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Reynal & Company, New York., 1958. First edition. Octavo. 314 pages. A semi-autobiographical novel of gambling and family disruption, set in the Depression years.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by her on the front free endpaper: ''for Robert Payne. At last! Here's the sixth version of the book you believed in and so helped me keep on and on - with much affection - Sanora. Apr 26, 1958, Hollywood''. The recipient was a prolific writer largely in the fields of biography and history, although he also produced two novels. He had spent the war years in China and had interviewed Chairman Mao. Perhaps it was this, together with the fact that he was, as was Babb, married to a person of Chinese extraction, that led to the obvious friendship displayed in the inscription. Babb herself was a fascinating character. She had an affair with Ralph Ellison, was a friend of William Saroyan and was for quite a while a member of the U.S. Communist Party.Head and tail of spine a bit…
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The Lost Traveler.
by BABB, Sanora.
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Interviews with Francis Bacon.
by BACON, Francis. SYLVESTER, David.
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Thames and Hudson, London., 1975. First edition. Quarto. 128 pages. Numerous black and white illustrations. Colour pictorial card wrappers.Presentation copy from the artist, inscribed on the half-title page: ''For Peter Owen with all best wishes - Francis Bacon''. Owen had a flat next door to Bacon's studio and the two men became friends and drinking partners at the French house in Soho. Bacon once described Owen, with only slight exaggeration, as ''the only publisher in England who produces anything interesting''.Head of spine slightly scuffed. Near fine.
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Derrière le miroir - No. 162.
by BACON, Francis.
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Maeght Editeur, Paris. Novembre, 1966. Folio. 26 pages. Colour pictorial wrappers. Entire issue devoted to Francis Bacon. Text by Michel Leiris and interview with Bacon by David Sylvester. Texts in French. With the four-page Chroniques supplement. The illustrations include five single sheet colour lithographs and one folding triptych colour lithograph. The front cover is also a colour lithograph.Presentation copy from the artist, inscribed inside the front cover: ''Jeanette [sic] with best love - Francis''. The recipient is Janetta Parladé, the Marquesa de Apezteguia, a designer, painter and Bloomsbury socialite. She had quite an eventful private life. Bacon was one of the visitors to her home in Southern Spain.Small stain to top of a few sheets, not affecting the images. Covers rubbed and creased at the edges. Very good.
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Francis Bacon.
by BACON, Francis. TRUCCHI, Lorenza.
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Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milano., 1975. First edition. Quarto. pp [vi], 179. Profusely illustrated, the triptychs being reproduced in folding panels.Presentation copy from the artist, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''To Alan with all very best wishes - Francis Bacon''. It is understood that the recipient worked for Alfred Hecht, Bacon's picture framers in King's Road.Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine cloth slipcase.
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Francis Bacon
by BACON, Francis. LEIRIS, Michel (introduces).
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Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris., 1971. First edition. Small quarto. 140 pages. Numerous colour reproductions, some of which fold out. Text in French. The catalogue of a major retrospective which was overshadowed by the suicide of George Dyer who features in so many of the paintings in the exhibition.Presentation copy from Francis Bacon, inscribed on the inside front cover: ''To Jamie [sic] with all best wishes, Francis Bacon''. The recipient is the aristocratic Spanish interior designer Jaime Parladé whose wife Janetta was a painter and a friend of Bacon.One or two of the folding plates are creased at the fore-edge. Very good.
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Indian Memories - Recollections of Soldiering, Sport, etc.
by BADEN-POWELL, Lieut.-General Sir Robert.
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Herbert Jenkins, London., 1915. First edition. Octavo. pp xx, 363. Numerous illustrations by the author, including colour plates. Pictorial cloth. The author had served in the British Army in India and Africa from 1876 to 1910.Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: ''With happy South African memories - Robert Baden Powell Sept. 1916''.Some light foxing to prelims. Very good indeed.
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Egypt and the Sudan - Handbook for Travellers.
by BAEDEKER, Karl.
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Karl Baedeker, Leipzig., 1929. Eighth revised edition. 12mo. pp ccviii, 495. 106 maps and plans, 56 woodcuts. The last and most comprehensive English edition, including as it does descriptions of the recent Tutankheman discoveries.Small ownership inscription on the front pastedown (under the dustwrapper flap).Very good indeed in the scarce dustwrapper which is rubbed, chipped, marked and stained, and heavily repaired on the reverse.
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Southern Germany (Baden, Black Forest, Wurtemberg, and Bavaria). Handbook for Travellers.
by BAEDEKER, Karl.
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Karl Baedeker, Leipzig., 1929. Thirteenth revised edition. 12mo. pp xxviii, 547. Marbled edges. 118 maps and plans. The last edition in English and the only one to appear in the inter-war years. Baden, the Black Forest and Salzburg appear for the first time.Faint rubbing to head and tail of spine. Very good indeed in the uncommon dustwrapper which is very good, rubbed and slightly chipped at the edges.
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Mr. Fortune's Trials.
by BAILEY, H.C.
