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186 THOMPSON, Hunter S. – AGEE, James, & Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Three Tenant Families. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960 HUNTER S. THOMPSON’S COPY First expanded edition, Hunter S. Thompson’s copy, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Thompson’s style of Gonzo journalism has its roots in the reeling subjectivity of Agee’s narration of Southern labour lives, sharing in his denigration of “honest journalism” and curiosity with the lives of the “undefended and appallingly damaged” (intro.). First published in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men began as a collaboration between photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee, sent by Fortune Magazine to write a feature on white tenant farmers in the South during the height of the depression. Evans’s quiet, composed images influenced Thompson’s own amateur photography, and Agee is considered a precursor to the New Journalists. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With dust jacket. With photographs by Walker Evans. Spine ends and tips slightly bumped with a little rubbing to extremities and titles, else boards clean and firm, contents bright and unmarked. A near-fine copy, in the lightly rubbed jacket, a little wear to head of spine panel with small chip, a few short closed tears to extremities and the occasional mark, not price-clipped. ¶ Roth 101, p. 108. £3,500 [149701]
187 TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace. London: Oxford University Press, 1958 A handsomely bound copy. This revised translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude was first published in three volumes in 1933 in the OUP’s World’s Classics series. This single volume India Paper edition was first issued in 1941. Small octavo (152 × 101 mm). Finely bound for Asprey in red full morocco, titles and compartments tooled in gilt to spine, raised bands ruled in gilt, covers single ruled in gilt, board edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. With two folding maps facing p. 261 and p. 462. Neat bookplate to front pastedown, slight rubbing at joint ends. A fine copy. £500 [153575] 188 TWEEDIE, William. The Arabian Horse His Country and People . . . Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1894 First edition, deluxe format, number 26 of 100 copies only on large handmade paper; a lavishly produced and comprehensive study. The author, Major-General Tweedie, was appointed as Resident of Turkish Arabia in Baghdad in 1881, a role which involved inspecting all aspects of local life, including the trade in Arabian horses. He was a Companion of the Order of the Star of India.
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Folio (339 × 260 mm). Original green half morocco, flat spine lettered and decorated in gilt, front cover with a large gilt block of a horse’s head, dark purple endpapers, green cloth inner hinges, top edge gilt, others uncut. Colour frontispiece and 12 plates, of which 6 are in full colour, 1 is a photographic reproduction printed in 1 colour and 5 are monochrome (4 with multiple images); 25 monochrome text illustrations; large folding map printed in colour in rear pocket; title page printed in red and black. Contemporary armorial bookplate of one C. J. Anstruther; pencilled gift inscription to preliminary blank. A few scrapes to leather and colour carefully retouched, a few old splash stains and light abrasions to sides, occasional foxing. A very good copy. ¶ Podeschi, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship in The Paul Mellon Collection , 258. £8,750 [152437]
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