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1957. FRANCIS, Dick. The Sport of Queens. Michael Joseph, 1957.


£298


8vo, newly bound in half green morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, compartments tooled centrally in gilt; illustrated with black and white photographs; a very nice copy.


First edition. 1958. FLEMING, Ian. Dr. no. Jonathan Cape. 1958.


£1,998


crown 8vo. original black cloth, spine lettered in silver; a very good copy in a very good dust-jacket with light dust-soiling on the lower panel and tiny nicks at the corners.


First edition. This copy is in the scarcer binding without the dancing girl on the upper board.


1959. WELLINGS, E.M. The Ashes Thrown Away. The m.c.c. Tour of Australia 1958-59. Bailey Bros & Swinfen, 1959


£38


8vo., original cloth with chipped dust wrapper. With black and white photographs.


First edition.


1960.HEATH, Ambrose. The Queen cookery Book.Weidenfeld and nicolson. 1960.


£38


8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A little rubbing to head of spine of wrapper, otherwise a very good copy.


First edition. A culinary anthology culled from the pages of The Queen magazine, for which the author wrote the cookery column for nine years.


1961. CAMERON, Kenneth. English Place names. B.T. Batsford Limited, 1961.


£38


8vo, original boards, in dust-jacket; illustrated with black and white plates; a very good copy.


First edition.


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1962.GALLICO, Paul. coronation.Heinemann London Melbourne Toronto, 1962


£198


8vo., original blue cloth, spine lettered and bordered in gilt, in dustjacket designed by Tom Adams, light blue endpapers; extremities very slightly rubbed, slight tear to upper edge of dustjacket, nonetheless a fresh copy; provenance author’s inscription copy to his editor (inscribed on front free endpaper ‘christmas love to my dear Paul and Frances - Ever Paul Gallico’.)


Paul William Gallico (1897-1976) was born and educated in new York city and it was with the new York Daily news that he took his first job as a journalist. he ended up writing for the sports department and was given a daily column which made him a minor celebrity. it was during this period that he organised the Golden Gloves amateur boxing competition. he wanted to be a fiction writer, however, and after selling a short story to a film company he retired from sports writing to concentrate on his other work. in 1941 he wrote the book that was to make him famous outside America - The Snow Goose - and he became well- known as an author of children’s stories. he died in Antibes in 1976 just short of his 79th birthday.


The novel follows a northern family who travel to London to be part of the coronation of Elizabeth ii. it captures the pageantry and the outpouring of love from a nation to their queen. This is not the story of the coronation, nor of those who took part, but rather it is that of the people who witnessed it and the effect it had on them.


The Frances to whom he inscribes the book was Frances Whiting who worked in the 20’s and 30’s for cosmopolitan, becoming managing editior of that magazine from 1935 until 1946. in the course of working in the publishing industry she encouraged many young writers, who frequently gave her credit for her contributions when sending her signed copies of their books.


Second printing of the first edition.


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