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Published by The Macmillan Company, The Viking Press, and the New American Library, 1955-66, 1955
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Spy novels] ALL FIRST PRINTINGS. 14 volumes, octavos (overall dimensions 20 x 13 x 33cm). Publisher's hardbacks in illustrated dust-jackets. The American edition of Octopussy was the first to be illustrated. Ownership signatures to The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only; endpapers of The Man with the Golden Gun with some rubs/scuffs; toning to spine of From Russia, With Love, some chips to spine ends of jackets (moreso to earlier titles). The Man with the Golden Gun is in the second issue jacket with darker grey lettering than the earlier issue. Gilbert notes that the American dust jackets, from Live and Let Die to Doctor No, are "often" or "invariably" clipped, with the printed price retained elsewhere on the jacket, as here. The Spy Who Loved Me is price-clipped. A very good set in similar dust jackets; generally bright and presenting very nicely. First US editions, first printings, of this complete set of Fleming's original James Bond books. From the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate (two volumes added). Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert A2b(1), A3b(1), A4b(1), A5b(1), A6b(1), A8b(1), A9b(1.1), A10b(1), A11b(1), A12b(1), A13b(1), A14b(1); The Schøyen Collection Nos. 18, 25, 32, 46, 59, 72, 78, 89, 97, 108, 116, 129. Christopher Moran, "Ian Fleming and CIA Director Allen Dulles: The Very Best of Friends", James Bond in World and Popular Culture, 2012.
Published by London: Pan Books, 1955-67, 1955
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Spy fiction] All paperback First Editions, all are export copies with no price on front cover [OHMSS being the exception priced at 60c]. Fourteen volumes, octavo (18 x 12 x 19cm). Publisher's illustrated softcovers. LLD priced in Lira within, FRWL has UK price blanked out by publisher's label, YOLT states 'Not For Sale In UK' to rear, SPY priced at 6.50 to rear obsucring four other currencies, Octopussy priced in Pesetas within. No ink writing within, expected toning to cheap paperstock, tape ghosts to YOLT eps, occasional spine roll, some light rubbing, discreet price 3/3 to cover of DAF. Overall a near fine set. The British Pan paperbacks were price for sale in UK at 2s, 2/6 or 3/6, but a smaller number of copies such as those gathered here were unpriced for export to other territories. Now extremely difficult to assemble, this rare set is from the comprehensive Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. See Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography.
Published by Blast, New York, 1933
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Complete set of the five issues comprising Blast, a magazine of Proletarian Short Stories. Edited by Miller, Sorkin and Willima Carlos Williams who contributes a story to each issue. All in uniformly clean very good condition. Featuring work by Joseph Vogel, Benjamin Appel, Miriam Allen de Ford, Bruno Fischer, Alfred Morang and, of course, Williams. Individual issues of Blast come to market on occasion, but complete sets, especially in condition, are truly rare. OCLC holdings are scattered with only a few institutions appearing to own complete sets.
Published by [Jonathan Cape, London] First Edition Library, Shelton, Connecticut, [1953-66] 1980s-90s, 1980
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Thrillers] 14 volumes, small octavos (20 x 14 x 41cm). Replica hardcover volumes of foil-stamped bookcloth, illustrated dust-wrappers. The complete set in the original pictorial card slip-cases. Some trivial handling. All books in fine, unread condition, showing minimal handling to jackets and slipcases, some minor shelf rubs to lower edges of boxes. First volume includes the scarce four-page series synopsis which is invariably missing. Most attractive. Complete sets are now uncommon. Gilbert A1b(5), pages 49-50.
