CROUCH, PETER:
I, ROBOT: HOW TO BE A FOOTBALLER 2.

Imprint: LONDON.EBURY PRESS/an imprint of EBURY PUBLISHING,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 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around grey background with subject/author colour photograph to front panel of dw/dj,with critic's glossy grey-lettered review,capitalised,glossy grey-lettered part-title (I, ROBOT) and capitalised,glossy, white-lettered remainder of title,with bright, crisp,blocked gilt-lettered author name; spine/ backstrip with capitalised,blocked gilt-lettered author name and capitalised,glossy grey-lettered part-title as front and publisher's capitalised, grey-lettered name and white-lettered colophon to foot of same,rear panel with white+grey lettered synopsis.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - majority of light creasing to top edges but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp, clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain pale grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-263pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,21 chapters,16pp contemporary colour photographs in 1 block, between pp122/23; plus [unpaginated] title page, a dedication,a Contents list/table with a blank reverse,and to the rear,Acknowledgements with Picture Credits to its reverse. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and particularly internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really is still a more than exceptional example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of other detracting faults.                      What happens on the pitch is only half the story.  Being a footballer is not just kicking a ball about with twenty-one other people on a big grass rectangle.Sometimes being a footballer is about accidentally becoming best mates with Mickey Rourke,or understanding why spitting is considered football's most heinous crime.        In 'How to be a Footballer',Peter Crouch took us into a world of bad tattoos and even worse haircuts,a world where you're on the pitch one minute,spending too much money on a personalised number plate the next.                 In 'I, Robot',he lifts the lid even further on the beautiful game.We will learn about Gareth Bale's magic beans,the Golden Rhombus of Saturday night entertainment,and why Crouchy's dad walks his dog wearing an England tracksuit from 2005.  Whether you're an armchair expert,or out in the stands every Saturday,crazy for five-a-side or haven't put on a pair of boots since school,this is the real inside story of how to be a footballer.                                      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.    ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. **  ** 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: rja1089523. ISBN: 9781529104615.

£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 )

CROWTHER, LESLIE & CROWTHER, JEAN:
THE BONUS OF LAUGHTER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [Both authors SIGNED copy.]

Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1994.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,authors SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,both authors SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Warmly inscribed,handwritten in black ink:'Hi Diane!!xxxxxxx Christmas '94 Leslie Crowther,Jean Crowther' to title page. Authors' colour portrait photographic dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges very slightly aged /toned - as usual/normal,else clean. Contents bright,tight and clean.Clean, plain blue paper-covered bds with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,authors' SIGNED,1st edn,1- 196pp [paginated] includes half-title+ title pages,contents list,foreword Pts 1+2 (3 and 13 chapters respectively),16pp b/w contemporary photographs in 8pp blocks between pp56/7 and pp120/21 respectively; an index and 4pp blanks to rear. A serious car accident in 1992 left Leslie Crowther with less than a fifty per cent chance of survival.Suffering major head injuries he spent 17 days in a coma and only intricate surgery,nursing skill and the devotion of his family could bring him back.His recovery has been close to miraculous.Now just two years on (then 1994) he looks back on a life which has never been short of incident in this warm,witty,sometimes dark yet wonderfully honest autobiography.It begins with his wife Jean's moving account of Leslie's courageous comeback - a period which Leslie now describes as 'lost months'.His story starts in Nottingham where he was born the only child of theatrical parents, Ethel and Leslie.His father's alcoholism and mother's early death cast a sad shadow over his childhood but when,at twenty-one,he married Jean,it was to be the beginning of a relationship which has lasted over forty years and seen them through both troubles and triumphs. Leslie was always destined for a career in entertainment. From drama school he worked his way through theatre, variety and radio until his television breakthrough arrived with the children's all-time favourite Crackerjack.With regular appearances, too, on The Black & White Minstrel Show, Leslie was barely off our screens.A firm favourite,he has remained that way ever since,with more recent successes including The Price is Right and Stars in their Eyes.Yet behind the scenes,as Leslie vividly describes,he was fighting a long battle against alcoholism which came close to ruining his life and culminated in a period at Clouds House Treatment Centre in 1989.Through it all he has been supported by a strong faith and the love of his family - Jean,their five children and many grandchildren. He has kept his passion for cricket and, above all,he has kept his sense of humour and learnt 'the bonus of laughter' in helping to survive the good times and the bad. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja23126. ISBN: 034062468X.

£ 14.99 (approx. $US 19.51 )

CRUICKSHANK**, DAN:
INVASION - Defending Britain from Attack.

Imprint: LONDON.BOXTREE,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/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,colour photographic ilustrated dw/dj; 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 pristine - an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate sepia illustrated endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-185pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,an introduction,Pts 1-3 comprising 16 chapters,a conclusion,profuse contemporary b/w+colour illustrations+photographs throughout the text and book,a bibliography,an index, acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,and a colour scenic photographic frntis (Lindisfarne Castle). Britain has been portrayed for hundreds of years as an island fortress impregnable since 1066,self-sufficient and a nation protected by the sea around it.But in reality this view is no more than fanciful wishful thinking - a myth. By exploring the castles and fortresses of coastal Britain,Dan Cruickshank in the BBC series 'Invasion' convincingly dispels this popular myth.He overturns centuries of military history to provide the argument that the sea,far from acting like a great moat,has been instead like a highway to the nation's vitals.It has more often enabled attack than hindered it - and attack from any direction,on any front.In fact, Britain is a nation whose history and heritage is defined by the fear of invasion. Written by Dan Cruickshank and accompanying the BBC series of the same name - 'Invasion - Defending Britain from Attack' reveals the huge military heritage of the country in its fortresses,castles,towers,coastal tunnels,gun emplacements and more.It shows how the sea has forced us to become the greatest builders of fortifications the world has ever seen and investigates a wide rang of objects and technologies relating to the defence of the British Isles,from ships,guns and aircraft to tank traps and pillboxes.It's full of fascinating stories of invasion from the Norman conquest of 1066 and the 1588 attack of the Spanish Armada to the German invasion plans of 1940,codenamed Operation Sealion.It also covers lesser-known incursive raids by foreign powers, including the French rape of Winchelsea in 1360,the Spanish molestation of Mousehole in 1595,the American attack on Whiitehaven in 1778,and the French invasion of Fishguard in 1797. With over eighty photographs and illustrations, 'Invasion' analyses the science of warfare and offers a crucial insight into how,for the last thousand years,the inhabitants of the British Isles have honed a deep-rooted terror of attack from the sea and,for the last hundred years,from the sky.Indeed,it reveals that this fear of invasion has,in many ways,helped to forge the disparate people inhabiting Britain into a single nation. 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.Offer available ** 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: rja414412. ISBN: 0752220292.

