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69 GARCIA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Cholera. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988 PUBLISHER’S PRESENTATION COPY First edition in English, signed limited issue, number 209 of 350 copies signed by the author and specially bound, publisher’s presentation copy with their unsigned presentation slip loosely inserted. The novel was originally published in Colombia under the title El amor en los tiempos del cólera in 1985. The American edition preceded the UK edition by a few months. Octavo. Original black and pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pink endpapers. With the printed acetate dust jacket and publisher’s yellow card slipcase. Book, jacket, and slipcase all in fine condition. £5,000 [155125] 70 GARDINER, Allen F. Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country, in South Africa. London: William Crofts, 1836 First edition of Gardiner’s well-illustrated account of his travels in Zululand, during which he brokered a treaty between the Zulu chief Dingane and the residents of Port Natal (modern-day Durban) regarding land rights and the status of refugees. This “interesting description of the country” (Mendelssohn) contains “much information . . .
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concerning missions in Kaffirland and early events in Natal” (Theal). One year later, Gardiner returned to England in 1836 to petition the government to colonize Port Natal, but they refused to act; instead, Gardiner returned to Zululand with the assistance of the Church Missionary Society. Here Gardiner received another warm reception from Dingane, but when the chief ordered the Piet Retief Delegation massacre, Gardiner saw the region as too volatile for successful missionary work and left for South America. Captain Allen Francis Gardiner (1794–1851) travelled the world as a Royal Navy officer, all the while nurturing an interest in missionary work that was not realized until he set foot in South Africa in 1834. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and framed in gilt, yellow coated endpapers, edges untrimmed. With 26 lithograph plates (2 of them in colour, most with tissue guards) by T. M. Baynes after the author’s sketches, 2 folding maps and tipped-in errata slip at rear. Armorial bookplate of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (1857–1943). Spine sunned, couple of light marks on cloth, front joint a little frayed, cockling to rear cover, wear to tips, inner hinges partially split but firm, one folding map with short closed tear at stub and 5.5 cm closed tear at foot, marginal foxing to a few leaves, overall clean. A very good copy. ¶ Mendelssohn I, pp. 587–8; Theal, Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets relating to Africa south of the Zambesi in the Collection
of George McCall Theal , p. 112. Michał Leśniewski, The Zulu-Boer War 1837–1840 , 2021. £750 [154378] 71 GILBERT & GEORGE. Side by Side: Gilbert & George the Sculptors 1971. Cologne & New First and limited edition, number 245 of 600 copies, signed by the artists, and bound in marbled cloth, the marbling of each copy being unique. Side by Side was published just five years after the artists first met. This “contemporary sculpture novel” is divided into the chapters “With Us in the Nature”, “A Glimpse Into the Abstract World”, and “The Reality in Our Living”, with alternating prose and illustrations. The text of the final chapter consists of the lyrics to Flanagan and Allen’s Underneath the Arches (1932), printed 19 times, on each occasion facing a new illustration. That musical piece also featured in other early works by Gilbert & George, including their art installation The Living Sculpture (1969), in which York: Konig Brothers, 1972 SIGNED BY THE ARTISTS
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