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You Only Live Twice (Presentation copy)

You Only Live Twice (Presentation copy) by Fleming, Ian

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
You Only Live Twice (Presentation copy)
Author
Fleming, Ian
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First impression, first state (the copyright page giving "First Published 1964" rather than "First Published March 1964"), presentation copy to Cyril Connolly, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To 'Great Ox' Connolly-san, from 'Butterfly' Fleming-san". This is one of eighteen known presentation copies recorded by Gilbert "from the early bound stock." Fleming had first met Connolly at Eton. They met again in Kitzbühel in Austria during 1938, when "Connolly arrived in town in pursuit of a woman...who turned out to be Ian's first girlfriend" (Lycett, p. 92). Over subsequent years, Fleming "had grown to like Connolly - one of his few journalistic colleagues of whom that could be said - and had played a part in confirming his appointment to the Sunday Times's panel of regular book reviewers" (Lycett, p. 224). In 1952 Connolly wrote The Missing Diplomats, concerning the Cambridge spy ring, and this was published by Fleming's Queen Anne Press. Connolly was also responsible for a spoof short story, first published in the London Magazine in 1963 entitled "Bond Strikes Camp." The story "lampooned the duplicitous, often sexually ambivalent world of espionage...while giving voice to the often quietly held view that, for all his apparent machismo, Bond was actually rather camp" (Lycett, p. 416). Connolly's use of the Bond character had, in a break from usual practice, been specifically permitted by Fleming. The inscription includes Fleming's use of the Japanese honorary title "san," used as a mark of respect as in the novel (Tiger Tanaka, the head of the Japanese Secret Service, refers to 007 throughout as "Bondo-san"). A Fine copy in a Near Fine jacket. Octavo. Original black boards (Gilbert's binding A), spine lettered in silver, Japanese lettering on front cover in gilt, patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom black full morocco folding box. Tiny spots of rubbing to extremities of boards; jacket unclipped, spine slightly toned, else sharp. You Only Live Twice was the final Bond book published during the lifetime of Fleming, who died later that year. It is the final volume in the "Blofeld trilogy" and was based on Japanese material which Fleming gathered during his five-week foreign jaunt for the Sunday Times. The novel is titled after a poem by Basho: "You only live twice: / Once when you are born, / And once when you look death in the face" (p. 7). The film adaptation was released three years later, starring Sean Connery, and with the screenplay written by Roald Dahl. Gilbert A12a (1.2). Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, 1995. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Master Henry's Visit at Mrs Green's and his return

Master Henry's Visit at Mrs Green's and his return by Mary Martha Sherwood

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Seller: Eclectibles
Title
Master Henry's Visit at Mrs Green's and his return
Author
Mary Martha Sherwood
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Description
Merriam & Moore, 1851. 24 pp. wrapper with 9 illustrations. This book tells part of a abridged version of Mary Martha Sherwood's History of Henry Milner. The story is broken up in to two sections, the visit and the return. The cover is pink with a very small section missing on the bottom left. The back cover is an advert for the series "Milner Toys." It lists all six books in the series, this book is number four. There is also some general toning. Measures 6" x 4
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ACCENT ON AMERICA by Armitage, Merle. (Lancelot, Milton)

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Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
Title
ACCENT ON AMERICA
Author
Armitage, Merle. (Lancelot, Milton)
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
NY: E. Weyhe, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited to 1675 copies. Black cloth, stamped red titles and eagle design. Lacking dustjacket, spine faded. Illustrated with a series of woodcuts of eagles by book designer Armitage. Inscribed by Armitage to Milton Lancelot, author and authority on WWI aircraft on the dedication page: "For Milton Lancelot/ good colaborator/ and good friend! / Merle Armitage" (suggesting Lancelot advised on the WWI historical section of Armitage's book).
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The Stars Above Us or The Conquest of Superstition . . . Translated by W. H. Johnston. by ZINNER, Ernst.

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Title
The Stars Above Us or The Conquest of Superstition . . . Translated by W. H. Johnston.
Author
ZINNER, Ernst.
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957., 1957. First English edition. 8vo. xiv, 141 pp. 15 plates, 25 figs., bibliog., index. Blue cloth, top edge inked; red ink underlining to title. Bookplate. Very good.

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