5291. [Hamilton, Charles] Richards, Frank.

Bunter Keeps it Dark. Illustrations by C.H. Chapman.

London, Cassell, 1960. Octavo. VI, 216 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated, price-clipped dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good or even better condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5292. Mortimer, John.

Like Men Betrayed [Signed].

London, Collins & The Book Society, 1953. Octavo. 255 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated, unclipped dustjacket in protective Mylar. Foxing to edges ! Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by John Mortimer on the halftitle. Very rare signed !

5293. Edelman, Maurice.

Disraeli in Love.

London, Book Club Associates, 1973. Octavo. 318 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5294. Theroux, Paul.

The Old Patagonian Express – By Train Through the Americas.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Octavo. 404 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. First Edition of this wonderful publication. The dustjacket with a lesion to the top hinge and some fraying. The Volume itself in near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Private giftinscription verso halftitle.

5295. Hoyle, Fred / Hoyle, Geoffrey.

Fifth Planet.

First Edition. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Octavo. VIII, 218 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5296. Updike, John / Ford, President Gerald.

Memories of the Ford Administration. A Novel.

First Trade Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Octavo. 371 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by President Gerald Ford on the halftitle. Also signed and beautifully inscribed by John Updike on the endpaper: “Read this book – it feels unread” / Includes also a typed note in which John Updike asks the recipient of this signed book to refrain from any future attempts to send him books for signing: “Recent changes in postal regulations have made the task of signing and sending back books more complicated than before…..So i ask you to make this your last shipment; any books henceforth received from you will be donated to the local church book fair……”

5297. Wilcox, Joe.

White Winds – America’s Most Tragic Mountaineering Expedition.

Second printing of the First Edition. Los Alamitos, Hwong Publishing Company, 1981. Octavo. X, 498 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5298. Snyder, Howard H.

The Hall of the Mountain King – The True Story of a Tragic Climb.

New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973. Octavo. X, 207 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Story of the tragic Mount McKinley climb of 1967.

5299. Potter, Jean.

The Flying North.

Third Printing of the First Edition. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1965. Octavo. XIV, 261 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this excellent condition.

5300. Gallagher, Gary W.

The Wilderness Campaign – Military Campaigns of the Civil War.

Chapel Hill / London, The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Octavo. XV, 283 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.