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Jonathan Cape London 1957. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. First edition, First Printing in original black cloth boards with embossed silver gun and red rose to cover, Fine copy with no inscriptions very crisp and clean. First issue dust jacket very good or better with nicking to corners and light scuffing to spine and joints. Not clipped.

Jonathan Cape London 1962. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition first impression 1962. A Fine copy of the first printing. Dust Jacket has trivial creasing to head of spine but is otherwise Fine. Not clipped no ownership marks, in a protective removable acetate

Jonathan Cape London 1963. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition First printing in original black boards, a Fine copy in a Near Fine Jacket, with the slightest of bumping to spine ends, slightly sunned spine and minor soiling to covers. No ownership marks, not clipped and in a protective wrapper.

Cape London 1955. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition, First Impression ("shoot" on p10) 1955, Cape. Original black cloth, silver lettering to spine and upper cover, previous owner's gift inscription to pastedown, ordinarily hidden by Jacket flap. Top edge lightly spotted. First issue dust-jacket, general light toning, price-clipped, repairs to joints, spine faded. More photographs available on request. Presents well on the shelf. In acetate protector.

Macmillan New York 1960. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. First USA Edition, First Impression 1960, Original cloth in superb Fine condition. Dust-jacket nicked and chipped at spine ends else a Fine bright example. No ownership markings. Not clipped. In a protective acetate.

London: The Viking / Penguin Press, 2002 . First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First editions, first impressions thus. One of 1,000 sets of the original James Bond titles, issued to commemorate the half century of the completion of Casino Royale in 1952. This hardback set was the first Penguin Books edition after their securing the rights to the series for a decade. It includes the original short story "007 in New York", published here for the first time in the UK in book-form, as part of the anthology Octopussy and the Living Daylights. A Fine set in Fine Jackets. Mint.

Jonathan Cape London 1965. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition First printing in original black boards, small bookseller's sticker to front endpaper else a Fine copy in a Near Fine Jacket with a few tiny marks to upper panel (see photo). Not clipped and no ownership marks. In an acetate protector. Second state binding without the golden gun as almost all copies.

Cape, 1959. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First Impression Cape 1959. Close to Fine in publisher's black cloth with blind-stamped skull and gilt coins for eyes one corner lightly bumped, a price in ink on rear pastedown, else clean and bright. Dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping with minor chipping to spine ends, thin line of browning to top 5 mm of lower panel. Note: a first issue binding, denoted by the 3mm indent on the skull of the upper cover, and with 15s price on the inner flap of the dust-jacket.

Macmillan New York 1955. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. First USA Edition, First Impression 1955, Original black cloth, gilt motif to upper cover, tiny stamp "50" to top and bottom edges of textblock, else Fine. Dust-jacket price clipped (though still retaining the price of $3) Small stain to inner edge of rear flap (photo). No ownership markings. In a protective acetate. Very Good collector's copy, presents very well on the shelf.

Cape London 1961. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First Impression 1961, Cape. Inscribed by actress Martine Beswick, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) Original black cloth with skeletal hand blind-stamped to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, small mark to upper cover, else Fine. Dust-jacket extremities slightly bumped, a few tiny closed tears without loss. Inscribed "Martine Beswick 'Paula' " Martine played Paula Caplan' in the 1963 film of Thunderball. James Bond and Paula go undercover in search of two missing atomic bombs. Paula is captured but, rather than divulge information, she commits suicide by cyanide. She also played the gypsy girl 'Zora' in 'From Russia With Love'. An excellent collector's copy. Signed by Author

Hollinwood, Lancashire: Ferranti, Ltd. 1951.. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. The first book ever about a computer game. "Faster Than Thought: The Ferranti Nimrod Digital Computer." 8vo booklet, publisher's printed card covers, bound with staples, Hollinwood, Lancashire: Ferranti, Ltd. 1951. A FINE copy has tremendous interest to the Computing / AI history. Ferranti built a computer specifically yo play their game "Nim" at the 1951 Festival of Britain. The public were given access to play and included Alan Turing. "Alan spent August 1951 at Cambridge as usual, and from there a party went down on the train to London for the Festival of Britain. They went to the Science Museum in South Kensington where the science and technology exhibits were housed. They came across the NIMROD, which Ferranti were exhibiting. The Ferranti people were pleased to see Alan and said, 'Oh Dr Turing, would you like to play the machine?' which of course he did, and knowing the rule himself, he managed to win. The… Read More

Lund Humphries London, 2010. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. No 215/250 Deluxe Signed editions with the corresponding screenprint also signed, titled "Stratford". Fine screenprint, Fine book in A Fine Dustjacket and slip-case. Mint. Signed by Author

Mequignon-Marvis, Paris, 1821. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition Maladies de l'Oreille et de l'Audition, 2 vol., half-titles, 3 folding engraved plates of instruments and hearing aids, text a little browned, old book-label of J.-C. A. Recamier pasted to verso of titles, Haskell F.Norman's copy with his modern book-label, later boards, uncut, preserving original paper labels on spines, rubbed at edges, [Norman 1146], Paris, 1821 [4] xvi 396pp & [4] 522pp 3 plates.  J.M.G.Itard (1774-1838) was one of the first specialists in otology and his treatise did much to establish the subject.Recamier was the first to recognise the process of metastasis in cancer.