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[Gambling] Rouge et Noir. The Academicians of 1823, or the Greeks of the Palais Royal and the...

[Gambling] Rouge et Noir. The Academicians of 1823, or the Greeks of the Palais Royal and the Clubs of St. James's

by [DUNNE, Charles, writing as:] PERSIUS, Charles`

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London: Lawlor and Quick, 9, Old Broad Street, and Stephen Couchman, 10, Throgmorton Street, 1823. First Edition. Cloth-Backed Boards. Fine. Expurgated edition of this controversial contemporary indictment of gambling clubs in Regency London, which named some of the more profligate nobility. Not including pages 311 to 438, which in most copies were redacted. 12mo (192 x 105mm): [4],viii,9-310,439-456pp (p. 264 misnumbered "252"), with hand-colored engraved frontispiece of "La Roulette." Contemporary brown linen-backed darker brown boards, original printed paper label to spine, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, some leaves unopened. "Stouthall" [underlined] noted on front paste-down (possibly referring to Stouthall mansion on the the Gower Peninsula, part of Swansea, in Wales. Spine label chipped at edges but completely legible, front hinge repaired, else a spectacular, unsophisticated wide-margined copy, virtually free of foxing and stains. Jessel 459. Not in Halkett & Laing. Toole Stott (English… Read More
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[Garden Design] [Beekeeping] Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier : beschrijvende alderhande Princelijcke...
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[Garden Design] [Beekeeping] Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier : beschrijvende alderhande Princelijcke en Heerlijcke Lusthoven en Hofsteden . . . [bound with] De Nieuwe Verstandigen Hovenier, Over de twaelf Maenden van't Jaer . . . [and with] De Medicyn-Winckel, of Ervaren Huys-Houder . . . Den Naerstigen Byen-Houder . . . Den verstandigen Kock

by GROEN, Jan van der (c.1635-1672); NYLAND, Pieter

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Amsterdam: Marcus Doornick, 1675. Early Reprint. Vellum. Sammelband of key gardening and husbandry texts, complete with all plates showcasing seventeenth-century garden design. Three titles in one quarto volume, including Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier, the most influential horticultural manual from the golden age of Dutch garden design with an impressive collection of woodcuts depicting hundreds of intricate garden layouts. Bound in contemporary vellum and printed in Roman and italic letter. I. Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier: [30],96,[2]pp (p. 96 misnumbered 69), with additional engraved title page, 15 full-page plates, 200 models of gardens (introduced by separate letterpress title page, p. 41), and woodcut illustrations in text. II. Nyland, Den Verstandigen Hovenier (Amsterdam: Marcus Doornick, 1672): 76,[4]pp, with large title-page vignette of country estate and gardens and 30 woodcut models of parterres. III. Nyland, De Medicyn-Winckel (Amsterdam: Marcus Doornick [n. d., but probably 1670]), to which is… Read More
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The Garden Party and other Stories. With coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin
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The Garden Party and other Stories. With coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin

by MANSFIELD, Katherine (1888-1923); [Marie Laurencin]

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London: Verona Press, 1939. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Near Fine+. First Limited (and First Illustrated) Edition, number 145 of 1200 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni on handmade paper. Oversized 8vo: [xii],316,[2, colophon]pp, Illustrated with 16 superb colored lithographs by the French Cubist artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956). Publisher's olive-green and cream patterned cloth, red paper lettering piece gilt to spine, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in orange and black, manuscript inscription to front fly-leaf in elegant hand, stone-colored dust jacket printed in pale olive-green. Without the slipcase. According to Kirkpatrick, "Though printed in 1939, the Second World War delayed publication until 1947." Near Fine or better (spine ends lightly rubbed, page edges spotted) else a crisp, bright copy in Near Fine or better jacket (several light smudges and insignificant pale stains). NCBEL IV 653-654. Kirkpatrick D6. Connolly 40. First edition of this collection, its… Read More
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The Garden [Signed]
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The Garden [Signed]

by SACKVILLE-WEST, V. (Vita,1892-1962)

