Rodney Stone
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Rodney Stone
By Arthur Conan Doyle
First edition, first impression (London: Smith Elder & Co, 1896) with advertisements to rear. Quarter bound in brown leather with five raised bands, black labels and gilt lettering with marbled boards. A fine copy with just a touch of toning to edges.
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Categories: Arthur Conan Doyle, First Edition, Modern First Editions
Rodney Stone
By Arthur Conan Doyle
First Edition
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1Q84
First Edition, Haruki Murakami, Modern First Editions, Signed First Editions
1Q84
By Haruki Murakami
Book One and Book Two in one volume. First edition, first impression, published by Harvill Secker in 2011. Signed by the author to a publisher's bookplate affixed to the title page. Originally published in Japan in three volumes in 2009 and 2010.
Original black cloth with lettering to spine and motif to upper board in gilt. Near fine with some toning to edges and a tiny nick to spine foot and a few extremely minor and isolated instances of rubbing to top edge.
The original and unclipped dust jacket has a touch of very light edge wear in places, but is otherwise near fine or better.
£450.00


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Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium
Limited Editions, Modern First Editions, Signed First Editions
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium
By Paul Kidby
Limited edition in slipcase. One of 2,000 numbered copies to be signed by Kidby, of which this is number 879.
Paul Kidby began working as an illustrator on Pratchett's Discworld series in 1993 and was the main jacket illustrator since 2001 following the passing of Josh Kirby.
A fine book in a near fine slipcase with some superficial scratches to the surface of the back. An attractive production.
£150.00
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Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
Modern First Editions, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Showcase, Signed First Editions
Unended Quest
By Karl Popper
First revised edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication to the title page: 'To Ian Hunter From Karl Popper October 1976. Popper's autobiography was originally published a couple of years earlier in 1974 as part of 'The Philosophy of Karl Popper'. The present edition represents its first separate publication, containing Popper's subsequent revisions to the original text.
Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902 - 1994) was a highly influential Austrian-British Philosopher, academic and social commentator regarded as one of the most important and impactive philosophers of science of the 20th century. He proposed and developed ideas such as 'critical rationalism' and 'empirical falsification'; the idea behind the latter being that, given the impossibility of the attainment of definitive proof of a particular scientific theory, all theories should be subjected to rigorous testing and, therefore, potentially disproved by means of decisive scientific experimentation. This idea led to the establishment of the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics.
A touch of rubbing to spine ends. A few soft creases to spine and corners of covers with the usual toning to edges. Otherwise a uniquely well-preserved and near fine example, not often encountered inscribed in the year of publication and in such good condition.
£1,750.00
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, General Literary Fiction, Modern First Editions
The Old Man and the Sea
By Ernest Hemingway
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US a few months earlier in the same year. The novel received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was an important factor in Hemingway being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Original blue cloth with lettering to spine in dark red and fish and fisherman motif in red to upper board. A fine and clean copy with a couple of small areas of rubbing to the bottom fore-edge of of lower board.
The original and unclipped dust jacket features the striking artwork of Hans Tisdall and is the first state without the reviews to verso. A hint of minor rubbing here and there to edges with a few nicks to edges of lower panel and an associated crease to top and bottom edges that are only visible on verso.
A superb, bright and near fine copy overall.
£450.00