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This compelling inscribed association copy of the first edition of solider-poet Siegfried Sassoon s (1886-1967) First World War poetry collection, The Old Huntsman, is inscribed on the front free-end paper ""To Mrs. Colefax. from the author. June. 1917."" The front pastedown bears Sibyl and Arthur Colefax s bookplate. While the grey, paper-covered boards are original, the book has been skillfully re-backed. The fresher grey-paper spine and printed paper label defer to the original aesthetic while ensuring binding integrity and providing a clean shelf appearance. The original boards show moderate toning and scuffing with shelf wear to edges and corners. The contents are clean with no spotting and modest age-toning, primarily evident to the otherwise clean untrimmed fore and bottom edges. The top edge shows some shelf dust. The author s inscription and the Colefax bookplate are the only ownership marks.Sibyl Colefax (1874-1950), socialite, interior decorator, and matron of the arts, famously convened who s-who gatherings of literati, artists, politicians, and social elite. ""It was said that the only sound during the black-out in London was of Lady Colefax climbing the social ladder…"" (Brian Masters, The Times, London). Jabs aside, Mrs. Colefax was renowned for her charm, curiosity, and amicability. Aldous Huxley quipped to his brother that a large poetry reading for charity at the Colefax home in December 1917 was ""a large expensive audience of the BEST PEOPLE."" But he did attend and did read. As did many others. Sassoon had already read at the Colefax s home the previous November. ""Mrs. Colefax led him [Sassoon] to a chair and a copy of The Old Huntsman."" (Egremont, p.175). He read three poems from the collection, The Hero , They , and The Rear-Guard in his terse, grim, and serious style. It seems quite plausible that this copy is the same from which Sassoon read on the occasion. In November 1917, while Sassoon was briefly in London (absent from the Front since being wounded in April), the impromptu recitation was pushed upon him by his dinner companions, Robert Ross, Roderick Meiklejohn, and Robert Nichols, whom he had met at The Reform Club, and soon he was buffeted to the Colefax s party in Onslow Square. Reportedly, the party was mostly women, which undoubtedly discomfited Sassoon. Perhaps owing to his repressed homosexuality, Sassoon found women to be in his own words 'anti-pathetic . Whatever Sassoon s feelings, it seems that the reception of his work was warm. The inscription in this volume penned by Sassoon the month after publication clearly preceded his November 1917 recitation at the Colefax s home. Some diffidence or deference can be inferred from the use of the titular ""Mrs."" and the signature ""from the Author"", both of which formally distance Sassoon from the recipient. This is an excellent association copy between one of the First World War s most regarded poets and one of Britain s most conspicuous socialites. It is...

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[Signed] Sea Drift, an author's presentation copy, finely bound by Hatchards and inscribed by the author to Thomas Babington Macaulay Admiral Hercule [Signed] Sea Drift, an author's presentation copy, finely bound by Hatchards and inscribed by the author to Thomas Babington Macaulay Admiral Hercule 1035.18 CAD This book of reminiscences by British Admiral Hercules Robinson is a compelling presentation copy, finely bound by Hatchards and inscribed by the author to British historian, poet, and politician Lord Macaulay. The inscription, inked in four lines on the upper title page, reads: ""The Lord Macaulay with the Author's best respects"". Immediately below, Robinson vertically crossed out each letter of ""Rear"" in the titular ""Rear-Admiral"" printed on the title page, replacing it above with ""Vice"". Robinson was appointed rear-admiral on 9 October 1849 and vice-admiral on 21 October 1856. Given that the book was published in 1858, the misprint - a notional demotion - must have vexed the author. Clearly this book was inscribed upon or soon after publication, since Macaulay died in 1859 and Robinson was appointed a full admiral on 15 January 1862.The (appropriately) Navy blue full Morocco goatskin binding features raised spine bands the printed compartments (author and title) featuring single gilt rules, the unprinted compartments double gilt-ruled, the spine ends gilt-hatched. The covers feature double glit-ruled borders and gilt-ruled edges. The contents are bound with all edges gilt, silk head and tail bands, and fine endpapers framed by triple gilt-ruled turn-ins. Gilt print on the lower turn-in of the front pastedown attributes this binding to ""HATCHARDS 187 PICCADILLY"". Hatchards is reputedly London’s oldest bookshop, established in 1797, a mainstay of Piccadilly for more than two centuries, counting among its customers the royal households of Britain and Europe. Condition is very good. The binding remains unfaded, square, and tight, with minor superficial blemishes to the front cover and some shelf wear to the joints and corners. The contents are clean apart from browning to the perimeter of the free endpapers corresponding to the turn-ins, trivial intermittent spotting, and roughly circular, approximately one-inch diameter blemishes to the fore edge margin of p.203 and the bottom margin of p.248.The literary work of Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) would have been more than sufficient to merit the attention and regard of Admiral Robinson. There were also more practical reasons for their association and Robinson's evident respect; Macaulay served as Britain's Secretary of War between 1839 and 1841 and as Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. Robinson (1789-1864) entered the British Navy in June 1800. His early service included Trafalgar (on the Euryalus under Captain Henry Blackwood). He was promoted to Captain in June 1814. ""In 1856 Robinson made a yachting voyage to the Salvages, a group of barren rocks midway between Madeira and the Canary Islands, on one of which a vast treasure, the spoil of a Spanish galleon, was said to be buried. When in the Prometheus [which he was promoted to command in 1810] he had been sent to look for this treasure, but met with no success. A further search was the excuse...
