The Centenary Edition of Ian Fleming's James Bond Novels -
Ian Lancaster Fleming
2008 - Penguin 007, London - Centenary Edition, First Printings
A complete 14 volume collection of the Bond novels, issued to celebrate the 100th birthday of Ian Fleming (28th May 2008).
With the magnificently ‘retro’ style artwork by Michael Gillette to dust jackets.
A fine and particularly uncommon set, all first printings in first printing dust jackets, housed in a custom-made cloth slipcase with fleece lining and ribbon pulls, each dust jacket with archival cover.
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2008 - Penguin 007, London - Centenary Edition, First Printings
A complete 14 volume collection of the Bond novels, issued to celebrate the 100th birthday of Ian Fleming (28th May 2008).With the magnificently ‘retro’ style artwork by Michael Gillette to dust jackets.
A fine and particularly uncommon set, all first printings in first printing dust jackets, housed in a custom-made cloth slipcase with fleece lining and ribbon pulls, each dust jacket with archival cover.
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Works -
Thomas Jefferson
1853-55 - John C. Riker, New York
‘I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man’
A superbly bound nine volume set of the first collected edition of the works of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, who voiced the aspirations of a new America as no other individual of his era. As public official, historian, philosopher, and plantation owner, he served his country for over five decades.
With folding facsimiles and tables. Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts deposited in the department of state. With explanatory notes, tables of contents, and a copious index to the whole, by the editor H. A. Washington.
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1853-55 - John C. Riker, New York
‘I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man’A superbly bound nine volume set of the first collected edition of the works of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, who voiced the aspirations of a new America as no other individual of his era. As public official, historian, philosopher, and plantation owner, he served his country for over five decades.
With folding facsimiles and tables. Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts deposited in the department of state. With explanatory notes, tables of contents, and a copious index to the whole, by the editor H. A. Washington.
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Westward Ho!; Hereward The Wake; Hypatia; Two Years Ago; Alton Locke -
Charles Kingsley
1896-1900 - Macmillan and Co., London -
A finely bound five volume set of Kingsley’s best known historic novels, ‘Hypatia’, ‘Hereward the Wake’ and ‘Westward Ho!’, the classic action-packed saga of romance and seafaring adventure set against the dramatic backdrop of Elizabethan England, the battle of the Spanish Armada, and the exploration of North America, illustrated by Charles Brock.
Together with ‘Alton Locke’, the story of a tailor-poet who rebels against the ignominy of sweated labor and becomes a leader of the Chartist movement, and ‘Two Years Ago’ about a doctor named Tom Thurnall and his friends as they deal with the effects of the Crimean War and a cholera epidemic, reflecting on social issues of the time, such as public health, slavery, and social reform.
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1896-1900 - Macmillan and Co., London -
A finely bound five volume set of Kingsley’s best known historic novels, ‘Hypatia’, ‘Hereward the Wake’ and ‘Westward Ho!’, the classic action-packed saga of romance and seafaring adventure set against the dramatic backdrop of Elizabethan England, the battle of the Spanish Armada, and the exploration of North America, illustrated by Charles Brock.Together with ‘Alton Locke’, the story of a tailor-poet who rebels against the ignominy of sweated labor and becomes a leader of the Chartist movement, and ‘Two Years Ago’ about a doctor named Tom Thurnall and his friends as they deal with the effects of the Crimean War and a cholera epidemic, reflecting on social issues of the time, such as public health, slavery, and social reform.
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Life and Writings of Thomas Paine -
Thomas Paine, Daniel Edwin Wheeler (editor)
1908 - Vincent Parke and Company, New York - Independence Edition of the Centenary Issue
‘These are the times that try men's souls’
Elegantly bound ten volume set of the de luxe independence edition, number 166 of just 500 hand-numbered sets signed by the editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler, published to celebrate the centenary of Paine's death.
Included are Paine’s ‘Common Sense’, ‘The American Crises’, ‘The Rights of Man’, and ‘The Age of Reason’, as well as essays, letters and speeches. Each volume with three photogravure or facsimile plates, as well as a frontispiece, title-pages printed in two colours, autographed limitation leaf to volume one.
‘On January 10, 1776, an obscure immigrant published a small pamphlet that ignited independence in America and shifted the political landscape of the patriot movement from reform within the British imperial system to independence from it. One hundred twenty thousand copies sold in the first three months in a nation of three million people, making Common Sense the best-selling printed work by a single author in American history up to that time. Never before had a personally written work appealed to all classes of colonists. Never before had a pamphlet been written in an inspiring style so accessible to the “common” folk of America.’ - Jack Miller Center.
