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december 2018 All items arePeter fully described Harrington and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 1 london We are exhibiting at these fairs: Christmas 2018 opening hours: 1–2 February 2019 Dover Street pasadena Rare Books LA Mon 26 Nov – Sat 22 Dec Pasadena Convention Center Mon–Fri: 10am–7pm 300 East Green Street Sat: 10am–6pm Pasadena, CA 91101 Sun: closed rarebooksla.com Sun 23 Dec – Tue 1 Jan 2019: closed 8–10 February oakland Fulham Road 52nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair Oakland Marriott City Center Mon 26 Nov – Sat 22 Dec Oakland, CA 94607 Mon–Thu: 10am–7pm Fri & Sat: 10am–6pm www.cabookfair.com Sun: closed 7–10 March Sun 23 Dec – Wed 26 Dec: closed new york Thu 27 Dec – Sat 29 Dec: 10am–6pm Park Avenue Armory Sun 30 Dec – Tue 1 Jan 2019: closed 643 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065 Wed 2 Jan 2019: Normal business www.nyantiquarianbookfair.com hours resume Front cover image adapted from Karl Blossfeldt’s Art Forms in Nature, item 14. VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 Illustration opposite from Blast, item 116. Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, Design: Nigel Bents; Photography: Ruth Segarra. 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7JY. Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 Peter Harrington london catalogue 149 december 2018 All items from this catalogue are on display at Dover Street mayfair chelsea Peter Harrington Peter Harrington 43 dover street 100 FulHam road london w1s 4FF london sw3 6Hs uk 020 3763 3220 uk 020 7591 0220 eu 00 44 20 3763 3220 eu 00 44 20 7591 0220 usa 011 44 20 3763 3220 www.peterharrington.co.uk usa 011 44 20 7591 0220 2 3 a near-fine copy in the jacket with touch of creasing to first edition. The text, edited by Simon Cock, head of spine, tiny nick to head of front panel. secretary to the committee of the Company of first edition, first impression, with the au- Merchants Trading to Africa, purports to be the thor’s clipped signature tipped onto the front free account of an American sailor taken captive on endpaper. This extremely popular animal story the Barbary Coast and taken to Timbuktu. Cock 1 was initially turned down by all major publish- found Adams, born in New York state to a white ing houses. When it was finally published, sales father and African American mother, begging on 1 exceeded 100,000 in the first year and Adams was the streets of London; he claimed to have returned awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guard- from years of slavery in Africa and to have spent ACHEBE, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New ian Award for children’s fiction. time in the quasi-mythical city of Timbuktu. Cock York: Astor-Honor, 1959 £2,000 [130263] was eventually convinced of the veracity of his tale Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Lightly rubbed, and arranged for its publication. sticker residue to front cover, else a very good copy. 3 Since first publication, the book has been subject first u.s. edition, wrappers issue. in- to heated debate. Although most people accept scribed on the front free endpaper to the New ADAMS, Robert. The Narrative of A Sailor, Adams’s tale of captivity, many have alleged that York author and bookseller Burt Britton (1933– who was wrecked on the western coast of his description of Timbuktu is a fabrication. A 2018): “Warmest regards to Burt Britton Chinua Africa, in the year 1810, was detained three recent critical edition of the book claims that it is Achebe”. Achebe’s first book, a foundation text years in slavery by the Arabs of the Great De- “wrong in nearly every detail” and that he “almost of African post-colonial literature, was originally sert, and resided several months in the city certainly” never went to the famous city (Adams, published in the UK the previous year. of Tombuctoo. With a map, notes, and an ap- p. xx). There is also a suggestion that Cock, a for- £1,250 [129691] pendix. London: John Murray, 1816 mer agent for slave traders, was using this book to revive his own reputation and that of his African Quarto (266 × 209 mm). Contemporary full calf, marbled Company. 