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1 ABRAHAMS, H. M. Training for Athletes. London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1928 “if i can’t win, i won’t run!” First edition, very scarce with the dust jacket, of Harold Abrahams’s guide for athletes, with contributions by Lord Burghley, D. G. A. Lowe, F. R. Gaby, B. Howard Baker, and M. C. Nokes. Abrahams is remembered as the winner of the 100 meter sprint race in the 1924 Olympics, a feat depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire . Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine ruled and lettered gilt, with the dust jacket. Very minor chips to head and tail of dust jacket, an excellent copy. £2,250 [158461] 2 ACTON, Eliza. The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use. London: Longman, Brown, Green, First edition. “A serious and scholarly account of the history of bread and its making, with a severe attack on the malpractices of bakers and millers in adulterating the product, this also contained recipes for the home bread maker” ( ODNB ). The English food writer and poet Eliza Acton (1799–1859) had included an influential chapter on Longman’s, & Roberts, 1857 in the unrestored cloth
bread-making in her ground-breaking Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845). In this more academic work Acton expands on that chapter. Starting with a history of English bread and its making, Acton details various European methods, compares styles of ovens, discusses the prevalent practice of adulteration, gives a scientific examination of gluten, and provides numerous practical recipes. Octavo. Original brown morocco-grain cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, their binder’s ticket to rear pastedown, spine lettered in gilt, front board centrally lettered on a gilt banderole around a wreath of wheat stalks framing a sheaf, frames blocked in blind to both covers, brown coated endpapers, pastedowns lettered in black with publisher’s adverts. With the 24-page publisher’s catalogue at the rear, dated March 1856. Engraved decorative title page and occasional engraved illustration in the text. Bookseller’s ticket of J. Kemp of Beverley to front pastedown. Ownership inscription of “W. Hay, 4 Regent’s Terrace, Hull, 30/10/74” to verso of front free endpaper. Spine cocked and browned, rubbing to extremities, spine ends and corners bumped, a couple of marks to cloth, a very good copy in the unrestored cloth. £1,500 [149647] 3 ADDERLEY, Julian “Cannonball” – SALOU, Michel (photo.) Group of five original carbon prints of the Adderley Quintet in concert. [Paris: c.1960] the adderleys blow up a storm at salle pleyel
A highly engaging sequence of apparently unpublished images of the Adderley quintet at Salle Pleyel Paris in 1960, capturing the great good humour between the brothers. “This was a hard-hitting group which invested blues and formulae with an intensity that helped to keep older jazz channels open at the time of Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and other seekers” (Cook & Morton). The quintet comprised Cannonball (alto), Nat (cornet), Victor Feldman (piano), Sam Jones (bass), Louis Hayes (drums). The gig, on Friday 25 November 1960, part of Norman Granz’s Jazz at the Philharmonic tour, was recorded and “the enthusiasm of the audience spills over into the performance to create a special atmosphere” (Sheridan, pp. 100–01). 5 original carbon prints (241 × 178 mm), 4 landscape, 1 portrait, printed on heavy stock paper, each with Salou’s inventory number in pencil on verso, one with Salou’s wet
stamp. In excellent condition. ¶ Chris Sheridan , Dis Here: A Bio-Discograhy of Julian “Cannonball” Adderley , 2000. £950 [149639]
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Richard. Down. Illustrated by John Lawrence. Harmondsworth: The Paradine Press, 1976 the deluxe edition Watership First illustrated edition, signed limited issue, number 150 of 250 specially bound copies signed by the author. This deluxe edition included a foreword on the genesis of the story by Richard Adams which is first published here. Large octavo. Original dark green crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered and with decorations in gilt, raised bands forming compartments to spine, front cover with rabbit vignette in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges and turn-ins gilt. In the marbled slipcase as issued. Colour frontispiece, numerous illustrations to the text in colour and black and white, folding colour map tipped-in at rear. Spine slightly sunned, one corner slightly rubbed; a near-fine copy. Extremities of slipcase slightly rubbed; a very good example. £3,000 [158499]
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