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[Signed] Serenade (Limited Edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his wife Florence Macbeth) James M. Cain [ ] [Hardcover] [Signed] Serenade (Limited Edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his wife Florence Macbeth) James M. Cain [ ] [Hardcover] 4535.18 CAD Limited Edition, published simultaneously with the First Edition, one of twelve unnumbered copies bound in quarter leather, with raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by the author to his fourth and final wife, Florence Macbeth, underneath a small drawing of a four-leaf clover: ""To Florence / A kiss, a serenade, and a hope, all in one picture / Jamie / Los Angeles, Calif / June 14, 1947."" Cain's bleakest noir, and his final masterpiece, the tale of an opera tenor who runs to Mexico to flee from professional disgrace, meets a girl there, and then attempts a triumphant return to Hollywood with her as his semi-legal bride. But the glory of his return is brutally stonewalled by the reality of his poor decisions and the pitiless backlash of fame. Very Good plus in a Good example of the publisher's vellum jacket. Boards slightly warped. Jacket has loss along the spine. Housed in a Good, moderately rubbed slipcase.
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[Signed] Station Island. Presentation copy, Inscribed by Seamus Heaney on the front free endpaper, and with three lines of verse from the poem 'Stone [Signed] Station Island. Presentation copy, Inscribed by Seamus Heaney on the front free endpaper, and with three lines of verse from the poem 'Stone 1832.55 CAD Station Island. London: Faber, 1984. Pp, 123. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket. Presentation copy, Inscribed by Seamus Heaney on the front free endpaper, and with three lines of verse from the poem 'Stone from Delphi' which appears on page 24. Heaney's first new collection of poems since 1979, is set on an island (Lough Derg) which has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years.
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[Signed] Fallen Angels : Presentation Copy Inscribed By Noel Coward To The Author Dennis Wheatley Coward, Noel [Very Good] [Hardcover] [Signed] Fallen Angels : Presentation Copy Inscribed By Noel Coward To The Author Dennis Wheatley Coward, Noel [Very Good] [Hardcover] 579.66 CAD The First UK Printing published by Ernest Benn Limited, London in 1925. 4to., blue publisher's cloth with paper labels printed in black to upper cover and the spine; THE BOOK a Very Good, clean copy, endpapers faintly offset, and some spotting to the edges and prelims; the paper label along the spine is rubbed and chipped, with some loss of lettering. A couple of superficial abrasions and spots to the label on the upper board; light pushing and rubbing to the spine tips and corners of boards ,cut advertisement for the play affixed to the rear paste-down; neat ex-libris plate of Tony M. Chance to the front free endpaper. The book is protected in a removable Mylar cover. First UK edition, from Contemporary British Dramatists, Volume XXV. This a presentation copy, signed on the front upper end-paper from Noel Coward; 'for Dennis Wheatley', with Wheatley's iconic bookplate to the front paste-down. Originally intended for the West End Theatre star Margaret Bannerman, Fallen Angels first opened at the Globe Theatre in London on the 21st April 1925, where it ran for 158 performances until the 29th August with Tallulah Bankhead as a last-minute substitute. Centered around the theme of two wives (who admit to premarital relations and consider adultery), there was initially some debate as to whether the play should run at all, with an official in the theatre censor Lord Chamberlain s office recommending that the licence be refused on grounds of possible scandal. With the Lord Chamberlain s approval needed prior to any public theatrical release, he acquiesced, claiming ""the whole thing is so much unreal farcical comedy, that subject to a few modifications in the dialogue it can pass."" Although Amsterdam Municipal Theatre banned the production after just a few performances in 1926, the play appeared on Broadway the following year. Coward appears to have signed a small number of other plays to Wheatley, with one or two others having appeared on the market in recent years. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
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[Signed] From Desire to Desire. First edition inscribed and signed presentation copy by the author, fine in fine dust jacket 1976 Yevgeny Yevtushenko [Signed] From Desire to Desire. First edition inscribed and signed presentation copy by the author, fine in fine dust jacket 1976 Yevgeny Yevtushenko 160.18 CAD First edition so stated, presentation copy inscribed and signed by Yevtushenko ""To Donald/with old/love/Yevgheny"" on the front free endpaper, 8vo (8.25 x 5.5 inches), pp. (i-iv), v-xiv, (2), 1-126. Original gilt lettered red cloth backed blue boards in original dust jacket. Fine clean bright copy in near fine dust jacket not price clipped @ $6.95 but with sun fading to jacket spine. Sheets clean, unmarked, complete. Small previous owner name in upper right of front free endpaper and three tiny checkmarks in the same ink to poem titles in the contents. A10662 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
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[Signed] The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell (Presentation copy, inscribed by Sitwell to Isabella Gardner) Edith Sitwell [Very Good] [Hardcover] [Signed] The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell (Presentation copy, inscribed by Sitwell to Isabella Gardner) Edith Sitwell [Very Good] [Hardcover] 785.18 CAD First edition, limited to 320 numbered copies signed by Sitwell to the colophon, of which this is number 210. Presentation copy, additionally inscribed by Sitwell to the the poet and art collector, Isabella Gardner, niece of the American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner, who founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Isabella Gardner and Sitwell were close friends and Gardner, also a poet, dedicated her poem ""Summers Ago"" to Sitwell. An important association. London and Boston: Gerald Duckworth & Co / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Publisher's original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt, printed on handmade paper, frontispiece illustration by Pavel Tchelitchew, errata slip present; pp. x, 278. An about very good copy. Binding sturdy and square, scattered soiling to boards, minimal shelfwear, spine toned. Small bookshop label to flyleaf, offsetting/foxing to endpapers, else internally clean. Protected in a removable archival sleeve.
