Search Results: Authors starting with B from Northern Lights Rare Books

No Binding. Fine. A white card bearing the author's hand-written signature and small photographic image. Measures approx 6" x 4", Fine condition and can be trimmed down for mounting in a book, e.g. Pencil notes to verso. Provenance: from the collection of the indefatigable autograph hunter, Clive Bullimore.

Helsinki: Universal International. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Good. An original, cinema-used, first-screening Finnish poster for the melodrama WRITTEN ON THE WIND starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall and Dorothy Malone who won an Oscar for her perfomance. The poster was printed by Piirtopaino Oy and measures 23.75 inches x 15.75 inches (60.5 cm x 40cm) approx, Standard Finnish A2. Artist signed in the plate. Condition: GOOD This poster has a folding crease to the middle and is cinema-used with several faults. Dismounting chip at top right corner with 1/2 inch tear below. Single staple holes at remaining corners. 1/2 inch tear and two nicks to left edge. 2 further 1/2 inch tears to right edge. 1/2 tear at bottom edge. Faint but clearly visible print-marked date and time just above the cast list at bottom. Corners creased. Despite the obvious faults, remains an attractive poster and framed will still look great. For best appreciation of condition please examine the high resolution… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in Fine dustjacket. By the author of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull,

New York: William Morrow, 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 2nd Printing of the First US edition - issued in the same of month of publication as the First Printing (April 1935). An extraordinary copy of this classic of 20th Century children's literature and basis for the film starring a young Elizabeth Taylor. At first glance, a rather scruffy copy which doesn't really bear a second glance but never judge a book by its cover. At the front endpaper, the most delightful inscription from Edith Bagnold: "To Miss Busvine, from a querulous, bad-tempered but very grateful author - to a saint. Edith Bagnold, London, March 1936". Very interestingly, Miss Bagnold (married name, "Jones") has also signed for a second time below the small drawing of a horse at the foot of the page as "Edith Jones". The illustrations in the book have always been attributed to the author's daughter, Laurian Jones, who was but a child at the time of publication, which begs the question… Read More

No Binding. Fine. A plain white card bearing the author's hand-written signature. Measures approx 6" x 4", Fine condition. Pencil notes to verso. Provenance: From the collection of the indefatigable autograph hunter, Clive Bullimore.

London: Duckworth, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. Spine tips lightly pushed, gift inscription to the front endpaper. Otherwise nearly a Fine copy in unclipped dustjacket. Signed directly to the title page by Beryl Bainbridge.

No Binding. Fine. A plain white card bearing the author's hand-written signature and "best wishes". Measures approx 6" x 4", Fine condition, can be trimmed down for mounting in a book, e.g. Pencil notes to verso. Provenance: Obtained in person by the previous owner at the BBC studios, London, 08.04.1995. From the collection of the indefatigable autograph hunter, Clive Bullimore.

London: Duckworth, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Thus - collects the first three Beryl Bainbridge novels published by Duckworth in the early 1970's - Harriet Said, The Dressmaker and The Bottle Factory Outing. pp. 475, black cloth with gilt titles at the backstrip. Quite a heavy book and this copy is cracked at the front hinge but the book remains square and surprisingly tight. Some minor indentations to the upper cover visible when angled under a light but overall a VG clean copy without owner names etc. The dustjacket is unclipped with minor loss at the corners and a series of scratches or indentations to the gloss of the upper cover as though someone has used the book to lean upon when drawing or writing upon a piece of paper. Slightly creased along the top edge.A Good dustjacket. SIGNED directly to the title page by Beryl Bainbridge, uncommon thus.

No Binding. Fine. A plain white card bearing the author's hand-written signature and inscription ("To Clive, Best Wishes"). Bob Baker was a scriptwriter who worked on Doctor Who in the 1970's and was co-creator of the character K9. He found later success as co-author of the Wallace and Gromit movies. Measures approx 6" x 4", Fine condition, can be trimmed down for mounting in a book, e.g. Pencil notes to verso. Provenance: Obtained in person by the previous owner at a book-signing event in 2003. From the collection of the indefatigable autograph hunter, Clive Bullimore.

London: Gollancz, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. A suoer copy of this Sam Turner title. Signed at the title page, Very Fine in Very Fine unclipped dustjacket, an unread copy.

London: Gollancz, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. The publisher's file copy of the second Sam Turner title. Fine in Fine unclipped dustjacket, with publisher's stamp ("Cassell PLC") at the title page.

London: Gollancz, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. First Printing. Signed by the author at the title-page. A VG copy of the fourth Sam Turner novel which was published as a Paperback Original. The lower wrapper has a crease across the top corner (i.e. dog-ear) but apart from minor shelf-wear, a nice clean copy, VG in wrappers.

London: Michael Joseph, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The first UK edition. An attractive copy with bumps to the corners and to the top edge at the gutter, previous owner name to top of the front endpaper. A nice, square, firm binding, however and remains a reasonably fresh copy. The dustjacket is unclipped with a minor wrinkle at the top corner of the front cover - also Near Fine.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. An uncommonly nice copy of this definitive work. The colour of the pink top-edge has faded somewhat but still clearly discernible. Free from owner names etc, very minor shelf-wear to the jacket (unclipped) but otherwise at least VG/VG.

London: Little Brown & Co., 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. A lovely, fresh copy. Tight and square, no bumping to extremities, the dustjacket is unclipped, rubbed a little at both bottom corners, very trivial creases to edges in places. SIGNED by the author at the title page.

No Binding. Fine. A plain white card bearing the author's hand-written signature and date. Measures approx 4" x 4", Fine condition. Pencil notes to verso. Provenance: From the collection of the indefatigable autograph hunter, Clive Bullimore.

London: Little Brown, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Edges and text-block lightly tanned but a nice, square, clean & tight copy. Shelf-wear to the unclipped dustjacket including a sellotape-repaired tear to the rear panel top edge, small nick at top edge front and creasing to spine tips. SIGNED by the author at the title page.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Printing. By the author of The L-Shaped Room. Original red cloth, corners lightly bumped, lightly tanned text-block but a lovely clean copy in NF unclipped dustjacket which has a couple or more tiny marks on the rear panel. Signed (for us in person) at the title page by the author, uncommon thus.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Printing of the first US edition, hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt titles to upper cover and backstrip. Crushed both at the crown and tail of the backstrip but a tight, square copy otherwise and very clean and bright - Near Fine. The dustjacket is clean and bright, unclipped but with shelf-wear along the edges and at the spine ends. There is a small tear at the top corner of the rear panel and small nick to the top edge of the front flap. SIGNED and inscribed to the Finnish translator and film critic, Reijo Lehtonen, a nice association.

No Binding. Fine. A plain white card bearing The Mousehole Cat author's hand-written signature and personal dedication . Measures approx 6" x 4", Fine condition. Pencil notes to verso. Provenance: obtained in person in 1998 at Hatchard's bookshop in London. From the collection of the indefatigable autograph hunter, Clive Bullimore.