FLEMING Ian
Octopussy and the Living Daylights
1966
First edition. 8vo. Original dark brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in silver, dust jacket with original price of 10s. 6d. London, Jonathan Cape. Ian Fleming's final instalment to the Bond tales, published posthumously. Both stories were turned into movies, with Roger Moore in 'Octopussy' and Timothy Dalton in 'The Living Daylights'. A very good copy, new pencil price to inner flap, ownership signature to front free endpaper, and red pen mark to front flyleaf and bottom edge. Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming the Bibliography, A14a, (1.1).
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Wittgenstein: A Life. Young Ludwig 1889-1921
First edition. 8vo. xii, [2], 322 pp., eighteen black and white photographic illustrations across four plates. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. A fine copy. London, Gerald Duckworth & Co, Ltd. The first of a projected two volume biography of Wittgenstein, the second volume of which would never appear, by the renowned Wittgenstein scholar Brian McGuinness. The book charts Wittgenstein's early life, from his upbringing in Vienna, through to his early years in England from 1908 to 1913, his military service during the First World War and subsequent captivity, and covers the writing, publication and reception of the Tractatus. The volume concludes with his renunciation of philosophy and retirement into elementary-school teaching. Great Contemporaries
Third printing of the Odhams Press edition. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt on black ground, dust jacket. London, Odhams Press Limited. Signed and dated 'July 1956' by the author in black ink to the half title. Originally published in 1937, this series of essays on 'Great men of our age' includes T.E. Lawrence, Trotsky and Hitler - 'We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilisation will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation and brought it back serene, helpful and strong, to the forefront of the European family circle.' Great Contemporaries 'is, of course, an important part of the canon and belongs in every library' (Langworth). On receiving his advance copy, Neville Chamberlain wrote to Churchill immediately: 'How you can go on throwing off these sparkling sketches with such apparent ease & such sustained brilliance, in the midst of all your other occupation is a constant source of wonder to me' (quoted in Cohen). Jacket rather worn with loss to head of spine panel, lean to text block, otherwise very good. The Spy Who Loved Me
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original dark grey cloth, blind stamped dagger on upper board, with blade blocked in silver, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape. A very good copy, a little wear to the extremities of the jacket, spine panel a little age toned, and with a few areas of soiling. Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming the Bibliography. A10a. (1.1). Diamonds are Forever
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, and silver stamped diamond to front board, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape. A very good copy, with some wear and chips to the extremities of the jacket, short tear to the joint of the front flap, and spine panel a little faded, some spotting to top and fore edge. Gilbert, A4a. Wittgenstein’s Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939. From the Notes of R.G. Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees and Yorick Smythies. Edited by Cora Diamond
First edition, first printing. 8vo. 300, [2] pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket (small black rubber stamp to top edge of text block, otherwise internally clean and unmarked; spine panel of jacket slightly faded, still a near fine copy). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 'Wittgenstein wrote a great on the foundations of mathematics between 1929 and 1944. During this period, he discussed the philosophical problems of the foundations in several sets of lectures at Cambridge; among the last was that given in the Lent and Easter terms of 1939. The lectures, which were given twice a week, lasted two hours, and Wittgenstein spoke entirely without notes. The notes published here are based on those taken by his students at the lectures' (Editor's Preface, p. 8). In Cold Blood
First UK edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket. London, Hamish Hamilton. A review copy, with a letter from the publisher loosely inserted. The book that made true crime an 'interesting, successful commercial genre, but also began the process of tearing it down'. A near fine, notably bright copy with only the slightest wear at the extremities of the jacket. You Only Live Twice
First edition, first impression, first state. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, front board gilt stamped with Japanese characters, bamboo decorated endpapers, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape. The last James Bond Novel to be published in Fleming's lifetime. 'The final entry in what has become known as the Blofeld Trilogy'. A very good copy, spine panel lightly age toned, fore edge a little spotted, text block leaning. Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming the Bibliography. A12a. (1.1). Sermoni ali eremiti del divo Aurelio Augustino Ipponense
