Search Results: Titles starting with U from James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.

London: Hutchinson, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. First UK Edition. Publisher’s yellow and dark brown/black cloth, spine panel stamped in black. 40-page publisher's catalogue "for the Autumn, 1923" inserted at rear, three inserted plates with illustrations by Jean de Bosschere, other illustrations in text, also by de Bosschere. A major collection of supernatural fiction. A VG copy with fading to the dark brown/black portion of the cloth and a small piece of cloth missing from the right hand edge of the rear panel. Some foxing to the page edges. Uncommon in this, the UK first edition

London: Michael Joseph, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. Signed by the Author on the title page and additionally inscribed by her on the FFEP: With love from/ Aunt Gladys./ February, 1980. This is the Dedication Copy of this novel with its printed dedication For Charles and Patricia.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's pale blue boards with black lettering. Very slight darkening to the spine and the peripheries of the boards. There are several foxing spots to the page edges and the early/late pages of the book. Overall a solid VG copy. In the VERY RARE D/W which is priced 7/6 net to the spine (as called for). The D/W has no loss but has some age-darkening to the white spine panel and along rear flap fold, and dust soiling to rear panel. Being hyper-critical there are 3 short edge tears and associated creases. A very shelvable copy of Eric Ambler's most uncommon book, his second novel. Rare. Scans invited.

London: Penguin, 1986. First Edition. Signed by Author. First UK paperback edition. A very fine copy. Inscribed by the Author on the title page: Best wishes/ David Owen/ March 27 1986

London: Faber, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. Publishers red cloth boards with silver lettering to the spine. A VG copy in a VG+ D/W with some very minor surface rubbing to part of the back panel. Signed by the Author on the title page

London: Robert Hale, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Robert Hale Production File Copy stamped as such on the FFEP. Small in-house Robert Hale stamp to the FFEP (FILE COPY/ PRODUCTION/ 28.11.08) otherwise a fine copy in like D/W.

1980. First Edition. (Revere, Pennsylvania: J. Howard Woolmer Rare Books 1980). First US Edition. Reproduced from the James Joyce Quarterly - Winter 1980, Vol. 17, No. 2. Printed wrappers; a stapled binding in the form of a thin 7-page booklet. A VG+ copy. Not issued with a D/W. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Orange-red cloth binding, gilt titles and figure of a jester. D/W says: ?Sapper?s big golf joke?. Half-title page says: This story appeared in Out of the Blue by ?Sapper?. Hodder and Stoughton?s Little Books of Laughter series. A VG++ copy in like D/W with slight soiling to the back panel. Exceedingly uncommon in this lovely condition. Shows very well.

London: Michael Joseph, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards with gilt lettering to the spine. A fine copy in like D/W. Uncommon in such nice shape. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Michael Joseph, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards with gilt lettering to the spine. A near fine copy in like D/W. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: John Murray, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. A very fine copy in like D/W. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE.

London: Headline, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to the spine. A near fine (or better) copy in like D/W. A very nice copy indeed. Photographs/scans available upon request.

First Edition. (Paris: Privately printed by the Author in Paris). First Edition with Mediterranean-Blue wrappers. A Limited Edition believed to be of only 28 copies. In the form of poems and drawings to illustrate a relationship’s different phases from the beginnings until the break-up through attraction, desire, gentleness, stress, the waiting, possesion, madness , small town joys, tenderness and separation. With an Erratum slip laid in. In French. Uncommon

London: Gollancz, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's red boards with gilt lettering to the spine. A fine copy in like D/W. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. (London: Macdonald & Jane's 1977). First UK Edition. A near fine copy in like D/W. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Not dated. Uncommon inscribed.

London: Gollancz, 1928. Hard Cover. First UK Edition Thus. Publisher's black boards with red lettering to the spine. About VG with edges of text block browned penetrating into the book in a few places. Base of spine lightly frayed else quite firm and presentable. Nicer than it sounds. Recently reissued by Tartarus Press. Uncommon. "That rare thing - a truly gruesome and uncanny tale" - Gerald Gould (The Observer). So macabre are Robbins' plot and characters (three carnival misfits seek revenge on mankind by forming a murder and theft ring) that they inspired Todd Browning and Lon Chaney to film this book as a movie, not once, but twice in 1925 and 1930. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Constable, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with silver lettering. Usual slight page toning otherwise a near fine copy in like D/W. Chief Superintendent Gently. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Constable, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition, First Printing. The author’s own copy. Publisher’s original black cloth with silver titles to the spine. A lovely very near fine copy in a fine D/W. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front free end-paper “author’s copy”. From the Author's estate.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. First Edition. Signed by Author. UNCORRECTED PROOF OF THE FIRST UK EDITION SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Softback. Signed and inscribed by the Author to the title page: "Iris Murdoch/ to Brian and Chantal/ for the Hobson collection". A VG (or better) copy. Further details can be provided upon request as to the identity of the recipients of this proof. This book is part of a larger listing of Iris Murdoch proofs (and other rare signed first editions . Scarce with these attributes. Uncommon in proof state. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Paris, 1920. First Edition. (Paris: Au Sans Pareil,1920). First Edition. A Limited Edition of 1,025 copies this being unnumbered and out of series. Abstract/avant garde portrait frontispiece of the author; "Collection Dada" series, preface by Tristan Tzara, 38,[1]pp, publisher's original printed wraps. Uncommon first edition by one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. For further information: Arturo Schwarz, Almanacco Dada», Milano, Feltrinelli, 1976: page. 436. A small format softback publication (not issued with a dust wrapper). A VG+ copy covers slightly darkened to the edges. Photographs/scans available upon request.