Rare Hardback First Edition (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. RARE FIRST EDITION HARDBACK OF THE UK EDITION. Protected unclipped jacket. Ann Douglas's magnificent account of "mongrel Manhattan" focuses especially on brilliant and diverse artists - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Eugene O'Neill, Walter Winchell, Erne…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Possibly the only SIGNED copy for sale on the internet. This is an enthralling read with many photographs, and it was written by a real fan. Derek Watts sadly died in early 2020 but this great and beautifully written book will be his fitting epitaph. UNREAD first edition hardback, signed b…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED on the title page. Rare signed first edition from Faber. The jacket has some minor scuffs but it is now protected. Binding is firm and the book has no blemishes or signs of former owners. Enclosed is the descriptive bookseller certificate from…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a very rare SIGNED copy of the US Hardback First Printing. It is signed on the title page. The book appears to be new and unread. No owner signs of use, no names or bent corners. A beautiful book production, with a near perfect protected unclipped jack…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Full colour photos of people in a bath with rubber ducks. If it can be said, this is a sort of erotic book, and it depends what turns you on. Clean and tight unread first edition hardback, bound in black faux leather, with an inset oval image on the cover. No jacket was issued. This looks…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A stunning three seasons of DEADWOOD, the HBO series that David Milch created, is a pitch perfect dramatic work based on real characters and events. This stunning book is almost equally impressive and IT IS VERY SCARCE IN THE UK. Issued without a jacket, it is an evocative tribute to the…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. With a delightful caricature self portrait, this may well be the only first edition copy so distinguished. Includes Dairy Entries, Shooting Script, 40 photographs and an introduction by the film's director, Sir Nicholas Hytner. A very satisfying collectable.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This one of the few copies issued with a signed bookplate attached to the title page. An inevitably moving work; inspirational and at times surgically precise. This is one for Everyman, as well as serious fans and completists. It is tight, new and unread. Carefu…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Superb SIGNED and UNREAD first US hardback. First Edition/1st Printing (Numberline to "1") of Charles Burns's Breakout graphic novel, 10 years in the making. This copy signed in white ink on the title page. Perfect dust jacket protected in mylar. "Suburban Sea…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. RARE signed first printing of the American first edition hardback. Simply stunning account that is so much more than an autobiography. SIGNED without dedication on the title page. The protected jacket is unclipped and it has handling damage but nothi…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The only SIGNED copy of the true first hardback edition of this superb play on the internet; it was written for radio and it differs considerably to the rewritten stage version, where it was retitled 'Indian Ink'. This is the first printing of the hardback…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing with the words "First Published in Great Britain 1967" printed on the copyright page. This copy is SIGNED by Roger Zelazny on the title page. This British edition is only one issued in hardback. Dustjacket is not sunned, and it is prot…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A War Economy book production of this hugely popular author (in those days) and this is in an unclipped protected jacket of unusual quality. Apart from minor creases and chippings it has obviously been carefully stored away from sunlight. Exceptional…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This was a ground breaking issue in 1967. First printing of a large format hardback in landscape format, beautifully produced by Nostalgia Press, with special care to reproduce the stunning line work of Alex Raymond. The cloth cover is beautifully gi…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. RARE and collectable first edition hardback of this Roger Brook story. The cover is not price-clipped but it does have chips and torn off sections. It is now protected. There is a neat inscription to the rear of the front endpaper. The endpapers feat…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Superb collection from this little known but fresh and brilliant poet. His translation of Pushkin was published in Penguin Classics, and it is still the one to beat. Hardback first edition, hard to find in this superlative condition. Protected perfect jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. POSSIBLY the only signed copy of the UK first edition. This is signed on the title page. It is clean and tight and the jacket is protected. Two minor faults; there is a former owner's blind stamp, which is very neat, on the half title page, and the j…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A rare item, and in its original decorative binding. Hardcover first edition with splendid illustrations by J. K. Ferguson. This is a rare book, with all the portraits intact. The binding is rated NF taking its age into account. Corners are 'soft' but the book is still firm. A deligh…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Signed on the title page. This was a well received novel, Anthony Burgess declaring the author to be 'One of the most powerful and brilliant amongst contemporary British writers'. Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet, better known by his pen name Thomas Hinde,…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Super scarce. This is a rare hardback first edition made even scarcer by a complete unclipped jacket. I rate it Near Fine because I am taking the age into account. It might even be unread. The protected jacket is usually damaged or missing, and the b…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Special Edition. A great pairing for Cormac McCarthy collectors; a first edition of the acclaimed Folio Edition of The Road, and the highly collectable Suntup Broadside featuring the unforgettable closing paragraph of THE ROAD. Only 750 copies of the broadside were made and they were issued UN-NUMBERED…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED by the author in black ink on the title page, without deication. Scarce as a signed first, but this obviously read copy has a neat former owner's signature on the front endpaper and a blind stamp on the half title. It has the usual foxing to t…