CONNOLLY**, JOHN:
A Game of Ghosts. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2014.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED - without dedication.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat,handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,part matt+part glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white+gilt lettering to front; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean - all without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-454pp [paginated] includes Pts I-VI comprising 103 chapters, acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED - without dedication - title page,a dedication,individual Pts separator pages each with an epigram and 1pp blank at the rear of the book with publisher's website address+ blurb to it's verso.A Charlie Parker novel. Want more John CONNOLLY titles? For similar or other available titles,please search my SIGNED or MODERN FIRSTS2 catalogues. It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished,and Charlie Parker is dispatched to track him down.Parker's employer,Edgar Ross,an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found. Eklund is no ordinary investigator.He is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances,each linked to reports of hauntings.Now Parker will be drawn into Eklund's world,a realm in which the monstrous Mother rules a crumbling criminal empire,in which men strike bargains with angels,and in which the innocent and guilty alike are pawns in a game of ghosts. . . . Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja730817. ISBN: 9781444755329.

£ 22.00 (approx. $US 28.63 )

CONNOLLY**, JOHN:
NIGHT MUSIC: Nocturnes Volume 2. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2015.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED - without dedication.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication - and a price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt 3-colour block (blue, black and white) illustration to front panel of dw/dj with b/w lettering,beige spine with b/w lettering,rear panel with blue+black colour illustration; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain khaki cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/ dj,1st edn,3-436pp [paginated] includes 13 short stories each with an individual,non-credited artist b/w illustration separator page; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED - without dedication - title page,separate dedication and contents list/table, acknowledgements and 4pp blanks to the rear. Want more John CONNOLLY titles? For similar or other available title? For similar and other available collaborative, SIGNED and unsigned titles,please search my SIGNED or MODERN FIRSTS2 catalogues. From the bestselling author of the Charlie Parker mystery series - 'the finest crime series currently in existence' (Independent - a UK newspaper) - comes a new anthology of chilling short fiction. A decade after 'Nocturnes' first terrified and delighted readers,John Connolly,bestselling author of thirteen acclaimed thrillers featuring private investigator Charlie Parker,gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural.From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books,from a tender account of love after death to a frank,personal and revealing account of the author's affection for myths of ghosts and demons,this is a collection that will surprise, delight - and terrify. 'Night Music' also contains two novellas: the multi-award-winning 'The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository' and 'The Fractured Atlas'. 'Night Music: Nocturnes 2' is a masterly collection to be read with the lights on - menace has never been so seductive. Author was the winner of the 2016 CWA Short Story Dagger for On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier - a story from NIGHT MUSIC: Nocturnes Vol 2. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja800718. ISBN: 9781473619715.

£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 )

CONNOLLY**, BILLY:
RAMBLING MAN: MY LIFE ON THE ROAD. ** [WHSmith EXCLUSIVE EDITION. **]

Imprint: LONDON.TWO ROADS/an imprint of John Murray Press,2023.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE. Virtually as new; wrapped,protected and stored from day of issue/purchase,so NO owner inscrptn and NO price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,b/w author/subject portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with author's capitalised,glossy green-lettered with white shadow-edging name to the front's top edge and capitalised,glossy white-lettered part-title and capitalised,glossy green-lettered sub-title to front's lower edge and an adhesive green roundel with white-lettered legend 'WHSmith EXCLUSIVE EDITION.A matt,fluorescent pale green spine/backstrip with author's capitalised,glossy black-lettered with white shadow-edging name and capitalised,glossy white-lettered part-title and publisher's capitalised,white-lettered name within a  b/w panel,illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with author's b/w portrait photograph and capitalised,glossy green-lettered prose extract.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - head of spine with miniscule pushing and its reciprocal crease.Top+fore-edges coloured green for this Exclusive edn [plain white and uncoloured in UK trade issue] and are bright, crisp and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound, unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,unblemished,sharp-cornered, original plain pale grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked,glossy black-lettered spine and immaculate plain fluorescent pale green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn, 1-310pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,14 chapters,an Epilogue,24pp of author's contemporary b/w+ colour photographs of his travels in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp86/7,pp150/51 and pp214/15 respectively,and to the rear,Acknowledgements and Credits (pictures+ text).Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, a dedication,a Contents list/table,a title separator page and individually numbered Chapter separator pages.                                 Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for it's brightnesss,cleanliness and lack of detracting faults. Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be,to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met the weirdest and most wonderful people who walk the Earth, seen the most bizarre and the most fantastic sights - and I've rarely come across something I couldn't get a laugh at. I don't think I've ever had a bad trip. Well, apart from in the 1970s, but that's a whole other story . . . When Billy set out from Glasgow as a young man he never looked back.He played his banjo on boats and trains, under trees, and on top of famous monuments.He danced naked in snow, wind and fire.He slept in bus stations, under bridges and on strangers' floors.He travelled by foot, bike, ship, plane, sleigh - even piggy-backed - to get to his next destination.               Billy has wandered to every corner of the earth and believes that being a Rambling Man is about more than just travelling - it's a state of mind.Rambling Men and Women are free spirits who live on their wits, are interested in people and endlessly curious about the world.They love to play music, make art or tell stories along the way but, above all, they have a longing in their heart for the open road.                     In his joyful new book,Billy explores this philosophy and how it has shaped him,and he shares hilarious new stories from his lifetime on the road.From riding his trike down America's famous Route 66, building an igloo on an iceberg in the Arctic, playing elephant polo (badly) in Nepal and crashing his motorbike (more than once),to eating witchetty grubs in Australia, being serenaded by a penguin in New Zealand, and swapping secrets in a traditional Sweat Lodge ritual in Canada, Rambling Man is a truly global adventure with the greatest possible travel companion.                                        Please contact the seller,particularly ALL overseas buyers,for correct [insured or uninsured at own risk] shipping/P+p quotes BEFORE placing your order, especially if ordering any multiples. N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE.                     ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **                                                                                                                                                    

Stock number: rja1163124. ISBN: 9781399802574.

