bumped, small ink mark on fore edge. A very good copy in like dust jacket, tiny marks and spots of soiling, slight wear to upper edges, remains bright. ¶ Arifa Akbar, review in the Financial Times , 26 May 2017. £2,200 [161778] 57 EDWARDS, Amelia Ann Blanford. A Thousand Miles up the Nile. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1877 “the godmother of egyptology” First edition, a unique, extra-illustrated, large paper presentation copy, given with the author’s compliments in the form of an autograph letter (dated January 1877) to the judge Thomas Falconer, with his ownership stamp on front free endpaper verso. We can trace no other copies thus illustrated as having appeared at auction. The polymath Amelia Edwards (1832–1892) “arrived in Egypt – almost by accident, to get out of the European rain on a long holiday – and discovered what was to become her life’s love. Travelling by dahabiah , a well-appointed sailing craft peculiar to the Nile, and armed with a sketchbook and measuring tape, Amelia carefully recorded all she saw of temples, graves, and monuments” (Robinson). She was joined by friend Lucy Renshawe, and while at Abu Simbel the pair discovered, excavated, and described in detail a previously unknown small temple with a painted chamber. On her return to England, she read extensively about ancient Egypt and consulted the specialists Dr Samuel Birch and R. S. Poole on historical and archaeological details. With this knowledge, she wrote the present work, which was to become “one of the great classics of the history of the Nile” (Crewe), richly illustrated with plates from her watercolours. While in Egypt, Edwards had been deeply troubled by the neglect of the ancient monuments and vandalism by tourists. She wanted the precious objects preserved and if excavations were to take place, the site left so that subsequent explorers could resume work without difficulty. So, on 27 March 1882, “the Egypt Exploration Fund (later Egypt Exploration Society) was brought into being. R. S. Poole and Amelia Edwards were elected honorary joint secretaries, and Edwards retained the post until her death in 1892 . . . The Egypt Exploration Society acknowledges its foundation chiefly to the efforts of Amelia Edwards. It was the very first society to undertake ‘the excavation of Egypt’s buried places and the recovery of its records by the employment of scientific archaeological methods’” ( ODNB ). Her devotion to ancient Egyptian heritage earned her the nickname “The Godmother of Egyptology”. She was also involved in the advancement of women’s rights as vice president of the Society for the Promotion of Women’s Suffrage. Provenance: judge Thomas Falconer (1805–1882) was a laborious worker, “a staunch Liberal, a committed law reformer, and an energetic opponent of abuses. He was highly critical of the policies pursued in Lower Canada regarding political prisoners detained in the aftermath of the rebellion of the patriots in 1837” ( ODNB ). Like Edwards, Falconer wrote a great volume of books and articles and was a traveller of great experience. Quarto. Original light brown cloth over bevelled boards, rebacked with part of original spine laid down, covers elaborately panelled with
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55 EARHART, Amelia. The Fun of It. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932 First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, in a superb example of the rare dust jacket. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white, with Bakelite 78 record in rear pastedown pocket, gold paper sticker unsealed. With dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 15 plates. A very good copy indeed, superficial split to front joint, slight wear at spine ends and tips, a little offsetting to rear pastedown from record, contents clean and free from marks. In the like jacket, spine lightly sunned, extremities a trifle rubbed and chipped: a notably fresh and well-preserved example. £5,000 [149742] 56 EDDO-LODGE, Reni. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. London: Bloomsbury Circus, 2017 extensively annotated by the author with her retrospective thoughts This copy was thoroughly annotated as part of a 2022 fundraiser for English PEN. Reni Eddo-Lodge became the first Black British
writer to top the national book charts with this groundbreaking exploration of the challenges and frustrations of navigating race relations in the UK. This is a first edition, seventh impression; it was first published earlier in the same year. Eddo-Lodge’s annotations alternate between candid humour and serious reflection, offering a critical re- examination of her own book five years after its publication, ranging from updates to terminology to commentary on key passages she believes her detractors have misunderstood. Eddo-Lodge also discusses in the margins how the media and her personal life have transformed from 2017 to 2022 and, in three annotations across pp. 192–4, observes how the coronavirus pandemic has illustrated her book’s points about class, race, and the demographics of those working in retail, hospitality, and healthcare. “In continuing the conversation with white people, she reassigns the problem of race to them. Not everyone will find the answer to racial inequality in Eddo-Lodge’s reliance on white consciousness-raising, but it is an important shift that undermines the idea that racism is the BAME community’s burden to carry. The liberation that this book offers is in the reversal of responsibilities” (Akbar). Octavo. Original black boards, glossy black spine lettering, black endpapers. With dust jacket. Very occasional pencil underlinings by prior owner. Slight lean to spine, foot of spine and upper corners
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wide hieroglyphic border, new endpapers, gilt edges. With wood- engraved frontispiece, vignette to title page, 16 plates by G. Pearson after watercolours by the author, and numerous illustrations in the text, coloured photolithographic plate of a hieroglyphic inscription at Abu Simbel, 2 coloured folding maps; extra-illustrated with 39 albumen prints by Francis Frith, each blind-stamped “Frith’s Series” in lower left corner. Occasional pencil marginalia. Slightly worn and soiled, spots of foxing to boards, minor tears to fore edges of preliminary leaves, offsetting from photographs. A good copy, with contents generally clean and bright. ¶ Robinson, Wayward Women , pp. 13–14. Q. Crewe, Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys , 1982; John Hannavy, ed., Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography , vol. I, 2005; Engin Özendes, From Sebah & Joaillier to Foto Sabah, Orientalism in Photography , 2004. £2,250 [159187]
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