The Book of Common Prayer together with the Psalter or Psalms of David - bound with - The New Testament - and - The Whole Book of Psalms -
1754 - Thomas Baskett, Oxford
Three eighteenth century works of devotion bound into one elegant contemporary eighteenth century binding. The majority printed in double column.
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I. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches.
II. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Newly Translated out of the Original Greek: And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By his Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.
III. The Whole Book of Psalms; Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Conferred with the Hebrew. Set forth and Allowed to be Sung in all Churches, of all the People together, before and after Morning and Evening Prayer, and also before and after Sermons; and moreover in private Houses for their godly Solace and Comfort, laying apart all ungodly Songs and Ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of Vice, and corrupting of Youth.
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1754 - Thomas Baskett, Oxford
Three eighteenth century works of devotion bound into one elegant contemporary eighteenth century binding. The majority printed in double column.Full titles:
I. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches.
II. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Newly Translated out of the Original Greek: And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By his Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.
III. The Whole Book of Psalms; Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Conferred with the Hebrew. Set forth and Allowed to be Sung in all Churches, of all the People together, before and after Morning and Evening Prayer, and also before and after Sermons; and moreover in private Houses for their godly Solace and Comfort, laying apart all ungodly Songs and Ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of Vice, and corrupting of Youth.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Inscribed -
Maya Angelou
1969 - Random House, New York - First Edition
A fine first edition signed and inscribed by Maya Angelou: ‘Joy! The caged bird sings of freedom.’
‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ marks the first volume in what would ultimately become a seven volume autobiography. It was written in the months following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on 4 April 1968 - coincidentally, also Maya Angelou's birthday - at the suggestion of James Baldwin, as a way of working through her grief and depression over King's death. Baldwin would later call the resulting work "a Biblical study of life in the midst of death." Its themes of identity, racism, trauma, and literacy led to equal parts acclaim and criticism, with the book hailed as one of the greatest works of biography ever produced by an American author and one of the most frequently banned or challenged books in the United States.
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1969 - Random House, New York - First Edition
A fine first edition signed and inscribed by Maya Angelou: ‘Joy! The caged bird sings of freedom.’‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ marks the first volume in what would ultimately become a seven volume autobiography. It was written in the months following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on 4 April 1968 - coincidentally, also Maya Angelou's birthday - at the suggestion of James Baldwin, as a way of working through her grief and depression over King's death. Baldwin would later call the resulting work "a Biblical study of life in the midst of death." Its themes of identity, racism, trauma, and literacy led to equal parts acclaim and criticism, with the book hailed as one of the greatest works of biography ever produced by an American author and one of the most frequently banned or challenged books in the United States.
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Pride and Prejudice. A Novel -
Jane Austen
1833 - Richard Bentley, London - First illustrated edition & first single volume edition.
A finely bound ‘Pride and Prejudice’, the first Bentley edition, the first edition in one volume, and the first to be illustrated.
Written when Jane Austen was just twenty-one, but revised for publication anonymously thirteen years later. Elizabeth Bennet, eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, the folly of judging by first impressions, the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title-page engraved by William Greatbatch after drawings by George Pickering.
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1833 - Richard Bentley, London - First illustrated edition & first single volume edition.
A finely bound ‘Pride and Prejudice’, the first Bentley edition, the first edition in one volume, and the first to be illustrated.Written when Jane Austen was just twenty-one, but revised for publication anonymously thirteen years later. Elizabeth Bennet, eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, the folly of judging by first impressions, the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title-page engraved by William Greatbatch after drawings by George Pickering.
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The Gilbert & Sullivan Book -
Leslie Baily
1952 - Cassell & Company, London - First Edition
The history of the great musical duo of William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan, from their beginnings to the final Fin de Siècle plays, in a superb theatrically styled binding by Bayntun of Bath.
Profusely illustrated throughout with ten colour plates and over 400 illustrations in the text.
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-GINeral!
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1952 - Cassell & Company, London - First Edition
The history of the great musical duo of William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan, from their beginnings to the final Fin de Siècle plays, in a superb theatrically styled binding by Bayntun of Bath.Profusely illustrated throughout with ten colour plates and over 400 illustrations in the text.
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-GINeral!
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Vermilion Sands -
J. G. Ballard
1973 - Jonathan Cape, London - First Edition
First edition of this short story collection, all set in Vermilion Sands, 'a fully automated desert-resort designed to fulfil the most exotic whims of the idle rich, but now languishing in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, solitary impresarios and the remittance men of the artistic and literary world. It is a lair for beachcombers, hangers-on and malignant obsessions – a place where sensitive pigments paint portraits of their mistresses in a grotesque parody of art; where prima donna plants are programmed to sing operatic arias; where dial-a-poem computers have replaced poets; where psychosensitive houses are driven to murder by their owners' neuroses; and where love and lust, in the hands of jewel-eyed Jezebels, pall before the stronger pull of evil.'