£ 30.00 (approx. $US 39.04 )

CONNOLLY**, BILLY:
TALL TALES and wee stories.

Imprint: LONDON.TWO ROADS/JOHN MURRAY PRESS/HACHETTE UK,2019.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, monochrome author/subject photographic illustrated dw/dj with glossy orange and grey lettering to front panel,b/w lettering to glossy orange background of spine/backstrip,orange+ white lettering to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain grey paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,4-330pp [paginated] includes,6 sections each with numerous anecdotes,stories etc.,original b/w line illustrations by Billy Connolly himself,throughout the book, acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] author's drawn thumbnail self-portrait cartoonist sketch illustrated half-title,title page,a contents list/table with a larger version of half-title sketch,to its reverse,an author introduction, individual section separator pages each with a preceding full-page b/w line illus by Connolly opposite same,and b/w line illus before acknowledgements page. 'Tall Tales and wee stories' brings together the best of Billy's storytelling for the very first time.With an introduction and original illustrations by Billy throughout,it is an inspirational,energetic and riotously funny read,and a fitting celebration of our greatest ever comedian. In December 2018,after fifty years of belly-laughs,energy and outrage Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy.It had been an extraordinary career.When he first started out in the late sixties,Billy played the banjo in the folk clubs of Scotland. Between songs,he would improvise a bit,telling anecdotes from the Clyde shipyard where he'd worked.In the process,he made all kinds of discoveries about what audiences found funny, from his own brilliant mimes to the power of speaking irreverently about politics or explicitly about sex.He began to understand the craft of great storytelling.Soon the songs became shorter and the monologues longer,and Billy quickly became recognised as one of the most exciting comedians of his generation. Billy's routines always felt spontaneous.He never wrote script,always creating his comedy freshly on stage in the presence of a live audience.A brilliant comic story might be subsequently discarded,adapted or embellished.A quick observation or short anecdote one night, could become a twenty-minute segment by the next night of a tour. Billy always brought a beautiful sense of the absurd to his shows as he riffed on his family, hecklers,swimming in the North Sea or naked bungee jumping.But his comedy can be laced with anger too.He hates pretentiousness and calls out hypocrisy wherever he sees it.His insights about the human condition have shocked many people, while his unique talent and startling appearance on stage gave him license to say anything he damn well pleased about sex,politics or religion. Billy got away with it because he has always had the popular touch.His comedy spans generations and different social tribes in a way that few others have ever managed. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja861120. ISBN: 9781529361339.

£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 )

CONNOLLY,** JOHN:
The Dirty South. ** [A CHARLIE PARKER THRILLER.**] [Author SIGNED copy.**]

Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2020.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED bookplate,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED - without dedication - to bookplate.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED bookplate,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] NMINT/NMINT. No owner inscrptn but author's neatr,handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to a b/w  illustrated bookplate pasted to a special Limitation page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with author's name in white,glossy lettering,bronze-lettered title,capitalised white-lettered strap line and critic's other white-lettered review to front of dw/dj; a matt black spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author name and title as the front's and publisher's capitalised,white-lettered name,and white illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with critics' bronze gilt and white-lettered reviews. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks, tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp, clean without blemish/foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – virtually pristine and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain orange cloth boards with blocked,black lettering to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED bookplate,1st edn,3-470pp [paginated] includes 2 NOW sections with a chapter each at start and end of the main THEN section of Pts I-VI comprising 27,27,16,18,11 chapters respectively and Acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication, individual NOW sections' separator pages,Pts separator pages each with either a prose extract or an epigram,and to the rear,publisher's advertisement for media platforms.  See my book ID rja1128224 for a UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edn of this same title.                                                Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. A prequel to most of the 'Charlie Parker' thriller series (not 'Every Dead Thing'), offering an opportune entry point to the so far (at 2022),20 titles of the series. It is 1997,and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South.In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child,and searching in vain for their killer. He cares only for his own lost family. But that is about to change . . . Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker. A Charlie Parker novel - the birth of a hunter.                           Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!                              N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja1150224. ISBN: 9781529398298.

£ 40.00 (approx. $US 52.06 )

CONNOLLY**, JOHN:
THE KILLING KIND. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2001.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten,blue ink signature to title page, under his own name,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Colour illustrated and silver gilt lettered dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges.Top right upper corner and rear right lower corner both minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss - no other nicks or tears present - light indent/scoring to wraps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-388pp (paginated).Author's third novel featuring private detective Charlie Parker. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja22436. ISBN: 0340771208.

£ 34.99 (approx. $US 45.54 )

CONNOLLY**, JOHN:
THE REAPERS. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2008.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED - without dedication.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp. [Complete number line 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,black felt-tip ink signature - without dedication and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with silver gilt,pale blue and white lettering to front,silver gilt and pale blue lettering to spine; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate monochrome photographic illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,3-391pp [paginated] includes a prologue,Pts I-IIII,comprising 12,3,7,8 chapters respectively,an epilogue and acknowledgements as last printed page; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication with acknowledgements to its reverse,prologue separator page with an epigram,individual Pts separator pages each with an epigram, and at rear of book; blank reverse of last paginated page of acknowledgements on last page and further 2pp blanks. Want more John CONNOLLY titles? For similar or other available titles,please search my SIGNED or MODERN FIRSTS2 catalogues. They are the Reapers,the elite among killers,men so terrifying that their names are mentioned only in whispers.The assassin Louis is one of them.But now Louis,and his partner,Angel, are themselves targets.And there is no shortage of suspects. A wealthy recluse sends them north to a town that no longer exists on a map.A town ruled by a man with very personal reasons for wanting Louis's blood spilt.There they find themselves trapped,isolated,and at the mercy of a killer feared above all others: the assassin of assassins,Bliss. Thanks to a former detective Charlie Parker,help is on its way.But can Angel and Louis stay alive long enough for it to reach them? Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja821018. ISBN: 9780340936658.

