LITERATURE MODERN A-K PETER HARRINGTON

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1 MODERN LITERATURE A-K PETER HARRINGTON

2 We are next exhibiting at these fairs: April 2015 paris Salon International du Livre Ancien Grand Palais, Paris May london National Hall, Olympia 25 June 1 July masterpiece Royal Hospital Chelsea London July melbourne Wilson Hall The University of Melbourne Full details of all these are available at where there is also a form to list items you would like to have brought to the fairs Front cover adapted from Martin Amis s The Rachel Papers, item 8; illustration opposite from Ken Kesey s One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, item 248. Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra. VAT no. gb Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Pinnacle House, Hartfield Road, Wimbledon, London sw19 3se Registered in England and Wales No:

3 Peter Harrington london catalogue 109 MODERN LITERATURE A-K All items from this catalogue are on display at Dover Street mayfair Peter Harrington 43 Dover Street London w1s 4ff uk eu usa chelsea Peter Harrington 100 Fulham Road London sw3 6hs uk eu usa Dover St opening hours: 10am 7pm Monday Friday; 10am 6pm Saturday

4 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk ACKER, Kathy. Blood and Guts in High School. New York: Grove Press, 1984 Octavo. Original glossy pictorial wrappers. Small ownership signature to front free endpaper. Contents lightly toned. An excellent copy. inscribed by the author on the half-title, Love, Kathy, and with her publicity photograph for Literal Madness: Three Novels (1988) laid in. Also loosely inserted is a publisher s letter to reviewers of Empire of the Senseless (1988). A collage of text and pornographic drawings in which Jean Genet makes an appearance as a character, Blood and Guts in High School is Kathy Acker s best known novel. Although written in the 1970s it was first published in 1984; this is the second printing, in the same year as the first, the wrappered issue. 225 [92198] 2 ACTON, Harold. Cornelian. London: Chatto & Windus, 1928 Tall octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in blue, fore and bottom edges uncut. With the dust jacket. Illustrated title page in blue and brown by E. McKnight Kauffer. Boards lightly spotted, spine a little chipped at head and tail, light spotting throughout. A very good copy in the slightly chipped, spotted and rubbed jacket with a tanned spine panel. signed limited edition, number 468 of 550 copies, signed by the author. first edition of the first novel written by a muslim published in english. Set just after India s War of Independence in 1857, the novel addresses the changing social, political and cultural climate of India under British rule. The book is a noted Hogarth rarity: much of the stock of this edition was destroyed in the Blitz, and it was not reprinted until ,250 [91637] 4 AMBLER, Eric. Uncommon Danger. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1937 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in black, blue endpapers. Boards and spine slightly rubbed with some loss of colour, top edge of rear board a little rippled, a few spots to endpapers, a couple of inner hinges starting. A very good copy. first edition of the author s second novel. With the author s signed and dated inscription addressed to his friend the historian Mortimer Chambers on the title page, To Mort Cham- 275 [89794] 3 ALI, Ahmed. Twilight in Delhi: A Novel. London: Hogarth Press, 1940 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. With the dust jacket. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine cocked, boards faded at edges, endpapers browned and spotted. In the jacket that has some chips and nicks to extremities. A good copy. 4 2

5 Peter Harrington bers, with knowledge and speed as well as affection. Eric Ambler, Los Angeles 27 February 81. 1,250 [90929] 5 AMBLER, Eric. The Night-Comers. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1956 Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Extremities lightly rubbed. An excellent copy in a slightly edgerubbed jacket with a couple of tiny chips to head and tail of spine panel. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his producer, his second wife Joan Harrison Ambler, on the front free endpaper, To my producer, with love, Eric Ambler, June 57. Joan Harrison was a screenwriter and producer who worked closely with Alfred Hitchcock for seven years. Her first screen credit was for Jamaica Inn (1937). She met Ambler in Hollywood, where he also had a job as a screenwriter and they married in 1958, one year after Ambler wrote this inscription. The Night-Comers was published in the US under the title State of Siege. 275 [90934] 6 AMBLER, Eric. The Levanter [together with proof copy]. New York: Atheneum, 1972 Two copies, octavo. The published work in original green and white cloth, titles to spine and front board in gilt and silver, top edge yellow, green endpapers; with the dust jacket. The proof copy in original pictorial proof wrappers. Endpapers a little faded but excellent copies. uncorrected proof of first u.s. edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend the classical historian Mortimer Chambers on the title page: Mort Chambers, from Eric Ambler. Loosely inserted is an autographed letter signed, from Ambler to Chambers, dated 10 October 1972, discussing the success of the novel. 275 [90549] 7 AMIS, Kingsley. Bright November. Poems. London: The Fortune Press, [1947] Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, edges uncut. With the dust jacket. Endpapers slightly tanned. Otherwise a fine copy in a price-clipped jacket with lightly toned extremities. first edition, in the first issue binding. The author s first published book. The Fortune Press was run by R. A. Caton, who incurred Amis s ire during publication and afterwards made regular appearances in the latter s fiction under such guises as L. S. (Lazy Sod) Caton. 1,250 [97800] 5 3

6 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 8, 9, 10 8 AMIS, Martin. The Rachel Papers. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973 Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge red. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the bright jacket. first edition. 400 [96570] 9 AMIS, Martin. Dead Babies. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975 Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge orange. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled; an excellent copy in the jacket that has a short closed tear to head of front panel. first edition. 300 [96571] first edition. A haunted house mystery. From the publisher s archive. Scarce in the jacket. 1,500 [94180] 12 AUDEN, W. H. The Double Man. New York: Random House, 1941 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge black. With the dust jacket. Loosely inserted typescript. An excellent copy, in the jacket that has a faded spine, a small chip to rear panel, a closed tear to front flap crease, rear panel slightly marked, and a few tiny nicks to extremities. first edition. Followed by the UK edition later the same year, entitled New Year Letter. Offered here with a typescript signed of The Quest: A Sonnet Sequence. 750 [91476] 10 AMIS, Martin. Money. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984 Octavo. Original black board, titles to spine gilt. With the trial dust jacket. Head of spine and bottom corners slightly bumped. Otherwise and excellent copy in a price-clipped but bright jacket with slightly rubbed and nicked extremities. first edition of Amis s fifth novel, in the trial jacket, an advance review copy with a loosely inserted note to that effect from the publisher. 375 [91219] 11 ASHTON, Helen. Belinda Grove. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green. With the dust jacket. Minor foxing to edges and endpapers; an excellent copy in the jacket that has a sunned spine and some nicks to extremities. 11 4

7 Peter Harrington BAILEY, H. C. Shadow on the Wall. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1934 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Boards a little mottled, endpapers and edges foxed; an excellent copy in the jacket that has sunned spine and edges, and a couple of nicks to head of spine. first edition. The first novel featuring the series character Mr Fortune. The publisher s retained copy with their ink stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket and the front pastedown. 425 [93527] 14 BAILEY, H. C. The Sullen Sky Mystery. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, boards mottled, edges foxed. An excellent copy in the slightly soiled jacket with sunned spine and edges, and a few nicks to extremities. first edition. Often regarded as Bailey s best detective novel. The publisher s retained copy with their ink stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket and the front free endpaper. 375 [93529] 15 BAILEY, H. C. Clunk s Claimant. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the jacket with sunned spine and edges, tear to fold of front flap and to lower half of spine. first edition. Published in the US later the same year under the title The Twittering Bird Mystery. Featuring the series character Josiah Clunk. From the publisher s archive with a pencilled mark to the dust jacket. 225 [93522] 13, 14, 15 5

8 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk BALLARD, J. G. The Crystal World. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966 Octavo. Original pale grey-green boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge pink. With the pictorial dust jacket. Very light foxing to fore and bottom edges. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. first edition in book form. The Crystal World is a considerably expanded version of Equinox, a two-part serial which appeared in the magazine New Worlds in Pringle A [91688] 17 [BATAILLE, Georges.] «Lord Auch.» Histoire de l œil. Nouvelle version. Burgos: [ Jean-Jacques Pauvert,] 1941 [1951] Octavo. Original drab card wrappers, titles to front cover in red, edges untrimmed, printed in black and red. With the original glassine jacket. A bright copy in excellent condition in a jacket with very light chipping at head and tail of spine panel and a small edition number inscribed in pencil to rear panel. the burgos clandestine edition, the third and last edition of the Story of the Eye to be published during Bataille s lifetime and under his pseudonym of Lord Auch. Number 328 of 500 copies reserved for subscribers, from the total edition of 2,000 copies. This edition of Bataille s erotic masterpiece earned its publisher immediate prosecution from the French State. Bataille s novella was first published in 1928, and then in 1947, in an altered text, which is reproduced in this edition. 750 [94460] BEARD, Peter; Isak Dinesen; Kamante. Longing for Darkness. Kamante s Tales from Out of Africa. With original photographs (January 1914 July 1931) and quotations from Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). Collected by Peter Beard. New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975 Tall quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in white, image of Blixen to front board and of, tan endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. Minor rubbing and wear to extremities, slight staining from ink drawing. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed jacket. 6

9 Peter Harrington first edition, inscribed by peter beard with an ink drawing of a couple of hogs and an undulating horizon across both front endpapers: To Patrick with warm greetings and Salaams from Hog Ranch and beyond, Jan. 27th E.95 N.Y.C. and hurry over it s getting late regards, Peter (Beard) from the real jungle. With an additional annotation in the author s hand to the title page: Box Nairobi. The American artist and photographer Beard was inspired by reading Blixen s Out of Africa to visit Africa, photograph its wild animals, and eventually buy a home there. This book combines Kamante s watercolours and his version of the events of Out of Africa (translated and handwritten by his sons) with Blixen s notes and previously unpublished photographs by Blixen, Beard, and others. 2,000 [99128] 19 BECKETT, Samuel, & James Joyce. Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. With Letters of Protest by G. V. L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929 Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. Housed in a quarter calf solander box. A superb copy. first edition, large paper issue, number 45 of 96 copies printed on Verge d Arches. This early critique of Joyce s final work was published some ten years prior to the publication of the finished novel. Part of the incentive to publish was apparently to raise funds for the perennially impecunious Joyce. A myth surrounding this work is that one or both of the two letters of protest were written by Joyce himself. However both authors existed indeed Beach herself commissioned Slingsby. Dixon s effort which is marvellous was an unsolicited one by a Russian émigré who was to die in Paris in 1929, just as the book was published. 4,750 [97057] 20 (BECKETT, Samuel.) The European Caravan. An Anthology of the New Spirit in European Literature. Compiled and Edited by Samuel Putnam, Maida Castelhun Darnton, George Reavey, and J. Bronowski. Part I: France, Spain, England, and Ireland. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green, top edge green. With the dust jacket. Front hinge starting, tips rubbed. An excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket with toned spine, and some nicks and chips to extremities. first edition. This was the sole volume published of a far more extensive project designed to bring a cross section of avant garde world literature to the American public. The venture was never fully realized and perhaps its lasting legacy will prove to have been as Beckett s first appearance in a US publication. 1,250 [96870] 7

10 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk BECKETT, Samuel. All That Fall. New York: Grove Press, 1957 Octavo. Original grey patterned boards, brown cloth backstrip, titles to spine and backstrip gilt, small two-tone circle vignette to front board. Very faint brown mark to rear board. An excellent copy. specially bound limited edition, number 13 of 100 copies thus. All That Fall was published in three issues: the other two being a special edition of 25 numbered copies signed by the author and a regular case-bound issue. 425 [96906] 22 BECKETT, Samuel. Endgame. A play in one act. Followed by Act Without Words, A Mime for one player. Translated from the original French by the author. London: Faber and Faber, 1958 Octavo. Original red-brown cloth, titles to spine light blue. With the photographic dust jacket featuring Roger Blin in the role of Hamm. An excellent copy in the price-clipped dust jacket. first u.k. edition; originally published the preceding year as Fin de partie, suivi de Acte sans paroles. Federman & Fletcher [96896] 23 BECKETT, Samuel. Poems in English. London: John Calder, 1961 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Very gentle roll to spine, nonetheless an excellent copy in the lightly toned dust jacket. first edition. This collection includes Whoroscope, Echo s Bones, Two Poems, and Quatre Poèmes. 250 [96919] 24 BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. A tragicomedy in two acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1965 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine red. With the dust jacket. Very small red ink mark to front edge but an excellent copy in the vivid dust jacket. first unexpurgated u.k. edition, second UK edition overall. Beckett was now free to restore the passages previously censored by the Lord Chamberlain upon first publication in The front flap of the dust jacket proclaims that this version has been authorized by Mr. Beckett as definitive. 650 [96917] 25 BECKETT, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. Translated from the French by the author. Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1982 Octavo. Original blue quarter calf, titles to spine gilt, blue marbled paper sides ruled in gilt, fore edge uncut, printed in black and blue on mould-made Bugra-butten paper. An excellent copy. signed limited edition, number 185 of an edition of 299 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies signed by the author. Originally published in French as Mal vu mal dit the preceding year. 750 [91253] 26 BECKETT, Samuel. Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Edited by Eoin O Brien and Edith Fournier. Foreword by Eoin O Brien. Dublin: The Black Cat Press,

11 Peter Harrington Octavo. Original blue and black marbled cloth, spine lettered in brown, publisher s device to the front board in blind. With the green cloth slipcase. A fine copy. specially bound limited edition, number 97 of 150 copies thus to mark the publication of the author s first novel which had lain unpublished for sixty years. 375 [94383] 27 BELL, Clive. Ad Familiares. London: printed for the author at the Pelican Press, 1917 Octavo. Single quire sewn into white paper wrappers printed in black. Housed in a black cloth solander box with chemise by the Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers marked and somewhat creased, split to upper portion of the spine-fold, some spotting. Good. first edition, presentation copy to vanessa bell: a perfect association copy with Clive Bell s simple subscription, incorporating the first printed word at the start of the text [Dear] Vanessa. He has also crossed out the dating of the terminal poem, Letter to a Lady, which seems at all points to be directly written for his wife at the time when their marriage was effectively over. By Christmas the following year Vanessa had given birth to Angelica, her daughter by Duncan Grant. The Bells never formally separated. Clive raised Angelica as his own child, keeping her ignorant of her true parentage until she reached adulthood and was engaged to David Garnett. A rare book by any standards (one of about 50 copies printed for private distribution); no more telling an association copy is imaginable. 2,750 [96839]

12 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk BELL, Mary Hayley. Whistle Down the Wind. London: T. V. Boardman & Company Limited, 1958 Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in purple. With the pictorial dust jacket. Occasional black and white illustrations by Oven Edwards. Extremities slightly bumped, head of spine and boards slightly soiled, top edge foxed, offsetting and minor foxing to endpapers. A very good copy in a bright jacket with slightly sunned spine panel, some minor chipping at spine ends, and some light creasing to top of front panel. first edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: For Miz, in memory of 5 Wolseley Crescent, Sydney!!! with love from the author. 1,500 [96606] 29 BELLOW, Saul. Herzog. New York: The Viking Press, 1964 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, front board lettered in blind, top edge blue. With the dust jacket designed by Mel Williamson. A fine copy in the bright jacket that has a sunned spine, some nicks to extremities and tape repairs to verso. first edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Herzog was awarded the US National Book Award for Fiction and the Prix International. 275 [94138] 30 BELLOW, Saul. Mr. Sammler s Planet. New York: The Viking Press, 1970 Octavo. Light blue cloth-backed blue boards, spine and front board lettered in black, blue endpapers, top edge blue and fore edge uncut. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the bright jacket that has some nicks to extremities. first edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: For Fay Litt, Saul Bellow. 475 [94117] 31 BERGER, John. G. A Novel. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972 Octavo. Original olive marble-patterned boards, spine lettered in red and black. A superb copy in the slightly rubbed jacket that has some creasing to extremities and a short closed tear to head of rear panel. first edition. Winner of the Booker Prize. 475 [94242] 28 10

