Search Results: Titles starting with V from Lucius Books

Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books. 1985. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Pictorial softcover. A better than very good copy, the extremities lightly rubbed and toned, the spine a little faded. The contents, with faint toning to the margins and a small mark to the inside of the front cover, are otherwise clean throughout Signed by Tony Harrison in blue ink on the half title. Harrison's poem 'V.' documents a visit to his parents' graves in Holbeck Cemetery in Leeds and draws together mundane details of daily life and political and philosophical ideas. It uses many instances of profanity and slurs, particularly when quoting graffiti, which caused controversy when it was broadcast by the BBC in 1987. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Hutchinson. [1942]. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Abbey illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with toning to the war-economy paper stock are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that has a couple of short closed tears and is marked to the far edge lower panel but is otherwise without fading or loss. Correctly priced 10/6 net to the front flap. An attractive example. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the title page "For S. R. Fuller / with very best wishes / from / Dennis Wheatley". The fifth of the Gregory Sallust novels. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius… Read More

UK: Bloodaxe Books Ltd. 1985. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original laminated card covers. A fine copy, the binding firm and bright, the contents with a previous owner's signature are otherwise clean throughout. Laid in is a ticket to Tony Harrison's poetry reading at Austicks University Bookshop. Signed and dated in black ink utilising the printed V. on the half title "Tony Harrison / No[V.]ember / 28 1985". Issued simultaneously in paperback and hardback. Laid in is a typed postcard from Tony Harrison to book designer and "Staple New Writing" literary magazine founder Bill Berrett, signed in black ink and postmarked Jan 1987 - "I've always thought the best thing I could do for 'poetry' is go on struggling to write it and that's why I prefer to concentrate on that exclusively rather than 'judge competitions' or do 'workshops'". Further details and images for any of the items… Read More

Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1970. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy from the author to the British historian George Shepperson. With a typed and hand written letter From Massa to Shepperson loosely laid in. Original purple cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with a photographic portrait frontispiece and a number of black and white drawings by Vachel Lindsay. A very good copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the original lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that is faded to the spine and edges. Not price clipped ($10.00 to the top of the front flap). Inscribed by Ann Massa in purple ink to the front free endpaper "For George Shepperson - / at whose Imperial & American / History Lectures I first / heard the name of / Vachel Lindsay - with / every good wish from / Ann Massa / May 1970". The recipient is George "Sam" Shepperson… Read More

Rocca San Casciano: Cappelli editore. 1965. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has a couple of short closed tears. The script and a history of the filming, illustrated with stills of the the 1965 Visconti film "Sandra of the Thousand Delights" (released as "Sandra" in the US and "Of These Thousand Pleasures" in the UK). Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper "A Don Gonzales / molto cordialmente / Luchino Visconti / Roma 1965". Italian stage and film director Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) is considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian neorealism film movement. As his career progressed, however, he produced more lavish films that spanned a range of… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall. 1935. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original yellow cloth with greenish blue titles the the spine. Without the dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with bumping to the corners and spine tips, the cloth a little dusty and darkened to the spine. The contents, with a previous owner's name to the front pastedown and some toning to the text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout. Uncommon in the first edition. A lost race novel. (Bleiler; Locke: A Spectrum of Fantasy). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1914. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's brown cloth with white titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. With four full page illustrations by C. M. Taffs. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a penciled ownership name and date (1914) to the front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the near very good dustwrapper that has several short tears and chips with loss to the edges, most notably at the bottom right corner of the upper panel (not affecting the illustration). This American edition precedes the UK edition, which was published by Methuen in 1916. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Faber and Faber. 1990. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original black cloth with titles in white to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm. The contents with just a little spotting to the top edge of the textblock are otherwise clean and fresh throughout and free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good or better original illustrated dustwrapper which has a couple of minute nicks to the top of the rear panel and minor rubbing to the extremities. Not price-clipped (£10.99 net to the front flap). An attractive example. Signed by the author in blue ink on the title page. 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.

York: Lucius Books. 2015. First edition. First edition. Presentation issue (one of 25). Original white card covers printed in red, in the plain glassine dustwrapper. Illustrated in colour throughout. A fine copy. The entire print-run was made up of 75 numbered copies for sale (of which 58 perished) and 25 presentation copies for the publisher. Produced in the style of Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations, VARIOUS NEW YORK STOREFRONTS publishes 48 images in their original size and format in this limited edition print run of 75 hand-numbered copies. The unknown photographer using Kodachrome, shot pharmacies, cinemas, drugstores, liquor stores and restaurants in and around Manhattan. Kodachrome was Kodak's first commercially viable colour film. The photographs date from between 1947 and 1952 and were re-discovered over half a century later in a New York fleamarket. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our… Read More

York: Lucius Books. 2015. First edition. First edition. Presentation issue (one of 25). Original white card covers printed in red, in the plain glassine dustwrapper. Illustrated in colour throughout. A fine copy. The entire print-run was made up of 75 numbered copies for sale (of which 58 perished) and 25 presentation copies for the publisher. Produced in the style of Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations, VARIOUS NEW YORK STOREFRONTS publishes 48 images in their original size and format in this limited edition print run of 75 hand-numbered copies. The unknown photographer using Kodachrome, shot pharmacies, cinemas, drugstores, liquor stores and restaurants in and around Manhattan. Kodachrome was Kodak's first commercially viable colour film. The photographs date from between 1947 and 1952 and were re-discovered over half a century later in a New York fleamarket. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our… Read More

