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84 Charing Cross Rare Books
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Orwell, George Animal Farm A Fairy Story
$6,688.35 *
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VG-/Fair 1st printing 1st ed 1945 Secker hardback, with the original quite fragile corner-clipped dust-jacket. Some chips, creasing and tears along the jacket edges as shown, longer tear to upper front edge of DJ, some loss to DJ spine ends and area of loss to the centre of the DJ spine. Previous name and date written to fly-leaf, thin wartime paper and fading to spine and edge of book, a little spotting to inside rear cover, binding tight and secure, pages tanned but unmarked.
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Hugely influential SF novel, 1st edition
Miller, Walter M, Jr A Canticle for Leibowitz
$1,992.62 *
* estimated currency conversionVG-/VG- 1st print 1st ed 1959 Lippincott hardback, price-clipped DJ in mylar. Some tape residue marks to corners of fly-leaf and rear end-paper due to previous jacket protection, small tear to top front corner of jacket spine with a little edge-wear to jacket, a little darkening to inside jacket spine, very scarce to find a first printing in this condition otherwise. One of our ‘Indispensables’ catalogue.
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Signed & Dated Five Days Prior to Publication
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Half of a Yellow Sun
$250.00Fourth Estate, London, 2006. First U.K. edition and true first. Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and named the “Best of the Best” of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize and Baileys Women’s Prize) in 2020, recognizing it as the best book to have won the prize in its 25-year history. Signed by the author and dated five days prior to the official publication date. Fine in fine dust wrapper, lightly crinkled at the spine tips.
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Duchamp's own Dada gesture: the crumpled catalog
Duchamp, Marcel; Janis, Sidney DADA 1916–1923 Catalog of the Exhibition
$7,500.00The Manhattan Rare Book Company
DUCHAMP, MARCEL; JANIS, SIDNEY. DADA 1916–1923: Catalog of the Exhibition “Dada tried to destroy, not so much art, as the idea one had of art, breaking down its rigid borders, lowering its imaginary heights – subjecting them to a dependence on man, to his power – humbling art, significantly making it take its place and subordinating its value to pure movement which is also the movement of life.” The catalog is “a Dada gesture to cancel the ‘seriousness’ of exhibition catalogues.” — Marcel Duchamp DUCHAMP’S FAMOUS “CATALOG” FOR THE CELEBRATED 1953 DADA RETROSPECTIVE. “Duchamp planned, organized, and installed a major historical show of international Dada at the Janis Gallery in 1953. More than two hundred works of art and documents were on view, each one identified in a Duchamp-designed ‘catalog’ that was itself pure Dada – a tissue-thin broadsheet with written texts (by Jean Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jacques-Henri Lévesque, and Tristan Tzara) in contrasting typefaces, set in narrow columns that ran diagonally down the page. When the sheets were delivered to the gallery, Duchamp took one, crumpled it up into a ball, and told Janis to mail it as it was, and Janis did so, to the confusion of numerous art lovers who wondered why they were being mailed trash. (A wicker basket of crumpled catalogs stood beside the gallery door at the opening.) “Duchamp was represented in Janis’s Dada show by four works: Tu m’, his last painting on canvas; To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, the glass study he had done in Argentina; the ready-made Fresh Widow; and Janis’s replica of Fountain, installed over the door at the entrance, with a sprig of mistletoe dangling from its inverted bowl.” (Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp: A Biography, 378-9). With text by Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jacques-Henry Lévesque, Tristan Tzara; Arp’s and Tzara’s texts were translated by Duchamp. Ref. Schwarz 543. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953. Single sheet of thin tissue-like paper, 25×38 inches (96.5×63.5 cm). It’s possible this example was crumpled, but it clearly has been stored flat and folded now for some time. With closed tear at center (with no loss); a few tiny tears at folds and edges. Housed in custom cloth box. Rare in such good condition. AN ESSENTIAL PIECE OF DADA HISTORY.
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Signed Presentation Copy to Author's Sister In La
Sherwood, Robert E. There Shall Be No Night
$300.00New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940. First edition with Scribner’s “A”. Winner of 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a play about Finland’s invasion by the Soviet Union. A signed presentation copy inscribed “from Madeline’s husband” to Gwendola Hurlock, sister of the book’s dedicatee and Sherwood’s wife, Madeline Hurlock, a silent film actress. Dated December, 1940. Spine leaning, tanning to front and rear gutters, brief marks to the rear board — a solid very good or better copy in a very good rubbed dust wrapper with a few small, shallow chips.
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