13 Peter Harrington BETJEMAN, John. A Nip in the Air. London: John Murray, 1974 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered gilt. With the dust jacket. A little minor foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the jacket with slightly faded spine. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: For my loyal friend Aunt Agnes, with love from John Betjeman, and dated by Agnes 3 December Agnes de Paula s son Hugh was the godson of Betjeman s father, Ernest. The two families were close, and holidayed together at Trevithick, the Betjeman family s weekend residence. 375 [97894] 33 BIRABEAU, A[ndré]. Revelation. Translated by Una Lady Troubridge. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green. With the dust jacket. A little foxing to edge of spine; an excellent copy with some nicks to extremities. first edition in english. First published in Paris under the title La Débauche in Considered to be the first novel about a homosexual man from the mother s point of view. From the publisher s archive. 1,750 [93978] 34 BLUNDEN, Edmund. The Waggoner and other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1920 Octavo. Original purple cloth, printed paper label to spine, edges uncut. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the scarce jacket with toned spine. first edition, first issue. From an edition of 500, of which 250 copies were bound in purple cloth for immediate issue, 100 sets of sheets sent to New York for Knopf s American edition, and the remaining 150 bound up in green cloth later in Extremely uncommon in the jacket in either issue. Blunden s first trade publication, The Waggoner was issued with the encouragement and assistance of Siegfried Sassoon to whom Blunden had sent some of his work in his capacity as literary editor of the Daily Herald. 1,250 [96856]

14 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk BOND, Edward. The Sea. A Comedy. London: Eyre Methuen, 1973 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. In the dust jacket. Edges of text block faintly spotted. An excellent copy in a priceclipped but bright jacket. first edition, the scarce case-bound issue, of the author s play set in a village on the East Anglian coast in The Sea premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in May 1973 in a production directed Bill Gaskill. 225 [92137] 36 (BORGES, Jorge Luis.) KAFKA, Franz. La Metamorfosis. Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1938 Octavo. Original orange boards, spine and front board lettered in black, patterned endpapers, top edge orange. Spine faded, boards a little bowed, occasional minor foxing. An excellent copy. first edition in spanish, translated and with a preface by Borges. Kafka s masterpiece was originally published in the German magazine Die Weißen Blätter in October 1915, under the title Die Verwandlung. 1,250 [97142] 37 BORGES, Jorge Luis. Ficciones. Edited and with an Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962 Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in a rubbed and price-clipped jacket with a slightly tanned spine panel. first u.k. edition. Originally published in Buenos Aires in 1956 and in the US in the same year as the UK edition. With a loosely inserted New York Times Book Review clipping of an extract from Dreamtigers. 275 [91285] BORGES, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings. Edited by Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby. Preface by André Maurois. Norfolk: New Directions, 1962 Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, marbled blue boards, black endpapers, top edge yellow, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece of the author. A couple of small white marks to tail of spine, upper corners slightly bumped, mild toning to margins of text block. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed 12

15 Peter Harrington jacket with small chips to head of spine and corners and a few small nicks and creases along top edge of front panel and flap. first edition of this collection of 22 short stories, 10 essays, and eight parables. 325 [95538] 39 BOTTOMLEY, Gordon, and others. An Annual of New Poetry: London: Constable and Company Ltd, [1917] Octavo. Original grey boards, spine and front board lettered in red, edges uncut and unopened. With the dust jacket. A little minor foxing to boards and contents; an excellent copy in the slightly foxed jacket with toned spine. first edition of this important wartime poetry collection, including poems by Edward Thomas (writing for the first time here under his pseudonym Edward Eastaway), W. H. Davies, John Drinkwater, Robert Frost, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Sturge Moore, and R. C. Trevelyan. first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title to the poet John Masefield: To John Masefield; from Gordon Bottomley. Silverdale: 22nd July 1944, and with Masefield s book label to the front pastedown. In the late 1910s John Masefield invited Bottomley to read his poetry at his Oxford Recitations in his house in Boars Hill, Oxfordshire. Bottomley recorded that the experience revealed to him that when poetry was perfectly spoken the drama and much of the action would be in the voice (Poems and Plays, 18). 425 [94461] 2,250 [96808] 40 BOTTOMLEY, Gordon. Deirdire [sic]. Drama in Four Acts in Gaelic and English. Adapted from Alexander Carmichael s Barra Story and Lay. With the additional passages translated into Gaelic by Catherine F. and David Urquhart. Inverness: The Northern Chronicle Office, 1944 Octavo. Original orange cloth wrappers, titles to front panel in black. Spine faded, extremities lightly rubbed, endpapers faintly foxed. An excellent copy

16 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk BOWEN, Elizabeth. To the North. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, boards a little spotted, very minor foxing to front free endpaper; a very good copy in the bright jacket with sunned spine and edges, and nicks to extremities. first edition. The publisher s retained copy with their ink stamp to the title page. 2,500 [93551] 42 BOWEN, Elizabeth. The Death of the Heart. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Edges foxed, lower tip bumped, boards spotted; a very good copy in the jacket that has sunned spine and edges, and a little foxing to rear flap. first edition. Published in the US later the same year. The publisher s retained copy with their ink stamp to the half-title. first edition. Breton s dictionary of surrealism (from A for absurde to Z for Zuecca ) was produced to coincide with the watershed exhibition organized by Breton and Éluard, the Exposition internationale du surréalisme, held at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris in early 1938, the eight-page catalogue of which is loosely inserted. 750 [94215] 44 BROCH, Hermann. The Unknown Quantity. Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir. London: Collins, 1935 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in grey. With the dust jacket. Light bumping to extremities, spine slightly rolled, pale marks to front and back covers, free endpapers tanned, dust jacket priceclipped with small tear to front panel and old restoration to panel and 750 [93542] 43 [BRETON, André, & Paul Éluard.] Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme. Paris: Gallerie Beaux-Arts, 1938 Octavo. Original light green card wrappers printed in black and red and with an illustration from a design by Yves Tanguy. With the original glassine jacket. Copiously illustrated in black and white. Edges of wrappers a little faded, a couple of hinges starting. An bright copy in excellent condition in a very lightly edge-chipped glassine jacket with foxing to top edge of front panel and three tiny rust marks to rear panel

17 Peter Harrington spine. Nonetheless a very good copy, with a striking purple dust jacket lettered and decorated in silver. first edition in english, originally published in 1933 in Berlin as Die Unbekannte Größe. Broch was a leading figure in literary modernism and greatly admired by James Joyce, who helped secure his release from Nazi imprisonment in The Muirs are best known for their translations of Kafka. 275 [96479] 45 [BROWN, Zenith Jones.] Leslie Ford. Footsteps on the Stairs. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1931 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket with a short closed to head of spine. first u.k. edition. First published under the title The Sound of Footsteps in the US earlier the same year. Brown also wrote prolifically under the pseudonym David Frome. The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the title page. literary masterworks. With a loosely inserted photograph of Patriarch s Ponds, a key location in the novel. 675 [95411] 47 BURKE, Thomas. The Sun in Splendour. London: Constable and Co., 1927 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in orange. With the dust jacket. Boards and spine faded; a very good copy in the bright jacket that has a few tiny nicks to extremities. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: Caradoc Evans, from Thos. Burke. A novel set in north-east London. Caradoc Evans ( ) was a Welsh story writer, novelist and playwright, whose series of short stories called My People (1915) had caused him to be known for a while as the best hated man in Wales. 225 [91920] 750 [94089] 46 BULGAKOV, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1967 Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Small ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A superb copy in the slightly toned jacket. first edition of the English translation by Glenny. This translation was preceded earlier in 1967 by Mirra Ginsburg s translation, as published by Grove, New York. However, Ginsburg s copy text was the bowdlerised Soviet version, in which huge portions had been excised. In contrast, the Glenny translation used a complete copy text and is generally considered the standard English translation of one of the 20th century s 47 15

18 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk [BURTON, Miles.] Cecil John Charles Street. A Will in the Way. London: The Crime Club, 1947 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black. With the dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A superb copy in the bright jacket that has some nicks to extremities. first edition. The thirty-sixth novel to feature Inspector Henry Arnold and Desmond Merrion. endpapers partially tanned, very faint spotting to top and fore edges of text block. An excellent copy in the lightly marked and toned jacket. first edition of the Czech author s collection of essays on the little things which make up the fabric of everyday life, written for newspapers in the early 1920s. Originally published in 1925 under the title O neibliz c ích vecech. 225 [89521] 275 [95870] 49 BYRON, Robert. The Road to Oxiana. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1937 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained blue. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 plates. A couple of small very pale spots to the spine, otherwise an excellent copy in slightly rubbed jacket, mildly chafed and with slightly crumpling and a few trivial splits head and tail of the spine. first edition, first issue binding of royal blue cloth lettered in gold. An enquiry into the origins of Islamic art presented in the form of one of the most entertaining travel books of modern times (ODNB). In his introduction to the 1981 reissue, Bruce Chatwin confessed to considering it a work of genius which he had elevated to the status of sacred text. He stressed that it remained an important book, as in between the bravura passages Byron expounds a serious thesis about the significance of Afghan influence on Persian civilization. 5,250 [94623] 50 CAPEK, Karel. Intimate Things. Translated by Dora Round. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1935 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in red, decoration and titles to front board in red. With the dust jacket. Spine a little rolled, 49 16

19 Peter Harrington CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany s. New York: Random House, 1958 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black morocco-backed bookform folding case. Spine very slightly rubbed, mild dust soiling to board edges, faint partial toning to endpapers, an excellent copy in a jacket that is spine tanned, has small chips to corners to small closed tears to top edge of front panel, and some very faint marks to rear panel. first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Capote on the front free endpaper, for Martha Robertson, with love, Truman Capote. The recipient was Martha Hunt Robertson ( ), an art teacher from Guntersville, Alabama, who in 1977 married noted journalist-novelist William Bradford Huie ( ), of Hartselle, Alabama. Huie was a friend of Truman Capote (also raised in Alabama), and his 1954 book The Execution of Private Slovik (an intense account of the only American soldier executed for desertion during the Second World War), as a work of non-fiction written in a highly literary style, is credited with anticipating the nonfiction novels of the 1960s and 1970s such as Capote s In Cold Blood (1966). Breakfast at Tiffany s is rare inscribed we have only ever handled one other. 12,500 [95993] 17

20 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk CAREY, Peter. Typed manuscript and page proofs of Oscar and Lucinda, signed and inscribed by the author. Birchgrove, NSW, & London: [1988] 3 volumes, 2 quarto and one oblong quarto. Original crushed dark blue quarter morocco presentation binding, blue cloth sides, raised bands to spine, titles to spine gilt. Manuscript volumes with the bookplate of Geoffrey Cains to front pastedowns. A fine set. The final draft of Carey s Booker Prize winning novel, in two volumes, together with one volume containing the page proofs for the first UK edition published by Faber. Volume I signed by the author on the title page and with a charming inscription to front flyleaf: The final ms of Oscar & Lucinda was typed by Nancy Hossack in an old wooden farmhouse 400 yards from the little church at Gleniffer which inspired the whole story. I sent it to Nancy for typing even though I was living in Sydney at the time. I did this not for sentimental reasons but because she is simply the best typist I ever met. At least four of the commas are hers. Peter Carey. Page proofs inscribed on the halftitle: proofs pages prior to the bound volume issued by Faber & Faber. 7,500 [97950] 53 CARR, John Dickson. The Crooked Hinge. New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board grey. With the dust jacket. Bookplate and ownership signature to front pastedown. Extremities slightly rubbed; an excellent copy in the superb jacket. first edition of this Dr. Gideon Fell mystery. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone title. 2,750 [99083] 52 18

21 Peter Harrington CARTER, Angela. The Passion of New Eve. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1977 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gold. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the bright jacket. first edition. A satirical novel, set in a dystopian United States. 225 [94337] 55 CARY, Joyce. Castle Corner. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Edges and endpapers foxed; an excellent copy in the jacket that has sunned spine and edges, and a chip to head of spine. first edition. A novel following the fortunes of the Anglo- Irish Corner family. The publisher s retained copy with their ink stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket, the front pastedown and the title page. 325 [93559] 56 CASEY, Robert J. The Secret of the Dark-Room. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1932 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in black. With the first and second issue dust jackets. Small dent to rear board, edges lightly foxed. A very good copy in the jacket that has some nicks to extremities. first edition of this murder mystery. With the first issue jacket and the remainder jacket over the top, from the takeover of the publishers Elkin Mathews by Ivor Nicholson & Watson. 475 [96756] 55 19

22 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk CHANDLER, Raymond. The Lady in the Lake. New York: Knopf, 1943 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered in green. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket that has a toned and slightly soiled rear panel, with some rubbing to extremities. first edition. 7,500 [94099] the author and tipped-in to the front free endpaper. It is likely that copies of Utz with these slips were distributed at the Booker Prize dinner. We know of only two other copies with signed labels, and have not handled any other books from that year s shortlist with these Sunday Times-sponsored slips. This is the only iteration of Utz with the author s signature, as Chatwin was dying at the time of publication. 500 [99251] 58 CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, tiny black speck to front board, faint spotting to edges of text block, endpapers and prelims. An excellent copy in an exceptionally bright jacket with lightly rubbed edges. first edition, preceding the first US edition. 2,250 [95621] 59 CHATWIN, Bruce. Utz. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988 Octavo. Original black boards, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the bright jacket. first edition, signed copy: second impression, with a printed label from the 1988 Booker Prize Shortlist signed by 59 20

23 Peter Harrington CHEEVER, John. Bullet Park. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969 Octavo. Original red-brown cloth, titles to spine and front board in silver, publisher s device to rear board blind, fore edge untrimmed, red and yellow endbands. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled. An excellent copy in the clean dust jacket. first edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: To Lee Milazzo, with my cordial regards John Cheever November With the publisher s compliments slip and a promotional photograph of the author laid in. 375 [97321] 63 CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Road of Dreams. London: Geoffrey Bles, [1925] Octavo. Original green cloth-backed blue-green boards, spine label lettered in green, edges uncut. With the dust jacket. Bookseller s ticket to rear pastedown. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Spine ends faded, contents foxed, tips rubbed; a good copy in the jacket that has some nicks and chips to edges. first and only edition of her first book of poems, published at her own expense. 2,250 [94127] 61 CHESTERTON, G. K. The Napoleon of Notting Hill. With seven full-page illustrations by W. Graham Robertson and a Map of the Seat of War. London: The Bodley Head, 1904 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered in black, vignettes blocked in red and black to spine and front board, top edge grey, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Bookplate of Brian Fenwick Smith to front free endpaper. Spine rolled, cloth a little soiled, internally fine; an excellent copy. first edition, signed copy, of the author s first novel, signed by him on the verso of the frontispiece. 1,750 [96845] 62 CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Man in the Brown Suit. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1924 Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles and decorative border to spine and front board in brown, top edge brown. Spine rolled and toned, contents mildly foxed, minor abrasion to front free endpaper; an excellent copy. first edition of Christie s fifth book. 850 [99311] 63 21