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1908 - Vincent Parke and Company, New York - Independence Edition of the Centenary Issue
‘These are the times that try men's souls’Elegantly bound ten volume set of the de luxe independence edition, number 166 of just 500 hand-numbered sets signed by the editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler, published to celebrate the centenary of Paine's death.
Included are Paine’s ‘Common Sense’, ‘The American Crises’, ‘The Rights of Man’, and ‘The Age of Reason’, as well as essays, letters and speeches. Each volume with three photogravure or facsimile plates, as well as a frontispiece, title-pages printed in two colours, autographed limitation leaf to volume one.
‘On January 10, 1776, an obscure immigrant published a small pamphlet that ignited independence in America and shifted the political landscape of the patriot movement from reform within the British imperial system to independence from it. One hundred twenty thousand copies sold in the first three months in a nation of three million people, making Common Sense the best-selling printed work by a single author in American history up to that time. Never before had a personally written work appealed to all classes of colonists. Never before had a pamphlet been written in an inspiring style so accessible to the “common” folk of America.’ - Jack Miller Center.
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The Works -
Theodore Roosevelt, Hermann Hagedorn (editor), under the Auspices of The Roosevelt Memorial Association
1923-6 - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York - The National Edition
A finely bound twenty volume set of Roosevelt’s works. With additional notes to the beginning of each volume, sometimes biographical sometimes Roosevelt’s own notes.
The complete set of writings and essays including: The Rough Riders, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, The Winning of the West, African Game Trails, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, etc.
Roosevelt was an historian, a biographer, a statesman, a hunter, a naturalist, and an orator. His prodigious literary output includes twenty-six books, over a thousand magazine articles, thousands of speeches and letters. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906, in his position as President of the United States of America and collaborator of various peace treaties.
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1923-6 - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York - The National Edition
A finely bound twenty volume set of Roosevelt’s works. With additional notes to the beginning of each volume, sometimes biographical sometimes Roosevelt’s own notes.The complete set of writings and essays including: The Rough Riders, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, The Winning of the West, African Game Trails, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, etc.
Roosevelt was an historian, a biographer, a statesman, a hunter, a naturalist, and an orator. His prodigious literary output includes twenty-six books, over a thousand magazine articles, thousands of speeches and letters. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906, in his position as President of the United States of America and collaborator of various peace treaties.
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A Trilogy of Epic Historic Poems - Marmion; The Lady of the Lake; Rokeby -
Sir Walter Scott
1808 - Archibald Constable & John Ballantyne, Edinburgh - Fourth, Twelfth, and Second Editions respectively
An early trilogy of three of Sir Walter Scott’s most popular epic historical poems, uniformly bound in contemporary tan tree-calf.
‘Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field’ – ‘Marmion was Walter Scott’s second historical romance and one of his most popular epic poems. The chivalric tale of love, betrayal, loyalty and honour ends with the English victory over James IV of Scotland at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.’
‘The Lady of the Lake, A Poem’ – ‘Scott’s Highland poem concerning the struggle between King James V and the powerful clan Douglas. Composed of six cantos, and set in the Trossachs of the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century, it mines Gaelic history to retell a well-known legend of graceful, feudal heroine, Ellen Douglas, and the contest between three young men to win her love.
A huge critical and commercial success at the time of its first publication, breaking all records for the sale of poetry, and cementing Scott’s fame and reputation as a poet in both Britain and the United States.
‘Rokeby; A Poem’ – ‘After the monumental success of his Highland poem The Lady of the Lake (1810), for his next historical epic poem, Walter Scott moved the setting to England, perhaps to appease his increasing English readership. Set in County Durham during the English Civil Wars, in the immediate aftermath of the Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.’
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1808 - Archibald Constable & John Ballantyne, Edinburgh - Fourth, Twelfth, and Second Editions respectively
An early trilogy of three of Sir Walter Scott’s most popular epic historical poems, uniformly bound in contemporary tan tree-calf.‘Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field’ – ‘Marmion was Walter Scott’s second historical romance and one of his most popular epic poems. The chivalric tale of love, betrayal, loyalty and honour ends with the English victory over James IV of Scotland at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.’
‘The Lady of the Lake, A Poem’ – ‘Scott’s Highland poem concerning the struggle between King James V and the powerful clan Douglas. Composed of six cantos, and set in the Trossachs of the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century, it mines Gaelic history to retell a well-known legend of graceful, feudal heroine, Ellen Douglas, and the contest between three young men to win her love.
