Signed Limited Editions

Signed, limited edition chapbook. Each copy is uniquely bound in handmade marbled wrappers by Jemma Lewis. The text paper, provided by Graham Williams of the Florin Press, is 120gsm Basingwerk Suede. "When my editor at Hutchinson asked me to prepare a Collected Poems I hesitated. To agree to do so seemed to signify an irrevocable ending to my poetry-making, a final dirge-like act. Yet rare is the author who can resist an opportunity to see his cherished works in print. So the book appeared in 2003. But the whistle had been blown only faintly and the Muse did not go home. In...

This edition is a limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. A man searching for peace returns to the sea, because of many childhood summers spent by the ocean. John Banville’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sea, was adapted into a film starring Natascha McElhone in 2013. Banville crafted the screenplay, exclusively published in this limited edition. Introduced by the author, this screenplay reveals new sides to the work, including extensive screen directions. Each copy is specially printed, hand-bound and slipcased and has been signed by John Banville. John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945, and now lives in Dublin. He is...

A man searching for peace returns to the sea, because of many childhood summers spent by the ocean. John Banville’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sea, was adapted into a film starring Natascha McElhone in 2013. Banville crafted the screenplay, exclusively published in this limited edition. Introduced by the author, this screenplay reveals new sides to the work, including extensive screen directions. Each copy is specially printed, hand-bound and slipcased and has been signed by John Banville. John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945, and now lives in Dublin. He is the author of nineteen novels including The Sea. He was...

The novel follows Jack McNulty during his commission in WWII, a position that renders him a temporary gentleman. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. McNulty's experience of a torpedo attack opens the story on the Mediterranean. We are told in Barry's introduction that it was his grandfather's true experience which inspired this incredible story. Excerpt from the text: 'So for a moment of odd calm I stood there, one leg...

The novel follows Jack McNulty during his commission in WWII, a position that renders him a temporary gentleman. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. McNulty's experience of a torpedo attack opens the story on the Mediterranean. We are told in Barry's introduction, that it was his grandfather's true experience which inspired this incredible story. Excerpt from the text: 'So for a moment of odd calm I stood there, one leg...

The first collection of poetry by the novelist and writer on the countryside Ronald Blythe. He is also author of Akenfield and At the Yeoman's House. Each copy is uniquely bound in handmade marbled wrappers by Jemma Lewis. The text paper, provided by Graham Williams of the Florin Press, is 120gsm Basingwerk Suede.   Special signed editions are too valuable to send out via regular postage channels. We therefore use a courier to send them to you. We hope that you can appreciate why there will be an appropriate shipping charge to accommodate this.

This is a book of meetings. A mother meets her baby. A man steps into his childhood. An old man encounters Godfather Death. And in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south. The Breaking Hour invokes Orpheus and Atargatis, Pierre de Ronsard and Beethoven, and moving from Hades to a hellish warzone, the high Alps and Crossley-Holland's own beloved north Norfolk.   Special signed editions are too valuable to send out via regular postage channels. We therefore use a courier to send them to you. We hope that you can appreciate why there will be...

The Take-Over owes its origin to a dream experienced by the author some years ago. A nightmare described in his foreword as 'recognizably relevant to changes in our social and public life… when the story was written.' The setting is a capital city after a coup. The protagonist, a writer, is forbidden to write and instead is appointed court fool, answerable to the Director of the state. A Director who provides so inappropriate a role that it consequently drives our writer to the ultimate act of defiance.   Special signed editions are too valuable to send out via regular postage channels. We therefore use a courier...

John Kinsella and Alan Jenkins, two very different poets, discovered that their new work both dealt with the sea. Marine brings those poems together and others written since, all dealing with the sea in its many moods and weathers. With people's relationship to and exploitation of their marine environment, from the Indian Ocean to the shores of the Atlantic. The two poets' highly distinctive voices also complement each other in a powerful counterpoint. This is a signed limited clothbound edition of 35 copies.   Special signed editions are too valuable to send out via regular postage channels. We therefore use a courier to send...

'Susie Glenn was the only person who used to say on hearing the front door open, is that you, my little darling? She made words sound good. Like her name. When she arrived, she said, I’ll thank you to use the Susie and the Glenn. I guess she was friendly to both.' Designed in Collis by Michael Mitchell at Libanus Press, limited to 50 numbered and signed copies. Printed on 170gsm Munken Pure (cream) by Gomer Press. The copies have been bound and slipcased by The Fine Book Bindery, using marbled papers hand-made by Jemma Lewis Marbling, Harmatan Orange 19 natural grain...

John Montague writes: 'Younger writers need older ones to look up to; or at least I did, lacking a father in the ordinary sense. And pilgrimages of that imaginative kind give meaning to one’s reading and travel. For years, I would call to see the great poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) in London, first in his dugout; then in hospital and finally in the Calvary Nursing Home. I loved his detailed gentle mind, so different from the tactical ferocity of Hugh MacDiarmid, another Celtic master I was fond of. Our link was René Hague, a neighbour from East Cork,...

De luxe edition consisting of 150 slipcased copies. Plan B was bound by The Fine Book Bindery in Dubletta rust-coloured cloth and housed in a slipcase. Paul Muldoon and Norman McBeath signed each numbered copy. Neither merely a poetry collection nor merely a photography book, this collection crosses over genres. ‘Paul Muldoon, who has done so much to reimagine the poet's task, has surpassed himself with his latest collection. Plan B is an exquisitely produced collaboration with Norman McBeath, the Scottish photographer.“ I sat one evening with the photographs and copies of the poems and, like the kind of party host we've all...

Paul Muldoon's long interest in music led him to collaborate with composers such as Mark-Anthony Turnage, Warren Zevon, and Wayside Shrines. Songs and Sonnets brings together poems and lyrics from a writer described as 'a force of nature.'   ‘..."poem-songs" best describes these songs and sonnets. They are complex, charged performances that vibrate in the interim between one thing and the other. They'll rock your world.’ GUARDIAN   Special signed editions are too valuable to send out via regular postage channels. We therefore use a courier to send them to you. We hope that you can appreciate why there will be an appropriate shipping charge to accommodate...

De luxe edition consisting of 150 slipcased copies. Plan B was bound by The Fine Book Bindery in Dubletta rust-coloured cloth and housed in a slipcase. Paul Muldoon and Norman McBeath signed each numbered copy. Neither merely a poetry collection nor merely a photography book, this collection thereby crosses over genres. ‘Paul Muldoon, who has done so much to reimagine the poet's task, has surpassed himself with his latest collection. Plan B is an exquisitely produced collaboration with Norman McBeath, the Scottish photographer.“ I sat one evening with the photographs and copies of the poems and, like the kind of party host we've...