Search Results: Titles starting with G from GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS (PBFA)

First Edition. 8vo., 8 lithograph plates; 7 hand-coloured, 1 tinted, pp. 456. Bound in modern green half morocco gilt by Walter Craven. Published by John van Voorst (London), 1860.
A manuscript correction to one word on p. 423, a little spotting and offsetting from the photographic portrait. Near fine.
A Presentation copy, inscribed by the Author to the front endpaper: "To Alice M. Vidler, with the kindest love of the author, Oct 22nd 1877". With a newspaper portrait of the Author beneath, and a photographic portrait of the same aged 88, pasted to frontispiece verso.
There is a further note tipped in at the end of the Book by the previous owner, with information regarding the purchase of the Book and Binder Information. The note reads as follows:
"This book was purchased by me for £2 from the house opposite Dove Cottage in Grasmere. About 1982. The house was being used as a ticket office – it perhaps still is – but occasionally, in those days, it used the upper rooms as a shop. The book was… Read More

A Signed Limited Edition; 8vo, Publisher's crimson buckram, wood engraving frontispiece by William Roberts, with an Introduction by Richard Aldington, top edge gilt, gilt lettering, others uncut, pp. 36, privately printed, 1930.
This is number 492 of 500 copies signed by the Author, and further inscribed to the recipient of the book Arthur Dawson, with a long quotation from the work on front free endpaper. The inscription reads:
"To Arthur Dawson.
Yours sincerely
James Hanley
Remember young Dollan mounting that old woman. Looked like a bloody witch. I still remember her nearly bald head.
Well!
Any you chucked young Dollan off, and got into bed with her yourself.
Page 29."
A very good example.
The German Prisoner is the terrible story of two soldiers and their sadistic treatment of a young German prisoner in a shell-hole of No Man's Land during the First World War.
Richard Aldington (1892-1962), a committed pacifist by 1930, sponsored the private publication of The German Prisoner, and wrote an… Read More

First Edition.Octavo, original cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket designed by Michael MacManus, pp. 251. Published by Hamish Hamilton (London), 1981.
A neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, a little pulling to the spine ends, gentle fading to the spine of the dust jacket, though not as much as is usually the case. A Near Fine copy.
Signed by the Author to the title page, with the signing event ticket laid in, indicating the date and location where the book was signed.
According to the Author, only 1,500 copies of his first title were produced in the first print run. It is rarer still to obtain an attractive copy of this title signed by the Author. A wonderful addition to any Modern Firsts' Collection.
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