24 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1926 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in red. Bookseller s ticket to front pastedown. Spine rolled and slightly faded, spine ends frayed, tips worn, contents mildly foxed; an excellent copy. first edition. 575 [99298] 65 CHRISTIE, Agatha. Black Coffee. A Play in Three Acts. London: Alfred Ashley and Son, 1934 Octavo. Original orange wrappers printed in black. Occasional pencil marginalia. Slightly rubbed and creased wrappers with minor nick at head of spine and loosening along spine, one corner turned, occasional mild foxing to margins. Otherwise an excellent copy. first edition of Alfred Ashley s Acting edition of Christie s second play, which premiered on 8 December 1930, but was not printed until this edition. 475 [93050] 66 CHRISTIE, Agatha. Murder on the Orient Express. London: for The Crime Club by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1934 Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. Ownership signature to front free endpaper, Times Book Club ticket to rear pastedown. Spine gently rolled and a little faded, extremities faintly rubbed, one tiny waterstain to rear board, internally very crisp. An excellent copy. first edition. 4,500 [94811] 67 CHRISTIE, Agatha. Ten Little Niggers. London: Collins, The Crime Club, 1939 Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Some minor spotting throughout but an excellent copy in the rather frayed and creased dust jacket with a number of chips at the edges. first edition. 2,750 [96859] 68 CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Moving Finger. London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins, 1943 Octavo. Original red cloth, black lettered spine. With the dust jacket. A few nicks and chips to extremities of spine. first u.k. edition. Originally published in the US in A very nice copy. 875 [98269] 69 CHRISTIE, Agatha. Towards Zero. London: for The Crime Club by Collins, 1944 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine black. With the dust jacket. Map frontispiece. Boards bowed, cloth a little cockled; a very good copy in the unclipped jacket with faintly toned spine. first u.k. edition. First published in the US earlier the same year. Towards Zero is dedicated to Robert Graves, with the request that you should sternly restrain your critical faculties when reading it. This is a story for your pleasure and not a candidate for Mr. Graves literary pillory! 475 [99308] 22

25 Peter Harrington , 71, 72, 73, CHRISTIE, Agatha. Death Comes as the End. London: for The Crime Club by Collins, 1945 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered black, cream endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled and faded, board edges faded, tips lightly bumped; an excellent copy in the jacket with lightly faded spine and nicks to extremities. first edition. 300 [98056] 71 CHRISTIE, Agatha. Sparkling Cyanide. London: for The Crime Club by Collins, 1945 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the bright, unclipped jacket, with lightly rubbed extremities. first u.k. edition. Originally published in the US in the same year under the title Remembered Death. 675 [99310] 72 CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Labours of Hercules. London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1947 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine black. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, spine ends a little faded, edges lightly foxed; an excellent copy in the bright jacket, lightly creased with a few nicks to extremities. first edition. The collection consists of an account of each of the twelve cases Poirot has decided to take on before his planned retirement, in emulation of his heroic namesake [it is] very successful with Poirot on excellent form (Wagstaff & Poole, Agatha Christie: A Reader s Companion, p. 198). 73 CHRISTIE, Agatha. A Murder is Announced. London: for The Crime Club by Collins, 1950 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, a little faded to board edges, internally clean; an excellent copy in the bright, unclipped jacket, slightly creased and with a few nicks to extremities. first edition. 325 [99295] 74 CHRISTIE, Agatha. Third Girl. London: for The Crime Club by Collins, 1966 Octavo. Original red and black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Front hinge slightly cracked. Otherwise a fine copy in a slightly toned jacket with mildly rubbed extremities. first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: To Mrs Belson, Dec. 1966, from Agatha Christie. Elizabeth Belson was Christie s housekeeper for over two decades, between 1953 and the author s death in ,000 [97725] 500 [99307] 74 23

26 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 75, 76, CHRISTIE, Agatha. Passenger to Frankfurt. An extravaganza. London: the Crime Club by Collins, 1970 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine a touch cocked, inner hinges slightly cracked. An excellent copy in a mildly toned jacket. first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the bookplate to front free endpaper, Elizabeth from Agatha Christie Oct See previous item. 800 [97724] CHURCHILL, Winston S. Savrola. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. Spine slightly sunned, spine ends and corners a touch rubbed, light mottling to edges of boards, minor foxing to endpapers, front inner hinge gently cracked but firm, short split to bottom of rear inner hinge, margins of text block very lightly toned. An excellent copy. first edition of Churchill s only novel; 4,000 copies published on 3 February. The first UK edition appeared ten days later. Woods A3(a). 1,250 [94334] CHRISTIE, Agatha. Nemesis. London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1971 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in jacket with lightly rubbed extremities and slightly toned rear panel. first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page: For Lily Belson from Agatha Christie Oct See previous items. 1,500 [97722] 77 CHRISTIE, Agatha. Poems. London: Collins, 1973 Octavo. Original purple boards, titles to spine and upper cover in white. With the glassine dust jacket. A fine copy in a worn and nicked jacket with large loss to rear panel. first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: To Lily Belson from Agatha Christie Oct See previous items. 1,000 [97723] 78 24

27 Peter Harrington CLARKE, Arthur C. Prelude to Space. New York: Gnome Press, 1954 Octavo. Original marbled boards, titles to spine in yellow. With the pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. first u.s. hardback edition. Prelude to Space was originally published in the US in paperback in 1951; a revised and expanded hardback edition appeared in the UK in The Gnome Press, founded by Greenberg and author David Kyle in 1948, was one of the most important science fiction presses of the 20th century, publishing Isaac Asimov s Foundation trilogy and other classics for the first time. 275 [96775] 80 CLARKE, Arthur C. A Fall of Moondust. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. A superb copy in the bright jacket. first edition. 425 [95761] 81 CLAVELL, James. King Rat. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962 Octavo. Original yellow-beige cloth, titles to spine in dark green, publisher s device to front board in blind, top edge dark green. With the dust jacket. Minor foxing to fore edge of text block, very light tanning to endpapers, top edge a bit faded. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with mildly toned spine, slightly rubbed extremities, and a few nicks and minor chips to spine ends and folds. first edition, presentation copy with an inscription by Clavell on the front free endpaper, transcribing a passage from the novel: She s a lot on the ball, the King said. Yeah. Rather, said Peter Marlowe. She has, how would you put it, the right slope. Slant, for crissake with a short a. You know, buddy, rhyming with ass. For V.B. [or C.B.?] with appreciation, J. Clavell. Clavell s first novel, King Rat was written in an intense period of three months in The book was also a catharsis for Clavell, as it told of a power struggle among a group of Japanese prisoners of war. It was an immediate best-seller and the first of what Clavell called his Asian saga (ODNB). 1,850 [93074] 80 25

28 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk COCTEAU, Jean. Le Coq et l arlequin. Notes autour de la musique. Avec un portrait de l auteur et deux monogrammes par P. Picasso. Paris: Editions de la Sirène, 1918 Small octavo. Buff card wrappers printed in black. Housed in a brown cloth solander box with gilt titles to the spine. With two monograms by Picasso in the text and publisher s device to title and front wrapper. Front free endpaper partially tanned. An exceptionally bright copy in excellent copy. one of 50 reserved for the author, presentation copy inscribed by the author à Gaston Picard, souvenir amical de Jean Cocteau, Mars Gaston Picard was recipient of the Prix Calmann-Lévy in 1943 for his novel Le plus bel amour de Stendhal. From a limited edition of 50 copies printed on Hollande, not numbered but reserved for the author and justified by the initials JC on the limitation page. Number 1 in the Collection des Tracts series. Complete with the erratum slip with the initials JC. 1,500 [95339] 83 CONNOLLY, Cyril (ed.) Horizon. A Review of Literature and Art. London: Horizon, volumes, octavo. Original printed wrappers, 2 staple-bound, various colours. 12 coloured plates, of which one is folding, and 386 black and white plates. Spines lightly toned, extremities a little rubbed and creased, occasional light spotting to wrappers and edges, a few wrappers loosening along spine. Otherwise an excellent set. The aim of Horizon is to give to writers a place to express themselves, and to readers the best writing we can obtain. Our standards are aesthetic, and our politics are in abeyance (Comment, Horizon Volume I, Number I). The monthly magazine was edited throughout by Connolly and backed by the wealthy Peter Watson; for the first couple of years Stephen Spender was also part of the team, filling the role of uncredited associate editor. During its 20-volumes run, Horizon became a platform for a wide range of writers and artists, including W. H. Auden, John Betjeman, T. S. Eliot, Henry Miller, George Orwell, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Klee, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, and Ben Nicholson. This set is without the separately issued index volume and, as usual, the egregiously rare French issue, but is in uncommonly good condition. 575 [92358] 84 CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. A Tale. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt and to front board in black. Lightly rubbed at extremities, corners and fore edges a little bumped, spine very faintly toned, endpapers tanned. An excellent copy. first edition in book form, with the first issue points including the misprints anyrate p. 77, l. 5, cure (instead of cured ) p. 226, 7 lines from the bottom, the omission of keep after can p. 226, 7 lines from the bottom, and his p. 319, last line, being printed below the line. The novel first appeared as a serial in Blackwood s Magazine from October 1899 to November ,500 [92618] 26

29 Peter Harrington CONRAD, Joseph. Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories [ Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether ]. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles and floral decorations to front board in black. Bookplate to front pastedown. Spine very lightly toned, extremities a little rubbed, spine ends and corners a bit bumped, mild spotting to edges, free endpapers lightly tanned, text block slightly strained between pp Otherwise an excellent copy. first edition, first issue with the earliest 32-page catalogue at the rear dated 10/02. This volume collects three novellas by Conrad, all of which had previously been serialised in Blackwood s Magazine, in 1898, 1899, and 1902 respectively. Of this volume, Conrad wrote: Youth and Heart of Darkness are the first short stories of mine which attracted attention to my work in a wider sphere. Most critics dismissed The End of the Tether either with contempt or with a few cursory remarks (Wise). Octavo. Original vellum, titles to spine gilt, fore edges of boards bevelled, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Vignette to title. Slight cockling to pastedowns. An excellent copy. signed limited edition, number 188 of 200 copies signed by the author. Set by hand and printed in black and green on Kelmscott handmade paper. 575 [94152] 4,000 [92551] 86 CONRAD, Joseph. Laughing Anne. A Play. London: Vine Books,

30 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk CONRAD, Joseph. The Rover. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924 Octavo. Original dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. A very good copy with a few light dampstains to front cover, spine ends and rear cover lightly rubbed, slight foxing throughout. first edition, fourth impression. inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: H. P. C. Hare with regards from Joseph Conrad. Oswalds ,250 [90289] 88 [COOK, Robert William Arthur.] RAYMOND, Derek. He Died With His Eyes Open. London: Secker & Warburg, 1984 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the priceclipped dust jacket. Contents lightly toned. An excellent copy in the jacket with mild rippling to lamination, a contemporary price sticker to the front flap and faint foxing to edges of flaps. first edition of the author s first novel in the Factory series. The Factory novels are narrated by an unnamed sergeant detective working for the Factory, a fictional branch of the London Metropolitan Police, which investigates crimes deemed too lowly for Scotland Yard. Raymond Derek ( ), who also wrote under the name Robin Cook, is generally considered as one of the fathers of British noir fiction. He spent his formative years rubbing shoulders with William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in the Beat Hotel in Paris in the late 1950s and dabbling in petty crime with the Kray brothers in London in the 1960s. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt on red, front board blocked in gilt, top edge purple, pink pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Loosely inserted autograph letter and a note by the author. Frontispiece and 25 black and white photographic plates. An excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket that has a few nicks to extremities. first edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title. The second volume of her memoirs. 225 [91943] 90 CORMAN, Cid. Hearth. Thirty Nine Poems and Three Etchings. Kyoto: Origin Press, 1968 Small octavo. Original pale green and gold cloth, paper spine label. With the dust jacket and slipcase. 3 etchings by Ryohei Tanaka. Front panel of jacket has a light indentation through its thoughtless use as a pad for a written note. An excellent copy. 375 [88971] 89 COOPER, Diana. The Light of Common Day. London: Rupert Hart-Davis,

31 Peter Harrington pings, including Craig s obituary and a lengthy article on his life in Vence published in Nice Matin in signed limited edition, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author and the artist. A beautifully produced book, setting off Corman s delicate haikus by Tanaka s superb etchings. 1,500 [98008] [94498] 92 CRANE, Hart. The Collected Poems. Edited with an Introduction by Waldo Frank. London: Boriswood, 1938 Octavo. Original white cloth with colour weft, titles in red to spine and front board, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Very faint spotting to boards, top corners of boards a little bumped, endpapers tanned, contents lightly toned. An excellent copy in the slightly rubbed jacket with a couple of faint creases along bottom edge. first u.k. edition. Originally published by Liveright in the US in [89802] CRAIG, Edward Gordon. Index To The Story of My Days. London: Hulton Press, 1957 Octavo. Original black cloth backing japon boards, titles and decoration to spine in gilt and to front board in black and gilt, orange endpapers, top edge red. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, plates and line-drawings. Boards faintly marked, light bump to tail of rear joint, top edge a little faded, some spotting to fore edge of text block, internally bright and fresh. An excellent copy. first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title, To Margaret & also to Robin Ward, signed affect. E.G.C., and with five autograph notes written by Craig to Robin Ward loosely laid in, including one with a sketch by the author of his house in black ballpoint pen and with a brown watercolour wash, which is initialled E.G.C. ( artist of sorts ) and captioned piles of debris & stuff left by the workmen not a sign of a garden. Also laid in are four newspaper clip

32 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk CRESWICK, Paul. Providence Square. A Domestic Interior. London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1930 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled and faded, a little wear at extremities, bump to edge of front board. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with chips from the ends of the spine panels and the lower corner. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, In all sincerity and affection to my friend Edith Barbara Tranter this simple little story, Paul Creswick. 2 August With the recipient s bookplate on the front pastedown. Edith Barbara Tranter was secretary to W. T. H. Howe ( ), president of the American Book Company in Cincinnati, and subsequently administrator of his estate, known to him as Princess. Both were book collectors; her library was sold at auction by Parke-Bernet on 18 March CROMPTON, Richmal. Journeying Wave. London: Macmillan and Co., 1938 Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine. With the dust jacket. Spine of jacket lightly toned, back panel a little soiled and lightly foxed. A very good copy. first edition, presentation copy from the author to her sister, inscribed on the front free endpaper: Guen, with much love Ray (Richmal Crompton). Richmal Crompton 225 [88863] 94 CRISPIN, Edmund. The Case of the Gilded Fly. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944 Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine (rubbed to white). With the dust jacket. Spine of jacket toned and a little rubbed, internally a hint of foxing otherwise an excellent copy. first edition of the author s debut novel, written when he was still an undergraduate, and introducing eccentric amateur sleuth Gervase Fen. Crispin s work is marked by a highly individual sense of light comedy, and by a great flair for verbal deception rather in the Christie manner (Julian Symonds, Bloody Murder, From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History, 1973, p. 152). 975 [98278] 95 30

