FOWLES, John (1926-2005)

The Collector

London, Jonathan Cape, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the author's important first novel. 8vo: 283 [1]pp. Publisher's rust-colored cloth with matching top stain, spine stamped in gold; price-clipped first issue dust jacket (without reviews) illustrated by Tom Adams. A Fine, bright example, probably unread, with crimp to head of spine; about Fine jacket (light dust-soiling to back panel). A psychological thriller (and instant bestseller) about a repressed council clerk and butterfly collector, Edward Clegg, who kidnaps an art student, the talented, beautiful Miranda Grey. (The William Wyler film starred Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.) Almost the entire novel is set in the claustrophobic confines of the cellar where Clegg keeps Miranda until she eventually dies of pneumonia. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine-.

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FOWLES, John (1926-2005)

A Short History of Lyme Regis

London, Little, Brown, 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition (so stated) of this expanded edition of Fowles's A Brief History of Lyme, a 12-page pamphlet issued by the Friends of the Lyme Regis Museum in 1981. Slim, wide 8vo: 52,[2]pp, with numerous images of 19th- and early 20th-century prints and photographs. Publisher's robin's egg blue boards, spine lettered in gold; pictorial dust jacked, priced $13.50. An excellent, unread example (few spots of foxing to preliminaries only). In the late 1970s, Fowles concentrated mainly on nonfiction, producing several long essays, as well as this slim volume, which arose from his interests in local and natural history and a fascination with the southwest region of England. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine.

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FRANCIS, Dick (1920-2010)

Nerve

London, Michael Joseph, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the author's second novel, basis of the audio drama Breaking Point, starring Michael Kitchen. Crown 8vo (183 x 118mm): 238pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated dust jacket by Trevor Denning, priced 16s. A superlative copy, tightly bound (apparently unread) and clean throughout (top and fore-edges lightly spotted); about Fine jacket (orange on spine panel lightened to yellow). Someone is trying to destroy the lives of jockeys all over England. Francis was himself a steeplechase jockey, winning more than 350 races and becoming champion jockey of the British National Hunt. In 1956, as jockey to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, he rode Devon Loch in the Grand National. On the final straight, in front of the royal box just 40 yards from the winning post and five lengths ahead, Devon Loch collapsed. Francis later retired from the turf and began writing crime novels, more than forty of which became international bestsellers. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine-.

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FRITH, Francis (British, 1822-1898)

[Advertising] [Cover Title] Views of London

n.p. [but Australia], Bonnington's Carrageen or Irish Moss, 1895. Suite of Frith's views of London landmarks, including St. Paul's Cathedral, London Bridge, Houses of Parliament, and Piccadilly Circus. Sixteen tissue-guarded original carbon prints after Frith mounted onto heavy card (recto only) and bound into original red pebbled faux leather album (230 x 305 mm) stamped in gilt, each mount with pasted text extolling the virtues of Bonnington's Carrageen Irish Moss. Images (147 x 201mm) titled in the negative, and most numbered and initialed F.F. & Co. End papers, tissue guards, and mount margins spotted, but photographs fresh and free of foxing. An unusual and scarce repurposing of Francis Frith's images, intended as medical advertising for the Australasian market. Founded in 1856 in Reigate, Surrey, Francis Frith & Co. was the world's first specialist photography publisher. Frith began photographing Britain and its monuments in 1864, and became the first mass-producer and distributor of photographic images in England. Bonnington's Irish Moss (otherwise known as Pectoral oxymel of Carrageen) is a dark brown syrupy mixture of vinegar and an extract of seaweed (carrageen), sweetened with honey. It's inventor, Australian-born chemist George Bonnington (1837-1901), concocted the remedy in the 1850s for coughs, colds, asthma, influenza, and bronchitis. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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FROST, Robert (1874-1963)

The Gold Hesperidee [First State with Provenance]