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[Signed] Studies In Strange Souls : One Of Ten presentation Copies On Japanese Vellum And Signed By The Author : Additionally Inscribed By The Publis [Signed] Studies In Strange Souls : One Of Ten presentation Copies On Japanese Vellum And Signed By The Author : Additionally Inscribed By The Publis 793.31 CAD The First UK printing published by Charles J. Sawyer, London in 1929. One of ten copies on Japanese vellum though this copy unnumbered (There were also 100 numbered copies on Kelmscott handmade paper and 250 copies on Abbey Mill Antique Paper). Signed by the author to the limitation page. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Original publisher's half morocco with decorated boards, five raised bands, gilt titling and top edge gilt. Red ribbon marker present. Some light fading to the spine. Matching decorated end-papers. The 'souls' in question were Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne and the book includes three portrait engravings with tissue guarded frontis (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and the author). Additionally inscribed to the second blank end-paper : 'For David Holmes, one of ten copies as he deserves, Richard Sawyer, 1V. 91'. Richard Sawyer was the son of Charles Sawyer and took over from his father in the family publishing business. Arthur William Symons was a British poet, critic and magazine editor. From late 1895 through 1896 he edited, along with Aubrey Beardsley and Leonard Smithers, 'The Savoy', a literary magazine which published both art and literature. The book is protected in a loose Mylar archival cover. A very handsome production. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
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[Signed] What's Become Of Waring (Presentation Copy - Inscribed And Signed By The Author) Powell, Anthony [Near Fine] [Hardcover] [Signed] What's Become Of Waring (Presentation Copy - Inscribed And Signed By The Author) Powell, Anthony [Near Fine] [Hardcover] 5204.25 CAD The First UK printing published by Cassell in 1939.The BOOK is in near FINE condition.Original publisher's brick red cloth with electric blue titling.Slight bumping and fading to the spine tips.Very minor handling wear to edges.Binding remains tight and square.Faint offsetting to the end papers.Light toning and spotting to the text block.Free from markings and erasures. Presentation copy: Inscribed and Signed by the Author to the front blank end paper:'James Tucker, from, Anthony Powell,rather late in, the day, May, 1990'.The book has additionally been Signed by the Author to the title page.The recipient, James Tucker was a writer and bibliographer who had published 'The Novels of Anthony Powell' in 1976.Genuinely recognised as the author's scarcest title.Fewer than 1000 copies had been sold prior to the destruction in the Blitz of Cassell's stock at La Belle Sauvage near St. Paul's. Powell’s scarce fifth novel, set within the world of publishing and critiquing the fad for spiritualism. An extremely difficult first edition title to find in such good original condition, let alone as an inscribed association copy.Housed in a custom solander box. Ashtonrarebooks welcomes direct contact.
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[Signed] The School Bag, presentation copy, inscribed by Hughes to his daughter with Sylvia Plath, Frieda Ted Hughes, Seamus Heavey [Fine] [Hardcover [Signed] The School Bag, presentation copy, inscribed by Hughes to his daughter with Sylvia Plath, Frieda Ted Hughes, Seamus Heavey [Fine] [Hardcover 579.66 CAD The School Bag, edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes; Faber & Faber first edition, first print, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Ted Hughes to his daughter (with Sylvia Plath) Frieda and her third husband Laszlo at the time of publication, with the words: 'For Frieda (and Laszlo) with lots of love Daddy May 1997'. Published in 1997. Book is in very fine and most excellent condition, please see the photos. Annotated (presumably by Frieda) with parentheses between pages 378 and 383, isolating an extract from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself (1855). Jacket is not price-clipped and is in very fine condition. A lovely and beautiful copy, with the most intimate of family inscriptions and connections between Ted Hughes and his daughter and her husband. Provenance: from Frieda Hughes.
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[Signed] The Turn of the Tide: 1939-1943, signed by the author and extollingly inscribed to Winston S. Churchill A Study based on the Diaries and Aut [Signed] The Turn of the Tide: 1939-1943, signed by the author and extollingly inscribed to Winston S. Churchill A Study based on the Diaries and Aut 2435.18 CAD This jacketed first edition is not only signed by the author, but extollingly inscribed to Winston S. Churchill. The author signed ""Arthur Bryant"" just below his printed name at the head of the title page and, in the same blue ink, in the space between the subtitle and publisher on the lower half of the title page, this copy is inscribed in six lines: ""For Winston Churchill who when it was forfeit gave England back her life.""Condition is very good in a very good minus dust jacket. The charcoal cloth binding is tight, clean, and unfaded, with bright spine gilt, though with light wear to extremities, including bruised corners. The contents are bright with a crisp feel. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponding to the dust jacket flaps confirms that this copy has spent life jacketed. Spotting appears confined to the endpapers, half-title and title pages, and top edges. The dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price, and bright, with no appreciable color shift between the red face and spine. The jacket is substantially complete, with trivial loss confined to the spine ends, upper left front face, and flap fold corners. The white faces and flaps of the jacket show spotting. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.This book came to us from a small cache of material previously belonging to Wendy Reves (1916-2007) the wife of Churchill’s indispensable literary agent, Emery Reves (1904-1981). Perhaps no other figure played such an important - even vital - role in bringing Churchill’s writing to a worldwide audience. Particularly in the years immediately preceding the Second World War, Emery Reves succeeded in putting Churchill's relentless advocacy of democratic ideals before an incredibly diverse international audience. Churchill’s bibliographer Ronald Cohen says Reves was Churchill's ""principal literary agent for foreign-language periodical contributions and, ultimately, for the foreign-language and North American editions of The Second World War and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples in both volume and periodical form."" (Cohen, Vol. I, p.1076). ""A profitable business relationship… grew over time into an enduring personal friendship"". In his final years, Churchill was frequently hosted by Wendy and Emery at La Pausa, the Reves’s French Riviera villa originally built for Coco Chanel and acquired by Reves in 1953 with proceeds earned from foreign language rights to Churchill’s The Second World War. There Churchill would write, paint, and relax.The author, noted historian and biographer Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985) used the war-time diaries of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke to create ""the portraits of two great men – the one [Churchill] known to the whole world, the other [Alanbrooke] hardly known even in his own country."" Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883-1963) was born to a family with a centuries-long, distinguished military...
