Harris (Paul) To Be a Pirate King
£95
Aberdeen, Impulse Books, 1971.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced £2.00.
Uncommon account of the early days of pirate radio.
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Book very good; jacket worn and chipped with some loss.
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New York, International Universities Press, 1948.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.50.
Gisella Perl was a Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women as inmate gynecologist without the bare necessities to perform her work. She survived, emigrated to New York and was one of the first women to publicize these experiences in English in this memoir.
St Bartholomew The Great
[London], , September 15th 1964.
First edition, hardback issue. [One of c.50 copies]. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth with printed title label to upper cover.
William Plomer, a writer, editor and poet, became a close companion of Ian Fleming after meeting him in 1929. A wartime colleague and later a publisher's reader at Jonathan Cape, Plomer played a crucial role in getting Casino Royale published and acted as an unofficial editor for Fleming's Bond novels. Goldfinger is dedicated "To my gentle reader William Plomer." Ann Fleming noted that Plomer was one of the few people around whom Ian could truly relax. Plomer also read a tribute at Fleming's funeral.
London, Warne, [1931].
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
The Story of Electrical Communications.
Non-Fiction
A Manual of the Science
London, Harrison and Sons, [c.1920].
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
Captain Leopold McLaglen (1884–1951) was a British martial artist and instructor who promoted jiu-jitsu in the UK and abroad. He was known for his demonstrations and teaching of self-defense techniques.
Translated by Bernard Miall
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913.
First English edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt.
Le Bon's investigation into the psychological underpinnings of revolutionary movements, with a particular focus on the French Revolution. Le Bon analyses how collective beliefs, emotions, and behaviours influence the course and outcomes of revolutions. The author is perhaps best known for his earlier work, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895), which is considered a key text in the field of crowd psychology.