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The Grapes of Wrath -
John Steinbeck
1939 - The Viking Press, New York - First Edition
‘They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency.’
A sharp bright and unrestored first edition of Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Great Depression.
‘You got to have patience. Why, Tom, us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people, we go on.’
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Price HK$ 80,000
1939 - The Viking Press, New York - First Edition
‘They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency.’ A sharp bright and unrestored first edition of Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Great Depression.
‘You got to have patience. Why, Tom, us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people, we go on.’
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Price HK$ 80,000
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