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[email protected] www.shapero.com CONTENTS Fiction, Poetry & Prose 1-55 Children’s & Illustrated 56-88 Visual & Performing Arts 89-106 Special Interest & Sport 107-141 Judaica 142-149 Russian 150-155 Modern Prints 156-163 Fiction, Poetry & Prose Fiction, ‘YOU PIERCE MY SOUL. I AM HALF AGONY, HALF HOPE... I HAVE LOVED NONE BUT YOU’ 1. AUSTEN, JANE. ALLARD2. B , J.G. The Novels. The text based on collation of the early editions High-Rise. by R. W. Chapman. With notes indexes and illustrations from contemporary sources. London, Jonathan Cape, 1975. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Ballard’s classic anticipation of the breakdown of modern society, utilising an example of the then increasingly proliferate 6 volumes, 8vo., tan half morocco gilt by Maltby, spines in six high-rise residential buildings as a hothouse for class resentment, compartments, morocco lettering pieces in second and fourth, primeval instincts and capitalist excess gone mad. raised bands, top edge gilt, a fine set. First edition, 8vo., publisher’s boards, minor sunning to top-edge £1,250 [ref: 90846] of spines, dust-jacket, price-clipped as often, with publisher’s price-sticker, an excellent example beyond some mild toning. £480 [ref: 98212] Fiction, Poetry & Prose Fiction, Shapero Rare Books 3 SIGNED COPY THE THORNTON EDITION 3. BECKETT, SAMUEL. 4. BRONTE, CHARLOTTE, EMILY & ANNE. Molloy. Novels of the Sisters Bronte edited by Temple Scott. Paris, Les Éditions des Minuit, 1951. Edinburgh, Grant, 1924. Attractive signed copy of the novel much regarded as Beckett’s This Thornton Edition of the Novels of the Bronte Sisters best, which he claimed to have conceived on the day his is regarded as the definitive edition and includes Elizabeth publisher, Hamish Hamilton, rejected his novel Watt, ‘the day Gaskell’s ‘Life of Charlotte Bronte’.