London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First British edition, precedes the American edition. Bound in publisher's original deep blue cloth stamped in red and white, with the Knopf imprint at the base of the spine (later issues list Cassell). Very Good with lean to spine, toning to cloth at spine and..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1954. First edition, first printing. Signed by Patricia Highsmith on the front free endpaper and inscribed "To Jose. A serious and grim book. I hope you will enjoy some parts of it. In memory of an important caesura in my life, and you are an anhydrate..... More
[Philadelphia]: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1936. First edition. Signed on the dedication page by James Bond, the American ornithologist whose name Ian Flemming took for his iconic spy protagonist. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's..... More