£ 19.99 (approx. $US 26.01 )

CONNOLLY**, JOHN:
The Woman in the Woods. ** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2018.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED - without dedication.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around part matt,part glossy,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with author's capitalised,embossed,glossy,white-lettered name and glossy,green gilt-lettered titleand capitalised,white-lettered A CHARLIE PARKER THRILLER credit/legend at top edge and other white-lettered review [Independent on Sunday] to lower edge of front panel of dw/dj. Spine/backstrip with continuation of front's colour photograph with similarly coloured+ lettered author name+title as the front's but flat printed and publisher's capitalised,white-lettered name and white illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with 6 critics' gold,white+green-lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks, tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright crisp and clean without ageing/toning,no foxing/spotting or other blemish; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound – virtually pristine - with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp and clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked capitalised,green gilt lettered spine/backstrip, and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,3-467pp [paginated] includes 121 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED - without dedication - title page,a dedication,a biblical epigram,and to the rear,Acknowledgements with publisher's b/w illustrated advert of latest crime+thriller fiction,and 4pp blanks.A Charlie Parker novel. See my book ID for a UK,HB+dw/dj,!st edn of this same title. Want more John CONNOLLY titles? For similar or other available titles,please search my SIGNED or MODERN FIRSTS2 catalogues.   Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. Connolly's debut - EVERY DEAD THING - introduced the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker, and swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers.                                This,a new instalment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series.                    It is spring,and the semi-preserved body of a young Jewish woman is discovered buried in the Maine woods.It is clear that she gave birth shortly before her death.But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is engaged by the lawyer Moxie Castin to shadow the police investigation and find the infant,but Parker is not the only searcher.Someone else is following the trail left by the woman,someone with an interest in more than a missing child,someone prepared to leave bodies in his wake.            And in a house by the woods,a toy telephone begins to ring.For a young boy is about to receive a call from a dead woman . . .            Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!          N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja1150124. ISBN: 9781473641921.

£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 )

CONNOLLY**, JOHN:
A Time of Torment. [Author SIGNED copy** + CD.]

Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2014.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED - without dedication.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[An exclusive Waterstones edition,signed by the author - without dedication,also includes musical soundtrack CD in attached wallet.Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's neat,handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,part matt +part glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white+gilt lettering to front; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean - all without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,plus music CD3-472pp,3-424pp [paginated] includes Pts I-V comprising 95 chapters,acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED - without dedication title page,a dedication, individual Pts separator pages each with an epigram and 1pp blank at the rear of the book with publisher's website address+blurb to its verso.Music CD+notes in pasted wallet to front pastedown.The CD is a soundtrack to the novels of John Connolly,Volume VI,featuring music from Mark Kozelek,Low,Susanne Sundfor,This Mortal Coil,Nancy Elizabeth,Damon & Naomi and Ghost,8:58,Reservoir,and 13 & God... A Charlie Parker novel. Want more John CONNOLLY titles? For similar or other available titles,please search my SIGNED or MODERN FIRSTS2 catalogues. Charlie Parker is hunting,and the Dead King is his prey. Jerome Burnel was once a hero.He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself.His life was torn apart.He was imprisoned,brutalized. But in his final days,with the hunters circling,he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker.He speaks of the girl who was marked for death but was saved,of the ones who tormented him,and the being that they serve. Parker is not like other men.He died,and was reborn.He is ready to wage war. Now he will descend upon a strange,isolated community called the Cut,and face down a force of men who rule by terror,intimidation,and murder. All in the name of the entity hiding in a ruined tower. All in the name of the Dead King. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja730717. ISBN: 9781444755329.

£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 )

O'CONNOR, MIKE:
AIRFIELDS & AIRMEN of the CHANNEL COAST.

Imprint: UK.PEN & SWORD MILITARY/an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Limited.BARNSLEY,S. YORKSHIRE,2005.
Edition: UK,slim.small 8vo wraps,softback Original,illustrated,1st edn,
Binding: Softback Original., No dw/dj - wraps - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim.small 8vo wraps,softback Original, illustrated,1st edn. [Paperback/softback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title. Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but paperback/softback originals are published prior to any other format,in the country of its origin and sometimes,even worldwide.] NMINT. Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase,so NO owner inscrptn and NO price removal from card cover - last copy left. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy colour pictorial artwork and montage'd thumbnail b/w photographs illustrated front card cover,with capitalised,white-lettered title+author name and other white lettering to lower edge; spine/ backstrip withcapitalised white-lettered title and thumbnail b/w photograph detail from front cover and publisher's b/w lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear cover with colour Channel Coast map detail and inset and white lettered synopsis.UK,slim.small 8vo wraps, softback Original,illustrated,1st edn,7-208pp [paginated] includes an Introduction by series Editor (NigelCave). Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral p/back original.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. In this latest addition to the Airfields and Airmen Series (2005),Mike O’Connor describes the dramatic air actions that took place along the Belgian and North France coastline during The Great War.In addition to the Royal Fighting Corps and RAF aspect,this volume covers the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and Belgian Air Service (AMB) as well as the German Naval Air Service. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja1075823. ISBN: 1844152588.

£ 15.00 (approx. $US 19.52 )

O'CONNOR,DANIEL** - After J.M.BARRIE:
L'HISTOIRE DE PETER PAN - transl by Marc CEPPI.

