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PART ONE A-K Peter Harrington London Peter Harrington london MODERN LITERATURE PART ONE A-K Peter Harrington london Modern Literature Part One: A–K Catalogue 91 Full descriptions and additional images of all items are available on our website Orders to: Peter Harrington 100 Fulham Road London 1. 2. sw3 6hs ACKERLEY, J. R. The Prisoners of War. ACRE, Stephen. The Yellow Overcoat. United Kingdom A Play in Three Acts. London: Chatto and New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942 Tel + 44 (0)20 7591 0220 Windus, 1925 [email protected] Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine and roundel to upper board in black. With the dust www.peterharrington.co.uk Octavo. Original orange cloth, printed paper label to spine. With the supplied dust jacket. Some mi- jacket. Edge of upper board knocked, edges a little nor spotting to fore edge, terminal leaves lightly rubbed and dulled. A very good copy in the rubbed The items in this catalogue are offered for sale. The browned, spine faded title label tanned and rubbed jacket with a few small nicks and chips and a pen- condition is guaranteed as described. Items ordered but a very nice copy in the dust jacket with a couple cil mark to the lower panel. without prior inspection are understood to be sent on of tears and a small chip to the lower panel. first edition. approval and may be returned for any reason within first edition, hardback issue, pres- £850 [80458] 10 days of receipt. Postage and insurance are extra. entation copy, with the author’s signed We accept all major credit cards, as well as direct pay- inscription to the front free endpaper, “For ment. Deferred billing may be arranged for institu- my dear George ‘Conrad’, with my admira- 3. tion & gratitude. Joe. Aug. 20 1925”. George tions on request. Prices are given in UK pounds ster- ACTON, Harold. Five Saints and an Ap- ling; payment in other currencies may be arranged at Hayes (1888–1967), then a noted young Shakespearean actor, took the leading part pendix. London: Robert Holden & Co., Ltd., the prevailing rate of exchange. of Ackerley’s alter ego, Captain Conrad, in 1927 the first production on 5 July 1925, a Sunday Octavo. Original quarter blue cloth, marbled VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 night performance at the Royal Court Thea- boards, printed paper label to spine. With the tre under the aegis of Phyllis Whitworth’s dust jacket. Lightly rubbed at extremities, cor- Three Hundred Club. Others in the cast in- ners bumped, slight damp-stain to rear free A note on edition statements: cluded the actors Raymond Massey and Car- endpaper. An excellent copy in the price-clipped, leton Hobbs, and the designer James Whale, rubbed, and chipped jacket with closed tears to Unless otherwise qualified, the term “first edition” is the folds of the jacket and a little damp-stain to future director of The Bride of Frankenstein, used by us to indicate the first impression (first print- the lower panels. ing) of the first edition. Later impressions are noted while the audience included Hugh Walpole, T. E. Lawrence, John Lehmann and Siegfried first edition, presentation copy in- as such. Sassoon. Presenting the play under club scribed by the author on the front free end- conditions was a well-established way of paper, “For Edward when he’s in a poetic © Peter Harrington, June 2013 evading the need for the Lord Chamberlain’s mood; these juvenilia from his old friend Part Two will be issued in September 2013 licence, and necessary for Ackerley’s daring Harold”. The recipient, Edward Chaney, was work, the first 20th-century play produced Acton’s close friend, literary executor, and upon the London or Broadway stage to deal biographer. Front cover illustration from Thea von Harbou’s Metropolis, item 355. with homosexual desire. This page illustration taken from Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, item 13. £625 [80368] Back cover printer’s proof of Richard Chopping’s signed dust jacket £1,875 [61804] for Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger, item 279. Peter Harrington Catalogue 91 4. 6. 8. first edition, signed copy, signed by the 12. 14. author on the front free endpaper. ADAMS, Douglas. The Hitch Hiker’s A.E. Song and Its Fountains. London: AMBLER, Eric. The Night-Comers. Lon- ARDIZZONE, Edward, & Maurice Gor- ATWOOD, Margaret. The Edible Wom- Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1932 don, Melbourne, Toronto: William Heinemann £525 [67993] ham. The Local. London: Cassell & Co., an. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, the End of the Universe; Life the Uni- Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to upper board Ltd, 1956 Ltd., 1939 1969 verse and Everything; So Long and and spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Mild brown- Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles gilt to spine. 