Footballing First Editions Following the growth of the World Cup in 1930, books about football gained popularity with Sheffield Wednesday, Everton and Queens Park Rangers becoming the first clubs to publish their histories. After the Second World War there was a publication surge of football books with many notable players going...
Rare books are can be even more valuable with a meaningful inscription from the author and John Atkinson Books has seen some truly beautiful examples recently. One collection has made the local and national news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-55917614 https://www.ft.com/content/00f77c7e-dea2-49f0-80d8-e4bc99037df0 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9217013/Licence-bill-Rare-collection-15-edition-James- Bond-books-goes-sale-475k.html The Casino Royale has an inscription to Lisl Popper, one of Ian Fleming’s lovers and...
The main reasons for buying a first edition book - rather than any subsequent printing of the same book – are to own a piece of history, to possess a loved or particularly meaningful book in its original state, or to make an investment for the future. There is a certain...
Consisting of Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000) they have won numerous literary awards over the years including the Carnegie Medal, and the Whitbread Book Of The Year, and are now set to be released as a television series on a grand scale. His Dark...
If you wanted someone to write novels about espionage then who better than John le Carre who worked for MI5 and MI6? David Cornwell has been writing under the pen name John Le Carre for almost 60 years, and is responsible for some of the greatest novels of our time. His work...
With over 2 billion copies of her work published. Agatha Christie books are third in the world rankings of most books ever published. That's only just behind The Bible and the Works of William Shakespeare. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring Belgian detective Hercules Poirot was published in...
Such has been the success of Roald Dahl’s Matilda that to simply state that it is one of the all-time greatest Children’s Books is almost downplaying it. Matilda Wormwood is only five years old, but she is a genius. Unfortunately her parents are too short-sighted to even notice. To make things...
Nancy Mitford She was born to English landowner 2nd Baron Redesdale. She was the eldest of the six Mitford sisters. Despite her father’s wealth, she was given a meagre allowance. To supplement this she began writing. This was in no small part due the encouragement of author Evelyn Waugh. Nancy originally wrote in...
See abebooks’ Richard Davies and his excellent video below explaining how to find out if you have a first edition. He’s done a much better job than we ever could. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH78BbyfBvs
Below is a short guide to the publication and issue points concerning the Ian Fleming 'James Bond' novels. All 14 books are explained and links to copies in our stock are available by clicking on the title of any below: Casino Royale - Published 13th of April 1953 by Jonathan Cape...
