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19 BEACH, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959 Octavo. Original cream cloth, titles to spine in gilt, bookshelf design in blind to head of front cover and spine, brown endpapers. With the dust jack- et. Illustrated title page and 8 photographic plates. Foxing to cloth and a little to edges; else a near-fine copy in the faintly soiled jacket with small chips to spine fold ends and creasing to edges. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “For my nephew Fred, from his loving aunt Sylvia, Paris, October 6th 1959”. The recipient, Frederic Dennis, was the son of Sylvia’s older sister Holly (pictured on p. 108) who provided support, both financial and moral, in the early days of Shakespeare and Company. On 17 November 1919 Beach (1887–1962) opened Shakespeare and Company with the help of her lifelong compan- ion, Adrienne Monnier. “Together they orchestrated much of the exchange of English and French literature for the first half of the 20th century”, including the publication of Ulysses ( ODNB ). £2,750 [122518] 20 BEAUVOIR, Simone de. Les Mandarins. Roman. Paris: Gallimard, 1954 Octavo. Original white wrappers, titles to spine and front cover in red and black. With the glassine wrapper. Light offsetting to front free endpaper due to presentation card; else a fine copy in the scarce glassine wrapper.
first and limited edition, presentation copy, with an au- tograph presentation card inscribed by the author loosely inserted: “Souvenir de plaisirs heureux séjours à l’Aichi S. de Beauvoir” (“In reemembrance of a happy, pleasurable stay at Aichi”). In 1966 Beau- voir undertook a three-week lecture tour of Japan with Jean-Paul Sar- tre, giving lectures in both Tokyo and Kyoto: Aichi is a prefecture of Japan which lies between the two. Asabuki Tomiko (1917–2005) who guided the tour, and her brother, Sankichi, translated a number of Beauvoir’s works into Japanese, including Les Mandarins in 1956. This is number 93 of 110 copies on Lafuma Navarre paper, from a total edition of 885. It won France’s highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. Signed copies of the work are notably uncommon. £950 [130910] 21 BELL, Gertrude Lowthian. The Arab of Mesopotamia. Basrah: published by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1917 Small octavo. Original green cloth, title in gilt to front board. Housed in a green cloth slipcase and chemise, maroon morocco label to spine. Frontis- piece map of Mesopotamia. Spine and extremities rubbed, a little cockling around spine, gilt of title slightly rubbed, interior browned. A very good copy. first edition of this fragile official publication, uncommon, par- ticularly so in such relatively sharp condition. Though purporting to be a “series of brief essays on subjects relating to Mesopotamia, written during 1916, by persons with special knowledge of the sub- jects dealt with” (preface), it was later confirmed that “Gertrude Bell admits to having written it” (Sluglett, p. 295). The second sec- tion (pp. 100–202) has a separate title page entitled “Asiatic Tur- key” and is explicitly attributed to her. Bell notes in her preface, dated October 1917, that “these articles were written at the request of the War Office during June and July, 1917. It has been suggested that they might be of some interest to members of the Force serv- ing in Mesopotamia who may not have had opportunity to make acquaintance with the Dominions of the Sultan beyond the battle- fields of Gallipoli and the ’Iraq”. Sluglett, Peter, Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country , I. B. Tauris, 2007. £500 [129951]
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