White-on-black initials throughout, some criblé, with interlacing, arabesque ribbons. 8vo (106 x 148mm). [131 (of 132)]ff., lacking final blank. Contemporary limp vellum wrapper detached from text block (possibly supplied), gatherings sewn on two alum-tawed thongs. Venice: Alessandro Paganino de Paganini, A lovely example of the rare, pocket edition of the pseudo-Augustinian Sermones ad fratres in eremo, printed here in vernacular Italian and distinctive type by innovative Venetian printer Alessandro Paganino (1511-38) and from the library of the hermits of the Eremo di San Girolamo in Umbria, with the purchase inscription of one of their number, Antonio Dosema on the title page. We have found only two copies outside Italy, at UCLA and Folger. Early attributed to St Augustine, but in fact the work of one or multiple authors over the course of several centuries up to the fourteenth, the Sermones ad heremitas were immensely influential in the early modern period, enjoying 'a popularity equal to, if not greater than, some genuine Augustinian works' (Augustine, p.530). Influential in particular amongst religious orders, they were wielded by the Augustinian Hermits in the fourteenth century as evidence of the age and primacy of their order, their proximity to St Augustine and precedence over the Augustinian Canons. The present volume is typical of the innovation and printing practices of Alessandro Paganini. The text is Italian, rather than Latin; while this was not the first printing of these sermons in the vernacular - three editions had already been printed in Florence by 1500 - Paganini emphasises the choice of language both in the dedication at the beginning and the address to readers at the end, writing that it renders the text more useful, particularly 'a quelli non sanno latino', to those who do not know Latin. This utility is emphasised elsewhere, with Paganini highlighting that this is a book intended for everyday use to aid daily striving towards a better Christian life; the size of this volume, and clear printing in Paganini's distinctive and handsome type, makes it a portable and compact accompaniment to daily life and everyday, personal devotion. This volume issued from Paganini's presses at a crucial time for the printer. Two months earlier he had embarked on his ambitious and groundbreaking project of printing a collection of works in 24mo format, the first printer to print in that size, which required a complete redesign of type to fit on the page. He makes reference to it here: in the dedicatory preface, Paganini exhorts those reading to pray for him 'alle comenciate imprese delle opere mie', as he begins to print his own works. As Angela Nuovo notes, he had been printing on his own since 1511, so his request for intercession on his behalf likely refers to the start of his ambitious printing project, than the start of his career as a printer overall (Nuovo, 13). Sporadic notes and titles in margins and foliation throughout, in sixteenth-century hand of Fr. Antonio Dosema (see below); in the same hand is written a prayer on the verso of the title page. Provenance: Sixteenth-century purchase inscription on title page in Italian, in neat humanist hand: 'questo libro sie de frate Anto. Dosema, alia heremita de santo gironimo', likely the Eremo di San Girolamo on the slopes of Monte Cucco, near Gubbio, Umbria, 'formalised' as a hermitage in 1521 by Paolo Giustiniani with the permission of Pope Leo X. The order initiated by Giustiniani and housed at the Eremo di San Girolamo - one of three houses in Italy - was a reformed branch of the Camaldolese order, the Congregazione degli Eremiti Camaldolesi di Monte Corona; accordingly the inscription at the foot of the title page in a later hand gives their name, Cog. Eremit. S.ti Romualdi Camald. ord. The hermitage had its own library. CNCE 28191. Adams A2220. OCLC: UCLA, Folger only. The Chrysalids
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Michael Joseph. Often cited as Wyndham's best novel, though not as well known as the Day of the Triffids. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, following a small puritanical society which practise eugenics to ensure the preservation of 'normality'. A near fine copy, with light rubbing to edges of jacket, and spine panel with small stain, small amount of old tape staining to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Giovanni’s Room
First UK edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in white and ruled in yellow, dust jacket. London, Michael Joseph. Baldwin's second novel, a cornerstone of gay literature, originally published by The Dial Press in New York in the previous year. Partial offsetting to endpapers, spotting to top edge contents otherwise generally clean; jacket with small amount of light spotting to rear panel and flaps, otherwise a very good copy indeed. Hours in a Library
WOOLF Virginia Frontispiece portrait of Woolf. First separate edition. One of 1800 copies. 8vo., original blue and black cloth. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company. First published in the Times Literary Supplement in November 1916, adopting the title of one of her father?s (Sir Leslie Stephen) books, and here published as a New Year greeting gift by the publisher. A very good copy in the glassine dust jacket which is torn and missing its spine. Light fading to the top and tail of the spine. Kirkpatrick A33. Why I am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
RUSSELL Bertrand Edited with an Appendix on the Bertrand Russell Case by Paul Edwards. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [3], 225, [1], [2, publisher's advertisements] pp., errata slip tipped-in at p. 23. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in silver, top edge in orange, dust jacket (small bookseller's label to front pastedown, partial offsetting to endpapers, otherwise generally internally clean; some light shelf wear to extremities of jacket, notwithstanding an excellent copy). London, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. A collection of articles on religion and ethics, the title essay was originally published in 1929. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