33 Peter Harrington ( ) is best known for the Just William books but she also penned a number of very popular adult novels. Books inscribed by her are uncommon. 2,250 [98273] 96 CRONIN, A. J. The Citadel. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937 Octavo. Original dark brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Some foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the jacket with faded spine. first edition. This novel dealing with the contentious subject of medical ethics is sometimes credited with laying the foundation for the introduction of the National Health Service a decade later. From the publisher s archive with their stamp to the half-title. 98 DAVIES, Valentine. Miracle on 34th Street. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947 Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine in silver, Santa Claus design to front board in blind. With the dust jacket. Gift presentation to front free endpaper, ends of spine lightly bumped, in the dust jacket with light chipping to ends of spine, short closed tears to edges. A very good copy. first edition. This novella was written by screenwriter Valentine Davies to accompany the release of the film version, which starred Maureen O Hara and won Academy Awards for best writing (for an original story) and best screenplay. 300 [97425] 875 [93976] 97 CUMMINGS, E. E., and others. Eight Harvard Poets. New York: Laurence J. Gomme, 1917 Octavo. Original grey cloth spine, grey-green paper boards, titles in dark red to spine and front board. Spine somewhat toned and rubbed, two small dampstains to front board, light wear to corners of boards, slight foxing throughout. A very good copy. first edition, inscribed by cummings s mother on the front free endpaper: Ellen from R.H.C. Xmas Cummings s mother was Rebecca Haswell Clarke. The volume contains poetry by Cummings, S. Foster Damon, J. R. Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer, R. S. Mitchell, William A. Norris, Dudley Poore, and Cuthbert Wright. With a newspaper clipping regarding Cummings pasted to the front free endpaper and another newspaper clipping, regarding the 1923 edition of this collection, pinned to page 3. With an additional typescript poem by Cummings ( The Casualty ) tipped-in at page [89852] 98 31

34 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk DE LA MARE, Walter. Peacock Pie. A Book of Rhymes. With illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. London: Constable & Co, [1916] Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, vignette to font board gilt on white ground, ruling to front board in blind. In the pictorial dust jacket. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard and black and white illustrations in the text. Endpapers a little tanned, some spotting to edges of text block and occasionally to contents. An excellent copy in a slightly worn jacket with a few small chips and creases. first edition. Scarce in the dust jacket. 475 [95343] first edition of this scarce thrilling novel. The publisher s file copy with their stamp to the front panel of the jacket, front pastedown and title page. 1,250 [95327] 102 DEVANNY, Jean. The Butcher Shop. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1926 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With the dust jacket. Elaborate ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Slightly rubbed at ends of spine, partial toning to free end- 100 DEIGHTON, Len. An Expensive Place To Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in an excellent jacket with slightly rubbed spine ends and a small closed tear to front panel. first edition, inscribed by the author on the title page: To Christian. All my best wishes, Len Deighton. With the top secret transit docket loosely inserted. Also loosely inserted is an obituary of the graphic designer Ray Hawkey, written by Deighton and published in the Observer, 29 August Hawkey designed the cover art of several of Deighton s novels, including An Expensive Place to Die. 250 [91374] 101 [DENNIS, Geoffrey, & Hilary Saint George Saunders.] Barum Browne. The Devil and X.Y.Z. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1931 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green. With the dust jacket. Some foxing to edges and endpapers; an excellent copy in the jacket with sunned spine

35 Peter Harrington papers. An excellent, tight copy in the rubbed jacket with some nicks and short splits, fraying at the head of the spine panel, and some marks to the lower panel. first edition. The tragic story of a young New Zealand woman who struggles against the confines of marriage and life in the country. 225 [88859] 103 DI DONATO, Pietro. Christ in Concrete. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue. With the dust jacket. Some foxing to edges and white spots to boards; an excellent copy in the jacket with sunned spine. first u.k. edition. First published in the US in 1937, the novel inspired the 1949 film, Give Us This Day (US title Christ in Concrete). The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket, the front free endpaper and the title page. 325 [94302] 104 DICK, Philip K. Time Out of Joint. Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959 Octavo. Original orange-pink boards, spine and front board lettered in black. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, tips a little worn, some minor abrasion to front free endpaper, annotation to rear free endpaper. A very good copy in the bright jacket. first edition. 475 [95715] 105 DICK, Philip K. A Scanner Darkly. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977 Octavo. Original tan boards, spine lettered in black. With the dust jacket. Some minor foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the jacket that has a short closed tear to rear panel, a little fading to front panel and toning to rear panel. first edition. A dystopian novel set in Orange County, California. Largely based on the author s own experience with drug abuse and the rehabilitation process, the novel follows the protagonist Bob Arctor, whose split personalities allow him to both partake in and subvert society s prevalent drug culture, eventually landing him in a rehabilitation clinic that has its patients secretly harvest the very drugs to which they are addicted [93980] 33

36 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk DICKEY, James. Deliverance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970 Octavo. Original beige cloth, titles to spine and front board in green, top edge green, green endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, endpapers faintly faded at edges. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed jacket with one tiny closed tear. first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page: To Stuart Wright, from James Dickey, 20th March, Stuart Wright was a publisher and an avid collector of literature from the American South. His important collection, which includes a James Dickey archive, is now kept at the South Carolina University. Deliverance is widely considered as Dickey s best novel and was adapted into the 1972 film of the same title starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds, in which Dickey had a small part as the sheriff. 825 [92699] 107 DONLEAVY, J. P. The Ginger Man. Paris: The Olympia Press, [1955] Octavo. Original green and white wrappers printed in black. Housed in a dark red cloth solander box. Some mild foxing to edges, internally fresh; an excellent copy. first edition of Donleavy s first novel, a debauched comedy, printed in the same year and green wrappers as Nabokov s Lolita. 1,250 [95683] 108 DOUGLAS, Norman. Together. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1923 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. With the dust jacket. Boards faintly discoloured and cockled, fore edge of text block lightly spotted. A very good copy in a lightly rubbed and tone jacket with a few minor nicks and chips. signed limited edition, number 154 of 275 large paper copies signed by the author. 250 [92115] 109 DOUGLAS, Norman. Experiments. [Florence:] privately printed, 1925 Quarto. Original cream paper boards, white paper spine label, unopened and untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Spine of jacket toned, some nicks and chips, a few scuffs to boards, some offsetting to endpapers. first edition, one of 300 copies numbered and signed by the author, presentation copy, playfully inscribed by the on the title page: To his friend Miss Crummer from Norman Douglas, in hope of a piece of soap in due course (not new mown hay) and of her not borrowing too many of my matches, although it points to a good house-wifely spirit. 26 August With the bookplate of Myrtle A. Crummer. Douglas was almost certainly introduced to the bibliophiles Leroy and Myrtle Crummer (who were busy forming an important medical library) by the publisher Pino Orioli, who ran an antiquarian bookshop by the Ponte Vecchio and later published a number of Douglas s books (see Barbara C. Morden s biography of the painter Dame Laura Knight). Douglas says in Late Harvest (p. 51) that publishing Experiments was in itself an experiment, a trying one. It was his first serious attempt at publishing his own work. And in a letter (dated May 30, 1925) to Charles Scott-Moncrieff, he writes: The printers let me down dreadfully over that book; so that over 60 copies were not fit to send away (Woolf ). This miscellany includes Douglas s review of Doughty s Arabia Deserta, an essay on Edgar Allan Poe and a short story entitled Queer! a reworking of a story originally composed over twenty years earlier but which had appeared in different guises: as Something from the Beyond (1921) and A Mystery (1901). Woolf A24a. 475 [97972] 34

37 Peter Harrington DOUGLAS, Norman. Experiments. London: Chapman & Hall, 1925 Large octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher s device to front board in blind. With the dust jacket. Partial toning to endpapers, corners of boards a little bumped, light foxing to prelims, endleaves and edges of text block. A very good copy in the chipped jacket with a tanned spine panel. first trade edition. 375 [89330] 111 DOUGLAS, Norman. Capri. Materials for a Description of the Island. Florence: G. Orioli, 1930 Large octavo. Original blue quarter linen, blue boards, blue calf title label to spine gilt, all edges untrimmed. In a contemporary buff paper jacket, possibly the publisher s. Photographic frontispiece, and 22 other plates, including two in colour. Spine and edges of boards a little faded, though a lot less than usual, outer margins slightly toned, light spotting to endleaves. An excellent copy in a lightly chipped jacket with a dampstained and partially split spine panel. signed limited edition, number 280 of 525 copies signed by the author. 425 [94499] 112 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board in gilt and black. Black and white frontispiece and 15 plates. Spine cloth faintly faded but gilt bright, extremely minor rubbing to tips, very faint spotting to endpapers and edges only, internally clean and entirely sound in the binding, a highly attractive copy in excellent condition. first edition. A superb copy in the original cloth. 5,500 [95534] 113 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Lost World. Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone of the Daily Gazette. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912] Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board in white with white rules and gilt vignette. Frontispiece with tissue guard, 7 plates, diagrams in text. Spine rolled, contents slightly foxed; an excellent copy. first edition of Conan Doyle s classic prehistoric adventure novel. 1,500 [96865]

38 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Long Stories. A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of Four; The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Valley of Fear. London: John Murray, 1929 Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to spine and front board blue. With the dust jacket. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Spine and edges lightly foxed, internally fine; an excellent copy in the jacket with sunned spine, some nicks and small chips to extremities and two short closed tears to head of spine with tape repair to verso. first collected edition. 225 [99193] 115 DRABBLE, Margaret. The Garrick Year. A Novel. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Minor crease to spine, corners bumped, small spot to front free endpaper. A very good copy in the rubbed and toned jacket with some nicks, short splits, and spots. first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page, For Kenneth, from Maggie. 6 July, Also with a loosely inserted postcard addressed to Kenneth Griffith from Stratford on which the author has written, This is due out finally on July 17, after many delays anyway here it is, not that I expect you to read it. A long reply, one might say, to the letter you once wrote me, but I don t write letters, only books & postcards, M. The recipient was likely the actor and filmmaker Kenneth Griffith ( ), who Drabble probably met during her early acting career. Square octavo. Original pale blue limp vellum, top edges gilt, foreedges untrimmed. Title-page printed in blue and black, initial letters printed in blue. Patchy light fading of vellum, which has also sprung a little. An excellent copy. first and signed limited edition, preceding the trade edition of the same year. Number 1 of 125 numbered copies, neatly initialled by the author with his monogram. An attractively produced book. 275 [97248] 117 DU MAURIER, Daphne. Jamaica Inn. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue. With the dust jacket. Edges foxed, cloth a little discoloured, occasional minor fox- 325 [89000] 116 DRINKWATER, John. Preludes London: The Morland Press,

39 Peter Harrington ing to contents, some annotation to title page. An excellent copy in the slightly soiled jacket that has sunned spine and edges, and a few nicks to extremities. first edition. The publisher s retained copy with their ink stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket, the front free endpaper and the title page. 6,500 [93608] 118 DU MAURIER, Daphne. Frenchman s Creek. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1941 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Some light foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the slightly soiled jacket that has sunned spine and edges, and a few nicks to extremities. first edition. The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the half-title. 750 [93609] 119 DU MAURIER, Daphne. The Apple Tree. A short novel and some stories. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1952 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Short closed tear to foot of half-title; an excellent copy in the unclipped jacket with lightly toned spine and a few nicks to extremities. first edition, a collection including the short story The Birds which was made into the classic film by Alfred Hitchcock. With Du Maurier s signature on a slip of card loosely laid-in. 275 [98610] 120 DURRELL, Lawrence. Cefalû. London: Editions Poetry, 1947 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine tips lightly faded, contents a little toned. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with a few small chips and nicks. first edition, signed by the author and dated [96553] 121 EDEN, Rob. Loot. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front board in dark green, top edge purple. With the pictorial dust jacket featuring Louise Brooks. Small ownership inscription to front free endpaper and initials to fore edge of front pastedown. Head and tail of spine very lightly rubbed. An exceptionally bright and fresh copy in a jacket with two tiny chips to tail of spine panel and a few neat archival tape repairs to edges of the verso. first edition. The striking jacket features the film star Louise Brooks, her first cover appearance on a book not related to her work as an actress. Rob Eden was the pseudonym of Robert Ferdinand Burkhardt, a specialist in the pulp genre [91921] 37

40 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk EDWARDS, Norman. Dilemma. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1936 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered in black, publisher s device to rear board in black, top edge green. With the dust jacket. Small dent to spine, boards gently bowed, a little foxing to edges. A very good copy in the slightly soiled jacket that has some nicks and chips to extremities. first edition. 575 [96746] 123 ELIOT, T. S. After Strange Gods. A primer of modern heresy. The Page-Barbour lectures at the University of Virginia. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1934 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges uncut. With the dust jacket. Occasional faint foxing; an excellent copy in the jacket that has a faded spine, a couple of small marks to front panel and a nick to head of rear panel and spine. first edition. A difficult series of essays which Eliot is supposed to have refused to reprint, ostensibly due to Pound s displeasure at some passages glancing at his ideology, although a second impression of this edition was printed later in Gallup A25a. (FARJEON, Eleanor.) FARJEON, B. L. The Amblers. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. Cloth faded, rubbed, and dulled, some loss of size, wear to corners and ends of spine, upper corner bumped, endpapers tanned, spotting to edges of text block and title pages. A good copy. first edition, family presentation copy, inscribed by Eleanor Farjeon on the front free endpaper to her eldest brother, To dear Harry from his loving sister Nellie. November 7th, Harry Farjeon was a distinguished teacher at the Royal Academy of Music. This story by Eleanor s father, the novelist Benjamin Farjeon ( ), was published posthumously. Eleanor wrote the preface and developed portions of the unfinished story after her father s death. The Amblers thus contains some of Eleanor Farjeon s earliest published work. 375 [88523] 125 FARJEON, Eleanor. Pan Worship and Other Poems. London: Elkin Mathews, 1908 Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine and front board gilt. A little spotting to edges of text block, free endpapers tanned. An excellent, fresh copy. first edition of the author s first book of poems. 250 [88524] 350 [94233]

41 Peter Harrington FAULKNER, Fritz. Windless Sky. London: Hogarth Press, 1936 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine faded and gently rolled; an excellent copy in the jacket that has a sunned spine. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: To Faith Baldwin, sincerely, Fritz Faulkner. The author s first novel. Faith Baldwin ( ) was a popular and prolific American author of romantic fiction. Fritz Faulkner, by contrast, produced only this single work, utilizing stream-of-consciousness techniques. The book was published in the US by Covici Friede the following year. Faulkner later worked in advertising and as a used bookseller in Chicago. 225 [94031] 127 FAULKNER, William. The Marble Faun. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1924 Octavo. Original mottled green boards, white paper title labels to front board and spine printed in green. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Front hinge tender, small production flaw to rear hinge but a stunning copy in the dust jacket of a famously vulnerable publication. first edition, presentation copy, signed and dated 31 December 1924 by the author on the title page and with his further signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, To Dink [?Kearsley] from Bill Faulkner. The familiar form of the address indicates that Faulkner was on good terms with the recipient, but that person s identity has eluded us and the several colleagues whose opinion we have asked. Faulkner employed the recipient s unusual forename in his fiction for the character Dink Quistenberry in The Town. The Marble Faun is the author s first book, of which only 500 of the projected 1,000 copies were printed and some 300 of those were later pulped. The official publication date was, after some delay, fixed as 15 December 1924 and the earliest dated presentation copies were signed on the 19th. 67,500 [96512] 39

