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

First Edition. 3 volumes, small 8vo. (15cm x 10.5cm), titles, 3 engraved frontispieces, engraved plates, textual illustrations, 2 maps (1 folding), appendix to Volume II with information on the medicines and surgical instruments utilised during the expedition, pp. lxiv, 272; vii, 321; vii, 354. Handsomely bound in half morocco, raised bands, the spine lettered and dated in gilt, all edges marbled, Old Court Bindery Signature to front turn-ins, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title pages. Published by John Murray (London), 1832.
Occasional light spotting and browning, light remnants from old tape repairs to 4 pp. in Volume II, stain to 2 pp. in Volume II from an old bookmark. A very good set of this landmark account on African exploration.
The successful expedition of 1830 was Richard Lander's second expedition of the River Niger. Richard was the sole survivor from the first 1825 expedition which only made it as far as Sokoto, with the rest of the expedition team dying of malaria.
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A Photograph of John Le Carre at his home in 2017. Signed by John Le Carre. 6x 4 inches. In fine condition.

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A Photograph of John Le Carre in front of a Book Case at his home in 2017. Signed across the image by John Le Carre. 6x 4 inches. In fine condition.

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Uncorrected Proof Copy. Softcover, trial dust jacket design, sale, publication details and blurb to rear panel, pp. 306. Published by Penguin, Viking, US, 2016.

A fine 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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A Photograph of John Le Carre in a full length portrait. Signed by John Le Carre. 10x 8 inches. In fine condition.
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First edition. Signed by the Author to the title page. 8vo, Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket; priced at £5.95, pp. 327, Goldsboro Books bookmark and newspaper article loosely inserted. Published by Hodder and Stoughton (London) 1980.

A fine example with just a hint of wear to the top of the spine of the dust jacket. Signed copies of this title in collectible condition are becoming increasingly scarce since John Le Carre's sad recent passing.

This copy has notable provenance containing the engraved bookplate of the Fanshawe of Richmond (March 1927 – December 2001), a Conservative politician and businessman, to the front pastedown.

The final title in Le Carré's Karla Trilogy.

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Goldsboro Books Signed & Matching Number Set.
THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO. A Limited Edition, 1 of 250 copies, signed and numbered by the Author, this being copy number 144. 8vo., Publisher's white boards, spine lettered in gilt, gilt sprayed edges, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 378. Published by Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, in association with Goldsboro Books, 2019.
A fine copy. Signed by the Author with her name and the inscription, "Sometimes we create illusions so powerful, so that we do not get lost in the darkness."
SONGBIRDS. A Limited Edition, 1 of 250 copies, signed and numbered by the Author, this being copy number 144. 8vo., Publisher's blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, gilt sprayed edges, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 372. Published by Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, in association with Goldsboro Books, 2021.
A fine copy. Signed and dated by the Author.
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Third edition. Nine Volumes in Five. 8vo., bound in full tooled calf (240 x 145mm), engraved frontispiece, engraved plates and illustrations. Printed from Mr Hearne's corrected copy in the Bodleian Library. Printed at the Theatre; For James Fletcher, in the Turl, and Joseph Pote, at Eton College, 1770.
A little rubbing to the corners of the bindings, two small black marks to the spine of one volume, occasional minor browning. A very good copy.
These volumes have an interesting provenance containing two notable bookplates; William Garnett, Esq. (1818-1873) of Bleasdale and Quernmore Park, Co. Lancaster, and George Ormerod, LL. D, DCL, F.R.S. & F.S.A. (1785-1873) of Sedbury Park, Gloucestershire.
The Latin inscription of William Garnett's armorial bookplate reads "Diligentia et Honore". William Garnett was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Lancaster in 1857. He resigned his seat in 1864, thus becoming steward of the Manor of Northstead. (Oxford DNB.)
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First Edition. 8vo., title, half-title, colour frontispiece protected with tissue guard, profusely illustrated throughout with numerous monochrome illustrations and diagrams, including one folding plate. Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd (London), 1948.
Finely bound in a later Cosway-style full navy full morocco by Bayntun Riviere in Bath with their binder's signature to the front turn-in, the upper cover with inset hand-coloured oval portrait of Admiral Hood (1724-1816) under glass, the miniature within a gilt-tooled border, double rule gilt border to covers, foliate spray corner pieces, spine separated into compartments by five raised bands finished in gilt, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, turn-ins with gilt fillets, watered silk endpapers, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown.
A fine example.
This work provides a comprehensive history of the Royal Navy's origins, ships, officers, seamen, administration, important battles, weaponry, and… Read More