Imprint: LONDON.G.BELL AND SONS,LTD.,1918.
Edition: UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn thus.
Binding: Hardback , No dw/dj.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim 12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn thus. (Though published in UK,text is in French.) VG+.Although no original dw/dj present,it appears the original,previous owner (a child,Frank Pryor - Form 11a), from childish,handwritten ink name to amateurish-made brown paper protective dw/dj,remains in situ and has therefore protected the bds and book beneath,all these years! No owner's name - original or prior or subsequent - internally. Publisher's original,pale blue/green(?) cloth bd with dark blue/black ink stamped fleur-de-lys cornered,paralleled lined, linear borders to upper bd,publisher's colophon to rear bd and lettering to upper bd and slightly faded spine/backstrip. Corners minimally bumped,negligible shelf-wear to edges;head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing with slightly,off-set foxed front+rear feps.Top+fore-edges aged/toned - as usual/normal - but generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean apart from light page-edge toning. UK,slim 12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn thus,vii-ixpp+105pp [paginated]+4pp Questionnaire (about the contents of the illustrations), 19pp Vocabulaire and 2pp publisher advert at rear,includes half-title+title pages, colour frntis,a preface,contents/table list,8 chapters,9 full-page b/w illus,3 full-page colour illus - all by Alice B.Woodward,some musical notation for songs by John Crook,interspersed throughout the text and the book.An adaptation,in French, of The Story of Peter Pan(1914) book by D.S. O'Connor,the text is from the J.M. Barrie play,performed annually at the Duke of York's Theatre,London. All children,except one,grow up. [First lines.] A dramatic fantasy for children about a boy,Peter Pan,who ran away to Never-Never Land to escape growing up.Whilst searching for his shadow,Peter meets the Darling children whom he teaches to fly.He takes them to Never-Never Land where they meet the lost boys and encounter many adventures before deciding to return home and face growing up. Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862-1911). Born in London,daughter of Dr Henry Woodward,Keeper of Geology at the British Museum.As a child she drew in the Greek and Roman galleries of the museum and made diagrams and scientific drawings for her father.Studied at the South Kensington and Westminster Schools of Art and in Paris at the Academie Julian.Watercolour painter and an accomplished illustrator of children's books in pen and ink,or pencil and wash,with a graceful,economical line, who often brought a refreshing sense of humour to her work.Some of her earlier drawings are in the manner of Charles Robinson. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja27047.

£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 )

O'CONNOR,JIMMY:
The ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT.

Imprint: GUERNSEY,CHANNEL ISLES.SEAGULL S.A.,1976.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback., With Dust Jacket

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.Bottom edges dw/dj slightly creased/shelf-worn with top edge less so.Green paper-covered bds with gilt seagull to bottom right corner of upper bd with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and repeated seagull to foot of same and plain white eps.Both top+ fore-edges are slightly dust-soiled with some foxing and ageing.Contents bright, tight and clean.8vo,191pp. As a mallard on the Serpentine is born to water,so Jimmy O'Connor was born in the back-streets of Paddington to an early life of crime.His Irish father was a layabout,wife-beater and small-time conman. His mother was a Bond Street prostitute. He loved them,none the less,but the pattern of his life was set by his very background;from thieving bread during the depression to early experiences with fences,smash-and-grab experts and experienced burglars was a rapid progression.Even while page-boy for the Swallow Club, young O'Connor managed to help himself to a valuable jewel haul from Claridge's hotel."You're a right little tea-leaf," said his father to this, and promptly disappeared for months on the proceeds.His first wedding was a hurried affair in more senses than one:he was on bail,and the following day went to prison. Then came September 1939,and Corporal O'Connor of the NAAFI went to work in the bonded warehouses in France.He fiddled more than GBP20,000, and salted it away. But easy come,easy go.When the real war came,and the British left France,most of the now-promoted Sergeant O'Connor's fortune floated away with the wreckage of the s.s. Lancastria which was bombed and sunk on 17 June 1940.After discharge from the Army, O'Connor returned to crime,which led indirectly to his arrest and wrongful conviction for murder. In April 1941,a man called George Alfred Ambridge was found battered to death in his Kilburn,London home.On circumstantial evidence, and at the moment he was being released from prison for another offence, James O'Connor in his twenties was arrested for the murder,tried at the Old Bailey,and sentenced to be hanged.He spent eight weeks in the barbaric and degrading conditions of the condemned cell at Pentonville:his appeal failed,and his execution was fixed,with grim irony,for his birthday.But there was a last minute reprieve.There followed ten years of a life-sentence for a crime he did not commit,in the reeking cells of Dartmoor, and later Parkhurst,before being released on the orders of the Home Secretary in March 1952.He became a used-car dealer,a journalist,and is now a successful TV playwright.But the fight to prove his innocence beyond all doubt continues.This is the story of that fight, the story of a man who faced the seeming certainty of being executed on the hangman's trap.But it is not only that.It is an uninhibited, rumbustious autobiography with eye-opening details of a world of villains, and told with a cockney humour that has miraculously survived the shadows of prison.AT THE SAME TIME IT MAKES A CLASSIC CASE FOR ALL WHO BELIEVE THAT, EVEN IN THESE DAYS OF OUTCRY AGAINST VIOLENCE AND THE WIDE DEMAND FOR A RETURN TO HANGING,ENGLAND MUST NEVER AGAIN HAVE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

Stock number: rja634. ISBN: 0905353005.

£ 10.00 (approx. $US 13.01 )

O'CONNOR, PATRICK:
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC: THE NIGHTLIFE OF PARIS.

