207 GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. The Great Crash 1929. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955 First UK edition of one of the author’s most popular works, a best-seller on publication and still widely read today. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Frontispiece illustration reproduced from The New Yorker Magazine . Slight foxing, a couple of instances of pencilled underlining, very good in slightly rubbed and soiled jacket, tiny chips at extremities, short closed tear at head of front fold discreetly repaired with Japanese tissue on verso. ¶ Dennistoun & Goodman 145. £375 [158978] 208 GILBERT & GEORGE. Dark Shadow. George & Gilbert, the sculptors. 1974. London: Art For All (& Nigel Greenwood Inc.), 1976 Signed limited edition, number 1,235 of 2,000 copies, signed and numbered by the artists in red ink. Gilbert & George describe Dark Shadow as a living sculpture in their introduction, “and so it proves. Eight chapters contain their musings on themselves, life and drinking, although not necessarily in that order . . . Given the rather po-faced image of British Conceptualism in the 1970s – all those bracing walks and earnest political tracts – this book is a witty and thoroughly tongue-in-cheek rejoinder” (Parr & Badger). Octavo. Original red and black marbled cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, latter with royal coat of arms stamped in gilt. Text and 128 black and white photographs by Gilbert and George. Bookseller’s label, Jaap Rietman, Inc. of New York, on rear pastedown. Cockling to covers as often found; a fine copy. ¶ Parr & Badger II, p. 153. Louisa Buck, “Gilbert & George go to Venice”, The Independent , 9 June 2005, available online; Susannah Butter, “Gilbert and George Interview”, The Evening Standard , 13 February 2020, available online. £625 [156335] 209 GRIFFIN, Johnny. Blues for Harvey. Copenhagen: SteepleChase, 1973 Signed flamboyantly by the Little Giant in blue ball-point pen at the top left corner of the back cover, “The Best, Johnny Griffin”. This is the first pressing of the original Danish release and, according to The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings , “provides some characteristically vivid tenor playing”. The cover portrait captures the Zapata- moustachioed tenorist sporting some killer shades. Blues
for Harvey is a mid-career high-point. “The three long cuts, “That Party Upstairs”, “Soft and Furry” and “Blues for Harvey”, are delivered by a band clearly stoked and in sympathy with the other’s approach. It must count as one of Drew’s best performances of the period, and Thigpen swings his socks off” (ibid.). Mads Vinding is the bassist, a stalwart of Copenhagen’s Café Montmatre, where this thoroughly enjoyable live album was recorded. The back cover features Griffin carousing for the camera with Harvey Sand, “his favourite Danish bartender,” after whom the album was named. 12-inch vinyl LP (SteepleChase SCS–1004), new plain paper sleeve (original sleeve also present), original album cover. Cover very good, clean and bright; disc in excellent condition. £385 [144500] 210 HANWAY, Jonas. A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames. London: printed by H. Woodfall, 1756 First edition of a work used to frame reflections on a range of subjects, including a lengthy diatribe against tea drinking that incurred the anger of Goldsmith and Johnson. Quarto (271 × 208 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered. Engraved frontispiece depicting a rural scene, and allegorical plate depicting a tea party in front of a ruined inn while tea is offloaded from a trading vessel, both by T. Major after S. Wale. Shadow of removed bookplate on front free endpaper, early note on the author to title page. Rubbed, light foxing towards ends, rear free endpaper creased. A very
good copy. ¶ ESTC T127188. Brian Hanley, Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer , 2001. £750 [156913] 211 HELLER, Joseph. Catch–22. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962 First UK edition of the author’s first book and his satirical masterpiece, in the second state dust jacket with American reviews printed on the rear panel (the first state prints an extract from the work). Based on Heller’s wartime experiences in the United States Army Air Corps, Catch–22 is a classic of anti-war literature. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. A near-fine copy, top edge sunned, edges and front matter gently foxed, book block square and firm, in very good, lightly soiled dust jacket, not price-clipped, extremities slightly rubbed and nicked. £750 [157655]
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