Published by 1849, 1849
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
60pp 4to in orig. grey wrappers, front wrapper titled in ms., with brief preface written on verso; a little dusted & marked, spine largely defective with final gathering working loose. A complete manuscript short story, written over 60 numbered pages in a clear and legible hand, totalling some 12,000 words. With authorial corrections, additions, and excisions. The story is dated on the front wrapper '2 March 1849', making the author only 19 at the time of its production, and therefore forming one of the earliest known examples of this important Jewish activist's writing. Michael Henry, 1830-1875, was a patent officer by occupation, but from an early age gained prominence within London's Jewish community for his commitment to improving educational and social standards, and other charitable exertions. He contributed regularly to Jewish newspapers and periodicals, and from 1869 until his death was editor of the Jewish Chronicle. Largely unknown outside the Jewish community, a volume of his works was nevertheless published in 1876, the year after his death; an effort to cast light on his lifelong benevolence. In the introduction to Life Thoughts of Michael Henry, he is described as having 'but one object in life - to make his fellow-men and fellow-Jews happier, wiser and better'. This manuscript story, which as far as we know was never published, is an ultimately uplifting tale of faith lost and faith regained, involving death, loneliness, and ghostly apparitions. It describes the journey of a man led from the pits of despair to the joy of salvation, through the kindness and commitment of an unheralded niece. Several other titles are listed in manuscript on the front wrapper, but we have not been able to trace them.
Published by London: Jonathan Cape, 1963-77, 1963
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Spy novels] 14 volumes. Later printings, in a similar format to the first printings. Octavos (20 x 14 x 36cm). Publisher's hardbacks in original illustrated dust-jackets. All Cape printings (the original publisher of the James Bond novels), the final three titles being first impressions. A uniform set which shows well. No owner inscriptions or ink names, some light edge spotting to a few volumes, jackets generally bright and fresh with minor wear only, three titles are price clipped (OHMSS, YOLT, OCT), three are re-priced by Cape (DAF, FYEO, SPY), 'Live and Let Die' jacket is laminated, some wear/rubs to inside gutter, 'Spy' has a Bond film-related news-clipping to endpaper, overall gently aged and generally quite fresh. An attractive vintage set; with early hardcovers much in demand, and many being destined for the library system, this series is becoming rather difficult to assemble in decent order.
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
ISBN 10: 0393059162ISBN 13: 9780393059168
Seller: Iridium_Books, DH, SE, Spain
Book
Condition: Muy Bueno / Very Good.
Seller: Librairie Chat, Beijing, China
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 3 volumes.
Published by Akron, Ohio, The St. Dunstan Society, 1903
Seller: Antiquariat Olaf Drescher, Nuthe-Urstromtal OT Nettgendorf, Germany
Book
Jeder Teilband mit dem fein dekoriertem Titelblatt, pro Band ca. 350 S, meist mit Frontispiz und 1-4 teils colorierten, ganzseitugen Illustrationen. / Titles of each vol. with gilt decorated frontpage, mostly with frontispice, around 350 pp. per volume and with 2-5 partly coloured full-page illustrations. Of the Salon Edition of the works of Guy de Maupassant there have been printed 1244 sets of which this is number 524 attest Robert Arnot managing editor - Schön gestaltete, bibliophile, numerierte Salonausgabe, mit prächtigen, farbigen u. goldverzierten Titeln. ZUSTAND / CONDITION: Rücken etwas augehellt, Band I und II mit winziger Fehlstelle am unteren Kapital (unter 2mm), Einbände sehr gering berieben, sonst sehr gut. / Spines very lightly sunned, volume I and II with tiny blemishes on lower capitals (under 1,5mm), otherwise very fine. Wir wünschen entspannte herbstliche Lesestunden! Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 19400 23 x 16cm, braune Orig.- Ganzlederbände mit goldgeprägten und verzierten Rückentiteln, Buchdeckel mit goldenen Randverzierungen und mit einem goldenen Wappen mit Lederintarsie, hintere Deckel mit blindgeprägten Verzierungen, mit Lesebändchen. Alle Bände einheitlich mit Kopfgoldschnitt - Ränder noch unbeschnitten. / Brown orig. leather with golden titles on spine, richly illustrated gilt decorations on front cover with red illustrated emblem,and and covertitles, with blind imprinted decoration on back covers - Each vol. with bookmark and gilt haed cut, edges uncut. (Insgesamt 17 Bände / Complete with 17 vols of the numerated Original Salon Edition in full leather).
Published by Souvenir Press 1984, London, 1984
ISBN 10: 028562640XISBN 13: 9780285626409
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 475 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Leaves slightly age-darkened. Jacket clean. Internally clean. Peter Haining's copy. Loosely inserted are two typed letters signed by Graham Greene on his Antibes headed paper. The first declines an invitation from Haining to write the foreword for the Raffles volume. Greene writes: "It is a splendid idea to collect together the complete short stories of Raffles.' This quote then finds its way to the foot of the dust jacket! The second letter thanks Haining for sending a copy of the book. Also laid in is a letter from Dee Wallis, assistant producer of BBC's Mastermind, thanking Haining for his contribution to the programme for a 1996 broadcast. 028562640X 8vo.