Imprint: LONDON.PHAIDON PRESS LIMITED.
Edition: UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork (Toulouse-Lautrec) illustrated upper wrap; subject contemporary b/w studio photograph to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Light chipping and rubbing to head of spine/ backstrip and top,two corners,light impressing/indents to both wraps.Top+fore- edges bright and clean,contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,red+yellow headband,brown charcoal illustrated eps. UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-79pp [paginated] includes 28 colour plates,b/w contemporary photographs+illustrations throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] b/w subject portrait photographic illustrated half-title page, double-page contemporary b/w photographic illustrated title page (dance floor at Moulin Rouge),colour part-page illustrated memoriam/dedication,and double-page colour plate. The centre of Toulouse-Lautrec's world was the night-life of Paris in the 1880's and 1890's.No other artist has so captured and perpetuated in their work the extraordinary gaiety,the celebrated and infamous personalities and varieties of pleasure that Paris offered by night for the fin-de-siecle. Toulouse-Lautrec observed not only the ladies of the night preparing for their evening's work and awaiting their clients behind windows with rose-tinted shades; but also the society that first frequented the absinthe-haunted,smoky cafes,elegant private supper rooms,crowded bistros and cabarets,and then moved on to the great theatres,the circuses,the Opera,the intellectual cafe-concerts and to the frenzied performances of dancing by Jane Avril,Loie Fuller and La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergere. Lautrec presents a lively and unsentimental vision of the artists, workers and lovers of Paris.The special collection of contemporary photographs which are published in this book serve to highlight the uniqueness of Lautrec's ironic but affectionate attitude to his subjects. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901),the most popular of the Post-Impressionist painters,worked at the centre of nightlife in fin-de-siecle Paris.He was a close and passionate observer of the animated entertainment of the theatres,circuses, cabarets,restuarants and dance-halls.The great performers,La Goulue,Jane Avril and Loie Fuller,are principally remembered through Lautrec's vital images of them, just as he is for his swift,brilliant and concise draughtsmanhip that records their world and the most exciting period of Parisian nightlife. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja31078. ISBN: 071482688X.

£ 14.95 (approx. $US 19.46 )

CONRAD**, JOSEPH:
ARROW OF GOLD.**

Imprint: LONDON.T.FISHER UNWIN,1919.
Edition: UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn,1st state.
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,as issued(?),1st edn,1st state.With intact 'A' in the headline,THE ARROW OF GOLD to pp66/67.VG. No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj.Green cloth bds,stamped gilt letters to upper bd and spine/backstrip,plain white eps slightly foxed.Cloth bds are slightly sunned and faded with corners lightly bumped and rubbed and front hinge lightly cracked. Spine/backstrip slightly darkened with 3 small nicks/tears and some miniscule loss of cloth,to head of spine/backstrip.Small nick to foot of same - but no loss.Top edge coloured,fore-edge slightly aged as usual/normal.Contents bright,tight and clean with no spotting or foxing.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st ednm1st state,xpp+1-366pp [paginated].Described hard but fairly, overall a VG copy apart from the bds. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja17.

£ 80.00 (approx. $US 104.11 )

CONRAD**, JOSEPH:
THREE PLAYS: SECRET AGENT,LAUGHING ANNE,ONE DAY MORE.

Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN,1934.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.(The 3 plays previously published singularly,and this edn published posthumously,Conrad died 1924.)VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,no clip to dw/dj - price on spine/backstrip.Plain, tan dw/dj with brown ink printed letters with minimal shelf-wear to edges.Spine/ backstrip slightly darkened and marked/ stained to foot.Miniscule loss to head of spine/backstrip and light chipping with minimal loss to foot.Top edges slightly more creased than bottom.Small rectangular clip;approx 0.75" x 2.50" wide,to top right-hand corner of ffe,owner name removed? Bright,clean green cloth bds, with black ink printed letters to spine/ backstrip and clean,plain white eps.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and spotted, fore and bottom edges lightly aged and lightly spotted/foxed too,as usual/normal. Contents bright,tight and clean with little or no foxing apart from prelims.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vpp+1-184pp [paginated]. Like many other novelists,Conrad was unable to repeat his success as a novelist when he ventured into the theatre.The one-act play "One Day More" received an unsympathetic reception when first staged in 1905;when it appeared in print twice, Clement Shorter,1917 published only 25 copies and by the Beaumont Press,1919, it was in a ltd ed of 250 copies, plus a further 24 printed on Japanese vellum. Conrad's own adaptation of his own novel, "The Secret Agent",was staged at the Ambassadors Theatre in London late in 1922, but was another critical failure.It too appeared in print twice; a 1921, Cambridge,privately printed 69pp for author only and T.Werner Laurie,1923,185pp printed for subscribers only. "Laughing Anne" apart from this edn was only printed in Bookman Journal,1923;No.4 of the 'Vine Books'. Works from the closing stage of Conrad's life,from 1919 to 1924, are relatively easy to acquire and collect,but inevitably without the dw/dj. Dw/dj for these books are rarely present, but when they are they will treble or quadruple the values. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja19. ISBN: No ISBN.

£ 70.00 (approx. $US 91.10 )

CONSTANCE, HAZEL:
First in the Field: A Century of The Camping and Caravanning Club.

Imprint: UK.COVENTRY.THE CAMPING AND CARAVANNING CLUB,2001.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - due to absence of publisher price! Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,plain pale blue and white+darker blue lettering designed dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Dw/dj design repeated to glossy laminated bds with contemporary,b/w photographic illustrated eps.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean, contents bright,tight and pristine - an unread copy? UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,12- 302pp [paginated] includes 24 chapters, appendices(4),profuse b/w+colour contemporary photographs and illustrations throughout the text and the book,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, HRH Prince Philip (Patron) foreword,Lord Baden-Powell (grandson President) foreword,contents list/table and 4pp blanks to rear. The Official history of what eventually became The Camping and Caravanning Club's,centenary. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja28628. ISBN: 095416590X.

