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47 CUMMINGS, E. E. 95 Poems. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, [1958] SIGNED BY CUMMINGS First edition, signed limited issue, number 8 of 300 copies signed by the author, 280 of which were released for sale, this copy particularly fresh under the rarely surviving glassine. The signed limited issue precedes the trade issue of the same year. The issue is notably uncommon and much coveted, not least because it contains many of Cummings’s best loved poems such as “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in” and “maggie and milly and molly and may”. 95 Poems, “a serene volume of verse, extolled the wonders of the natural world, honoured a number of very ordinary individuals, recorded Cummings’s outrage at the disastrous outcome of the Hungarian revolution, reflected memories of childhood, and meditated on birth, time, and death. It was a fitting close to the poet’s career” ( ANB ). Tall octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, title blocked in blind to covers, yellow endpapers, top edge yellow. With original glassine. Housed in publisher’s black paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy, in fine slipcase, and chipped glassine. £3,750 [153602]
48 DAHL, Roald. My Uncle Oswald. London: Michael Joseph, 1979 TO HIS HALF-SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his half-sister and brother-in-law on the front free endpaper, “Ellen & Ashley Love Roald 1979”. Ellen Marguerite Dahl (1903–1988) was the first of two children born to Harald Dahl and Marie Beaurin- Gresser. Her mother died in 1907 and her father remarried in 1911. Working as a medical laboratory technician she married Arnold Ashley Miles (1904– 1988) in 1930. Later Director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and Professor of Experimental Pathology in the University of London, Ashley Miles received a knighthood in 1966. The novel stars Uncle Oswald, a character who previously appeared in “The Visitor” and “Bitch”, two short stories also written by Roald Dahl (both of which were published in Switch Bitch ). Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. Spine ends slightly bumped, minimal leaning to spine and small marks to edges, else a near-fine copy, internally clean and bright. Top edge of tanned dust jacket slightly creased, with small closed tear to joint of rear flap, overall near-fine dust jacket which is not price-clipped. £1,500 [149098]
49 DARWIN, Bernard. The Golf Courses of the British Isles. London: Duckworth & Co., 1910 DARWIN MADE HIS REPUTATION PRIMARILY WITH PEN RATHER THAN PUTTER First edition, in the first issue binding with the illustrator’s name misspelled “Rowntree” on the front cover. Darwin, grandson of the famous naturalist, is still regarded as one of golf’s greatest journalists and his works have “achieved a classic status” (Jack, p. 151). Bernard Darwin (1876–1961) was golf correspondent for the Times for almost five decades. The present work, one of his many triumphs, is an essential part of any golfing library. In the second edition (1925), the chapter concerning the golf courses of Ireland was removed. Large octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt and green, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tissue-guarded colour frontispiece showing St. Andrews, 63 plates (47 colour) with tissue-guards. Illustrations by Harry Rountree. Cloth and gilt bright, slight lean to spine, extremities lightly rubbed, vertical creasing to rear free endpaper, moderate foxing to edges and text, plates clean and fresh. A very good copy. ¶ Donovan & Murdoch 14410. Zachary Michael Jack (ed.), Participatory Sportswriting: An Anthology, 1870–1937 , 2009. £1,750 [152783]
All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk
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