Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction -
J.D. Salinger
1959 - Little Brown, Boston - First Edition, First Issue, without the dedication leaf, as called for
‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters’ is written with a dazzling, almost showy, technical brilliance. Its dialogue is expert, its satirical comedy amusing, its style fluid and graceful. There can be no question that J. D. Salinger is a finished literary craftsman. What he sets out to do he does with consummate skill.’ - New York Times
First edition, first state, of this collection of stories about the Glass Family, in beautiful condition, and scarce as such..
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1959 - Little Brown, Boston - First Edition, First Issue, without the dedication leaf, as called for
‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters’ is written with a dazzling, almost showy, technical brilliance. Its dialogue is expert, its satirical comedy amusing, its style fluid and graceful. There can be no question that J. D. Salinger is a finished literary craftsman. What he sets out to do he does with consummate skill.’ - New York Times First edition, first state, of this collection of stories about the Glass Family, in beautiful condition, and scarce as such..
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Maskee - A Shanghai Sketchbook by Schiff - Signed -
Friedrich Schiff
Circa 1938Shanghai - First Edition. Number A458 of an unspecified Limited Edition
Fabulously Shanghai Art-Deco 15 foot (4.6 metres) long accordion folio in the original silk covers.
Folding out to show 21 illustrated panels hand-coloured by Friedrich Schiff. Each panel depicting a view of 1930’s expatriate life in Shanghai through the unique eyes of Schiff. More a folio of art-deco artwork than a book, although many of the panels include amusing comments and rhymes for example:
Miss Shanghai
Me No Worry – Me No Care!
Me Go Marry Millionaire!
If He Die – Me No Cry!
Me Go Marry Other Guy!!
Signed to the first panel by Friedrich Schiff (1908-68), an Austrian Jewish artist who moved to Shanghai in 1930 after an invite to visit from a cousin and lived there for 17 years. He had worked as a newspaper cartoonist in Vienna and continued this line of work in Shanghai, soon becoming famous for his amusing caricatures of the city's inhabitants. Prolific, Schiff’s cartoons appeared in books, newspapers, magazines and advertisements throughout China and the Far East, and collaborations with Ellen Thorbecke (Peking Studies; People in China; Hong Kong; and Shanghai).
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Circa 1938Shanghai - First Edition. Number A458 of an unspecified Limited Edition
Fabulously Shanghai Art-Deco 15 foot (4.6 metres) long accordion folio in the original silk covers.Folding out to show 21 illustrated panels hand-coloured by Friedrich Schiff. Each panel depicting a view of 1930’s expatriate life in Shanghai through the unique eyes of Schiff. More a folio of art-deco artwork than a book, although many of the panels include amusing comments and rhymes for example:
Miss Shanghai
Me No Worry – Me No Care!
Me Go Marry Millionaire!
If He Die – Me No Cry!
Me Go Marry Other Guy!!
Signed to the first panel by Friedrich Schiff (1908-68), an Austrian Jewish artist who moved to Shanghai in 1930 after an invite to visit from a cousin and lived there for 17 years. He had worked as a newspaper cartoonist in Vienna and continued this line of work in Shanghai, soon becoming famous for his amusing caricatures of the city's inhabitants. Prolific, Schiff’s cartoons appeared in books, newspapers, magazines and advertisements throughout China and the Far East, and collaborations with Ellen Thorbecke (Peking Studies; People in China; Hong Kong; and Shanghai).
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The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw -
George Bernard Shaw
1931 - Constable and Co Ltd, London - First Edition
A finely bound first edition of the complete collection of George Bernard Shaw’s plays,
Containing: Widowers' Houses: The Philanderer: Mrs. Warren's Profession: Arms and the Man: Candida: The Man of Destiny: You Never Can Tell: The Devil's Disciple: Cæsar and Cleopatra: Captain Brassbound's Conversion: Man and Superman: John Bull's Other Island: How He Lied to Her Husband: Major Barbara: The Doctor's Dilemma: Getting Married: The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet: Misalliance: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets: Fanny's First Play: Androcles and the Lion : Over- Ruled: Pygmalion: Heartbreak House: Great Catherine: O'Flaherty V.C.: The Inca of Perusalem: Augustus Does His Bit: Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress: Back to Methuselah: Saint Joan: The Apple Cart: Jitta's Atonement: the Admirable Bashville; or, Constancy Unrewarded: Press Cuttings: The Glimpse of Reality: Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction; or, The Fatal Gazo-Gene: The Fascinating Foundling: The Music-Cure.
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1931 - Constable and Co Ltd, London - First Edition
A finely bound first edition of the complete collection of George Bernard Shaw’s plays, Containing: Widowers' Houses: The Philanderer: Mrs. Warren's Profession: Arms and the Man: Candida: The Man of Destiny: You Never Can Tell: The Devil's Disciple: Cæsar and Cleopatra: Captain Brassbound's Conversion: Man and Superman: John Bull's Other Island: How He Lied to Her Husband: Major Barbara: The Doctor's Dilemma: Getting Married: The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet: Misalliance: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets: Fanny's First Play: Androcles and the Lion : Over- Ruled: Pygmalion: Heartbreak House: Great Catherine: O'Flaherty V.C.: The Inca of Perusalem: Augustus Does His Bit: Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress: Back to Methuselah: Saint Joan: The Apple Cart: Jitta's Atonement: the Admirable Bashville; or, Constancy Unrewarded: Press Cuttings: The Glimpse of Reality: Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction; or, The Fatal Gazo-Gene: The Fascinating Foundling: The Music-Cure.
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Cricket of To-Day and Yesterday. With Special Articles by Famous Cricketers -
Percy Cross Standing
1902 - Blackwood, London - First Issue of the Subscription Illustrated Edition
A clean and sharp example of this large, wonderful and comprehensive two volume set on Cricket at the turn of the 20th century, illustrated throughout with colour, black and white, and sepia toned illustrations.
The extra articles listed in the title were only included with this subscription edition and are placed at the front of each volume.
Much coverage of international cricket, such as ‘Our Tropical Cricket Match’, a chapter covering a match in Bangkok in 1893 during the Franco-Siamese dispute of 1893, amongst other chapter headings are - ‘English Teams in Australia’; ‘Australian Teams in England’; and ‘Tours in America and South Africa’.
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1902 - Blackwood, London - First Issue of the Subscription Illustrated Edition
A clean and sharp example of this large, wonderful and comprehensive two volume set on Cricket at the turn of the 20th century, illustrated throughout with colour, black and white, and sepia toned illustrations.The extra articles listed in the title were only included with this subscription edition and are placed at the front of each volume.
Much coverage of international cricket, such as ‘Our Tropical Cricket Match’, a chapter covering a match in Bangkok in 1893 during the Franco-Siamese dispute of 1893, amongst other chapter headings are - ‘English Teams in Australia’; ‘Australian Teams in England’; and ‘Tours in America and South Africa’.
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Johnny Got His Gun -
Dalton Trumbo
1939 - J. B. Lippincott Company, New York Philadelphia Toronto - First Edition
A fine copy in near fine, and thus exceptionally scarce dust jacket.
‘It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has become.
An immediate best-seller upon its first publication in 1939, Trumbo's stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of the First World War brilliantly crystallised the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era.’ [PC]
‘A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.’ – The Washington Post.
‘A terrible story, remorseless, uncompromising... this book was a shocking and violent experience.’ – Herald Tribune.
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1939 - J. B. Lippincott Company, New York Philadelphia Toronto - First Edition
A fine copy in near fine, and thus exceptionally scarce dust jacket.‘It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has become.
An immediate best-seller upon its first publication in 1939, Trumbo's stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of the First World War brilliantly crystallised the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era.’ [PC]
‘A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.’ – The Washington Post.
‘A terrible story, remorseless, uncompromising... this book was a shocking and violent experience.’ – Herald Tribune.
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The Ring of the Niblung -
Richard Wagner, Arthur Rackham (illustrator), Margaret Armour (translator)
1914 - William Heinemann, London
‘What is it, sleek ones,
That yonder gleams and shines?’
An elegantly bound set of Rackham's dramatic interpretation of Wagner's libretti..
