Search Results: Titles starting with B from Neil Pearson Rare Books

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1958. 8vo, pp. 285. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Very slight bruising to head of spine, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. First edition.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1973. 8vo, pp. 191. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photograph to rear panel. A fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with some very light edgewear. Dustwrapper illustration by Osbert Lancaster. First edition. A late novel from Wodehouse -- the author was ninety-two when it was published. McIlvaine A96a

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. 8vo, pp. 222. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine, unread copy, a small and faint bookseller's stamp to foot of front pastedown, in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with a single small closed tear to lower edge of rear panel. First edition, published a month later in the US with the title Angel Cake. A much nicer copy than is usually found, in an unfaded dustwrapper with only minimal wear. McIlvaine A-72

London: Gollancz, 1992. 8vo, pp. 192. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The third of seven detective novels by the art historian Iain Pears, featuring the art historian sleuth Jonathan Argyll. A fine copy, with the author's signature to the title page hastily applied and bordering on the abstract.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1931. 8vo, pp. 314. 6 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Two different publisher's devices, both in black, to rear panel and spine. Slight spotting to leading edge of text block, otherwise a near fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. First UK edition, preceded by the US edition published two months earlier. A bright, crisp copy, lacking the dustwrapper. McIlvaine A43b

New York: George H. Doran, 1924. 8vo, pp. 323. Original yellow boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Slight age-toning to text block, but an all but fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, light wear and chipping to spine ends, rear panel just a little marked. First US edition, preceded by its UK counterpart of the same year. Part of the plot of Bill The Conqueror was used for the book of the Kern-Bolton-Wodehouse musical of the same year, Sitting Pretty, which opened in New York in April, 1924 -- six months before the book's publication, and a month before its serialisation began in the SEP. An extremely attractive copy of a book rarely seen in such nice condition. McIlvaine A33b

London: Methuen, 1924. 8vo, pp. 296. 8 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. Small inked number to top corner of ffep., minimal wear to spine ends and slight bumping to corners, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition. Serialised in the Saturday Evening Post earlier the same year. 'I am half-way through mapping out a new novel, which looks like being a pippin. I am going on a new system this time, making the scenario very full, putting in atmosphere and dialogue etc., so that when I come actually to write it the work will be easy. So far I have scenarioed it out to about the 40,000 word mark; and it has taken me 13,000 words to do it! I have now reached a point where deep thought is required. I am not sure I haven't got too much plot, and may have to jettison the best idea in the story. I suppose the secret of writing is to got through your stuff till you come on something you think is particularly good, and… Read More

N.p. [Florence]: Privately Printed, 1927. 8vo, pp. 219. Original blue boards, paper label to spine. Top edge cut, others uncut. Tissue guard to frontispiece. Lacking the dustwrapper. Boards a little browned and marked, but a very good copy. Photographic frontispiece. First edition. One of 500 signed and numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and signed on limitation page: 'Soiled. N.D.'

London: Faber, 1998. 8vo, pp. 198. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. First edition. A fine copy.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. Small octavo, pp. 301. Original green stiff paper wrappers. Slightly cocked, but a very good copy, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. First issue of the two Olympia Press versions issued by Maurice Girodias. First published by Girodias' father Jack Kahane [Paris: Obelisk Press, 1938]. Kearney: 5.77.1. Kearney: 5.77.1.

London: Collin's Crime Club, 1967. 8vo, pp. 224. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine, unread copy in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. First edition of this early, pre-Cadfael title, and a fine copy. HUBIN, p. 324

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. 8vo, pp. 311. Original light green boards, lettered in dark green to spine. Yellow endpapers. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dustwrapper. Small ownership signature to ffep., spine a little dulled and with some wear to spine ends, offsetting to endpapers. A better than very good copy in a very good dustwrapper, historical water staining affecting rear panel near spine, and with very slight chipping to head of spine. Illustrated dustwrapper by Roese. First US edition, published five months after its UK counterpart. McIlvaine A53b

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1935. 8vo, pp. 311. Original orange boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, spine just a little faded, but a very good copy. First Canadian edition, printed from UK sheets of the same year. Precedes the US edition. A collection of twelve short stories previously published in magazines, six of them set at Blandings.

London: Harper Collins, 1999. 8vo, pp. 262. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. First edition of this, the twentieth and final book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. A fine copy.

London: Harper Collins, 1999. 8vo, pp. 262. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, small promotional sticker to front panel. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. First edition of this, the twentieth book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. A fine copy.

New York: N.p. 1932. Small 8vo, pp. 16. Original stiff paper wrappers, string binding and tie. Wrappers a little darkened, slight wear to edges, but a near fine copy. First edition, first issue. 'This pamphlet owes its existence to the fact that it was rejected by nearly fifty newspapers and magazines.' They weren't bad judges. A prim little homily on the use of 'bad' language on stage, this pamphlet was produced in New York. Two issues exist: this, the first, US issue, is in off-white wrappers and has no printed limitation, while the second issue, for export to the UK, is bound in pink wrappers, has a printed limitation of 500 copies, and uses the English spelling of 'theatre'. The US issue seems much the scarcer. Barrett Clark [1890-1953] was a dramaturg and translator of French drama, who wrote an early [1920s] appreciation of the work of Eugene O'Neill. A very nice copy.

New York: M.S. Mill/William Morrow, 1960. 8vo, pp. 251. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in an all but fine dust jacket with the very lightest of wear to spine ends. First edition of the author's first novel. HUBIN, p. 438

London: Grey Walls Press, 1951. 8vo, pp. 366. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with just a little sunning to rear panel and spine but no chips or nicks anywhere. Dustwrapper designed by Peter Curl. First edition. A collection of short stories by Fitzgerald selected by Alan and Jennifer Ross, including The Diamond As Big As The Ritz. The collection was only ever published in the UK. A near fine copy.

Munich: Babel, 1983. 8vo, pp. 20. White pamphlet, lettered in black to front and rear panels, stapled in to unprinted dark blue oversized wrappers. Slight discoloration to outer margins of wrappers, otherwise a near fine copy. 8 pp. of abstract illustrations by Kevin Perryman. First edition. No. 126 of 200 copies, '...printed on the occasion of the reading, recital and exhibition DAS HELLE FELD at the British Council in Munich 21st Nov. 1983'. The pamphlet comprises a printing in both English and German of Thomas' poem The Bright Field, from the 1975 collection Laboratories Of The Spirit; an abstract illustration by Kevin Perryman (who also provides the German translation of the poem); and music for flute solo by Wolfgang Niemeyer to accompany this and other poems by Thomas. An eight-page version of this pamphlet was published in 1986 in an edition of 50 copies, signed by the poet. Both versions are scarce; this seems scarcer.

New York: The Century Co., 1914. 8vo, pp. 329. Original blue illustrated boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. A near fine copy, with just the lightest of bumping to spine ends. First edition. Occult and mystery combine in this novel by William Charter Pigott [1872-1943], an unordained pastor, lapsed Methodist, and in 1896 the founder of a sect he named The Brotherhood Church, based in West London. A very well preserved copy. HUBIN, p.420