss or tears to any of the pages. A very attractively bound volume. A photo-lithographic facsimile of the "Booke of Common Prayer" printed by Robert Barker in 1636 and edited, corrected, and amended by bishops of the church in 1661 and approved by Convocation as the official text of the revised Book of Common Prayer. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with… Read More

Geneve: Institut et Musee Voltaire.� 1963. First edition. First edition. Publisher's original grey card wrappers with titles in black to the front cover. 24pp. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little toning and shelf wear to the extremities. The contents with some scattered pencil annotations (including "Received from Huxley 4-3-64" to the verso of the front cover) are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout.� A consideration of the consequences of a rapidly growing global population during both the Enlightenment and today by the English evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley (1887-1975).� Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Singapore: Summer Time Publishing. 1983. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with white titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding tight and square with a little bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners and a touch of fading to the spine. The contents, with an inscription to the front free endpaper and a little spotting to the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, that has a short closed tear to the top of the rear panel, but is otherwise free from loss. A study of Sarawaks social and political issues at the end of the Japanese occupation in 1945 and after the Third White Rajah, Vyner Brooke, ceded Sarawak to Britain. Written by Anthony Brooke who was himself Rajah Muda in 1939 and after the war supported Sarawak nationalists against British colonial rule. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available… Read More

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. 1972. Two Volumes. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spines, publisher's monogram in blind to the front panels, in dustwrappers. A near fine set, bindings square and firm, cloth and gilt sharp, the contents clean throughout. Top edges a little dusty with a few light spots. In the price-clipped dustwrappers, a little toned and spotted to spines, with a little rubbing to extremities, with a couple of nicks and a small patch of loss to the lower outer corner of Vol. I. First issued in 1909, J. C. Smith's edition of the 'Faerie Queene' (Vols. II and III of the three-volume Clarendon Spenser) sought to present "a true text" of Spenser's great poem, "founded upon a fresh collation of the Quartos of 1590 and 1596 and the Folio of 1609. [...] The fragmentary Seventh Book appeared first in 1609: for the rest the text is based on 1596." Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius… Read More

London: The Folio Society. 2011. First edition with these illustrations. First edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original grey cloth with illustration after a design by Sam Weber to the upper board, titles in red and black to the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and five further full page colour plates by Sam Weber. Printed on Abbey Wove paper. Housed in the original black card slipcase. A fine copy of the beautiful illustrated edition, the binding square and tight, the contents spotlessly clean throughout. Complete with the very slightly rubbed, structurely sound slipcase. First published in the UK without illustrations by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1954. This newly illustrated edition follows the text of the first edition, with minor emendations. Michael Moorcock's eight page introduction is printed here for the first time. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Henry Lea. [1860]. First edition. First edition. Early binding by Bayntun of Bath in blue ridged calf with five raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, and titles in gilt to the spine. Gilt ruled and decorated borders to the upper and lower boards. Marbled endpapers, gilt decorated inner dentelles and board edges. All edges gilt. With two silk ribbons page markers. The gilt decorated original bright purple cloth bound in at the rear. Illustrated with 8 hand coloured full page plates, tissue guard to the frontispiece, and 92 black and white engravings throughout the text, by Alfred Crowquill. A better than very good copy, the binding square, sharp, and firm, with very slight rubbing to the spine tips and hinges and board edges. The contents, with some very light foxing throughout, are otherwise clean and free of previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. A beautifully bound example of this very scarce title. Containing nine moral fairy tales: Heinrich; Peter Finnigan and the Spirits;… Read More

London: William Heinemann. 1915. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. With an ALS from Constance Masefield. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Without the dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just a little rubbing at the extremities. The cloth and gilt remains bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper "from / John Masefield / August 1915 / The days that make us happy / make us wise" underneath which he has drawn a sail boat. Loosely laid in is a ALS dated 21 Sept [1915] from the author's wife (and dedicatee of this volume) reading in part "my husband is in the Dardenelles in charge of a motor ambulance boat. The pressing need for more such boats to convey the wounded from Gallipoli to hospital ships, or rather… Read More