A huge critical and commercial success at the time of its first publication, breaking all records for the sale of poetry, and cementing Scott’s fame and reputation as a poet in both Britain and the United States.
‘Rokeby; A Poem’ – ‘After the monumental success of his Highland poem The Lady of the Lake (1810), for his next historical epic poem, Walter Scott moved the setting to England, perhaps to appease his increasing English readership. Set in County Durham during the English Civil Wars, in the immediate aftermath of the Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.’
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Classic Cricket Reminiscences, Memoirs, and Autobiographies - Six Volumes -
Various Authors
1888-1977
Felix on the Bat : Being a Memoir of Nicholas Felix, Together with the Full Text of the Second Edition of Felix on the Bat – by Gerald Brodribb. - One of the all time classic works on cricket first published in 1845, together with the first edition of Brodrib’s biography of Nicholas ‘Felix’ Wanostrocht (1804-76), the noted English amateur (’Gentleman’) cricketer, classical scholar, musician, linguist, inventor, writer and artist. When his father died in 1824 Wanostrocht inherited the running of his school, aged only nineteen, and afraid that the parents of pupils might think that cricket was too frivolous a pastime for a schoolmaster he played under the name of ‘Felix’. Felix was a mainstay of the great Kent team of the mid-19th century alongside such players as Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman... And with five such mighty cricketers 'twas but natural to win, As Felix, Wenman, Hillyer, Fuller Pilch and Alfred Mynn. He also invented the Catapulta (a bowling machine) as well as India-rubber batting gloves.
The Game of Cricket – by Frederick “Old Buffer” Gale (1823-1904), one of the most loved cricket writers of his generation, see the frontispiece for a portrait of the “Old Buffer” aka “Wykhamist” his two nom-de plumes. Favourite chapter - ‘Cricket Homilies’. [Second Edition of 1888]
The Walkers of Southgate: A Famous Brotherhood of Cricketers – Seven brothers for seven bats? Born between 1826 and 1844, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge educated, founders of the Southgate Cricket Club in 1855, a Middlesex team in 1859, the official Middlesex County Cricket Club in 1864, and instrumental in establishing the home of the county at Lords in 1877. Both the United All-England team and the MCC would visit Southgate to take on the seven brothers and their team, attended by crowds of up to 10,000. A fabulous book by Walter Ambrose Bettesworth (1856-1929) one of Cricket’s greatest writers, interspersed with reminiscences by famous players and authors. [First Edition of 1900]
The Book of Cricket – by Sir Pelham ‘Plum’ Warner, the ‘Grand Old Man’ of English cricket, captain of Middlesex and England and editor of The Cricketer. [First Edition of 1911]
A Cricketer’s Log – by Gilbert Laird Jessop (1874-1955), nicknamed the "Croucher", ‘one of the most exciting players of his, or any era. A fast bowler good enough to be selected for England purely in this role, a superlative cover fielder, Jessop is best remembered for his thrilling batsmanship. To quote HS Altham "no cricketer that has ever lived hit the ball so often, so fast and with such a bewildering variety of strokes". He held the record for the fastest double century in first class cricket - 120 minutes in 1903, only surpassed by Shastri in 1984 (113 minutes) and Shafiqulllah Shinwari in 2017 (103 minutes). Jessop’s great innings included 286 in less than 3 hours, 157 runs in an hour against the West Indian team of 1900, and famously, the century that won the Oval Test of 1902. Going in with England 48/5 he made 104 out of 139 in 75 minutes, taking England to an improbable victory’[ESPNcricinfo]. [First Edition of 1922]
The King of Games – by Frank Woolley (1887-1978), one of the finest and most elegant left-handed all-rounders of all time. In a first-class career extending from 1906 to 1938 he hit 58,969 runs - a total exceeded only by Sir Jack Hobbs - including 145 centuries, to average 40.75; he took 2,066 wickets for 19.87 runs each, and he held 1,018 catches, mainly at slip, a record which remains unsurpassed. Bill Woodfull, who captained Australia in 25 test matches said Woolley "made the game look so untidy. It appeared as if the wrong bowlers were on and the fieldsmen all in the wrong places”. [First Edition of 1936]
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1888-1977
