Modern Literature Peter Harringtonlondon We are exhibiting at these fairs: 30 June–6 July 2016 (Preview 29 June) masterpiece The Royal Hospital Chelsea www.masterpiece.com 1–2 October pasadena Antiquarian Book, Print, Photo and Paper Fair Pasadena Convention Center www.bustamante-shows.com 8–9 October seattle Antiquarian Book Fair Seattle Center www.seattlebookfair.com 28–30 October boston Hynes Convention Center www.bostonbookfair.com All items from this catalogue are on display at Dover Street 4–5 November chelsea Chelsea Old Town Hall www.chelseabookfair.com Full details of all these are available at www.peterharrington.co.uk/bookfairs where there is also a form to request us to bring items for your inspection at the fairs VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 Front cover illustration from Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies, item 20. Illustration opposite from Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, item 230. Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7JY. Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra. Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 Peter Harrington london catalogue 121 modern literature 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 usa 011 44 20 7591 0220 Dover St opening hours: 10am–7pm Monday–Friday; 10am–6pm Saturday www.peterharrington.co.uk All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 1 ADAMS, Douglas. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. London & Sydney: Pan Books, 1979 Octavo. Original illustrated wrappers. No dust jacket issued. Edges and margins of pages lightly browned as usual, but an exceptionally fresh copy overall in fine, bright wrappers. first edition, first impression; inscribed by the au- thor “Best Wishes, Douglas Adams” on the first leaf. This paperback is the true first edition, preceding the Arthur Barker hardback edition. £2,000 [107312] 2 AGEE, James. The Morning Watch. Rome: Botteghe oscure, 1950 Octavo. Original buff wrappers, title to front cover in black. Faint spotting to wrappers, front hinge starting at head but text block sound, contents lightly toned. A very good copy. first edition, first printing. presentation offprint, 3 inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Al- bert Brush, with warmest regard and esteem, Jim Agee, June 6, 3 ’54”; an offprint of the novella as it first appeared in the literary AMBLER, Eric. Epitaph for a Spy. London: Hodder & journal Botteghe oscure, VI. The recipient, the enigmatic Santa Mon- Stoughton Limited, 1938 ica poet Albert Brush, came to notice in bohemian Greenwich Vil- Octavo. Original blue cloth, title to spine and front cover black, blue lage in the 1920s. He was in Paris in the early 1930s and spent most endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled and faded, board edges of his life moving in the artistic circles of Southern California; he faded, a little faint foxing to edges of text block. A very good copy in appears briefly in the biographies of figures such as Christopher the jacket with some marks to panels, some chips and tears to ex- Isherwood and Charles Laughton. In the later 1930s he helped tremities and tape repair to verso. write Laughton’s famous English adaptation of Bertold Brecht’s first edition, first impression; inscribed by the au- Life of Galileo. In June 1954, the time of this inscription, Agee was thor on the title page, “To B. Blunt, with the compliments finishing work with Laughton on the screenplay of The Night of the and thanks of the author. Eric Ambler.” Hunter (1955); it was presumably Laughton who introduced the two. Agee’s novella, with its 12-year-old protagonist and atmo- £3,500 [110740] sphere of intense religiosity, shares a number of themes with his screenplay for Laughton’s celebrated film. £2,750 [106970] 1 2 2 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 121 5 6 4 his Foreword to their follow-up, Back to the Local (1949): “the ARDIZZONE, Edward, & Maurice Gorham. The Local. book’s career ended when unsold copies, sheets, and plates of the drawings went up together in the burning of Cassells’ London: Cassell & Co, Ltd, 1939 premises in Belle Sauvage Yard” during the Blitz. Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine and front cover in red and black. With the original glassine dust jacket with paper flaps, as is- £1,500 [109863] sued. With 15 four-colour lithographic plates, including one double- page by Edward Ardizzone. Some faint toning to boards; an excep- 5 tional copy in the scarce dust jacket, with partial loss to panels and spine at head and foot. ASHTON, Helen. Belinda Grove. London: Victor Gollancz first edition, sole impression. “Ardizonne’s illustrations Ltd, 1932 are generally concerned with contemporary life untouched by Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green. With the dust political, religious or ideological conflicts. His approach is not jacket. Minor foxing to edges and endpapers; an excellent copy in the satiric or moralistic but autobiographical, and his drawings jacket that has a sunned spine and some nicks to extremities. are representational and humourous and demonstrate his af- first edition, first impression of this haunted house fection for people” (Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustra- mystery. From the publisher’s archive. Scarce in the jacket. tors). The book’s scarcity is explained by Maurice Gorham in £1,500 [94180] 6 ASIMOV, Isaac. Foundation; Foundation and Empire; Second Foundation. New York: Gnome Press, 1951–3 3 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, device to front board, titles to spine in red; red boards, device to front board, titles to spine in black; blue boards, titles to spine brown, respectively. With the dust jackets. Extremities a little rubbed, spine of vol. II sunned; an exceptional set in the jackets, just a trifle rubbed. first editions, first printings. Winner of the Hugo Award in 1966 for best Science Fiction series ever written. A very attractive set of these scarce and vulnerable books, with the requisite points of first issue: Foundation in blue cloth with red lettering and three titles advertised on the rear panel of the jacket; Foundation and Empire in red cloth with black lettering and no mention of later titles on the rear panel of the jacket. Locke Vol. I, p. 24. 4 £4,500 [110310] 3 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 7 8 7 first edition, first impression. From the publisher’s ar- ASIMOV, Isaac. The Caves of Steel. New York: Doubleday & chive, with their ink stamp to the half-title. Uncommon, with just one copy at auction since 1967. Co. Inc., 1954 Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in red, top edge red. With £1,250 [108227] the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a custom grey cloth solander box. An exceptional copy in the jacket with spine slightly sunned and a lit- 10 tle rubbing to extremities. BANVILLE, John. Long Lankin. London: Secker and first edition, first printing. Warburg, 1970 Locke, Vol. I, p. 24. Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jack- £3,250 [110325] et. Dust jacket with inked in price to front flap, light wear and rubbing to extremities. An excellent copy. 8 first edition, first impression, of the author’s first book. BAILEY, H. C. Mr. Fortune’s Trials. London: Methuen & £875 [104720] Co., 1925 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and decorations to spine gilt and to front board in blind. With the dust jacket. Extremities slightly bumped, mild tanning to endpapers, text block strained in a couple of places but firm. An excellent copy in a slightly toned jacket with slightly chipped and nicked extremities and slight loss to head of rear panel, affecting six letters. first edition, first impression. £3,000 [106154] 9 BAILEY, H. C. Mr. Fortune Objects. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935 Octavo. Original black cloth, title to spine orange. With the dust jack- et. A little spotting to edges of text block; an excellent, bright copy in the jacket with sunned spine and shallow chip to head of spine. 9 4 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 121 10 11 11 1931 a short-lived review, The Island, which carried artwork by BARD, Josef (ed.) The Island. London: The Hawthorne Press Moore, Agar, and Laurence Bradshaw as well as Underwood’s own woodcuts and writings” (ODNB). Scarce: Copac locates & The Favil Press, [1931] just two sets in British and Irish institutional libraries (V&A, Four numbers issued in 3 parts (complete), quarto. Original deco- Manchester), OCLC records only an incomplete set (number rative wrappers designed by Leon Underwood, number I stapled as IV only) at the National Library of New Zealand. issued, numbers II/III with linen spine, number IV stitched as is- sued. Wood-engravings throughout by Leon Underwood, Henry Sullivan, British Literary Magazines, p. 564. Moore,Gertrude Hermes, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Elizabeth Groom, Ralph Chubb, Eileen Agar, Laurence Bradshaw, Grace Rogers, Sidney £950 [105821] Hunt, Laurence Josephs. Back cover of parts II/III missing, some dust marking to covers of parts II/III and IV; overall a very good set. 12 first and sole edition of this interesting 1930s quarterly, BARTHELME, Donald. Here in the Village. Northridge: edited by the Hungarian émigré Josef Bard (1892–1975), later a Lord John Press, 1978 friend and supporter of Ezra Pound, and the artist Leon Under- Octavo.