Published by New York: Spivak-Bestseller Mystery, Mercury Mystery, 1943-1962, 1962
First Editions. Comprising the following: $106,000 Blood Money, The Adventures of Sam Spade, The Continental Op, The Return of the Continental Op, Hammett Homicides, Dead Yellow Women, Nightmare Town, The Creeping Siamese, Woman In The Dark, and A Man Named Thin, all but the first edited by Ellery Queen. Pages yellowed as is inevitable with these cheaply produced books; very good to fine copies; seven of these are enclosed in individual custom cloth slipcases. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1951, 1951
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 3 VOLUMES. 8vo. (8 x 5.6 inches). A little foxing to the first couple of pages of volume three otherwise a near fine set in recent leather bindings of full red morocco, spines with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Twin black labels, gilt. All edges gilt. A finely bound, bright, clean set of this important collection. ---- Surprisingly uncommon in this 1951 first printing.
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 30.
Published by Tartarus Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1872621945ISBN 13: 9781872621944
Seller: Wish-Fulfilling Tree Books, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. You are purchasing a RARE SLIPCASE SET of TWO BOOKS. The SET is comprised of: Where Nothing Sleeps: Complete Short Stories (The) (and Other Related Works), Volume One and Volume Two. Tartarus Press. Coverley House, Carlton, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 4AY, United Kingdom, 2005. VOLUME ONE. Hardcover. Sewn Binding. pp 380+xvii. UK FIRST EDITION. AS NEW and an UNREAD copy. One of 500 LIMITED EDITION copies. Full Print Run Limited to 500 copies. Presented in a yellow cloth hard Slipcase stamped in copper. SLIPCASED EDITION OUT OF PRINT. Edited and Preface by James Methuen-Campbell. Printed lithographically on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press yellow wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with copper silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands and d/w. Illustrated. Fine book in Fine dust jacket and Fine Slipcase. Please see the photographs attached to my listing to verify the condition of this edition. VOLUME TWO. Hardcover. Sewn Binding. pp 390. UK FIRST EDITION. AS NEW and an UNREAD copy. One of 500 LIMITED EDITION copies. Full Print Run Limited to 500 copies. Presented in a yellow cloth hard Slipcase stamped in copper. SLIPCASED EDITION OUT OF PRINT. Edited and Preface by James Methuen-Campbell. Printed lithographically on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press yellow wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with copper silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands and d/w. Illustrated. Fine book in Fine dust jacket and Fine Slipcase. Please see the photographs attached to my listing to verify the condition of this edition. Where Nothing Sleeps: Complete Short Stories (The) (and Other Related Works), Volume One and Volume Two Synopsis: CONTENTS: VOLUME ONE: 'Preface' by James Methuen-Campbell, 'I Can Remember', 'Narcissus Bay', 'At Sea', 'The Happiest Time', 'The Coffin on the Hill', 'I First Began to Write', 'The Barn', 'The Trout Stream', 'Mr Clarke', 'Some Memories Evoked by Music', 'A Visit to my Bois Relations', 'A House Lost in the Darkness and Wintry Fields', 'At Sir Moorcalm Lalli's', 'The Packing-case House and the Thief', 'Mrs Hockey', 'A Child Meets Church and State and Poetry in Strange Places: Lady Astor', 'The Death of My Mother', 'The Big Field', 'An Afternoon with Jeanne', 'When I was Thirteen', 'An Old Boy Takes me Out at Repton', 'Ghosts', 'The Earth's Crust', 'The Youth Rang the Bell', 'An Encounter by the River', 'Back to Repton as an Old Boy', 'I Left my Grandfather's House', 'A Free Ride', 'When I was an Art Student', 'A Novel Fragment'. CONTENTS: VOLUME TWO: The Judas Tree', 'Strange Discoveries', 'In Brixham Harbour', 'A Party', 'Sickert at St Peter's', 'A Picture in the Snow', 'Evergreen Seaton-Leverett', 'A Fragment of a Life Story', 'Leaves from a Young Person's Notebook', 'Faces at the Stage Door', 'Wainwright Home', 'Fat Woman Sleeping in a Wood', 'Touchett's Party', 'The War Breaks Out', 'Velvet', 'The Fire in the Wood', 'A Dream of Vestals', 'Fear', 'Cupids from a Wedgwood Jar from a Bartolozzi Print from a Drawing by Lady Di Beauclerk', 'Memories of a Vanished Period', 'Man in a Garden', 'A Morning with the Versatile Peer, Lord Berners, in the "Ancient Seat of Learning" ', 'A Mews Flat in the Country', 