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(CHURCHILL, WINSTON.)
The British Gazette.
Numbers 1-8 [all issued].
Folio, unbound as issued; some minor wear at extremities.
London: 05-13 May 1926
[150/250]
Issued under the editorship of Churchill during the General Strike of 1926. “While there are
no signed features or articles by Churchill, one article at least can be conjecturally assigned to
him. This was entitled ‘The Birth and Life’ of ‘The British Gazette’’”—Woods, A
Bibliography of theWorks of SirWinston Churchill, page 388.
BASIS FORTWO COLDWAR FILM CLASSICS BY JOHN FRANKENHEIMER
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CONDON, RICHARD.
The Manchurian Candidate.
8vo, original
1
/
4
blue
cloth, minor rubbing to spine tips; dust jacket, scattered rubbing to panels and folds, few
small nicks at upper edge folds, but still an attractive copy in an unclipped jacket.
FIRST
EDITION
.
NewYork: McGraw-Hill, (1959)
[400/600]
WITH
—
Knebel and Bailey. Seven Days in May. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, light rubbing,
few short closed tears, small spots of dampstaining along lower edge evident mostly on verso.
First edition, Signed by both authors. NewYork: Harper & Row, (1962).
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[CONRAD, JOSEPH.]
The Nigger of the “Narcissus” Preface.
7 pages. 8vo,
self-wrappers, two small residual stains from staple; housed in chemise within brown
1
/
4
morocco slipcase, spine rubbed.
Hythe: Privately printed by J. Lovick, [1902]
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF CONRAD
’
S FAMOUSLY SUPPRESSED MANIFESTO
and one of
only 100 unnumbered copies printed, though Wise reckons “about forty of these were acciden-
tally destroyed.” Reprinted from the first serial publication in The New Review in 1897.Wise
12.
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CRANE, STEPHEN.
The Red
Badge of Courage.
8vo, original deco-
rated cloth, front cover slightly discolored
near fore-edge, spine showing similar
wear, top edges stained yellow; brown
coated endpapers, faint tidemark in outer
margins of rear endpapers and advertise-
ments, but a very nice copy without the
usual fraying.
NewYork: D.Appleton, 1895
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE
.
Four pages pub-
lisher’s advertisements, with page [235]
advertising three works by Gilbert Parker, and
the last page of advertisements (page [238])
ending with The Land of the Sun; p. 225 in
perfect type and printed on laid paper. BAL
4071.
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