FREUD Sigmund Authorized translation by Alix Strachey. First UK edition. 8vo. 179, [1] pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (spotting to edges of text block, otherwise generally internally clean; spine panel of jacket faded with some minor wear to tips, else a near fine copy, exceedingly scarce in the dust jacket). London, The Hogarth Press & the Institute of Psycho-Analysis. The first Hogarth Press edition of one of the most important texts in the evolution of Freudian psychoanalytic theory, complete with a near fine example of the rare dust jacket. Originally published in German in 1926 under the title Hemmung, Symptom und Angst, the first English translation appeared in 1927, published by the Psychoanalytic Institute, Stamford under the supervision of Leon Pierce Clark, but was never issued in England and came to be surpassed by the Hogarth Press edition presented here. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety constitutes a crucial reformulation of Freud's theory of anxiety in which repression is presented not as the cause, but rather the result of anxiety. In 1924 Leonard Woolf paid £800 for the existing stock of the British Psychoanalytical Society's library and the Hogarth Press became their official English publishers. The move was a huge risk for the Hogarth Press, both financially and in terms of the risk of prosecution for obscenity, and Virginia was 'less sanguine than Leonard about the project. She wrote to Roger Fry that she was alarmed at the Press 'having laid out £800 in the works of Freud.' The stock arrived in July 1924 and was 'dumped in a fortress the size of Windsor castle in ruins upon the floor' in the basement at Tavistock Square.' (Julia Briggs, Canvas Issue 18). Grinstein, Sigmund Freud's Writings: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 117. The Picture of Dorian Gray
WILDE Oscar Second Carrington edition. 8vo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, waterlily design in black on front cover, top edge in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Paris, Charles Carrington. Carrington's second edition, comprising 500 copies (as stated in the Catalogue at rear of his 1910 edition). Small amount of faint spotting to preliminaries and terminal leaves, light marking to front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, the contents otherwise generally clean; extremities worn, still altogether a very good copy overall. Mason 332. On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems. Translated by B. Meltzer with an introduction by R. B. Braithwaite
GÖDEL Kurt First edition in English. 8vo. viii, 72 pp. Original light green cloth, spine lettered in red, dust jacket. A near, notably bright fine copy. Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd. Gödel's incompleteness theorems, which were originally published in Monatshefte für Mathematik in 1931. Gödel's theorems remain some of the most important statements ever contributed to the study of mathematics and logic, proving that in even elementary arithmetic there exist propositions that cannot be proven or disproven within the system. Gödel's results overturned a century of efforts to place the whole of mathematics on an axiomatic basis, including the work of David Hilbert and Bertrand Russell. Instead, he showed that the bounds of mathematics cannot be those of one formal system. His work also demonstrated that mathematics is not finished, as had been believed, and implies that computers can never be programmed to answer all mathematical questions. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or Life Among the Lowly
STOWE Harriet Beecher First edition, first printing. 2 vols. Title-page vignettes and 6 plates by Hammatt Billings. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, spines gilt, joints & headcaps repaired, some occasional soiling to text. x, 13-312; iv, 5-322pp. Boston, John P. Jewett & Cleveland, Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, A very good copy of the first edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's epic with all the issue points of the first printing. Stowe was educated first at Litchfield Female Academy and later the Hartford Female Seminary. Proof of her talents were immediately evident in her written work and she found employment at Hartford upon graduation, teaching composition from 1829-32. A handful of things led to the creation of her master work: the suicide of her brother in 1842 led to a Christian re-awakening, which was followed seven years later by the death of her infant son and the passing of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. ?In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-ninteenth-century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was a slanderous attack on 'the Southern way of life.' Whatever its weakness as a literary work - structural looseness and excess of sentiment among them - the social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the United States was greater than of any book before or since? (PMM). The novel was initially serialized in the National Era between 5 June 1851 and 1 April 1852. It was printed in book form with an initial print run of 5000, though had ?sold more than 300,000 copies in the United States during the first year after it was published? (ADB). BAL, 19343; PMM, 332; Sabin, 92457. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
SPARK Muriel First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Macmillan. A good copy, with some creasing and chips to the edges of the dust jacket, some staining along the top edge. Ex-Harrods lending library stamp to rear flap and rear pastedown, rear hinge with some glue residue at the top corner. 