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First Edition. 8vo, exquisitely bound in full orange morocco over beveled boards, raised bands, black leather lettering-pieces in gilt to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear boards, all edges gilt, brown endpapers, pp. 179, housed in a custom-made slipcase. Published by Random House (New York), 1958.
Signed by the Author to a front blank leaf.
Some minor markings to pp. 168-171; not affecting any text, otherwise a fine copy. A binding truly befitting of this iconic work. A wonderful collector's piece, presenting beautifully on the shelf.
Capote's novella was published together with three other short stories: "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory." "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was adapted to film in 1961 by George Axelrod, starring Audrey Hepburn in her most memorable role as Holly Golightly. The film was released on 5 October 1961 to critical and commercial success, grossing $14 million on a $2.5 million budget.
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A Limited Edition. 1 of 250 copies, Numbered and Signed by the Author, Publisher's grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt embossed motif to upper board, housed in Publisher's grey cloth slip-case, sealed in Publisher's cellophane. Published by Penguin, Viking, London, 2017.
A fine copy.
"After 25 years, Smiley is back.… Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carré has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." (Publisher's Blurb.)
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First Printing of the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Signed by the Author to the title page. 8vo., Publisher's boards, spine lettered in red, Publisher's dust jacket. Published by Penguin (London), 2013.
A very minor knock to one corner of the boards, otherwise in pristine condition.
This Special Edition includes archival material and a new afterword by John Le Carre.
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A Limited Edition. 1 of 200 copies; only available from Hatchards, Number 103, Publisher's blue cloth; spine, front and rear board lettered in silver, decorative endpapers, afterword from John Le Carré's son Nick Cornwell, a facsimile of a manuscript page from the book, a portrait of the Author from his personal archive, housed in Publisher's blue cloth slip-case with silver dragon to front board. Published by Penguin, Viking, London, 2021.
A fine copy of John Le Carré's final work.
"Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak,… Read More

A Limited Edition. 1 of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the Author, Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original slip-case with photographic onlay, sealed in Publisher's cellophane. Published by Penguin, Viking, London, 2016.
A mint copy.
"From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carré has lived a unique life. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, this book invites us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters." (Publisher's Blurb.)
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First Edition. Octavo, 11 titles by Churchill listed to the verso of the half title, frontispiece portrait of Lady Randolph Churchill, profusely illustrated throughout with 28 illustrations and maps; of which many are full page plates, folding general map illustrating Churchill's journey during his capture, imprisonment and escape in South Africa/Mozambique during the Boer War. Bound in royal navy, half morocco gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled in six compartments, gilt lettering and gilt 'lion rampant' motifs in compartments, top edge gilt, pp. 392. Published by Thornton Butterworth (London), 1930.

Some occasional light spotting and browning, otherwise a fine copy in a beautiful binding.

This title is Winston Churchill's only volume of sustained autobiography, covering his formative years from his birth in 1874 until his election as MP for Oldham in 1900. According to the ODNB: "A witty and elegiac account of his youth shot through with regret at the decline of the social and imperial… Read More

4to, four ink corrections in Churchill's hand, with further minor corrections in red pencil, probably by the Publisher, circa 1934. A file hole to the upper outer corner, some toning and spotting at the corners. Very good.
This page comes from the proof of Churchill's tenth non-fiction work, Marlborough: His Life and Times, a Biography about his ancestor John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722).
Authenticated by Sotheby's.
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First Edition. 1 of 750 copies, this being 1 of 100 copies bound in original red nigerian goatskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London, gilt lettering to front fillet borders, gilt royal devices front and rear board, red floral endpapers, all edges gilt, printed on handmade paper. Two halftone portraits of King George VI by Yousuf Karsh and Dorothy Wilding, vi, 27, ii pp. Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1952. A fine copy of this charming miniature book, measuring 2.4 x 1.6 inches. This book records Winston Churchill's public broadcast on the 7th February 1952, following the untimely death of King George VI, Father of Queen Elizabeth II. Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.

With an Appendix. To which are added, Letters to Dr. Clarke concerning liberty and necessity; From a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge: With the Doctor's Answers to them. Also Remarks upon a Book, Entitled, A Philosophical Enquiry Concerning Human Liberty.