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[Signed] [1st ed] Jung's Advice to the Players: A Jungian Reading of Shakespeare's Problem Plays (Inscribed Presentation Copy) Sally F. Porterfield [ [Signed] [1st ed] Jung's Advice to the Players: A Jungian Reading of Shakespeare's Problem Plays (Inscribed Presentation Copy) Sally F. Porterfield [ 435.18 CAD First edition of Sally F. Porterfield’s Jungian analysis of several Shakespeare plays, published in 1994 by Greenwood Press. 8vo, hardcover, 119 pages. Inscribed to Maria Irene Fornes on the FFE (“To Irene, with my deepest thanks, respect, and affection/Sally 8/28/97”). Porterfield (1932-2017) was a teacher, director, theater critic, and writer. She wrote a book about Maria Irene Fornes (Black Cats and Green Trees: The Art of Maria Irene Fornes) and directed the Fornes play Sarita at the University of Hartford. Fornes (1930-2018) was a Cuban-American playwright, theater director, and teacher whose work in off-Broadway and experimental theater, including her legendary workshops, influenced and inspired Sam Shepard, Paula Vogel, Lanford Wilson, and Edward Albee, along with several generations of aspiring playwrights. Vogel contended “In the work of every American playwright at the end of the 20th century, there are only two stages: before she has read Maria Irene Fornes and after."" Slight lean to spine. Minor rubbing to extremities. Faint price sticker residue to rear board.
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[Signed] Pass the Gravy (Inscribed Presentation Copy) Fair, A.A. (Erle Stanley Gardner) [Fine] [Hardcover] [Signed] Pass the Gravy (Inscribed Presentation Copy) Fair, A.A. (Erle Stanley Gardner) [Fine] [Hardcover] 685.18 CAD 8vo., 252pp. Beautiful First Edition with no other printings listed as called for by this publisher. Bound in yellow cloth with titles in black on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with a touch of bumping to the spine ends but quite minor. Clean pages throughout with no toning spotting. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.95), is fresh and bright with no creases, tears or chipping. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front end-paper using his real name and in the year of publication. ""Walter and Margaret, with all the best in the world to two very wonderful friends. Yours, Erle Stanley Gardner, Feb, 1959"". Though the couple are unknown, there is clearly a very close association. A gorgeous collectable copy and quite uncommon inscribed and in such high-grade condition.
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[Signed] Wilderness A Tale of the Civil War. First printing presentation copy inscribed and signed, fine in near fine dust jacket. Robert Penn Warren [Signed] Wilderness A Tale of the Civil War. First printing presentation copy inscribed and signed, fine in near fine dust jacket. Robert Penn Warren 210.18 CAD First edition, first printing so stated presentation copy dated 11/ 24/61 inscribed ""Dear Liz/ Hope you/ enjoy reading my/ novel/ Bob Warren. 8vo (8.5 x 5.75 inches), pp. (8), (1-2), 3-310, (2). Original black, white and blind stamped orange cloth in original pictorial dust jacket. Fine bright copy in near fine price clipped dust jacket with slightly tanned back-strip. Printed bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. No owner signatures or inscriptions. H10755 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
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[Signed] The Crock of Gold, an inscribed presentation copy of the first edition, housed in a quarter Morocco Solander case James Stephens [ ] [Hardco [Signed] The Crock of Gold, an inscribed presentation copy of the first edition, housed in a quarter Morocco Solander case James Stephens [ ] [Hardco 410.18 CAD This is an inscribed first edition copy of the author’s best-known novel. Stephens inked his three-line presentation on the front free endpaper recto: ""James Stephens to Stephen Gywnn"". Condition is good plus, sound and complete, the defects only superficial and aesthetic. The original green cloth binding remains tight and unfaded, though with a modest forward lean, various minor scuffs and blemishes, and light shelf wear to extremities and joints. The contents are quite bright. We find no previous ownership marks other than the author’s inscription. Spotting is almost entirely confined to the endpapers. The page edges show light soiling. The book is housed in a quarter Morocco solander case featuring a rounded green quarter Morocco spine with raised bands over green cloth sides. The Solander is sound, though uniformly spine-toned to brown and with various minor exterior scuffs and blemishes.The Crock of Gold is ""a comic novel that debates profound philosophical questions: What is wisdom? Should the head or the heart rule? What is virtue and what vice? … The Philosopher, who sets out at the request of a neighbour to rescue the latter’s daughter from the nature god Pan, has a catharsis along the way and learns that goodness and kindness are more important than wisdom."" (The Irish Times) It is a book ""whose humour and later stereotyping as a children’s novel often lead readers to overlook its theosophist and Blakean elements and its incorporation of AE’s [pseudonym of George William Russell] quasi-apocalyptic dream of the return of the Celtic gods to sweep away philistine materialism."" (Dictionary of Irish Biography)James Stephens (1880?