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relationship and David Garnett was for a keen supporter of Bates’s work, writing to the author that he was one of only a few writers who made him feel “warm in a cold world” (Baldwin, p. 195). Bates and David Garnett helped to found Rupert Hart-Davis’s publishing company in 1946 and worked together with Hart-Davis on a brief biography of Edward Garnett, published in 1950. 3 works, octavo. Original red, blue, and green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. With dust jackets designed by Broom Lynne. Very good copies indeed, slight lean to spines, extremities rubbed, edges toned, minor offsetting to endpapers, in near-fine dust jackets, minor rubbing to extremities, one small chip to head of front panel to first title, three sharp unclipped examples. ¶ Eads A86a, A87a, A90a. Dean R. Baldwin, H. E. Bates: A Literary
one of the most important gay novels of the first half of the 20th century in the English language. Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge purple. With dust jacket. Contemporary brown paper wrapper used as envelope, addressed in Djuna Barnes’s hand to “Harry Payne Burton, Esq/ c/o Cosmopolitan Magazine, 57 W & 8th Ave, New York City, U. S. America”, with her return address in Paris (“9 Rue St. Romain, Paris, France”). Housed in a purple morocco-backed bookform box by the Chelsea Bindery. Slight lean to spine, light foxing to endpapers and first and last few leaves, a remarkably fresh copy in a lovely example of the jacket, unusually clean, small chips to head of spine panel and corners, a few short closed tears, in beautiful condition, superbly preserved by the contemporary brown paper wrapper. ¶ Phillip F. Herring, Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes , 1995; Nancy Levine, “‘Bringing Milkshakes to Bulldogs’: The Early Journalism of Djuna Barnes”, Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes , 1991; Therese Lueck, Women’s Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines , 1995. £15,000 [155857] 7 BATES, H. E. The Darling Buds of May; [together with] A Breath of French Air; [and] When the Green Woods Laugh. London: Michael Joseph, 1958–59–60 “You are one of very few people writing who makes me feel warm in a cold world” First editions, first impressions, with a strong personal and professional association with the author’s close friends and Bloomsbury insiders Angelica and David Garnett, the first title being signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper: “David and Angelica, affectionately as always, H E, 1/58”; with David Garnett’s bookplate to the front pastedown. This set of the first three of Bates’s bucolic Larkin titles reflects his close relationship with the Garnett family. The daughter of Vanessa Bell, Angelica Garnett (1918–2012) was an artist, painter, and writer, author of the 1984 memoir Deceived with Kindness , an account of her coming of age amongst the Bloomsbury group. Angelica’s husband, David “Bunny” Garnett (1892–1981), was himself a member of the group and co-founder of the Nonesuch Press with Francis Meynell. The couple knew Bates through the patronage of David’s father, Edward, who became Bates’s mentor at Jonathan Cape at the outset of his career. They developed a close
Life , 1987. £2,500
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8 BECKETT, Samuel. Malone Dies. New York: Grove Press, 1965 Inscribed to his literary agent First US edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page, “For William & Roslyn Targ very cordially Samuel Beckett”; number 431 of 500 copies. Roslyn Targ (1925–2017) was Beckett’s literary agent and was prominent in the 1950s and 1960s for selling translation rights for American books to foreign publishers. Her husband William (1907–1999) was a noted Beckett collector; he was editor at World Publishing and Putnam’s before founding his own imprint, Targ Editions. Malone Dies was originally published in French in 1951, under the title Malone meurt , and in English in 1958 in London. Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine and front cover in black. Pen underlining and annotations to pp. 12–16 (likely by the recipients), inner hinges toned; a very good copy. £3,000 [153779]
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