The Man With The Golden Gun by Ian Flemming - 1965

[Rapallo: Arti Grafiche Tigullio, March 1936].. Narrow folio broadside (44 x 14.5 cm.) Text on recto only, printed in double columns. Griffin device at head and toe. Folded across middle, otherwise a very nice copy. First separate printing of this prospectus for a course of studies devoted to Antonio Vivaldi. Potential subscribers to the series are instructed to contact Pound or the "Instituto Fascista di Cultura." The text was also printed in the 14 March issue of IL MARE. A translation appears in EZRA POUND AND MUSIC, pp.384-7. Uncommon and fragile. GALLUP E2n.

New York: Viking, 1975. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Gold printed wrappers. Fine. Pulitzer Prize Winner.

New York::: Scribners,,, 1969... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with previous owner sticker removed from the flyleaf in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. These five works grew, of course, out of Hemingway's considerable experience of the Spanish war as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance and as a participant in filming "The Spanish Earth." More specifically, they grew from adventures in and around besieged Madrid--particularly in the Hotel Florida and in a bar called Chicote's. The book is unified, then, in time, place, and action. It is unified even more by the dominating presence of the author, who is to be found alive on every page. That presence slants the focus, but also gives the book its sharp distinction. This is immediate, unmistakable Hemingway. This collection contains Hemingway's play "The Fifth Column", and the four stories "The Denunciation", The Butterfly and the Tank", "Night Before Battle" and "Under the Ridge". Despite his fascination… Read More

John Murray, 1941. First [Stated]. Hardcover. top dusty and first few and last few pp a little browned as ususal else a nearly fine copy with a wonderful bright d.j.. Publlisher's compliments slip laid in.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. Signed by Lawrence on the title page. Newly designed edition containing the full complement of Lawrence's illustrations, 18 of which were published in the Windmill Books in 1970. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1958. Very Good+ condition in a Good only dust jacket (see photos). Scarce clothbound edition, especially so in jacket. Clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. The jacket has several tiny chips, two creases, and four tears, of which two are nearly 4 inches long. However the jacket is still quite attractive and presents well in its Brodart clear-plastic sleeve (removed for photos). NOT price clipped ($3.50). NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and crisp. The third book in the trilogy. Translated from the French by the author. This is the uncommon clothbound edition [it was also issued in wraps and in 3 specially bound limited editions]. This copy is in the publisher's full gray cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. Federman/Fletcher 377 (cloth bound edition) in SAMUEL BECKETT, HIS WORKS. See also pages 62-63 of Lake's NO SYMBOLS WHERE NONE INTENDED, the catalogue of the extensive Samuel Becket collection at the… Read More

NY, Random House, 1967, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Author's First Book, frontispiece photo from the play of this comedy, the play starred Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, Anita Gillette, Donna Mills, and others. Fine in a very good plus jacket.

PARGETER, Edith (Ellis Peters)The Fair Young Phoenix (first edition with wrapper)Heinemann 1948 First edition 1st impression. Hardback with jacket. Red board with black title plate. Small half moon shaped piece out on base of front board. Jacket chipped and tattered on edges, piece out on spine head and bottom RH corner. Now in archive sleeve. See scan. End papers tanned. Internally clean and sound. No inscriptions. Prompt, secure UK dispatch. Pargeter's eighth book. It is very unusual to find this rare title with its wrapper.
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Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.