First Edition. 8vo., xiij, (3, ad to reader & errata), 416, 46, (2, pub. ad) pp. Bound in contemporary panelled calf, rebacked preserving old spine, new morocco spine label. Published by J. Knapton (London) , 1717.

Some very minimal rubbing to the binding, otherwise a fine example.

This work provides important papers on the implications of Newton's ideas on mechanics. Dr. Clarke defended Newton against Leibnitz's accusations of atheism. (Babson 229.) "Clarke's most direct contribution to physics during the course of this correspondence came in a footnote to his fifth paper, in which he considered the problem of computing the force of a moving body." (D.S.B.).

The correspondence between Dr. Clarke and Leibniz continued to be highly… Read More

An Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) by Samuel Clemens regarding his nephew Samuel E. Moffett (1860–1908), with fascinating personal content and notable associations, to Colonel George Brinton McClellan Harvey (1864-1928).
ALS. 2pp. in black ink on a folded sheet of notepaper, dated Feb. 22 with no year present, but circa 1899 (the year that Colonel Harvey acquired the North American Review) to 1908 (the year of Samuel Moffett's death), 11.4cm*14.5cm, near fine.
The letter reads as follows:
"Dear Col. Harvey,
I asked my nephew, Samuel Moffett, some time ago to write something for the North American & I promised to submit it to you & see if you wanted it.
The subject is all right - it is the question which is working its way to the front now - & I am partial enough to think it is a good paper. But you are the final court.
Of course I wish Aldrich would consent, for what he says is grand praise & comes from an authority; but I am afraid to ask him. If I had arrived at it through someone else I should not… Read More

Second and Expanded Edition; "forte correcte" according to Roesch. 8vo (148 x 88mm.), Collation: A-K8 L4 (but lacking blank leaf L4). Bound in 18th century tan morocco, raised bands, gilt to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges sprinkled in red. Published by Leuven, (Reyner Velpius for) Martin Rotarius, 1551. A clean example in a pleasing binding; a little bowed and a touch of rubbing, otherwise fine. This work comprises of reports and letters sent home from Morocco by Nicolas Cleynaerts/Clenardus of Louvain (1493-1542), one of the earliest Orientalists and Arabic scholars of Western Europe. He visited Spain, Morocco and Portugal during the final years of his life, sending Latin letters "dated variously from 1535 to 1541" (Weber) to his friends back home in Belgium. To perfect his knowledge of Arabic literature he spent two years at Fez; he was then deported by the Moors for Christian propaganda (he had begun to translate the Bible into Arabic) and died at Granada in Spain, the last great bastion of… Read More

First Edition, Limited First Issue, one of 75 copies. 8vo., Publisher's printed wrappers, stappled, pp. 14. Printed for private circulation by H. J. Goulden, Limited (Canterbury), 1922.
Some toning to the printed wrappers, the rear cover faded, the staples a little rusted. A very good copy of the rare first issue.
The First Issue was printed without the half-title or title pages; these were added to the second printing at Conrad's request (Cagle A56a.) This work pays tribute to the Dover Patrol, who protected the coasts of Britain for British troops during WW1. Although "no figure of rhetoric can render justice to the quiet resolution of men making up for the inadequacy of [their] means," Conrad writes a great tribute to the Dover Patrol. (Keating 221; Cagle A56b.)
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First Edition [2], 400 pp, 8vo. (20 * 12cm), title, half-title, engraved frontispiece by Romanet; allegorical engraving of Mercury and Cupid titled: Mercure conduit par l amour, ou invention du langage et de l'ecriture, two folding plates, one printed in four colours, errata, text in French. Bound in early mottled calf with gilt borders, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands; marbled endpapers and edges. Published by Chez l'Auteur, Boudet, Valleyre, la Veuve Duchesne, Saugrain, Ruault (Paris), 1776. Light wear to boards; short closed tear at top margin of p. 384. A very good example. This copy has notable provenance containing the engraved bookplate of the distinguished French neurologist Dr François Moutier (1881-1961). Dr Moutier was also a very well respected book collector with an impressive private library of several thousand books. The first separate edition of this treatise on the universal origin of speech and language. A scarce and sought-after work, its importance is due to the presence of… Read More