CHEEVER, John (1912-1982); Anita Miller (1926-2018)

The Uncollected Stories of John Cheever 1930-1981 [Advance Reading Copy]; [Together with] the Uncollected Stories of John Cheever 1930-1981 [Advance Excerpt] [and Together with] Uncollecting Cheever: The Family of John Cheever Vs. Academy Chicago Publishers

Chicago, Academy Chicago Publishers [through 1998], 1988. First Edition. A trio of publications (Advance Reading Copy, Advance Excerpt, and First Printing), all unread and virtually pristine, documenting four years of litigation in state and federal courts that ended in a stop-publish order barring a volume of uncollected short stories by John Cheever. Demy 8vo (228 x 151; 228 x 151; 227 x 140mm): xx,534; iv,5-23,[1]; xii,363,[1]pp. The uncorrected proof was suppressed prior to publication due to a legal dispute with Cheever's estate. Original sky-blue blue wrappers printed in black. The excerpt was permitted publication in lieu of the first trade edition. Stiff blue card printed in orange on upper cover. Miller's account, Uncollecting Cheever, appeared in 1998. This collection of 68 stories (legally barred from publication or even circulated to reviewers in the form of this scarce advance ready copy) begins with Cheever`s first published story, ''Expelled,'' from a 1930 issue of the New Republic, and ends with his last, ''The Island,'' from a 1981 New Yorker, although most are from the early years (Cheever had chosen not to publish these early stories in collected form during his lifetime because he did not believe they measured up to his later works). The book's editor, Franklin Dennis, maintained that the Uncollected Stories not only offers examples of Cheever`s finest work, including two O. Henry prize-winners, but that it has significant historic value, showing ''his stunning evolution from proletarian writer to magical realist.'' A neighbor of the Cheevers, Dennis tracked down obscure and missing stories, then, with the family's approval, took the project to Academy Chicago, one of several publishers for which he worked as a freelance publicity agent. At that point, the Cheevers started legal proceedings to break their contract and take the book to a large New York publisher. Legally prohibited from sending out proof copies of the book to reviewers, Academy Chicago was allowed to distribute a booklet (the Advance Excerpt also on offer here, "not for sale") with part of Cheever biographer Scott Donaldson`s introduction and three of the stories. Donaldson says that half a dozen of the stories can be included with Cheever's best work "and that's enough to justify the book right there. Maybe another 15 or 20 are canonical Cheever." After a long and expensive legal battle, Academy Chicago lost the right to publish all the works but thirteen of the stories, which appeared in 1994, in a volume entitled Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories. The entire saga (albeit from the publisher's point of view) is recounted in Uncollecting Cheever: The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers. 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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CHESTERTON, G. K. (Gilbert Keith, 1874-1936)

The Innocence of Father Brown

London, Cassell, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of the first Father Brown book, a "cornerstone volume" (Pronzini & Muller ) and "one of the finest volumes of detective short stories ever written" (Queen), one of 5,000 copies. Crown 8vo (189 x 123mm): [8],336pp, with frontispiece and seven further plates tipped in. Publisher's red cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, older quarter-leather slipcase with chemise (faded at spine panel and edges). An excellent example, pages and plates clean and fresh (but fly-leaf offset), tightly bound with bright gilt. Sullivan A24. Queen (Detective Short Story), p. 21. Barzun and Taylor (Catalogue of Crime) 3677. Hubin I, p. 289. Queen's Quorum 47. Barzun and Taylor (Fifty Classics of Crime) 3. Pronzini & Muller, p. 133. ("It contains more classic short stories than almost any other mystery collection before or since. if Father Brown lacks the colorful eccentricities of Sherlock Holmes, if his solutions are often more intuition than deduction, this book is still a masterpiece, the single volume by which G. K. Chesterton is most likely to be remembered."). A collection of ten short stories that appeared originally in two British periodicals, Storyteller and Cassell's Magazine ("The Blue Cross," "The Eye of Apollo," "The Flying Stars," "The Hammer of God," "The Honor of Israel Gow," "The Invisible Man," "The Queer Feet," "The Secret Garden," "The Sign of the Broken Sword," "The Sins of Prince Saradine," "The Three Tools of Death," and "The Wrong Shape"), initiating Chesterton's long-running series of detective stories. The unassuming, diminutive Roman Catholic priest makes his first appearance in "The Blue Cross," beside Valentin, "head of the Paris police and the most famous investigator of the world," and the reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau, the internationally infamous "colossus of crime." Father Brown, who ultimately featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936, was based on the real Father John O'Connor, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922, although similarities between the two were "internal" (a "clever mind, penetrating insight, a gift for careful observation, and a deep understanding of human evil" is how the Britannica puts it) rather than related to outward demeanor. 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.). Near Fine+ .

