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

London: Heinemann, 1931. 8vo, pp. 349. Original three-quarter green boards, lettered in gilt to vellum spine. Publisher's device in gilt to front panel. Top edge gilt, leading and lower edges uncut, green silk bookmark bound in. Offsetting to endpapers, boards just a little bowed, but a very well preserved copy, lacking the slipcase. First edition. No. 57 OF 525 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO LIMITATION PAGE. The first book in the final Forsyte trilogy -- or the seventh novel of the Forsyte Chronicle, if you prefer -- and a handsome example.

Munich: Edition X, 1994. Folio. Original brown boards, lettered in grey on spine. Double-thick pages, unopened but with blank inners. A fine copy in the original card slipcase. Twenty-seven images by Jon Groom. First edition, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, AND WITH A CORRESPONDENCE FROM HIM LAID IN. This livre d'artiste, whose images accompany an English translation of Paul Valéry's essay L'Homme Et La Coquille, was issued in two series of 115 copies, one in English and one in German. This is an unnumbered, hors de commerce copy from the English series. Very scarce: only one copy shows in institutional libraries [Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich]. The accompanying correspondence runs to four items, all from the early 1990s: two handwritten postcards, and two ALS on Groom's distinctive notepaper. The recipient of all four was David Gothard, co-founder of the Riverside Studios in London. In 1978 the Riverside staged Groom's first solo exhibition, and the following year Groom worked as a carpenter there to… Read More

New York: A.L. Burt, 1933. 8vp, pp. 283. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrappers. Very slightly cocked, offsetting to rear endpaper, two small and faded contemporary ownership signatures to front pastedown and ffep., but a near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with just a little darkening to rear panel, and with the orange wording on spine very faded. Dustwrapper illustration by Harry Beckhoff. First US edition, first issue. Includes three stories not in the UK edition: Absent Treatment, Rallying Round Old George and Doing Clarence A Bit Of Good. Rare: we can find no appearance of the UK edition of this title at auction since 2000 (Christies London, 18 February 2000, Lot 36). McIlvaine A21b

London: Pan, 1966. 8vo, pp. 191. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy. First Pan edition, the first paperback issue. A fine, unread copy.

New York: Edward J. Clode, 1930. 8vo, pp. 320. Original olive green boards lettered in gilt to front panel and black to spine. Top edge red. Illustrated dust jacket. Light offsetting to endpapers, spine a little faded, but a near fine copy in a dust jacket which is fine but for a closed tear to front fold. Dust jacket design by Edward C. Caswell. First US edition. First published in the UK in 1928 with the title The One Girl in a Million. Published in the UK in the year of Tracy's death, and posthumously in this edition. An excellent copy. HUBIN, p. 406

London: Faber, 1965. 8vo, pp. 186. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Preliminaries age-toned and spotted, spine ends a little rubbed and worn, otherwise a near fine copy in a good only, price-clipped dustwrapper, inner and outer tape reinforcements to spine and spine ends, heavily rubbed and worn with some loss to corners. First edition, sixth impression, INSCRIBED IN 1968 TO TONY HANCOCK BY TED NOFFS, FOUNDER OF THE WAYSIDE CHAPEL, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: 'To my good friend Tony Hancock from Ted Noffs 1968.' In 1968, his life and career chasing each other ever downwards, Tony Hancock travelled to Australia to make a television series he hoped would rescue both. But the show was doomed from the start: poor scripts and the star's rampant alcoholism combined to catastrophic effect and, with only three of the projected eight episodes completed, Hancock killed himself with an overdose of barbiturates. Shortly after his arrival in Australia Hancock had been introduced to Ted Noffs, a… Read More

London: Anthony Blond, 1970. 8vo, pp. 127. Original yellow boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographically illustrated dustwrapper, author's portrait to rear panel. A near fine copy in a better than very good dustwrapper just a little faded at spine, and with a little light edgewear. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HER HUSBAND, THE AUTHOR AND CRITIC DEREK MONSEY: 'To my darling author with my love, Yvonne'. A lovely copy, with a peerless association.

London: Collins, 1971. 8vo, pp. 222. Original pale green coarse grain boards, lettered in brown to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little dulling to spine. Illustrations by Mary Shepard. Seventh reprint, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: 'Mary & Raymond McGrath, with many greetings - PL Travers September 1973'. Small Father Christmas label affixed beside the inscription.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1926. 8vo, pp. 298. Original light brown boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, small and almost invisible closed tear to spine at front panel fold, some discoloration to reverse at spine ends. First edition. Author's last completed novel, published posthumously. New Yorker Isabel Ostrander [1883-1924] was a prolific writer of mystery stories for the fiction magazines of the early twentieth century, and also wrote under the pseudonyms Robert Orr Chipperfield, David Fox and Douglas Grant. An extremely well preserved example. HUBIN, p. 315

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. 8vo, pp. 228. Original pale blue boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown, heavy offsetting to endpapers and browning to text block edges. A very good copy in a heavily browned and faded dust jacket, with a little loss to corners and head of spine. First edition. The second of three novels written (or co-written) by 'Babs Lee', better known as Marion Van de Veer Lee, Beauty Editor of Vogue. HUBIN, p. 250.

