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Click here to subscribeSigned Book, A Proper Spectacle, Women Olympians 1900, 1936 by Stephania Daniels and Anita Tedder 2000 Softback book First Edition with 163 pages Signed by 2 people (Unknown) on the Title page published by Zenana Press, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Margaret Molloy Signed Book, Martin Sheridan Mayo's Famous Son 1881, 1918 by Margaret Molloy 2018 Hardback Book First Edition with 558 pages Signed by Margaret Molloy on the Title page published by BCH, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Noel Henry Signed Book, Irish Marathon Legends by Noel Henry 1992 Softback Book First Edition with 86 pages Signed by Noel Henry plus one other on the Title page (also signed to the cover) published by Athletic Promotions Ltd, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Multi-Signed Book, Cork Champions Past and Present, A Brief Political and Sporting History of Cork Athletics (1873, 2012) by Liam Fleming 2013 Softback Book First Edition with 377 pages Multi-Signed by six on the Title page published by Liam Fleming, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Kevin Kelly Signed Book, Robert Sadler and the lost Copenhagen Running Grounds Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, A Story of Early Pedestrianism and Athletics in South London by Kevin Kelly 2013 Softback Book First Edition with 80 pages Signed by Kevin Kelly on the Title page published by Local History Publications, Plus The Olympics 100 Years ago (Softback Book), Atlanta 96 (Magazine), American Photo, The Olympics (Magazine), Olympic Times 1984 (Magazine), good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Eamonn Coghlan Signed Book, Eamonn Coghlan, Chairman of The Boards, Master of The Mile by Eamonn Coghlan with George Kimball 2008 Softback Book First Edition with 264 pages Signed by Eamonn Coghlan on the Title page published by Red Rock Press Ireland, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
St Abban's Athletic Club, 50 Years 1955, 2005 When a Dream Becomes a Reality 2005 Softback Book First Edition with 232 pages published by St Abban's Athletic Club, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Martin Peters Signed Book, The Ghost of '66 by Martin Peters with Michael Hart 2006 Hardback Book First Edition with 312 pages Signed by Martin Peters on the Title page Inscribed recollection of scoring in the World Cup Final 1966, published by Orion Books, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
J J Walsh Signed Book, Across The World For Sport by J J Walsh 1957 Hardback Book First Edition with 232 pages Signed by J J Walsh on the First page printed by Munster Express Newspaper Publishers, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
W H W Platt Signed Book, Northwest of Ireland Hockey 1895, 1968 by W H W Platt 2006 Softback Book First Edition with 397 pages Signed by W H W Platt on the Title page published by W H W Platt, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Multi-Signed Book, The Politics of Irish Athletics 1850, 1990 by Padraig Griffin 1990 Hardback Book First Edition with 352 pages Multi-Signed by approx. 40 athletes and Padraig Griffin on various Front and Back pages published by Marathon Publications, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Sebastian Coe Signed Book, Sebastian Coe Born To Run, The Authorizes Life in Athletics by David Miller 1992 Softback Book First Edition with 212 page Signed by Sebastian Coe on the First page published by Pavilion Books Ltd London, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Dublin University Football Club, 1854, 2004 150 Years of Trinity Rugby Edited by Trevor West 2003 Hardback Book First Edition with 160 pages published by Wordwell Ltd, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Sean and Maeve Kyles Signed Book, The Remarkable Kyles by Dennis O'Hara 2012 Softback Book First Edition with 192 pages Signed by Sean and Maeve Kyles on the Title page published by O'Hara Publications, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Steven Moore Signed Book, The Irish on the Somme, A Battlefield Guide to the Irish Regiments in the Great War and the Monuments to their Memory by Steven Moore 2005 Softback Book First Edition with 280 pages Signed by Steven Moore on the Title page published by Local Press Ltd Belfast, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Kevin McCarthy Signed Book, Gold, Silver and Green, The Irish Olympic Journey 1896, 1924 by Kevin McCarthy 2010 Hardback Book First Edition with 415 pages Signed by Kevin McCarthy on the First page published by Cork University Press, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Philippa Gregory Signed Book, The Taming of The Queen by Philippa Gregory 2015 Hardback Book First Edition with 436 pages Signed by Philippa Gregory on the Title page published by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Robert Thompson Signed Book, Ballymoney Heroes 1914, 1918 by Robert Thompson 1999 Softback Book First Edition with 392 pages Signed by Robert Thompson on the Title page published by Robert Thompson, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Katie Taylor Signed Book, Katie Taylor My Olympic Dream, The Gold Medal Winner's Astonishing Own Story by Katie Taylor 2012 Hardback Book First Edition with 213 pages Signed by Katie Taylor on the Title page published by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Part of the M.I. Hummel Club Clowning Around Series, First Edition is an adorable young girl pointing at all that she sees. Goebel and M.I. Hummel backstamp. 2089A. This item has its original box: 5"L x 7.5"W x 4"H. Certificate of Authenticity included. Issued: 20th centuryDimensions: 3.25"L x 1.5"W x 4.5"HManufacturer: Goebel HummelCountry of Origin: GermanyCondition: Age related wear.
