Cleave, Chris

Gold

London, Sceptre, 2012

Signed, limited, slipcased first edition.  This edition is numbered 377 of 750 copies (Publisher's film wrap has been opened to check on limitation number and author's signature, but is still present).

Fine as issued in orange boards with gilt titles in gilt decorated slipcase.

Clarke, Susanna

The Ladies of Grace Adieu  Special Limited Edition

London, Bloomsbury, 2006

Collection of short stories.  Special Limited Edition (limitation not stated).  Fine in quarterbound grey and pink embossed boards in  grey cloth slipcase foil-blocked in black.  Unsigned.

Coupland, Douglas

JPod

London, Bloomsbury, 2006

Fine in Fine dustjacket in unopened custom made box (very slightly creased).

Published to mixed reviews. Described on box as "Signed Special Edition includes The Cubes 'limited edition JPod figure".

Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with "J" are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.

Foyle, Christopher

Foyle's Collected Philavery

A Treasury of Unusual Words.

Two volumes, comprising Foyle's Philavery and Foyle's Further Philavery

London, Chambers, 2007

Special Waterstone's Edition. Fine as issued with red spines and gilt titles in William Morris decorated slipcase.

Frances Clayton illustrates

The Book of  Revelations

(The Revelation of St John The Divine)

London, Faber & Faber, 1931.  Printed by Curwen Press, with a limitation of 1000 copies, this copy not numbered.  Signed by artist Frances Clayton (1903-1985) to the limitation page.

Near Fine with 12 colour illustrations in illustrated boards loosely protected by a glassine cover.

Gordon, Roderick & Williams, Brian

The Highfield Mole.  Book 1, The Circle in the Spiral.

London, Mathew and Son, 2005.

Privately published.  Hardback edition, Fine as issued without dustjacket in illustrated boards with gilt titles (only 500 hardback copies produced).  Signed by both authors and dated 17th March 2005.

Also included is a bespoke card wallet signed by both authors containing 6 colour postcards featuring the book illustrations (there were only 500 such sets).

Hall, Trevor H.

Old Conjuring Books.  A Bibliographical and Historical Study with a Supplementary Check List.

London, Duckworth, 1972.

Limited edition of 1000 copies, this numbered 40, signed by the author.

Very Good+ (slight shelf wear) with 8 monochrome illustrations in navy boards with blued marbled endpapers and with red decoration and gilt titles.  Lacking the original clear acetate protective wrapper.

Trevor H. Hall was a sceptic of paranormal phenomena, a collector of magic books, and a member of the Magic Circle.

House, Richard

The Kills

London,  Picador, 2013

One of 500 numbered slipcased copies  -  this is numbered 300.  Fine as issued in slipcase, signed by the author.

Knowling, Philip

A Wisdom of Owls The history and mythology - fact and fiction - science and superstition of owls around the world

Fine unread without dust jacket as issued, and without slipcase.  Minor wrinkle at base of spine.

Newton Abbot, Avenue Press, 1998

Limited edition of 500 copies, this is numbered 185, in light brown cloth boards decorated with owl motifs.  Linocut illustrations by Elizabeth Rashley and Sarah Lawrence.  Book is signed by the author and both illustrators.

The book was published to mark the 10th anniversary of The Barn Owl Trust.

Le Carre, John

The Night Manager

London, Penguin Classics, 2016

First thus  (Waterstone's Special Edition with new after-word by the author to tie in with TV film).

Fine in stunning Fine dust jacket designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Mitchell, David

Slade House

 London, Sceptre, 2015

Signed, numbered, limited first edition in slipcase.

Fine as issued in silver-grey boards with silver-gilt titles to spine, housed in red slipcase with gilt decoration and titles, protected in publisher's unopened shrinkwrap.

Described as 'occupying the same universe' as The Bone Clocks, which was long-listed for the Man Booker prize and has just received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel of 2015.

Mitchell, David

The Bone Clocks

London, Sceptre, 2014

Signed, numbered and limited first edition.  Limitation is 500.  Fine as issued in yellow boards with silver gilt titles and decoration, housed in grey slipcase with titles and matching decoration and sealed in publisher's film wrap.

Man Booker Long List 2014.  World Fantasy Award for Best Novel 2015.

Morton, Andrew

William & Catherine, Their Lives, Their Wedding

Michael O'Mara Books, London, 2011

First edition, first printing.   Described as a 'limited edition personally signed by author', but no limitation given. Signed by author.  Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Palin, Michael

The Truth

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2012.   

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

One of 1500 first edition copies signed by the author (not individually numbered).

Rochester, Kate (editor). Brunnock, Lindsay (illustrator).  Foreword by Ralph Rochester.

The Pretty Women of Paris

London, Hanbury Press, 2007

Bound in red silk with gilt titles and black endpapers in a numbered limited edition of 300 copies.  First thus.

Fine as issued.

Originally privately published in France in 1883 as a directory for English gentlemen wishing to visit the famous courtesans of Paris.  23 of the entries from this directory have been reproduced by Hanbury Press with accompanying illustrations.  The illustrations are hidden in the uncut pages.  An accompanying printed slip contains the instruction "please use a letter opener or sharp knife to slice open the pages to reveal the girls".

Salway, Sarah

Leading The Dance

Bristol, Bluechrome Publishing, 2006

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed limited edition - this copy is numbered 117 of 125 copies.

Secrets and their consequences is the recurring theme of this book of short stories. Bound in red cloth in a red dusthacket, this is Redbook 1, the first fiction title of Bluechrome's Select Editions.