£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 )

COOK**, BERYL & Lucie-Smith** ,Edward:
BERTIE and the Red Ball.**

Imprint: LONDON.JOHN MURRAY LTD.,/GALLERY FIVE LTD.,1982.
Edition: UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.FINE.Pencilled familial birthday gift presentation inscrptn in childish handwriting to front free endpaper,no dw/dj - as issued.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork by Beryl Cook,illustrated bds; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners and immaculate plain white eps.Virtually unmarked bds - no scratches,scuffs, indentations - no bumped corners or edges, no nicks or tears/splits present either. This really is a superb,virtually unaffected copy (inscrptn excepted!) - certainly amongst one of the best I've handled!! Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright,tight and near pristine - inscrptn excepted - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,32pp - including title page [unpaginated],plain white pastedowns and endpapers,all colour illustrations by Beryl Cook - 1 double-page,full-page illus,11 full-page illus,two 3/4-page double-page illus,one 3/4 single-page illus,part-illustrated title-page and part-illustrated last page with text.by Edward Lucie-Smith. When Ruby takes Bertie for a quiet walk on the seafront little does she know what lies in store.As soon as she lets him off his lead and throws him the big red ball Bertie goes berserk,and his escapades wreak havoc among peaceable holiday-makers,fat ladies and musclemen,and everyone else who gets in his way.His antics drive poor Ruby to distraction and as disaster follows disaster she becomes convinced that something awful is going to happen. . . . A superb copy of a scarce title of Cook's. Want more Beryl COOK titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS catalogue. Please contact seller,because of the light weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja737817. ISBN: 0719539765.

£ 45.00 (approx. $US 58.56 )

COOK**, BERYL:
BERYL COOK CRUISING.

Imprint: LONDON.VICTOR GOLLANCZ/ORION BOOKS LTD.,2000.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork by Beryl Cook, illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges+head of spine/backstrip only,affected by minimal creasing.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and minisculely spotted,fore- edge brighter,crisp and cleaner; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Clean,unblemished,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate glossy yellow eps.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,64pp [unpaginated] includes half- title page,colour vignette illustrated title page,foreword by Dawn French (British actress+comedienne),50 colour illus/paintings and accompanying text. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja366210. ISBN: 0575068442.

£ 14.99 (approx. $US 19.51 )

COOK**, BERYL:
BERYL COOK'S NEW YORK.**

Imprint: LONDON.JOHN MURRAY LTD.,1985.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Beryl Cook, illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A tiny, tiny closed tear/nick towards centre of front panel of dw/dj's top edge.Spine/ backstrip minimally sunned/faded as usual/ normal.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain pale yellow cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped red ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.Slim Qrto,64pp [unpaginated] includes half-title page,colour vignette illustrated title page,Beryl Cook preface, 28 colour illus/paintings and accompanying text. Fascinated by the bustle,variety and eccentricity of city life,Beryl Cook has always been attracted to New York,and this record of her stay there is as colourful and idiosyncratic as anyone could hope for.From Central Park to Coney Island,from Roseland to the Metropolitan Museum,from the Russian Tea Room to the gambling halls of Atlantic City,her inimitable brush and disarmingly candid pen depict the whole array of humanity with all its quirks and comedy. For Beryl,New York is not a city of skyscrapers,but of dancers,cops, housewives,waiters,business men and women, down-and-outs,joggers,singers,barmen, culture addicts,proselytisers,school children,bicyclists,gamblers,intellectuals,shoppers,holiday-makers - all the people to be found in any great city,but nowhere as varied as in New York and by no one else so lovingly recreated. Beryl's numerous addicts have a treat in store,and for the uninitiated - if there be any - the chance to experience her work at its brightest and best. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja501514. ISBN: 0719542294.

£ 27.95 (approx. $US 36.37 )

COOK, BOB:
DISORDERLY ELEMENTS.

Imprint: LONDON.GOLLANCZ,1985.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE-/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Yellow dw/dj with red+black letters with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled, fore-edge bright and clean,contents pristine. Publisher's original,unblemished red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate - no off-setting - plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 9-184pp.Spy thriller novel.The author's debut novel. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading. Despite it,it really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. A Communist mole in the very top level of British Security! Not even the Philby affair was half so serious.There's near-panic in the Cabinet.And,the shame of it,the British agent (Wyman) who has discovered the shocking truth, was himself about to be made redundant,as the Treasury axe falls even on Intelligence. To keep the secret as closely confined as possible,it's Wyman who is given a new lease and sent abroad to nose out what he can.His report back is,if anything,even more appalling than his original discovery.He has contacted a hioghly placed East German who will tell all - at a price.His price is two million pounds.The Prime Minister is shatterred.What's going to happen to that policy of drastic cuts in public spending? The cost is unthinkable. Yet what's the alternative? The biggest Security scandal yet? And with the CIA and KGB already getting into the act,putting on the pressure. To reveal more would be to reveal too much.But what we can say is that this is an espionage thriller with a difference - witty and amusing, and,in the end,it's the Establishment that gets its come-uppance. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

Stock number: rja299. ISBN: 0575037229.

£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 )

COOK, WILLIAM - Ed by:
Goodbye Again: The Definitive PETER COOK AND DUDLEY MOORE.

Imprint: LONDON.CENTURY,2004.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£17.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,subject,b/w photographic upper panel,green+white critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine. Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate dark green eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-viiipp+1- 389pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,contents list/table,an introduction,9 chapters,notes,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. This collection of the comedy duo's works is a comprehensive compilation of the finest sketches that they wrote together, featuring transcripts of one night stands and including previously unpublished scripts for 'Not Only But Also',it promises to be a revelation even for Cook and Moore's most informed fans. It also charts the extraordinary friendship between the two and its almost telepathic intensity,which not only brought them together but also pulled them apart time after time until their eventual reconciliation. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja435312. ISBN: 1844134008.