£ 12.99 (approx. $US 16.91 )

CRUMLEY**, JAMES:
BORDERSNAKES. **

Imprint: LONDON.FLAMINGO/an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,,1998.
Edition: UK,12mo p/back,1st edn.
Binding: Paperback., No dw/dj - p/back - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,12mo p/back,1st edn thus. [First published USA,Mysterious Press/Warner Books,Inc.,1996. Complete number line 9 - 1 descending.] NMINT. Wrapped+protected and stored from day of issue/purchase,so NO shelf-wear,NO owner inscrptn,and NO reading creases to spine or to pages' corners - unread apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,matt,wrap-around orange background with montage'd monochrome photographic illustrated card covers with capitalised white-lettered book title and author's capitalised, black-lettered name,a critic's black-lettered review and publisher's name in a rectangular panel at front cover's front lower corner.A flat,reading crease-free spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title+author name as the front's and publisher's black-lettered name and black illustrated colophon together in a reactangular panel at foot of same,rear cover with 2 critics' reviews, one along the top edge,the other along the lower edge and in between,a black-lettered synopsis. Top+fore-edges despite wrapping,have minimal, light ageing/toning but no blemishes or foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages corners.UK,12mo p/back,1st edn thus,2-320pp [paginated] includes Pts 1- 6 without chapter numeration; plus [unpaginated] half-title with author's potted biography and 4 critics' reviews of title with author's 5 previous titles listed to its reverse,a title page,a dedication, author's note - both with a blank verso,and a conversation with C. W. Sughrue extract, also with a blank verso and individual Pts separator pages,and to the rear,4pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 25+ year-old age [and nature, i.e an ephemeral paperback issue. It is only the age-acquired fault described that prevents a slightly higher grade of MINT.Despite that, it really is still an exceptional, exemplary example for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of detracting faults commonly associated with a decades old paperback. US writer - with a cult following,in the style of CHANDLER and ROSS MacDONALD.His sixth book. Someone gut-shot Sughrue in New Mexico and left him to live with his demons,running naked in the blood-red desert sunset and loving the only woman who has ever managed to love him.Someone took all the money in Milodragovitch's daddy's will,leaving Milo with just a two-thousand-dollar Italian silk suit and a Cadillac El Dorado and a hard-on for retribution.Now,Sughrue and Milodragovitch,two of the most hard-bitten cases the West ever produced,have come together in El Paso for a death trip across a country called Texas,to a state of mind called revenge. "WILD,WICKED,SWEET,PAINFUL,COURAGEOUS, OUTRAGEOUS,and OBSCENE" - New York Times Book Review. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct, insured 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: rja1148224. ISBN: 0006550797.

£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 )

CRUYFF, JOHAN with Jaap De Groot:
MY TURN - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN/an imprint of Pan Macmillan,2016.
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 9 - 1 descending.] NMINT/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,orange background with subject's colour portrait photographic illustrated front+rear of dw/dj with capitalised,embossed,matt white-lettered part-title JOHAN CRUYFF and capitalised,embossed,matt black-lettered subtitle and other capitalised, white-lettered quote of Pep Guardiola's attributed capitalised,matt black-lettered name; orange spine/backstrip with flat printed but similarly coloured+lettered title+subtitle as front's and publisher's black illustrated colophon to foot of same; rear panel of dw/dj with  capitalised white and black lettered quotes and attributed names respectively of Bobby Charlton, Eric Cantona and Gary Lineker. respectively.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – front lower edge of dw/dj with slight curl and lifted creasing - but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+edges all coloured orange, bright,crisp and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp and clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain orange cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked,glossy black ink thumbnail of subject's silhouette from dw/dj rear's colour photograph with bright, crisp,blocked,glossy black lettered title to foot of spine/backstrip; subject's biographic photograph illustrated front endpapers,rear endpapers illustrated with b/w crowded stadium's match night photograph.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v -xivpp+3-301pp [paginated] includes a 6pp Timeline (1964-2016),a Preface,14 chapters and an Afterword,16pp of subject's b/w+colour (the majority) photographs in 2 blocks 8pp apiece, between pp82/83 and pp210/11 respectively; plus [unpaginated] part-title separator page,title page,Preface and individual chapters' separator pages,and to the rear,a grey separator blank, Picture Acknowledgements with blank grey verso.  Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall.Despite that it really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. Johan Cruyff is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in football history.Throughout his playing career,he was synonymous with Total Football,a style of play in which every player could play in any position on the pitch.          Today,his philosophy lives on in teams across Europe,from Barcelona to Bayern Munich and players from Lionel Messi to Cesc Fabregas.      'My Turn' tells the story of Cruyff's life starting at Ajax, where he won eight national titles and three European Cups before moving to Barcelona where he won La Liga in his first season,in 1973,and was named European Footballer of the Year. He won the Ballon d'Or three times, and led the Dutch national team to the final of the 1974 World Cup,famously losing to West Germany,and receiving the Golden Ball as the player of the tournament.While on the field Cruyff was in total control,off the field his life was more turbulent with a kidnapping attempt and bankruptcy. After retiring in 1984,he became a hugely successful manager of Ajax and then Barcelona when he won the Champions league with a young Pep Guardiola in his team. In 1999 Cruyff was voted European Player of the Century,and came second behind Pele in the World Player of the Century poll.                                    In March 2016,Cruyff died after a short battle with lung cancer bringing world football to a standstill in an outpouring of emotions. A brilliant teacher and analyst of the game he loved,'My Turn' is Johan Cruyff's legacy.        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: rja1135824. ISBN: 9781509813902.

£ 55.00 (approx. $US 71.58 )

CUBIE**: illustrator:
THE DAILY EXPRESS RUPERT ANNUAL - 1974. [No. 39.]**

Imprint: LONDON.DAILY EXPRESS,1974.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,Qrto HB Annual,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn. FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by CUBIE illustrated boards. Colour cartoon strips by CUBIE.UK,slim Qrto HB, no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,2-115pp [paginated] includes 4 colour strip stories,1pp Origami instructions+illustrations to make Rupert's paper yacht,a puzzle to contents page,a nursery rhyme puzzle-page,and colour illustrated publisher's advert for Rupert stories in daily newspaper with puzzles solutions to foot of same,as last page.Cover: Rupert in snow,holding a mini snowman with a split wooden peg for its nose,made from snow.Algy standing nearby making another couple of them and other Nutwood friends /characters in the background.Rupert has a brown face.First story: Rupert and the Iron Spade (1963), plus 3 others - Rupert and Jenny Frost (1963),Rupert and the Secret Path (1961),and Rupert and the Little Bells (1962-3). Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and 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 receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage 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. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always.

** re-use number

Stock number: rja175. ISBN: 0850790514.