- 1950) began to contribute stories to the journal United Irishman (later Sinn Fein) in 1905, ""at first anonymously and generally without payment"" before becoming a regular contributor from 1907. This led to Stephens’s discovery by George William Russell (to whom Stephens dedicated his first published volume of poetry, 1909’s Insurrections) and gave Stephens ""access to Dublin literary circles"". Stephens went on to write half a dozen novels and a dozen volumes of poetry, as well as several plays, short stories, retellings of Irish folktales, an historical account of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, and a biographic portrait of the founder of Sinn Fein. In 1925 Stephens relocated to London, reflecting ""disillusionment with the political and literary scene in post-civil war Ireland."" In England, he moved in British literary circles and struck up a friendship with James Joyce, ""who in 1927 left instructions that if he died before finishing Finnegans Wake Stephens was to complete it."" Stephens also became a BBC broadcaster. Though Stephens declared himself an Englishman in 1940 in protest at Irish neutrality in the Second World War, he visited Dublin in 1947 to receive a Doctor in Letters from Trinity College, Dublin. (Dictionary of Irish Biography)
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[Signed] Fiddler on the March : A Biography of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Vivian Dunn (Presentation copy, Signed and inscribed) Oakley, Derek; HRH The Pr [Signed] Fiddler on the March : A Biography of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Vivian Dunn (Presentation copy, Signed and inscribed) Oakley, Derek; HRH The Pr 62.75 CAD 300pp, black and white illustrations throughout. In strong, deep blue cloth covers with gilt titles on spine. Volume in as new condition throughout, barring the inscription from the author on the title page, 'to the Royal Marine Association, Isle of Thanet Branch, on the occasion of their dinner, 20 October 2001, Derek Oakley'. In its original dust jacket (jacket very slightly bumped on edges, small mark in upper corner). Vivian Dunn, probably the finest military musician of the 20th century, was also an accomplished composer. This is the story of how his classical music upbringing helped transform the Royal Marines Band Service into one of the finest military bands in the world. Publisher's promotional flyers, promoting Dunn's musical output, loosely laid in; one has a rather attractive ribbon attached. 4to. Signed Books, Royal Marines, Military Music, Vivian Dunn, Composers, Conductors, Presentation Copies,
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[Signed] Die Armee des Don Quijote. Eine Erzählung. [Presentation copy, inscribed by Hermann Zapf.] Zapf, Hermann; Walter Bauer (story) [Fine] [Hardc [Signed] Die Armee des Don Quijote. Eine Erzählung. [Presentation copy, inscribed by Hermann Zapf.] Zapf, Hermann; Walter Bauer (story) [Fine] [Hardc 195.18 CAD Slim 4to. Privately printed by Hermann Zapf. 1/50 bound in half-vellum. Inscribed presentation copy. Vellum spine and paper boards with cover label. Presentation copy. Fine. Zweiter Privatdruck von Hermann Zapf. Copy no. 7 of a one-time edition of 180 copies, printed in black with marginalia in red by the Schriftgiesserei Stempel AG. The edition was bound by Gudrun von Hesse. The first fifty were bound in half-vellum (as here), the remainder in gray wrappers. Signed lithograph by Cefischer (Carl Ernst Fischer), drawn by mouth as the artist lost his arms in a World War II bombing raid. Inscribed by Zapf on the front free endpaper to the American book and type designer Thomas Maitland Cleland. The two-line inscription is written in red ink in tiny, neat lettering. Cleland's small bookplate on the front pastedown.
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[Signed] T'AI-SHANG KAN-YING P'IEN [PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY DAISETZ SUZUKI] SUZUKI, DAISETZ TEITARO [D. T. Suzuki] [Very Good] [Hardcover] [Signed] T'AI-SHANG KAN-YING P'IEN [PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY DAISETZ SUZUKI] SUZUKI, DAISETZ TEITARO [D. T. Suzuki] [Very Good] [Hardcover] 4535.18 CAD Translated from the Chinese by Daisetz Suzuki with the assistance of Paul Carus. UNIQUE AND VERY RARE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED COPY BY DAISETZ SUZUKI on his first visit to America: ""Yours Ida Evelyn Russell with more profound regards from her humble servant Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Dec. 1906."" This book is a rare and historically important association copy linking the very earliest transmission of Zen to the West. Also by far the earliest dated book inscription by Suzuki we are aware of. Ida Russell went to Japan in 1902 to become the first Western woman to live in a Buddhist monastery, she was the first American formally instructed in Zen, and made her San Francisco home the first place Zen Buddhism was taught in America. Suzuki stayed at the ""House of Light"" San Francisco home of Ida Russell where Zen was first introduced to the West. It was there that Ida Russell hosted Zen master Shaku Soen in 1905 for nine months where Soen established a small zendo in the home of Alexander and Ida Russell and gave regular zazen lessons. Shaku Soen became the first Zen Buddhist priest to teach in North America. Following Soen's departure Daisetz Suzuki was invited to live with the Russells during his stay in San Francisco. Ida Russel was the first Western woman to practice Zen meditation with koan introspection under the direction of a Japanese teacher. This book was inscribed by Suzuki in 1906, a full 21 years before his seminal ""Essays on Zen"" would be published in 1927. See ""Zen Masters"" p. 194. ""How the Swans Came to the Lake - A Narrative History of Buddhism in America"" and ""The Third Step East - Zen Masters of America"". For more information on Ida Russell see the just published book ""House of Silent Light: The Dawning of Zen in Gilded Age of America.""