Cortland, N.Y. The Bibliophile Press, 1935. Illustrated Wrappers. First Separate Edition, First State (with A on page 3 and long line on page 7). 8vo (186 x 123mm): 8pp. Publisher's tan stiff paper wrappers (Crane's Binding A of two first-state bindings), front cover ruled and lettered in black with vignette of top-hatted man beneath an apple tree by Anna Moore Newton McGraw (mother of the publisher, Earle Newton II), stitched at center fold with heavy brown cotton thread. One of 500 unnumbered copies printed, but allegedly all but 37 copies were recalled when the publisher noticed the clumsily long seventeenth line on p. 7 (subsequently corrected and the limitation statement reset in Issue B), although at least 67 additional first-state copies were later rubber-stamped "English" beneath the words "Copy number" on p. 2 and subsequently reissued. Clymer, pp. 67-68. Crane A19. First published in the September, 1921, issue of Farm and Fireside, then later collected in A Further Range (1936). According to the publisher's obituary (written by his daughter, Antoinette Newton, from whom this copy was acquired by J & J Hanrahan, Bookseller, with her typed note to Joyce and Jack Hanrahan laid in), Earle Newton II was Frost's student at Amherst, where Newton founded The Bibliophile Press. Intrigued by his student's burgeoning career as publisher, Frost offered him the chance to print the first separate edition of this poem. Newton's own copy of the poem is inscribed: "To Earle Newton, my best wishes in his next undertaking as a publisher, Robert Frost." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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FUSCO, Paul (1930-2020); Norman Mailer (Introduces)

[Photobook] Rfk Funeral Train

[London], [Magnum Photos in association with The Photographers' Gallery], 1999. Limited Edition. Card Covers. True First Edition, No. 183 of 350 print-on-demand copies (numbered on front cover and first page of text), issued to accompany an exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery, London, to demonstrate the potential of Xerox's new xerographic technology (according to the Magnum Photobook, only 200, not 350, copies were actually printed). Introduced by Norman Mailer. Oblong royal 8vo (167 x 250mm): [148]pp, including 68 full-page images of mourners along the tracks as Robert F. Kennedy's coffin was taken by rail to Arlington National Cemetery, printed on Xerox DocuColor 100 Digital Color Press (the later Umbrage Editions issue contains only 63). Original photo-illustrated card covers (with one of nine different cover images). An excellent example of this fragile production, tightly bound and clean throughout (virtually pristine). Parr & Badger II, 46. Magnum Photobook, pp. 118-19. On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. On assignment for Look magazine, Fusco accompanied the funeral train that carried Bobby's coffin from New York City (the body was flown east from California) to Washington D.C. creating thousands of intensely moving images of mourners from every section of society along the tracks (Kennedy's coffin, in the last carriage, was elevated to make it visible through large observation windows). "When viewed in sequence, either in the book or as a frieze on a gallery wall, [the photographs] have a powerful cinematic quality, and the sense of the train moving past this spontaneous people's guard of honor is almost hypnotic." (Parr & Badger) Fusco shot with Kodachrome, avoiding super-fast shutter speeds, "so that as the light slowly fades during the journey, the crowd seems to dissolve . 'America came out to mourn,' he later said, 'to weep, to show their respect and love for a leader, someone they believed in .'" (Magnum Photobook) Look published only one photograph—"not because they didn't like them," Fusco told Publishers Weekly in 2008, but because Look was a biweekly, and it was "a little behind the story." After the magazine folded in 1971, the photographs were sent to the Library of Congress, largely forgotten, except by Fusco. "As I remained the owner of my photos," he told L'Indépendant in 2008, "every five years, on the anniversary of Bobby's death, I offered them to magazines. They never took them." That is, until George magazine, one of whose founders was Senator Kennedy's nephew John F. Kennedy Jr. published some to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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GADDIS, William (1992-1998)

J R [Signed]

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. A superlative signed First Edition (so stated) of this "epic work," the "greatest satirical novel in American literature." (Literary Encyclopedia) Royal 8vo (236 x 152mm): [6],726,[4]pp. Publisher's black cloth, titled in gilt on spine and in blind on upper board, top edge stained pink, untrimmed fore-edge; illustrated dust jacket priced $15. Signed by Gaddis on half-title. Fine (and unread), very tightly bound and fresh throughout; Fine jacket. Twenty years after publishing his first book, The Recognitions, one of Time magazine's 100 best novels, Gaddis produced this highly acclaimed work, winner of the National Book Award. The first line of the novel presents its theme: "-Money..?". J R tells the story, through conversations, letters, and telephone calls (indeed, the novel's 726 pages contain very little but dialogue), of eleven-year-old J. R. Vansant, who accumulates an enormous fortune from his school's public telephone booth. Gaddis draws on a huge range of social and economic thinkers from Marx, to Max Weber, George Simmel, and George Bernard Shaw, whose interpretation of Wagner's Ring as an allegory of the rise of capitalism is central to J R. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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GAIL, Otto Willi (1896-1956); Max Valier (introduces)