£ 24.99 (approx. $US 32.52 )

CUBIE** - illustrator:
THE DAILY EXPRESS RUPERT ANNUAL - 1974. [No. 39.]**

Imprint: LONDON.DAILY EXPRESS,1974.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB Annual,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , No dw/dj,as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,Qrto HB Annual,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn. FINE.Owner's handwritten inscrptn,and no price-clip (60p) to colour pictorial illustrated title page.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork and colour pictorial illustrated endpapers by CUBIE; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Minor and minimal scoring/indents to either board,front board with a couple of laminate wrinkles/creases,the foot of spine's front-facing edge on front board with miniscule rubbing but no loss and corner tips all gently turned inwards.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged/ toned - much less than normally encountered; contents particularly bright,tight and clean, solid and sound with no spotting/foxing,nicks or tears and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread,apart from my own collation.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,2-115pp [paginated] includes 4 colour strip stories,1pp Origami instructions+ illustrations to make Rupert's paper yacht,a puzzle to contents page,a nursery rhyme puzzle-page,and colour illustrated publisher's advert for Rupert stories in daily newspaper with puzzles solutions to foot of same,as last page. Cover: Rupert in snow,holding a chicken made from snow.Algy standing nearby making another one and other Nutwood friends/characters in the background.Rupert has a brown face.First story: Rupert and the Iron Spade (1963); plus 3 others - Rupert and Jenny Frost (1963),Rupert and the Secret Path (1961),and Rupert and the Little Bells (1962-3). The Daily Express series of Rupert Bear strips (created by Mary Tourtel and first appeared in the paper on 8th November, 1920.).Bestall took over from her and by the time he retired from morning paper work in 1965,he had produced over 270 Rupert adventures.He continued to draw for the 'Rupert' annuals until 1973. Alex Cubie's first annual's covers and endpapers that he illustrated. Alex CUBIE [1911-1995] b.1st August 1911, Renfrew,near Glasgow.He was encouraged or interested in art at school.Started as an apprentice lithographic artist in Glasgow producing cartoons for the 'Glasgow Evening Citizen'.Moved to London,1934 where he worked in Fleet Street producing cartoons for 'The Daily Sketch' and 'The Leader'.Called up for Army service in 1940,he originally trained as a fitter.On discovering his artistic talents,the Army transferred him to an all ranks design team,where he drew layouts for tactical excercises. After the war he returned to Fleet Street, designing greeting cards,before joining Rank Organisation's studios in Cookham and the team for animated film production under the direction of Walt Disney's David Hand.From about 1951 he worked for the Daily Express as a general artist,and was later brought in to assist Alfred BESTALL,as that illustrator's health began to fail.He also produced a number of puzzles and Magic Painting pages.Alex CUBIE took over the illustrating of the Rupert character as Alfred BESTALL retired in 1965 and he subsequently illustrated the annuals from 1974 until 1977. 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! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US 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. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always.

Victoria Love (Owner).

Stock number: rja587415. ISBN: 0850790514.

£ 29.99 (approx. $US 39.03 )

CULLEN, STEPHEN M:
In Search of the Real Dad's Army: The Home Guard and the Defence of the United Kingdom 1940-1944.

Imprint: UK.BARNSLEY,S. YORKSHIRE.PEN & SWORD MILITARY,2011.
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. Virtually as new - wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase - last copy left.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic front with grey+black lettering,thumbnail detail of jacket's photographs to spine/backstrip and similar lettering,rear panel of dw/dj with monochrome photograph; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Rear,top+bottom edges only,with minimal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean - without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - 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,ixpp+4-246pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,Pts I-V comprising 1,2,3,2,and 2 chapters respectively,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp118/9,notes, sources and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.contents list/table with dedications to its reverse,list of illustrations,and individual Pts separator pages. What was the Home Guard? Who were the men and women who served in it? And what can be said of their real role and significance once the popular myths have been stripped away? Despite the fame of the Home Guard - of Dad's Army - the true story of this wartime organization tends to be neglected.The myths obscure the reality, Stephen Cullen's aim in this thoroughgoing new study is to cut through the misunderstandings in order to reassess the Home Guard and its contribution to Britain's war effort - and to deepen our understanding of the men and women who were members of it. He sets the Home Guard in the long historical context of domestic defence planning,then focuses on the preparations made before the outbreak of the Second World War. In detail he traces the changing role of the Home Guard during its wartime existence as it adapted to meet the multitude of challenges it faced - from civil defence and intelligence gathering to training for guerrilla warfare. Using vivid eyewitness testimony and oral history,he takes a grassroots look at the men - and women - from all ages and social backgrounds who made up this national defence force.The equipment,uniforms,weapons and vehicles they used and the field defences they manned are described as their role developed over the course of the war. He also examines the evolution of popular views of the Home Guard from wartime days to the present - the notion of the People's Army,the thinking of early Home Guard commentators like George Orwell,and the writings of more recent historians who have sought to explain an organization that retains such an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item for correct,insured 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: rja946521. ISBN: 1949842694.

£ 19.99 (approx. $US 26.01 )

CUMMINGS, RAY:
TAMA PRINCESS OF MERCURY.

Imprint: US.NEW YORK,NY.ACE BOOKS,INC.,1966.
Edition: US,slim 12mo p/back 1st edn.
Binding: Paperback., No dw/dj,p/back as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

US,slim 12mo p/back 1st edn.[Originally serialised in 4 parts in the pulp magazine 'ARGOSY',from 27/06/1931 - 18/07/1931, published by Frank A. Munsey Co.,New York.This complete novel's first published book form appearance.The sequel to 'Tama of the Light Country'(1965).] NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal (40c) from front cover.Bright,crisp,clean, generally sharp-cornered,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Jerome Podwil, illustrated front cover,with b/w and pink lettering,b/w lettering to orange spine which has no reading creases,b/w lettered story precis to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,rubbing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Both covers with minimal scoring/indents.All edges coloured salmon- pink - some sporadic spotting to top edges; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn, 3-128pp [paginated] includes XVI(16) chapters - a b/w illustration chapter headpiece to first chapter; plus [unpaginated] story blurb with ink,UK price to the top corner and a title page. Guy Palisse,space-explorer,returned to Earth in the Bolton Flying Cube after ten years on the Sun's first planet,Mercury.He returned to report that he had warded off war between the two worlds,and to wed before an admiring planet his beautiful fiancee,Tama,winged princess of Mercury's Light Country. But following on Palisse's orbit was a new wave of terror,as barbarian hordes from Mercury's Cold Country descended to launch their conquest of Earth.And Palisse's triumph turned to near-disaster as the frenzied Mercurians plotted to kidnap Tama and bring the Earth to ruin. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** UK,buyers please note,p/backs' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if p/back is offered P/p free. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US 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: rja921321. ISBN: No ISBN.

£ 8.00 (approx. $US 10.41 )

CUNNINGHAM-BOOTHE, ASHLEY:
MARKS OF COURAGE. [Author SIGNED copy.]

Imprint: UK.LEAMINGTON SPA,WARCS,1991.
Edition: UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author's signed presentation label.

UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Specially produced by Cedric Chivers Ltd., Bristol, or Korvet Publishing & Distribution, Korvet House,Highfield Terrace,Leamington Spa,Warks (Warwickshire).CV32 6ER.] NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but named recipient (himself a Korean War veteran),author SIGNED,presentation label to centre of ffe.Further included - laid in loose - author's own,personal 'Society of Authors' Compliments slip and Buckingham Palace headed,typed+handwritten+dated notepaper letter relating to Queen's acceptance of above said reference work and an earlier work he had also presented to her.Hand written,black ink title/ name address and closing acknowledgement+ signature - i.e 'Dear Mr Cunninham-Boothe', 'Yours sincerely' and 'Robin Janvrin' signature. In between,a type-written letter: 'Thank you for your letter of 1st July to Sir Robert Fellowes about your reference work on the Korean War entitled "Marks of Courage".The Queen would be delighted to accept this volume to go with your earlier work which you so kindly presented to her.The inscription looks entirely appropiate.It was most kind of you to have written.' The author has also hand-written an ink note to top,right-hand corner of notepaper 'not to be published or copied.Ashley.' Also included,again laid in loose,publisher's type-written business paper slip,also noting an Amendment to be made to ppxiii etc.,and to note Publisher change of address,for future reference.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, plain yellow background dw/dj,with brown lettering to front+rear panels and to spine/ backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge imperceptibly and minimally aged/toned,fore-edges considerably brighter; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,some pages to both front+rear - top edges unopened and some opened subsequently, probably by owner? Bright,clean,publisher's maroon paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers and minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing to head+foot of spine/backstrip.To both front+rear boards,a set of near identical,positional indentations(4) - 2 to each board's edges on top+bottom of both, probably from where the book was tied with either string or twine and then pulled too tight at some stage,the only major fault,otherwise book's condition would have been faultless and thus described as FINE.UK,Landscape 8vo HB+ dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,vi-xviipp+1-259pp [paginated] includes order of precedence (military: Royal Navy through to R.A.F including Army units),list/table of Ships of the Royal and Commonwealth Navies engaged in operations in Korean Waters (1950-53),list/table of British Regiments of Infantry in same war,a foreword by Major General Peter A.Downward,CB,DSO,DFC (President of The British Korean Veterans Association),an editor intro,b/w portrait photographic illustrated frntis; plus [unpaginated] title page,author's advert for previous work (British Forces in the Korean War),loose aforementioned ephemera,and a dedication. The complete record of Honours,Decorations and Awards for Gallant and Distinguished Services presented to members of the British and Commonwealth Forces in the Korean Theatre of War 1950- 53.It also includes awards to those who served with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan (BCOF),where these are linked with the Korean War operation.A truly definitive record of the tributes.No such record has previously been published in such a disciplined and wholly comprehensive form.There is only one citation reproduced - the DCM (Distinguished Conduct Medal) awarded to Fusilier George Arthur Hodkinson of 1st Bn The Royal Fusiliers (The City of London Regiment.). Please contact seller,because of the heavier weight and 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: rja415212. ISBN: 0951775006.

£ 100.00 (approx. $US 130.14 )

CUNNINGHAM**, A. E. - Edited by:
PATRICK O'BRIAN: CRITICAL APPRECIATIONS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY.**

Imprint: UK.WETHERBY,WEST YORKS.THE BRITISH LIBRARY,1994.
Edition: UK,slim 8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim 8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st trade edn.[A printing of only 1,300 copies comprising 1,000 trade edns,250 copies the collectors' edns,and 50 copies the limited edns - each edition bound by different binders.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Dw/dj protected from day of issue/purchase. Bright,crisp,clean+protected,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Geoff Hunt illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - almost as new.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy.Clean, unblemished,publisher's original dark blue cloth bds with bright,pristine,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,10-175pp [paginated] includes William Waldegrave intro,three short stories by Patrick O'Brian and articles by Richard Ollard, John Bayley, Charlton Heston, N.A.M. Rodger, Brian Levery, Louis Jolyon West,a bibliography by A.E. Cunningham and a collection of reviews by Stuart Bennett,illustrated with 4pp b/w photographs and drawings between pp72/3 and b/w line illus chapter tail- pieces,notes on the contributors,plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages, contents list/table,list of plates and acknowledgements. Author of the well-known Jack Aubrey novels,set during the Napoleonic Wars.They are acknowledged by critics and readers alike as classic works of fiction and are attracting an increasingly wide audience. Patrick O'Brian is also a translator of note and the author of several biographies and other works of non-fiction.His first books appeared over forty years ago to wide and enduring critical acclaim.This compilation of essays is an appreciation of Patrick O'Brian's writing life.As well as an autobiographical essay it also includes Samphire,one of Patrick O'Brian's best known short stories.It includes contributions from eminent academics such as N A M Rodger and Brian Lavery. Historian and author Richard Ollard adds a wide-ranging overview of Patrick O'Brian's writing and the book contains other appreciations from admirers and critics including the actor and director Charlton Heston.The bibliography is a comprehensive and authoritative account of all Mr O'Brian's writing to date (then 1994).A must for Jack Aubrey collectors. 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: rja28227. ISBN: 0712310703.

£ 55.00 (approx. $US 71.58 )

CURNO**, JOHN:
CHAGFORD PARISH: A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY IN THE 21ST CENTURY.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

Imprint: UK.DREWSTEIGNTON,EXETER,DEVON.RED CABBAGE BOOKS,2003.
Edition: UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED 1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author's signature - without dedication.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author/photographer's handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,grey background with b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj,with b/w lettering; 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 - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,1-139pp [paginated] includes profuse (200+) contemporary townscape,scenic and characters/residents b/w photographs with relevant explanatory captions,notes to rear on some of the photographs and a list of exhibitions and publications by the author/ photographer.Plus [unpaginated] author SIGNED title page,b/w portrait photographic illustrated foreword,author explanation about the book,Ron Bendell's (regional,ex-television presenter) recommendation with his b/w portrait photograph. There are portrait photographs of Brian Froud,artist and designer of films e.g. 'The Dark Crystal','Labyrinth',and books such as 'Faeries' - see my book ID rja541715. Alan Lee,illustrator,whose work includes 'Sword in the Stone', 'Faeries', 'Lord of the Rings',1992. He had been in New Zealand working on the set designs,based on his illustrations,for the Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy of films.William Todd-Jones,puppet designer,performer,director,and writer.The gargoyle in the picture was part of the film sets of Batman's Gotham City.These three are residents of the Parish. Want more John CURNO titles? Please check either my SIGNED or GENERAL catalogues for other and similar titles. 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. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** 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: rja552815. ISBN: 095466650X.