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CHESTERTON, G. K . (Gilbert Keith, 1874-1936) and COBURN, Alvin Langdon (1882-1966)

[Photobook] London: With Ten Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn [Inscribed]

Minneapolis, Privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and Alvin Langdon Coburn & their friends . by Chiswick Press, 1914. Quarter-Cloth. Limited Edition of this landmark of of early 20th-century photography, inscribed by the publisher. Tall, slim 8vo: 19,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece (showing G. K. and Frances Chesterton with Edmund D. Brooks, the Minneapolis bibliophile who financed this book) and 10 photogravures by Coburn, numbered I-X, mounted on the rectos with versos blank. Original cream-colored paper-covered boards quarter-bound in beige canvas, upper cover and spine lettered in black, all edges uncut. Inscribed by Brooks on the fly-leaf, "For my old friend / Richard Burton / with the kindest regards / of Edmund Brooks / Minneapolis / Oct. 13th 1915." Boards very lightly soiled, spine slightly toned, end sheets embrowned, but a handsome copy: pages clean and bright (text leaves unopened), images fine. Imagining Paradise, p. 225. Coburn (Autobiography), p. 141. Sullivan 34. Books on cities, emblematic of a modernist future, were wildly popular at the turn of the twentieth century, and Coburn, enthused by Arthur Symons's Cities (1903), envisaged a series of such publications, on London, New York, Edinburgh (each of which was eventually realized), Paris, Venice, Liverpool, Birmingham, Boston, and Pittsburgh. "Coburn's photogravures of London for this privately printed book with text by G. K. Chesterton are quite different from those in his 1909 London. They are smaller format, simpler, busier, quicker images of everyday London life with dense traffic on the roads and bustling crowds in the streets." (Imagining Paradise) 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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CHEVALIER, Tracy

Girl with a Pearl Earring [First State, Signed]

London, HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (no further printings noted), in first state dust jacket, with 'earing' misspelled on back panel. Small 8vo: [6],248,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brilliant); pictorial dust jacket, priced £9.99. Signed by Chevalier on title page. Laid in is a ticket from the literature festival in Derby where the book was autographed. Fine (small decorative book plate to front fly-leaf) in about Fine jacket (tiny nick to base of spine panel). The author's second novel, which sold more than five million copies worldwide and was translated into 36 languages. Supposedly, a poster of Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring," hanging on Chevalier's bedroom wall for some 15 years, inspired this novel set in 17th century Delft. Chevalier was lying in bed gazing absent-mindedly at the poster when she fixed on the mysterious girl's expression (her half open mouth and expectant gaze) and decided to write the novel as a way of filling gaps in the interrupted narrative. The girl became a servant named Griet, who sits for the painting by her master wearing his wealthy wife's jewels in her ear. In the 2003 film the novel inspired, Scarlett Johansson appears as Griet, with Colin Firth as the painter of quiet domestic scenes. 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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CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976)

The Seven Dials Mystery

New York, Dodd, Mead, 1929. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition of this early Christie novel, reuniting characters first introduced in The Secret of the Chimneys. 8vo (130 x 188mm): [viii],310pp. Publisher's orange cloth, patterned end papers, spine and front cover stamped in black, top edge stained orange, fore-edge untrimmed, manuscript ex-libris to half-title; without the dust jacket. About Fine and very fresh (top stain a tad faded, one corner gently bumped). Wagstaff & Poole, pp. 153-57. Hubin, p. 82. Preceded by the London edition, published earlier the same year. Sequel to The Secret of Chimneys, with he return of Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent and Lord Caterham. The mystery is solved after Bundle returns from the Seven Dials Club, a sinister secret society whose hooded members address each other only by numbers. 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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[CANADIAN COLORED CONCERT CO.]