NO RESERVE Hartley (Dorothy) Food in England, first edition, plates and illustrations, neat ink ownership inscription to endpaper, occasional light foxing, original cloth, light mottling to covers, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped with neat tape strengthening to head of spine verso, some light marking and surface soiling to panels, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, 8vo, 1954.⁂ Dorothy Hartley's classic combination history and cookbook, rare with the dust-jacket in such good condition.
NO RESERVE [Everett (Percy W., attributed to as editor)] Ghost Stories and Other Queer Tales, first edition, light spotting to first few pages, cloth lightly rubbed, jacket with light abrasion marks to upper cove, nicks and chips to extremities, spine browned, 1931 § Sullivan (Alan) The Jade God, "Popular edition", jacket with new price sticker on upper panel, central portion of spine lacking, ends chipped, extremities frayed, 1924 § Sorensen (Villy) Strange Stories, first English edition, light creasing to spine ends, 1956, original boards, dust-jackets; and 6 others, ghost stories and weird fiction, 8vo (9)
NO RESERVE Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, limited edition signed by the author, publisher's bookmark loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, short split to lower joint with neat tape repair to verso, minor chipping to spine tips, 1960 § A Catalogue of Works by Sir John Betjeman from the collection of Ray Carter with an unpublished poem, one of 80 copies signed by Betjeman, John Piper, Phillida Gili and Glynn Boyd Harte, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, else fine, Warren Editions, 1983, first editions; and another, Betjeman, 8vo (3)
NO RESERVE Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, 14th printing paperback edition, marginal browning, "Domino" letter loosely inserted, original pictorial wrappers, creasing to spine, extremities rubbed, 1965 § Eco (Umerto) and Oreste del Buono, editors. The Bond Affair, first English edition, original boards, dust-jackets, some light marking or soiling, 1966, 8vo (2)⁂ The first with the 'movie cover', being a promotional copy of Player's Cigarettes, accompanied by the scarce letter from "Domino" to James Bond, addressed as "Darling", reminiscing about their first supper together and mentioning Player's Cigarettes. The second is a consideration of the influence of James Bond, following the success of the films, a scarce Umberto Eco item.
Graves (Robert) John Kemp's Wager, ALs from the author discussing persons involved in putting on the opera, including a mention of a promise from Vaughan Williams to arrange the music, folds, on his letterhead, 1925, together with 2 other letters written in 1953, one to Vaughan Williams asking whether this original plan ever came into fruition, and a TLs response from Williams, all loosely inserted, light toning and rust-stain from staple on half-title, original boards, edges browned and creased, upper joint cracked, Oxford, 1925; Welchman's House, first edition, one of 525 copies, wood engravings by Paul Nash, bookplate and book-label on pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, spine lightly rubbed, 1925; Count Belisarius, reprint, signed presentation inscription from the author on endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, light fading and creasing to spine, 1970; and another work signed by Graves, 4to & 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Banks (Iain M.) The Player of Games, jacket with slight fading to spine, short nick to head of upper panel, light creasing to head, 1988 § Crichton (Michael) Jurassic Park, jacket with light creasing to spine tips, 1991, first of first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine; and a signed first edition of The Testaments, 8vo (3)
Fermor (Patrick Leigh) Between the Woods and the Water, first edition, signed by the author on title with strike through printed name, jacket spine lightly faded, 1986; Three Letters from the Andes, signed by the author on front free endpaper, jacket price-clipped, spine faded, 1991; A Time of Gifts, light tape stains to endpapers, jacket extremities lightly creased, price-clipped, 1977, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (3) ⁂ Sharp and excellent copies.
NO RESERVE Lewis (Wyndham) Left Wings Over Europe, some light scattered spotting, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light surface soiling, 1936 § Faulkner (William) A Fable, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, New York, 1954 § Sherriff (R. C.) and Vernon Bartlett. Journey's End, limited edition signed by the authors, browning to endpapers, light soiling to spine, 1930, first editions, original boards, excellent or near-fine copies; and a first edition of If I Die in a Combat Zone, 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE King (Stephen) The Shining, first English edition, page margins lightly toned, jacket with very light creasing to extremities and the odd scuff, otherwise a tight and excellent example, 8vo, 1977; Christine, first English edition, 1983; Pet Sematary, first edition, New York, 1983; The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, first trade edition, New York, 1987, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (4)
Bowen (Marjorie) More Great Tales of Horror, first edition, spotting to first and last few pages, foxing to pp.216-244, cloth with bumping to spine ends, jacket with chipping and creasing to edges, short tear to lower joint, light foxing on inner flap, 1935; The Last Bouquet, reprint, 4pp. adverts at end, ink ownership inscription to front free endpapers, cloth lightly soiled, jacket with very faint foxing to flaps, otherwise a remarkably crisp and bright example, 1933, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (2)⁂ A pair of scarce horror stories by Bowen; the second is in an remarkably bright example of a rare jacket.