10. Octavo. Original grey boards printed in red and Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine Thanks for all the Fish; Mostly Harm- ing to two pages but an excellent copy in the rather With the dust jacket. Corners nicked. An excellent ANDERSON, Frederick Irving. The black. With the acetate dust jacket with paper gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the less. London: Arthur Barker–William Heine- tanned dust jacket. bright copy in the slightly corner-rubbed jacket flaps. Housed in a black flat back cloth solander jacket that is very slightly faded along the spine Notorious Sophie Lang. London: William mann–Pan Books. 1979–92 first edition, presentation copy, with that is usually found creased or chipped. box. Lithographs in colour by Ardizzone. Gift in- panel and lightly rubbed at the extremities. Heinemann Ltd., 1925 scription to verso of the front free endpaper. An Octavo, 5 volumes. Original boards, titles to spines the author’s fine inscription and original first uk edition, inscribed copy, of the exceptional copy in the little torn and creased ac- first edition, signed copy, signed by the in silver or gilt. With the dust jacket. A lovely set in pastel drawing to the front free endpaper, book published as State of Siege in the US. This Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. Mild etate dust jacket with some minor separation at author on the title page. dust jackets that are at least very good to near fine. “To my dear Osborn Bergin who will forgive copy is inscribed by the author on the front even browning to endpapers, spine very slightly the flaps. The first book is price clipped, the second book many things to the poet which he would con- free endpaper, “Douglas Glass, with best faded but a really smart copy. £850 [73755] first edition, sole impression. The has an owner’s name to front free endpaper. demn in the scholar. From his friend A.E.” wishes, Eric Ambler”. Ambler (1909–1998) first edition. The first of the author’s book’s notable scarcity is attributed to the Beneath this inscription is a full page colour wrote over a dozen well regarded spy/thriller three novels, filmed in 1936. Sophie Lang was 15. first hardback editions of all five books bomb damage inflicted on the publishers’ pastel drawing signed by A.E. depicting a novels including A Mask for Dimitrios (1939), a jewel thief. Not published in America. in the Hitch Hiker’s Guide trilogy. premises during the Blitz. woman reading. Osborn Bergin was a life- Journey Into Fear (1940) and The Light of Day AUDEN, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and £1,750 [41307] time friend of George Russell (A.E.), and one (aka “Topkapi” ; 1962). His protagonists tend £750 [29967] £1,750 [73140] Other Essays. New York: Random House, of Ireland’s most respected Irish language to be amateurs caught in the machinations 1962 and literature scholars, reaching the position of evil agencies, and The Night-Comers, con- 5. 11. 13. Octavo. Original turquoise cloth, titles to spine gilt of Director of the School of Irish Studies at sidered one of the best of his 1950s novels, on black ground, top edge black. With the dust ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. University College Dublin, as well as being is a classic example: a British engineer is un- ANSON, August. When Woman Reigns. ASIMOV, Isaac. I, Robot. New York: jacket. An excellent copy in the rubbed, dulled, London: Rex Collings, 1972 an active member of the Gaelic League. wittingly and unwillingly trapped in a South Oxford: Pen-in-Hand Publishing Co. Ltd., Gnome Press, Inc., 1950 and nicked jacket with tanned spine panel and sev- East Asian country filled with tense and [1938] eral closed tears. Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and £1,250 [41577] deadly conspiracy. This copy also belonged Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and ro- rabbit design to upper board gilt. With the dust Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and up- first edition, with corrections in to fellow thriller author Dennis Wheatley, bot design to upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Lightly rubbed at extremities, head of spine 7. per board in black. With the dust jacket. Cloth jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket that is the author’s hand to 19 pages scattered a little faded, small bump to lower board and rear and bears his illustrated bookplate. unevenly faded, spotting to edges, endpapers, and AICKMAN, Robert. The Late Breakfast- lightly rubbed and creased along the edges, with a throughout the book, likely in preparation flap of jacket. A lovely copy in the jacket with very title pages. A very good copy in the rubbed and small nick to the faded spine panel. for the English edition that appeared the fol- ers.
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