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53. CHANDLER, Raymond. Raymond Chandler Speaking. Edited by Dorothy Gardiner & Katherine Sorley Walker. Hamish Hamilton. 1962.
£128
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Wrapper slightly sunned on spine with a little nicking and a chip on one corner with small closed tear, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition preceding the US edition. “This book, consisting mainly of letters from Chandler to his friends, contains some of his pithiest writing. It also includes the first chapters of his unfinished novel and other unpublished writings. Here, too, are his uninhibited views on: Philip Marlowe, real-life murders, Hollywood, the Mystery Novel, cats, publishers, television and the craft of writing.”
54. CHANNON, Sir Henry “Chips” Chips: the Diaries. Edited by Robert Rhodes James. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1967.
£98
Royal 8vo. Original black cloth; illustrated with photographs; a very good copy in somewhat chipped and worn dust-jacket.
First edition.
55. CHRISTIE, Agatha. Third Girl. Collins Crime Club. 1966. £48 Crown 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; a very good copy in dust-jacket..
First edition. A Poirot novel.
56. CHURCHILL, Sir Winston. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. The Educational Book Company Ltd. 1956-58.
£498
Royal 8vo. 4 vols.; original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and with red lettering-labels on the spines; illustrated with numerous maps and plates; just the slightest rubbing to a couple of labels otherwise a very nice set.
“Chartwell Edition”, being the first illustrated edition, published simultaneously with the Cassell and Company edition.
57.CLIFTON, Robert T. Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers & Stickers. A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. 1973.
£30
8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. xxii + 418, text illustrations throughout; price-clipped, edges a trifle rubbed, very good indeed.
Third printing. Joyously dedicated to the author’s wife. The variety of barbed wire on display here is mind-boggling as well as limb-mangling.
‘A GORGEOUSLY HANDSOME, SUMPTUOUS PRODUCTION’
58.COOK, Captain James. The Journal of H.M.S. Resolution 1772- 1775. Guildford, San Francisco, Sydney and Masterton: Genesis Publications Limited, Genesis Publications Inc., and Hedley Fine Art Books, 1981.
£695
Folio (338 x 240mm). Original maroon goatskin-backed and -edged boards, boards ruled in gilt and with gilt designs, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, red fabric marker, maroon buckram slipcase with printed paper lettering-piece on upper panel; pp. [4 (blank ll.)], 140, [2], ff. 1-320, pp. 781-806, [2 (full-page tailpiece and blank)], [6 (blank ll.)]; title with vignette and printed in red and black, mounted colour-printed frontispiece retaining tissue guard, 5 mounted
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colour-printed plates retaining tissue guards, and 26 full-page illustrations, maps, and facsimiles; slipcase label slightly rubbed and marked, otherwise a fine copy.
First edition thus, no. 383 of 500 copies. A lavishly-produced facsimile of Cook’s journal during his second voyage, during which he was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. The facsimile is accompanied by essays by A.C.F. David, Rolf E. du Rietz, et al. on Johann Reinhold and George Forster; Anders Sparrman; William Wales; William Hodges, etc. and a note on the Forsters’ fish collection and a catalogue of their fishes. The volume is described by Rosove as ‘A facsimile of Cook’s handwritten journal with a collection of estimable modern writings. A gorgeously handsome, sumptuous production’.
Rosove 80.
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