'A Lunch Appointment', 'Reading my First Review-in Spring', 'Brave and Cruel', 'In the Vast House', 'John Trevor', 'Full Circle', 'Roger Saw the Man', 'The Cottage After Dark', 'Roger Lay on the Cliff', 'Weekend', 'Amy Lechworth', 'Lady Gertrude', 'Constance, Lady Willet', 'Anna Dillon', 'Alex Fairburn', 'The Hateful Word', 'The Diamond Badge', 'When I Lie Awake', 'In the Autumn Weather', 'The Secret Life', 'The Window', 'Two Cows', 'A Postscript', End-notes, Bibliography. REVIEWS: 'James Methuen-Campbell, the editor of this new and definitive collection of [Welch's] short stories and other writings, wrote a biography of Welch in 2002 which did much to establish his reputation as an artist.' Ian Irvine, Independent on Sunday 'Edited by Welch' Language: eng. Signed by Author(s).
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 20.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1961, 1961
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. THREE VOLUMES. Reprint of the 1951 Edition. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.7 inches). Fine and clean set in attractive leather bindings by Bayntun of Bath. Contemporary full blue polished calf. Spines with five raised bands, each with gilt decorative roll. The compartments are ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt. Red and green labels, gilt. Double gilt ruled border on boards. Board edges with decorative floral gilt roll. Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Housed in a blue paper coveredslip case which has some minor wear but has done its job of keeping the books protected. The slip case is felt lined and has a beige silk tie pull. The spines are just a touch faded and there are a couple of small scratches but overall this is an attractive and finely bound set of this important collection.
Published by London 1971-2018, 1971
Book
First editions of Frederick Forsyth's complete novels and short stories. 5 of the later titles signed or inscribed by Forsyth. 8vo., 18 volumes in original cloth with dust wrappers.
Condition: Fine. Size: B6 Number of books: 12 in total.
Published by London: Foyle [The Book Club], 1956-1966, 1966
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[James Bond] COMPLETE BOOK CLUB EDITIONS. 11 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 26cm). Publisher's hardbacks in illustrated dust-wrappers. The entire run of the popular British book club editions, which began in 1956 with 'Live and Let Die'. In total eleven of the fourteen James Bond titles were issued in this format and this set is complete as published. No inscriptions or ink names. Page edges are clean, with the earlier books slightly dusty but free from the heavy spotting often seen. Jackets are clean and fresh with some light wear to edges and extremities. Near fine to fine copies throughout. Becoming difficult to assemble in anything approaching fine condition. Ian Fleming's books were offered in this cheaper format, usually one year after the Cape first editions- some share the same Jonathan Cape artwork, but after the 'Thunderball' painting was damaged while on loan in America, Cape would no longer lend out their original art; as such the Book Club commissioned their own action-packed and striking cover designs. From the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (ownership within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography (2012).
Published by Oxford University, Oxford, 1993
ISBN 10: 0192123297ISBN 13: 9780192123299
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth over boards, spines stamped in gilt. Contains 9 volumes which include notes on the text, select bibliography, a chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle, appendices and explanatory notes. Housed in matching box which is lightly rubbed and sunned, else fine.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1961, 1961
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. THREE VOLUMES. Reprint of the 1951 Edition. 8vo. (8 x 5.4 inches). Fine and clean set in the rare Publishers delux leather bindings of full red Morocco. Spines with blind ruled bands and lettered in gilt. Gilt stamped Author's symbol device to the front boards. Blue marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Each volume with a red silk page marker. Housed in a red cloth covered slip case with marbled paper lining. The spines are a bit rubbed and there are a couple of small scratches but overall this is an attractive set of this important collection. Only a few sets were issued in these publishers delux leather bindings and they seldom turn up on the market.