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London: Michael Joseph, 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No. 321 of 750 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author, published the same month as the trade issue. Demy 8vo (230 x 140mm): 134,[2]pp, with title-page and and section vignettes by Broom Lynne. Publisher's coarsely woven ochre cloth, spine and upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. An exceptional copy (apparently unread), virtually pristine inside and out. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A.44b. A poem in five parts (an introductory "The Garden" and four seasonal verses), plus a dedicatory poem to Katherine Drummond. The Garden sums up Sackville-West's horticultural aesthetic as displayed in the garden at Sissinghurst, with its linked sections "distinguished by predominant colour themes (such as the influential white garden), or by concentration on the flowers of a certain season . . . " (ODNB) Chosen for the Heinemann award for literature, in 1946, which Sackville-West spent on azaleas for… Read More
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The Garden [Signed]
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The Garden [Signed]

by SACKVILLE-WEST, V. (Vita, 1892-1962)

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London: Michael Joseph, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression of this squeal of sorts to the author's The Land, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, with decorations by Broom Lynne. Demy 8vo (214 x 137mm): 135; [1]pp. Publisher's russet cloth, titles in silver to spine, top edge red, decorative end papers; illustrated dust jacket priced 8/6. Signed by Sackville-West to half-title. About Fine, jacket just a shade sunned to spine panel, lightly scuffed to top of front fold. Also issued as a signed limited edition of 750 copies, but scarce as a signed trade edition, as here. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A.44a. Like The Land, The Garden is divided into the four seasons. It is more personal and less sweeping than the earlier poem, and tries to sum up Sackville-West's horticultural aesthetic as displayed in the garden at Sissinghurst, with its linked sections "distinguished by predominant colour themes (such as the influential white garden), or by concentration on the flowers of a certain… Read More
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Gardeners and Astronomers : New Poems
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Gardeners and Astronomers : New Poems

by SITWELL, Edith (1887-1964)

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New York: Vanguard Press, 1953. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Edition, American issue, one of only 2500 copies, published the same month (November) as the London edition, which had a print run of 4000. Demy 8vo (234 x 151mm): 60,[2]pp, with six full-page black and white illustrations (including frontispiece). Publisher's half-bound lime-green cloth, spine lettered in silver, violet paper-covered boards, upper board decorated in gilt and in blind with butterflies and stars; illustrated dust jacket priced $2.75. About Fine (dusty top edge, very lightly faded spine but lettering unaffected); about Fine jacket with moderately toned spine and back panels, but front panel vibrant. Fifoot EA48b. Collects eleven poems never before published (omitting "A Bird's Song," "The Stone-Breakers," "Out of School," and "A Love Song" from the London edition. "The religious symbolism that informs Sitwell's war poetry was further emphasized in Gardeners and Astronomers (1953) and The Outcasts (1962),… Read More
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[Gastronomy] [Food & Drink] Les Plaisirs de la Table. Où, sous une forme nouvelle, l'Auteur a...
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[Gastronomy] [Food & Drink] Les Plaisirs de la Table. Où, sous une forme nouvelle, l'Auteur a dévoilé maints délicieux secrets et recettes de bonne Cuisine, transcrit les précieux avis de Gourmets fameux et de fins Gastronomes, conseillers aimables et sûrs de l'Art du Bien-Manger. Préface de Robert de Flers. Dessins de P. F. Grignon

by NIGNON, Édouard (1865-1934); Robert de Flers (Introduces); P. F. Grignon (Illustrates)