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[Signed] Robert Rivera Painted Gourds 1st 1993 presentation copy inscribed signed fine dj Compiled and edited by Joan Cawley and Robert Rivera [Fine] [Signed] Robert Rivera Painted Gourds 1st 1993 presentation copy inscribed signed fine dj Compiled and edited by Joan Cawley and Robert Rivera [Fine] 130.18 CAD First edition presentation copy inscribed and signed by Rivera on the half title ""To Marilyn and Bob, / My pleasure to have met the/ both of you at the ""94"" Running Buffalo show! / Best wishes/ Robert Rivera"", 4to (11 x 8.5 inches), pp. xii, 1-152, color photo illustrations throughout. Color photo card with ""Joan Cawley Gallery"" written on the revers by Rivera laid in. Original gilt lettered black cloth in original color photo pictorial dust jacket Fine clean bright copy in fine dust jacket. H10880 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
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[Signed] Roy Stryker: U.S.A. 1943-1950. The Standard Oil (New Jersey) Photography Project. With a foreword by Cornell Capa. [Presentation copy with m [Signed] Roy Stryker: U.S.A. 1943-1950. The Standard Oil (New Jersey) Photography Project. With a foreword by Cornell Capa. [Presentation copy with m 210.18 CAD First edition. 4to. Photographically printed boards, without dust jacket, as issued. Very good condition. A presentation copy to Photo League photographer Charles Rotkin, whose work is included in the volume. To begin with, the book is inscribed by Cornell Capa and the author, Steve Plattner. It is further signed or briefly inscribed by John Kyle, publisher; Sally Forbes (formerly Standard Oil Public Relations Department); project participants Todd Webb, Harold Corsini, Esther Bubby (as Esther), and Sol Libsohn, all of whose work is also represented in the volume; and fellow members of the Photo League Jack Delano, Morris Engel, and Arnold Eagle.
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[Signed] ST. ANDREWS - HOME OF GOLF - A Presentation Copy for the 1977 St. Andrews Club AUCHTERLONIE TOURNAMENT {Signed by the one of winners J. E. F [Signed] ST. ANDREWS - HOME OF GOLF - A Presentation Copy for the 1977 St. Andrews Club AUCHTERLONIE TOURNAMENT {Signed by the one of winners J. E. F 185.18 CAD A Presentation Copy for the winning twosome of the 1977 St. Andrews Club AUCHTERLONIE TOURNAMENT. Maroon leather. Signed by a member of winning twosome: J. E. FROWDE SEAGRAM. (Joseph Edward Frowde Seagram was a grandson the famous distiller Joseph E Seagram.) Also signed by the tournament namesake LAURIE AUCHTERLONIE. Leather binding with marbled endpapers. Some light wear to the extremities, else Near Fine. A rare and memorable piece of St. Andrew's Golf history. Second revised edition 1974. Foreword by permission of Bobby Jones. Printed by J & G Innes, Ltd., at Edenside Printing Works, Cupar, Fife, Scotland.
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[Signed] George Whitefield The Great Awakener. A modern study of the Evangelical Revival. [NUMBERED LIMITED ED. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY BY THE AUTHO [Signed] George Whitefield The Great Awakener. A modern study of the Evangelical Revival. [NUMBERED LIMITED ED. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY BY THE AUTHO 309.49 CAD Octavo [9.00 tall x 6.00 wide]. A signed presentation copy by the author. This is a deluxe edition of 110 copies only of which 100 were for sale and ten for distribution by the author of which this is one. In excellent, clean and sound condition. Signed to the front end paper. B&W plates throughout the volume. A nice copy for the collector of Whitefield books. Albert David Belden (17 February 1883 14 December 1964) English Congregational minister and anti-vivisectionist. Belden was born at Great Dover Street, London to William Belden and Hester Evans. He was educated at Wilson's School and trained for the Congregational ministry at New College London. He obtained his BD at London University. He was pastorate at South Bar Congregational Church in Banbury from 1908 until 1912. He became first minister of Crowstone Congregational Church, Westcliff-on-Sea in 1912 and 1927 became superintendent minister of Whitefield s Central Mission at Tottenham Court Road. Belden was an evangelical preacher who was inspired by George Whitefield. He authored George Whitefield: The Awakener in 1930. He preached throughout the United States and was awarded an honorary DD by Ursinus College, Pennsylvania. In 1934, he established a psychological clinic at the London University for patients and hosted weekly lectures for ministers. He resigned from Whitefield s Central Mission in 1939 to devote his time to activism and writing. In April 1939, Belden was the official delegate of the National Peace Council, bearing a petition with 1,062,000 names requesting American support of world-wide peace. He founded the Pax Christi League and was a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. In 1948, he became honorary superintendent the Pilgrim Fathers Memorial Church in London. He authored articles for Manchester Evening News, the Philosophical Society and was chairman of the Congregational Quarterly. He died at his home in Putney, aged 81. Bound in publishers cushioned faux-leather binding. Lettered in gilt to the spine. Solid and sound with only the usual sun-fading to the spine otherwise sound and with minimal wear. MULTIPLE ADDITIONAL PHOTO IMAGES AVAILABLE. CONTACT US TO REQUEST.