[African American] [Gospel Music] [Plantation Lullabies] Songs Sung by the Canadian Colored Concert Co. The Royal Paragon Male Quartette and Imperial Orchestra : Five Years' Tour of Great Britain, Three Years' Tour of United States

Hamilton, Ontario, Duncan Lith. Co, 1898. Pictorial Wrappers. Scarce souvenir songbook of "plantation lullabies," with sheet music for 13 songs and lyrics for 54 more, for the Canadian group's extended tours of Great Britain and the United States. Cover title: Canadian Colored Concert Co. Plantation lullabies, what we have we'll hold. Half title: Plantation lullabies. Foolscap 8vo (162 x 123mm): [15],5-51,[2]pp. Stapled cream chromolithographed wrappers printed in red, blue, brown, and black. Near Fine or better (light toning and wear to wrappers, slim stain to foot of spine). 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.). Near Fine+ .

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COETZEE, J[ohn]. M[axwell]

Dusklands

London, Secker & Warburg, 1982. First UK Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the Nobel Prize-winning South African author's dauntingly complex debut novel, first published in Johannesburg, in 1974. Tall, slim 8vo: [10],125,[1]pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt, in a copper-colored typographic dust jacket. A Very Fine unread copy, in a Fine price-clipped jacket with barely a hint of fading to the spine panel. Actually, two conjoined novellas: "The Vietnam Project," centering on Eugene Dawn, a military specialist working to produce a strategic report on American propaganda policy for the Vietnam War, and "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," chronicling the journeys of a white explorer into the heart of southern Africa during the eighteenth century. Taken together, the two parts "invite us to compare and contrast the forms of colonialism and imperialism under discussion." (Literary Encyclopedia) 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.). As New/Fine.

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COETZEE, J. M.

Elizabeth Costello [Signed]

New York, Viking Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Coetzee's ninth novel, published in the year he won the Nobel Prize for literature, signed on the title page. 8vo:[6],230,[4]pp. Publisher's French blue faux cloth spine lettered in white, black paper-covered boards with author's monogram in blind to upper board, pictorial dust jacket priced $21.95. As New (and probably unread), in Fine jacket without flaw. Of the eight "lessons" and postscript that make up the novel, seven had previously appeared 1997 to 2002. Only "Lesson 7: Eros" and "Lesson 8: At the Gate" are published here for the first time. "A number of these had also emerged earlier as lectures given by Coetzee . [so] it is likely that he had no overall plan in mind for Elizabeth Costello and, indeed, had to rework a number of the individual texts to make them compatible for simultaneous publication. It is also important to note that Elizabeth Costello's appearances in Coetzee's work extend outside her eponymous role in the book: to date she has also appeared in the 2004 short story "As a Woman Grows Older" and as the interloping author of Slow Man in 2005. As such, the final version of the text can be profitably considered as a collage of interrelated lectures and short stories rather than a unified novel." (Literary Encyclopedia) While, on its surface, this collage portrays a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer, the novel is also a meditation on the nature of storytelling. 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.). As New/Fine.

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O'CONNOR, Flannery (1925-1964)

The Artificial Nigger and Other Tales [a Good Man Is Hard to Find]

London, Neville Spearman, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the author's first collection of short stories, one of only 2000 copies printed. 8vo: 251,[1]pp. Publisher's crimson paper-covered boards with simulated cloth grain, spine lettered in gilt; strikingly illustrated dust jacket printed in brown and red, priced 13s/6d. About Fine (offsetting to end papers), bright and tight without foxing, stains or inscriptions; about Fine jacket, very lightly rubbed to tips of spine panel. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors's works. Farmer A2.I.b.1. Originally published in New York, in 1955, as A Good Man is Hard to Find. O'Connor's "position with regard to race relations is a difficult and contentious one. Stories like 'The Artificial Nigger' and 'Everything that Rises Must Converge', which deal explicitly with race, can seem to moralize against racism while themselves rehearsing racist portrayals of African-Americans. But as Alice Walker has observed, O'Connor's general tendency in her stories is to refuse attempts at rendering African-Americans at all: 'she leaves them free, in the reader's imagination, to inhabit another landscape, another life, than the one she creates for them. This is a kind of grace many writers do not have'." (Literary Encyclopedia) 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-/Fine-.