2 edges, plain endpapers. Bookseller’s ticket of Martin The Narrative was the inspiration for Anglo-Afghan ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. London: Keene, Dublin and contemporary bookplate of Charles Arthur Tisdall to the front pastedown. Folding map fron- author Tahir Shah’s novel Timbuctoo (2012). Rex Collings, 1972 tispiece. Spine slightly toned, bumps and rubbing to ex- Howgego, R24; Huntress, 182C. Charles Hansford Ad- Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and rabbit tremities, partially split at top of front board, small close ams (ed.), The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Barbary Captive: design to front board in gilt. With the dust jacket. Col- tear at map stub, slight foxing to map and endpapers and A Critical Edition, 2005. our folding map. Minor rubbing to spine ends and tips; light browning to text block. A very good copy. £1,750 [128965] 2 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 4, 5, 6 4 plates in all, 43 black and white plates, 5 maps, 4 of them 6 folding. Spare labels tipped-in. Spines lightly rolled with (ANTARCTIC.) BULL, H. J. The Cruise of the discreet repair, light discolouration to boards, minor (ANTARCTIC.) WILD, Frank. Shackleton’s ‘Antarctic’ to the South Polar Regions. Lon- wear around extremities, repair to one map. A very good Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest From the don: Edward Arnold, 1896 copy. Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. Octavo. Original blue morocco-grain cloth, titles to first edition, in cherry-garrard’s pre- A. H. Macklin. London: Cassell and Company, spine and front board in silver, decoration to front board ferred “polar” binding of cloth-backed Ltd, 1923 in silver and black, edges untrimmed, charcoal blue boards. “Cherry-Garrard seems an unlikely hero Large octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in coated endpapers, 2 leaves of publisher’s adverts at rear. of Antarctic exploration, but he has achieved that gilt, front board with titles in black and pictorial block Black and white frontispiece (with tissue guard) and 11 status largely through this book . a young but of the Quest to the front board in black, white and gilt, plates. Spine a little chipped at head and tail, boards wealthy patrician, near-sighted and frail, he paid all within concentric frames in black and white, picto- rubbed at corners, title page a little toned and foxed, tis- rial endpapers. Coloured frontispiece, 50 halftone plates sue guard toned and creased, slight finger-marking to his way onto the crew as an assistant zoologist, from photographs, sketch maps to the text. Spine gen- fore-margin of prelims. A very good copy. but performed splendidly in many harrowing situ- ations” (Books on Ice). The “worst journey” referred tly rolled, minor rubbing to extremities, top edge dust first edition, first impression, preceding toned, light foxing to edges, very occasionally to con- to in the title is not “Scott’s ill-fated rendezvous the Norwegian edition. Henrik Johan Bull’s Ant- tents, endpapers a little dirty, a very good, fresh, copy. with death,” but the earlier Ross Island Winter arctic expedition was the first to reach the Antarc- Journey, from Cape Evans to the penguin colony first edition. Wild had been with Scott on the tic continent. at Cape Crozier, with Edward Wilson and Henry Discovery, was with Mawson in 1911–14, “and was Conrad p. 81; Mackenzie 14; Spence 210. “Birdie” Bowers. Both of his companions on this a close friend of Shackleton on both the Nimrod £1,250 [128895] trip were to die on the Southern Journey with expedition of 1907–9 and second-in-command Scott, Cherry-Garrard being with the last group on the Transantarctic Expedition of 1917 . Wild joined Shackleton on his final voyage to the Ant- 5 sent back before the final assault on the South Pole. He was also sent to rendezvous with the re- arctic in 1921–23 but the explorer’s death sapped (ANTARCTIC.) CHERRY-GARRARD, Aps- turning party of Scott and his four companions, Wild’s desire to continue” (Howgego). His ac- ley. The Worst Journey in the World: Antarc- and was the discoverer of the tent and their frozen count is a “handsome publication . [including] tic 1910–1913. London: Constable and Company bodies. The book is “widely regarded as the mas- the last photographs of Shackleton to be taken” Limited, 1922 terpiece of polar exploration”. (Taurus). 2 volumes, octavo. Original linen-backed pale blue Books on Ice 61.12; Howgego, IV, S14; Renard, 305; Rosove Howgego III S25; Rosove 349.A1; Taurus 112. boards, printed paper labels to spines, blue endpapers. 71.A2; Spence 277. £1,250 [129554] Colour frontispieces with tissue guards, 4 other coloured £2,250 [129729] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3 7 8 7 8 (ARABIAN NIGHTS.) LANE, Edward Wil- AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. With a liam (trans.) The Thousand and One Nights, Preface by George Saintsbury and illustrations 9 commonly called, in England, The Arabian by Hugh Thomson. London: George Allen, 1894 Nights’ Entertainments. A new translation Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board 9 from the Arabic, with copious notes. London: elaborately gilt-blocked with peacock design, green BAGEHOT, Walter. Lombard Street: A De- Charles Knight and Co, 1841–40–41 coated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece with tissue guard and illustrations by Hugh scription of the Money Market.