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Paris: Chez l'auteur / chez Lapina, Editeur, 1930. Limited Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Second Revised Edition, "where, in a new form, the author has revealed many delicious secrets and recipes for good cooking, transcribes the precious opinions of famous gourmets and fine gourmets, friendly and sure advisers in the art of eating well," with new introduction by the original dedicatee, Robert de Flers. Copy no. 1259 of 2000 copies on verge, from a total of 2150 copies. 8vo (235 x 190mm): [6],viii,339,[1]pp, with numerous drawings in bistre (chapter head- and tail-pieces and vignettes in text). Original salmon-colored stiff paper wrappers, wraparound deco design in black and bistre, edges untrimmed, illustrated end papers, title page in black and bistre, original book marker (stenciled 1259) laid in. A superb copy, tightly bound and clean throughout (virtually pristine). Oberlé 277-78 ("remarquable"). Cagle 364 (citing this second edition only). First published in 1926. Nignon was chef to the… Read More
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[Gastronomy] Food In England
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[Gastronomy] Food In England

by HARTLEY, Dorothy (1893-1985)

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London: Macdonald [from 1954], 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. Second Impression of this definitive history of English cuisine, a "treasury of information on the gathering, storing, and cooking of food from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. . . . as full of magic and potions as any medieval herbal." (ODNB ) Thick demy 8vo (227 x 150mm): xii, 13-676pp, with 21 plates from photographs on glossy stock and numerous finely executed line drawings, "exact, decorative yet diagrammatic." (ODNB) Publisher's orange cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Hookaway Cowles, priced 30/- net. Text block edges lightly freckled, very occasionally affecting margins, but an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout in a handsome briefly nicked jacket. According to historian Lucy Worsley, Food in England is a "curious mixture of cookery, history, anthropology, folklore and even magic . . . It ranges from Saxon cooking to the Industrial Revolution, with… Read More
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General Guide to the Exhibition Halls of the American Museum of Natural History

General Guide to the Exhibition Halls of the American Museum of Natural History

by LUCAS, Frederic A. (1852-1929)

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New York: Published by the Museum, 1920. Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine+. Early Edition ("Edition of 1920") of this guide to the exhibits in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, published 43 years after the museum opened its doors on Central Park West. Royal 8vo (243 x 155mm): 136pp, illustrated throughout with halftones and line drawings of the museum's holdings. Original tan pictorial wrappers printed in brown. An excellent example, tightly bound and generally clean throughout (first and final pages spotted). A previous edition was prepared by George H. Sherwood and published in 1911 as No. 35 of the Guide leaflet series of the American Museum of Natural History. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we… Read More
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The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with remarks on theories of the origin of...
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The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation

by LYELL, Sir Charles (1797-1875)

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London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1863. Early Reprint. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. Thick 8vo: xvi,528pp, with two full-page wood-engraved plates and 58 figures in the text. Original green heavily embossed, pebble-grained cloth, upper cover with two gilt fossil vignettes, spine lettered in gilt, marbled end papers renewed with period examples. Near Fine or better, pages clean and fresh (barring mild foxing of first and final few leaves), binding tight and square (after expert and almost imperceptible restoration). A handsome, collectible copy. Norman 1400. Garrison-Morton 204.1. Freeman (British Natural History Books) 2369. Challinor 192. Geology Emerging 1439. Second Edition. Revised. First published in 1863, Antiquity of Man went through three editions that year, with a fourth and final edition appearing in 1873. Our copy appeared in April, 1863 (two months after the first edition), with alterations, corrections, and a new seven-page appendix. The book dealt with two linked scientific issues… Read More
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[Geology] XI. An Account of Observations, made by Lord Webb Seymour and Professor Playfair, upon...
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[Geology] XI. An Account of Observations, made by Lord Webb Seymour and Professor Playfair, upon some Geological Appearances in Glen Tilt, and the adjacent Country [Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]

by SEYMOUR, Lord Webb (1777-1819); PLAYFAIR, Professor John (1748-1819)