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[Signed] The Magic Of A Line – The Autobiography Of Laura Knight : Presentation Copy – Signed, Doodled And Located By Laura Knight In The Year Of Pub [Signed] The Magic Of A Line – The Autobiography Of Laura Knight : Presentation Copy – Signed, Doodled And Located By Laura Knight In The Year Of Pub 1758.2 CAD The First UK printing published by William Kimber, London in 1965. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Original cloth with gilt titling. The pink salmon top-stain is present but a little faded in a few places. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good+ condition. Some small losses at the upper spine and edges (see images). Toning to the spine and edges with mild fading of the red lettering to the spine. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The decorative bookplate of Sir Michael Fraser, Lord Fraser of Kilmorack pasted in to the front pastedown. Penned inscription to the front blank endpaper : 'Mike with love from Chloe, 25th July 1965'. Chloe(Drummond) was Lord Fraser's wife. Laura Knight has penned a signed elaborate doodle to the title page. This doodle is presumable that of Lord Fraser and his wife having a meal. Laura Knight has written ' MIchael Fraser his book' to the top of the page. She has also doodled 'Fog' above the couple, presumably referring to ?? brain fog. She has located the doodle to 'Pruniers, 17th November 1965' and signed her name within the doodle. 'Prunier St. James ' was a well-known French restaurant in London which closed in 1976. Lord Fraser was a British Conservative Party political administrator. Dame Laura Knight's autobiography contains sixty plates and twenty-two illustrations in the text. A highly collectible presentation copy from one of the 20th Century's leading women artists. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
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[Signed] The Mahdi of Allah, author's presentation copy inscribed to the first German diplomat to openly criticize Hitler's regime The Story of the D [Signed] The Mahdi of Allah, author's presentation copy inscribed to the first German diplomat to openly criticize Hitler's regime The Story of the D 1535.18 CAD This jacketed U.S. first edition is a notable presentation copy, tying together three men – the book’s author, the Introduction’s author, and the person to whom the book was inscribed. All three would be dramatically affected by the ascendance of Hitler a year later. The author’s intriguing inked inscription on the front free endpaper verso in 7 lines reads: ""Allah is Allah and Mohammed is the Prophet of Allah and the author of The Mahdi of Allah still loves his friend Consul Paul Schwarz. Vienna, April 1932 Richard A. Bermann"". Condition is good in a good dust jacket, both the volume and jacket intact, but showing some age and wear. The red cloth binding remains square and tight with some spine toning and staining to the upper rear board. The contents remain free of spotting with overall age-toning and some transfer browning to the endpapers from the pastedown glue. The dust jacket retains the original ""$2.50"" lower front flap price and shows good color overall. We note modest toning to the jacket spine, shallow chipping and overall wear to extremities, with clear tape reinforcement to the jacket verso at the spine ends, hinges, and flap folds. The dust jacket is protected with a clear, removable, archival cover. Paul Schwarz (1882-1951) was the German Consul General in New York, fired by Hitler when he came to power. Hitler became Chancellor on 30 January 1933 and consolidated dictatorial powers by late March. In early April, Schwarz became one of two diplomatic officials in the United States to be removed by Hitler (along with the German Ambassador). ""Of the two, and in fact, of all the German foreign service, only Schwarz was moved to disaffiliate himself publicly from the Nazi regime."" (Paul Seabury, The Wilhelmstrasse: A Study of German Diplomats Under the Nazi Regime) ""I am at odds with the bigoted policies of the new regime"" Schwarz told American newspapermen on April 11. ""I feel honored for I am the only German consul to be dismissed by Hitler as far as I know."" It is noteworthy that Schwarz was reportedly not Jewish. His expulsion was partially attributed to his entertaining Professor and Mrs. Albert Einstein at tea in his private residence. Schwarz became an American citizen, was employed as an investment counselor, and supplied information about the Nazi regime to the OSS after it was created in 1942. The author, Richard A. Bermann (1883-1939), shared his friend’s sympathies and, ultimately, his exile. He became a co-founder of the German Academy in Exile, established in 1936 as a platform for German intellectuals in America to speak out against Hitler. Up to his death (in 1939 in New York) he remained intensively engaged in the work of the American Guild for Cultural Freedom. This U.S. first edition features a substantial introduction by Winston Churchill, advertised on the dust jacket’s lower front panel. Mohammed Ahmed was a messianic Islamic leader in central and northern Sudan. In 1883, Mahdists overwhelmed...
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The Decoration of Houses (Edith Wharton Signed Presentation copy) Boldly inscribed on the second front endpaper: Elizabeth Bronson/ from her generou The Decoration of Houses (Edith Wharton Signed Presentation copy) Boldly inscribed on the second front endpaper: ""Elizabeth Bronson/ from her generou 3035.18 CAD Handsomely rebound by Dragonfly Bindery in dark blue woven moirà silk quarter spine with printed paper label; and attractive marble paper-covered boards. Green top-staining. With new endpapers. Clean and tight throughout with some foxing to the front tissue guard protecting the title page which has a touch of foxing to the margins at the top and bottom. With a few marginal smudges to the preliminary pages. With two architectural drawings on folded tissue paper laid in on either side of the plates on pages 158-159 by the previous owner, perhaps Elizabeth Bronson. A very handsome copy of Wharton s first work and significant interior design volume. Scarce with a signed presentation by Edith Wharton. The Decoration of Houses, a manual ofinterior designwritten byEdith Whartonwith architectOgden Codman, was first published in 1897. In the book, the authors denounce Victorian-styleinterior decorationandinterior design, especially rooms decorated with heavy window curtains,Victorian bric-a-bracand overstuffed furniture. They argue that such rooms emphasize upholstery at the expense of proper space planning and architectural design and are, therefore, uncomfortable and rarely used. Wharton and Codman advocated the creation of houses with rooms decorated with strong architectural wall and ceiling treatments, accentuated by well-suited furniture, rooms based on simple,classicaldesign principles such as symmetry and proportion and a sense of architectural balance.The Decoration of Housesis considered a seminal work and its success led to the emergence of professional decorators working in the manner advocated by its authors, most notablyElsie de Wolfe. (Wikipedia) First edition with matching dates of 1897 on the title and copyright pages; and the De Vinne Press colophon at the bottom of the copyright page.
