Autographs & Manuscripts from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

2021. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 8vo, 303 pp. Publisher's black boards in illustrated dust-jacket with "Signed First Edition" sticker. A near fine copy, lower corner of upper board slightly bumped. § First American edition, signed by the author on the front blank. Ishiguro's seventh novel, in which he turns to dystopian science fiction… Read more about this item

1786. Printed at Worcester, MA, by Isaiah Thomas, and sold at his book-store... 1786. 8vo, 224, (1, ads)pp. Contemporary calf, marbled endpapers; boards considerably worn and darkened with loss of gilt tooling, rehinged, evidence of removal from rear pastedown, contents toned, tear with loss of text to foot of. pp.217-224. Bookplate of William John MacDonell. §… Read more about this item

2000. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 8vo, (8), 337 pp. Publisher's yellow boards with brown backstrip, with the unclipped, illustrated dust-jacket. A fine, inscribed copy. § First American edition, signed and inscribed "to Dan," by the author on the title-page. British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 1989 Booker Prize for The Remains of the… Read more about this item

2005. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 8vo, 288 pp. Publisher's speckled cream boards with blue backstrip in the unclipped, illustrated dust-jacket. A fine, signed copy. § First American edition, signed by the author on the title-page. Ishiguro's sixth novel, set in an alternate England where human cloning has been normalized. It was shortlisted for the… Read more about this item

1980. London: August, 22, [1988?] and January, 26, 1989. 2 letters and a stitched booklet. First letter, 1pp. dated August 22nd [1988?], c.26 handwritten lines on personal letterhead, fine condition. Second letter, 1pp. dated January 26, 1989, 17 typewritten lines on Temenos letterhead with the original stamped envelope, fine condition. What is Man? Cambridge: Golganooza Press, 1980:… Read more about this item

1940. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. 8vo, 393 pp. Beige cloth, lettered and illustrated in blue, lacking dust jacket. Signed by the Kent on the front free endpaper and by a later owner, "John S Perl MD" on the title page. Very good. § "Special Edition for Friday Inc." An attractive, signed copy of… Read more about this item

1990. July 1990 and March 1993. Two one-page letters in the original airmail envelopes. The first typewritten and hand signed with extensive manuscript postscript, the second written in ink. Letters creased as expected; the stamp has been clipped from one of the two envelopes; very good. § Two letters written by Rumer Godden to an admirer,… Read more about this item

1933. 1933-1939. 2 journals with laid in ephemera. Journal 1: 8vo, c.250 unlined pages bound in red pebbled cloth with "Notes" gilt-stamped on upper cover; c.200 pages filled with legible ink entries in French. Journal 2: 8vo, 252 lined and numbered pages bound in red, straight-grained cloth with "Record" gilt-stamped on upper cover; 132 pages filled with… Read more about this item

1883. [England]: William Simpson, 1883. 8vo, 49 pp. containing pasted and tipped in manuscript and printed sheets including 10 pp. autograph MS signed by Simpson; 2 pp. ALS from George Grove to Simpson; 2 pp. ALS from Alfred "Hajj" Browne to Simpson; 2 pp. ALS from Father A. Richardson to Simpson; various manuscript transcriptions by Simpson of… Read more about this item

1962. New York: The Viking Press, 1962. 8vo, 306, 1, pp. Original orange cloth, a very good, square copy; shadows of tape marks on upper and lower boards and a stain on rear endpaper. In the original unclipped dust-jacket priced $5.95; lightly faded else very good. § First edition, signed by Stegner on the half title.… Read more about this item

1893. August 5, 1893(?). 1 page (114 x 180 mm) laid notepaper, 15 lines in ink on recto, verso blank. Fully mounted on a larger piece of paper; slight shadow from framing, otherwise very good. § A one page autograph letter from George A. Walkem (1834-1908), 3rd Premier of British Columbia from 1874-1876 and 5th Premier… Read more about this item

1902. New York & London: F. Tennyson Neely, 1902. Slim 4to (6.5 x 9.8"), 55 pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Royal blue boards with lettering and the twin revolvers in gilt. Backstrip ends lightly rubbed, a few scuffs, small wrinkle in upper cloth, clean within. Very good copy inscribed by the author on front blank. … Read more about this item

1713. 1713-1735. 8vo, 5 parts bound as one, various paginations. Old calf ruled in gilt, rebacked. Boards rubbed, worn, and darkened but binding sound, contents somewhat age-toned with a few light pencil marks to some parts but generally clean. § An sammelband of 18th century works on poetry with the signature of Thomas Pownall, governor… Read more about this item

1883. London: Keegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883. 8vo. Frontispiece by Edwin Austin Abbey. Bookplate of M.G. and E.A. Abbey. Contemporary dark green morocco, gilt decorations and lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Joints and edges a little rubbed, backstrip and boards faded, near fine within with some foxing to the endpapers and frontis.; a very good copy. … Read more about this item

1860. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 8vo, (iv), 410 pp. Original brown embossed cloth, brown coated endpapers. Rebacked, cloth a little rubbed, but sound and square; name in pencil on front free endpaper. 2 pp. A.L.S. signed "O W Holmes," Boston, December 5, 1880, and typewritten transcription tipped in. Letter with a little light edgewear but entirely… Read more about this item

1870. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1870. Slim 8vo, 20pp. Original printed wrappers a bit soiled and chipped. § First printing (reprinted 2016) and seemingly quite rare. According to Howell (1967) "The words "30 copies printed" have been written in ink on the front wrapper and title-page. Tipped in opposite title is a one-page autograph letter from… Read more about this item

1958. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958. 8vo, 382 pp. Publisher's green patterened boards with title labels on upper cover and backstrip, red endpapers, original color-printed dust-jacket with the flaps cancels as always. A near fine copy with only a little foxing to the textblock edge and very light wear to the top edge of the dust-jacket. … Read more about this item

1938. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1938. 8vo. Illustrated in color. Original quarter linen with blue cloth boards; a fine copy in the original plain dust-jacket and numbered card slipcase. Dust-jacket slightly age-toned, slipcase slightly soiled and with some joints split. § No. 705 of 1075 "Arundel" large-paper edition, signed by Roberts and N.C. Wyeth. With… Read more about this item

1942. Ottowa: Royal Society of Canada, 1942. Slim 8vo, pp. 59-78. Staple-bound offprint in the original printed wrapers. Inscribed by the author. § "From The Proceedings of The Royal Society of Canada, Third Series, Volume XXXVI, 1942

1982. New York: Random House, 1982. 8vo, [xii], 622, [2] pp. Map endpapers. Original silver cloth stamped in black. A fine copy in the original, near fine, slightly sunned slipcase. § Copy number 65 of 500 specially bound, numbered copies, signed by the author. Michener's ambitious, novelized account of 30 years of the U.S. space program.… Read more about this item