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145. JOYCE, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club , New York.. 1968.£98


8vo., original black morocco backed paper covered boards in original slightly chipped glassine wrapper with slipcase.. With illustrations by Brian Keogh. A fine copy.


Limited edition of 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist.


146. KEENLYSIDE, Francis Hugh. Peaks and Pioneers. The Story of Mountaineering ... Preface by Lord Hunt of Llanvair Waterdine. London: Maison Mame for Paul Elek Ltd, 1975.


£49.50


4to (295 x 230mm). Original oatmeal cloth, spine lettered and decorated in brown, dustwrapper retaining both promotional and full prices, scored through in ink; pp. 248; 11 colour-printed plates with illustrations recto- and-verso, some double-page, monochrome illustrations, maps and plans in the text, some full-page; dustwrapper slightly creased on edges and faded on spine and upper parts of panels, otherwise a very good copy.


First edition of this ‘fine picture-history book’ (Neate). Keenlyside (1911-1990) was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Oxford. A member of the Alpine Club, he served as the editor of the Climbers’ Club Journal from 1950 to 1954 and of the Alpine Club Journal from 1954 to 1962, and contributed a number of articles to mountaineering journals. In his preface, John Hunt notes of this book that, ‘It is one thing to write about men and mountains but it is far better to let those rugged and often amusing characters tell their own story. It is this alternative which my friend Francis Keenlyside has wisely taken in this book, a history of mountaineering told as far as possible in the words of those who made the history. In this way, it really conjures up the past and, for those who climb today, contrasts it with the present. Reading it, some may well conclude that mountaineering, which our modern tyros sometimes call a “game”, is rather more than a sport. It may be seen as a struggle with nature and a relationship between human beings of a very special quality. If so, Mr Keenlyside has rendered a service to a much wider readership than only to those who climb’ (p. 7). The appendices provide a list of Alpine first ascents and a list of first ascents of highest mountains, and ‘A Select Bibliography’ is also appended.


Neate K11; Perret 2426; Salkeld and Boyle K08 (‘One of the better histories, and well illustrated’); Yakushi (3rd ed.) K99 (‘History of mountaineering from Moses on Sinai to Bonington on Everest, including Himalayan climbing’).


147.KENNEDY, Edward M. Decisions for a Decade. Policies and Programs for the 1970s. Preface by George F. Kennan. Garden City New York. Doubleday & Company. 1968.


£498


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


First edition, inscribed by Kennedy to David [Lord] Harlech “ To David Harlech. A long time friend of all the Kennedys who we all hold in the greatest esteem. Ted Kennedy December 1968”.


At the 1950 general election Harlech was elected as Member of Parliament for Oswestry, which he remained until 1961. Under Prime Minister Anthony Eden he served briefly, from November 1956 to January 1957, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and under Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was from 1957 to 1961 Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. After the election of U.S. President John F. Kennedy he was appointed British Ambassador to the United States.


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Harlech knew Kennedy well from Kennedy’s time in London, where his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, had served as American Ambassador. Like Macmillan he was distantly related to Kennedy, but had a closer relationship than Macmillan with the President-elect and also his brother Robert. Six months after Kennedy took office he was in Washington, D.C., referred to under the Kennedy administration as “our kind of Ambassador”, suppling Kennedy with a stream of advice and Cuban cigars via his diplomatic bag. He was frequently to be seen at the White House, being more a friend of the family than merely ambassador. Harlech was later one of the pallbearers at Robert Kennedy’s funeral.


148. KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Macmillan. 1936.


£1,750


8vo. recently finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full single gilt line panelled dark green morocco, spine panelled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. A handsome copy.


First edition. The author’s greatest and most influential work. It revolutionized the approach to unemployment and became the major framework in the formation of the Welfare State.


149.KIPLING, Rudyard & BALESTIER, Wolcott. The Naulahka. A story of West and East. William Heinemann. 1892.


£128


8vo., Original decorated salmon cloth. Cloth a little rubbed, some browning to endpapers


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occasional odd spot, ink inscription, generally a very good copy; provenance: Ann Clixby (pen gift inscription from her daughter Mary Florence Cockayne, Mary remarried later and became the Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair).


First edition of Kipling’s only serious attempt at literary collaboration. Balestier, an American, had written about the American “Wild West,” and Kipling of course had written about India. The Naulahka (“naulakha” [sic] is Hindu for “900,000 rupees”) is an odd tale that combines these two environments: a man from a Western boom-town attempts to get possession of a fabulous jewel in India. In December 1891, before this was published, Balestier suddenly died (at age 30) of typhoid fever in Dresden. A month later, his sister Carrie became Kipling’s wife; the Kiplings built their first home in Vermont and, in memory of her brother, named it “Naulakha” (spelled properly)


150. KIPLING, Rudyard (author). Rewards and Fairies. London, Macmillan And Co. Ltd. 1910.


£158


8vo. Original red cloth with embossed elephant head roundel in gilt to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; pp. [xii] + [ii], 3-338 + [x] adverts.; an extremely fresh copy both externally and internally with maybe a touch of darkening to spine and a little offset browning to free endpapers.


First edition. This collection of verse contains the first appearance in bookform of Kipling’s most famous poem “If”.


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