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

Bloomsbury, 2000. Still in original cellophane shrinkwrap with barcode to rear - just slit to leading edge to confirm first printing/impression status - states "First Edition" on copyright page [please be aware that some sealed copies will not necessarily be first editions as thiese early deluxe edition titles still had reprints]. First Deluxe Edition. First Printing. Purple cloth boards with gilt titles & illustrated vignette to front board. Totally "as new" copy in original shrink wrap. A big death shakes to the cores and everything about their life will change forever. One of the darkest of the Harry Potter novels.

Collins Crime Club, 1955. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with black titles. Typographical brick red dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. Clean textblock edges. Appears unread with no inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper is fresh and clean. A couple of short closed tears only. Clean rear wrapper panel. Not price clipped but no price on front flap. A very attractive copy of a title hard to find without a heavily faded spine. Wagstaff & Poole p.205. A Hercule Poirot mystery. Poirot is called in to investigate a student hostel. Vandalised and stolen items include an old pair of flannel trousers, a stethoscope and a box of chocolates. A diamond ring is found in a bowl of soup and Poirot congratulates the Warden on a "unique and beautiful problem

Puffin/Penguin, 1961. First paperback edition. 8vo. Illustrated covers by Pauline Baynes. A near fine copy. Light wear with to extremities with usual tanning to leaves. No inscriptions. A much smarter copy than usually encountered. "In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit...". Since first publication it has met with critical acclaim - a timeless classic. It introduces the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, the wizard, Gandolf, Gollum, Smaug the Magnificent, the invisible ring & the spectacular Middle Earth.

The Bodley Head, 1973. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth boards with gilt titles. Blue & green typographical dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. No inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is complete with no chipping. Lightest wear with one short closed tear & light mark at foot of spine. None of the usual darkening to spine. Original price of £2.00net on front flap. A lovelt copy. Miller 54a. Greene revisits Argentinian turf.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1924. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red cloth boards with black titles. A very good+ copy. No chipping or nicking to boards.Light wear to extremities. None of the usual fading to the red spine. No inscriptions. Internally complete. The lightest spotting to prelims only. No inscriptions. An attractive copy.

Methuen, 1928. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original pink boards with gilt titles. A near fine copy with clean boards. Mild lightening to spine. Bright unrubbed gilt. No chipping or splitting to cloth. Internally very clean & complete with no inscriptions. Usual toning to endpapers. Endpapers original and unsplit. No childish marks or scribbling. A wonderfully clean copy & would be ideal as a present. More classic tales from Winnie the Pooh & his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood.

Gollancz, 1981. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt titles. A fine copy with clean boards. Internally fresh with no inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is clean & unworn with none of the usual fading encountered on these Gollancz dustwrappers. A very attractive copy. A delicious blend of witchery and bitchery - an investigation into deceit and scheming set within the aristocratic Care family spanning a number of years and with the wonderful Cornish backdrop so often encountered in Burley's novels.

The Bodley Head, 1978. First edition first issue with the Shakespeare head imprint on titlepage. Cloth boards [second issue has a rectangular Bodley Head imprint] - uncommon thus. 8vo. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. White dustwrapper with red/orange titles. A fine copy with clean boards. One tiny pinhead spot to textblock edges o/w spotless. No inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is complete and fresh. No tearing or chipping. One tiny mark o/w remarkable condition. Original price of £4.50net to front flap. An exceptional copy of the first issue with one of the brightest wrappers we have handled. A Secret Service novel. One of of only 1000 copies of the first issue.