Paul Foster Books

TREASURE ISLAND. Copyright Edition.

STEVENSON. ROBERT LOUIS. · 1884

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1884 FIRST TAUCHNITZ EDITION, published the year after the first edition. Small 8vo. (6.3 x 4.6 inches). Half dark red morocco. Spine with gilt ruled lines and lettering. Red morocco grained cloth on boards. A neat previous owner name, dated 1895, ...

SEARCH & DESTROY. Number 11.

VALE. V. Edits. · 1979

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

SEARCH & DESTROY. Number 11. Issue 11 was the last issue of Search and Destroy and is a compilation, mostly a visual archive and collage of punk and post-punk photography from the late 1970s underground scene. City Lights. San Francisco. 1979 FOLIO in Tabloid format. Folded...

SEARCH & DESTROY. Number 10.

VALE. V. Edits. · 1978

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Interview with William S. Burroughs, Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, filmmaker Russ Meyer, The Plugz, The Feederz, J.G. Ballard. City Lights. San Francisco. 1978 FOLIO in Tabloid format. Folded, as issued. (17.7 x 11.4 inches). Very good condition throughout ...

SEARCH & DESTROY. Number 9.

VALE. V. Edits. · 1978

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Dead Kennedys, The Avengers, 'X' (from Los Angeles), Negative Trend, Television, Ray Campi, Eraserhead (interview/feature on David Lynch's film), The Zeros, Pere Ubu. City Lights. San Francisco. 1978 FOLIO in Tabloid format. Folded, as issued. (17.7 x 11.4 inches). Very goo...

SEARCH & DESTROY. Number 7. -- Signed and inscribed by Vale.

VALE. V. Edits. · 1978

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

DNA. Devo, Cabaret Voltaire, Subway Sect, The Deviants, The Clash, Screamers, The Zeros, Patti Smith, John Waters. City Lights. San Francisco. 1978 FOLIO in Tabloid format. Folded, as issued. (17.7 x 11.4 inches). Ink inscription to the top edge margin: 'For Kirk from V. Va...

SEARCH & DESTROY. Number 6.

VALE. V. Edits. · 1978

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Throbbing Gristle (including John Savage's London interview with Genesis P-Orridge discussing The Clash), Pere Ubu, The Ramones, The Mutants, The Nuns, Nico, Buzzcocks, The Clash, Talking Heads, U.X.A, Negative Trend. City Lights. San Francisco. 1978 FOLIO in Tabloid format...

SEARCH & DESTROY. Number 5.

VALE. V. Edits. · 1978

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Nico interview, Talking Heads (including a David Byrne interview), Suicide, DEVO, Crisis, Sex Pistols, The Screamers, The Dickies, San Francisco punk scene coverage, Articles on The Masque and Mabuhay Gardens. City Lights. San Francisco. 1978 FOLIO in Tabloid format. Folded...

SEARCH & DESTROY. Number 4.

VALE. V. Edits. · 1977

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Death, Iggy Pop, Jordan, Patti Smith, Dead Boys, Helen Wheels, The Spitfire Boys, Liars, Sham 69, Anarchy A brief history. City Lights. San Francisco. 1977 FOLIO in Tabloid format. Folded, as issued. (17.7 x 11.4 inches). Very good condition throughout with fold down the mi...

SEARCH & DESTROY. Number 2.

VALE. V. Edits. · 1977

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Devo, The Clash, The Weirdos (plus Penelope from The Avengers, the Ramones, and The Dils. City Lights. San Francisco. 1977 FOLIO in Tabloid format. Folded, as issued. (17.7 x 11.4 inches). Very good condition throughout with fold down the middle and s...

SEARCH & DESTROY. Number 1.

VALE. V. Edits. · 1977

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

An interview with the band Crime, an article on New Wave by Allen Ginsberg, features on Iggy Pop and The Nuns, and a centerfold band collage. City Lights. San Francisco. 1977 FOLIO in Tabloid format. Folded, as issued. (17.7 x 11.4 inches). Very good condition throughout wi...

