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WICKHAM, Louis and Paul DEGRAIS.

WICKHAM, Louis and Paul DEGRAIS. ~ Le Radium son emploi dans le Traitement du Cancer des angiomes, chéloïdes, tuberculoses locales et d'autres affections... Avec 53 figures dans le texte.

Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils,  1913.
First edition of this pioneering text in radiotherapy, issued as part of Les Actualités Médicales series, this copy inscribed by Paul Degrais to a leading French homeopath, Léon Vannier. Wickham, a French dermatologist and pioneer of radium therapy, began treating tumours and gynaecological conditions with radium in 1908. He and his younger colleague Degrais were among the first clinicians to treat human conditions with 'radiumtherapy' having obtained radium from the Curies. Wickham died in 1913, several months before his colleague Degrais inscribed this copy to Vannier. The work also appeared in an English translation printed in London in the same year. It was preceded by the larger work Radiumthérapie; instrumentation, technique, traitement des cancers, chéloïdes, naevi, lupus, prurits, névrodermites, eczémas, applications gynécologiques (Paris, 1909).   view more...
£200.00
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(SCOTTISH VERSE.) KIDD, A.

(SCOTTISH VERSE.) KIDD, A. ~ Poems by a railway porter.

Paisley: James Paton Ltd.,  1928.
First edition of a warm-spirited collection of verse by a railwayman of the Bridge of Weir (Renfrewshire). Many of Kidd's poems are in dialect and are variations on traditional Scottish themes ("Address to White Horse Whisky" etc). The collection also includes a series of the author's couplets first 'published' in white pebbles arranged on the station embankment: "Dispense with Drugs, but don't despair / Try Bridge of Weir for pure health-giving air."   view more...
£60.00
US$89.75*
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SILTZER, Frank.

SILTZER, Frank. ~ The story of British sporting prints.

London: Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd.,  1929.
Revised and enlarged second edition, limited to 1000 copies.   view more...
£75.00
US$112.18*
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HUXLEY, Aldous.

HUXLEY, Aldous. ~ Eyeless in Gaza.

London: Chatto & Windus,  1936.
Signed, limited, first edition of Huxley's follow-up to Brave New World. Number 150 of 200 copies.   view more...
£250.00
US$373.95*
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 56
PIRANDELLO, Luigi

PIRANDELLO, Luigi ~ Liola.

Rome: A. F. Form'ggini,  1917.
First edition. Considered to be the best play the author wrote in the traditional medium, a landmark in the history of the Italian theatre. The author was later the first Italian playwright to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.    view more...
£475.00
US$710.50*
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 57
BAUDELAIRE, Charles.

BAUDELAIRE, Charles. ~ Un mangeur d'opium.

Paris: La Mandragore,  1945.
First edition thus. Of a total edition of 170 copies, this is one of 16 copies with an additional suite of plates and one original illustration. Un mangeur d'opium is an extract from Des Paradis Artificiels and is illustrated throughout with coloured woodcuts by Leon Masson.   view more...
£400.00
US$598.32*
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SIMON, André L.

SIMON, André L.  ~ The history of the wine trade in England.

London: The Holland Press,  1964.
Facsimile edition of the original (1905-1906) edition with the addition of an index. An essential reference work that covers the history of the English wine trade from the earliest times to the end of the seventeenth century. Simon believed that "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar." In keeping with this philosophy, he reputedly left only two magnums of claret when he died at the age of ninety-three.    view more...
£175.00
US$261.76*
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ROUND, J. Horace. ~ The King's Serjeants & Officers of State with their Coronation Services.

London: James Nisbet,  1911.
First edition, this copy with an autograph letter to Vaughan by the author laid in.   view more...
£25.00
US$37.39*
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(LONDON). MACQUEEN-POPE, W[alter]. ~ Haymarket: theatre of perfection.

London: W.H. Allen,  1948.
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 352
 

HUDDLESTON, Sisley. ~ Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios.

Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company,   1928.
First Amercian edition of Huddlestons memoirs of the bohemian artistic and literary circles of Paris. Includes accounts of Maurois, Monet, Matisse, Rokin, Colette, Bernhardt, Hemingway, Duncan, Joyce, Ford and many more. The London edition (G.G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, also 1928) was entitled Bohemian literary and social life in Paris; salons, cafés, studios.   view more...
£20.00
US$29.92*
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HUNT, William Holman. ~ Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

London: Chapman and Hall,  1913.
Presentation copy from the editor, Hunt's second wife Marion Edith (née Waugh). The second (and best) edition.   view more...
£250.00
US$373.95*
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 379
 

STRACHEY, Lytton, ~ Elizabeth and Essex, a tragic history.

London: Chatto & Windus,   1928.
First edition.   view more...
£20.00
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 380
 

(BOSWELL, James). Pottle, Frederick A, editor. ~ Boswell's London Journal 1762 - 1763.

London: William Heinemann,   1951.
Reprint, first published in 1950.   view more...
£15.00
US$22.44*
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 381
 

PIPER, John. ~ British Romantic Artists.

London: William Cox,  1942.
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£25.00
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 389
 

WALFORD, L. B. ~ Memories of Victorian London.

