One of the most important scientific works of the 20th century, A Brief History of Time details the origin and eventual fate of the universe. The first US edition was published simultaneously with the UK edition in April 1988. The error-riddled first printing of the former was recalled and destroyed, though a small number survived. It has grey-blue endpapers, lacks the contents page and the dedication statement on the copyright page, shows a number of figures incorrectly ordered or labelled, and has a silvery light-blue dust jacket, similar in colour to that of the UK first edition jacket. The second printing has white endpapers, the contents page and dedication present, corrections made to the figures, and a dark blue dust jacket. There are several textual differences and a different ISBN was assigned. Octavo. Original black cloth-backed black boards, spine lettered in silver, grey-blue endpapers. With dust jacket. Together with a 2-page typed press release on Bantam News letterhead, folded and stapled top left, and a black and white photograph of Hawking in his wheelchair, taken by Miriam Berkley in 1988, captioned beneath “Dr. Stephen M. Hawking. Author of A Brief History of Time . . . ”. Full-page and in-text illustrations and diagrams. Faint vertical creasing to front free endpaper and following leaves, a few light marks to jacket rear panel, photograph bumped lower right. A near-fine copy. £2,500 [154850] 80 HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Road to Serfdom. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1944 TO THE SOCIALISTS OF ALL PARTIES First edition. Hayek’s classic polemic against centralization and collectivism, among the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism and libertarianism, was “far and away the most eloquent and straightforward statement of his political and economic outlook that Hayek ever achieved” ( ODNB ). Though in the short term the book failed to halt the rapid extension of government power into economic life, over the next few decades the book inspired countless proponents of economic liberty, became a foundation of the revival of liberal economics, and was adopted as a guiding text in the Thatcher and Reagan projects. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pencilled note on pastedown from a former owner noting
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79 HAWKING, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam Books, 1988 THE RARE SUPPRESSED FIRST PRINTING, WITH PRE-PUBLICATION EPHEMERA First US edition, a review copy of the suppressed first printing of this masterpiece of scientific popularization; accompanied by a press release from Bantam New York’s publicity director Sally Williams and a black-and-white press photograph of Hawking introducing him as the author.
78 HARRISON, George. Live in Japan. George Harrison with Eric Clapton and Band. Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 1993 SIGNED BY GEORGE HARRISON First edition, number 1,213 of 3,500 copies, signed by Harrison. At the close of 1991 Harrison teamed-up with Eric Clapton’s band and embarked on a 12-date tour Japan. It was George Harrison’s first tour since 1974, and the first time that George and Eric had appeared together in a full concert since “The Concert for Bangladesh” in 1971. It includes George’s personal recollections of the tour and memories of times on the road with the Beatles. The book features almost 500 previously unpublished photographs. A souvenir pack of the backstage pass used on the tour, the satin after-show pass, and copies of four guitar picks used by Harrison and Clapton accompany the volume. Quarto. Original full black morocco, spine lettered in red and gilt, front cover lettered in red, all edges gilt. Two compact discs and explanatory printed pages bound in black buckram. Housed in the publisher’s black morocco slipcase with printed label to front. With photographs throughout. All in fine condition. £2,750 [153864]
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