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The Ring of the Niblung -
Richard Wagner, Arthur Rackham (illustrator), Margaret Armour (translator)
1910 - William Heinemann, London - Edition de luxes, each one limited to 1, 150 copies signed by Rackham
A magnificent set of Rackham's dramatic interpretation of Wagner's libretti, in the large deluxe vellum bindings, each one numbered and signed by Rackham.
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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Price HK$ 48,000
1910 - William Heinemann, London - Edition de luxes, each one limited to 1, 150 copies signed by Rackham
A magnificent set of Rackham's dramatic interpretation of Wagner's libretti, in the large deluxe vellum bindings, each one numbered and signed by Rackham.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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Price HK$ 48,000
The Day of the Locust -
Nathanael West
1939 - Random House, New York - First Edition
A very difficult first edition to find in a reasonable dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap (those without price should be treated with caution as there was an unpriced book club edition), no restoration or tape repair, with the commonly encountered toning to the spine label due to the publisher’s adhesive.
‘Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the “Best 100 English-language novels” by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture.’ [New Directions].
‘In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring actress, he is intoxicated and his desperate passion explodes into rage...’ [Penguin]
‘Los Angeles has been the subject of, and setting for, many fine novels yet The Day of the Locust still feels like the single best-achieved piece of fiction the city has inspired.’ – The Los Angeles Times.
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Price HK$ 25,000
1939 - Random House, New York - First Edition
A very difficult first edition to find in a reasonable dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap (those without price should be treated with caution as there was an unpriced book club edition), no restoration or tape repair, with the commonly encountered toning to the spine label due to the publisher’s adhesive.‘Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the “Best 100 English-language novels” by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture.’ [New Directions].
‘In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring actress, he is intoxicated and his desperate passion explodes into rage...’ [Penguin]
‘Los Angeles has been the subject of, and setting for, many fine novels yet The Day of the Locust still feels like the single best-achieved piece of fiction the city has inspired.’ – The Los Angeles Times.
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Price HK$ 25,000
Kiki’s Memoirs -
Kiki [Alice Prin], Ernest Hemingway (editor), Samuel Putnam (translator)
1930 - Edward W. Titus at the sign of the Black Manikin Press, Paris - First Edition in English, one of 1000 copies
A superb and apparently unopened copy of the memoirs of Kiki of Montparnasse – buxom, sensuous, strikingly made-up, uninhibited artist’s model and Parisian good-time girl in the 1920’s who was, Hemingway wrote in his introduction, ‘about as close as people get nowadays to being a Queen but that, of course, is very different from being a lady’.
Featuring an Introduction by Ernest Hemingway, and wonderfully illustrated throughout with full page reproductions of 20 paintings by Kiki and with numerous portraits of her by Tsuguharu Foujita, Kisling, Per Krogh, Hermione David and others, together with several by photographer Man Ray, whose lover she was for eight stormy years. Translated from the French by Samuel Putnam and presented here in the original glassine wrapper, the intact red wraparound band, and the publisher's original slipcase.
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Price HK$ 6,500
1930 - Edward W. Titus at the sign of the Black Manikin Press, Paris - First Edition in English, one of 1000 copies
A superb and apparently unopened copy of the memoirs of Kiki of Montparnasse – buxom, sensuous, strikingly made-up, uninhibited artist’s model and Parisian good-time girl in the 1920’s who was, Hemingway wrote in his introduction, ‘about as close as people get nowadays to being a Queen but that, of course, is very different from being a lady’.Featuring an Introduction by Ernest Hemingway, and wonderfully illustrated throughout with full page reproductions of 20 paintings by Kiki and with numerous portraits of her by Tsuguharu Foujita, Kisling, Per Krogh, Hermione David and others, together with several by photographer Man Ray, whose lover she was for eight stormy years. Translated from the French by Samuel Putnam and presented here in the original glassine wrapper, the intact red wraparound band, and the publisher's original slipcase.
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Price HK$ 6,500