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commerce during the early Georgian era” ( DNB ). Its theories became the cornerstone of the Walpole administration’s economic policy, and to promote the ideas the Exchequer put up nearly £400 towards the cost of reprinting the periodical in the present book form. Its dissemination was guaranteed, as the Earl of Sutherland, first lord of the treasury, ordered a copy to be sent to each parliamentary borough. 3 volumes, octavo (226 × 134 mm). Contemporary calf, spines decorated in gilt, recent orange morocco labels to style, covers bordered in blind with double gilt rule, red edges. With 2 folding letterpress tables to volume I. Ownership signature to dedication pages of Richard Alexander Oswald (1771–1841), Scottish Liberal MP for Ayrshire from 1832 to 1835, and from the prominent Oswald merchant and slave trading family; also with the 19th-century book label of his South Ayrshire estate, Auchincruive, on the front free endpapers (the library was dispersed at Sotheby’s in May 1922); small 20th-century ink numerical shelf mark stamp to dedication pages (mostly removed in first volume). Slight loss to gilt, contents with occasional light spotting, light peripheral staining in vol. III. A very good copy. ¶ ESTC T99984; Goldsmiths’ 5943; Kress 3389; Sraffa 3044. John Ramsey McCulloch, The Literature of Political Economy , 1845. £10,000 [158471] 86 KITCHIN, C. H. B. Streamers Waving. London: Hogarth Press, 1925 First edition of the author’s debut novel, and a Hogarth Press rarity, especially so in the dust jacket.
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Woolmer notes that the print run was 1,000 copies, with the Sussex ledger showing 412 sold by 18 January 1926. We can find no appearances listed in auction records. In his novel Crime at Christmas (1935), Kitchin wrote: “‘It is my fate, in Bloomsbury, to be thought a Philistine, while in other circles I am regarded as a dilettante with too keen an aesthetic sense to be a responsible person’” (Holroyd). Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Times Book Club ticket to rear pastedown. Some discolouration to cloth at spine, very slight rubbing to ends and corners, sound and clean within, the jacket with small chips to ends and corners, and a small perforation at middle of spine, but generally very good indeed. ¶ Woolmer 68. Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey: The New Biography , 2015. £2,750 [156893] 87 LE CARRÉ, John. Call for the Dead; [together with] A Murder of Quality. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1964 first penguin editions of the author’s first two books, both signed
First Penguin editions of the author’s first two books, both signed “David Cornwell aka John le Carré”, Call for the Dead on the title page, A Murder of Quality on the first leaf. Both were first published by Gollancz: Call for the Dead in 1961 and A Murder of Quality in 1962. Call for the Dead was filmed as The Deadly Affair (1966), and le Carré himself adapted A Murder of Quality for television in 1991. The design of the Crime Series was reimagined under Germano Facetti, Penguin’s art director from 1960 to 1972. He approached Romek Marber to propose a new cover approach for the series, and was “so successful that Facetti applied it, effectively unchanged, to the blue Pelicans and to the orange covers of Penguin fiction. Before long, its spirit pervaded the entire list” (Poynor). 2 volumes, octavo. Original green and white wrappers printed in black and red. Extremities a touch rubbed, light foxing to head of front wrapper and top edge of Call for the Dead , text block toned with faint stain to lower edge of first few leaves, spine of A Murder of Quality a little cocked and toned, wrappers lightly creased. A very good set indeed, both bright and firm. ¶ Rick Poynor, “Penguin Crime”, Eye Magazine , 2004, available online. £1,250 [157380]
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