Dover England, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 4to, 144pp, numerous illustrations, signed by the author on flyleaf facing half-title, clean and tight, Very Good / Good dustwrapper; some uneven fading on wrapper, scuffed at top of spine. ISBN: 0860230600. Signed by Author(s).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green/Gilt Covers. B/W Photo-Frontis Of Author. Signed In Pencil On Title Page.114 Pgs. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square.Leslie Thomas has signed the title page with no other dedication. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This was Leslie Thomas's penultimate novel set in the summer of 1940, during the tense days following the evacuation of Dunkirk. The story captures the lives of ordinary people in Dover as they navigate the looming threat of war while trying to find moments of love and hope. The novel follows several characters, including Toby Hendry, a fighter pilot awaiting orders, who falls for Giselle, a young Frenchwoman who fled occupied France with English troops. Meanwhile, reserve naval commander Paul Instow, feeling too old for war, finds solace in his relationship with Molly, a young Dover prostitute. Alongside them, three boys?Harold, Spot, and Boots?dream of fighting the German invaders, armed only with catapults and a stolen Bren gun. Thomas paints a vivid picture of wartime Britain, blending romance, resilience, and the stark realities of conflict. Ref SS 5. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine and upper panel. Quarto Royal 12" x 8½" 144 pp. ISBN 0860230600. Illustrated blue tinted end papers, archive monochrome photographic illustrations. SIGNED by the author No. 366 of 500 Limited Edition copies. List of Subscribers to rear. Small white fleck marks to boards, without inscription. Very Good in Fine dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Dover].

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Mrs C. W. Horsey from her affectionate son John. Putney, September 1867". We have traced 9 copies in institutions. This work reproduces the weekly newspapers published by John Horsey during the 12-week voyage from Australia to England. John Horsey was returning home to England, alongside fellow passenger Adolph Sansosi, would collate and hand write four copies of this newspaper, leaving them on the ship for the public. His weekly report included daily logs, poems, the births and deaths of those aboard, and information on the various islands that the ship passed, such as Trinidad and the Canaries. The paper also served as a way to air personal grievance with articles on the careless use of matches by the crew and children onboard and grievances; "If the person who kindly took the pea soup out of the gallery on Tuesday last putting dirty water in its place. can suggest any recipe better suited to his taste, the owners will in future accordingly alter its preparations" (p. 68). This work can be found in the collections of the British Library, National Library of Australia, the State Library of New Wales, the State Library of Victoria, the University of Melbourne, Cambridge University, the National Library of Scotland, the University of Oxford, the National Maritime Museum. Ferguson 10550. Octavo. Original blue bead-grain cloth, covers panelled in blind, front cover lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Cloth lightly soiled, rubbing to extremities, spine ends and tips bumped, occasional foxing to contents. A very good copy.