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

A Commemorative Cover Celebrating Britain's Falkland Islands Victory. 25 x 21.3 cm. Framed and Glazed, ready for presentation. Signed By Margaret Thatcher.
Some very marginal toning to a couple of the edges, otherwise fine.
A lovely ephemeral item signed by Margaret Thatcher and true collector's piece for enthusiasts of British Political History. The current cataloguer is unable to trace any other examples currently available for sale.
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A wonderful original drawing by Dr. Seuss of his iconic character, "The Lorax". Additionally signed and titled to the right of the drawing by Dr. Seuss. The drawing showcases Dr. Seuss's unique style and attention to detail. Drawn using using coloured felt tip pens, the drawing depicts a blue Lorax with a yellow moustache, standing on a tree stump. Beautifully mounted, glazed, and framed ready for presentation. The overall size is 44*36cm. A true collector's piece presenting in fine condition.
The Lorax was Dr. Seuss's favourite of all his works; an environmental story where the Lorax speaks on behalf of the trees, against the industrial ambitions of the Once-ler. The book was first published in 1971, at the beginnings of the modern environmentalist moment, as a protest by Dr. Seuss against huge levels of logging in his home state of California. Dr. Seuss said of the work:
"The Lorax came out of me being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull.… In The Lorax I was out to attack what I think are… Read More

A black and white, full length, photograph of Margaret and Denis Thatcher. 10 * 8 inches. Unframed. Signed by the Iron Lady in black ink.
Fine condition.
A notable addition to a British Political History collection.
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A black and white, head and shoulders, photograph of Margaret Thatcher in a smiling pose. 10 * 8 inches. Unframed. Signed by the Iron Lady in black ink on the white margin below the image.
Fine condition.
A notable addition to a British Political History collection.
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A Photograph of John Le Carre at his home in 2017. Signed by John Le Carre. 6x 4 inches. In fine condition.

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A Photograph of John Le Carre in front of a Book Case at his home in 2017. Signed across the image by John Le Carre. 6x 4 inches. In fine condition.

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A Photograph of John Le Carre in a full length portrait. Signed by John Le Carre. 10x 8 inches. In fine condition.
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A matted, black and white, 3.5" x 4.5" Photograph of Thomas Mann (1875-1955).

An attractive younger photograph of Thomas Mann, the German-born novelist, who was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Signed and inscribed by Thomas Mann to the matte, below the Photograph, to Robert W. Smith (1926-2011).

An interesting and noteworthy association. Robert W. Smith was a Martial Arts Master who penned many books and essays on Asian martial arts and their masters.

In fine condition.

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A Photograph of Alexander Fleming sitting in his laboratory with a large bottle of penicillin visible on the table at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington, London, 1943. Signed and inscribed in fountain pen, "To my friend Arnold Sorsby, with kind regards, Alexander Fleming 1953." A Vintage glossy Photograph. 8 x 6.5 inches. Very good. Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder. Certified by John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA.
Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist (1881–1955) who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his role in the discovery and isolation of penicillin. This photograph was taken in 1943, an important year in the development of penicillin, as large-scale manufacturing techniques were being introduced. (Alexander Fleming Biography, Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Foundation, 1945.)
The recipient, Dr. Arnold Sorsby, was a noted Polish-British ophthalmologist and surgeon (1900-1980) who wrote a chapter in Penicillin: Its Practical Application, a book edited by Fleming,… Read More

A Limited Edition. 1 of 200 copies; only available from Hatchards, Number 103, Publisher's blue cloth; spine, front and rear board lettered in silver, decorative endpapers, afterword from John Le Carré's son Nick Cornwell, a facsimile of a manuscript page from the book, a portrait of the Author from his personal archive, housed in Publisher's blue cloth slip-case with silver dragon to front board. Published by Penguin, Viking, London, 2021.
A fine copy of John Le Carré's final work.
"Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak,… Read More

First edition. Signed by the Author to the title page. 8vo, Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket; priced at £5.95, pp. 327, Goldsboro Books bookmark and newspaper article loosely inserted. Published by Hodder and Stoughton (London) 1980.

A fine example with just a hint of wear to the top of the spine of the dust jacket. Signed copies of this title in collectible condition are becoming increasingly scarce since John Le Carre's sad recent passing.

This copy has notable provenance containing the engraved bookplate of the Fanshawe of Richmond (March 1927 – December 2001), a Conservative politician and businessman, to the front pastedown.

The final title in Le Carré's Karla Trilogy.

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A Limited Edition. 1 of 20 specially bound Deluxe copies from an edition of 55, illustrated by Gunnar A. Kaldewey. Tall folio (c.501 x 239mm.), pp. 32, 10 paper cast illustrations in colour, text in Hebrew and English, the former on handmade paper, the latter on architect's vellum, original painted calf by Christian Zwang of Hamburg, with mounted title plaque of etched silver to cover, uncut, housed within Publisher's grey cloth drop-back box. Published by Kaldewey Press (New York),1990.
A fine copy of this exquisite production.
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An original hand-coloured lithograph for John Gould's Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73.
Beautifully mounted, glazed and framed ready for presentation. 69 * 57 cm.
In fine condition.
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First Printing of the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Signed by the Author to the title page. 8vo., Publisher's boards, spine lettered in red, Publisher's dust jacket. Published by Penguin (London), 2013.
A very minor knock to one corner of the boards, otherwise in pristine condition.
This Special Edition includes archival material and a new afterword by John Le Carre.
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An original hand-coloured lithograph for John Gould's Birds of Australia, 1869. This Lithograph illustrates a male, female and three young Pardalotus Striatus, found in New South Wales and Western Australia at Swan River.
Beautifully mounted, glazed and framed ready for presentation. 50 * 70 cm.
A couple of barley imperceptible spots, otherwise in fine condition.
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An original hand-coloured lithograph for John Gould's Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73.
Beautifully mounted, glazed and framed ready for presentation. 69 * 57 cm.
In fine condition.
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