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

The exclusive, limited and numbered edition; 1 of 1,000 copies produced. The elusive first issue of this autobiography of Pele. 8vo., Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, Publisher's price of £30 to the rear cover, the wrapper priced at £18.99, illustrated throughout with photographs, endpapers with photograph of Pele scoring an overhead kick, pp. 357, housed in Publisher's slipcase. Published by Simon & Schuster (London), 2006.
A fine example.
A fascinating Autobiography of arguably the greatest player to ever play the beautiful game.
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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 de Luxe, 1 of 500 copies numbered and signed by Arthur Rackham. 4to., Publisher's vellum decoratively gilt, ties sympathetically replaced by the bindery of George Bayntun, lettered in gilt to spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, endpapers with pictorial map printed in blue to front free endpaper; pp. [vi], vii-xii + 125 + [i] + plates at rear; with pictorial title-page, coloured frontispiece, 49 additional coloured plates by Rackham, all mounted on brown stock with captioned tissue guards, text printed on fine laid paper. Published by Hodder & Stoughton (London), 1906.
Internally fine. Externally Near Fine, with light overall dusting and soiling, and minor marking to spine. A lovely example of this famous Children's classic and Arthur Rackham's first notable book illustration commission.
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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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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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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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18 postcards, numbered 1-18, with descriptions to verso of each, 90 x 140mm or vice versa. Printed in 1923 by the Mount Everest Committee.

The photographers were Wollaston, Howard-Bury, Noel and Somervell and the subjects include scenes of Everest, the Rongbuk monastery and glacier, various camps, Tibetan children, oxygen drill, group of the members of the expedition including Mallory, and "the highest photograph ever taken" at c.27,000ft, of the summits of the North Peak and Gyachung Khan, both below the photographer. A notable and interesting record of one of the key periods of Mountaineering history.

The postcards are in fine condition.

"The 1922 British Mount Everest expedition was the first mountaineering expedition with the express aim of making the first ascent of Mount Everest. This was also the first expedition that attempted to climb Everest using bottled oxygen. The expedition would attempt to climb Everest from the northern side out of Tibet. At the time, Everest could not be attempted… Read More

Illustrated edition. 8vo. (21 x 14 cm), illustrations by "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne) and others, complete with 16 plates, publisher's ads, preface, contents, title page, half-title, list of illustrations, pp. 687.

Bound in full levant crushed morocco, elaborately ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine sections tooled in gilt; top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, green silk ribbon. Published by Dodd, Mead & Company (New York), 1944.

A fine and beautifully bound copy.

The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens first successful novel which propelled him to becoming England's most well known Author. The Pickwick Papers "main literary value and appeal was formed by its numerous memorable characters...The Pickwick Papers are mostly a series of humorous misadventures, with a bit of satire, that give some insight into the mores of Victorian society. You can witness Dickens here working on a few prototypes that will show up in later novels...you also see his social consciousness manifesting itself"… Read More

Puffin Mormon Arcticus. Plate 454. A large Chromolithograph, unframed, 40 * 55.5 cm. Published by Julius Bien (New York), 1860.
A beautiful and rare natural history print, presenting in fine condition. A notable addition to any Natural History collection.
The Bien edition of Birds of America was reissued by Audubon's son, John Audubon in New York, commencing in 1858, in an effort to resolve the Audubon family's growing financial problems. The American Civil War brought an end to the project however, and only 15 parts, with 150 images had been produced. These prints, of which the Puffin Mormon Arcticus is one, are rarer than the Havell edition prints, which were produced in the UK.
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