Search Results: Authors starting with K from GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS (PBFA)

First Deluxe Edition, First Impression. 8vo, Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated panel by Cliff Wright, Author's facsimile signature blocked in gilt, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker, green endpapers. Published by Bloomsbury (London), 1999.
A new book which was sealed in the Publisher's original shrink-wrap; carefully removed to check the Book's first printing status, and then replaced.
The elusive title in collecting the Deluxe Editions of the Harry Potter series. Only 1,000 copies of this first deluxe edition were issued by Bloomsbury in 1999. Rare to find in fine condition and so carefully cared for. (Errington, Philip W., J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography.)
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And More Particularly On Those Parts Of It Which Relate To The Surgeon General.
First Edition. 4to, half title, appendix, index, 160 pp. Bound in modern half calf, red morocco spine label, publication date lettered in gilt to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers. Printed for J. Hatchard (190, Piccadilly), 1808.
A fine copy of Thomas Keate's controversial Report. Rarely encountered complete with the half title, and in such collectible condition.
Thomas Keate Esquire, F.R.S (1745-1821) "was an excellent surgeon, and was the first to tie the subclavian artery for aneurysm. But he was unpunctual and negligent of his hospital duties, and wrote little on surgery. He published several controversial papers, the chief being Observations on the Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry." (ODNB).
Keate was appointed Army Surgeon-General in 1798 and his controversial 1808 Report highlighted numerous issues such as failings by the medical board in irregular and inappropriate appointments,… Read More

Octavo (7.5 x 5.25 inches), frontispiece portrait of John Keats from a drawing by Joseph Severn; protected with tissue guard, lxxxii, pp. 491. Beautifully bound for Sotheran's in half red morocco, over red boards, spine in six compartments with floral tooling, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Published by Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1925.

A fine copy in a beautiful binding.

"The whole of Keats's known works in verse are included in this volume; and the foot-notes contain a large selection of variorum readings. Sixteen lines of The Eve of St. Mark, found by the Editor in a Keats scrap-book lent to him by Mr. Frank Sabin, and given in the Introduction, have not been printed in any other edition. The Editor has endeavoured, in the introduction, to acknowledge all obligations." (Prefatory Note.)

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Folio (38 * 28cm), half-title, engraved engraved title-frontispiece produced by Claude Mellan after Jacques Stella, pp. 550. Bound by Charles Hering, arguably the greatest of the German immigrant binders who came to London during the 19th century, in dark blue straight-grain morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt. Published by Imprimerie Royale (Paris), 1640. A clean copy with wide margins. A near fine example. A handsome example of the first book to be printed by the Imprimerie Royale established at the Louvre in 1640 by Cardinal Richelieu, after seven years and a total investment of 360,000 livres. Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) served as Chief Minister to King Louis XIII from 1624 until his death in 1642. This Christian devotional work was first produced in Latin in 1418. After the bible, it is the most widely reprinted book. "This little book never left me, in summer in my pocket, in winter in my sleeve. I knew almost all the chapters by heart." (Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux.)… Read More

A glossy black and white photograph from the 1997 Film, "The Spy Who Loved Me".
Unframed. 10 * 8 Inches. Signed by Sir Roger Moore. Additionally signed and inscribed by Richard Kiel "Jaws".
Fine condition.
A notable addition to a James Bond collection.
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