Search Results: Authors starting with D from Julian Roberts Fine Books

Random House, 1943. Complete with original typed & signed Roald Dahl letter (loosely laid in) on Dahl's "Gypsy House" notepaper dated 27/9/90 - "Dear Mr, Martin/Thank you for your letter. I will buy your "Gremlins" copy. Here's my cheque/Yours Roald Dahl". True first edition, first printing. 4to. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Some edgewear to extremities. Internally very clean indeed with no inscriptions & importantly with this title - non of the usual splitting to Gremlin illustrated endpapers. The very good dustwrapper has a few short closed tears - a couple with old tape strengthening to rear. Some edgewear to other extremities with nicking at spine corners. Original first issue price of $1.00 to top right of front flap. None of the usual fading to red spine. An attractive copy of the true first printing of Dahl's first book complete with original dustwrapper and with a letter which suggests it may have been owned by the author himself just… Read More

John Murray, 1868. First edition, first printing, first issue with vol i - 32pp ads dated April 1867 and five errata on 6 lines on pvi and vol ii with single advertisement dated February 1868 to rear and 9 errata on 7 lines on pviii. Complete in two volumes housed in a bespoke quarter green morocco gilt clamshell case with raised bands to spine. A very good+/near fine set. Clean boards with light wear to extremities. Bright gilt. No marks to boards of vol i & a couple of small scuffs & a few small bubbles to cloth on vol ii; Tiny Victorian booksellers label to endpaper "Howell & Day, New Street, Birmingham". Internally complete and clean. Old rubbed out pencil name to rear of endpaper in vol i and a few spots to blank endpapers only. No inscriptions. Original black endpapers uncracked on volume i and cracking to volume ii - textblock still very tight and firm. A much better than usual copy of this important natural history work. 1500 copies of the first issue printing. A well… Read More

Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. One of 30 copies bound in full Morocco and signed by Somerset De Chair. A very good+ copy. Wear to extremities with tanning to spine & some offsetting to boards. Internally deckle edge handmade paper leaves - all in very good+ condition with no inscriptions. Map endpapers original and unsplit. A personal account of a tiny force sent to Baghdad from Palestine to deal with the effects of the Golden Square coup and to help the Habbaniya. The operation was a success with Baghdad falling on 30th May 1941 and saved Iraq from falling into the hands of the Nazis.

Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with white ticker tape decoration & gilt titles. Pictorial aluminium foil dustwrapper - as issued. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Bump to head of spine & some light spotting to topedge only. No inscriptions. The very good dustwrapper is complete with wear to extremities & a couple of tiny grazes to foil. Light vertical crease to front flap. Original price of 21snet to front flap. The fourth and final installment of the Harry Palmer novels.

Macmillan, 1930. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Orange boards with gilt titles. A near fine copy with clean boards - light mottling. Internally clean and complete with attractive bookplate of the renowned collector of Delafield - "From the E. M. Delafield library of Robert Milnes No 20A" to front endpaper. Very clean with wonderful period plates by Arthur Watts. The rare dustwrapper is complete with some edgewear to extremities and mild toning to spine. Original price of 7/6net to front flap. A lovely copy of a Classic title in the very rare dustwrapper. This is the first dustwrapper we seen or handled on this title. Delafield's defining title and a classic of domestic literature - critics on both sides of the Atlantic greeted it with great enthusiam. It initially appeared in weekly instalments in Time and Tide - the feminist weekly. The diary is the (largely autobiographical) chronicle of the disaster prone "day to day" life of a wife and mother living a frugal life in… Read More

Ticknor & Reeves, Boston, 1868. First edition first printing [published in the UK many years later]. Bound with original covers [front & back]. 8vo. Quarter blue calf gilt with red title label to spine; blue buckram boards. A near fine/fine copy. Some lightening to spine & mild wear to extremities. Internally very crisp & fresh indeed with no wear to leaves or covers. No inscriptions. A lovely copy of the true first printing of this Charles Dickens story which is normally found in a sorry state. Written in the first person, George tells us about his awful childhood and life after his parent's death. A psychological story focusing on oppression and accusation and the difficulty of living an everyday life after a bleak start.

Gollancz, 1954. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt titles. Yellow Gollancz dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards & no inscriptions. An occasional spot to the textblock edge. Usual tanning to leaf stock. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete with some edgewear to extremities and some light spotting to rear panel. Original price of 12/6net to front flap. A fictionalised account of the real life story of Du Maurier's great-grandmother - Mary Anne Clarke trying to navigate her way through Regency society.

Gollancz, 1954. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt titles. Yellow Gollancz dustwrapper. A near fine/fine copy with clean boards & no inscriptions. Mild dulling to gilt. The near fine dustwrapper is complete with very light edgewear to extremities and non of the usual fading to bright yellow spine. Original price of 12/6net to front flap. A fictionalised account of the real life story of Du Maurier's great-grandmother - Mary Anne Clarke trying to navigate her way through Regency society.