The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill -
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, Michael Wolff - General Editor
1976 - Library of Imperial History, London - First Editions
A finely bound four volume first collected edition of Churchill's essays and articles, beginning with his reports on the Cuban struggle for independence in the Daily Graphic, at only 20 years of age. Published to accompany the 34 volume Centenary Edition and not available in any other form.
‘On behalf of my family I wish to express my gratitude to the Library of Imperial History for having undertaken the major task of bringing together in book form my grandfather’s entire journalistic output. These articles are spread over more than half a century and, unlike his books which have always been readily available, have hitherto been unavailable to no one, bar a handful of research scholars. These lively and varied articles and essays illuminate another facet of his character, which I hope the reader of these volumes will find stimulating and enjoyable.’ - Winston S. Churchill.
Each volume has the publisher's presentation certificate to pastedown, noting that this set is number 163 of a limited edition (an uncommon extra). Together with the four page insert and short summary of Winston’s life up to his appointment as Prime Minister in 1940.
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1976 - Library of Imperial History, London - First Editions
A finely bound four volume first collected edition of Churchill's essays and articles, beginning with his reports on the Cuban struggle for independence in the Daily Graphic, at only 20 years of age. Published to accompany the 34 volume Centenary Edition and not available in any other form.‘On behalf of my family I wish to express my gratitude to the Library of Imperial History for having undertaken the major task of bringing together in book form my grandfather’s entire journalistic output. These articles are spread over more than half a century and, unlike his books which have always been readily available, have hitherto been unavailable to no one, bar a handful of research scholars. These lively and varied articles and essays illuminate another facet of his character, which I hope the reader of these volumes will find stimulating and enjoyable.’ - Winston S. Churchill.
Each volume has the publisher's presentation certificate to pastedown, noting that this set is number 163 of a limited edition (an uncommon extra). Together with the four page insert and short summary of Winston’s life up to his appointment as Prime Minister in 1940.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Signed -
Roald Dahl
1964 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York - First Edition, First Issue
A fine, signed, and thus golden ticket example of the first edition first issue.
Starring ‘Our Hero’ Charlie Bucket, with the infamous Willy Wonka.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was inspired by Roald Dahl’s time spent working at the age of 13 at Cadbury, the English chocolate maker. He was amazed by all the machinery and by the spies sent by both Cadburys and their biggest rival Rowntrees to steal each others secret recipes.
Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. The first edition first issue with six lines of printing and binding information in the colophon, reduced to five in later issues, and published three years before the English edition, in the first issue dust jacket priced at $3.95 and without ISBN number.
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1964 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York - First Edition, First Issue
A fine, signed, and thus golden ticket example of the first edition first issue.Starring ‘Our Hero’ Charlie Bucket, with the infamous Willy Wonka.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was inspired by Roald Dahl’s time spent working at the age of 13 at Cadbury, the English chocolate maker. He was amazed by all the machinery and by the spies sent by both Cadburys and their biggest rival Rowntrees to steal each others secret recipes.
Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. The first edition first issue with six lines of printing and binding information in the colophon, reduced to five in later issues, and published three years before the English edition, in the first issue dust jacket priced at $3.95 and without ISBN number.
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The Cricket Match - with - The Test Match Surprise -
Hugh De Selincourt, Jack Hobbs
1924 - The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., London - First Reader’s Library Edition, First Edition
Two Great Cricket Fictional Works, rare in their original dust jackets.
‘The Cricket Match’ - James Barrie (of Peter Pan) thought this ‘the best story about cricket or any other game that has ever been written’, and this novel of a cricket match played in the idyllic Sussex village of Tillingfold is still the best-known and best-loved cricket story ever written.
‘Test Match Surprise’ - A fictional account by Jack Hobbs, legendary England and Surrey batsman.
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1924 - The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., London - First Reader’s Library Edition, First Edition
Two Great Cricket Fictional Works, rare in their original dust jackets.‘The Cricket Match’ - James Barrie (of Peter Pan) thought this ‘the best story about cricket or any other game that has ever been written’, and this novel of a cricket match played in the idyllic Sussex village of Tillingfold is still the best-known and best-loved cricket story ever written.
‘Test Match Surprise’ - A fictional account by Jack Hobbs, legendary England and Surrey batsman.
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me -
Richard Fariña
1966 - Random House, New York - First Edition
First edition of ‘the classic novel of the 1960s an unerring, corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revolt
Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering, among other things, mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a generation.’
‘Coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch... hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful, and outrageous all at the same time.’ – Thomas Pynchon.
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1966 - Random House, New York - First Edition
First edition of ‘the classic novel of the 1960s an unerring, corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revoltFariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering, among other things, mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a generation.’
‘Coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch... hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful, and outrageous all at the same time.’ – Thomas Pynchon.
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Scotia Depicta -
James Fittler, John Claude Nattes
1804 - Printed by T. Bensley for W. Miller, London - First Edition
This remarkable folio work contains forty-eight engraved plates of Scottish Landscapes and buildings etched by James Fittler (appointed engraver to King George III) from drawings by John Claude Nattes, each one accompanied by a detailed historic description. In addition to the more well known locations of Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands, Nattes included places such as Aberdeen, Banff, Moray and Inverness.
