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

Paris: Olympia Press, 1962. 12mo, pp. 185. Original green stiff paper wrappers, printed in black on front and back panels and spine. Publisher's label over price to rear panel, remainder of bookseller's label to rear endpaper, gum residue from removed label to ffep., a little edgewear and bumping to corners. About very good. First edition, second issue. No. 40 in the Traveller's Companion series. First published by Olympia in 1957 with the title The Organization, the book was suppressed two years later by the French authorities on grounds of obscenity. This impression was re-issued in 1962 with a slightly different title in an attempt to get around the ban. They should have tried harder with the new title: the book was prosecuted in 1963. 5.40.2

London: Andre Deutsch, 1968. 8vo, pp. 61. Original dark blue boards lettered in gilt on spine. A fine copy in near fine dustwrapper with minor creasing at top of spine. First edition of Fuller's second collection of poetry following the Collected Poems of 1962. A Poetry Book Society choice.

London: Drummond, 1933-1939. 34 issues in 32. Small 8vo. Stiff paper wrappers. Red wraparound band to Auden double issue (26-27), perforated subscription forms to many numbers. Staples rusted, closed tear at spine of Issue 1, age-toning consistent with vintage. A near fine set. First edition. A COMPLETE RUN OF THIS HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL PERIODICAL. Geoffrey Grigson was just twenty-seven when he founded the bi-monthly New Verse, which for most of the 1930s remained the only British literary publication devoted solely to poetry. Grigson insisted on high literary standards from his contributors, but once these were met anyone was allowed in; New Verse was important because it was the house journal of no one faction. One of the most important contributors was W.H. Auden: the early issues helped launch him, later ones defended him. (The Auden double issue in this set retains its rare wraparound band). The combative Grigson was happy to criticise those he published, seeing such interventions as a… Read More

London: Faber, 1941. 8vo, pp. 188. Original grey boards, lettered in red to spine. General age-toning to text block, but a very good copy in a very good example of the fragile dustwrapper, spine browned, some chipping with loss to head of spine (not affecting text), a couple of small chips and closed tears to top edge. First UK edition. First published two months earlier in the US under the title The Double Man. A little loss to the notoriously fragile dustwrapper, printed on thin wartime paper, but a respectable copy. Bloomfield and Mendelson A-24b

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979. 4to, pp. 216. Original white boards, lettered in silver on spine. A little bumping to spine ends, but a near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dustwrapper, with one small mark to base of spine (not affecting text) and the very lightest of wear. Colour and b&w photographic illustrations throughout. First edition, INSCRIBED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON PUBLICATION DAY TO BOB HOLNESS: 'Dear Bob, with our thanks, Coley, Publication Day. Graham, + Sheridan'. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED IN FULL BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON TITLE PAGE. The authors were guests on Bob Holness's LBC radio show, and signed this copy to the host after their appearance.

New York: Random House, 1951. 8vo, pp. 81. Original grey three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and in gilt on blue to spine. Printed dustwrapper. Light offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with a chip to lower edge of front panel and a little general edgewear. First edition, preceding the UK edition by a year. Bloomfield and Mendelson A-32

London: Observer Books, 1971. 8vo, pp. 159. Original yellow three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to tan spine, illustration in gilt to front panel. Yellow endpapers, silk ribbon marker. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Frontispiece etching by Michael Ayrton. First edition. No. 76 of 500 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON HALF-TITLE. A fine copy, lacking the scarce unprinted glassine wrapper.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. 8vo, pp. 224. Original burgundy boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little darkening to rear panel. First edition. A Tommy Hambledon story. Fictional British Intelligence officer Tommy Hambledon's adventures were based on Cyril Coles' own wartime experiences as a spy working behind enemy lines, although by the time of this, the thirteenth instalment, critics thought the formula was wearing thin. An attractive copy. HUBIN, p. 90

London: Faber, 1970. 8vo, pp. 283. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine. A little wear to spine ends, but a near fine copy in a like dustwrapper, slight production-fault raising to laminate on rear panel, and a little mild edgewear. First edition.