42 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk FAULKNER, William. Light in August. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932 Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in blue and to front board in orange, top edge orange, fore edge uncut. With the dust jacket and glassine wrapper. An excellent copy with some extremely minor foxing, in the bright jacket that has nicks to extremities, short closed tear to front panel, rear panel cockled, with the glassine wrapper that is creased with a large closed tear to rear panel, a short closed tear to front panel, and some nicks to extremities. With a contemporary newspaper review pasted to verso of dust jacket. first edition. 130 FAULKNER, William. Intruder in the Dust. New York, Random House, 1948 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and front board gilt and blue, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom black solander box. Very light bumping to extremities, front endpapers 4,750 [94100] 129 FAULKNER, William. Sartoris. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the jacket that has a slightly toned spine and a few nicks to extremities. first u.k. edition; 2,000 copies were published. Originally published in the US in ,250 [95983]

43 Peter Harrington tanned, minor wear to isolated sections of titles. An excellent copy in the bright and handsome dust jacket. first edition. 525 [96884] 131 FAULKNER, William. Knight s Gambit. New York: Random House, 1949 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt on black with gilt wavy lines, top edge black. With the dust jacket. Bookseller s ticket to rear pastedown. A superb copy in the bright jacket that has a slightly faded spine. first edition. A collection of detective stories included in Starrett s Queen s Quorum. 425 [95989] 132 FAULKNER, William. Collected Stories. New York: Random House, 1950 Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt on blue ground, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. House in a custom black solander box. An excellent copy in the price-clipped dust jacket with a few small nicks. first edition, first issue binding with The included in the spine title. 850 [96886] 133 FAULKNER, William. Requiem for a Nun. New York: Random House, [1951] Octavo. Original green and black cloth lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine of dust jacket only lightly sunned. An excellent copy. first edition. A sequel to Sanctuary (1931) and written as a play with prose parts preceding each act. The striking dust jacket design is by E. McKnight Kauffer. 375 [96853] 134 FAULKNER, William. A Fable. New York: Random House, 1954 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in tan and silver, cross design to front board in black and blind, grey top edge and endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in black cloth solander box. Boards gently bowed, top edge faded. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with a few minor nicks to extremities and light tanning to top edges of flaps. first edition, trade issue. 375 [97736]

44 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk FAULKNER, William. Big Woods. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. New York: Random House, 1955 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, paw print in black to front board, buff endpapers, top edge green. With the dust jacket. Illustrated title page. A superb copy in the bright jacket that has a slightly toned spine. first edition. A collection of four previously published hunting stories with five inter-chapters (or interrupted catalysts as Faulkner called them) to set or change the mood. The stories include The Bear, The Old People, A Bear Hunt, and Race at Morning. Although all the material was previously published, only The Old People remained unchanged from its original form. It is illustrated by Edward Shenton, who also illustrated The Unvanquished and some other Faulkner stories in the Saturday Evening Post. Big Woods was Faulkner s last story collection published during his lifetime. with small chips from the ends of the tanned spine panel. Spine a little rolled, spine gilt just a little rubbed, lower corner bumped. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some small nicks, minor creasing at the edges, and tanned spine panel. first edition. The play, by the author of Show Boat and Giant, follows the fortunes of four young actresses as they struggle to reconcile their aspirations with the demands of society. 375 [88510] 138 FIRBANK, Ronald. The Princess Zoubaroff. London: Grant Richards Limited, 1920 Octavo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece and title illustration by Michel Sevier. Spine of dust jacket dulled. A particularly nice copy. 475 [95990] 136 FAULKNER, William. Flags in the Dust. New York: Random House, 1973 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, top edge brown. With the dust jacket. first edition. The complete text of Faulkner s third novel which appeared in an edited version as Sartoris in [98737] 137 FERBER, Edna, & George S. Kaufman. Stage Door. A Play. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1936 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and decorative vertical lines to spine gilt, floral design to front board in blind, top edge brown. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece, endpapers and margins of contents just a little toned. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket

45 Peter Harrington Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green. With the dust jacket. Top edge dusty, very minor foxing to endpapers. An excellent copy in the faded jacket with some chips to extremities. first u.k. edition. First published the previous year in the US. The publisher s retained copy with their ink stamp to the title page. 375 [93602] first edition. 530 copies were printed but, according to the Grant Richards ledger, only 513 were bound (Benkovitz A7). 275 [96851] 139 FISHER, Vardis. Toilers of the Hills. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, FISHER, Vardis. Dark Bridwell. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1931 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green. With the dust jacket. Endpapers and edges foxed; an excellent copy in the jacket that has sunned spine and edges, short closed tear to front panel and a few nicks to extremities. first u.k. edition. First published earlier the same year in the US. A psychological thriller of life in pioneer society. The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the front panel of the jacket and front pastedown. 475 [93612] 141 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1925 Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt and to front board in blind, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled, lower tip a little worn, a couple of faint marks to boards, internally fine. An excellent copy. first edition, first state of the text. The copy is the correct first printing, with chatter on p. 60, line 16, northern on p. 119, line 22, it s on p. 165, line 16, away on p. 165, line 29, sick in tired on p. 205, lines 9-10, and Union Street station on p. 211, lines 7-8. Bruccoli A11.1.a. Bruccoli A11.I.a 140 3,950 [98626] 43

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47 Peter Harrington FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. London: Chatto & Windus, 1926 Octavo. Original blue linen-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the supplied dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made blue moroccobacked bookform folding case by the Chelsea Bindery. Ownership inscription of E. C. Nef, Paris, 1925, to front free endpaper. Extremities lightly rubbed, one corner bumped, a number of leaves creased at upper corner where previously turned down, still a very good copy of the book; the jacket, which was evidently stored separately, in fine, fresh, bright condition, with only a faint crease at the head of the front panel and three very small areas of wear at the spine ends and head of the front fold, a remarkable survival. first english edition, in a sparkling example of the very rare first state dust jacket, unseen by Bruccoli, which reproduces the famous Cugat design of the first American edition, with a window left at the foot of the spine for the Chatto & Windus imprint, and the rear panel with Chatto & Windus printed advertisements. The jacket is priced 7s. net at the foot of the front flap. The unrivalled Matthew J. & Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald at USC s Thomas Cooper Library has only copies of later state jackets, price-clipped and repriced with an over-sticker. Bruccoli notes that the first English publication of The Great Gatsby is not a new edition, but a separate printing in England from the plates of the American edition the third printing of the first edition (p. 64). Gatsby was first published in America in April 1925, with a second printing with six emendations in August 1925, the plates of which are used for the English printing. The deposit copies of the English printing at the British Library and the Bodleian were both received in February 1926, but the ownership inscription in this copy is intriguing evidence that copies were available earlier on the Continent. Elinor Castle Nef ( ) was the first wife of University of Chicago professor John U. Nef, Jr. ( ) and the daughter of a prominent Hawaiian family. She was a prolific diarist and letter writer, corresponding with many important artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. In November 1921, she and her husband left for France where John was to continue his studies, and lived in Europe for the next five years. Bruccoli A 11.1.c. 100,000 [94421] 45

48 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. A Romance. Decorations by Edward Shenton. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1934 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box. Illustrations in the text by Edward Shenton. Extremities very faintly rubbed. An exceptionally bright copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with a few short closed tears and light chipping to tips of spine panel and flap folds; box with bibliographical inscription to inside cover and slight rubbing to corners. Excellent. first edition, in the first issue dust jacket with the T. S. Eliot review to the front flap. Tender is the Night was Fitzgerald s fourth novel coming some nine years after the publishing triumph that was The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald set out to write an important and in many ways revolutionary work of fiction. Structurally complex, topically dangerous and personally challenging, the struggle of its inception was matched perhaps only by the scale of critical disdain. Fitzgerald was so distressed by the antagonism from most quarters that he agreed to allow later editions to be published with the narrative rearranged chrono- 46

49 Peter Harrington logically. Only years after his death was the text restored and the true brilliance of this work recognized. Bruccoli A15.I.a. 17,500 [96652] 144 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Pat Hobby Stories. With an Introduction by Arnold Gingrich. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1962 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Extremities very lightly rubbed and browned. A fresh copy in excellent condition in a lightly toned jacket with a few minor stains to the front panel. first edition. A collection of Fitzgerald s stories about Pat Hobby, a Hollywood writer who was hot stuff when the movies were dumb, published in Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May Fitzgerald had himself worked, frustratingly, as a Hollywood screenwriter, and these experiences influenced the Pat Hobby stories as well as his unfinished masterpiece The Love of the Last Tycoon. 250 [93532] 145 FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in red, heart device to front cover in red, bottom edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box. Edges and endpapers slightly foxed, mild toning to margins of text block. An excellent copy in a likewise excellent jacket with mild creasing to the light tanned extremities, a couple of light damp stains to rear panel, and minor chips to folds. first edition, first state. Fleming ( ) finished Casino Royale over the period of two months in early 1952, while at Goldeneye, his tropical hideaway on Jamaica s north shore (Gilbert, p. 16). According to Gilbert, Fleming finished the novel quickly because he was a seasoned journalist, but also because many plot elements sprang from either Fleming s imagination or his memories of wartime adventures. Published in April 1953, the book was a success and Fleming would thereafter use his Caribbean holidays to write a James Bond story every year until his premature death in 1964 (ODNB). Gilbert A1a (1.1) 42,500 [98846] 47

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51 Peter Harrington FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and roundel to front board gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Contents a little browned couple of small, marginal stains but a very decent copy in the mildly toned dust jacket with a light vertical crease to the lower panel and some trivial rubbing at the tips. first edition in the first issue jacket without the design credit slug to the front flap. The earliest dust jackets issued made no mention of Kenneth Lewis and at some point the need was recognised to credit his work. A stamp was made and as a stopgap existing jackets were overstamped beneath the blurb on the front flap. This slightly amateurish solution was swiftly abandoned and the jacket was reset and reprinted to include the Lewis credit. Copies of the first impression exist with all three states though we note that the third state dust jacket may readily be found on reprints and ought therefore be regarded with some suspicion. Copies of the first issue in such condition as the present example are increasingly hard to find. Gilbert A2a (1.1). 17,500 [94671] 147 FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and front board in silver. With the dust jacket. Endpapers lightly browned. Otherwise a fine copy in an excellent jacket with toned spine and slightly foxed rear panel. first edition, first impression, one of two variant states, printed on thicker paper stock and with the word shoot at p. 10, l. 31 correctly printed. The entire first impression (containing both shoot and shoo states) was issued on 7 April Gilbert A3a (1). 12,500 [98868] 49

52 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957 Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in metallic red and silver, revolver and rose motif to front board in metallic red and silver. With the pictorial dust jacket. A little scattered foxing to the top edge; an excellent copy in the bright jacket, with lightly toned spine, some nicks and small chips to extremities and bookseller s ticket to front flap. first edition. This is the first of Fleming s novels for which Richard Chopping designed the jackets as he would go on to do for virtually all the subsequent Bond books. Gilbert A5a (1.1). 2,500 [98400] 149 FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959 Octavo. Original black boards, skull design blindstamped to front cover with gilt coins in the eye sockets, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, light spotting to edges, internally fine; an excellent copy in the unclipped jacket, with light toning to spine, small smudge to rear panel and a few nicks to extremities. first edition. The seventh book in the James Bond series. Gilbert A7a (1.1). 1,250 [98605] 150 FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961 Octavo. Original dark brown boards, spine lettered gilt, skeletal hand motif on front board blocked in blind. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom black quarter morocco solander box. An exceptional copy in the bright, unclipped jacket with faintly toned spine. first edition. Gilbert A9a (1.1). 1,300 [99233]

53 Peter Harrington FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962 Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine in silver, dagger design to front board in silver and blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the bright, unclipped jacket, with slightly rubbed extremities. first edition. Gilbert A10a (1.1). 1,000 [99095] 152 FLEMING, Ian. Thrilling Cities. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 Octavo. Original white cloth-backed grey flecked boards, spine lettered in gilt, black endpapers, top edge black. With the dust jacket. 48 plates. Spine rolled, board edges slightly discoloured, contents toned; a very good copy in the unclipped, slightly nicked jacket with faded spine. first edition. Fleming s impressions of 13 cities in Asia, the United States and Europe, based on articles he wrote for the London Sunday Times in 1959 and first edition, first state, with the gilt gun block to the front board, which was abandoned very early in the binding run for economical reasons. Gilbert A13a (1.1). 8,000 [91760] 154 (FLEMING, Ian.) GARDNER, John. Licence Renewed. London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, 1981 Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Contents a little toned. An excellent copy in the bright jacket. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author on the title page: To Mike with Best Wishes & thank you for a super painless inheritance, yours, John. The first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming s creation, James Bond. 225 [91985] 225 [98417] 153 FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and gun design to front board gilt, green and white endpapers. With the dust jacket. Three small ownership inscriptions, to front free endpaper, half-title and title pages. Tiny nick to centre of lightly rolled spine, extremities a little rubbed, small bump to top corner of front board, a couple of small marks to edges of text block, two corners turned, initial leaves slightly finger-marked. An excellent copy in a jacket with a few minor chips and short closed tears along top edge and spotting to the verso

54 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk FLETCHER, J. S. The Yorkshire Moorland Mystery. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in black with black rules. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, a little foxing to edges. A very good copy in the bright jacket with a small chip to front panel. first edition. Published in the US later the same year as The Yorkshire Moorland Murder. 975 [96738] 155 FOLLETT, Barbara Newhall. The House Without Windows & Eepersip s Life There. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927 Octavo. Original black cloth-backed blue and black patterned boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge black, others uncut. With the dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper and half-title. Extremities lightly rubbed, top edges of boards a little faded, free endpapers partially tanned, contents faintly toned, a couple of leaves roughly opened, one middle hinge cracked but still holding firm. An excellent copy in a rubbed and lightly chipped jacket with a tanned spine panel. first edition of the child prodigy author s first novel, written when she was twelve years old. The House Without Windows tells the story of a nine-year-old runaway. It was received with widespread critical acclaim. Follett disappeared in her twenties after a quarrel with her husband. 750 [91282] 157 FORESTER, C. S. The Good Shepherd. London: Michael Joseph, 1955 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in blue and white, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Board edges and spine tips a little rubbed. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with one tiny closed tear and a slightly edge-chipped and toned spine panel. first edition, signed by the author on the title page and with a Times Bookshop s complimentary letter tipped in facing front free endpaper, addressed to Captain Hollies-Smith, whose bookplate is on the front free endpaper verso. 375 [89319]

55 Peter Harrington FORSTER, E. M. A Room with a View. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1908 Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. Contemporary bookplate to front pastedown. Spine faded, rolled and cracked but holding, tips bumped, extremities a little rubbed, contents slightly foxed. A very good copy. first edition. 1,500 [96645] 160 FORSTER, E. M. A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in back. Housed in a red linen slipcase and matching chemise. Spine cocked and faded, some light foxing; an excellent copy. first edition, lytton strachey s copy, with his bookplate to the front pastedown and signature to the front free endpaper. 2,500 [94093] 159 FORSTER, E. M. A Room with a View. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923 Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine and front board lettered in dark blue, top edge blue, patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, upper tip of rear board worn and frayed, internally fine. An excellent copy in the toned jacket that has some nicks and chips to extremities and 8.5 cm closed tear to rear flap fold. first u.s. edition, first printing in the scarce jacket. Originally published in the UK in ,250 [96829]