£ 12.99 (approx. $US 16.91 )

COOK**, BERYL:
Private View.

Imprint: LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1980.
Edition: UK,slim Qrto,HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim Qrto,HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners. Some light scoring/indentations and laminate wrinkling to rear wrap,with a small,closed nick to rear wrap's top edge towards head of spine/backstrip.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight and clean.Black paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,gilt stamped title to upper bd and similar to spine/backstrip, lightly bumped/rubbed corners and immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,66pp [unpaginated] includes half-title,colour vignette illustrated title page,a foreword by Edward Lucie-Smith,28 colour illus by Beryl Cook,with accompanying text,and a vignette illustrated acknowledgements page to rear. In the three years since Beryl Cook's work was first revealed to the public she has risen from being regarded as an interesting phenomenon to occupying a niche of her own in modern British painting. Few artists have succeeded in appealing to the broadest cross-section of the public whilst receiving a critical acclaim any serious artist would envy.Beryl has been compared with Stanley Spencer, Douanier Rousseau, Rowlandson, Hogarth, Rubens, Burra and even Chagall,but the range of these comparisons only serves to emphasise her striking individuality. In this second volume of her paintings the mixture is even richer than before.On a visit to Paris Beryl was inspired by the deft skill of waiters in a popular restaurant and also by the fetching appearance of two ladies who come and go in the Place Pigalle: both are here immortalised.Scenes in a well known pub in Chelsea where a fight broke out and in a gay disco engraved themselves on her mind and were swiftly transferred into oil on plywood.Pictures of Plymouth again feature prominently: the market,Tescos,a Bingo session,lovers in the undergrowth, dustbinmen and many others,forming a Chaucerian gallery of contemporary characters which captures the spirit of our age with humorous vivacity and unblinkered realism.Her 2nd book. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

Stock number: rja387911. ISBN: 0719537282.

£ 10.00 (approx. $US 13.01 )

COOK, MATTHEW & DUNCAN, PAUL:
THE BRITISH SEASON: A CELEBRATION OF SUMMERTIME ENTERTAINMENTS.

Imprint: LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN and COMPANY in Assocaition with Royal Mail,1994.
Edition: UK,slim,rectangular 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim,rectangular 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Matthew Cook,illustrated dw/dj,with blue+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - a small (approx 9mm) closed tear to head of spine/backstrips' front gutter's edge. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue eps.A production fault of slight wrinkling on front board with a small indentation but with no corresponding mark to concomitant spot on dw/dj's panel.Rear panel of dw/dj with a couple of minor,superficial scoring and indents but all without penetration - or even any impression to concomitant spots to board/cover,another tiny dent to bottom edge and again with no corresponding damage to dw/dj - indents production faults? UK,slim,rectangular 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-127pp [paginated] includes copyright page,an introduction,22 calendar events/occasions each with a full page full-colour illustration with b/w line illustrations in the text for each event too - all by Matthew Cook,essential addresses and ticket information,an appendix,acknowledgements,plus [unpaginated] colour pictorial vignetted half-title+title pages,double-page colour illustration with double-page contents list/table to verso - each page with protective transparent,lift-back flap to MINT Royal Mail commissioned event/ occasion (facsimile?) stamps; 2 stamps to first page and 3 stamps to it's 2nd page. This handbook to the British Season is published in association with Royal Mail and was inspired by a set of five stamps issued in 1994 and called Summertime.The stamps were designed by Matthew Cook and they feature the Royal Welsh Show, Wimbledon,Cowe's,Lord's and the Royal Highland Games.The book contains the events featured on the stamps and seventeen more besides and the illustrations are accompanied by a witty and informative text from Paul Duncan. The Season is one of the most curious things about life in the British Isles. Exclusive and at times hugely democratic, anachronistic while still managing to be a mirror of society,it is traditionally the preserve of the higher orders.The term British Season conjures up images of patrician types milling about the cricket pitch or the paddock,perched by picnic hamper sipping something fizzy or sitting in a tea tent toying with strawberries. Adorned in a large hat or morning dress, the participants are not so much interested in the sport at hand as getting on with the seroius business of socializing.High ritual is the Season's hallmark,the patronage of royalty a pointer to its rating on Society's annual whirligig. And yet,Prime Minister Major's desire for a 'classless' Britain has unleashed an alternative: the People's Season.It has always been there,but somehow its eclipse by the frenetic rounds of balls and dances,the racing,shooting and fishing,the sailing and rowing,the silk top hats and shiny Bentleys,has been absolute.The time has come to acknowledge this other life and so this book includes events such as Blackpool's Illuminations,a trip to Alton Towers and the Notting Hill Carnival.Here the cucumber sandwiches have been traded in for a plate of chips,champagne for a six-pack of beer,but the enjoyment of a good day out remains the same. With advice on when to go,what to wear and what to look for when you get there, 'The British Season' provides a fascinating insight to the British at play. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja753117. ISBN: 0316909866.

£ 22.00 (approx. $US 28.63 )

COOKE**, ALISTAIR:
ALISTAIR COOKE'S AMERICAN JOURNEY: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War.

