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318. Williams, tennessee. cat on a hot tin roof. Secker & Warburg. 1956.
£198
8vo. original blue cloth, lettered in silver; with a frontispiece; a very nice copy in dust-jacket which is a little sunned and lightly stained on spine and lower panel.
First uK edition of the dramatist’s Pulitzer Prize winner. the play was adapted as a film of the same name in 1958, starring elizabeth taylor and Paul newman as Maggie and Brick, respectively.
‘... the unPleasant Danger oF soMe seeMinglY
harMless hill Man suDDenlY ProDucing a long KniFe anD Digging soMe one in the riBs’
319. Williamson, Captain o.C. [i.e. Brigadier-General oswald Charles Williamson osWald]. ‘encampments in hill Warfare on the n.W. Frontier of india’, offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution, vol. XXiV, no. 5, pp. 13-16 and 5-7. Woolwich: The Royal Artillery Institution, 1897.
£125
8vo (245 x 155mm). original blue printed wrappers; pp. 13-16, 5-7, [1 (blank)]; plans and diagrams in the text, one folding diagram of an encampment bound to throw clear; slight creasing on final l. and folding plan, otherwise a very good copy in the original wrappers.
First separate edition. a rare work proposing improvements in camp defences for hill warfare: ‘the peculiarity of the above form of warfare is liability to night-attack and also by day the unpleasant danger of some seemingly harmless hill man suddenly producing a long knife and digging some one in the ribs. the latter danger does not affect the campaign, but a successful night-attack by the enemy would never do’ (p. 1). the son of colonel James Williamson (formerly oswald) of the 26th Punjab infantry, the distinguished soldier o.c. Williamson oswald was commissioned into the royal artillery as a lieutenant in 1883, becoming Major in 1901, lieutenant-colonel in 1911, colonel in 1914, and retiring as honorary Brigadier-general in 1920. he served throughout the east and europe, participating in the Burmese expedition (1887-1889, medal with two clasps), the Waziristan expedition (1894-1895, clasp), and campaigns in chitral (1895) and the north-West Frontier of india from 1897 to 1898 (medal with clasp), during which he gained the experiences which led him to write the present work. he subsequently saw service in the south african War (1901, Queen’s medal with four clasps), Persia (1911), and the great War in Belgium, France, Macedonia, and Palestine (1914-1918, cB, cMg, despatches, 1915 star and two medals; promoted temporary Brigadier-general in 1917). he subsequently published an account of the 61st heavy artillery group in the great War under the title 61, How Some Wheels Went Round (london: 1929). this offprint is very scarce and we cannot trace any copies in British libraries via coPac, nor overseas via KVK or Worldcat.
320. Williamson, d. the Practice of cookery and Pastry adapted to the business of every-day life. Edinburgh. J. Menzies & Son. 1889.
£98
8vo., original dark green cloth, decorated title in gilt on upper board, with rolled border in blind on boards, spine slightly rubbed at head and foot, small stain on last blank, a little browning, otherwise a very good copy.
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eighteenth edition, greatly enlarged and improved. D. Williamson was a catering business and cookery school at no.16 Dundas street in edinburgh. his book was extremely popular and ran in many editions, being prized for his comprehensiveness and clear directions. it seems to be variously attributed from the 1850s onwards in different editions to D, Mrs i and g. Williamson.
the book has a scottish bent with delicious recipes for tablet, scotch marmalade, Finnan haddock, hotch-Potch, game birds, ‘craigie toast’, oatmeal puddings &c.
Driver p.656. Not in Cagle or Bitting.
321. WodeHoUse, P.G. the head of Kays in The Captain Magazine. George Newnes. 1905.
£300
8vo., original red decorative cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. spine a little rubbed and darkened otherwise a very good copy.
Volume Xii of the captain Magazine (october 1904 - March 1905 parts bound together) including the serialised first appearance of Wodehouse’s complete story The Head of Kays. the story was published in book form in october 1905.
McIlvaine D77.16 - D77.21.
322. WodeHoUse, P.G. tales of Wrykyn in The Captain Magazine George Newnes. 1905.
£300
8vo., original red decorative cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. spine a little rubbed and darkened otherwise a very good copy.
Volume Xiii of the captain Magazine (april - september 1905 parts bound together) including the serialised first appearance of Wodehouse’s complete story Tales of Wrykyn. the story was not published again until 1997.
McIlvaine D77.22 - D77.27.
323.WodeHoUse, P.G. the new Fold in The Captain Magazine. George Newnes. 1905.
£300
8vo., original red decorative cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. spine a little rubbed and darkened otherwise a very good copy.
Volume XX of the captain Magazine (october 1908 - March 1909 parts bound together) including the serialised first appearance of Wodehouse’s complete story The New Fold. the story was not republished.
McIlvaine D77.47 - D77.52.
324. WodeHoUse, P.G. Bachelors anonymous. Barrie and Jenkins 1973.
£98
8vo., original cloth with price-clipped dust wrapper designed by osbert lancaster. a near fine copy.
First edition.
325. WoolF, Virginia. night and Day. Duckworth & Company. 1919.
£998
8vo, original cloth lettered in blue on spine and upper board. Joints and head and tail of spine rubbed, with a couple of small abrasions, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. one of 2000 copies printed. Kirkpatrick a3
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