Present Perfect 2 Shapero Rare Books Present Perfect 32 Saint George Street London W1S 2EA +44 20 7493 0876 [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’. I became aware of my stupidity. Then I began to write the things I feel,’ (Bair, Beckett, 367). 12 volumes, 8vo., each with engraved or photographic frontispiece illustration, some minor, peripheral spotting to some of the First trade edition, SIGNED IN INK ON THE TITLE PAGE BY SAMUEL preliminary endpapers, else near-fine, publisher’s green cloth, BECKETT, 8vo., test in French, a few ends unopened, even age-toning spines gilt, top edge dyed green, other edges uncut as published, throughout, publisher’s plain cream wrappers printed in black and mildly rubbed at extremities, a few corners gently bumped blue, mild tanning to spine, edges with slight wear only, a few and some random marks, otherwise a very good example of marks to wrappers, mostly to upper margin of rear one, otherwise a highly desirable edition. a very good-plus copy. Federman & Fletcher 257. £675 [ref: 97143] £2,500 [ref: 97799] 4 Shapero Rare Books CONTEMPORARY BINDING BY BUMPUS 5. BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. 6. BUCHAN, JOHN. Sonnets from the Portuguese. With Decorative Settings The Island of Sheep. by Frederick Colin Tilney and an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1894. A lovely copy with the rare original wrap-around, simply stating ‘The New ‘Hannay’ Adventure’. This is the final story A CHARMING EDITION IN A VERY HANDSOME BINDING. featuring John Buchan’s most famous protagonist, Richard Hannay, renowned in particular for his adventures in The 4to., black & white plates and decorative borders and vignettes Thirty-Nine Steps. within text by Tilney, age toning to extremities of margins, a few spots, mostly to endpapers, contemporary full leather binding In 1919 Buchan published another book with the same title, by Bumpus, elaborate gilt blocking and tooling to covers and spine, under the pseudonym ‘Cadmus and Harmonia’, a wholly a little rubbed at extremities and joints, otherwise very good. different type of work, which in later life he described as largely the work of his wife Susan, and refused to allow it to be £450 [ref: 97103] reprinted. In the US the 1936 work could not reuse the title of the former work, so was there entitled The Man From the Norlands. First edition, 8vo., map to front endpapers, a little minor spotting, original cloth, very minor rolling to spine, otherwise a sharp, bright copy, dust-jacket by Hugh Chesterman, very slight creasing to head of spine with a few tiny closed tears, overall a very good example with the original publisher’s printed wrap-around. £600 [ref: 97433] Shapero Rare Books 5 7. CHRISTIE, AGATHA. 8. CHRISTIE, AGATHA. The Moving Finger. Sparkling Cyanide. London, Collins for The Crime Club, 1943. London, Published for The Crime Club, 1945. First edition, 8vo., publisher’s cloth, spine ends faded, second First edition, 8vo., publisher’s red cloth, gently bumped at spine impression pictorial dust-jacket with 4/6 net price on upper flap, ends, distinctive pictorial dust-jacket of a glass of champagne with fading to spine, slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good a skull behind, mildly rubbed at extremities, more so to spine ends, copy. three short, closed tears to dust-soiled rear panel, reinforced to verso, otherwise very presentable, not price-clipped and internally £325 [ref: 96712] fine, with no inscriptions. £325 [ref: 96711] 6 Shapero Rare Books SIGNED COPY 9. CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH [EDITOR] 10. CRISP, QUENTIN. Plutarch’s Lives. The Translation Called Dryden’s, Corrected The Naked Civil Servant. from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough. London, Jonathan Cape, 1968. London, Sampson, Low & Son, 1861. Rare signed copy of Quentin Crisp’s ‘early’ memoirs, inscribed Plutarch (born 46 AD, Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece]—died on the front free endpaper ‘To Miss Bartok with love Quentin after 119 AD), biographer and author whose works strongly Crisp’. This book and the award-winning film version starring influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography and John Hurt made a celebrity of the flamboyant Crisp, a fame he historical writing in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. exploited brilliantly with a series of touring monologues, chat Among his approximately 227 works, the most important show appearances and other writings, adopting a transatlantic are the Bioi parallēloi (Parallel Lives), in which he recounts the lifestyle and even presenting an alternative ‘Queen’s Speech’ noble deeds and characters of Greek and Roman soldiers, for Channel 4 (1993). legislators, orators, and statesmen, and the Moralia, or Ethica, a series of more than 60 essays on ethical, religious, physical, First edition, signed presentation copy from the author, 8vo., political, and literary topics. light marginal toning but overall internally very good, publisher’s boards, slight mottling, supplied dust-jacket featuring photographic 8vo., 5 vol., contemporary half calf, green and brown lettering portraits of the author, a fine example. pieces by Morrell, a little rubbed on corners, otherwise a most attractive and near-fine set, regarded as the best edition. £650 [ref: 98763] £1,200 [ref: 96945] Shapero Rare Books 7 STUNNING TREE C ALF BINDINGS 11. DEFOE, DANIEL. 12. DICKENS, CHARLES. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson The Fireside Dickens. Complete Edition in Twenty-two Crusoe [WITH] The Farther Adventures... Volumes. With Illustrations by Cruikshank, ‘Phiz’ &c. London, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et al., 1778. London, Chapman & Hall, Limited; and Humphrey Milford, [Circa 1900] Provenance: Ink ownership dated Janr. 1st 1784 to upper paste-down of each volume, of Wa. Belsches, Ednr. Twenty-two volumes, 8vo., numerous illustrations by various artists, many taken from the first editions, chipping to edge of title-page 2 volumes, small 8vo., [i-iv], [1-5], 288pp.; [i-ii], [1-5], 275pp., of David Copperfield, some random spots to endpapers of about fifteenth edition, 11 engraved plates and 1 folding map by J. Lodge, 3 volumes, otherwise internally fine and bright, near contemporary, some plates in vol. 2 slightly close-shaved on the fore-edge but not superb, polished tree calf, the boards gilt panelled, spines in lighter affecting image, small marginal stain to margin of pp.170 & 71, calf with corresponding lettering pieces gilt, all edges gilt, some occasional toning, otherwise near-fine, contemporary full calf, red fading to spines, minor scratches to a few boards, otherwise lettering pieces, a bit rubbed and scuffed, bumped at extremities, a stunning set. three circular abrasions to upper board of vol. 2 but still sound and attractive. [ESTC T72285] £2,750 [ref: 98750] £1,200 [ref: 95254] 8 Shapero Rare Books 13. DICKENS, CHARLES. 8vo. [8], 1-174pp. [2 (advertisements)], with engraved title and frontispiece after Maclise and 12 in-text illustrations, publisher’s [Christmas Books]. A complete set, comprising: A Christmas red cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, a little rubbed Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle at extremities, nonetheless a very good copy. of Life; The Haunted Man. The Battle of Life: A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, London, Chapman & Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1843-48. 1846. First edition, fourth issue, 8vo, [8], 1-175pp., [1 (imprint)], [2 (advertisements)], with engraved title and frontispiece by A charming first edition set of Charles Dickens’ beloved A Christmas Carol Thompson after Maclise and 11 in-text illustrations; slight Christmas Books (with in third issue), browning, occasional foxing, very slight dust-stains from top-edge, published between 1843-’47 (although three are post-dated publisher’s red cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, to the following year), attractively bound in the publisher’s dust-soiling, especially to spine, end-caps chipped and lower joint original red cloth, and copiously illustrated throughout. partially split, otherwise a very good copy. Provenance: early ink Five matching volumes in the original gilt cloth, comprising: ownership inscription on lithographic title.