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113. FieldinG, Henry. tom Jones. Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1904.
£398
8vo (2 volumes). Full polished calf gilt, boards bordered with triple-ruled gilt fillets, spines gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco lettering pieces in 2, others with gilt foliate design, spine lettered directly in gilt at foot with imprint, gilt roll-tooled board edges, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; slight foxing to edges otherwise a handsome set; provenance: from the rothschild library at ascott (engraved bookplates on upper pastedowns).
114. FleminG, ian. the Man with the golden gun. Jonathan Cape. 1965.
£320
crown 8vo. original black cloth with dust wrapper. a very good copy. First edition.
115. FleminG, ian. octopussy and the living Daylights. Jonathan Cape. 1966.
£198
crown 8vo. original black cloth, blocked in gilt; a fine copy in the dust- jacket.
First edition.
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116. FleminG, Peter. Brazilian adventure. London: Queen Anne Press, 2010.
£125
8vo (210 x 132mm). original green cloth, upper board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt in the style of the first edition binding, map endpapers; pp. 364, [4 (blank ll., the last with limitation slip tipped onto recto)]; half-tone portrait frontispiece, 8 half-tone plates with illustrations recto-and-verso, illustrations in the text; fine.
First edition thus, no. 37 of 150 copies. ‘in april 1932 Fleming answered an advertisement in the agony column of The Times, which led him to take part in a crack-brained and amateurish expedition to the hinterland of Brazil, ostensibly to look for colonel P. h. Fawcett, a missing explorer. Fleming persuaded The Times to appoint him their unpaid special correspondent. this mixture of farce, excitement, discomfort, and danger
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achieved nothing except to provide him with the subject matter for his first book, Brazilian Adventure, published in august 1933. in it he blew sky-high the excessive reverence and solemnity with which travel books had hitherto been treated, mocking the dangers and himself with infectious humour. People could not believe that a story of true adventure could be so funny, and the book had immense success at home and in america’ (oDnB). this new edition — limited to 150 copies — was published by the Queen anne Press (of which Peter Fleming’s brother ian Fleming was once Managing Director and is now managed by his daughter Kate grimond and his nephew Fergus Fleming) and was edited by Kate grimond who wrote a new introduction for it (pp. [5]-[6]); the text ‘is taken from a first edition that belonged to Peter Fleming and in which he had made hand-written corrections. these amendments have been incorporated. some new photographs are included taken from Fleming’s album of the expedition’ (p. [6]).
117. ForsHaW, Joseph m. & William t. CooPer the Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds. Collins. 1979.
£400
4to. Publisher’s cloth and dustwrapper in slipcase; pp. 304, illustrated throughout with maps and colour plates by William t. Cooper; fine.
reprint.
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