Felix on the Bat : Being a Memoir of Nicholas Felix, Together with the Full Text of the Second Edition of Felix on the Bat – by Gerald Brodribb. - One of the all time classic works on cricket first published in 1845, together with the first edition of Brodrib’s biography of Nicholas ‘Felix’ Wanostrocht (1804-76), the noted English amateur (’Gentleman’) cricketer, classical scholar, musician, linguist, inventor, writer and artist. When his father died in 1824 Wanostrocht inherited the running of his school, aged only nineteen, and afraid that the parents of pupils might think that cricket was too frivolous a pastime for a schoolmaster he played under the name of ‘Felix’. Felix was a mainstay of the great Kent team of the mid-19th century alongside such players as Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman... And with five such mighty cricketers 'twas but natural to win, As Felix, Wenman, Hillyer, Fuller Pilch and Alfred Mynn. He also invented the Catapulta (a bowling machine) as well as India-rubber batting gloves.The Game of Cricket – by Frederick “Old Buffer” Gale (1823-1904), one of the most loved cricket writers of his generation, see the frontispiece for a portrait of the “Old Buffer” aka “Wykhamist” his two nom-de plumes. Favourite chapter - ‘Cricket Homilies’. [Second Edition of 1888]
The Walkers of Southgate: A Famous Brotherhood of Cricketers – Seven brothers for seven bats? Born between 1826 and 1844, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge educated, founders of the Southgate Cricket Club in 1855, a Middlesex team in 1859, the official Middlesex County Cricket Club in 1864, and instrumental in establishing the home of the county at Lords in 1877. Both the United All-England team and the MCC would visit Southgate to take on the seven brothers and their team, attended by crowds of up to 10,000. A fabulous book by Walter Ambrose Bettesworth (1856-1929) one of Cricket’s greatest writers, interspersed with reminiscences by famous players and authors. [First Edition of 1900]
The Book of Cricket – by Sir Pelham ‘Plum’ Warner, the ‘Grand Old Man’ of English cricket, captain of Middlesex and England and editor of The Cricketer. [First Edition of 1911]
A Cricketer’s Log – by Gilbert Laird Jessop (1874-1955), nicknamed the "Croucher", ‘one of the most exciting players of his, or any era. A fast bowler good enough to be selected for England purely in this role, a superlative cover fielder, Jessop is best remembered for his thrilling batsmanship. To quote HS Altham "no cricketer that has ever lived hit the ball so often, so fast and with such a bewildering variety of strokes". He held the record for the fastest double century in first class cricket - 120 minutes in 1903, only surpassed by Shastri in 1984 (113 minutes) and Shafiqulllah Shinwari in 2017 (103 minutes). Jessop’s great innings included 286 in less than 3 hours, 157 runs in an hour against the West Indian team of 1900, and famously, the century that won the Oval Test of 1902. Going in with England 48/5 he made 104 out of 139 in 75 minutes, taking England to an improbable victory’[ESPNcricinfo]. [First Edition of 1922]
The King of Games – by Frank Woolley (1887-1978), one of the finest and most elegant left-handed all-rounders of all time. In a first-class career extending from 1906 to 1938 he hit 58,969 runs - a total exceeded only by Sir Jack Hobbs - including 145 centuries, to average 40.75; he took 2,066 wickets for 19.87 runs each, and he held 1,018 catches, mainly at slip, a record which remains unsurpassed. Bill Woodfull, who captained Australia in 25 test matches said Woolley "made the game look so untidy. It appeared as if the wrong bowlers were on and the fieldsmen all in the wrong places”. [First Edition of 1936]
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The Ring of the Niblung -
Richard Wagner, Arthur Rackham (illustrator), Margaret Armour (translator)
1910 - William Heinemann, London - Edition de luxes, each one limited to 1, 150 copies signed by Rackham
A magnificent set of Rackham's dramatic interpretation of Wagner's libretti, in the large deluxe vellum bindings, each one numbered and signed by Rackham.
Wagner’s ‘Trilogy, with a Prelude’, his libretti for The Ring of Niblung cycle, stunningly illustrated by Arthur Rackham, featuring sixty-four beautiful tipped-in colour plates each with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-three black and white drawings across two volumes.
Translated from the German into English by Margaret Armour.
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1910 - William Heinemann, London - Edition de luxes, each one limited to 1, 150 copies signed by Rackham
A magnificent set of Rackham's dramatic interpretation of Wagner's libretti, in the large deluxe vellum bindings, each one numbered and signed by Rackham.Wagner’s ‘Trilogy, with a Prelude’, his libretti for The Ring of Niblung cycle, stunningly illustrated by Arthur Rackham, featuring sixty-four beautiful tipped-in colour plates each with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-three black and white drawings across two volumes.
Translated from the German into English by Margaret Armour.
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