New York: Doubleday and Company. 1971. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's review copy, with the review slip loosely laid in. Original black cloth with titles to the spine in blue and gilt, in dustwrapper. Map endpapers. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the corners lightly bumped, the spine tips a little rubbed. The contents, with some light spotting at the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that remains without loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($6.95 on the front flap). A well regarded history of the fall of Rome by R. A. Lafferty who is perhaps best known for his novels and short stories, particularly his science fiction. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Macmillan and Company Ltd. 1955. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean without inscriptions or stamps. There is some mottling (perhaps a light liquid stain) visible to the front board, and a bump to the upper outer corner of the same panel. Minimal spotting to the fore-edge of the page block. The moderately worn, price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly soiled and spotted (recto and verso), with some rubbing, nicks and a couple of short closed tears to edges and folds. Signed by the author Rupert Croft-Cooke in blue ink to the front free endpaper. Croft-Cooke's 1955 novel is a veiled autobiographical narrative in which the main protagonist, Antony Scaw, a heterosexual painter, is victimised by a prudish society. The author had been imprisoned on a charge of gross indecency in 1953 (recounted in the… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape. 2016. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Paperback original. Signed by the author. Publisher's original card wrappers, with French flaps. Dark blue endapapers. A fine copy, tight and square. Tiny bump to upper outer corners. Light toning to the paper-stock, the contents clean throughout. Correctly priced (£10.00) to the inside flap. A nice copy. Inscribed by Alice Oswald in black ink to the half title, "To Richard / lovely to see you. / from Alice". The recipient is Dr Richard Rowland, scholar of Renaissance literature and a former lecturer at the universities of Oxford and York. Rowland, like Oswald, studied at New College, Oxford. "Falling Awake" was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes and the winner of both Costa and Griffin Poetry Prizes. "Orpheus and Tithonus appear at the beginning and end of this book, alive in an English landscape, stuck in the clockwork of their own speech, and the Hours… Read More

Baltimore: CD Publications. 1999. First edition. First edition. Deluxe signed illustrated issue. Publisher's original black faux leather with silver titles to the upper board and spine, in the Phil Parks illustrated dustwrapper. Sky blue ribbon bookmark. Housed in a black cloth bound slipcase. Illustrated with full page colour plates by Phil Parks. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the fine dustwrapper and slipcase. Limited edition of 698 hand numbered copies, this being copy 178, signed by both Dean Koontz and the illustrato,r Phil Parks on the illustrated limitation page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Head of Zeus. 2015. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap). Signed by Philip Kerr in black ink on the title page. The last of the three Scott Manson crime novels. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

New York: The Viking Press. 1975. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original quarter black cloth over blue paper-covered boards, with gold and blue titles to the spine, in the Mel Williamson illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, with bumping to the spine ends and tips, the cloth with some mottling mainly to the top and bottom edges of the boards. The contents, with fading to the blue pastedowns, are otherwise clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper, which is rubbed to the top of the rear spine fold, with a small bubble in the laminate. Not price-clipped ($5.95 on the front flap). The last Nero Wolfe novel. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Collins. 1969. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original blue cloth lettered and ruled in silver to the spine, in the dustwrapper illustrated by Joanna Stubbs. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. A touch faded to the upper spine tip. In the dustwrapper, a little faded to the spine with some minor rubbing to tips. Short closed tear (c. 1 cm) to the upper edge of the front panel, discreetly sealed with tape from underside. Not price-clipped (15s. net to the front flap). Signed and dated, "Naomi Mitchison / 1970" to the front free endpaper. Mitchison (1897-1999), born in Edinburgh, travelled widely and was a frequent visitor to Botswana, where this short novel for younger readers is set. The novel centres upon thirteen-year-old Mosaye and her family during a terrible drought. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz. 1991. First edition. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original ochre cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents bright and clean throughout. In the better than very good dustwrapper which has some very light creasing to the edges. Not price clipped (£13.99 to the lower front flap). A superb association copy inscribed by the author to the poet Mairi Macinnes and her literary critic husband John McCormick in blue ink on the title page, reading "For Mairi & John from / Nina with much love. / April 1991". This social comedy from the beloved and prolific author of the award winning children's novels Carrie's War and The Peppermint Pig was adapted into a television series for Channel 4. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Victor Gollancz. 1991. First edition. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original ochre cloth with gilt titles to the spine. A hand written letter from Bawden to Victoria Glendinning is loosely laid in at the front. In dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with just the slightest rubbing to the extremities. The contents, with Glendinning's bookplate to the front pastedown, are otherwise bright and clean throughout. In the very good dustwrapper which has some light creasing and dustiness to the edges. Not price clipped (£13.99 to the lower front flap). A superb association copy inscribed by the author to the award winning biographer Victoria Glendinning in blue ink on the title page, reading "For Victoria - Best wishes / from Nina". The laid in letter from Bawden to Glendinning fondly mentions a recent evening the two writers spent together alongside friends, and Bawden invites Glendinning to visit her house in the summer… Read More