PETER AND WENDY.

BARRIE. J. M. ; BEDFORD. F. D. Illustrates. · 1911

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.90 | ¥179,313)

Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1911 THIRD EDITION. - October 1911, issued the same month as the first printing, and the same format. Large 8vo, (8 x 5.8 inches). Complete with mono illustrated title and twelve full page plates by Bedford. Gilt decorated green cloth boards illus...

LEOPARDS IN THE LOIRE.

WILLSON. ROBINA BECKLES. --- COLE. GWYNETH. Illustrates. · 1961

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Victor Gollancz Ltd. London. 1961 FIRST EDITION. 1st printing, of the author's First book. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. The ink inscription on the front blank free endpaper reads "My good wishes to Jack and Adrinne, some of the most friendly neighbours I have ever known. Robina Be...

PATERSON'S ROADS.

MOGG. EDWARD. · 1826

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

PATERSON'S ROADS. Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, with Part of the Roads of Scotland. To which are Added Topographical Sketches of the several Cities, Market Towns, and remarkable Villages; a...

AMERICANISMS -- Old & New.

FARMER. JOHN. S. Compiles and edits. · 1889

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

AMERICANISMS -- Old & New. A Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Colloquialisms Peculiar to the United States, British America, The West Indies, etc. Their derivation, meaning and application, together with numerous anecdotal, historical, explanatory and folk-lore notes. Priva...

WRITING HOME.

BENNETT. ALAN. · 1994

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

Faber and Faber. London 1994 FIRST EDITION. 1st impression (number line from 10 to 1). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in black ink on the title page. 8vo. (9.5 x 6.5 inches). Illustrated with 51 mono photographs. Publishers dark blue cloth, the spine lettered in silver, and original du...

THE WAY OF THE WORLD and LOVE FOR LOVE. Two Comedies. With Illustrations and Decorations by John Kettelwell.

CONGREVE. WILLIAM. · 1929

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. London. 1929 FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo. (9.6 x 6.5 inches). Frontispiece and 11 full-page illustrations, plus numerous smaller decorations among the text, by John Kettelwell. Pictorial endpapers. In the publishers black cloth binding with a ...

A NEW HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

SPENCER. GEORGE WILLIAM. · 1795

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.42 | ¥84,383)

A NEW HISTORY OF ENGLAND. A New, Authentic, and Complete History of England, from the First Settlement of Brutus in this Island, (Upwards of a Thousand Years before the Time of Julius Cæsar) to the Year 1795. To which is added a New History of Scotland ... Also, the History of...

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN MALE.

KINSEY. ALFRED. C., POMEROY. WARDELL. B. & MARTIN. CLYDE. E. · 1948

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

W. B. Saunders Company Ltd. Philadelphia and London. 1948 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. First printed in England, December 1948, the American edition having been published in January 1948. 8vo. (9.3 x 6..5 inches). [xv, 804 pp. Illustrated with figures and charts. A little light brow...

ULYSSES.

JOYCE. JAMES. · 1934

£1,250.00 (€1,498.30 | $1,651.33 | ¥263,696)

Random House. New York. 1934 FIRST AUTHORISED AMERICAN EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.9 inches). A couple of small brown marks to the very page edges on the fore edge of about ten pages, but only to the outer margin and well away from the text, otherwise a very good cl...

THE LORD OF THE RINGS. The Fellowship of the Ring. - The Two Towers. - The Return of the King.

TOLKIEN. J. R. R. · 1968

£1,250.00 (€1,498.30 | $1,651.33 | ¥263,696)

George Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. 1968 FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION. 1st printing. Three volumes in one. 8vo. (8.6 x 6 inches). Illustrated with six maps. A very good bright example. Finely bound in recent full red morocco leather, the spine with raised bands and the compartments ...