£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 )

CURNO**, JOHN:
DREWSTEIGNTON: A PORTRAIT OF A DARTMOOR PARISH AND ITS PEOPLE.**

Imprint: UK,TIVERTON,DEVON.HALSGROVE,2001.
Edition: UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (absence of publisher's price - usually indicates an export edition, believed to precede UK trade issue) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, purple background with a mixture of superimposed b/w scenic+portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-144pp [paginated] includes foreword by Tom Ang (Author and Course Leader,Dept of Hypermedia,Photographic Arts and Sciences, University of Westminster,Harrow),author/photographer's introduction,Parish Memories (interview with Henry Scott - parishoner of Drewsteignton),profuse b/w scenic+portrait photographs of Parish and parishoners,list of Exhibitions and publications,subscribers list; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a dedication. Looking at these photographs of Drewsteignton by John Curno we have a glimpse of a tiny part of our rural world that remains intact - a small miracle that is worthy of celebration. With thatched cottages set close by an ancient granite church,the heart of Drewsteignton is the perfect picture of a Devon village.Yet the parish of Drewsteignton is spread wide,cascading over the rolling hills of the Dartmoor borderlands where small farmsteads nestle in wooded combes and deep lanes wind between high hedgebanks.Nearby,the landscape is riven by the deep scar of the Teign valley overlooked by the imposing ramparts of Castle Drogo,the last true castle to be built in England.It is amid this idyllic landscape that the people of the parish dwell,here portrayed through the exceptional photographs of John Curno. Want more John CURNO titles? Please check either my SIGNED or GENERAL catalogues for other and similar titles. Please contact seller,because of the 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: rja552915. ISBN: 1841141356.

£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 )

CURNO**, JOHN:
It's About Time. [Author SIGNED copy.]

Imprint: UK.PLYMOUTH,DEVON.FOTONOW (CIC),2012.
Edition: UK,square 8vo HB,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: 'To Brother Vic,Best Wishes from Brother John.'

UK,square 8vo HB,SIGNED+dedicated,1st edn. FINE+.No owner inscrptn,but author's handwrtten,blue ink inscrptn (SIGNED+ dedicated): 'To Brother Vic,Best Wishes from Brother John.' Bright,clean white background,paper-covered boards with b/w landscape scenic photographs,with black lettering,immaculate plain white endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - a paper-clip to top edge of b/w photographic page opposite poem 'The Curse' - in situ - otherwise virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,square 8vo HB,SIGNED,1st edn, approx 240pp [unpaginated] includes author's historical notes,an introduction by Val Williams (writer+curator,and Professor of History and Culture at University of Arts London [UAL].). The photographs are in several sections/ chapters: a) 'Photographs 1978-82' - this seies formed his first solo show at Impressions Gallery,York,b) Brimham Rocks, Yorkshire,c) 'Growing Space' photographs from another exhibition of the same name,d) 'Variations on a Moor',another exhibition at the Impressions Gallery, 1983,e) 'With Walls and Towers Girdled' from another exhibition in York,1988,f) 'Strensall Common,g) 'Plumpton' accompanied with poems by the late Peter Lower,a young gifted poet and a student of Brunel University,h)'Down to Earth' - a collection started in 1988 and finished in 2010,covering Plymouth and Cornwall,i) 'Hackfall',j) 'Shop Fronts and Other Storeys' - older shops in Exeter,k) 'Dartmoor Sensing' - Commissioned by Aune Head Arts,l)'Drewsteignton and Blackaller Quarry' - part of the 'Rural Time' exhibition (which later became the 'Drewsteignton Parish' book published by Halsgrove 2001,m)'Bideford',n)'Roof Lights',and an afterword by Nancy Sinclair (co-founder of Aune Head Arts. ). Devon-based photographer John Curno launched his new photographic monograph/ publication at Waterstones on New George Street,Plymouth 6 October,2012.'It’s About Time' featuring around 30 years of Curno’s work,including photographs made across Devon,Dartmoor and Exeter. Also included,are extensive studies of the North Yorkshire moors (where Curno lived after leaving Plymouth). Curno’s career has been quietly significant within British photography; his work stems back to early exhibitions at Impressions Gallery in York,and the introduction to the book,by writer Val Williams,offers insights into his consistent investigative studies of landscape and rural life.The book is published by Fotonow CIC,a Plymouth-based organisation developing photography projects within Plymouth.Curno’s book represents their first monograph of an established artist. Please contact seller,because of the weight (nearly 1.3 Kg unpackaged) and 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: rja545015. ISBN: 9781908678034.

£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 )

CURRAN, JOHN:
Agatha Christie's MURDER IN THE MAKING.Stories and Secrets from her Archive.

Imprint: LONDON.HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHER'S,2011.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt background with glossy laminated,subject's thumbnail colour photographic portrait illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with blue and b/w lettering,blue+black lettered critics' reviews to rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.The tiniest of nicks/closed tear to front lower corner of dw/dj.Top+ fore-edges generally bright and clean, albeit with light toning; contents bright, tight,clean - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Accidental creasing to bottom corners of pp337 through to pp365.A small knock/dent to front bd's vertical edge with continuation of slight impression to book's page edges nearby.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,glazed bds with dw/dj design and lettering repeated to them and immaculate colour illustrated eps - illustrations of each of Christie's book's dw/dj designs.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9- 430pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a preface,an intro,13 chapters,b/w facsimile reproductions of handwriting drafts/book plots etc throughout the text and the book, appendices (2 - a Christie chronology,and alphabetical list of her books' titles) and an index of titles.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w facsimile handwritten page of Christie's notebook frntis to it's recto,title page, dedication,contents list/table and 2pp blanks at the rear. In this follow-up volume to the award-winning 'Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks',Christie archivist and expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of Agatha's writing career, unearthing some remarkable clues to her success and a number of never-before-published excerpts and stories from her archives. Starting his investigation in the 1920s, John Curran examines the conventions of detective fiction as it existed then and reveals how Agatha Christie's publisher talked her into changing the ending of her very first book,'The Mysterious Affair at Styles',a move that almost changed the fortunes of not only her career but also the future of the detective novel.For the very first time,this book prints Agatha's original ending,painstakingly transcribed from the hand-written draft in one of her earliest notebooks. Every decade saw Agatha Christie's success grow to new heights.The emergence of the world-famous Collins Crime Club in 1930 brought with it the very first Miss Marple novel; the austerity of the 1940s had Agatha Christie preparing to kill off Hercule Poirot; and the 1950s saw her experiment increasingly with stories influenced by more modern thrillers. Focusing on more than 20 Christie novels as detailed evidence,John Curran demonstrates the evolution of Agatha's writing through the decades,including her perseverance through the Swinging Sixties and Seventies into old age,concluding with a look at Agatha's last notebook and her ideas for an unwritten final book. As well as revealing more than a dozen unpublished book ideas,'Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making' contains two unseen short stories from her archives - 'The Man Who Knew' and an early Mis Marple draft, 'The Case of the Caretaker's Wife'. 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 its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja617316. ISBN: 9780007908561.

£ 12.00 (approx. $US 15.62 )

CURRIE**, EDWINA:
THE AMBASSADOR. [Author SIGNED copy.]

