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The binding is framed in gilt, the black morocco spine divided by raised bands and decorated with red and gilt floral devices, with the title, author and date lettered in gilt. Blue and black marbled endpapers complete the presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3111\" data-end=\"3496\"\u003eA striking first impression of Daphne du Maurier's most celebrated novel, published by Victor Gollancz in 1938. 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Gregory’s Legacy, written for his own daughters, rounds out the volume and reflects the paternal moral philosophy that shaped domestic education during the period.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapone’s Letters alone went through at least twenty-eight editions and appeared in translation, including a French edition; early printings are now uncommon, and first editions are exceptionally rare.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1487\" data-end=\"1925\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1487\" data-end=\"1501\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1501\" data-end=\"1504\"\u003eA very good copy. Binding firm and attractive, with expected rubbing to joints and extremities and some cracking to the calf, but sound and entirely serviceable. 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Finely Bound in Green Morocco with Christopher Robin and Pooh Design after E. H. Shepard.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1335\" data-end=\"1494\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1335\" data-end=\"1369\"\u003eMILNE, A. A. [Alan Alexander].\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"1370\" data-end=\"1427\"\u003eWinnie-the-Pooh. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.\u003c\/em\u003e London: Methuen \u0026amp; Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, first impression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1496\" data-end=\"1813\"\u003eA beautiful copy of one of the most beloved books in twentieth-century children’s literature, bringing together A. A. Milne’s stories of Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl and Christopher Robin with the illustrations of Ernest H. Shepard, whose drawings have become inseparable from the world of the Hundred Acre Wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1815\" data-end=\"2277\"\u003eOctavo. Finely bound in full green morocco, the covers ruled in gilt with delicate gilt corner ornaments; spine with five raised bands, richly gilt-decorated compartments and titles lettered in gilt; turn-ins elaborately gilt; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; hand-sewn silk headbands. The upper board is decorated with a carefully executed onlaid and gilt-tooled design of Christopher Robin walking with Winnie-the-Pooh, after Shepard’s original illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2279\" data-end=\"2740\"\u003eParticularly pleasing is the way the binding responds to the character of the book. The deep green morocco evokes the woodland setting of Pooh’s adventures, while the restrained gilt decoration and the central image of Christopher Robin and Pooh give the volume warmth and immediacy without overwhelming Shepard’s quiet, familiar world. It is an elegant presentation of a book whose enduring appeal lies as much in companionship and gentleness as in its humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2742\" data-end=\"3110\"\u003eThe volume retains Ernest H. Shepard’s celebrated double-page map of the \u003cstrong data-start=\"2815\" data-end=\"2835\"\u003e“100 Aker Wood,”\u003c\/strong\u003e “drawn by me and Mr Shepard helpd,” with Pooh Bear’s house, Piglet’s house, Owl’s house, the Bee Tree and the places associated with the adventures that follow. In this finely rebound copy, the original map is preserved within the volume after the marbled binding endpapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3112\" data-end=\"3562\"\u003eFirst published in 1926, \u003cem data-start=\"3137\" data-end=\"3154\"\u003eWinnie-the-Pooh\u003c\/em\u003e established the central cast of characters inspired by the toys of Milne’s son, Christopher Robin Milne, and by the landscape of Ashdown Forest. 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Lippmann was not merely a journalist, but a political thinker of international consequence: a founding editor of The New Republic, the long-serving author of the syndicated column “Today and Tomorrow,” a confidant of presidents, and one of the writers whose ideas helped shape the language of modern political debate. His work on public opinion, democracy, policy, and international order gave him unusual influence in American political life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe recipient, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, later Lord Portal of Hungerford, was Chief of the Air Staff and one of Churchill’s principal military advisers. He stood at the centre of Allied air strategy, the bomber offensive, RAF expansion, and the developing Anglo-American military partnership. 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Publisher’s dark brown\/black cloth boards, lettered in silver to the upper board and spine, grey marbled endpapers, original Richard Chopping dust jacket, correctly priced \u003cstrong data-end=\"753\" data-start=\"737\"\u003e10s. 6d. net\u003c\/strong\u003e to the front flap. 95 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1356\" data-start=\"781\"\u003eA particularly attractive first edition of Fleming’s final James Bond book, published posthumously by Jonathan Cape in 1966 and collecting the two title stories only: \u003cem data-end=\"959\" data-start=\"948\"\u003eOctopussy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-end=\"986\" data-start=\"964\"\u003eThe Living Daylights\u003c\/em\u003e. Later editions would absorb further Bond stories, but the true first presents Fleming’s last Bond material in its original, spare Cape form. 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Portal had a long-standing enthusiasm for falconry, dating back to his youth, and the subject remained one of his private sporting and natural-history interests. Carruthers, himself a noted explorer, naturalist and Royal Geographical Society medallist, was well placed to appeal to that interest, particularly through his Central Asian observations on birds, hunting, landscape and native life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1881\" data-end=\"2143\"\u003eA very good copy, the red cloth bright with light rubbing to extremities. Contents clean, inscription clear. Dust jacket very good, unclipped, with light soiling, rubbing, small chips and edge wear, but substantially complete and attractive. Folding map present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2145\" data-end=\"2400\"\u003eScarce in the original dust jacket, and especially desirable as a presentation copy. 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