Search Results: Titles starting with M from Chris Martin Modern First Editions

Bantam Press 2011 (1st UK). First Edition. . Hardcover. As New. McKean. David. First edition and first impression. Wonderful publication. "What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Has anyone ever told you that earthquakes are caused by a sneezing giant? This title answers all these questions. Author BiographyRichard Dawkins is the former Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University (1995-2008). His many bestsellers include The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. Dave McKean has illustrated many award winning books and graphic novels, including Coraline by Neil Gaiman, and the Newberry and Carnegie Medal winning The Graveyard Book. He has created hundreds of album, comic and book covers, and has designed characters for two of the Harry Potter films. He has also directed two feature films, MirrorMask… Read More

Hodder and Stoughton 1997 (1st UK). Hardcover. Fine. First edition, first impression. First novel featuring photographer Kay Farrow. Mint in a Mint d/w.

Banana Books 2004 (1st UK). Soft cover. As New. Published for World Book Day 2004. Mint in soft cover as published.

Heinemann 1995 (1st UK). Hardcover. As New. First edition, first impression. Mint in laminated boards as issued.

Bloomsbury 2005 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. The first of seven books and highly collectable. Film rights for the series recently acquired by Warner, and the first film is currently in the early stages of pre-preduction. Synopsis The 7th son of the 7th son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a newborn girl with violet eyes. The Heaps take this helpless newborn into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son, Septimus? Mint in a Mint d/w.

Viking 1984 (1st UK). Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, first impression. Signed to the half title page, "Yours sincerely, Richard Adams, Whitchurch, Hampshire, 17th March 1999". Near Fine in a Near Fine d/w.

Faber 1986 (1st UK) . 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, First impression. Author's most famous work and first book. Lovely copy in publisher's brown cloth in unclipped d/w.Fine in a Fine d/w.

Cape 1982 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. First edition, first printing of the fourth in the Canopus in Argos: Archives Series. Fine in a Fine d/w.

John Lane Bodley Head 1898 (1st UK) 0. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first impression. Lovely example of this book. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine and gilt title, rules and illustration to front panel. Beautifully illustrated throughout in b & w. Gilt edges and tissue intact covering title page. Very Good.

Covent Garden Press 1972 (1st UK). Limited. . Soft cover. Fine. One of a limited edition of just 600 copies. Fine in pictorial wraps as issued.

Hutchinson 1994 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Author's first novel. Tear to bottom of front d/w otherwise Fine in a Near Fine d/w.

Millenium 1999, Gollancz 1999-2001. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine. The Mammoth trilogy consisting: 1. Mammoth - Millenium 1999; Longtusk - Gollancz 1999 Signed; Icebones - Gollancz 2001 Signed. All First edition, first printings. Sl. browned to edges o/w all Fine in Fine d/w's.

Methuen 1954 (1st UK) . 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. The author's famous work, and second book in nice condition. Laid in is a newspaper cutting of Lorenz's obituary The book is firm and clean page edges but has a sl. lean and name and date on f.f.e. The wrapper is colourful but is price clipped and has edge wear. Overall Very Good + in a Very Good + d/w.

Viking 1989 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Literary Agent Carolyn Brunton's copy with her cards stapled in. A Joe McGuire mystery and winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for that year! Fine in Fine US d/w

Collins 2002 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Signed by the author. Fine in a Fine d/w.

Kaye and Ward 1984 (1st UK). First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine. Born in 1941 and educated at Redruth Grammar School, both of his legs were severed below the knee by a train in 1960 after he collapsed in a drunken stupor and fell down an embankment onto a railway line in Wiltshire. He subsequently trained to be a teacher but was still determined to pursue his love of mountaineering in spite of his disability. Six months after the 900-mile walk to Lands End he climbed the Jungfrau and the Mönch mountains in Switzerland and in 1972 he scaled the treacherous west flank of the Eiger. Two years later he also conquered the Matterhorn. Fine in a Fine d/w.

New American Library 1982 (1st US). Soft cover. Very Good. First US paperback edition with John Fowles personal library plate to the inside cover. Sl. browned edges otherwise Very Good in publisher's wraps as issued.

Doubleday 1995 (1st UK). First Edition. . Soft cover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Highly acclaimed in the States, the film rights were optioned to Kennedy/Marshall for $500, 000 and the picture stars Sigourney Weaver. Worth gathering these early novels now. Fine in printed wraps as issued.

Duckworth 1999 (1st UK). First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. This novel, set in the Crimean War, was the fifth by Bainbridge to be nominated for a Booker Prize. Fine in a Fine d/w.

Woodgate Press 1990 (1st UK). First Edition. . Soft cover. Fine. Fine in pictorial wraps as published.