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Alan Sugar
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Signed First Edition
United Kingdom MacMillan 2010 023074933X / 9780230749337 First edition, first printing Hardcover New, fine New, fine
Alan Sugar was born in 1947 and brought up on a council estate in Clapton, in Hackney. As a kid he watched his dad struggle to support the family, never knowning from one week to the next if he'd have a job. It had a huge impact on him, fuelling a drive to succeed that was to earn him a sizeable personal fortune. Now he describes his amazing journey, from schoolboy enterprises like making and selling his own ginger beer to setting up his own company at nineteen; from Amstrad's groundbreaking ventures in hi-fi and computers, which made him the darling of the stock exchange, to the dark days when he nearly lost it all; from his pioneering deal with Rupert Murdoch to his boardroom battles at Tottenham Hotspur FC. He takes us into the world of The Apprentice, and describes his appointment as advisor to the government and elevation to the peerage. Like the man himself, this autobiography is forthright, funny and sometimes controversial.
First edition, first printing. Signed to the title page by Alan Sugar. A fine hardcover in a fine dustwrapper.
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49.99 GBP
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Antony Beevor
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2012 0297844970 / 9780297844976 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. New, fine. New, fine.
First edition. New and unread in fine condition.
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10.00 GBP
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Don McCullin
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE BEATLES Signed Deluxe Limited Edition
United Kingdom Random House 2010 0224093711 / 9780224093712 First edition, first printing Hardcover in traycase New, fine
One of just 500 limited deluxe first editions presented in a superb white linen covered traycase lined with at same Warhol print design that features on the endpapers of the book. This limited edition also includes an exclusive print of one of Don’s Beatles photographs not available with the standard hardcover. The vast majority of the 500 deluxe editions are not signed. This however is signed to the title page by Don McCullin and is one of a very few copies of the limited edition that bears Don McCullin’s signature. A superb piece of Beatles Memorabilia.
About The Book
In September 1968, critically acclaimed photojournalist Don McCullin, whom the Beatles admired for his war photojournalism, was personally invited to photograph the band in locations ranging from Paul McCartney’s garden to the banks of the Thames. The timing of this photo shoot was, in hindsight, significant. The Beatles had just released Sgt. Pepper, Vietnam was in turmoil, and riots had spread through America’s cities and campuses. It was the moment when the innocence and optimism of the sixties darkened—the instant the youth movement, of which the Beatles were icons, converged with antiwar protests, the civil rights movement, and the burgeoning counterculture. One of the most poignant photographs taken that day was of John Lennon posing as if he were dead, surrounded by the other three band members. Lennon himself carefully staged the image as a pose of protest, but it is now seen by some as tragically prophetic.
These images of four inspired artists, at the pinnacle of their success and on the cusp of transformation, mark a time of radical cultural evolution. In these photos, culled from twenty rolls of black-and-white film taken over the course of an afternoon and ending as the evening shadows gathered, we can glimpse a moment in time that forever changed the way we viewed ourselves and our place in the world around us.
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149.99 GBP
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Ian Thompson
THE SUN KING'S GARDEN - FIRST EDITION HARDBACK
United Kingdom. Bloomsbury. 2006 0747576483 / 9780747576488 First edition, first printing. Hard cover. New, Fine. New, Fine.
Beautiful first edition book in fantastic new condition. Gorgeous full colour plates & black & white illustrations and pictures throughout. The 2nd photo is of the sumptuous endpapers. Would make an excellent gift. Please note that this is quite a heavy book.
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14.99 GBP
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Kate Summerscale
THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER Signed First Edition Set (includes original first edition and special edition)
United Kingdom Bloomsbury 2008, 2009 0747582157 / 9780747582151 First edition, first printing Hardcovers New, fine New, fine
A set of two editions of Kate Summerscale's Samuel Johnson Award winning biography. Both are first printings and both are signed by Kate Summerscale: The first edition hardcover published in 2008 is signed to the title page by author and the special edition hardcover produced a year later is signed to the front free endpaper. Both books are in fine unread condition with the slightest hint of shelfwear. Also includes promotional newspaper used to promote the book upon its release in 2008.
Currently being adapted by ITV Drama to be screened later this year.
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39.99 GBP
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Michael Palin
HALFWAY TO HOLLYWOOD Signed & Dated UK First Edition
United Kingdom Orion 2009 0297844407 / 9780297844402 First edition, first printing Hardcover New, fine New, fine
First edition of the second of Michael Palin's diaries that cover 1980 to 1988. Signed in person and dated 10/10/09 by Michael Palin to the title page at the Cheltenham Literary festival. Comes with an event entry ticket as provenance for the signature. New in fine unread condition.
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34.99 GBP
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Seamus Heaney
DISTRICT AND CIRCLE Un-signed first edition
United Kingdom Faber 2006 0571230962 / 9780571230969 First edition. First printing Hardback New, fine New, fine
A Very fine hardback in a very fine dustwrapper. First edition, first printing. Went into reprint immediately from publication.
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Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images from the dangerous present - a journey on the underground, a melting glacier - are fraught with this same anxiety. But "District and Circle", which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like 'The Tollund Man in Springtime' and in several poems which 'do the rounds of the district' - its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts - the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals.
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15.00 GBP
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Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford.
GENESIS - CHAPTER & VERSE First Edition.
United Kingdom. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2007 0297844342 / 9780297844341 First edition, first printing. Hard cover. New, fine. New, fine.
First edition, first printing of Genesis: Chapter & Verse. The band's opportunity to set the record straight and to tell the story their way. This is a very large & heavy book (2kg) so shipping for this title is higher than the average book. A great gift for any fan or collector. New and unread in fine condition.
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30.00 GBP
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Tony Curtis.
AMERICAN PRINCE: MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Signed First Edition.
United Kingdom. Virgin Books. 16 October 2008. 1905264348 / 9781905264346 First edition. First printing. Hardcover. New, fine. New, fine. Signed
First edition, first printing. Signed on the title page by Tony Curtis at the Cheltenham Literary Festival 2008. Programme guide included.
At the height of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tony Curtis starred in "Houdini" and "Spartacus", made comedy history with Jack Lemmon in the unforgettable "Some Like It Hot", was friends with Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and James Dean, and romanced screen sirens such as Marilyn Monroe, Janet Leigh and Natalie Wood. He lived a life he could only dream of growing up in the Bronx. Born Bernard Schwarz to immigrant parents, this is Tony Curtis' story of his hard-knock childhood, his wild days as a Hollywood playboy, his destructive drug addiction and his life now as an artist in his eighties. Sparing no name, no detail and no ego, Tony Curtis talks intimately about the people he has known during his long, illustrious career, his co-stars, the studio owners, his wives, his lovers and his friends. This book will be the true record of his life, told with humour, grace and honesty.
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69.99 GBP
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