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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1959 ('special edition')/ 1959. Tall octavo, 536 pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs) and a map plus an errata slip mounted on the verso of the half-title, and endpaper maps. Cloth slightly bumped at the top corners; edges a little discoloured, with the top edge foxed; a very good copy with the good unclipped dustwrapper a little worn, and moderately sunned on the spine. A small label mounted on the verso of the title page states this is number 711 of a maximum of 2000 copies of a 'special edition' issued by Sidgwick & Jackson. The edition comprises copies of the first US edition (Grove Press, 1959), with a variant dustwrapper and a 'London | Sidgwick & Jackson' label mounted over the original publisher's details at the foot of the title page.…

Condition: Sehr gut. Large Octavo (17.2 cm wide x 25.5 cm). 626 pages with numerous photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The very rare Olympia Press Edition. Chapters in this monumental publication are: Irish Childhood / Africa / The Congo Report / The 1903 Diary / The Putumayo / The 1910 Diary / The Putumayo Report / The Awakening of Ireland / The Trial / The Aftermath / Appendix: The 1911 Diary Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo Free State and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru. In Africa as a young man, Casement first worked for commercial interests before joining the British Colonial Service. In 1891 he was appointed as a British consul, a profession he followed for more than 20 years. Influenced by the Second Boer War and his investigation into colonial atrocities against indigenous peoples, Casement grew to mistrust imperialism. After retiring from consular service in 1913, he became more involved with Irish republicanism and other separatist movements. During World War I, he made efforts to gain German military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising that sought to gain Irish independence. He was arrested, convicted and executed for high treason. He was stripped of his knighthood and other honours. Before, during and after the trial, British security agents and police showed typescripts prepared by the Metropolitan police to influential persons. These were said to be official copies of his private journals which detailed homosexual activities. Given prevailing views and existing laws on homosexuality, this material undermined support for clemency. Disputes have continued about these diaries; a private handwriting comparison study in 2002 concluded that Casement had written the diaries, but this was contested by several scholars. Casement worked in the Congo for Henry Morton Stanley and the African International Association from 1884; this association became known as a front for King Leopold II of Belgium in his takeover of what became the so-called Congo Free State. Casement worked on a survey to improve communication and recruited and supervised workmen in building a railroad to bypass the lower 220 miles (350 km) of the Congo River, which is made unnavigable by cataracts, in order to improve transportation and trade to the Upper Congo. During his commercial work, he learned African languages. In 1890 Casement met Joseph Conrad, who had come to the Congo to pilot a merchant ship, Le Roi des Belges ('King of the Belgians'). Both were inspired by the idea that "European colonisation would bring moral and social progress to the continent and free its inhabitants 'from slavery, paganism and other barbarities.' Each would soon learn the gravity of his error." Conrad published his short novel Heart of Darkness in 1899, exploring the colonial ills. Casement later exposed the conditions he found in the Congo during an official investigation for the British government. In these formative years, he also met Herbert Ward, and they became longtime friends. Ward left Africa in 1889, and devoted his time to becoming an artist, and his experience there strongly influenced his work. Casement joined the Colonial Service, under the authority of the Colonial Office, first serving overseas as a clerk in British West Africa. In August 1901 he transferred to the Foreign Office service as British consul.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The English-issue of the first edition, limited to 2,000 numbered copies (this being #288). Royal 8vo. 536pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers and scores and scores of photographs and manuscript reproductions. Errata slip pasted to the half-title verso. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some considerable fading to the publisher's red spine panel colouring, a touch of wear to one or two extremities, and a short internally repaired edge-tear. Several related newspaper clippings laid-in.…

AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY, WITH TWO UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT LETTERS CITED IN THE STANDARD OLYMPIA PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY. One of 2,000 copies of the first British edition. (Actually this "British edition" was created by taking 2,000 copies of the first American (Grove Press) edition to England, putting a sticker over the imprint, and issuing a new dustjacket.) LAID IN ARE TWO EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TYPED LETTERS SIGNED--ABOUT 1,000 WORDS--FROM THE EDITOR, SINGLETON-GATES, on his letterhead, to a correspondent in Nothern Rhodesia (later Zambia) (!). In these unpublished letters, written during the 1960s, Singleton-Gates describes his feelings towards Casement. He also describes, in passionate terms, the fascinating circumstances surrounding the publication of these scandalous diaries, and the numerous obstacles he faced, including copyright and censorship issues. He furthermore explains his various other projects relating to Casement, none of which came to fruition. It is fair to say that these letters shed considerable light on the limits of press freedoms in Britain during the late 50s and 60s, as well as on the way Casement's heirs felt about his legacy. THESE LETTERS ARE CITED--and briefly excerpted--on pp. 60-61 of Patrick Kearney's bibliography, The Paris Olympia Press (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2007). Also laid in are numerous newspaper clippings from 1959 and 1960, all relating to the publication. 4to. Publisher's cloth. Fine and bright, in a very good price-clipped dj.…

The Olympia Press, 1959. Hardcover (clothbound). 25 x 16 cm. With illustrations in b/w. 626 pag. Numbered copy. 418. - Good condition. [Biography / international [(Auto)Biografieën] Geschiedenis (History) / Algemeen / General [Algemene Geschiedenis] ].