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[Signed] Sylvie and Bruno [with] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded - PRESENTATION Copies Inscribed to the Mother of Enid, Dodgson's Last Child-Friend CARROL [Signed] Sylvie and Bruno [with] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded - PRESENTATION Copies Inscribed to the Mother of Enid, Dodgson's Last Child-Friend CARROL 4535.18 CAD Titles for both volumes continue: ""With Forty-Six Illustrations by Harry Furniss."" Two 8vo volumes. Pp. xxi, [4], 2-400, followed by three page of publisher ads, [1]; [4], x-xxxi, [1], 2-423, [2], followed by four pages of publisher ads, and then a facsimile of one page of Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Frontis. illustration to each, with tissue guards. Original red cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. General index in Vol. Ii. Light scattered foxing on first and last few leaves of both volumes. Both volumes a bit cocked, with spines faded; first volume with a few small spots on the front board. Armorial bookplate (Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester) on front pastedowns. Both volumes inscribed to ""Mrs. Stevens"" (Edith Stevens), the mother of Dodgson's last ""child-friend,"" Enid Stevens.Both volumes presented in cloth chemises within three-quarter red morocco clamshell boxes, felt-lined, within a red linen slipcase. Inscriptions read, respectively, ""Mrs. Stevens, from the Author. Feb. 28, 1891"" and ""Mrs. Stevens, with sincere regards, from the Author. Dec. 27, 1893.""Edith Stevens (1841-1919) was the mother of Enid Stevens, considered by Dodgson to be the last of his ""child-friends."" On the very day of the first inscription Dodgson wrote to Edith, stating, ""I have lost a considerable fraction (say .25) of my heart to your little daughter: and I hope you will allow me further opportunities of trying whether or no we can become real friends. She would be about my only child-friend in Oxford"" (The Letters of Lewis Carroll, p. 825). Dodgson's warm feelings of his friendship with Enid was reciprocated by Enid who, later in life, wrote ""we were the very greatest friends,"" and ""I don't think anybody else ever had so much of him as I had . I was the last child-friend.""The introductory poem in Sylvie and Bruno contains a double acrostic of the name ""Isa Bowman"", who was another of Carroll's child-friends; the dedicatory poem in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded contains a single acrostic, ""enidstevens"" using the third letters of each line. Provenance: Edith Stevens (née Headland, 1841-1919); Sotheby's, 1929; Christies; Christies, 2006. Original cloth with both vols. housed in a morocco slipcase with chemises
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[Signed] William Klein: Rome (Roma): The City and Its People (First French Edition) [PRESENTATION COPY: SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED in 1959, the Year o [Signed] William Klein: Rome (Roma): The City and Its People (First French Edition) [PRESENTATION COPY: SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED in 1959, the Year o 6985.18 CAD First French edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed with black ink: ""à Robert, ROME SWEET ROME,"" signed by William Klein and dated ""Rome 1959"" on the table of contents page by Klein. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in white on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text (in French, with epigraphs in Italian) by William Klein. Includes notes on the plates. 192 pp., with numerous black-and-white photogravure plates richly printed in France. 11-1/8 x 8-7/8 inches. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), Michel and Michèle Auer, Collection M. + M. Auer - une histoire de la photographie. (Hermance, Switzerland: Éditions M+M, 2003), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).]. Near Fine (light surface marks to boards, else Fine) in Near Fine dust jacket (numerous 1/8 to 1/2-inch closed tears and chips at top and bottom edges of jacket, repaired with tape and colored ink, and creasing to the upper corner of front jacket flap). Divided into five sections (Roman Citizens, The Street, the Eternal City, Youth, and the Catholic World), each demonstrative of Klein's keen eye for expression, gesture, juxtaposition, movement, mass, and time, Klein's Rome is a collective and definitive portrait of a living, yet ancient city. This is William Klein's second book, and one of his five signature 'city books,' which also include: New York (1956); Tokyo (1964); Moscow (1964) and Torino '90 (1990). Signed by Author.
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[Signed] THE COLD GREEN ELEMENT. Presentation Copy Inscribed to [Sophie (Sigmund) Loussco] Layton, Irving [ ] [Hardcover] [Signed] THE COLD GREEN ELEMENT. Presentation Copy Inscribed to [Sophie (Sigmund) Loussco] Layton, Irving [ ] [Hardcover] 785.18 CAD 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Association Copy of the First Edition of this early Layton Contact Press title. Inscribed to Sophie (Sigmund) Loussco] a friend of Irving Layton and Betty Sutherland. 'For Sophie, And all my best wished Irving. May 10, 1955"" 8vo, pp. [60]. Black cloth backed illustrated boards designed by Betty Sutherland. As usual, the spine label is not present with only a spot remaining. A very good example showing some general use. The importance of this copy can not be underestimated as Layton, arguably Canada's earliest Modernist Poet had much respect for Pound, the poet and founder of Modernism. A solid thesis could be developed around this copy.
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[Signed] The Hundred Secret Senses (Inscribed Presentation copy) Tan, Amy [Fine] [Hardcover] [Signed] The Hundred Secret Senses (Inscribed Presentation copy) Tan, Amy [Fine] [Hardcover] 100.18 CAD Tan’s third novel, in addition to two children’s books. Fine in fine dw, this copy is INSCRIBED by Tan on the title page to playwright John Guare. Nice association copy!.
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[Signed] With the C L B Battalion in France (Inscribed Presentation Copy) Duncan, Rev James [Very Good] [Hardcover] [Signed] With the C L B Battalion in France (Inscribed Presentation Copy) Duncan, Rev James [Very Good] [Hardcover] 138.56 CAD First edition, first printing. Inscribed in pencil by the author on the front free endpaper, 'George S Hanna, With the affection of his old friend, The Author, France, Feb 1917'. 106pp, with fold out frontispiece showing the Church Lads' Brigade (16th Battalion, King's Royal Rifles). In red cloth boards with black lettering and decoration (cloth a little faded, gently rubbed and rounded at spine ends and corners). Internally a little scattered spotting, especially on edges. 12mo.
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