56 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk FOWLER, Gene. Trumpet in the Dust. New York: Horace Liveright Inc., 1930 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt with gilt and silver border, top edge green. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled and lettering a little faded; an exceptional copy in the jacket with some nicks to extremities. first edition, presentation copy to his son, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: For my son, Gene. My first book for my first son. Gene Fowler. Oct 1, Jr. (d.1998) would have a successful career as a film editor. His credits included It s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. 875 [97325] 163 FOWLER, Gene, & Ben Hecht. The Great Magoo. A love-sick Charade in three Acts and something like eight 1,250 [96695] 162 FOWLER, Gene. Shoe the Wild Mare. New York: Horace Liveright, 1931 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and decorative frames to spine and front board in tan and red, top edge red, other edges untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Spine very gently rolled and slightly pulled at head, fore and bottom edges a touch tanned. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with a toned and slightly chipped spine. first edition, presentation copy to his son, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: For my fine son, Gene, jr, from his old pal., Gene Fowler, sr, Feb Gene

57 Peter Harrington Scenes, recounting the Didoes of two young and amorous Souls, who nigh perished when they weren t in the Hay together. Illustrated by Herman Rosse. New York: Covici-Friede, 1933 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front board lettered green, top edge yellow. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations to title page and chapter headings by Herman Rosse. Spine gently rolled, contents lightly toned; an excellent copy in the jacket with toned spine that has 11 cm closed tear to fold, and some nicks and chips to extremities. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Fowler to his mother-in-law, Catherine Hubbard, on the front free endpaper To Mama with love, from Gene. Dec, 1932 and with Catherine Hubbard s bookplate to the front pastedown. 375 [98044] 164 FOWLES, John. The Magus. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966 Octavo. Original purple cloth-backed black and white boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge purple. With the pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in the slightly nicked jacket. first u.k. edition, signed copy, inscribed by the author on the title page: Michael Curtis, with my best wishes. John Fowles, at Hatchards, 8 Oct ,250 [96827] FOWLES, John. The French Lieutenant s Woman. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969 Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge brown. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with a hint of wear to extremities. first edition. 375 [99108] 166 FRANCIS, Dick. Nerve. London: Michael Joseph, 1964 Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, contents toned; a very good copy in the slightly soiled jacket that has a toned spine. first edition. Francis s second novel [94400] 55

58 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk GALSWORTHY, John. The Forsyte Saga. London: William Heinemann, 1922 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, top edge green. With the dust jacket. Folding genealogical table. A fine copy in the bright jacket with mildly toned spine, short closed tear to head and foot of spine, and a few nicks to extremities. first omnibus edition, first issue with the genealogical table that unfolds to the right; in later editions it unfolds to the left. It contains all five books, originally published between 1906 and 1921, and which are here printed in one volume for the first time complete and unabridged, together with a new introduction by the author. 375 [99245] 168 GENET, Jean. Journal du voleur. [Geneva:] aux dépens d un ami, [1949] Loose quarto quires held in the original card chemise, lithographed chemise titles, half-title, title and dedication page. Housed in the original grey card slipcase. Chemise faintly tanned, tiny closed tear at head of spine, light spotting to lower margins; slipcase a little rubbed at extremities and with one tiny stain. A bright and fresh copy in excellent condition

59 Peter Harrington signed limited edition, large paper issue. The tirage de tête, copy number 1 of 10 copies numbered in roman numerals signed by Genet and printed on Vélin Arches paper, from a complete edition of 410. Laid in is an autograph note written by Genet, slipped inside a rice-paper birthday card with mawkish hand-painted decorations. The inscription is split in two distinctive parts, the first, in a neat hand, reads: Cette carte se mange comme le pain des anges mon âme de la fange, tirée par vous ô Lange qui êtes sans mélange sauf de fleurs et d oranges, votre âme dans ses langes purifierait le Gange. Dans le ciel des mésanges on hurle vos louanges ; the second part, in a much looser hand: Eh bien, ma petite mon ange je suis très simple, très gentil, et je ne vous souhaite en vous embrassant que du bonheur, votre Plantagenet. The signature echoes an interrogation scene in Miracle de la Rose (1946) in which the narrator s name, Genet, is turned into Plantagenet by the interrogator. The limited edition, reserved solely for subscribers, preceded the first trade edition. 15,000 [97283] 169 GENET, Jean. The Balcony (Le Balcon). A Play in Nine Scenes. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Grove Press, 1958 Octavo. Original brown cloth-backed buff boards, titles to spine and front board gilt. A fine copy. signed limited edition and first edition in english. This is copy S out of an edition of 26 lettered copies, specially bound and signed by Genet. First published in French in ,750 [99085] 170 GIBBONS, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm. Or, A Good Woman s Influence. London, New York & Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932 Octavo. Original plain brown wrappers. Spine rolled, wrappers lightly creased with a few slight stains and some loss to foot of spine panel, front wrapper separating slightly at foot of spine, occasional minor spotting to contents; a very good copy. proof copy of Gibbons s classic parodic novel. 2,250 [98079] 171 GIBBONS, Stella. Collected Poems. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1950 Octavo. Original blue-grey boards, fawn cloth backstrip, printed paper label to spine. Just a few small spots to endpapers and edges of text block. A superb copy. first edition, signed by the author on the half title, and with a loosely inserted holograph poem, A Witch s House, The poem is not one of those included in this volume, and we have been unable to locate its original appearance in print [88880] 57

60 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk GOLDING, Louis. Magnolia Street. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Boards lightly spotted; an excellent copy in the jacket with faded spine and edges, and a few chips and nicks to extremities. first edition. An instant success on its publication, the novel describes the problems of conflict and assimilation between immigrant Jews and their English neighbours from 1910 to [91990] 173 GOODCHILD, George. McLean Deduces. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine toned, cloth slightly soiled, extremities a touch rubbed, edges and endpapers lightly tanned. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with a few minor nicks and lightly creased and subbed extremities. first edition. One of the Inspector McLean books by the prolific author George Goodchild. GOODMAN, Paul. The Break-Up of Our Camp and Other Stories. Direction 14. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1949 Small octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Small white spot at head of spine, lower corner bumped, contents toned. An excellent copy in the rubbed and chipped jacket with faded spine panel and creasing to the lower panel. first edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, For Leo Raditsa, Paul Goodman. Raditsa ( ) was a distinguished Harvard academic, an expert in ancient history and also an editor and founder of the Cambridge Review, which published early work by Goodman. 225 [88666] 175 [GOWING, Sidney Floyd.] John Goodwin. Above The Law. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [97406]

61 Peter Harrington Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine and front board lettered in black. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, a little foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the jacket that has some nicks and chips to extremities. first edition of this crime novel. 525 [96748] Spine a little rolled and toned, endleaves lightly foxed. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed and marked jacket with fading to spine panel and a few tiny chips, uncommon in this condition. first edition. 225 [95689] 176 GRAFTON, Sue. A is for Alibi. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982 Octavo. Original grey boards, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket designed by Kathie A. McGinty. Spine gently rolled, an excellent copy in the bright jacket that has some nicks to extremities. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to screenwriter Jessica Niblo: For Jessica same time next series, best wishes. 10/1/14. Grafton and Niblo worked together on the program Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which ran from September 1982 to March This is the author s first novel in the Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mystery series. 975 [95475] 177 GRAHAM, W. S. 2nd Poems. London: Editions Poetry London, 1945 Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket

62 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk GRAVES, Robert. Fairies and Fusiliers. London: William Heinemann, 1917 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Spine slightly faded, tiny nicks to tips, mild partial toning to endpapers, otherwise clean and fresh, a smart copy in excellent condition, with a superb example of the rare dust jacket, a little spine-tanned, some loss at the head and smaller chips and closed tears to corners and edges. first edition, with an autograph letter signed from Graves laid in discussing the book. Graves writes, This was the first book of mine published in the USA. I wrote it during the First World War as an infantry captain, between the ages of 19 and 22. My rank was not due to merit, but to the extraordinarily heavy casualties among officers in trench-fighting. I have kept very few of these poems in my collected work; but one has to make a start somewhere and at least they were not imitative of my elders or contemporaries. The letter is signed and dated 21 November 1956, and folded into an envelope to Fraser Drew, Professor of English at the State University College for Teacher, Buffalo, New York, with a Spanish stamp affixed to it. The book also bears the bookplate of R. N. Green- Armytage, who was doctor to Graves s eldest daughter Jenny in the 1930s. Fairies and Fusiliers, Graves third book, is dedicated to the Royal Welch Fusiliers and contains some of the author s most memorable war poems: there were 1,000 copies printed. 179 GRAVES, Robert. Ten Poems More. Paris: Hours Press, 1930 Tall quarto. Original calf-backed photographic boards, titles to spine gilt. With bookseller s ticket to front pastedown. Spine slightly sunned, spine ends and edges of boards lightly rubbed, a few small scuff marks to covers. An excellent copy. signed limited edition, number 149 of 200 copies signed by the author, set by hand and privately printed on a handpress, with cover art by New Zealand-born artist Len Lye. 575 [90871] 180 GREENE, Graham. The Confidential Agent. London: William Heinemann Limited, 1939 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in red, buff endpapers. With the dust jacket. Contents lightly toned as usual, spine gently rolled but an excellent copy in the somewhat marked and frayed dust jacket with very small loss at the overlapping top edge. In fact a very nice copy indeed of a vulnerable late 1930s thriller. first edition. One of the author s key pre-war mystery novels. Exceptionally scarce in dust jacket. 30,000 [92203] Reilly p. 146; Higginson & Williams A3a. 2,500 [96758] 60

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64 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk GREENE, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. A Novel. London: William Heinemann, 1948 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, publisher s device blindstamped to the rear board, buff endpapers, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Tips a little bumped and rubbed; a lovely copy in the bright, price-clipped jacket that has some nicks to extremities and a short closed tear to head of spine. first edition. 875 [95966] 182 GREENE, Graham. The Quiet American. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1955 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher s device to rear board in blind, top edge blue. With the dust jacket and the original Book Society & Daily Mail Book of the Month wraparound band. Top stain faded, light spotting to endpapers top of page edge, in the dust jacket with a touch of toning to spine and flaps, shallow chip to lower front edge. An excellent copy. first edition in english. The Quiet American was first published in Sweden in the same year, translated from manuscript as Den Stillsamme amerikanen. signed limited edition, number 392 of 500 copies specially printed and bound and signed by Greene. 250 [90974] 184 GREENE, Graham. Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, grey marbled endpapers. Housed in the publisher s black cloth slipcase. An excellent copy with slightly faded spine. first u.s. and signed limited edition. Number 8 of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Originally published in the UK in the same year. 225 [90510] 185 GREENE, Graham. The Tenth Man. London: The Bodley Head and Anthony Blond, 1985 Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Brennan 33; Miller 35a. 575 [98734] 183 GREENE, Graham. May We Borrow Your Husband? And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life. London: The Bodley Head, 1967 Octavo. Original green cloth-backed green illustrated boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge purple. Top edge and spine ends slightly faded. An excellent copy

65 Peter Harrington first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, For Anna & Gunnar with love & many corrections from Graham, and with textual corrections in Greene s hand to 11 pages. The recipients were the Swedish diplomat Gunnar Hägglöf and his wife Countess Anna Folchi- Vici, daughter of Count Carlo Folchi-Vici, of Rome. Greene contributed the foreword to Hägglöf s Diplomat: Memoirs of a Swedish Envoy in London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Washington (1972), concentrating on Hägglöf s efforts keeping Sweden neutral during the Second World War. Presentation copies of Greene s books with substantial authorial corrections are rare. 1,500 [99690] 186 GUARE, John. Six Degrees of Separation. A play. New York: Random House, 1990 Octavo. Original tan cloth-backed burgundy boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the fine jacket. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front panel of the jacket: Dearest Laurence, with appreciation, John Guare and the initials L.S. enclosed in a heart; also on the front free endpaper Dear Laurence, what an honor, treat, joy, pleasure, thrill, knowing you. With love, John Guare ; and signed on the title page by Guare. The play, inspired by the American con artist David Hampton, who posed as the son of Sydney Poitier, explores the idea that everyone is connected by six or fewer steps from any other person in the world. 625 [95964] 187 GULIK, Robert van. The Chinese Bell Murders. London: Michael Joseph, 1958 Octavo. Original dark red boards, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked, spine ends and corners a touch bumped, endpapers lightly tanned. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with slightly bumped spine ends. first edition. 225 [97537] 188 HAMILTON, Ernest. The Four Tragedies of Memworth. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1928 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Boards bowed, edges and endpapers foxed; a good copy in the slightly soiled jacket. first edition. A detective story. With the scarce illustrated jacket by E. McKnight Kauffer, from the brief period before the publishers adopted their signature yellow jackets. The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the title page and front pastedown. 475 [93623]

66 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk HAMMETT, Dashiell. Omnibus. Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to front board and spine in red. With the dust jacket. Cloth at spine lightly faded, rings to front board, light wear to ends of spine in the price clipped dust jacket with shallow chipping to ends of the spine, mild crease to front panel, light wear to extremities. A very good copy. first omnibus edition. 475 [98745] 190 HAMPSON, John. O Providence. London: The Hogarth Press, 1932 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, red top edge. With the dust jacket. Spine very slightly faded, a few faint spots to page edges, in the jacket that has a few chips to extremities, a toned spine, and a few marks to rear panel. A good copy. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: For Dickin Moore, with greetings and good wishes, from John Hampson, March Whilst the precise nature of their relationship remains unclear, Moore and Hampson had a longstanding friendship that deepened over the years, as evidenced by a 1953 lengthy letter from Hampson to Moore loosely inserted into Hampson s sixth and final novel, Bag of Stones. This is the second novel of John Hampson Simpson, published under his pseudonym John Hampson. 191 HARING, Keith, & Brion Gysin. Fault Lines. Munich & New York: Edition Schellmann, 1986 Oblong quarto. Original red cloth, titles to front board and spine and decoration to front board gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With the publisher s black card slipcase. With 52 full-page illustrations in black and white by the authors. A fine copy in a faintly rubbed slipcase. signed limited edition, additionally inscribed by haring to william burroughs and on behalf of Brion Gysin who died just before the sheets were ready for signing: for william with love Keith + Brion 86. Number 11 of 200 copies signed by Haring and with the posthumous stamped signature of Gysin. A fabulous if utterly lewd enterprise in which both artists give full rein to their several homoerotic bugbears. 4,250 [93134] 192 HEINLEIN, Robert. Rocket Ship Galileo. Illustrated by Thomas W. Voter. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1947 Octavo. Original black boards, decoration to front board and titles to spine in blue, yellow endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Very light rubbing to extremities. An extremely bright copy in a bright dust 375 [91550]

67 Peter Harrington jacket, price-clipped and with minor chipping at head and tail of the unfaded spine panel. first edition. A superb example of Heinlein s first novel. 575 [94153] 193 HEINLEIN, Robert. Double Star. London: Michael Joseph, 1958 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in white. With the dust jacket. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. A superb copy in the jacket that has a slightly sunned spine. first u.k. edition. First published in the US in 1956 both serialized in Astounding Science Fiction (Feb. Apr. 1956) and then in hardback later the same year. 275 [94231] HELLER, Joseph. Catch-22. A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white, top edge stained red. With the dust jacket. Housed in a blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Small scuff to one corner at the foot of the spine, contents very lightly toned, an excellent copy in the nicked, tanned and slightly marked dust jacket. first edition, a fine and early presentation copy, with Heller s unusually fulsome inscription to the front free endpaper, To Everett Hoffman With all good wishes from a copywriter at McCall s to a copywriter at Cunningham & Walsh, and with the sincere hope that this book will give you some pleasure. Joe Heller November 24, 1961 New York. The date of this inscription is within six weeks of publication and one the earliest we have handled. Towards the end of the book three passages have are scored in ink in the margin possibly by Heller. 9,750 [96798]

