Haskell, Yasmin & Ruys, Juanita Feros (eds.): Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (with Brepols), 2010. 8vo., pp. 318. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 360 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series, and Volume 30 in the Brepols Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series. Ref: 53640
Heaney, Seamus: Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First edition. 8vo., pp.57, [i]. MS annotations and underlining in both pen and pencil, including notes to pp.9-10, 14-16, 28, 31-33, 40, 56; a small tick or asterisk to the top corner of most pages. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, lightly faded strip across bottom edge of upper board, very good. Dust jacket lightly sunned at spine and narrow strip along bottom edge, inner corners trimmed with the loss of a few letters, a little underlining to author biography on flyleaf, still very good overall.. An array of newspaper clippings including both reviews of Heaney's work and appearances of the poems themselves, loosely inserted and pasted to the front endpapers. Poems include 'Twice Shy', 'Rookery', 'Orange drums, Tyrone 1966', 'Undine' and 'Night Drive' (with MS note, The Listener 11/4/68), 'Victorian Guitar', 'Corncrake' and 'Bogland' (The Listener, 2/11/67), 'Frogman', 'Strange Fruits'. Various annotations, plus a not-very-legible ownership inscription, possibly T. or D. Adams, to ffep. (Actually Tom Adams, a secondary school teacher in Southfields, London in the later part of the last century, devoted book collector and prolific annotator and attacher of related printed material to the books he collected.) Heaney's first commercial collection for a major publisher (following his Eleven Poems published in November 1965 for the Queen's University Festival). Ref: 54849show full image..
Houellebecq, Michel: (Stein, Lorin, trans.:) Submission. London: William Heinemann, 2015. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[iv], 251, [i]. White cloth, black title to spine, publisher's device blindstamped to upper board, fine. Dustjacket a little dusty, price intact, fine. Translated by Lorin Stein. Ref: 54680
Jones, Ernest: The Battle Day: and Other Poems. London and New York: G. Routledge & Co., 1855. 8vo., pp.[ii], iii, [i], 228, 6. 6-page publisher's catalogue at rear. A few marks to title page, occasional light smudges. Contemporary green cloth neatly rebacked, boards blind stamped and the upper with faded gilt centrepiece. Worn, marks and some patchy fading, corners frayed, still very good overall. Ernest Charles Jones (1819-1869), Chartist, socialist and writer, now remembered as 'one of the most interesting of the early English socialists: a man of remarkable energy, a lively and vigorous polemicist with, above all, a deep compassion for the poor, the needy, and the downtrodden.' (Saville, ODNB) Ref: 55008show full image..
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road. New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition, third printing. 8vo., pp.[iv], 310. Black cloth, white title to spine and upper board, top edge red. Endcaps a little dusty, tiny 2mm hole to upper joint, lower corners mildly bumped, very good. Dust jacket a little tattered at edges and upper joint with a few chips and creases, some repaired with tape on the inside, still very good. First edition, third impression of the seminal Beat Generation novel. Based on his travels around America in the late 1940s, Kerouac wrote several unsatisfactory versions of the novel before writing the first draft of what eventually became On the Road in three weeks in April 1951, a year after the publication of his first novel, The Town and the City. Kerouac continued to work on the manuscript for several years, deleting some contentious passages and adding more literary sections. Its eventual publication in 1957 caused tremendous debate about the novel's content, style and the whole generation it was assumed to represent, and thrust instant fame upon Kerouac. Ref: 54976show full image..
Kerr, Philip: Field Grey London: Quercus, 2010. First edition, first printing. Black cloth, silver title to spine. Top edge a little dusty, fine. Dust jacket a little rubbed, price intact, very good. Book seven in the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers. Ref: 54681
Kerr, Philip: Prague Fatale. London: Quercus, 2011. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[vi], 439, [i]. Black cloth, silver title to spine. A few tiny dents to upper board, near fine. Dust jacket with scratch to upper, price intact, very good. Book eight in the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers. Ref: 54682
Lemire, Eugene: A Bibliography of William Morris. Delaware & London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2006 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 55073
Marquez, Gabriel Garc?a: (Grossman, Edith, trans:) Love in the Time of Cholera. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.352. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine. Endcaps a little creased, a few tiny marks to front endpapers, very good. Dust jacket spine very slightly sunned, edges softened with a couple of small closed tears, small mark to upper perhaps from a label, price intact, still very good. First appearance in English, translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman. The novel was first published in 1985 as El amor en los tiempos del c?lera. This copy is the first of three printings from 1988, with another two following in 1989. Ref: 54664
Marquez, Gabriel Garc?a: (Rabassa, Gregory, trans.:) One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First English-language edition. 8vo., pp.[viii], 422. Dark Green cloth, gilt title to spine, fore-edge untrimmed, green endpapers. Endcaps a little creased, a couple of tiny greyish marks to upper board, edges of text block a little foxed, front paste-down discoloured where it has been in contact with the dust jacket, very good. Second state dust jacket (full stop instead of an exclamation mark after 'Latin America' on the front flap), price-clipped, a little worn at head and tail of spine, slightly rubbed particularly to the rear board, still very good overall. Book label of SU Libreria, Carlos G. Liebmann, Quito - Guayaquil. Karl Wilhelm Liebmann (1900-1985) arrived in Ecuador with his family in 1938, having fled the persecution of Jewish people in his native Germany. His changed his name and established a successful publishing business and bookshop, SU Libreria, which continued until his death in 1985. First edition of the English translation that brought M?rquez's work to an international audience. First published in the original Spanish as Cien a?os de soledad in May of 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana. Ref: 54973show full image..
