The Place of Art in a University. A lecture. (INSCRIBED) de HERBERT READ - 1931

University of Washington Chapbooks, Seattle, 1930. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow distinguished art critic W.B.Honey. Small 8vo. 33pp. Card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. In very crisp state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first American edition - this copy inscribed by the author: "for Alan Smith with all good wishes from John Lehmann 1976". Slim 8vo. 137pp. Blue cloth, silver lettered and ruled at the spine. Covers just a little spotted in places. A bright copy in slightly tanned and rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A two-page foreword by the author precedes eighty-one poems. The recipient of Lehmann's inscription, Alan Smith, was a noted English bookseller and bibliographer, compiler of the Poetry London checklist..

The Bodley Head, London, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of Theroux's debut novel (which was preceded by the US edition). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 208pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny smattering of foxing to the top edge and a single tiny blemish to the front free endpaper. Near fine in Yvonne Skargon-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but fractionally marked and with a single lengthy closed tear to the front panel..

Softcover with dust jacket in very good condition.
Signed by Sam Maloof, 'To Deborah, Blessings, Peace, Sam Maloof 1997.'
This is a very clean copy with no marks to internal pages. Cover has signs of shelfwear and minor scuffing, as well as minor edgewear. Spine is very tight.

London: Methuen & Co, 1972. FIRST EDITION, WITH AUTHORIAL DEDICATION. 8vo, pp. xlii, 230 + b/w frontis. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pushing to spine ends. Top edge spotted. Fox spots to top margins of prelims, else, clean and tidy. Authorial dedication in blue ink to ffep: 'To Storm Jameson/ from/ Agnes Headlam-Morley/ Sept. 1972.' In the original dust jacket: wear to spine ends, a few short closed tears. Very good/ very good. Agnes Headlam-Morley (1902-1986) was a historian of Anglo-German relations and briefly the prospective Conservative candidate for Barnard Castle. She was the first woman to be appointed to a full Professorship at Oxford: from 1948 to 1971 she was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations. She was a celebrated salon hostess and College woman. Her intellectual legacy � alongside those of other women in the discipline � is currently being revisioned through the Women and the History of International Thought project (2018-2022) (see Professor Patricia Owens,… Leer más

NY: Putnam, 1988. FINE condition in FINE slipcase. HARDCOVER. NY. Putnam. 1988. LIMITED EDITION. Specially bound edition of 250 SIGNED and numbered copies. This is NUMBER 122. AS NEW, book and slipcase bound in maroon cloth, with horse and jockey embossed on covers. Square and tight, UNREAD, in slipcase, dust jacket not issued. SIGNED by Dick Francis on the Limitations Page.!. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Slipcase.

University of Washington Chapbooks, Seattle, 1930. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow distinguished art critic W.B.Honey. Small 8vo. 33pp. Card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. In very crisp state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first American edition - this copy inscribed by the author: "for Alan Smith with all good wishes from John Lehmann 1976". Slim 8vo. 137pp. Blue cloth, silver lettered and ruled at the spine. Covers just a little spotted in places. A bright copy in slightly tanned and rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A two-page foreword by the author precedes eighty-one poems. The recipient of Lehmann's inscription, Alan Smith, was a noted English bookseller and bibliographer, compiler of the Poetry London checklist..

Fanshawe, Andy and Venables, Stephen. Himalaya Alpine Style. The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks. Hodder and Stoughton. 1995. 1st Edition, signed by Author. Sq4to (295mm x 305mm). Fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Title signed in ink, by Stephen Venables. Pp192, illustrated throughout with colour photographs. A fine book in Mint condition.

The Bodley Head, London, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of Theroux's debut novel (which was preceded by the US edition). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 208pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny smattering of foxing to the top edge and a single tiny blemish to the front free endpaper. Near fine in Yvonne Skargon-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but fractionally marked and with a single lengthy closed tear to the front panel..