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7 (ANYTE OF TEGEA.) The Poems. Cleveland: The Clerk’s Press, 1917 Sextodecimo. Original wrappers, title label to front cover. Sunning to spine and somewhat around edges, faint offset tanning at endpapers, but an ex- cellent copy. limited edition, number 35 of 40 copies only, printed on Tuscany handmade paper. This little production prints Aldington’s translation (first published the preceding year) alongside the Greek text of 25 surviving poems by Anyte of Tegea ( fl . early third centu- ry bce). Antipater of Thessalonica, a first-century literary critic, hailed her as the female Homer. £250 [121080] 8 ARENDT, Hannah. Rahel Varnhagen. The Life of a Jewess. London: published for the Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany by the East and West Library, 1957 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Spine and extremities bleached, spine ends a little bumped, dust jacket extremities lightly rubbed and with a few nicks, jacket spine faded, lower front panel marked, tape repair to inner spine, a very good copy. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “For Harry Zohn, cordially, Cambridge, April 6, 1967”. The recipi- ent, Harry Zohn (1923–2001), was an educator, writer, and transla- tor of important works of German literature. Arendt edited Zohn’s translation of Walter Benjamin’s Illuminations (1968). This is the German-born Jewish political theorist’s first commer- cially published book, which she began writing in the late 1920s, translated from the German. The work was nearly complete when Arendt was forced to leave Germany, and she did not return to her project until nearly two decades later, at which point much of the archival material she had planned to consult had been destroyed. It is a biography of the woman Arendt called “my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years”: German-Jew-
ish writer Rahel Levin (1771–1833), who hosted one of the most prominent salons of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. See The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress, Correspondence File, 1938–76. £4,250 [118211] 9 ATWOOD, Margaret. The Circle Game. Toronto: Contact Press, 1966 Octavo. Original wrappers, printed in red and black. Spine and wrapper edg- es toned, very mild rubbing to extremities, but an excellent copy. first edition, superb presentation copy of atwood’s first regularly published book, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “For Jim Carscallen with thanks for help on earlier MSS., & remembrance of large Vancouver slugs, Peggy Atwood. 1966”, and extensively annotated by Carscallen in pencil through- out the copy and on a laid-in leaf of notepaper. Professor James An- drew Carscallen (1934–2016) was studying for his English literature PhD under Northrop Frye at Victoria University, Toronto, when At- wood was an undergraduate also studying with Frye. The reminis- cence of “large Vancouver slugs” seems to suggest that Carscallen visited Atwood during her brief teaching placement at the Univer- sity of British Columbia in 1965, and their familiarity is reflected in Atwood’s use of “Peggy” in the inscription. The Circle Game won Atwood the first of her many awards, the Gov- ernor-General’s Award. This is one of just 200 copies issued in wrap- pers aside from a “Library edition” issue of 50 hardback copies. £2,750 [124421]
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