Search Results: Titles starting with M from GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS (PBFA)

A Coloured lithograph, pen Signed by the artist as "Maurice Sendak" at lower right, from Sendak's book 'In the Night Kitchen', copyright information printed verso.
The item was originally owned by an agent and friend of Maurice Sendak.
19.25 x 14.5 inches. Unframed. In near fine condition.
The image first appeared in Sendak's award winning book "In the Night Kitchen" (New York: Harper & Row, 1970). It shows three rotund chefs, apparent caricatures of comedian Oliver Hardy, preparing batter for a "morning cake." The protagonist of the story, a boy named Mickey, can be seen sitting on a milk bottle at the upper left. This image was first produced in 1971 as a fine art print included among twenty images chosen by Sendak for his portfolio "Pictures by Maurice Sendak" (New York: Harper & Row, 1971). Sendak curated this collection to include his favorite images from eight different titles to be enjoyed as art prints without necessarily being tied to the related text.
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First Edition. 4to (25*19cm), pp. 51, [3, Publisher's Advertisements], Publisher's cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine, preserved in burgundy morocco drop-back box. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press (Richmond), 1923.
A signed presentation copy from the Author to Jacob Kramer. Inscribed by the Author to the front free endpaper. Additionally inscribed by the Author with manuscript verses below, those too initialled, being the first appearance of this poem which was published by Faber & Faber in 1935 and entitled 'Night Negation', one of a selection from "Poems 1914 - 1934" by Read. The inscription reads:
"'For Jacob Kramer / Herbert Read / 26.x.1930Trees / have held these flecks of light / these brittle stars that in the night / flash / on the unfolding fan of spaceBlue fans / that bring me peace / and nerves that cease / to feel / the torture of day's leaseOf life and lust. O day that hurt / the heart and pillaged the short / and shattered frame of good report.O noon… Read More

First Edition. Octavo, 11 titles by Churchill listed to the verso of the half title, frontispiece portrait of Lady Randolph Churchill, profusely illustrated throughout with 28 illustrations and maps; of which many are full page plates, folding general map illustrating Churchill's journey during his capture, imprisonment and escape in South Africa/Mozambique during the Boer War. Bound in royal navy, half morocco gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled in six compartments, gilt lettering and gilt 'lion rampant' motifs in compartments, top edge gilt, pp. 392. Published by Thornton Butterworth (London), 1930.

Some occasional light spotting and browning, otherwise a fine copy in a beautiful binding.

This title is Winston Churchill's only volume of sustained autobiography, covering his formative years from his birth in 1874 until his election as MP for Oldham in 1900. According to the ODNB: "A witty and elegiac account of his youth shot through with regret at the decline of the social and imperial… Read More

1 of 650 copies printed for Robert Frost (from an edition of 8,290 copies). 16mo (13 x 9 cm), Publisher's stapled wrappers,wood-engravings by Leonard Baskin, accompanied with the original envelopes, 7 pp. Printed by the Spiral Press (New York), 1957. A fine example.
Inscribed by Robert Frost to his cousin Joseph Frost and his wife Rebecca in Maine. Rare inscribed with this noteworthy association.
First appearing as Robert Frost's Christmas card in 1957, "My Objection to Being Stepped On" was an 18-line poem later published in his final volume of poetry In the Clearing, published in 1962.
Joseph William Pepperrell Frost (1923-2008) was a historian and writer from Maine who, throughout his life, would share a close bond with his cousin Robert. With about fifty years between them, the two first met when Joseph was a young boy during Robert and Elinor's visit to the Frost ancestral home in the late 1920s. Later, Joseph's college years would be marked with frequent visits to stay with his cousin, even… Read More

A Limited Edition, The UK Collector's Edition. 1 of 1,000 copies, numbered and signed by the Author. 8 Vo., pp. 336. Publisher's de luxe cloth, in matching slipcase, titled 'Limited Edition' on the half title page. Published by Michael O'Mara Books (London), 2008.
A fine copy, still in the original shrink-wrap.
In this memoir, Sir Roger Moore provides an account of the acting roles he has played, alongside other acting giants. The book contains some wonderful stories from Sir Roger's personal life and insights into his time in Hollywood.
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