68 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1926 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board in black on gilt paste-down labels. With bookseller s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine cocked, edges and endpapers lightly tanned, small dark stain to top edge and the top margin of three gatherings, text block cracked at three points but firm. A very good copy. first edition of Hemingway s second novel. With the errors down-staris on page 169 and stoppped on page 181. Grissom A.6.1.a. 2,250 [91176] 196 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929 Octavo. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher s device to rear board in blind. With the dust jacket and pink wraparound band. Bookplate of Josiah Newell Bowman to front pastedown. Spine rolled and cracked but holding, spine cloth a little faded, internally fine; an excellent copy in the unclipped jacket with faded spine. first edition, first issue with serious spelled incorrectly on page 66. First published in the US earlier the same year. first edition, with second issue plain endpapers with Jasper Wood s printed note on the rear pastedown. One of 1,000 copies printed. 750 [94459] 198 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, ,250 [96873] 197 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Spanish Earth. With an introduction by Jasper Wood. Illustrations by Frederick K. Russell. Cleveland: The J. B. Savage Company, 1938 Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine and front board in black, decoration to front board in orange. Illustrated with 7 black and white plates. Contemporary Australian bookseller s ticket to front pastedown. A bright copy in excellent condition

69 Peter Harrington first illustrated edition (first published in 1929). With a new introduction by the author and Rasmusson s expressive illustrations. 975 [96846] 198 Octavo. Original flecked buff cloth, spine lettered in black and red, facsimile signature to front board in black, top edge brown. With the dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown. Spine lightly toned, rear hinge cracked but holding, upper tip slightly worn. An excellent copy in the jacket with a few shallow chips to extremities, minor loss to spine ends, and small repair to head of spine. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author: To Lida Rynearson, from her friend and constant guest, Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway stayed with Lida and her husband Dr Edward Rynearson on one of his visits to the Mayo Clinic. Loosely laid-in is an original sketch by Hemingway s close friend, Luis Quintanilla, inscribed: Dear Don Quixote or Alexander Cappon. A good book, a good whisky, to a good friend. Luis Quintanilla, The recipient, Alexander Cappon, served as a model for Quintanilla in 1940, when he was the artist-in-residence at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Quintanilla painted the murals in the Haag Hall at UMKC, with the theme Don Quixote in the Modern World and Cappon, then head of the English department, was his model for Don Quixote. First printing, with the Scribner s A to colophon, and in the first issue jacket without the photographer s credit. 200 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York: Charles Scribners s Sons, 1964 Octavo. Original orange cloth-backed grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, facsimile author s signature to front board gilt, green endpapers, top edge green. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the bright jacket. first edition. 575 [96825] 9,750 [99334] 199 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1948 Octavo. Original grey cloth, printed paper label to spine. With the publisher s slipcase. Frontispiece and illustrations by Daniel Rasmusson. An exceptional copy

70 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Islands in the Stream. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1970 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered gilt, facsimile Hemingway signature to front board gilt, yellow map endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine cracked but holding, internally fresh. A very good copy in the bright jacket. first edition. 375 [97861] 202 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Nick Adams Stories. Preface by Philip Young. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1972 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, orange endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine and edges a little faded; an excellent copy in the bright jacket. first edition, advance review copy, of the first collected volume of the 24 Nick Adams short stories, including eight that were previously unpublished. With the publisher s review slip dated February 1972 (for publication on 17 April), and a leaf bearing the reviewer s copious pencil notes laid-in. 375 [94119] 203 HENRI, Adrian. Tonight at Noon. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968 Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, front board a little bowed, partial toning to free endpapers. An excellent copy in the jacket that is just a little rubbed along the edges. first and signed limited edition of the author s first book. Number 20 of 100 copies signed by the author. 250 [89001] 204 HERZOG, Dorothy. Some Like It Hot. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1930 Octavo. Original yellow boards, spine and front board lettered in black and blocked in red. With the dust jacket. Loosely inserted receipt from Bell Book & Radmall. Front board a little spotted, spine head slightly frayed. An excellent copy in the toned jacket that has chipped spine ends. Uncommon in the jacket. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the Danish-born American actor, Jean Pierre Hersholt ( ): To Jean Hersholt, with kindest regards, Dorothy Herzog. Hollywood, March 15th The date indicates that the book was signed at the book launch party held for Herzog at the Embassy Club. 475 [91904]

71 Peter Harrington HEYGATE, John. Talking Picture. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934 Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine and front board lettered in black. With loosely inserted autograph letter by the author. Spine darkened, cloth slightly soiled, edges lightly foxed. A good copy. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the writer Peter Chamberlain on the front free endpaper: For Pete, who might be a book reviewer, because he is the only man I know who reads books and tells people what he thinks of them. John Heygate, 1939, together with a brief autograph letter from Heygate, sent the previous year to Chamberlain, thanking him for a party, the like of which I didn t know existed. Next time I shall bring a suitcase, so that we can really get down to it! and with Chamberlain s bookplate to the front pastedown. A semi-autobiographical novel, based on the author s experiences in Weimar Berlin. little rubbed, a few tiny nicks to bottom fore edge of boards, faint spotting to edges of text block and occasionally to contents. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed, creased and jacket with a few short closed tears and tiny chips first edition in book form; originally published in magazine form as a supplement to the British Weekly the preceding year. 375 [95639] 750 [94398] 206 HILTON, James. Good-bye Mr. Chips. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, decorative endpapers, title page printed in black and blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. Contemporary bookseller s ticket to front pastedown. Spine lightly faded, extremities a

72 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk HOBAN, Russell. Riddley Walker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980 Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled; an excellent copy in the bright jacket that has a toned spine. 207 first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow author John Baxter. Hoban s brilliant post-apocalyptic dystopia is scarce inscribed. 475 [94342] 208 HOPE, Anthony. The Prisoner of Zenda. Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited, London, [1894] Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. Spine rolled and faded, a few small bumps and spots to cloth, spot to top edge of text block. A very good copy. first edition, second issue with the verso of the title page reset, 18 titles including the present work listed in the publisher s advert at the rear, and bound in the darker cloth with the f on the spine uncrossed. Loosely inserted are an autograph letter and postcard, both dated 1951, from the celebrated bibliographer Michael Sadleir to W. G. Good of New Malden concerning the issue points on this tricky book, together with a carbon copy of Good s initial letter to Sadleir and his extensive final notes. 375 [88999] 209 HUGHES, Ted. The Hawk in the Rain. London: Faber and Faber, 1957 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in yellow. With the dust jacket and Poetry Book Society wraparound band. Mild spotting mainly to endleaves and edges. A very good copy in the dust jacket with a sunned spine and faint foxing to panels. first edition of the Hughes s first book. With the author s article on this work written for the Poetry Book Society Bulletin (September 1957, No. 15) loosely inserted. Sagar & Tabor A [97313] 210 HUGHES, Ted. Lupercal. London: Faber and Faber, 1960 Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. A little minor foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the toned jacket. first edition of the author s second volume of poetry. Sagar & Tabor A [96765] 211 HUGHES, Ted. Orts. London: Rainbow Press, 1978 Square octavo. Publisher s full black calf by Zaehnsdorf, titles gilt to spine, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the black cloth slipcase as issued. Frontispiece drawing by Leonard Baskin. A fine copy. first edition issued only as a signed limited edition. This is number 16 of 200 copies, specially bound and signed by the author. Orts is a Middle English word meaning scraps 70

73 Peter Harrington or leftovers. A typescript of Orts contains the epigraph The lady s leavings are the dog s dainties. Several of the poems contained herewith were left over from Lumb s Remains a preliminary version of the epilogue to Gaudete, published the preceding year. Sagar & Tabor A [98531] 212 HUGHES, Ted. Adam and the Sacred Nine. London: The Rainbow Press, 1978 Octavo, pp. 26. Publisher s blue calf by Gray of Cambridge, titles to spine gilt, patterned endpapers. With the blue cloth slipcase as issued. Frontispiece drawing by Leonard Baskin. Spine sunned, internally fine; an excellent copy. first and signed limited edition, the only issue. Number 141 of 200 copies, specially bound and signed by the author. Sagar & Tabor A [98534] 213 HUGHES, Ted. Moortown. London: Faber and Faber, 1979 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by the author and Leonard Baskin. Contents lightly toned. An exceptionally fresh copy in the jacket. first edition, case-bound issue. One of a run of 2,000 copies. Sagar & Tabor A [89779]

74 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk HUXLEY, Aldous. Mortal Coils. London: Chatto & Windus, 1922 Octavo. Original blue cloth, printed label to spine, top edge blue, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to spine ends and bottom edges of boards, light browning to endpapers. An excellent copy in jacket with toned spine and lightly chipped spine ends and corners. first edition of Huxley s second collection of short stories, the successor to Limbo (1920). Mortal Coils contains The Gioconda Smile, Permutations Among the Nightingales, The Tillotson Banquet, Green Tunnels, and Nuns at Luncheon, some of which had previously been published in various literary magazines. 325 [90809] 215 HUXLEY, Aldous. Brief Candles. London: Chatto & Windus, 1930 Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge red. Bookseller s ticket to rear free endpaper. Spine faded, boards slightly soiled, contents slightly foxed; a very good copy in the slightly soiled jacket that has a toned spine and some nicks to extremities

75 Peter Harrington first edition, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown Le Penseur! Aldous Huxley, 1942 beneath a pasted-in black and white newspaper photo depicting Huxley in a contemplative attitude. The author s fifth collection of short fiction, containing four short stories: Chawdron, The Rest Cure, The Claxtons, and After the Fireworks. 275 [95158] 216 HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine gilt on blue, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Superb condition. signed limited edition. Number 154 of 314 copies specially bound and signed by the author. 5,250 [98600] 217 ISHERWOOD, Christopher. Mr. Norris Changes Trains. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1935 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine black. With the dust jacket designed by John Banting. Pencilled ownership signature to front free endpaper of Roger Senhouse. Spine rolled and slightly faded; an excellent copy in the jacket with lightly toned spine, nicks to extremities and small chips to spine ends. first edition; 1,730 copies printed. The scarce jacket bears a small ink inscription to the front flap, identifying the jacket artist as John Banting. Woolmer ,750 [99351] 218 ISHERWOOD, Christopher. The Last of Mr. Norris. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1935 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine black. With the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled; an excellent copy in the bright, unclipped jacket with some nicks and shallow chips to extremities, short closed tear to fold of flaps, some old tape repairs to head and foot of jacket. first u.s. edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: For Monroe, affectionately Christopher. August The recipient was Monroe Wheeler, a publisher, book designer, and museum director; his bookplate is pasted to the front pastedown, and he has pasted and loosely inserted some contemporary newspaper articles to the rear about Gerald Hamilton, the inspiration for the fictional Mr Norris. Originally published as Mr Norris Changes Trains in the UK earlier the same year (see previous item). 1,750 [99348] 73

76 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk (ISHERWOOD, Christopher.) BRECHT, Bertolt. A Penny for the Poor. Translated from the German by Desmond I. Vesey. Verses translated by Christopher Isherwood. New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc., 1938 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and begging hand motif to front cover and spine in black, top edge stained yellow, untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Jacket with a few nicks and chips to head of spine. A very nice copy. first edition in english of Brecht s Threepenny Novel (1934), itself based on his Threepenny Opera (1926). Walter Benjamin described it as a satirical novel of major calibre (Understanding Brecht, trans. Anna Bostock, 1998, p. 76). 219 JACKSON, Shirley. The Bird s Nest. New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1954 Octavo. Original blue paper boards, red cloth spine, title to spine silver. With the dust jacket. Extremities a little rubbed. An excellent copy in bright jacket. first edition. A novel about a young woman with multiple personalities, employing Jackson s gift for the type of horror that doesn t require ghosts in the attic rattling chains. In 2007 the Shirley Jackson Awards were established with permission of Jackson s estate. They are in recognition of her legacy in writing, and are awarded for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. 200 [95844] 750 [97968] 220 ISHERWOOD, Christopher. Prater Violet. A Novel. New York: Random House, 1945 Octavo. Original blue-grey cloth, titles to spine and front board in violet and cream, violet top-stain. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the jacket with only a tiny bump to the spine panel. first edition. 225 [88578]

77 Peter Harrington JACKSON, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House. New York: The Viking Press, 1959 Octavo. Original yellow and blue cloth boards, titles to spine black. With the dust jacket. A bright copy in the lightly spine faded dust jacket with a touch of wear at ends of spine. A very good copy. first edition. Considered one of the best literary ghost stories of the 20th century. Jackson s novel relies on terror rather than horror to elicit emotion by the reader, utilising complex relationships between the mysterious events in the house and the characters psyches. Finalist for the National Book award and basis for two films, both under the title, The Haunting. 1,200 [98724] 223 JOHNS, W. E. To Outer Space. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1957 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in black, astronaut and celestial objects blocked in black to front board. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 5 plates. Ownership signature to front pastedown. Spine rolled, some fading to board edges, edges mildly foxed. A very good copy in the jacket that has some nicks to extremities. first edition. The fourth book in the author s science fiction series, featuring the interplanetary adventures of Captain Timothy Tiger Clinton, his son Rex, scientist Professor Lucius Brane, and Brane s ingenious butler Judkins. first trade edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page: For William, with respect & affection, Bryan 24/6/71. and with his signature over his printed name. The recipient was the publisher and literary agent William Miller ( ) who published Johnson s work at Panther and Quartet Books. 275 [88769] [94620] 224 JOHNSON, B. S. House Mother Normal. A geriatric comedy. London: Collins, 1971 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the original dust jacket. Very faint discolouration to board edges and spine, bottom corners of boards and tail of spine a little bumped, spotting to top and fore edges, light tanning to 2 pages from loosely inserted newspaper clipping. An excellent copy in the slightly shelf-worn jacket

78 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk JOYCE, James. Chamber Music. London: Elkin Mathews, [1907] Small octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. Pictorial title page. Spine toned, tips rubbed, slight stains to boards, occasional very minor foxing. An excellent copy. first edition, second variant binding, with thick wove endpapers and the poems in signature C poorly centred on the page. It is now thought that very few copies of the first edition were actually gathered and bound in 1907 perhaps only fifty or a hundred. Once Joyce had become famous in the 1920s, Elkin Mathews seem to have rediscovered the remainder and bound them up in a slightly darker green cloth. Slocum & Cahoon A3. 2,750 [96932] 226 Sextodecimo. Original green boards, covers lettered in green. Boards a little toned; an excellent copy. The delicate backstrip is intact and entirely unchipped. first edition, with the errata slip. Slocum & Cahoon A [97139] 228 JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. Cambridge: The Orthological Institute, 1929 Original vinyl 12-inch LP record in original buff sleeve. Record s sleeve s fore edge a little brittle and with brown packing tape repairs to 3 sides, the record itself has an excellent playing surface. first pressing of the recording of James Joyce reading a passage from the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of his draft of Finnegans Wake. While staying in London in summer 1929 Joyce was approached by linguist Charles Kay Odgen to do a reading JOYCE, James. Verbannte [Exiles]. Zurich: Rascher & Cie., 1919 Octavo. Original green wrappers printed in blue. With the pink errata slip tipped-in at the title page. Spine and edges of wrappers faded, short closed tear to the lower wrapper and a few short splits, margins of contents tanned. A very good copy. first edition in german. Exiles was the first of any of Joyce s works to be translated, published in Switzerland at Joyce s own expense in an edition of 600 copies. Slocum & Cahoon D [88559] 227 JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare and Company,

