Search Results: Authors starting with R from The Plantagenet King

London: Stanley Paul. First UK edition published by Stanley Paul in 1952. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is pretty much complete. There is a tear to the top left hand corner of the front panel. The spine has faded by a shade or two. The back panel is marked. There is minor wear along the edges and corners. It is an extremely fragile wrapper and this is one of the better examples we have handled. The book is in very presentable condition. There is no previous owner's ink. The is some foxing marks to the first few pages and to the text block. Overall a very good copy. This copy is very rare as it has the signature of Alf Ramsey on the front free end paper. The autobiography of England great Alf Ramsey where he discusses his playing days for Spurs and England. He would of course go on to reach sporting immortality by managing England to its world cup victory in 1966. A very rare book to find signed.  . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1952.

Cassell. First edition published by Cassell in 1941. This is a very good copy. The fragile wrapper has creasing to the edges and a closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. It has the correct price on the spine and is clean. The corners and spine ends have some wear. The book has a previous owners name to the front free end paper and a couple of indentations where someone has written in pencil. The pages have browned particularly to the text blocks with some light spotting. Overall a very good copy.  Drums of evil are beating in Haiti according to the blurb on the back of the dust wrapper - a fu manchu novel in its superbly illustrated jacket.  . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1941.

Eyre & Spottiswoode. First edition published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1969. This copy is rare as it is near fine. The spine of the jacket is a shade faded and there are a couple of creases on the lower inside flap and a crease to the upper inside flap. There are tiny amounts of wear to the odd corner. Otherwise the jacket is in fantastic condition. This is the first state jacket with the earliest portrait of the author on the back panel. The book is also excellent with no foxing, marks or ink. Bernice Ruben's booker prize winning novel from 1969. A rarity to  find as a first edition and in this sort of condition.  . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1969.

Viking. First edition published by Viking in 1988. This is a very near fine copy. The jacket is completely unfaded, a very rare attribute with most copies having some sunning at the spine. This copy is the same deep blue tone across all of the jacket. There is tiny amounts of wear to the corner tips. The book is in excellent condition with only a very small handful of tiny flecks to the text block. The copyright page shows a full number line down to 1 as called for, for a first edition. The author Salman Rushdie has signed his name without dedication to the title page. Signed copies have become uncommon in recent times and are scarce in this very near fine condition.  Rushdie's award winning book that has been perceived as blasphemous by some. It has caused controversy and censorship in a handful of countries. Rushdie has been the target of attacks and attempted assassination over it. It was his fourth book where he continued to write within the realms of magic realism. A scarce book… Read More