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O'CONNOR, Flannery (1925-1964)

The Violent Bear It Away

London, Longmans, 1960. First Impression. Hardcover. First British Edition (no further printings noted) of the author's third book and second novel, and her "best attempt at longer fiction." Small 8vo: [10],243,[1]pp. Publisher's tangerine cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket, priced 16/-. About Fine (dust-soiled top edge) and apparently unread; about Fine jacket (spine panel ends lightly rubbed, pinhead nick to front panel), vivid and bright. A scarce collectible example, one of 3500 copies printed. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of British editions of American authors's works. . Published eight years after Wise Blood and sharing that book's "interest in reluctant Southern prophets, violence and the grotesque. The title is taken from the Douay translation of Matthew 11:12, which provides the book's epigraph: 'From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away.' These are Jesus's words to the multitude, and the themes of baptism, violence and the Bread of Life pervade the novel. While O'Connor's reputation has continued to rest most heavily on her stories, The Violent Bear It Away remains a considerable addition to the American Romance tradition . " (Literary Encyclopedia) 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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O'CONNOR, Flannery (1925-1964)

The Violent Bear It Away

London, Longmans, 1960. First Impression. Hardcover. First British Edition (no further printings noted) of the author's third book and second novel, and her "best attempt at longer fiction." Small 8vo: [10],243,[1]pp. Publisher's tangerine cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket, priced 16/-. About Fine (dust-soiled top edge) and apparently unread; about Fine jacket (spine panel ends lightly rubbed, pinhead nick to front panel), vivid and bright. A scarce collectible example, one of 3500 copies printed. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of British editions of American authors's works. . Published eight years after Wise Blood and sharing that book's "interest in reluctant Southern prophets, violence and the grotesque. The title is taken from the Douay translation of Matthew 11:12, which provides the book's epigraph: 'From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away.' These are Jesus's words to the multitude, and the themes of baptism, violence and the Bread of Life pervade the novel. While O'Connor's reputation has continued to rest most heavily on her stories, The Violent Bear It Away remains a considerable addition to the American Romance tradition . " (Literary Encyclopedia) 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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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924)

Chance : A Tale in Two Parts [Paul Lemperly's Copy]

London, Methuen, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression, in the first published state, of the novel that revived Conrad's career, outselling all his previous publications. With cancel title leaf (dated 1914 on verso), spine brass reading "METHVEN," closed quotes after "Narcissus" in the list of Conrad's works facing the title page, 8-page catalogue dated Autumn 1913 with The Harrovians top of p. 6, and 32 pages of advertisements dated July 1913. 8vo (189 x 126mm): viii,406,[2],8,32pp. Publisher's sage green linen finish cloth, spine lettered and ornamented in gold, bottom edge untrimmed (Cagle's binding a). Book plate of renowned collector Paul Lemperly (1858-1939), whose library was sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1940. Tightly bound and bright throughout (marred only by glue remnants of bookplate removal from verso of fly-leaf), and uncommon in this condition. Cagle A17a. Wise 22. Smith, p. 58. Keating, pp. 217-29. First serialized in the New York Herald, in 1912. Some 50 copies of the first issue with integral title page dated 1913 were distributed in September, before a binder's strike delayed publication until January, 1914. "Chance is another story with a complex frame narration, within which the enigmatic tale is told by Marlow but, unusually for Conrad, its main character is a woman, Flora de Barral, and part of the novel's focus is on contemporary social issues and the role fortune plays in finding success or happiness in life." (Literary Encyclopedia) Keating thought Chance (as well as The Arrow of Gold) Conrad's "finest creations," with its "so close an affinity with the art of Henry James." 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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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924)