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Edinburgh and London: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and Cadell and Davies, 1815. Wrappers. Fine. Original article disbound from Volume VII of Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (not a reprint, facsimile reproduction, or photocopy). Roman numerals preceding title refer to order of sequence as published in the Transactions. Demy 4to (273 x 210mm): 303-375pp, complete with five folding plates and folding map showing Glen Tilt. Recently bound by Fitterer in stiff marbled wrappers. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound and clean throughout. The river Tilt is a principal branch of the Tay, which rises on the borders of Aberdeenshire and runs towards the southwest, through the northeastern part of the county of Perth. A portion of the valley along its course, for about ten miles above Blair of Atholl, is called Glen Tilt, which Seymour and Playfair visited to study the geology of the rugged, mountainous terrain. In 1785, Hutton had examined outcrops in Glen Tilt, noting… Read More
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[Geology] II. On the Vertical Position and Convolutions of Certain Strata, and their Relation...
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[Geology] II. On the Vertical Position and Convolutions of Certain Strata, and their Relation with Granite; [bound with:] IV. On the Revolutions of the Earth's Surface, Parts I & II [Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]

by HALL, Sir James (1761-1832)

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Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh and Cadell and Davies, London, 1815. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine. Two original articles disbound from Volume VII of Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (not a reprint, facsimile reproduction, or photocopy). Roman numerals preceding titles refer to order of sequence as published in the Transactions. Demy 4to (273 x 210mm): 79-108,139-211,[1]pp, complete with nine copper-plate engravings. Recently bound by Fitterer in stiff marbled wrappers. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Geology Emerging 994. Hall founded the field of experimental geology and was a supporter of Hutton's Theory of the Earth. In the first paper, "On the Vertical Position and Convolutions of Certain Strata" (see DSB, vol. 6, p. 55), he conjectured that series of closely packed folds in Lower Paleozoic rocks in southern Scotland had been formed by lateral pressure. To test the theory, he constructed a machine in which layers… Read More
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[Geology] Ancient Sea-Margins as Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land
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[Geology] Ancient Sea-Margins as Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land

by CHAMBERS, Robert (1802-1871)

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Edinburgh & London: W. & R. Chambers & W. S. Orr, 1848. Original Cloth. Near Fine+. Scarce First Edition of Chambers's detailed study of sea level changes along the Scottish and English coastlines, illustrated with color folding map. Demy 8vo (228 x 138mm): vi,337,[1]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece view of St. Andrews links, folding color map of Lochaber, and numerous illustrations in the text. The appendix includes thirteen tables showing the heights of terraces at various locales, primarily in Scotland. Publisher's brown decorative cloth, covers framed in triple blind rule and elaborately blocked in blind with arabesque designs, spine titled direct in black; pale yellow end papers, edges rough-trimmed. Neat owner's inscription to head of half title, dated 1851. An excellent example in original cloth, skillfully rebacked with original moderately faded spine laid down; scar to rear paste-down from which a label was clumsily removed, but firmly bound and generally clean throughout (light… Read More
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[Germany] The Rhine including the Black Forest & the Vosges; Handbook for Travellers

[Germany] The Rhine including the Black Forest & the Vosges; Handbook for Travellers

by BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

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Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1911. Cloth. Fine. Seventeenth Revised Edition. xxxiv, 554pp, 69 maps and 59 plans. A superb copy with bright gilt lettering, 2 ribbon page-makers (one detached and laid in) and lightly faded and soiled marbled edges; the red flexible cloth covers clean, unfaded, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E017. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . . . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by… Read More
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[Germany] The Rhine from the Dutch to the Alsatian Frontier; Handbook for Travellers

[Germany] The Rhine from the Dutch to the Alsatian Frontier; Handbook for Travellers

by BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

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Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1926. Cloth. Fine. Eighteenth Revised Edition. xlii, 422pp, with 49 maps and 53 plans (37 town plans, 16 floor plans). Publisher's red flexible decorative cloth stamped in blind and gilt with all edges marbled and two silk page-maker. A superb copy with bright gilt lettering and richly marbled edges; the binding bright, square, and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E018. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . . . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability… Read More
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary [The Mezzotint]
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary ["The Mezzotint"]

by JAMES, M. R. (Montague Rhodes, 1862-1936)