[Spaceships] [Rockets] Mit Raketenkraft Ins Weltenall : Vom Feuerwagen Zum Raumschiff [Into Space with Rocket Power. From the Fire Truck to the Spaceship]

Stuttgart, K. Thienemanns Verlag, 1928. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. First Printing, in German, of this classic, an "incunabula" of rocket literature. Crown 8vo (203 x 142mm): 106,[6]pp, with eight inserted leaves of plates from photographs (of rockets, racing cars, and portraits) on coated stock and further illustrations and diagrams in text by Max Valier. Publisher's line-backed pictorial boards. An excellent example, about Fine, tightly bound and bright and clean throughout. Ciancone 71. Dedicated to Fritz von Opel, sponsor of the renowned Opel-Rocket car inspired by the Austrian rocketry pioneer Max Valier. Valier, who wrote the introduction to this work, was something of a daredevil, and became the first casualty of liquid-fuel rocket development in 1930, when his engine blew up during testing at his workbench. Gail was a respected German science journalist and close friend of Valier, whose science-fiction accounts were filled with realistic descriptions of rocket construction, launches, and the experiences of crews. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Space ships. Rockets (Aeronautics)

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth (1908-2006)

The Affluent Society

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated) of the Harvard economist's celebrated examination of America's post-World War II consumer economy and political culture. Demy 8vo: xii,[2],368pp. Publisher's bronze-colored cloth stamped in silver and black, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-cut; yellow typographic jacket lettered in black and silver and priced $5.00, with author's photo on back panel. Near Fine or better (spine ends a touch frayed); better than Very Good jacket (spine lettering lightly faded, flap folds and spine ends professionally restored, though not affecting lettering or design). Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction, 46. NYPL Books of the Century, p.145. Galbraith "saw as perilous the modern economy's focus on ever-increasing production. Such a focus increased the violence of boom-bust cycles and inflation, Galbraith argued, and masked growing social imbalance." (NYPL) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+/Very Good+.

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GALBRAITH, John Kenneth (1908-2006)

The Great Crash 1929

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First Impression. Hardcover. First British Edition of this classic account of the perhaps greatest speculative boom in history, setting the stage for the Great Depression. Demy 8vo (212 x 134mm): 186pp, with frontispiece reproduced from The New Yorker Magazine. Publisher's blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Neat manuscript ex-libris in red ink to fly leaf of Clive Gimson, house master of Bradfield College, dated November, 1955. An excellent example, tightly bound (top edge dust-soiled) and clean throughout. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors's works. Originally published the same year, in Boston. The 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation. This, one of Galbraith's first bestsellers, coincided with the 25th anniversary of the crash, when the crash and the Great Depression that followed were still raw memories, and stock prices were only then recovering to pre-crash levels. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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GATES, [Sidney] Barrington (1893-1973)

Poems

London, Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square, London, W.C.1, 1925. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Impression. 8vo: 112pp. Publisher's red and black marbled paper-covered boards, cream title label printed in black to upper board. A superlative copy (probably unread), binding firm and square, title label lightly spotted, contents clean other than occasional foxing spot. Scarce: the Woolmer bibliography states "number of copies printed not known but the Sussex ledger shows 60 copies sold by 19 January 1926." (Woolmer 62). The poet's second collection of poems, some previously published in The London Mercury, The Westminster Gazette, The Poetry Review, The New Highway and other literary magazines. Gates was an aeronautical engineer, present at the dawn of human flight, and member of the Royal Society, whose scientific researches focused on the stability and control of aircraft. But he was also a literary man, who contributed often to the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, and The New Statesman. Cargo, his first volume of poems, celebrated the wonder and love of nature, as well as lamented the anguish and pathos of war. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Near Fine+ .

