DAVID, Elizabeth
1st Edition, green cloth with red vignette to the front and red and gilt titles to the spine. Top edge red, 493[3]pp with illustrations by Juliet Renny. In unclipped dust jacket with 35s net price. Signed by the author in the year of publication on the half title. This book together comes together with a proof copy and sections of the galley proof of the same work. The boards are clean and bright with just a little pushing to the corners. Internally clean, with just the author's signature and a line of toning to the the endpapers and page following where the dust jacket does not reach. The jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) is a little marked and dust stained with rubbing to the corners, spine tips and edges with minimal loss. There are two closed tears of 1 and 1.5 cm with a touch of associated creasing. The proof copy is a little stained and rubbed on the cover and internally there is the occasional comment on a recipe written in pen. The Galley Proof covers pages 33-448 only. These items come from the collection of Angela Wolford [nee Kay]. She wrote books for the chef and early television personality Jean Conil and helped in the editing of this volume. There is a note signed by her, in the book, to the effect that she compiled the index and the comments on various recipes in the proof, presumably from her. A lovely trio of items. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
MILNE, A. A.
1st Edition. 12.5 x 19.3 cm dark red cloth with gilt stamped vignette and border to the front, vignette to the rear and titles to the spine. Top edge gilt, pink pictorial endpapers, x,103[1]pp, with black and white illustrations by Ernest Shepard throughout. Clean, bright, unfaded boards with a touch of rubbing to the spine tips and corners, a little fading at the spine tips and pushing to the corners. At the top of the back board there are slight unobtrusive marks where a few drips have been brushed off, but can only really be seen at a certain angle in the light. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a hint of toning/acid migration to the free endpapers where the jacket flaps don'treach. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) is lightly dust marked with toning to the spine which extends to a lesser extent for about 2 cm onto the front panel - it looks much worse in our images than in reality. There is rubbing to the spine tips and corners with minimal loss to the corners and loss to the head of the spine to a maximum of 0.8 cm and affecting the word "Now" in the title. This loss extends round onto the front and rear panels for 1cm. There are three small chips at the foot of the spine, two are minute and the other is a chip of 0.8 x 0.3 cm. There is a little creasing to the top edge of the rear panel and a couple of tiny nicks on the top and bottom edges. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
MILNE, A. A.
1st Edition, 12.5 x 19.5 cm green cloth with gilt stamped vignette of Pooh and Christopher Robin to the front within a single lined border and titles to the spine. Top edge gilt, Hundred Acre Wood map endpapers, [xiv] 58(2)pp with black and white illustrations by E H Shepard throughout. In original first state dust jacket priced at 7/6 and with the advert for the 117th Thousand of When We Were Very Young on the rear flap. The boards are clean and bright with just a touch of pushing to three of the four corners and to the spine tips. There is a tiny proud dot two thirds of the way down on the left of the front board (1.5cms in from the gilt rule) and a small ding at the bottom edge of the rear board Internally very clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a strip of toning/acid migration to the free endpapers where the dust jacket does not reach, noting a single 2mm spot at the bottom of the recto of the illustration preceding chapter 1. There are a few light spots along the fore edge of the text block. The binding is very firm and square with no cracks. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) is much cleaner than is usually found with uniform toning that is more evident to the spine. There is a little rubbing to the corners and spine tips with minor loss to the corners on the front panel and of up to 3mm on the head of the spine which does not affect the titles. The foot of the spine has a very small triangular chip measuring 5 x 3mm. All in all a lovely looking clean 1st Edition copy in an excellent original, unrestored dust jacket. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Foyle's 1st Book Club Edition May 1959 (after Cape's 3rd printing in April 1959). 12 x 18.8 cm yellow boards with black titles to the spine, 244pp in original dust jacket. 15 signatures. Although the sixth book in Fleming's James Bond series, Dr. No was the first to be made into a film, in 1962. The book has a clipped signature of Ian Fleming and has been signed by 12 cast, as follows: Sean Connery - James Bond Ursula Andress - Honey Ryder Jack Lord - Felix Leiter Bernard Lee - 'M' Lois Maxwell - Miss Moneypenny Anthony Dawson - Professor Dent Marguerite LeWars - The Photographer (Annabel Chung) Eunice Gayson - Sylvia Trench Peter Burton - 'Q' Joseph Wiseman - Dr No Zena Marshall - Miss Taro Dolores Keator - Mary Trueblood The three additional signatures are: Monty Norman - writer of the film score and composer of the now famous James Bond Theme which has featured in every Eon Productions film since. Vic Flick - James Bond Theme guitarist Diana Coupland - Wife of Monty Norman she provided the singing voice for Honey Ryder as she sang 'Under the Mango Tree', when she walked of the ocean on Crab Key The boards are clean with just a little pushing to the corners and spine tips which also have a hint of dust marking. Internally, the cast signatures are on the endpapers and the other three on the half title. The Ian Fleming signature is tipped in on the title page. The lightly toned dust jacket is rubbed on the corners edges and spine tips with minor loss to the corners and spine tips. There are also a couple of closed tears, the longest on the top of the rear panel, measuring 1.5 cm. All in all a wonderful, possibly unique, collection of signatures relating to the first Bond film, who's release led to 1.5 million copies of the book being sold in the following seven months as well as the birth of a new film genre. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.