Imprint: LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN AND COMPANY,1999.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: 'Best wishes Edwina Currie. (underscore)'

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's neat,black ink handwritten inscrptn+signature: 'Best wishes Edwina Currie (underscore)' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Melvyn Warren-Smith, illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with blue +gilt embossed lettering,and author's colour photographic portrait illustrated rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf -wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though lightly toned,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 - top two corners excepted - these minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing, publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,1-439pp [paginated] includes 22 chapters and an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED title page,and epigrams page.See my book ID rja486714 for a non- fiction title by her - DIARIES 1987-1992. In the year 2099,the free world is dominated by the European Union,climate change and gene therapy.Comprising 42 nations and over a billion people,the EU is more powerful than the United States, and while 'cloning' is not mentioned in polite society,it's happening,and seen as tremendous progress in the battle against ageing and disease.'NTs' (Nuclear Transplants) are fully integrated into society. America,however,has been captured by fundamentalists opposed to the medical advances.And when Bill Strether is sent by the US President to represent his country in London,he too harbours doubts over its ethics.Guided by two NT insiders - Prince Marius Vronsky,an elected member of the House of Lords,and Dr Lisa Pasteur,a proud and able scientist - he comes to realise the full breathtaking extent of the official genetic programme,and finds it impossible to condemn.But when files go missing,a chromosome disintegrates,and a sinister lorry is seen leaving the laboratory late one night,the true dangers become apparent. Scientific discovery is both Pandora's Box and the Ali Baba cave.When faced with the astonishing array of choices offered to us by the new genetic knowledge,how do we choose? In 'The Ambassador',Edwina Currie has created an extraordinarily vivid portrait of how the world could look - and think - one hundred years from now (then 1999): a novel as though-provoking and thrilling as it is gripping. 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: rja692417. ISBN: 0316648302.

£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 )

CURRY**, GRAEME:
DOCTOR WHO: THE HAPPINESS PATROL.**

Imprint: LONDON.TARGET/VIRGIN,1990.
Edition: UK,12mo paperback original,p/b 1st edn.
Binding: paperback Original., No dw/dj,wraps - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,12mo paperback original,p/back 1st edn. [Paperback 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 p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE.Appears an unread copy as there are no spine/backstrip creases.No owner inscrptn.Pictorial colour artwork by Alistair Pearson; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges,with a tiny crease to upper front edge and no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edge lightly aged as usual/normal.Contents tight and clean.McCoy logo and outline decal, with white spine/backstrip. No.146 in the Doctor Who Library series,featuring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor.Published 15/02/1990 in a low print run of only 25,000 copies and therefore scarce, particularly in as high a grade as this.A very nice copy of an out-of-print,collectable and sought after book. 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! ** 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: rja1586ro. ISBN: 0426203399.

£ 45.00 (approx. $US 58.56 )

CURTIS, RICHARD:
Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Imprint: LONDON.CORGI,1994.
Edition: UK,8vo paperback original,p/b 1st edn.
Binding: Original wraps., No dw/dj,wraps - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo paperback original,s/back 1st edn. N/MINT.No owner inscrptn.Colour photographic wraps with minimal shelf-wear to edges.Fore-edges bright and clean; contents pristine.8vo,144pp includes intro,the screenplay,profuse colour photograph stills from the film,appendices (4) and cast and crew credits at rear. The screenplay of the No.1 smash Hit Comedy.For millions all over the world Four Weddings and a Funeral was the film of the year (1993),a genuine phenomenon. It had taken the world by storm,grossing over $200,000,000 worldwide.Here,available in print for the first time,are the words that made the laughter happen,the complete script by Richard Curtis,award-winning writer of Blackadder and Mr Bean.Also included are over 100 colour photographs and exclusive extra material - including some very funny scenes which didn't make it into the finished movie and 54 attempts at an alternative title. It's essential reading for the millions who fell in love with the film - and in the unlikely event that you ever finish it - you can tear it up to make beautiful confetti! 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: rja1655. ISBN: 0552143294.

£ 12.99 (approx. $US 16.91 )

CURTIS**, TONY and PARIS**, BARRY:
TONY CURTIS: the Autobiography.** [co-author (Tony Curtis) SIGNED copy.**]

Imprint: LONDON.HEINEMANN,1994.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author signature - without dedication.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,co-author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but co-author's handwritten,SIGNED,black ink signature without dedication,to ffe by Tony Curtis,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,b/w+ colour,subject portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+ foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges crisp,bright and clean,contents bright, tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean,publisher's original black cloth bds with bright stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,headband and immaculate plain red eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,7-352pp [paginated] includes co-author foreword,acknowledgements,contents list/table,14 chapters,profuse contemporary,b/w photographs throughout the text and the book with 8pp block of similar photographs between pp192/3, filmography,photo credits and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and dedication.An uncommon SIGNED copy. Even Elvis wanted to be like Tony Curtis, but,for that matter,almost every man in the 50's and 60's wanted to be Tony Curtis - including Tony Curtis himself.What nobody knew was that,all the while,Bernie Schwartz of the Bronx was keeping just a step ahead of the crowd,trying to invent Tony Curtis for himself.From his boyhood in the depression-era New York streets - back when he was a fast-footed,quick-witted kid,the son of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants - through forty years as an eminent screen idol,Tony Cutris's story is a sceptic's trip through the Elysian fields of stardom. 'Tony Curtis: The Autobiography' pulls no punches: Curtis debunks myths of stardom and glamour with a raw,uncensored street- honed New York bite.The scope of his memoirs includes: rooming with Marlon Brando in Hollywood in the late '40's: a glamorous marriage to Janet Leigh in 1951, and the extraordinary days during the first flush of his success: his co-billed star role in 'The Defiant Ones' with Sidney Poitier,the first time a black actor received such attention:his social involvement with Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack; his classically outrageous performance in Billy Wilder's 'Some Like it Hot'; the making of Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus' (including details of the legendary bath scene with Laurence Olivier); a fully detailed description of his descent into alcohol and cocaine addiction in the 1970's and 80's; and his therapeutic, ongoing work as a visual artist,drawing his inspiration from Matisse and Joseph Cornell. Tony Curtis met and worked with all the acting and directing icons of his day,and ths book is a candid and tantalising probe inside the classic years of the movie business - both the incredible decadence and the numbing,grinding hard work.Here, too,is the dark side of Hollywood glamour, as embodied by the sad stories of Marilyn Monroe and Sharon Tate - and Curtis's own scrapes with disaster.From swashbuckling films of the '40's to recent movies like Nicholas Roeg's 'Insignificance',Curtis's storybook career makes him the most penetrating,first-hand performer-authority on Hollywood that we have.Controversial, flip,shot through with a charming defiance and an off-the-wall sense of humour, 'Tony Curtis: The Autobiography' must be read by anyone in love with the movies and the truth behind the icons. Tony Curtis has appeared in over a hundred films,including 'The Defiant Ones' (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award),'Sweet Smell of Success', 'Some Like it Hot' and more recently (then 1994),the Martin Scorcese production, 'Naked in New York'. 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: rja28558. ISBN: 0434161845.

£ 90.00 (approx. $US 117.13 )

CUTT**, W. TOWRIE:
MESSAGE FROM ARKMAE.

