Search Results: Titles starting with A from Julian Roberts Fine Books

Thomas Blanshard, 1820. First edition. 284pp. Rare particularly in original pubisher's grey boards. Chipping and splitting along the spine. Boards worn with paper loss especially to front boards bottom right corner. Original spine label present but cracked and chipped with title just legible. Old manuscript inscription dated 1820 to front endpaper. Endpapers original and unsplit. Light watermark to bottom right corner of first three leaves & an even paler mark to half way up on first two leaves. No loose or missing leaves. A very uncommon title.

Collins Crime Club, 1960. First edition, first printing. Orange boards with black titles. Mustard typographical dustwrapper. A very good+ copy with clean boards. A hint of spotting to topedge. Internally complete with spotting to endpapers only - text clean and unmarked. No inscriptions. The very good+/near fine priceclipped dustwrapper is complete with no chipping or nicking.Light edgewear & dusting to rear panel. An attractive copy of a more uncommon Christie title from the 1960s. Wagstaff & Poole p.213. Six short stories of which Hercule Poirot features in five. It is the only Christie title to feature both Poirot and Miss Marple.

Collins, 1951. First edition, first printing. Red boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrwapper. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Internally complete and clean. Neat ink inscription dated 1952 to endpaper. The very good+ dustwrapper has no loss & some mild edgewear with two small pieces of paper strengthening to verso of jacket [not visible from exterior]. Original price of 9s6dnet to front flap. A very smart complete copy. Neil Fraser, a top mercenary pilot is on the run and in need of a plane. Bill Saeton has risen from the war and wants to set up an air freight fleet. Fraser needs a plane and Saeton needs Fraser. Would someone be willing to murder his best friend to get what he wants?

Collins, 1977. Signed by Author to blank endpapers "To Marianne/from/Winston/& Jean/with love/ September 1977". First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards with gilt titles. A near fine copy with clean boards. Light wear only. No marks to textblock edges. No inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper has very light wear only. Original price of £4.95 net on front flap. A lovely signed & inscribed copy. The seventh Poldark novel and the 18th century is coming to an end. Ross sits as MP for the Borough of Truro with his time divided between London & Truro. Ross and George Warleggan's relationship is as heated as ever as is the illicit love affair between Morwenna and Demelza's brother Drake.

Longmans, Green & Co, 1896. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt titles & elaborate decoration to front board & spine. All edges gilt. A near fine/fine copy. Very bright unrubbed gilt. A few, tiniest light spots to boards o/w very clean indeed. Light wear only to extremities. Internally very clean. Neat black ink name & date to black endpaper which is barely visible. Without the usual heavy foxing. Original & unsplit endpapers. A fantastic copy of this Andrew Lang story book. Sixty six tales from the noted Scottish author about creatures of land, sea and air.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Officially Signed by Author on publisher's "Autographed copy of Ascent of Everest" bookplate. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dustwrapper by W. Heaton Cooper. A very good+/near fine copy. A light mark at head of spine where dustwrapper has a short tear. Internally complete & clean. Usual offsetting to endpaper. The very good+/ near fine dustwrapper is complete with light wear to extremities & short closed tear to top left head of spine. Mild toning to spine. An attractive officially signed copy. The official account of the successful 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition led by the author, Colonel John Hunt and in which Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit.

Heinemann, 1957. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with black & gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper by Broome-Lynne. A near fine copy with clean boards. Internally clean and complete. A hint of spotting to edges & rear endpaper. Old bookseller label to front endpaper. No inscriptions. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete with some mild edgewear, a few short closed tears & a small rub to spine. Very bright pink spine without any of the heavy fading to the pink spine usually associated with this title. Original price of 15snet to front flap. Rare in vivid pink wrapper with spine the same colour as the sofa on the front panel. The fourth novel in the "Dance to the Music of Time" series. We meet Lady Molly who provides the meeting places for the characters to interact. Widmerpool is once again a central character and he continues his reinvention and upward trajectory as his evolution from schoolboy nerd to driven businessman continues!