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71 HAWKING, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam Books, 1988 the rare suppressed first printing First US edition, first printing, of one of the most important scientific works of the 20th century. 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 quarter cloth, spine lettered in silver, black paper-covered sides. With dust jacket. Full-page and in-text illustrations and diagrams. Slight rubbing and sunning around extremities, near-fine in very good jacket, slight central crease at head of spine panel, minor pitting and scratch to rear panel, light rubbing at extremities and a little toned, not price-clipped. £1,750 [157295]
72 HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Constitution of Liberty. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960 a seminal text of the neoliberal revival First UK edition. Written to coincide with the centenary of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (although published a year late), Hayek surveys the origin and development of economic and personal liberty in Western civilization, and outlines the threats that he sees socialism and welfarism pose to a free, liberal society. Along with The Road to Serfdom , The Constitution of Liberty became a canonical text of the neoliberal revival in the next two decades, and proved a major influence on Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, both of whom quietly disregarded Hayek’s postscript “Why I Am Not a Conservative”. The US edition was published by the University of Chicago Press the same year. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt on blue ground. With dust jacket. Ownership signature of one Robert B. Manley, 9 October 1961, to front pastedown. Extremities lightly bumped, endpapers toned, a near-fine copy in like jacket, light chipping at extremities, but still much cleaner and brighter than usual, price intact, without repair. ¶ Cody & Ostrem B–12. £1,750 [156292]
73 HEANEY, Seamus. North. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1975 “my hands come, touched / by sweetbriar and tangled vetch” First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Susan with good wishes Seamus Heaney 9th July 1975”. North is widely considered to be Heaney’s key collection of poems in which he deals directly with the political conflicts in Northern Ireland. Octavo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. With dust jacket. Front endpapers toned, else a fine copy in a near-fine jacket, spine and panels a little sunned, couple of nicks to rear fold and bumps to corners, not price-clipped. ¶ Brandes & Durkan A12a. £2,250 [156989] 74 HEINLEIN, Robert A. The Puppet Masters. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951 in a notably bright example of the jacket First edition. Originally serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction , The Puppet Masters is an explicit reflection of the American paranoia invoked by the “Red Scare”, with parallels drawn between mind-controlling parasites from outer space and the Communist Russians.
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