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London: Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A superb Ninth Impression of these tales that "have come to be seen as the epitome of the English ghost story." (Literary Encyclopedia) Demy 8vo (211 x 145mm): xii,270pp, with four illustrations by James McBryde. Original beige linen stamped in black and red, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Fine and tightly bound, light sporadic spotting (occasionally moderately so) to pages (not plates). Provenance: The Stuart B. Schimmel collection of M. R. James. Bleiler (Checklist), p. 108. Sullivan, pp. 233-35 ("some of the most alarming and unforgettable ghost stories in the English language"). Jones & Newman, pp. 61-64 ("the most important and influential figure in the horror field"). Rogers 84 (for first and new editions). The first work of fiction by one of the greatest ghost-story writers of all time, originally published in 1904, collecting eight creepy tales, two of which appeared previously, in the National… Read More
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The Ginger Man

by DONLEAVY, J. P. (James Patrick, 1926-2017)

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London: Neville Spearman, 1956. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of first British edition, introduced by Arland Ussher, of the author's debut novel, originally published in Paris and subsequently banned for obscenity in the United States and Ireland. Crown 8vo (183 x 116mm): xi,[1],292pp. Publisher's turquoise cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gold, illustrated dust jacket printed in turquoise, orange, and black and priced 15s. About Fine (slight creasing to spine ends, bump to bottom of upper board); about Fine jacket (lightly soiled back panel). Modern Library 100 Best Novels. Rejected by numerous publishers before the Olympia Press, in Paris, brought it out in 1956, The Ginger Man has since sold some 50 million copies worldwide and has never been out of print. This edition expurgated by the author to comply with British censorship standards, and thus at variance with the text of the original Paris edition. N. B. With few exceptions (always… Read More
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Girl with a Pearl Earring [First State, Signed]
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Girl with a Pearl Earring [First State, Signed]

by CHEVALIER, Tracy

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London: HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression (no further printings noted), in first state dust jacket, with 'earing' misspelled on back panel. Small 8vo: [6],248,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brilliant); pictorial dust jacket, priced £9.99. Signed by Chevalier on title page. Laid in is a ticket from the literature festival in Derby where the book was autographed. Fine (small decorative book plate to front fly-leaf) in about Fine jacket (tiny nick to base of spine panel). The author's second novel, which sold more than five million copies worldwide and was translated into 36 languages. Supposedly, a poster of Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring," hanging on Chevalier's bedroom wall for some 15 years, inspired this novel set in 17th century Delft. Chevalier was lying in bed gazing absent-mindedly at the poster when she fixed on the mysterious girl's expression (her half open mouth and expectant gaze) and… Read More
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The Glass Tower

by MOORE, Nicholas (1918-1986); Lucian Freud (Illustrates)

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London: Nicholson & Watson / Editions Poetry, 1945. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine+/Near Fine. First Impression, collecting 66 poems, of Lucian Freud's first illustrated book. 8vo (220x150mm): 128pp (wanting pp. 27-28, as issued), with six full-page plates (three in color) from drawings and ten vignettes (one in color) by Lucian Freud. Publisher's black cloth-backed paper-covered boards illlustrated by Freud, spine lettered in gold; cream-colored typographic dust jacket priced 8/6 net. A collectible copy: tiny bump to lower edge of front cover, light spotting to text block edges (not affecting pages or plates), jacket lightly spotted. Lucien Freud was twenty-two when he illustrated these poems by Moore. He only illustrated one other book, The Equilibriad, which we also have on offer. His drawings here are of the natural world (animals and landscapes), reflecting the symbolic and hallucinatory nature of Moore's poetry. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in… Read More
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The Go Away Bird with Other Stories

The Go Away Bird with Other Stories

by SPARK, Muriel (1918-2006)

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First Edition
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Hardcover
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London: Macmillan, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Near Fine+. First Impression of this early short-story collection by the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Crown 8vo (190 x 119mm): vii,[1],214,[2]pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Victor Reinganum, priced 13s 6d. Paris book seller's ticket (Galignani) to front paste-down. A collectible copy (jacket lightly rubbed and dust-soiled), securely bound and clean throughout. Collects eleven short stories, some previously published. The title story (named for the avian species whose call is thought to alert other birds to the presence of predators) is one of Spark's best. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers… Read More
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