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Methuen, London., 1925. First edition. Octavo. pp v, 250, 8 adverts. Original red cloth, gilt decorated spine. Detective fiction.Spine a little creased. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.
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According to Queeney.
by BAINBRIDGE, Beryl.
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Little, Brown and Company, London., 2001. First edition. Octavo. pp [x], 242. Pictorial endpapers. A novel of Dr Johnson and the Thrales. Inscribed by the author on the title-page: ''with best wishes Beryl Bainbridge Aug 1 2001''.Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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According to Queeney.
by BAINBRIDGE, Beryl.
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Little, Brown and Company, London., 2001. First edition. Octavo. pp [x], 242. Pictorial endpapers. A novel of Dr Johnson and the Thrales. Laid in are a couple of postcards promoting the book.Inscribed by the author on the title-page: ''For Edward with best wishes - Beryl Bainbridge''.Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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Young Man with a Horn.
by BAKER, Dorothy.
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Houghton Mifflin, Cambridge, Mass., 1938. First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 243. The author's first book, a jazz novel which draws its inspiration from the music of Bix Beiderbecke, and which later served as the basis for the film of the same title, starring Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall. With the bookplate of the poet and publisher Felix Dennis on the front pastedown. Lower corners slightly bumped. Very good indeed in very good marked dustwrapper nicked and creased at edges.
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In the Absence of Mrs. Petersen.
by BALCHIN, Nigel.
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Collins, London., 1966. First edition. Octavo. A 223-page novel of assumed identity set partly in Yugoslavia.A few small marks to bottom margins on a couple of pages, otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper designed by Brian Russell.
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Blues for Mister Charlie - a play.
by BALDWIN, James.
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Dial Press, New York., 1964. First edition. Octavo. pp xviii, 121. Laid in is the 16-page programme for the Actors Studio production of the play which was directed by Burgess Meredith and featured among the actors the author's younger brother David. This was Baldwin's second play and the first to be staged in New York.Signed on the front free endpaper by the author and also by his brother and two other members of the cast, Al Freeman and Diana Sands. On the same page is a gift inscription dated Aug. 8, 1964.Some faint spotting to front endpapers. Near fine in very good dustwrapper rubbed and slightly chipped at the edges.
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Twice Bought - A Tale of the Oregon Gold Fields.
by BALLANTYNE, R.M.
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James Nisbet, London., 1885. First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 268. Extra pictorial title-page, frontispiece and six plates. Two pages of adverts at rear. First issue blue cloth decorated in gilt and black. [From the library of Eric Quayle, author of a biography and a bibliography of Ballantyne.]Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''To C.A. Ballantyne from her affect. brother the author, Harrow 1884''. The recipient is the author's sister-in-law Christina Alice. After the word ''sister'' in the inscription a different hand has added the words ''-in-law''.Inner hinges cracked. Some damage, repaired, to bottom part of front free endpaper. Covers slightly marked. Spine slightly darkened. Small snags to head and tail of spine. Good. Very scarce.
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The Buffalo Runners. A Tale of the Red River Plains.
by BALLANTYNE, R.M.
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James Nisbet, London., 1891. First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 416, 8 adverts. Pictorial cloth with bevelled edges. On the front pastedown is a label from 1893 awarding the book to a member of the choir of the Holy Trinity, Southwark, for ''Regularity and Good Conduct''. Five plates and title-page vignette from drawings by the author.Very good indeed. A bright copy. Scarce.
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Empire of the Sun.
by BALLARD, J.G.
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Victor Gollancz, London., 1984. First edition. Octavo. 278 pages. Signed by the author on the title-page.Cheap quality paper tanned as usual. Tail of spine slightly pushed. Slight bump to bottom corner of front cover. Very good indeed in near-fine, first state dustwrapper (with puffs by Graham Greene and Angela Carter on rear panel) very slightly creased at top edge.
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Crash.
by BALLARD, J.G.
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Jonathan Cape, London., 1973. First edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Perhaps the most Ballardian of the author's novels and the one which gives a new twist to the concept of auto-eroticism. Filmed by David Cronenberg in 1996.Trace of erasure to front free endpaper. Small bumps to top edges of covers. Near fine in fine dustwrapper with, unusually, no fading to the spine. An impressive copy.
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The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman 1776-1800.
by BALSTON, Thomas (edits).
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Geoffrey Bles, London., 1956. First trade edition (there was a limited edition under a slightly different title in 1952. Octavo. 45 pages. The wood-engraved chapter headpieces by Frank Martin did not appear in the 1952 edition. Parchment boards. Instructions to servants in the 18th century.Near fine in the original glassine dustwrapper which is torn and defective.
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Conversation entre onze heures et minuit ou Échantillon de causerie française.
by BALZAC, Honoré de.
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Maximilien Vox, Paris., 1945. First edition thus: introduction by René Benjamin; colour illustrations by Pierre Noël. 12mo. 147 pages. Wrappers.The publisher's own ad personam copy with his name printed on the limitation page. Also with his presentation inscription (''J.M. from M.V.'') on the first blank.Fine in original board slipcase with illustrated inner board sleeve. The slipcase is rubbed at the edges.
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