Published by Cranleigh, [Surrey], 1927
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
23 & 7 pp respectively, including title sheet for each essay, written on rectos only. Numerous holograph corrections throughout. Small 4to. A pair of extensively corrected manuscripts by the prolific Swinnerton (1884-1982). "The Chocolate-Seller of Knightsbridge" is a story about a young London woman and a chocolate-seller brought together by a failed purse-snatching. It was published in the November 1927 issue of Woman's Home Companion. The second piece is an essay on the subject of "Gossip": "Malice, also, has no part in true gossip. It can be allowed, perhaps, as a very occasional luxury, a sort of caviare in the homes of the middle-class Englishman . Malice rises from envy, and true gossip must be good-natured and good-humoured. It should make everybody laugh." Ruled paper, bound together with string at upper left; folds, faint scattered staining 23 & 7 pp respectively, including title sheet for each essay, written on rectos only. Numerous holograph corrections throughout. Small 4to.
Seller: Librairie Chat, Beijing, China
Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 1140p Size: 20cm.
ISBN 10: 7532782352ISBN 13: 9787532782352
Seller: liu xing, Nanjing JiangSu, JS, China
Book
Hardcover. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.HardCover.Pub Date:2021-06-01 Pages:584 Publisher:Shanghai Translation Publishing House Chekhov. on the basis of the Russian realism tradition. opened up a new world with short stories and revolutionized short stories. Literary genre.?In Russia. which originally did not regard short stories as the main art form. Chekhov became the only realist master whose short story was recognized as a classic writer.?This collection is based on the first ten volumes of the 30-volume Comple.
Published by Haitian Press; 1 edition (October 1. 1999), 1991
ISBN 10: 7806159533ISBN 13: 9787806159538
Seller: liu xing, Nanjing JiangSu, JS, China
Book
Soft cover. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.Author:QI HE FU.Binding:Soft cover.Publisher:Haitian Press; 1 edition (October 1. 1999).
Published by Adriana Hidalgo Editora S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 9871156537ISBN 13: 9789871156535
Seller: Iridium_Books, DH, SE, Spain
Book
Condition: Muy Bueno / Very Good.
Published by Tartarus Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1872621945ISBN 13: 9781872621944
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. In VG+ slipcase. DJ spines slightly sunned. One of 500 sets. ; 787 pages.
Published by Walter J. Black, Inc, New York, NY
Seller: Denali Bay, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Some Shelf and handling wear. Boards are all square, Bindings are tight, pages are clean and unmarked. Green boards with decorative gilt over and spine. Collected Works. (Twenty-Five Books by Various Authors) The Works of Emile Zola, One Volume Edition (1938); The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, One Volume Edition; The Works of Leo Tolstoi, One Volume Edition (1928); The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1927), One Volume Edition; The Works of Henrick Ibsen, One Volume Edition (1928); The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, in One Volume; The Works of Anton Chekhov, One Volume Edition (1929); The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, One Volume Edition; The Decameron of Giovanni Baccaccio, One Volume Edition ; The Works of Gustave Flaubert, One Volume Edition (1904); The Works of A. Conan Doyle, One Volume Edition ; The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Six Volumes in One; The Works of Victor Hugo, One Volume Edition (1928); The Complete Romances of Voltaire, Eight Volumes in One (1927); Arabian Nights Tales; The Works of Rudyard Kipling, One Volume Edition; Charles Dickens- A Tale of Two Cities and Christmas Stories from 'Household Words;' The Novelettes of Honore de Balzac In One Volume (1925); The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in One Volume ; The Works of Oscar Wilde, Six Volumes in One (1927); The Works of Alphonse Daudet, One Volume Edition (1929); Famous Short Stories and Episodes by Alexandre Dumas (1927); The Works of Theophile Gautier, One Volume Edition (1928); The Works of H. Rider Haggard, One Volume Edition (1928).
Seller: Librairie Chat, Beijing, China
Condition: Fine. Size: B6 size Number of books: 48 books in total.
Seller: Librairie Chat, Beijing, China
Condition: Fine. Size: B6 Number of books: 48 in total.