London: William Heinemann; New York: George H. Doran Company. 1922. First edition, first printing, American issue. First edition, first printing, American issue. Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards in dustwrapper. Illustrated with four full page and three double page richly coloured lithographs by William Nicholson. A superb, very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, without paper loss and with a little bumping at the lower edge. The contents are spotlessly clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine, very lightly rubbed and dusty dustwrapper that has a couple of tiny nicks at the folds without loss. Both the book and the dustwrapper are entirely without repair or restoration. Housed in a bespoke quarter morocco solander case. This copy is the earliest state of the American issue, the printed paper covered boards a slightly different shade and a few millimetres taller than the UK issue. Correctly dated 1922 and… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1964. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents slightly spotted to the closed text block edge are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original dustwrapper which is ever so slightly faded to the red lettering on the spine and a little toned to the panel edges. Small crease to the upper corner of the front flap to the side of the 15s net publisher's price. Inscribed by the author in red ink on the front endpaper "For Tom Hodges / With all good wishes / Sincerely / Leslie Charteris / 27 April 65" with his original stick-man Saint drawing. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Hutchinson. 1961. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original duo-tone navy and orange textured cloth, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm. The contents a bright and clean save for a little offsetting to pages 92-3 where a scrap of newspaper has been loosely laid in. Complete with the original lightly rubbed and creased Sax illustrated dustwrapper with a painting of the author by Cynthia Montefiore to the rear panel, which has one tiny closed tear to the front flap hinge. Not price clipped (18s net to the front flap). Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "For / Ernest Rasdall / With all kind thoughts / from / Dennis Wheatley". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin & Cie.� 1919. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original tan cloth with titles in brown to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated advertisement endpapers. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous maps and black and white photographs. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a vertical crease to the lower board. The contents with a contemporary owner's inscription (dated 1921) in pencil to the title page, pencil annotations stating causality numbers to one of the maps, and a tear with slight loss to the blank corner of one page (with a little paper adhesion to the facing page) are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. Complete with the very good or thereabouts dustwrapper which has some loss to the head of the spine/rear panel, a 4cm tear to the head of the front panel, and a few small nicks and creases to the extremities. Not price-clipped (3/- net to the front panel).�… Read More

London: Methuen. 1916. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the W. Champneys illustrated dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with mild spotting to the endpapers and closed text block edge are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Publisher's catalogue dated Autumn 1916 to the rear. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that has a couple of short closed tears to the extremities and is otherwise bright and without loss. Scarce in the dustwrapper. A poignant and humorous epistolary novel set (and published) during the first year of World War One. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Privately printed. 1879. First edition, privately printed. First edition, privately printed. Signed and inscribed by the author. Original cream cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Page edges untrimmed. Manuscript list of the contributors in the author's hand on the front free endpaper. Occasional pencil corrections in the author's hand. Additional signed 3pp. manuscript letter on mourning paper dated July 1879 from the author to the recipient of the book, George C. Brodrick, tipped-in on the dedication page. Attractive armorial bookplate of the author Edith Lyttelton Gell (Brodrick's niece) to the front pastedown. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with rubbing and marking to the boards, toning to the spine and chipping to the spine ends. The contents with very faint occasional foxing are otherwise clean and bright throughout.� Signed and inscribed by John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge in black ink to the front free endpaper "George C Brodrick / from… Read More

Paris: Verve. 1938 / 1939. A unique copy. In cloth hand painted binding by Gaylen Hansen. Folio. (14.1 x 10.4 inches). Two issues bound in one hard back volume. Fully illustrated throughout with drawings, paintings and photographs. Containing original full lithographs by Chagall, Miro, Rattner, Klee, Matisse & Derain. The two issues have been bound into one hardbound volume and the binding beautifully hand painted to the upper cover and spine, in acrylic and oils by the noted Neo-Expressionist American painter Gaylen Hansen. Condition is very good, with some rubbing and wear to the edges. Together with a fine hardback copy of the fully illustrated book issued in 2007 to accompany the retrospective exhibition 'Gaylen Hansen: Three decades of Paintings' at the Seattle Art Museum (October 2007 - January 2008) and Salt Lake City Art Center (February - April 2008). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our… Read More

Leicester: Brockhampton Press. 1962. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original light blue cloth with red and gilt titles to the spine. In the dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with lovely expressive black and white line-drawings by Edward Lewis. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the text block edges and endpapers with a little light spotting, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the rubbed and nicked pictorial dustwrapper that is otherwise without loss or large tears. Not price-clipped but with the original printed price on the front flap neatly crossed out in pen. Scarce in the first edition. The true first edition (it was later re-titled 'The Hot-Water Bottle Mystery'). A children's detective caper in which a hot water bottle that a lady has hidden her pearls in goes missing, leading two children on a chase around London. Further details and images for any of the items listed… Read More

London: Edmund Ward. 1965. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with white titles and illustration to the upper board and spine, in the dustwrapper. A very good copy, the contents are entirely complete and without inscriptions or stamps, with some very faint, light spotting to the endpapers. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has a few short closed tears and some associated creasing. Not price-clipped. 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. 1979. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the original dustwrapper that is faded to the spine but otherwise bright and without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£4.95 net to the front flap). Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "To Les / cheers / Ian Watson / Brighton / 23.4.1984". The science-fiction author's first short story collection. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.