Imprint: LONDON.ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN,2006.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour+ b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with dark blue,red+white lettering to front and spine,critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip, and immaculate blue+white map of America illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, xii-xixpp+1-327pp [paginated] includes a foreword by Harold Evans,11 chapters and an epilogue,an Envoi,8pp contemporary auto+ biographical b/w+colour photographs in 1 block, between pp172/3 and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with author/subject's contemporary b/w portrait frntis to reverse,title page, contents list/table and acknowledgements each page with a blank reverse,an illustrations list/ table with author's thumbnail,contemporary b/w portrait affixed to a b/w facsimle reproduction of BBC letter of introduction to the reverse and to the rear 4pp blanks. A newly discovered,completely unpublished book by the legendary journalist and broadcaster which was published postumously,2006. Shortly before his death in 2004,Alistair Cooke's personal secretary discovered in his New York study what Cooke had long believed was a lost manuscript unpublished and extraordinary account of his travels through America during the Second World War. In 1941 America had unconditionally entered a war that many Americans had hoped might be avoidable.Alistair Cooke,then a Washington correspondent for the 'Guardian' (a British newspaper),recognised a great story to be told in reviewing first-hand the effects of an abrupt transition from peacetime to wartime,from pacifism to patriotism,from neutrality to belligerence,and the impact upon the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances.Within weeks of the Pearl Harbour attack,with a reporter's seal Cooke set off on a circuit of the entire country 'to see what the war had done to people'.He talked to everyone he encountered on his extensive trip,from miners to lumberjacks,to Pullman porters,to war profiteers,to day-labourers,to local politicians - even the unfortunate Japanese-Americans who had been rapidly interned in stark desert camps. Intertwined with his reflections on changing landscapes and cityscapes and with his unique storytelling skills and insight,his acute ability to define detail and catch the sounds of different regional accents,this is alistair Cooke moving into his prime as a reporter and a writer.His prescient observations on what was happening at the grAssroots and considerations on where America was headed provide a clearer understanding of a critical moment in world history just before the dropping of the atomic bomb.This unique travelogue and time capsule celebrates an essential American character and indomitable spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke's reports and broadcasts for some sixty years. Alistair Cook enjoyed an extraordinary life in print,radio and television.He was born in Manchester,England in 1908 and educated at the universities of Cambridge,Yale and Harvard. Throughout his long career he worked as a journalist and broadcaster for many different organizations including the BBC,The Times and the Guardian (both British newspapers),and won numerous awards for his work.He is best known both at home and abroad for his weekly 'Letter from America',far and away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history.He died in March 2004,just a few weeks after his retirement.'Letter from America',a definitive selection of the Letters,is also published by Penguin (UK). Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** UK,buyers note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded after order receipt and before order's despatch,especially if offered P/p included or free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always.

Stock number: rja867120. ISBN: 0713998792.

£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 )

COOKRIDGE, E. H.:
THE THIRD MAN - The truth about 'Kim' Philby, double agent.

Imprint: LONDON.ARTHUR BAKER LIMITED,1968.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,black background to front panel+spine of dw/dj with capitalised red- lettered part title within a white background circle and other red-lettered and capitalised white lettering to part of sub-title and capitalised,white-lettered authot name,faded red-lettered title,bright white-lettered author name and white lettered publisher colophon on spine/backstrip,rear panel of dw/dj with white background and several critics' black-lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present - but miniscule chipping at head+ foot of spine/backstrip.Top edges coloured reddish-pink with some mottled bleaching spots,fore-edges with minimal,faint foxing/ spotting; contents,text body surprisingly and exceptionally bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread - other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, generally sharp-cornered - exception of top,rear corner minimally bumped with tiny creases - textured black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers with minimal,faint off-setting from dw/dj inner flaps to the corresponding,facing free endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,x-xipp+1-283pp [paginated] includes a Preface and Acknowledgements,.15 chapters,8pp of contemporary b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 2pp apiece,between pp84/5,pp11617, pp180/81,and pp212/13 respectively,appendices I+II,Notes; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,separate contents+illustrations lists/ tables. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and even internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 55 year-old age. It is only the exterior faults that prevents a slightly higher grading for the book.Despite them,it really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness and for shelf display. The author's extensive biography of Harold "Kim" Philby,double-agent,who infiltrated the British Secret Intelligence Service - and who at one stage was tipped to become its chief,until he was exposed in 1963 and fled to Russia. E. H. Cookridge,an international authority on espionage,a former secret agent and author of several best-sellers including 'INSIDE SOE.', knew,Kim Philby over a period of thirty-three years.In this book he provides the first complete dossier on Philby's fantastic double life. The author traces Philby's career from his undergraduate days at Cambridge to his final flight to the Soviet Union in 1963.He describes in detail Philby's association as a young man woith his Cambridge contemporaries,Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean - an association which was later to inflict grievious harm upon the defence of the Western World.Cookridge describes Philby's activities during the brutal Dolfuss coup d'etet in Vienna in 1934 where Philby fought in the streets and in the sewers and carried messages between Socialist and Communist workers and their exiled leaders in Czechoslovakia.In 1937 Philby was in Spain reporting the Civil War on the Nationalist side,posing as a Fascist and being decorated by General Franco.During WW2 he was enlisted first into SOE and then transferred to SIS - the Secret Intelligence Service,popularly known as MI6.Whilst all the time secretly reporting to his Soviet masters,he became a leading member of the British Secret Service,assigned after the war to head a section concerned with espionage and counter espionage against the Soviet Union.In 1949 Philby was appointed First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington where he acted as link-man to General Bedell Smith and Alan Dulles of the CIA.It was not until 1951,when British counter-intelligence had the activities of the diplomats Burgess and Maclean under surveillance,that suspicion was thrown on Philby himself as the possible 'third man' who facilitated their escape.He was recalled from Washington but continued to be employed as a British agent in the Middle East until,in 1963,he himself ws forced to flee to Russia to avoid arrest. In 'The Third Man' the author gives a vivid account of the operations of this extraordinarily successful double-agent,who outdid all such notorious modern spies as Sorge,Abel,Sobel, Lonsdale and Blake.In this sensational book Cookridge pulls no punches and protects none of the men whose amazing dereliction from duty made it possible for the Siviet Union to infiltrate a dangerous agent into the very heart of the British Secret Service. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

Stock number: rja1046623. ISBN: No ISBN.

£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 )