Search Results: Authors starting with H from Julian Roberts Fine Books

Methuen, 1962. First edition, first printing. 4to. Original illustrated boards. A very good+ with clean boards. No chipping or splitting to boards or spine. Some edgewear to extremities. Spine completely intact. A few light indentations to boards. Internally clean & fresh. Neat name to head of endpaper. Endpapers original and unsplit. An attractive copy of a title which is normally found in bad shape. Seven explorers in Peru make an important discovery and they bring the Mummy and jewels back to Europe; What they didn't know was the their lives were going to take a mysterious turn. Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock were all going to get very busy whilst Professor Calculus was to be put in a very dangerous position.

Puffin Books, 2011. Signed Limited Edition No.772/1000. Illustrated boards in clear perspex box and glow in the dark feature in original sellophane bag with limitation sticker and finally covered by foam and in original limitation stickered cardboard box. A fine copy. Only taken out of original bag to take photographs. The first installment of the Young Bond series and follows his adventures at Eton College.

Sotheby's, 2008. Signed by Damien Hirst on inside cover of vol i [the evening auction] - For Jenny/Love/Damien/XXX". Five large 4to volumes in original illustrated slipcase complete with original 6 sets of unused stickers [as issued] - one sheet lightly creased to foot. A near fine set. Volume i with light wear to extremities & very short closed tear to leading edge. Light wear to slipcase. A superior & rare signed set of this collectible catalogue. Three volume set of auction catalogues for September 15-16th, 2008; also included are the catalogues "The Golden Calf" and "The Kingdom". A monumental catalogue of the sale of Hirst's Pharmacy with hundreds of wonderful illustrations of lots - many full plates & folding. Realising over £100 million.

R. Faulder, New Bond Street, 1797. From the library of Corby Castle (Philip Howard's [author] country seat near Carlisle) with Clare Howard's (direct descendant) bookplate on front endpaper. 4to. pp. [6], 602, [2]. Rebound in decorative half dark Morocco with raised bands, elaborate gilt spine & marbled boards. Internally clean and complete. Half title with some tissue repairs to edges of leaf. Page 419 has some marginalisation to leading edge. Collates complete. ESTC T114867. An attempt by a leading Catholic Gentleman to prove compatibility between Geological findings and the Biblical accounts.

Wightman and Cramp, 1827. First edition. 8vo. xiii, 322, [6]pp + illustrated title frontispiece. Original publisher's rare grey boards with buff paper spine & spine label. A very good copy with wear to extremities with light slither chipping to spine tips & bottom right foot of spine. Wear to gutter hinges and light chipping to label. Internally clean with neat manuscript name & date [1829] to half title. A very good copy of an uncommon title in first edition in rare original publishers boards. The Desolation of Eyam is a tragic poem describing a Seventeenth century outbreak of plague in the Peak District.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Officially Signed by Author on publisher's "Autographed copy of Ascent of Everest" bookplate. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dustwrapper by W. Heaton Cooper. A very good+/near fine copy. A light mark at head of spine where dustwrapper has a short tear. Internally complete & clean. Usual offsetting to endpaper. The very good+/ near fine dustwrapper is complete with light wear to extremities & short closed tear to top left head of spine. Mild toning to spine. An attractive officially signed copy. The official account of the successful 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition led by the author, Colonel John Hunt and in which Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit.