[Rarebooks] FS: Three Items at Substantial Discounts

[Stephen Johnson]

The below items are for sale at a substantially reduced price today
(Sunday) and tomorrow (Monday) subject to the terms set forth below.

Herriot, James; [Wight, James Alfred: OBE, FRCVS]
All Creatures Great and Small [Rare Association Copy with Signed Herriot
Letter]

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (binding mildly
askew, spine ends pushed, tiny rub through the cloth to the spine tail's
lower right corner) in a Very Good + dust jacket (some general wear and
tear, some handling soil, light sunning to the spine panel, short crease
line to the front flap's upper right), being the copy of Sir Frederick
Hervey-Bathurst, Bart. (the eighth baronet in the Hervey-Bathurst
baronetcy), signed Signed and Dated by him on the front free endpaper in
the year of publication, with his bookplate to the front pastedown, and
with an ORIGINAL TYPED LETTER SIGNED FROM JAMES HERRIOT TO SIR FREDERICK
tipped-in to the rear free endpaper. The book is a combination of James
Herriot's first two semi-autobiographical books, originally published in
the U.K. as "If Only They Could Talk" (1970) and "It Shouldn't Happen to a
Vet."(1972), as well as (per wikipedia) a portion of his then-next book
then in progress which would later be published as "Let Sleeping Vets Lie"
(1973) and to which Herriot makes reference in the attached letter. Those
first two novels, "If Only They Could Talk" and "It Shouldn't Happen to a
Vet" provided the basis for the 1975 film of the same starring Simon Ward
and Anthony Hopkins as the Yorkshire vets James Herriot and Siegfried
Farnon, and the film was given the same title as this 1972 US compilation
volume of these two novels. This book's title (and, of course, the film's
title) came from the Hymn "All Things Bright and Beautiful". Having
excellent literary content relevant to Harriot's work as a veterinarian and
as an author, the [undated] Signed letter begins with Herriot thanking Sir
Frederick for Sir Frederick's earlier letter and the "...nice things you
say about my book.....You, in particular, know what I'm talking bout with
your farming upbringing and those years in New Zealand." [Sir Frederick
grew up at the family estate Somborne Park (a property which has been in
the Hervey-Bathurst family since 1594), an Estate which includes a farming
operation.] Herriot also notes that he has "another book coming out in
England in April and am busy on yet another one. If all goes well, I should
thing that St Martin's Press might take them and publish them in one volume
in due course. They are a follow up to the events in ALL CREATURES GREAT
AND SMALL." [These books would have been "Let Sleeping Vets Lie" (1973) and
"Vet in Harness" (1974) which would have been published together in the US
as "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (1974).] Herriot then mentions that he
remains a "full time vet" and that he writes only in "the odd hour in the
evenings" and that he "shouldn't like to give up my real work and become a
full time author." Copies of "All Creatures Great and Small" are quite
uncommon to the market, Signed letters from James Herriot, as well as
Association copies of his most notable work, are EXCEEDINGLY SO and the two
together make this an EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE TO RARE ENSEMBLE. Near fine / very
good +. Item #2808

Price: $1,225.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $325


Giap, General Vo Nguyen; Dung, van Dien
How We Won the War

Philadelphia: Recon Publications [Printed by the Philadelphia Resistance
Print Shop], 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. A Very Good to
Very Good+ copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's
original decorated and printed wrappers with only mild to modest wear,
printed by the Philadelphia Resistance Print Shop; a book published in
celebration of the first anniversary of the North Vietnamese victory in
Vietnam and explaining America's loss of the war from the North Vietnamese
perspective -- an interesting piece of communist/revolutionary propaganda.
QUITE SCARCE. Very good +. Item #939

Price: $325.00   TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $95


Ward, A. C. [Hardy, Thomas; Hudson, William Henry (Hudson, W. H.]
The Age of Hardy

[London]: Issued for Private Circulation, 1930. First Edition, First
Printing. Wrappers. A Near Fine copy of this Essay supplementing William
Henry Hudson's Outline History of English Literature first published in
1913 and being copy 1 of only 12 copies published and has been signed by
Ward on the Limitation Page and there dated by him "23rd October, 1930".
The Limitation page states: "The following essay on THE AGE OF HARDY was
written as a supplementary chapter to W.H. Hudson's Outline History of
English Literature and published, in a new edition of that book, by George
Bell and Sons in the winter of 1930. In the present separate form inscribed
to E.M. Stevens twelve copies only have been issued for private
circulation, of which this is No. 1." The volume wears its original affixed
(by the printer) marbled paper dust jacket and shows a bit of browning to
the title label as well as minor edge wear, and has been signed and dated
by A. C. Ward on the Limitation page. RARE INDEED. Near fine. Item #2928

Price: $225.00   TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $85

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Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
www.allingtonbooks.com
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Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
www.allingtonbooks.com
336-414-0435