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GAY, William Elbert (1941-2012)

Twilight

San Francisco, MacAdam / Cage, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (complete number line) of this Southern Gothic tale of an undertaker who hires a hitman to kill a nosy teenager. Demy 8vo (226 x 145mm): [2],234pp. Publisher's rose red cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gold, grey speckled end papers; photographically illustrated dust jacket designed by Dorothy Carico Smith and priced $25. A virtually pristine copy (short closed tear to jacket's front panel), tightly bound (unread) and clean throughout. The author's third novel, following The Long Home (1999), which was awarded the James A. Michener Memorial Prize, and Provinces of Night (2000). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine-.

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GILBRETH, Jr., Frank B. (1911-2001) and Carey, Ernestine Gilbreth (1908-2006)

Cheaper by the Dozen

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated) of this best-selling semi-autobiographical novel, which inspired the classic 1950 film starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, remade in 2003 starring Steve Martin. 8vo: [12],237,[1] pp, with full-page illustrations by Donald McKay. Publisher's bright orange cloth, spine stamped in navy blue, top edge stained French blue; dust jacket, illustrated by McKay, priced $3.00. Holmes Book Co. ticket to rear paste-down. A very pleasing, lightly read (if at all) copy, fresh and bright throughout. The authors's parents, Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, were "efficiency experts," whose house in Montclair, N.J. doubled as a real-world laboratory for time and motion studies. The book was adapted (more than once) for stage and film. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine-.

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GILPATRIC, Guy (1896-1950)

Mr. Glencannon Ignores the War

New York, E. P. Dutton, 1944. First Edition, as stated. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated). 8vo: 157pp. Publisher's grey cloth, the spine and upper board lettered in blue, the top edge stained brown. About Fine, about Fine pictorial dust jacket priced $2.00. Gilpatric was an American pilot, flight instructor, journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, best known for his short stories about Scottish ship engineer Colin Glencannon, published in the Saturday Evening Post and bundled in numerous books, such as this. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine-.

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GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997)

[Vinyl Record] [John Ciardi's Copy] [Beats] Allen Ginsberg Reads Howl and Other Poems; [Together with] Howl and Other Poems [No. 4 in the Pocket Poets Series]

n.p. / San Francisco, Fantasy / City Lights Bookshop, 1959. First Edition. First Pressing of this 33 1/3 rpm (12-inch) LP phonograph record (numbered 7006 on sleeve and vinyl), on which the poet recites (screams, begs, urges) "Howl" and other poems. Transparent red vinyl (not the later, more common black vinyl) with burgundy labels, plain paper slip, and original card sleeve printed in green, orange, and black. Stamped in red: "Promotional Copy / Not for Sale" on rear of sleeve, with ownership of poet John Ciardi faintly stamped on upper right corner of front and neat blue ball-point notes to rear, probably in Ciardi's hand, commenting on the readings (Ginsberg recites "Howl," "The Sunflower Sutra," "Footnote to Howl," "A Supermarket in California," "Transcription of Organ Music," "America," "In the Back of the Real," "Strange New Cottage in Berkeley," "Europe! Europe!," and "Kaddish."). Long printed introduction by Ginsberg on rear sleeve. Offered with Third Printing (so stated on rear cover and priced 75 cents) of the First City Lights Edition of Howl and Other Poems, dedicated to Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady and introduced by William Carlos Williams. Foolscap 8vo (157 x 121mm): 44pp. Black and white stapled card covers, inside covers blank, without separate white paper wraparound label of first two printings (now incorporated into cover design). LP's paper slip wrinkled but intact without tears, card sleeve lightly toned else about Fine. Book about Fine, pages slightly toned but clean throughout. Cook 4. Morgan F2a and A3. In October, 1956, with publication of Howl and Other Poems in an edition of 1000 copies by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookshop, came fame and notoriety. Ferlinghetti was charged with disseminating obscene literature and arrested, but Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, and the collection ultimately was translated into twenty-eight languages. "Howl" became as famous "as any American poem since Eliot's "The Waste Land" and is still an icon of the Beat generation as powerful as Kerouac's On The Road . It is meant to be recited, and in his recitations Ginsberg was filled with gusto; he gesticulated and screamed, begged, urged and took off his clothes. He was a lyric genius who, along with William Carlos Williams, was one of the greatest influences on the American poetical voice since Walt Whitman." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- / Fine- .

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