In a contemporary binding, with additional engraved frontispiece, engraved title page, and engraved tailpiece.
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1804 - Printed by T. Bensley for W. Miller, London - First Edition
This remarkable folio work contains forty-eight engraved plates of Scottish Landscapes and buildings etched by James Fittler (appointed engraver to King George III) from drawings by John Claude Nattes, each one accompanied by a detailed historic description. In addition to the more well known locations of Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands, Nattes included places such as Aberdeen, Banff, Moray and Inverness.In a contemporary binding, with additional engraved frontispiece, engraved title page, and engraved tailpiece.
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Taps at Reveille -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1935 - Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York - First Edition, first state, in first state dust jacket
A bright, brilliant jacketed first edition of Fitzgerald’s collection of eighteen short stories, the last to be published during his lifetime.
This important collection, which Fitzgerald considered his best, includes the much anthologized story ‘Babylon Revisited’ – ‘one of the finest short stories in the English language... at once timeless and startlingly modern’ according to The Telegraph. Set in Paris during the late 1920s, ‘Babylon Revisited’ clearly chimes with Fitzgerald’s own life: the extravagant dissipation of life during the boom years, a wife lost to illness, and a fortune frittered away – painting an exquisite and intensely personal portrait of a man who has squandered his life.
‘A farewell to the Jazz Age... its setting is Paris, and its tone one of anguish for past follies’ – The New York Times
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1935 - Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York - First Edition, first state, in first state dust jacket
A bright, brilliant jacketed first edition of Fitzgerald’s collection of eighteen short stories, the last to be published during his lifetime. This important collection, which Fitzgerald considered his best, includes the much anthologized story ‘Babylon Revisited’ – ‘one of the finest short stories in the English language... at once timeless and startlingly modern’ according to The Telegraph. Set in Paris during the late 1920s, ‘Babylon Revisited’ clearly chimes with Fitzgerald’s own life: the extravagant dissipation of life during the boom years, a wife lost to illness, and a fortune frittered away – painting an exquisite and intensely personal portrait of a man who has squandered his life.
‘A farewell to the Jazz Age... its setting is Paris, and its tone one of anguish for past follies’ – The New York Times
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Jock of the Bushveld -
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Ernest Caldwell (illustrator)
1907 - Longmans, London - First Edition, Second Impression
A finely bound copy of this legendary tale, illustrated by the British wildlife artist Ernest Caldwell with colour frontispiece, 22 full page monochrome plates and charming vignettes to all the pages.
Sir (James) Percy Fitzpatrick`s travels with his dog Jock, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, during the 1880s, when he worked as a storeman, prospector`s assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal (then the South African Republic). Fitzpatrick (1862-1931) later recounted these adventures as bedtime stories to his four children. Rudyard Kipling, a good friend of Fitzpatrick, also took part in these story-telling evenings and eventually persuaded him to collect the tales in book form.
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1907 - Longmans, London - First Edition, Second Impression
A finely bound copy of this legendary tale, illustrated by the British wildlife artist Ernest Caldwell with colour frontispiece, 22 full page monochrome plates and charming vignettes to all the pages.Sir (James) Percy Fitzpatrick`s travels with his dog Jock, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, during the 1880s, when he worked as a storeman, prospector`s assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal (then the South African Republic). Fitzpatrick (1862-1931) later recounted these adventures as bedtime stories to his four children. Rudyard Kipling, a good friend of Fitzpatrick, also took part in these story-telling evenings and eventually persuaded him to collect the tales in book form.
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Thunderball -
Ian Lancaster Fleming
1961 - Jonathan Cape, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of one of the most pivotal works of the James Bond series, and the first of the ‘Blofeld’ trilogy. It was in Thunderball that Fleming first introduces the world to the ultimate Bond villain - Ernest Stavro Blofeld. Though Bond and Blofeld never actually meet here, it is in this book that Bond first battles the schemes of SPECTRE, Blofeld's criminal organisation.
Filmed in 1965, starring Sean Connery as 007, Claudine Auger as Domino and Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo- SPECTRE's No.2. The later film ‘Never Say Never Again’, with Connery again as 007, was loosely based on this story.
Appropriately housed in a bespoke black cloth clamshell case, lined in scarlet red felt, the spine with gilt stamped lettering and atomic bomb logo, ‘Thunderball’ being the military term used by U.S. soldiers to describe the mushroom cloud seen during the testing of atomic bombs.
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1961 - Jonathan Cape, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of one of the most pivotal works of the James Bond series, and the first of the ‘Blofeld’ trilogy. It was in Thunderball that Fleming first introduces the world to the ultimate Bond villain - Ernest Stavro Blofeld. Though Bond and Blofeld never actually meet here, it is in this book that Bond first battles the schemes of SPECTRE, Blofeld's criminal organisation.Filmed in 1965, starring Sean Connery as 007, Claudine Auger as Domino and Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo- SPECTRE's No.2. The later film ‘Never Say Never Again’, with Connery again as 007, was loosely based on this story.
Appropriately housed in a bespoke black cloth clamshell case, lined in scarlet red felt, the spine with gilt stamped lettering and atomic bomb logo, ‘Thunderball’ being the military term used by U.S. soldiers to describe the mushroom cloud seen during the testing of atomic bombs.
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