Signed Books from Alex Richardson

New York: Assouline Publishing, 2008. 1st edition. Hardback. Brown boards with the subject's and publisher's names blind-stamped to spine and front. Octavo. 79 pages, 56 of which are full colour plates. Signed by Malandrino on the front free endpaper: "London June 11/09 / Catherine Malandrino". Good in Good jacket. Text tanned at the edges. Jacket a little creased at the… Read more about this item

Sparkford: Haynes Publishing, 2002. 1st edition. Hardback. Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Quarto (25.7 x 25.6 cm). 208 pages. 16 pages of colour plates; numerous b&w photographs within the text. Foreword by Teddy Mayer. Signed by the author on the title page. Very Good in Good jacket. Page edges a bit tanned. Jacket also tanned at the edges,… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Privately Printed, 2022. 1st edition. Hardback. Green boards with gold decoration to front and lettering to spine. Octavo. 88 pages. Numerous b&w illustrations by Rebecca Yanovskaya throughout the text. Issued in an edition of 250 copies signed, numbered and stamped by the author. Very Good. Ink smudge in the top corner of the front free endpaper.

Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1999. 1st edition. Hardback. Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [xiv prelims] 225 pages. Numerous b&w photographs within the text. Foreword by Raymond Baxter. Pasted onto the front free endpaper is a bookplate signed by both Cunningham and Golley. Good in Good jacket. Text a bit tanned at the edges. Jacket has some wear… Read more about this item

Stamford: Peter Maskell Publishing Services, 2010. 1st edition. Hardback. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Octavo. 197 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Preface by Pat Marston Walker; Introduction by Peter Maskell; Foreword by Chris Yates. Number 234 in a limited edition of 570 copies, signed by Pat Marston Walker on the title page and Peter Maskell on… Read more about this item

Privately Printed, 1996. Paperback. 12mo (19 x 13.1 cm). Booklet of 16 pages sewn into blue wraparound card covers. Pagination: [4 blanks], half-title page, [1 blank], title page, copyright page, [2 pages], [1 blank], limitation notice, [4 blanks]. Printed for Reed and Alan Clodd by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press, September 1996. Number 73 in an edition of 80… Read more about this item

Bath: Fairfield Books, 2019. 1st edition. Hardback. Original green boards with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 256 pages. Numerous b&w photographs within the text. Signed on the half-title page by Rumsey, Henry Blofeld and A. N. Other whose name I cannot quite make out. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has flared out a bit along its edges.

London: Faber & Faber, 1981. Paperback. 12mo. 126 pages. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "To Frank & Dorothy, / on their Brazilian journey. / George / (10/9/81)". Good. Page edges rather tanned, with a bump in the bottom corner. Cover worn at the edges, spine and corners. Spine has faded slightly. Front has a couple… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. Hardback. Issued in pictorial boards without a jacket. Octavo. 390 pages. Number 738 in a limited edition of 750 copies, signed by the author. Very Good in Very Good slipcase. Spine leans slightly and is a bit tanned. Slipcase has some wear at its corners.

Kibworth Beauchamp: Matador, 2022. 1st edition. Paperback. Octavo. [xxxvi prelims] 143 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. "An encrypted transcription of the final 'Penelope' chapter of Ulysses" exploring "the liminal space between visual art and literature". Very Good.

Marlborough: Libanus Press, 2006. 1st edition. Hardback. Quarter bound in oatmeal buckram over black boards. Paper title label to spine. Octavo. Unpaginated. Poems in English and French. One of a limited edition of 250 copies, signed and inscribed by the poet on the front flyleaf: "To John / with all best wishes / John / 6-11-09". Very Good. Front board… Read more about this item

Marlborough: Libanus Press, 2004. 1st edition. Hardback. Quarter bound in oatmeal buckram over violet boards. Paper title label to spine. Octavo. Unpaginated. Poems in English and French. One of a limited edition of 250 copies, signed and inscribed by the poet on the front flyleaf: "To John / with all best wishes / John / 6-11-09". Very Good. Tiny spot… Read more about this item

Portsmouth: Milestone Publications, 1985. 1st edition. Hardback. Original brown cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 171 pages. Numerous b&w photographs within the text. Foreword by Digby Fairweather. Signed by Nat Gonella and Ron Brown on the title page. Good in Good jacket. Some fading to the edges of the boards; foot of spine pushed in. Endpapers tanned. Jacket has… Read more about this item

London: Picador, 2020. 1st edition. Hardback. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 59 pages. Several b&w drawings by Tim Robertson within the text. Foreword by Val McDermid. Signed by the author on the title page. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has some creasing around the head of its spine and a faint mark on its… Read more about this item

London: Live Canon, 2017. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. 67 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: "for Daphne, / with best wishes, / Mark. / London. 24.7.2017". Very Good in Good jacket which has some wear to its corners and the head of its spine.

Epping: Bowker, 1978. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. [xiii prelims] 221 pages. Numerous tables and figures within the text. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "With the writers best wishes / A Q Morton". Good in Fair jacket. Rear board has a creased bump in its bottom corner. Text brown at the edges; small grease spot… Read more about this item

Kings Lynn: Crowswing Books, 2005. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. 198 pages. Part of a limited edition of 470 copies. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in Near Fine jacket which has just a little wear at the corners.

Billingshurst: The Bookplate Society in association with The Keridwen Press, 1988. 1st edition. Paperback. Octavo (21 x 15 cm). 35 pages, 23 of which are b&w reproductions of the bookplates. (Also a b&w photograph of the artist as a frontispiece.) Part of a limited run of 500 copies, 140 of which were numbered and signed by the author. This is… Read more about this item

London: Boxtree, 2000. 1st edition. Hardback. Quarto. 272 pages. Numerous colour and b&w photographs throughout the text. Foreword by Sir Richard Branson. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "To Rosie / With Love / Colin Prescot / 18 January 2003". Very Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned. Jacket tanned at the spine and a portion… Read more about this item

London: Methuen, 1993. Reprint. Hardback. Octavo. 182 pages. Illustrated with b&w line drawings by Caroline Holden. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: "14th October 1993 / To Darling Marcia / with all my / very best wishes / Sue Townsend / (47 1/2)". Also signed and inscribed by actor Nicholas Barnes on the reverse of the… Read more about this item