Wagner’s ‘Trilogy, with a Prelude’, his libretti for The Ring of Niblung cycle, stunningly illustrated by Arthur Rackham, featuring sixty-four beautiful tipped-in colour plates each with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-three black and white drawings across two volumes.
Translated from the German into English by Margaret Armour.
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1914 - William Heinemann, London
‘What is it, sleek ones,That yonder gleams and shines?’
An elegantly bound set of Rackham's dramatic interpretation of Wagner's libretti..
Wagner’s ‘Trilogy, with a Prelude’, his libretti for The Ring of Niblung cycle, stunningly illustrated by Arthur Rackham, featuring sixty-four beautiful tipped-in colour plates each with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-three black and white drawings across two volumes.
Translated from the German into English by Margaret Armour.
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The Color Purple -
Alice Walker
1982 - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York - First Edition, First Printing
A fine first edition of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, and the basis for the Steven Spielberg film, nominated for eleven Academy Awards. A lovely and elusive example without the usual spotting to foredge of book and no chipping or closed tears to the dust jacket.
The story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other, Celie, a child wife living in the South—who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. The story is narrated through a series of letters that Celie writes to God.
‘Intense emotional impact . . . Indelibly affecting . . . Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer.” — New York Times Book Review.
‘Superb . . . A work to stand beside literature of any time and place.’ — San Francisco Chronicle.
‘A novel of permanent importance.’ — Newsweek.
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1982 - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York - First Edition, First Printing
A fine first edition of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, and the basis for the Steven Spielberg film, nominated for eleven Academy Awards. A lovely and elusive example without the usual spotting to foredge of book and no chipping or closed tears to the dust jacket.The story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other, Celie, a child wife living in the South—who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. The story is narrated through a series of letters that Celie writes to God.
‘Intense emotional impact . . . Indelibly affecting . . . Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer.” — New York Times Book Review.
‘Superb . . . A work to stand beside literature of any time and place.’ — San Francisco Chronicle.
‘A novel of permanent importance.’ — Newsweek.
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Imperial Cricket -
P. F. Warner (editor)
1912 - The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, London - Subscriber’s Edition of 900
‘Hail CRICKET! Glorious, manly, British Game!
First of all Sports! be alike in Fame!’ – James Love, 1744.
And Huzzah! to that. Presenting a large, magnificent and obviously Imperial work (32x26x6cm), which covers the growth and development of Cricket throughout the Empire from Hong Kong and the Far East, Ceylon, India, British Malaya and Bermuda to South Africa, West Africa, India, Australia, Fiji, Egypt and the Sudan. Not only the history of Cricket in each area but with anecdotes and illustrations. In addition there are chapters on The History of Cricket; Cricket and the Royal Family, Oxford and Cambridge Cricket; I Zingari; and Free Foresters.
One of 900 copies of the Subscriber’s Edition, heavily illustrated with six full page photogravure plates, three full page colour plates and 93 black and white images.
Contributors include FS Ashley-Cooper, ACM Croome, Andrew Lang, Cecil Headlam and SP Foenander. With an extensive index compiled by Ashley-Cooper.
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1912 - The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, London - Subscriber’s Edition of 900
‘Hail CRICKET! Glorious, manly, British Game!First of all Sports! be alike in Fame!’ – James Love, 1744.
And Huzzah! to that. Presenting a large, magnificent and obviously Imperial work (32x26x6cm), which covers the growth and development of Cricket throughout the Empire from Hong Kong and the Far East, Ceylon, India, British Malaya and Bermuda to South Africa, West Africa, India, Australia, Fiji, Egypt and the Sudan. Not only the history of Cricket in each area but with anecdotes and illustrations. In addition there are chapters on The History of Cricket; Cricket and the Royal Family, Oxford and Cambridge Cricket; I Zingari; and Free Foresters.
One of 900 copies of the Subscriber’s Edition, heavily illustrated with six full page photogravure plates, three full page colour plates and 93 black and white images.
Contributors include FS Ashley-Cooper, ACM Croome, Andrew Lang, Cecil Headlam and SP Foenander. With an extensive index compiled by Ashley-Cooper.
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