Chance : A Tale in Two Parts [Clive Coates's Copy]

London, Methuen, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the novel that revived Conrad's career, outselling all his previous publications, in the first published state, with cancel title leaf (dated 1914 on verso), spine brass reading "METHVEN," closed quotes after "Narcissus" on half-title verso, 8-page catalogue dated Autumn 1913 with The Harrovians top of p. 6, and 32 pages of advertisements dated July 1913. 8vo (189 x 126mm): viii,406,[2],8,32pp. Publisher's sage green cloth, spine lettered and ornamented in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. Small book label of Clive Coates, British wine writer and Master of Wine, to front paste-down and his signature to fly-leaf. Tightly bound, gilt bright, light occasional spotting, but a Fine copy. Cagle A17a. Wise 22. Smith, p. 58. Keating, pp. 217-29. First serialized in the New York Herald, in 1912. Some 50 copies of the first issue with integral title page dated 1913 were distributed in September, before a binder's strike delayed publication until January, 1914. "Chance is another story with a complex frame narration, within which the enigmatic tale is told by Marlow but, unusually for Conrad, its main character is a woman, Flora de Barral, and part of the novel's focus is on contemporary social issues and the role fortune plays in finding success or happiness in life." (Literary Encyclopedia) Keating thought Chance (as well as The Arrow of Gold) Conrad's "finest creations," with its "so close an affinity with the art of Henry James." 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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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924)

The Secret Agent [First Issue]

London, Methuen, 1907. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Impression (one of only 2500 copies), First Issue ("be be" on final line of p. 117, six additional text error as noted by Smith, and publisher's catalogue dated September 1907), of the "earliest and best novel portraying the character and fate of a double agent." (Barzun & Taylor) Crown 8vo: [6],442,[2],40pp. Publisher's ruby-red bold-ribbed cloth, spine lettered and ornamented in gold, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; bookplate of A. Beresford Ryley to front paste-down. Foxing to front blank, small gutter stain (not affecting text) to pp. 212-17, faint rubbing to spine edges, else an excellent example and scarce such. Keating 73-74. Wise 17. Connolly 15 ("Conrad's greatest heroine.").Cagle A12a(1). Barzun & Taylor 903. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Ehrsam, p. 304. Smith 13. Modern Library 100, 46. A tale of anarchists in late nineteenth-century London, which originally appeared serially in Ridgeway's Weekly. "The plot centres on an attempt to bomb the London Observatory in Greenwich, inspired by a real incident of 1894. The chosen site is of great significance, in terms of science, empire and fame. In 1884, the Prime Meridian Conference established Greenwich as the point from which time would be measured. Though much of the rest of the world was initially resistant, and time was not centred on Greenwich by Europe and America until the International Conference on Time in Paris in 1912, the Prime Meridian Conference also divided the world into twenty-four zones separated by an hour's difference, and enshrined an exact moment at which the universal space-time day would begin." (Literary Encyclopedia) 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.). Near Fine+ .

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COOKE, Edmund Vance (1866-1932) or cooks

Baseballogy

Chicago, Forbes & Co, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this charming paean to America's pastime, featuring 24 lighthearted and impertinent poems. Small, slim 8vo: 88pp, with baseball-themed spot illustrations from drawings in lower margin of each page. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards (showing two hands gripping a baseball bat), mid-brown end papers, pages printed in lime green and black; without the scarce dust jacket. Very minor wear and soiling, but a sound, firmly bound example and clean and bright throughout. From an early review in Baseball Magazine (vol. 9, issue 3, July 1912): "The book contains upward of twenty-five [sic] breezy ballads of the diamond which embrace a widespread field, including many of the leading characters and most stirring events in the recent annals of the game. The book is carefully edited and very artistically illustrated. Whoever spends the price of a seat on the bleachers for this little volume will find himself well rewarded by having at his disposal many snatches of real life from the national game." 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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