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KaY CraDDoCK – aNtIQuarIaN booKSeller Catalogue 228—November, 2013 lITERATURE Established 1965 1. Adichie (Chimamanda Ngozi) PURPLE HIBISCUS. Pp. [viii]+310(last blank); dust wrapper; text block slightly browned, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Fourth Estate, 2004. First U.K. edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Adichie’s first novel, set in Nigeria, her country of birth. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The novel was also short listed ADDRESS for the Orange Prize and long listed for the Man Booker Prize. $75 156 Collins Street 2. Adiga (Aravind) THE WHITE TIGER. Pp. [iv]+522(last blank); lower fore-corners of boards bumped; dust wrapper; Atlantic, 2008. First edition. *Author’s first novel; winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. $250 Melbourne 3. Agate (James) A SHORTER EGO. The Autobiography of James Agate. Volumes One & Two [Egos 1–6]. Victoria 3000 Pp. 230+230; qr. dark blue morocco, with gilt lettered red leather title label on spines, blue cloth boards, slightly marked, corners bruised, the spines faded; t.e.g., others uncut; marbled endpapers; neat inked Australia signature on upper free endpapers, a little light foxing; George G. Harrap, 1946. Edition limited to 110 numbered copies (100 for sale), signed by the author. *The influential theatre critic’s first six diaries, collected in two volumes. A third volume was later published separately. $125 TELEPHONE 4. Ali (Monica) BRICK LANE. Pp. 416(last blank); med. 8vo; Doubleday, 2003. First edition. *Author’s +61 3 9654 8506 first novel, signed by her on title page; shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Basis for the 2007 film of the same name. $125 9654 7530 5. Apuleius (Lucius) THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF LUCIUS otherwise known as THE GOLDEN ASS. Translated by Robert Graves. Pp. 298+[2](colophon, blank), publisher’s device in red on preliminary leaf, appendix; qr. vellum paper, spine lettered in gilt, Cockerell marbled papered boards; t.e.g.; dust wrapper, FACSIMILE edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip lightly foxed and browned; within card slipcase printed in red & black, slightly foxed; neat inked signature on upper free endpaper, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Penguin +61 3 9654 7351 Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1950[1951]. Edition limited to 2,000 numbered copies, signed by the translator. Higginson & Williams A66b. *The typography and binding were designed by Jan Tschichold. The title page is dated 1950, the colophon 1951. $125 EMAIL 6. Atkinson (Kate) CASE HISTORIES. Pp. 304; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, the back panel slightly creased; ribbon marker; Doubleday & Company, 2004. First edition. *Author’s first crime novel, introducing the character [email protected] Jackson Brodie; the basis for a BBC television series. Signed by the author at head of title page $50 7. Auden (W. H.) & Christopher Isherwood. ON THE FRONTIER. A melodrama in three acts. Pp. 124(last blank); fore and bottom edges uncut; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly silverfished, the backstrip WEBSITE lightly soiled; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the upper free endpaper lightly creased, kaycraddock.com top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Faber & Faber, 1938. First edition. *With the bookplate (by Perrottet) of Australian author and book collector Marcie Collett (later Muir) on the upper free endpaper. On the Frontier was the third and final play in the Auden-Isherwood collaboration, produced in October 1938 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, in a production by the Group Theatre. The incidental music for the play FACEBOOK was composed by Benjamin Britten, to whom this book is dedicated. $200 facebook.com/ 8. Auden & T. C. Worsley. EDUCATION Today-and Tomorrow. Pp. 52(last blank); printed orange paper kaycraddockbooks wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip slightly faded; outer leaves faintly creased; The Hogarth Press, 1939. First edition. Day to Day Pamphlets No. 40. Woolmer 441. *Hogarth Press review slip loosely inserted. $150 SHOP HOURS 9. Austen (Jane) THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN. In twelve volumes, totalling approximately 4,000 Monday 10am–6pm pages; frontispiece portrait and tissue guard Volume I, all title pages printed in red & black, appendices Volume XII; rebound in half navy morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt between raised Tuesday 10am–6pm bands, with gilt lettered red leather title labels, blue cloth boards; t.e.g., others uncut, with a few leaves Wednesday 10am–6pm carelessly opened; later endpapers; a very little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; John Grant, Thursday 10am–6pm Edinburgh, 1911[Vols I–X]; 1912. Winchester Edition. Gilson, E91, footnote (p. 274). *The first 12 volume Winchester Edition. The last two volumes contain Lady Susan and The Watsons, as well as Friday 10am–7pm Austen’s letters. $12,000 Saturday 10am–4pm 10. Bagnold (Enid) LETTERS TO FRANK HARRIS, & other friends. Edited & with an introduction by R. Sunday Closed P. Lister. Pp. xxviii+78(last blank)+[4](blank, colophon), the title page printed in red/brown & black, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece (from a watercolour portrait of Enid Bagnold by Claud Lovat Fraser), plus 4 monochrome hand-tipped plates, printed endpapers; roy. 8vo; Laura Ashley rust coloured floral patterned cloth, printed paper title label on spine, edges of boards very slightly discoloured; top edges orange, others uncut; within brown papered slipcase; a little faint foxing; The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire/William Heinemann, 1980. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies (370 thus bound), signed by the author; hand-set in 12-pt. Caslon, printed on Arches mould-made paper. Butcher 48. *A collection of letters and diary extracts from the period of the First World War. As well as Frank Harris, Enid Bagnold’s correspondents included Walter Sickert, Antoine Bibesco, Claud Lovat Fraser, and H. G. Wells. This copy with a Whittington Press publicity card loosely inserted. $200 11. Bainbridge (Beryl) ANOTHER PART OF THE WOOD. Pp. 288; boards slightly soiled, the fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and creased, edges a trifle rubbed; free endpapers faintly offset, several corners lightly creased, occasional slight soiling; Hutchinson, 1968. First edition. *The author’s second novel, signed by her on the title page. $200 Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 1 12. Bainbridge. THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING. Pp. 180(last blank); dust wrapper, edges lightly browned on reverse; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Duckworth, 1974. First edition. *Signed by the author on title page. Winner of the 1974 Guardian Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the 1974 Man Booker Prize. In 1991 a film adaptation was made starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. $95 13. Bates (H. E.) THE BLACK BOXER. Tales. Pp. 272+[2](advertisements, verso blank, bound between pp. 270/271); boards faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, the spine slightly bruised at extremities; bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed and split, the backstrip quite browned and top edge of front panel faintly browned; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, small damp stain to top edge of leaves near spine, a little faint foxing; Pharos Editions, 1932. First trade edition. Eads A14a. $200 14. Bates. DAY’S END and Other Stories. Pp. 286; green cloth shot with yellow, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s device in blind at centre of lower board; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip browned; free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed;Jonathan Cape, 1928. First U.K. edition. Eads A6a. $275 Item 12 15. Bates. A HOUSE OF WOMEN. Pp. 324+[8](publisher’s catalogue); green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in blue, bottom fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split, with the Daily Mail Book of the Month wrap-around (slightly soiled and browned); bottom edges uncut; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition. Eads A26a. $300 16. Bates. THE POACHER. Pp. 304(last blank); brown cloth, spine and upper board lettered in green, fore- corners faintly bruised; bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, small number stamp at foot of back panel, the backstrip faded and slightly browned; last couple of pages slightly cropped, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Jonathan Cape, 1935. First edition. Eads A22a. *The author’s fifth novel. $300 17. Bates. SOMETHING SHORT AND SWEET. Stories. Duplicate Proof for Retention. Pp. 288; printed paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, edges lightly rubbed, tiny snag at foot of backstrip; a little light foxing; Jonathan Cape, 1937. Proof copy. See Eads A28. $250 18. Bates. THE STORY WITHOUT AN END and THE COUNTRY DOCTOR. Pp. 52, decorative headpiece; Item 13 beige papered boards, spine lettered in black, the corners and spine extremities a trifle bruised; two dust wrappers, one pale green, lettered in black including a price of 3/6 at foot of backstrip, the other yellow, lettered and decorated in black, and with a price of 5s at foot of backstrip, edges and backstrip of green wrapper faded to brown, the yellow wrapper (which is price-clipped) lightly soiled and foxed, edges rubbed and split, the front panel slightly creased; a little light foxing; The White Owl Press, 1932. First trade edition? See Eads A18 (describing only a limited edition, in a different binding). *The yellow dust wrapper, which is more elaborate, corresponds to the dust wrapper described by Eads. $200 19. Bates & Carol Barker. ACHILLES THE DONKEY. Pp. [48], including the pictorial endpapers, illustrated in colour throughout (3 double page); demy 4to; pictorial cloth, with a couple of tiny spots of foxing to the lower board; matching price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled; bookseller’s faint stamp at foot of upper free endpaper; Franklin-Watts, New York, 1963.