Imprint: LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH,1972.
Edition: UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork illustrated upper wrap,publisher advert for another title to rear; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore -edges very slightly aged but clean, contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Bright, clean,unmarked,sharp-cornered,pale blue paper-covered bds with stamped brown ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate unmarked,plain white eps.UK,sim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,7-95pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters each with a b/w line illustrated chapter headpiece,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,b/w vignette illustrated title page,contents page and a b/w map to recto of contents page. Erchie and Mansie hear the Finman make a dreadful prophecy when the seals seek shelter after being attacked by hunters, and are convinced of its truth. The boys live on the Orkney island of Sanday and perhaps because,as gossip has it,they have seal blood in their veins, they feel more at home near the shore and at sea than they do on land.It is when a whale overturns their dinghy and they get sucked into a cavern beneath the surface that they meet the Finman,survivor of a race they had thought to be legendary.The Finman's speech is halting,his appearance fierce,but he understands the ways of the sea creatures,and he and the boys trust each other.When they return to Sanday they know that they will never forget him,or what he told them,or the message that Arkmae,leader of the seal herd had for them. 'When all are swallowed Bird,fish and land beast,Man,red in tooth and maw,Man will eat man.' Erchie and Mansie know that they,at least,will keep the sea creatures safe from man for as long as they can.Companion volume to 'Seven For the Sea' - see rja23977 - by the same author. Since April 2013,again in this year too, the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,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: rja452113. ISBN: 0233962417.

£ 9.00 (approx. $US 11.71 )

DAGLISH, IAN:
OVER THE BATTLEFIELD: OPERATION EPSOM.

Imprint: UK.BARNSLEY.SOUTH YORKSHIRE.Pen & Sword Military,2007.
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 - as new - wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, colour+monochrome montage'd photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with white+grey lettering,rear panel with monochrome aerial photograph; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - 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,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,6-272pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,author's introduction,10 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w photographs,b/w maps+ illus all interspersed throughout the text and the book,appendices I-X,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half- title+title pages,and contents list/table. 'Operation EPSOM',the first of Montgomery's major set-piece Normandy battles,marked a turning point in the Normandy campaign. Before 'EPSOM',there remained the chance that a German counter-stroke in Normandy might seriously threaten the bridgehead. After 'EPSOM',the Allies retained the strategic initiative through to the liberation of France and Belgium. This was a battle in which highly trained but largely inexperienced British 'follow-up' divisions,newly arrived in Normandy,confronted some of the best equipped,best led and most experienced combat formations of the Third Reich. Beginning with a set-piece British assault on the Germans in dense terrain, the battle developed into a swirling armoured action on the open slopes of Hills 112 and 113,before the British Army grimly turned to defending their gains in the face of attacks by two SS-Panzer Korps. This entirely new study brings together previously unseen evidence to present an important Normandy battle in great detail. The unfolding action is illustrated using aerial photography of the battlefield and period Army maps. Supporting appendices offer vital background information including detailed orders of battle,analyses of tactics and lessons learned by both sides. What else is so special about this book, is the discovery and use of superb aerial photos taken during the fighting by the RAF.This imagery makes it possible to trace the course of the battle and to track the movement of the armoured regiments and troops of both sides.The effect is stunning and the reader is able to follow history in the making. 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 its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,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: rja608016. ISBN: 9781844155620.

£ 19.99 (approx. $US 26.01 )

DAHL**, ROALD:
BOY - Tales of Childhood.

Imprint: LONDON.CAPE,1984.
Edition: UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around white background with a superimposed,brown single-line bordered cream+brown Quentin Blake illustration of a young boy's part portrait to upper panel,author's full-length b/w portrait photographic illustrated rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - inner flaps of dw/dj minisculely and sporadically foxed/spotted along portions of top +bottom edges of those inner flaps that are without lamination.Top edges minimally,lightly and barely discernble dust-soiling with miniscule spotting,fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - possibly an unread copy,other than my own collation? Bright,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blockeded gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate b/w contemporary subject's biographical photographic-montage illustrated endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,13- 160pp [paginated] includes 4 sections, profuse contemporary b/w photographs+facsimile hand-written extracts and b/w comic illus (assumed by author's own hand?] throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated],half-title +title pages,a dedication,contents list/table, author note/introduction and 4 section separator pages. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s age. It is only the the minimal interior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading for the dw/dj. Despite them,it really is still an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness. Every child who loves the books of Roald Dahl (and try to find a child who doesn't) will be intrigued to discover some of the remarkable things that happened to the writer as a boy and as a young man.'I have never been able to get them out of my mind,' says Dahl of these incidents.'Some are funny.Some are painful.Some are unpleasant.I suppose that is why I have always remembered them so vividly.All are true.'                                           Hilariously true are the details of the Great Mouse Plot of 1924,when an eight-year-old Dahl and his gobstopper-loving friends took a just revenge on the disgusting sweetshop owner Mrs Pratchett.All too true were the deaths of Dahl's father and his sister within the space of a few short weeks,the canings by Headmaster and older schoolboys,the grisly methods of Matron and the motor-car ride which nearly lost the author his nose.There were glorious times too,with his big family at home in Wales; on holiday each summer on a remote island in Norway,'one of the greatest places on earth',and in the class of an endearing maths teacher who thought figures the dreariest things in the world.  As full of excitement and the unexpected as even Roald Dahl's own fiction,this book provides glimpses of one of the world's most popular writers for children that no one will want to miss.  'The Boy' is about the author's life from birth until his leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920's and 1930's, the public school system at the time,and how his childhood experiences led him to writing as a career.It ends with his first job,working for Royal Dutch Shell. Want more Roald DAHL titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogue. 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!   ** 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. Buyers in EU countries may be required to pay Import VAT and a handling fee to the courier/mail service on items costing more than 150 Euros (including shipping costs). For items less than 150 Euros to EU buyers, charges may be minimised by opting to pay direct,via my account at Paypal. ** 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: rja1038423. ISBN: 0224029851.

£ 34.99 (approx. $US 45.54 )