79 Peter Harrington as part of Odgen s Basic English project. The recording took place at Odgen s Orthological Society in Cambridge later in that year. Sylvia Beach wrote: How beautiful the Anna Livia recording is, and how amusing Joyce s rendering of an Irish washerwoman s brogue! This is a treasure we owe to C. K. Ogden and Basic English. Joyce, with his famous memory, must have known Anna Livia by heart. Nevertheless, he faltered at one place and, as in the Ulysses recording, they had to begin again. This record is from the first pressing, which was made for Odgen and the Orthological Society. Three further pressings were subsequently released by His Master s Voice; Argus Book Shop, Chicago; and Gotham Book Mart, New York. Slocum & Cahoon p ,500 [91702] volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, leaves uncut. With the dust jackets and gold slipcases. Some mild foxing to edges and endpapers, internally fresh; an excellent set in the jackets that have some nicks to extremities. second edition in german, first published thus in The text was revised, Joyce having complained of omissions in the first edition text. Joyce first met the German translator Goyert, who had been chosen in a competition, for a few days in August 1926 while on holiday in Ostend. The first edition was published in October 1927 and sold out within three weeks. The publishers restricted subscriptions to people over 25 years of age with a serious interest in literature. The second edition of 3,000 copies was published in 1930, subject to the same subscription rules as the first. Slocum & Cahoon D [96028] 229 JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. Fragment of Work In Progress. London: Faber & Faber, 1930 Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. With loosely inserted sheet advertising Joyce s gramaphone recording of the last four pages. Bookseller s ticket to rear pasteboard. Contents slightly toned; an excellent copy. first u.k. edition, preceded by the US edition (1928). An early published chapter from Joyce s famous work in progress that would eventually become Finnegans Wake. Slocum & Cahoon A [91397] 230 JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Vom Verfasser geprüfte definitive deutsche Ausgabe von Georg Goyert. Zurich: Imrhein- Verlag, [1930]

80 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936 Crown octavo. Original green buckram with the Homeric bow device designed by Eric Gill to the front board gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. With the dust jacket. Head and tail of spine and top edges of boards a touch faded, small bump to bottom edge of rear board. An excellent copy in a chipped, rubbed and tanned jacket. first u.k. edition. Number 795 of 900 copies on japon vellum and bound in buckram, from the edition of 1,000 copies in total. The Bodley Head Ulysses is one of the triumphs of 20th century book production. It established the text for the succeeding 25 years and printed as appendices the International Letter of Protest against Samuel Roth s piracy and the famous legal judgement by John M. Woolsey lifting the ban in America on the publishing of the book. Slocum & Cahoon A JOYCE, James. Stephen Hero. Part of the first draft of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Edited with an introduction by Theodore Spencer. London: Jonathan Cape, 1944 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Bookseller s ticket to front pastedown. Some minor foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the slightly toned jacket that has some nicks to extremities. first edition. Published 24 July 1944 in an edition of 2,000 copies. The manuscript was supposedly rescued from the fire into which, after repeated rejections, Joyce had thrown it and published posthumously. Slocum & Cahoon A [95627] 3,250 [91608] 232 JOYCE, James. Storiella as she is Syung. A section of work in progress. [London:] Corvinus Press, 1937 Quarto. Original orange vellum boards with bevelled fore edges, titles to spine and front board gilt, bird design to rear board gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, printed in black and red in 18-pt. Centaur type and printed on Arnold handmade paper. Rear board a little cockled and text block slightly rippled as usual, occasional light spotting. An excellent copy. first edition, number 61 of 150 regular copies (there were also 16 copies signed by Joyce). With an illuminated first capital letter delicately hand-painted by Lucia Joyce, the author s daughter. Slocum & Cahoon A46. 2,500 [94470]

81 Peter Harrington JOYCE, James. Stephen Hero. New York: New Directions, 1944 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece by Augustus John and four photographic plates. Small ownership signature to front free endpaper, occasional small marginal annotation in pencil. Extremities lightly faded, contents a little toned. An excellent copy in the somewhat rubbed dust jacket. first u.s. edition, one of 3,000 copies, published 16 November. The American edition, though published a little later, was claimed by the editor Theodore Spencer to be the more accurate, as proofs could not be sent across the Atlantic during wartime and he noticed a few minor inaccuracies in the English text as a result. Slocum & Cahoon A [90185] 235 (JOYCE, James.) HUXLEY, Aldous, & Stuart Gilbert. Joyce the Artificer. Two Studies of Joyce s method; with five Collotype reproductions from the Proofs of Ulysses and Tales of Shem and Shaun, together with a letter and notes thereon by J. Schwartz. [London:] Issued for private circulation, printed by the Chiswick Press, 1952 Quarto. Original light green paper wrappers printed in black, single quire of 10 leaves bound with thread. With 5 full-page collotype facsimiles of Joyce s corrected proofs and an autograph letter to the printer of a section of Work in Progress. Small pencil correction to p. [8] ( conscience instead of conscious ) Edges of wrappers faintly faded, tiny closed tear to fore edge of front wrapper. An excellent copy. limited edition, number 87 of 90 copies. James Joyce was a man of afterthoughts. His inspirations, as we can see from these much-corrected proofs of Ulysses, were successive. The first was a key, as it were, to a second, and the second to a third. His discovery of what he wished to say was like the conquest of Mexico. It began with the islands, touched the mainland, climbed to an astounding vision of pyramids and feathered warriors, and ended in the triumphant capture of Tenochtitlan. Shakespeare would have landed on the roof of Montezuma s palace by helicopter. Joyce had to take the longer, harder road. However, he got there in the end. And that, after all, is the only thing that matters (Aldous Huxley). 975 [92432] 236 JOYCE, James. Works in Progress. Anna Livia Plurabelle; The Muddest Thick that was Ever Heard Dump; Haveth Childers Everywhere; The Ondt and the Gracehoper; Storiella as She is Syung; The Mooske and the Gripes; The Mime of Mick Nick and the Maggies. Conception: Owen Griffith and Michael Sauer. Edinburgh: Split Pea Press, volumes, octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. Housed together in the publisher s grey card slipcase. Contents unopened. A little creasing of the corners and spine ends. An excellent, fresh set. first editions thus, one of 500 sets. This fine press publication reprints each part of Finnegans Wake that was published as a separate portion of the Work in Progress during the novel s nearly two-decade gestation. 300 [88920]

82 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk (JOYCE, James, Sylvia Beach, and Shakespeare & Co.) James Joyce and Shakespeare & Co. ephemera collection. Paris: Shakespeare & Co.,/Adrienne Monnier,/J.-O. Fourcade, small pamphlets. All preserved in excellent condition. This small collection includes three pamphlets (one 10-page, two 4-page) from 1929 advertising the first French translation of Joyce s Ulysses (published 1929 by Maison des Amis des Livres, translated by Auguste Morel and assisted by Stuart- Gilbert, reviewed by Valery Larbaud with the collaboration of Joyce himself ), one of which bears a striking amateur photograph of Joyce. Also included is an 8-page pamphlet (published 1937) noting the proceedings of Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company in the year 1936, with a 2-page piece by Jean Schlumberger, and the following minutes (including a list of Les Amis) written by Adrienne Monnier. A Catalogue of a Collection Containing Manuscript & Rare Editions of James Joyce, a Few Manuscript of Walt Whitman, and two Drawings by William Blake is also included (16-pages, undated but post- 1927), these all belonging to Sylvia Beach and offered for sale at Shakespeare and Company, representing the first major sale of Joyce material. The catalogue is illustrated with four black and white reproductions, one of a corrected Joyce proof, one Whitman manuscript, and two (superb) Blake drawings. The final piece is a 12-page catalogue for Sylvia Beach s Walt Whitman exhibition, held at Shakespeare and Company 20 April 20 June 1926, which includes, laid in, an invitation card from Beach to the private Opening of the exhibition on 19th April. 3,500 [94386] 238 KAFKA, Franz. Das Schloss [The Castle]. Roman. Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1926 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to front board and spine red on a pale blue ground, top edge stained blue. With the dust jacket. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Spine and top edges of the boards rather faded as usual but an exceptionally nice copy in the tanned and lightly marked dust jacket with very minor loss at the ends of the spine panel. first edition, cloth-bound issue. Wolff offered this title in the present binding and the more frequently encountered stiff paper boards. Copies of either issue in dust jacket are very uncommon. 15,000 [96815] 239 KAFKA, Franz. The Trial. Translated by Edwin and Willa Muir. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue. With the dust jacket. Cloth darkened at edges, endpapers and edges foxed; a very good copy in the soiled jacket with toned spine and faded front panel. 80

83 Peter Harrington first edition in english; first published in German in 1925 as Der Process. The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket, the front pastedown and the title page. The Muirs were instrumental in the publication of Kafka in English, and it was at their suggestion the Martin Secker undertook The Castle in Secker went bankrupt in 1936 and it was Victor Gollancz who issued the Muirs version of the text that introduced the kafkaesque to the anglophone world. It is their (perhaps questionable) rendering of the opening line, Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K that is widely considered one of the greatest first lines in world literature. An uncommon book, perhaps as few as 1,000 copies having been sold. 239 KENNEDY, Milward. Corpse on the Mat. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Contents foxed; an excellent copy in the jacket with sunned spine and edges. first edition. An early Kennedy detective novel, published later the same year in the US under the title The Man Who Rang the Bell. The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket and the front pastedown. 875 [93641] 7,500 [93630] 240 KENNEDY, Milward. Corpse Guards Parade. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Some minor foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the jacket that has sunned spine and edges, and a few nicks to extremities. first edition. One of Kennedy s earlier books a lighthearted detective story. From the publisher s archive. 750 [93640]

84 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk KENNEDY, Milward. Bull s Eye. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Boards a little spotted, minor foxing to endpapers and edges; an excellent copy in the jacket with sunned spine, a short closed tear to foot of spine, chipped rear flap separated from rear panel. first edition. Kennedy s first book to feature the private detective Sir George Bull. The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the half-title. 475 [93634] 243 KENNEDY, Milward. Corpse in Cold Storage. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the bright jacket with sunned spine and edges, and a few nicks to extremities. first edition. A detective novel, featuring a pair of villainous detectives Sir George Bull and his wife Mary. From the publisher s archive. 875 [93654] 244 KENNEDY, Milward. Sic Transit Gloria. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the bright jacket with sunned spine and edges. first edition. A detective story: James Southern investigates the apparent suicide of Gloria Day. Published later the same year in the US under the title The Scornful Corpse. The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the title page. 750 [93658] KEROUAC, John [Jack]. The Town & The City. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a green cloth box. Minor repair to the rear hinge, spine a little dull. Very good in dust jacket supplied from another copy. 82

85 Peter Harrington first edition, a fine contemporary presentation copy with the author s signed inscription to the half title leaf, To Arni and the Missus with best wishes From Jack Kerouac. The recipient was the photographer who took the portrait of Kerouac for the jacket of this edition (though Kerouac later complained that Arni made him look like a fag ). Signed copies of this title are not as infrequently seen as other of Kerouac s works, as he did some signing sessions for it. However, those copies are almost always signed as John, not Jack, in keeping with his name as given in the book. Early personal presentation inscriptions signed as Jack are rare. Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Small inscription to rear pastedown. One corner turned. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed price-clipped jacket with a few minor nicks but overall bright. first u.k. edition. Kerouac s collection of short stories, which include Mexico Fellaheen and The Railroad Earth, was originally published in the US in [94194] 7,500 [95474] 246 KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. New York: The Viking Press, 1957 Octavo. Original black boards, spine and front board lettered in white, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, internally fine; an excellent copy in the jacket with toned spine and some nicks to extremities. first edition. 3,750 [96675] 247 KEROUAC, Jack. Lonesome Traveller. London: Andre Deutsch,

86 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk KESEY, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest. A Novel. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1962 Octavo. Original maroon cloth, spine with lettering in silver and small pictorial design in light blue. With the dust jacket. Spine ends slightly bumped, edges uniformly toned. An excellent copy in a jacket with lightly tanned spine, mildly rubbed extremities, and the price crossed out with black marker. first u.k. edition. Originally published in the US in the same year. Unlike many copies of this edition the copyright slug on the verso of the title has not been inked-out; pages 35/36 and 85/86 are cancels as usual. Octavo. Original black cloth backed brown boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the dust jacket with just a trace of fading at the spine. Uncommon thus. 500 [94439] 249 KESSEL, J. The Pure in Heart. Translated from the French. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1928 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Edges and endpapers foxed, minor foxing to contents; an excellent copy in the soiled jacket that has a few nicks to extremities. first edition in english. A collection of stories translated from the French, comprising the novel L Equipage, first published in Paris in 1923 (here titled Pilot and Observer ), and three stories first published in Paris in 1927, under the title Les Coeurs purs. With the scarce illustrated jacket by E. McKnight Kauffer, from the brief period before the publishers adopted their signature yellow jackets. The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the title page. 1,250 [93646] 250 KING, Stephen. The Shining. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., first edition, inscribed copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, For Lydia All best, Stephen King 9/9/79. One of King s best titles, memorably filmed by Stanley Kubrick. 1,750 [95881] 251 [KING, Stephen.] BACHMAN, Richard. The Running Man. New York: Signet, 1982 Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Very slight rubbing to extremities; an excellent copy. first edition of King s memorable dystopian novel, published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. 250 [97065] 84

87 Peter Harrington KNIGHT, L. A. Redbeard. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, [1935] Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher s device to rear board in blind. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, boards gently bowed, edges mildly foxed. A very good copy in the bright jacket. first edition of this murder mystery. 425 [96752] 253 KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Being There. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc Octavo. Spine lettered in metallic blue and black. With the dust jacket. Fore edge spotted, in the price-clipped jacket that has slight markings across panels and flaps. A very good copy. first edition, inscribed by the author on the first blank, With every best wish, cordially, Jerzy Kosinski. Dello, November with a sketch of a television set. Memorably filmed with Peter Sellers as lead. 255 KUMMER, Frederic Arnold. Forbidden Wine. New York: Sears Publishing Company, Inc., 1931 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With the dust jacket. Minor crease to spine, partial tanning to free endpapers, contents toned. An excellent copy in the price-clipped and rubbed jacket with some nicks and short closed tears. first edition in the stylish dust jacket. A novel depicting a tragic love affair between the Persian astronomer poet Omar Khayyam and a princess. 295 [88861] [91281] 254 KOSTOLANYI, Desider. Nero. Translated from the German by Clifton P. Fadiman. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1928 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Edges foxed, occasional foxing to contents, glue remnants to lower corner of front free endpaper; an excellent copy in the slightly soiled jacket that has a few nicks to extremities. first u.k. edition of this historical novel, originally published in Hungarian in 1923, then in German in 1926, and first in English in the US in With the scarce illustrated jacket by E. McKnight Kauffer, from the brief period before the publishers adopted their signature yellow jackets. The publisher s retained copy with their stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket. 875 [93660]

88 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington london mayfair Peter Harrington 43 Dover Street London w1s 4nu chelsea Peter Harrington 100 Fulham Road London sw3 6hs 86