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69 FEYNMAN, Richard P. Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985 a genius’s CLASSIC VOLUME OF MEMOIRS First edition. “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!” includes humorous and insightful stories from Feynman’s childhood, education at MIT, work on the Manhattan Project, and his teaching and research career. The title refers to the bafflement of an administrator’s wife at MIT when the inexperienced young Feynman requested both lemon and cream in his tea. Other memorable stories include his lock- picking escapades at Los Alamos, his request to see a “map of the cat”, and the poignant death of his beloved first wife, Arlene. The New York Times review of this volume describes him as “a storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain” who “proves once again that it is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the same time” (27 January 1985). Octavo. Original red cloth-backed red boards, title to spine gilt. With dust jacket. Slight lean to spine, very good in good jacket, spine panel sunned as often, a few peripheral nicks. £1,250 [150443]
WITH AN EXTRA SNAP First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies signed by Erwitt together with an original silver gelatin print titled “Paris”, numbered and signed by Erwitt. Quarto. Original blue boards, titles to spine and front cover in silver. In the publisher’s clamshell box with an original photographic print housed in the lid. Numerous monochrome images throughout. All in fine condition. £2,500 [152161]
win the 1973 Booker Prize. He disliked his first book and would not permit it to be reprinted. Of Farrell, who died aged 44, Salman Rushdie later said: “Had he not sadly died so young, there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists of the English language.” Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in white. With dust jacket. Extremities slightly bumped, small marks to covers, some browning and foxing, creases to rear pastedown, edges slightly soiled, else a good copy. A few creases to dust jacket, acetate lifting slightly on front, minor foxing to verso and extremities frayed, but still a presentable and good example of an unclipped jacket. £1,500 [149689] 68 FARRELL, J. G., as James Farrell. The Lung. London: Hutchinson, 1965 First edition of the author’s second book. It was favourably reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement on 11 November 1965 as “an effective, potent brew, compounded of desperation and a certain wild hilarity.” Octavo. Original black boards, lettering to spine in silver, grey endpapers. With dust jacket. Slight cockling to rear pastedown, else a tight and near-fine copy. Some dampstaining to rear panel of dust jacket with some light soiling and minimal fraying at extremities; otherwise a very good example in an unclipped state. £750 [149698]
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67 FARRELL, J. G., as James Farrell. A Man From Elsewhere. London: Hutchinson, 1963 HIS SCARCE FIRST BOOK First edition, sole impression, of the author’s first book, which was not reprinted, published as part of the publisher’s “New Authors Limited” experiment. The author, here credited as “James Farrell” but better known as J. G. Farrell (1935–1979), would later
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