Le Carré (John) Our Game, first edition, first printing, cut signature of the author to title, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, first state dust-jacket, faint creasing to head, else fine, 8vo, 1995.⁂ The first in the original first state dust-jacket, suppressed due to the author's dislike of the design.
de Brunhoff (Jean) Babar the King, 1936; Babar's Travels, 1935; Babar's Friend Zephir, 1937; Babar and Father Christmas, 1940; Babar at Home, 1938, first English editions, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, fine copies; and another in the series, a second English edition, small folio (6)⁂ Remarkably fresh and crisp copies of the beloved Babar books.
Palmer (Tony) The Trials of Oz, first edition, signed by the author, Richard Neville, Jim Anderson, and Felix Dennis on endpapers with drawing by Feliks Topolski, original wrappers, light surface staining, corners and extremities creased, spine faded, 8vo, 1971.⁂ This work documents the trials of Oz, a landmark six-week trial in June and July 1971 of the joint editors of the counter-culture magazine Oz in which the three men were prosecuted on three charges, including obscenity, for the 28th issue known as Schoolkids Oz. The three accused were convicted of obscenity and given sentences ranging from nine to fifteen months, but released on appeal at which the trial judge was severely reprimanded for misdirecting the jury.
NO RESERVE Boyd (William) A Good Man in Africa, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, slight sunning to top edge, spine tips a little bumped, dust-jacket, sunning to spine and head of upper panel, minor chipping to spine tips, light creasing to head and foot, 8vo, 1981.⁂ The author's first novel, winner of the Whitbread Book and Somerset Maugham awards.
Eliot (T.S.) [Four Quartets], 4 vol., comprising East Coker, first Faber edition, ink ownership inscription of J. H. Plumb on endpapers, light foxing, spine broken, chipping and browning to extremities, splitting to joint, 1940; Burnt Norton, first separate edition, light soiling mark to upper wrapper, 1941; The Dry Salvages, first edition, light toning to marks, edges a little creased, 1941; Little Gidding, first edition, ink ownership inscription on endpapers, first issue sewn wrappers, spine lightly faded, 1942, original wrappers, [Gallup A36c, A37, A39 & A42], 8vo.⁂ East Coker with the ownership inscription of John H. Plumb (1911-2001), an eminent British historian.
NO RESERVE Hughes (Ted) Football, one of 60 copies signed by the author and artist with additional loose print also signed by both, illustrations by Christopher Battye, folding concertina-style into original boards, 1995 § Hughes (Ted) Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe. Poems, one of 300 copies signed by the authors, original pictorial green calf, slipcase (extremities rubbed), Rainbow Press, 1971, [Sagar and Tabor, A113 & A29]; and a first edition of Lupercal, 8vo (3)
NO RESERVE North (William) The Slave of the Lamp. A Postuhumous Novel, first edition, 7pp. adverts at end, bookseller's blind stamp on endpapers, foxing, cloth rubbed, frayed at edges and splitting along joints, New York, 1855 § Besant (Walter) The Revolt of Man, new edition, ownership inscription on title, printed author's pseudonym blocked out and written in autograph correction, newspaper cuttings laid down to endpapers, hinge cracked, 1882, original decorative or pictorial cloth, 8vo (2)⁂ A pair of excellent 19th century scarce science-fiction novels. The first is centered around a group of Bohemian artists and writers in 1850's New York. The second, a scarce work by Besant, is an anti-suffragette science-fiction novel, depicting a female-dominated society of the future, where religion has been abolished. The work represents the contemporary anxieties of Victorian men around female emancipation.
NO RESERVE [Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." The Little Grey Men, black and white illustrations, dust-jacket with small tear on upper cover with loss and several small tears at head on lower cover, creased, 1942; Down the Bright Stream, colour plates, later dust-jacket, [1948], first editions, original boards; and 5 others, including another first edition of the first mentioned, 8vo (7)
NO RESERVE Braine (John) Room at the Top, first edition, some scattered edge spotting and small patch of staining, original boards, sunning to head and foot, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners with neat tape repairs head of spine verso, light spotting to lower panel, original publisher's wraparound band (a little sunned at spine), an excellent example, 8vo, 1957.⁂ The author's first book and a key title by one of the Angry Young Men.