London: Phoenix House, 1999. Small 8vo, pp. 68. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Yellow endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE: 'To Ian, Great wishes for the 21st century, Ben Okri, 5-10-99'. 'Mental Fight is based on 'A Moment in Timelessness', first delivered as the inaugural millennium lecture sponsored by the Scotsman at the 1997 Edinburgh Book Festival. In its present form, the first two sections were first published in the Times in January 1999.' A fine copy, and scarce signed.

London: Hogarth Press, 1942. Small 8vo, pp. 48. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine. Small contemporary ownership inscription to ffep., light offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper heavily darkened at spine and with some sunning to front panel and top edge of rear panel. First edition. Volume VIII in the New Hogarth Library. A pleasing copy of Fuller's second collection.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965. 8vo, pp. 253. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with just a little fading to (white) rear panel and the lightest of edgewear. First edition of Herlihy's second novel. The book was the basis for one of the key films of New Hollywood. Midnight Cowboy the movie starred Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffmann and was directed by John Schlesinger in 1969. The score is by John Barry, the theme song (Everybody's Talking) is sung by Harry Nilsson, and the supporting cast features Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Bob Balaban and half of Andy Warhol's address book. It is still the only X-rated film ever to have won the Best Picture Oscar. A lovely copy.

New York: Viking Press, 1961. 8vo, pp. 132. Original beige boards, lettered in red on spine. A fine copy in a slightly dusty, near fine dustwrapper, a little darkened at spine. First edition of Miller's novelisation of his own screenplay. The film starred Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Marilyn Monroe.

London: T. Werner Laurie, N.d. [1910]. 8vo, pp. 251, 4pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Illustrated boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Boards a little darkened and with some rubbing to spine ends, but a very well preserved copy. First edition. After early employment as a governess and actress, Florence Warden [1957-1929] settled down to an extremely prolific career as a popular novelist, turning her hand to mystery, murder, romance and ghost stories with equal facility. (Miss Ferriby's Clients, set in an apparently haunted house and featuring seances, robbery and murder, is typical of Warden's output.) Her work was in huge demand through subscription libraries, and at her peak she was publishing as many as eight novels a year. By the time of her death in 1929 she had published more than one hundred and fifty novels. A very well preserved copy, and now scarce. HUBIN, p. 425

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. 8vo, pp. 311. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. First UK edition, preceded by the US edition published the same year. A fine copy. HUBIN, p. 402.

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. 8vo, pp. 300. Original dark red boards, lettered in black to spine, and with line drawing in black to front panel and spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dustwrapper. Preliminaries a little browned, but a near fine copy in a defective dustwrapper, bottom half of spine missing, front panel detached from spine and held in place by protective wrapper. Dustwrapper illustration by Donald McKay. First edition, preceding its UK counterpart by more than four years. 'I'm so glad you liked Money In The Bank. The only novel, I should imagine, that has ever been written in an internment camp. I did it at the rate of about a page a day in a room with over fifty men playing cards and ping-pong and talking and singing. The first twelve chapters were written in a whirl of ping-pong balls. I suppose on an average morning I would get from fifteen to twenty on the side of the head just as I was searching for the mot juste.' (PGW to Bill Townend, 11 May 1942) McIlvaine A64a

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1946. 8vo, pp. 253. Original red boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine, publisher's device in black to rear panel. Illustrated dustwrapper. Light spotting to edges of text block, but a near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with light wear to spine ends and folds. Dustwrapper illustration by Frank Ford. First UK edition. The first edition of this title appeared in the US more than four years earlier. Having made catastrophically ill-advised broadcasts on German radio while held prisoner, the suspicion grew in Britain that Wodehouse had collaborated in order to escape internment, and his publishers were understandably wary. McIlvaine A64b

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1928. 8vo, pp. 312, 8pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Publisher's device in black to rear panel. Lacking the dustwrapper. Offsetting to endpapers, spine a little dulled and just starting at front free endpaper, but a well preserved copy. First edition, and a well preserved copy. McIlvaine A39a

New York: Siimon & Schuster, 1981. 8vo, pp. 284. Original black quarter boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. First edition. A fine copy.