London: Edward Arnold,  1912.
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£15.00
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(RUSKIN). QUENNELL, Peter ~ John Ruskin: the portrait of a prophet.

London: Collins,  1949.
First edition.   view more...
£10.00
US$14.96*
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FLEMING, Ian.

FLEMING, Ian. ~ On her majesty's secret service.

London: Jonathan Cape,  [1963].
First edition of the eleventh Bond title.   view more...
£400.00
US$598.32*
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FLEMING, Ian.

FLEMING, Ian. ~ Thunderball.

London: Jonathan Cape,  [1961].
First edition, with the original price "15s. net" printed on the front flap of the dust-jacket.   view more...
£750.00
US$1121.85*
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 463
FLEMING, Ian.

FLEMING, Ian. ~ Moonraker.

London: Jonathan Cape,  [1955].
First edition of the third title in the James Bond series, with the original price "10s. 6d. net" to dust-jacket flaps and "shoot" not "shoo" to p. 10 (no priority established).   view more...
£3250.00
US$4861.33*
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FLEMING, Ian.

FLEMING, Ian. ~ You only live twice.

London: Jonathan Cape,  [1964].
First edition, first state with "First published 1964" to copyright page and with the original price "16s. net" to the dust-jacket.   view more...
£500.00
US$747.90*
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DOYLE, A[rthur]. Conan.

DOYLE, A[rthur]. Conan. ~ The valley of fear. With a frontispiece by Frank Willis.

London: Smith, Elder & Co.,  1915.
A superb copy from the first UK, preferred, edition. Widely considered one of the best illustrations of the Holmes-Watson relationship, The valley of fear was very well received by the wartime public. In 1916 the work was produced by G. B. Samuelson, his second Holmes film, starring H. A. Saintsbury, the British stage Holmes since 1901. Although he played Holmes some 1,400 times on stage, this is his only film appearance.   view more...
£2000.00
US$2991.59*
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FLEMING, Ian.

FLEMING, Ian. ~ Octopussy and the Living Daylights.

London: Jonathan Cape,  1966.
First edition.   view more...
£150.00
US$224.37*
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 714
 

(GAMBLING). [POKER - CIGARETTE CARDS.] ~ The Game of Poker.

Liverpool & London: Cope Bros. & Co. Ltd., Richard Lloyd & Sons,  [c.1936].
A complete run of 25 numbered cigarette cards illustrating poker hands.   view more...
£25.00
US$37.39*
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 715
 

(GAMBLING). BRUNSON, Doyle. ~ How I made over $1,000,000 playing poker by Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson in collaboration with Bobby Baldwin, Mike (MJC) Caro, Joey Hawthorne, David Reese, David Sklansky as told to Allan Goldberg.

Las Vegas, Nevada: B & G Publishing Co., Inc.,  1978.
First edition, first printing.   view more...
£1000.00
US$1495.80*
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 716
 

(GAMBLING). FOSTER, R. F. ~ Practical Poker.

London: Brentano's Publishers,  1926.
New edition, complete with original dust-jacket. First published in London by Thomas De La Rue & Co. in 1904, in New York in 1905, and by Brentano's in 1922.   view more...
£75.00
US$112.18*
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 717
 

(GAMBLING). YARDLEY, Herbert O. ~ The Education of a Poker Player. Including where and how one learns to win. With an introduction by Ian Fleming.

London: Jonathan Cape,  1959.
First edition published in Great Britain, in its original dust-jacket, with the first appearance of the introduction by Ian Fleming. First published in New York by Simon and Schuster, 1957.   view more...
£125.00
US$186.97*
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WEIZMANN, Chaim.

WEIZMANN, Chaim. ~ Trial and error the autobiography.

New York: Harper and Brothers,  [1949].
Presentation first edition of the autobiography of the first President of Israel, with an excellent and well documented provenance: "To Admiral Sir John Edelsten with cordial regards Chaim Weizmann […] 27.VI.50".The dedicatee, Admiral Sir John Edelsten, added an additional note in his own hand: "This book was presented to me by President Weizmann of Israel on the occasion of my visit to Telaviv in 1950. I was the first naval officer of any nation to fire a 21 gun salute to the new State of Israel.This book is of great interest in that it was the only copy left of the original edition. When the President was revising the book he used this copy only, & one can see the thumbing outside, where in places the gold lettering has disappeared completely. His staff were loath to produce this book when he asked for a copy to present to me, but he insisted & here it is. J H Edelsten. 27.VI.50." John Edelsten rose rapidly through the ranks of the Royal Navy and following an exemplary war-time record, he became a full admiral in February 1949 and was appointed as commander-in-chief, Mediterranean, the following year. Possessing outstanding organisational and diplomatic skills, Edelsten played a key role in fostering British strategic relations in Israel. Following his visit to Haifa in July 1950, Edelsten reported that Israel's 'siege mentality' and severe economic problems made her more amenable to defence talks with the West. This assessment was one of the British government's key indicators of Israel's pro-Western disposition.   view more...
£2000.00
US$2991.59*
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