DAHL**, ROALD:
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

Imprint: LONDON.UNWIN HYMAN,1989.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.
Binding: ., With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[True 1st edn published Allen & Unwin,1973 (with illus bds by Faith Jacques),2nd edn,same publisher but with illus by Michael Foreman,this reprint by Trade Division of Unwin Hyman Limited,1989.] NFINE/VG++.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj by Michael Foreman; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears present.Top two corners minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing to corners+dw/dj,head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely affected with reciprocal creases.Top+fore-edges lightly aged but bright and clean,contents bright,tight and clean also.Bright,clean, royal blue cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and clean,blue+black line illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9- 158pp [paginated] includes b/w line illustrated title page,contents list/ table,20 chapters,profuse b/w line illus throughout the book and the text - all by Michael Foreman. Want more Roald DAHL titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogue. We left Charlie at the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory riding in triumph in his Great Glass Elevator.The whole gigantic fabulous Chocolate Factory was his and he was returning with his entire family to take it over.The passengers were:Charlie Bucket,our hero,Mr Willy Wonka,chocolate maker extraordinary,Mr and Mrs Bucket,Charlie's father and mother, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina,Mrs Bucket's father and mother and Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine,Mr Bucket's father and mother. When Grandma Josephine sees through the glass floor the whole North American continent looking no bigger than a chocolate bar,her moment of panic puts the Elevator into orbit. Once there the Elevator and its inhabitants are thrown into a series of adventures,misadventures and hilarious encounters.Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator achieved the instant success of its best-selling predecessor.This new edition is illustrated bt the award winning artist,Michael Foreman,who illustrated Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Michael Foreman,born Pakefield,Suffolk, 1938.Studied at Lowestoft School of Art and at the Royal College of Art.Lecturer at St Martin's School of Art (1963-65), the London College of Printing (1967-8), the Royal College of Art (1968-70) and the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1972). Art Director of Playboy magazine,Chicago (1965) and the King Magazine,London (1966). Painter,etcher,illustrator and writer of children's books.His illustrative work is distinctive: he often works in colour of halftone,creating luminous effects with veils of thinly diluted pigment over delicate pencil outlines; in his etched illustrations,he uses soft ground techniques to achieve subtle tonal graduations.His imagery, ostensibly decorative,humorous or with a sometimes child-like appearance,often has menacing or bizarre overtones.He was winner of first prize in the Francis Williams Book Illustrations Award (1972 + 1977) and the Silver Eagle Prize at the Festival International du Livre,Nice, France (1972),the Graphics Prize at Bologna (1982) and the Kurt Maschler Award (1982),winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, his recent book War Boy (1989) had just won him the Kate Greenaway Medal for a second time. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja26807. ISBN: 0048233420.

£ 15.00 (approx. $US 19.52 )

DAHL**, ROALD:
Danny the Champion of the World. [Exclusively for Marks & Spencer. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.**

Imprint: LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE/an imprint of Random House Children's Books,2007.
Edition: UK,12mo French flaps,illustrated,1st edn thus.
Binding: Hardback , No dw/dj - French flaps - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,12mo French flaps,illustrated,1st edn thus. [Originally first published,1975 (CAPE,London, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,Jill Bennett illustrated,1st edn),this BLAKE illustrated title as UK,HB edn in 2002,and this particular French flap issue/edn published exclusively for Marks & Spencer p.lc.,2007 in this different format.] FINE. No owner inscrptn and absence of a published price.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,matt paper-covered card covers with French flaps with black-lettered text - synopsis and potted biographies of author+illustrator - each flap with a Blake's small colour illustration,a larger glossy,colour pictorial illustration by Quentin Blake,to front cover with author's capitalised,glossy,embossed white-lettered name and a matt yellow-lettered title and illustrator's name in black-lettering to lower edge of his illustration.Spine/backstrip with a glossy yellow panel at head of same with black-outlined,capitalised,white-lettered author name within; a glossy thumbnail colour detail from front's illustration,a yellow-lettered title and publisher's capitalised,white-lettered initials and white illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear cover with a pale blue background with a series of 3 thumbnail blue outline illustrations of falling pheasants and a b/w barcode thus - M 8477 804 S. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present and immaculate plain pale yellow endpapers.Top edges with sporadic but miniscule spotting,fore-edges brighter and cleaner without spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,12mo French flaps, illustrated,1st edn thus,9-270pp [paginated] includes 22 partitions with full+part-page b/w illustrations by Quentin Blake throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w illustrated title page,a dedication,a Contents list/table,and as the last page - a message to the children who have read the book.  Seems to be an uncommon,if not scarce,format issue/edn.See also my book IDs' rja1159924 and rja1160024 for similar M&S Exclusive format issues of of 'The Twits' and 'The BFG' respectively. Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's 15+ year-old age and nature, i.e. a children's ephemeral softback.It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for it's brightnesss, cleanliness and lack of age-acquired detracting faults commonly encountered in a softback.        Danny lives with his Dad in an old gypsy caravan behind a filling-station.Danny's dad is the best - a wonderful mechanic,a brilliant storyteller and a genius at kites.But,as we all learn as we get older,grown-ups can be complicated creatures,and so it is that one day,when he is nine years old,Danny discovers that his dad has a deep,dark secret.It is a secret that is just about to lead them on a dangerous and thrilling adventure. . .    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: rja1159824. ISBN: No ISBN.

£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 )

DAHL**, ROALD:
ESIO TROT. ** [Illustrated by Quentin Blake.**]

Imprint: LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE Ltd.,1990.
Edition: UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj, illustrated,2nd reprint edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,2nd reprint edn.[Originally and first published 1990,then reprinted (twice) in the same year of publication.This is that 2nd reprint edn.] FINE/FINE.Neat,handwritten familial birthday gift presentation ink inscrptn to front free endpaper but no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,cream background with colour pictorial artwork by Quentin Blake,illustrated dw/dj panels,with blue+black lettering to front panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Spine/backstrip with black and blue colour ink printed letteringrear panel of dw/dj with thumbnail colour illustration.Both inner flaps of dw/dj without foxing/spotting and therefore without any off-setting to either of the pastedowns.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges lightly aged/toned otherwise bright and generally clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,so appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers - presentation inscrptn excepted.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj, illustrated,2nd reprint edn,5-61pp [paginated] includes author's note and complete story without any chapter pagination,profuse b/w line illustrations by Quentin Blake throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,b/w line illustrated title page,and a b/w illustrated title separator page,and last 3pp unpaginated too.See also,my book IDs' rja696417 and rja736117 for other similar examples of this title/edn. Want more Roald DAHL titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogue.                 Mr Hoppy,a retired bachelor,harbours a secret passion for the attractive widow Mrs Silver. She,however,lavishes all her affection on another. . . Alfie,her pet tortoise.Mr Hoppy's wildly ingenious plot to defeat his rival and win the love of his lady will delight and amaze, involving as it does a cryptic riddle and no fewer than 140 tortoises,large and small.This is,quite simply,a masterpiece.            Illustrated throughout by the inimitable Quentin Blake,'Esio Trot' is a quirky,tender and truly original love story from Roald Dahl,our master of storytellers and winner of the 1989 Children's Author of the Year Award.              Quentin Blake,born 1932,Sidcup,Kent.Son of a civil servant.Educated at Chiselhurst,Sidcup Grammar School and Cambridge University.Attended life classes at Chelsea College of Art.Tutor in illustration at the Royal College of Art (1965- 78) and Head of the Illustration Dept 1978-1986, and is now a visiting professor.He was honoured with an OBE in 1988.He works in pen and ink and watercolour in a popular and unmistakable style,capturing essential character and movement with wit and gaiety in a few rapid strokes.He has illustrated many editions of the BBC Jackanory television programme.Whilst he illustrated many of his own works,he is renowned for his collaboration with Roald Dahl.Quentin Blake was the first Children's Laureate from 1999-2001.                      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/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: rja1152624. ISBN: 0224027867.

£ 10.00 (approx. $US 13.01 )