NO RESERVE Holroyd (Stuart) Emergence from Chaos, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "The copy is for Jim and Gloria, with love, and in memory of some happy days and stimulating talks we had in Paris. Stuart Holroyd. London, March, 1959" to endpaper, some spotting to endpapers, original boards, light damp-staining to head of covers, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light toning to spine spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short nicks to head and foot of panels, 8vo, 1957.⁂ The first novel by one of the Angry Young Men with an excellent literary association, inscribed here to the author of From Here to Eternity, James Jones, and his wife, Gloria Mosolino.
NO RESERVE Maugham (William Somerset) The Gentleman in the Parlour, first edition, occasional scattered spotting, original boards, rubbed, joints split and nearly broken along upper joint, extremities bumped and frayed, 1930 [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Three Sunsets and Other Poems, illustrations, cloth faded, gilt still bright, 1898, original cloth; and 8 others, mixed literature, including a second impression of Huxley's Brave New World, and a first Faber edition of Larkin's Jill, 8vo & 4to (10)
NO RESERVE Forster (E.M.) Howards End, first edition, second issue with 12pp. advertisements at rear, the odd spot or patch of light soiling, St. John Lucas' copy with his (slightly smudged) ink ownership inscription to endpaper, light browning and faint tape-staining to endpapers, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine darkened, splash marks to upper cover, rubbing to spine tips and corners, [Kirkpatrick A4a], 8vo, Edward Arnold, 1910.⁂ With a good literary provenance, having belonged to Rupert Brooke's friend and mentor, the poet St. John Lucas (1879-1934).
Orwell (George) The Road to Wigan Pier, trade issue without 24pp. forward at the beginning, illustrations, ownership name to front endpapers, library plate torn away from lower pastedown, original cloth, boots library sticker on upper cover (worn), spine browned, extremities bumped and rubbed, [Fenwick A.5b], 8vo, 1937.⁂ A first edition of the rare trade issue of Orwell's account of Northern working class life and coalmining. This first trade or regular edition, published on 8 March 1937, was preceded by Gollancz's Left Book Club edition a few weeks before, issued in limp orange cloth.
NO RESERVE Phillpotts (Eden) The Flint Heart: A Fairy Story, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to this friend, Basil Hastings, from Eden Phillpotts, 1914" on front free endpaper, endpapers toned, occasional light spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and frayed, still overall a very attractive copy, 1910; The Miniature, dedication copy with the author's presentation inscription "to J. Keighley Snowden, in friendship [print] from Eden Phillpotts [manuscript]" on dedication page, original cloth, extremities bumped and rubbed, dust-jacket, light bumps to edges, otherwise excellent, 1926; and 4 others, including a copy of The Owl of Athene, with a presentation inscription from the author reading "Buy me for the Charing Cross Hospital", 8vo (6)
Toole (John Kennedy) A Confederacy of Dunces, first English edition, original boards, dust-jacket, exceedingly minor peeling to upper edge, otherwise fine, 8vo, 1981.⁂ A superb copy of John Kennedy Toole's satiric masterpiece. Toole committed suicide in 1969, in part due to his lack of publishing success. His mother subsequently began promoting the book, which was finally published in 1980, later winning the Pulitzer Prize that year.
NO RESERVE Morgan (Richard) Altered Carbon, signed by the author on title, jacket with very slight fading to spine, 2002 § Roshwald (Mordecai) Level 7, jacket with light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head, a few short closed tears to head and foot, 1959, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and a first edition set of Hannu Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief trilogy, 8vo (5)⁂ A good group of both classic and modern science-fiction.
Hartley (L. P.) The Go-Between, first edition, signed by the author on title, faint foxing to first few pages, bookplate and ownership inscription on pastedown, light spotting to fore-edge, original cloth, dust-jacket, small portion of loss to spine head though not affecting title, short closed tears along joints and edges, very light creases and nicks to extremities, still a sharp example overall, 8vo, 1953.
Wodehouse (P.G.) Very Good, Jeeves, first edition, one or two spots to fore-edge straying onto margins, cloth lightly soiled and faded, 1930; Young Men in Spats, first American edition, cloth a little faded, 1936; The Crime Wave at Blandings, first edition, 1937; Uncle Fred in the Springtime, first edition, bookplate of James Heineman on pastedown, endpapers a little toned, jacket price-clipped, 1939, original cloth, dust-jackets, creasing and nicks to extremities, light rubbing to corners, overall still very good or excellent copies, [McIlvaine A42a; A55b; A58a; A61a], New York; and 3 others, published in America and Canada, 8vo (7)⁂ A good group of Wodehouse's middle-period titles, all published in New York, all but one first editions preceding the first English editions. The last with good provenance, coming from the library of James Heineman, prominent Wodehousian and co-editor of McIlvaine's bibliography.
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