'No one ever comes to Vermilion Sands now, and I suppose there are few people who have ever heard of it. But ten years ago, when Fay and I first went to live at 99 Stellavista, just before our marriage broke up, the colony was still remembered as the one-time playground of movie stars, delinquent heiresses and eccentric cosmopolites in those fabulous years before the Recess. Admittedly most of the abstract villas and fake palazzos were empty, their huge gardens overgrown, two-level swimming pools long drained, and the whole place was degenerating like an abandoned amusement park, but there was enough bizarre extravagance in the air to make one realize that the giants had only just departed’
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1973 - Jonathan Cape, London - First Edition
First edition of this short story collection, all set in Vermilion Sands, 'a fully automated desert-resort designed to fulfil the most exotic whims of the idle rich, but now languishing in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, solitary impresarios and the remittance men of the artistic and literary world. It is a lair for beachcombers, hangers-on and malignant obsessions – a place where sensitive pigments paint portraits of their mistresses in a grotesque parody of art; where prima donna plants are programmed to sing operatic arias; where dial-a-poem computers have replaced poets; where psychosensitive houses are driven to murder by their owners' neuroses; and where love and lust, in the hands of jewel-eyed Jezebels, pall before the stronger pull of evil.''No one ever comes to Vermilion Sands now, and I suppose there are few people who have ever heard of it. But ten years ago, when Fay and I first went to live at 99 Stellavista, just before our marriage broke up, the colony was still remembered as the one-time playground of movie stars, delinquent heiresses and eccentric cosmopolites in those fabulous years before the Recess. Admittedly most of the abstract villas and fake palazzos were empty, their huge gardens overgrown, two-level swimming pools long drained, and the whole place was degenerating like an abandoned amusement park, but there was enough bizarre extravagance in the air to make one realize that the giants had only just departed’
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The Poetical Works of William Blake -
William Blake
1952 - Geoffrey Cumberlegé, London
The lovely oxford edition of William Blake’s poems with Songs of Innocence and experience, Poems from ‘The Rossetti Manuscript’, selections from ‘Jerusalem’ and many other works, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf.
Illustrated throughout, including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and reproductions of title pages of Blake’s publications.
Edited and with an introduction by John Sampson.
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1952 - Geoffrey Cumberlegé, London
The lovely oxford edition of William Blake’s poems with Songs of Innocence and experience, Poems from ‘The Rossetti Manuscript’, selections from ‘Jerusalem’ and many other works, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf.Illustrated throughout, including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and reproductions of title pages of Blake’s publications.
Edited and with an introduction by John Sampson.
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The Secret Garden -
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Robinson (Illustrator)
1911 - William Heinemann, London - First English Edition, and First Edition illustrated by Robinson
First edition in the scarce original gilt decorated cloth, of this magical portrayal of reawakened spirits, charmingly illustrated by Charles Robinson, including eight coloured plates with captioned tissue guards.
Mistress Mary, the orphaned expatriate, without ‘Ayah’, arrives at the dark, draughty, gloomy and cold Misselthwaite Manor.
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1911 - William Heinemann, London - First English Edition, and First Edition illustrated by Robinson
First edition in the scarce original gilt decorated cloth, of this magical portrayal of reawakened spirits, charmingly illustrated by Charles Robinson, including eight coloured plates with captioned tissue guards.Mistress Mary, the orphaned expatriate, without ‘Ayah’, arrives at the dark, draughty, gloomy and cold Misselthwaite Manor.
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The Second World War -
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
1948 to 1954 - Cassell and Co. Ltd., London - First Editions
‘I will leave judgements on this matter to history – but I will be one of the historians.’ - Winston Churchill.
A finely bound first edition set of Churchill’s complete six volume classic history on World War II - The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grant Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing the Ring and Triumph and Tragedy. With numerous maps and plans, some folding.
Not since Julius Caesar and his Gallic Wars has there been a case of a great leader in war also being an able writer.
Churchill's most famous work continuing on from his earlier history of the First World War, 'The World Crisis'. The two together form, in Churchill's opinion, a comprehensive history of a second Thirty Years War.
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1948 to 1954 - Cassell and Co. Ltd., London - First Editions
‘I will leave judgements on this matter to history – but I will be one of the historians.’ - Winston Churchill. A finely bound first edition set of Churchill’s complete six volume classic history on World War II - The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grant Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing the Ring and Triumph and Tragedy. With numerous maps and plans, some folding.
Not since Julius Caesar and his Gallic Wars has there been a case of a great leader in war also being an able writer.
Churchill's most famous work continuing on from his earlier history of the First World War, 'The World Crisis'. The two together form, in Churchill's opinion, a comprehensive history of a second Thirty Years War.
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Price HK$ 19,000