252 TEVIS, Walter S. The Queen’s Gambit. New York: Random House, 1983 First edition. The Queen’s Gambit was Tevis’s penultimate novel, published a year before he died. It was adapted into the popular miniseries of the same title in 2020. Octavo. Original black cloth-backed grey boards, spine lettered in white, chess board design to front cover in white. With dust jacket. Ownership signature on front pastedown. Slight fading to lower board edges, internally fresh and clean. A near-fine copy in like dust jacket, a couple of nicks, otherwise a bright, sharp example. £675 [156906] 253 TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Children of Húrin. London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007 First edition, deluxe issue, signed by the illustrator on the title page. Octavo. Original grey paper boards, blue morocco-grain paper strip, gilt lettering to spine, Tolkien monogram to spine and rear cover, gilt illustration to front cover. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase. With 9 colour plates and further black and white illustrations to text by Lee, and red and black map of Beleriand by Christopher Tolkien to rear. A fine copy. £500 [159281] 254 TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Fall of Gondolin. London: Harper Collins, 2018 First edition, deluxe issue, signed by the illustrator on the title page. The Fall of Gondolin was left unfinished on Tolkien’s death and first appeared in the posthumously published work, The Silmarillion (1977). This is the first separate appearance of the story, edited and completed by Tolkien’s son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien. Octavo. Original grey paper boards, light brown morocco- grain paper strip, gilt lettering to spine, Tolkien monogram to spine and rear cover, gilt illustration to front cover. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase. With 9 colour plates and further black and white illustrations to text by Lee, and red and black map of Beleriand by Christopher Tolkien to rear. Hint of glue residue to slipcase. A fine copy. £400 [159280]
257 WHITE, E. B. Stuart Little. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945 First edition. Stuart Little was the author’s first children’s novel and a bestseller, preceding Charlotte’s Web by some seven years. Octavo. Original grey cloth, lettering and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover in orange and green, pictorial endpapers. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Garth Williams. Spine gently leaning, spine ends slightly bumped, minor rubbing to extremities, contents clean; a near-fine copy in the very good jacket, price-clipped and a little toned, some chips and short tears along the edges, remaining firm. ¶ E. Scott, E. B. White, A Biography , 1986. £750 [157981] 258 WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Selected Letters, New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957 First edition, signed limited issue, number 73 of 75 copies signed by the author and specially bound. He corresponded with Thirwall as it was being edited, emphasizing that the collection “should be a portrait of my gallery of friends” (quoted in Wallace). Octavo. Original buckram-backed dark red cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt on dark red ground, top edge red, tan endpapers. In the original card slipcase with numbered title label on front. Cloth a touch rubbed, else a fine copy in like slipcase, two tiny marks to front. ¶ Wallace, A42b. £750 [157374]
255 TUTU, Desmond Mpilo – SPARKS, Allister, & Mpho A. Tutu. Tutu: The Authorised Portrait. Johannesburg: Macmillan, in association with PQ Blackwell, 2011 First South African edition, inscribed by Tutu on the title page, “Barry, God bless you [cross and signature] 7. 10. 2011 Cape Town”, on the occasion of his 80th birthday celebration, held at the Cathedral Church of St. George in Cape Town, with the programme loosely inserted and similarly inscribed “Barry, God bless you [cross and signature] 7. 10. 2011”. Quarto. Original pictorial boards. With dust jacket. With photograph illustrations throughout. Minimal bumping to book and jacket extremities; a near-fine copy. £750 [159164] 256 WALLACE, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996 First edition, in the first state jacket with Vollmann misspelled as “Vollman” on the rear panel. This is an excellent copy of Wallace’s post-modernist magnum opus. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Tiny marks to spine and edges of text block, trivial mark to gutter of front free endpaper. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, security sticker adhered to verso of rear panel, a few trivial marks to front panel and head of spine panel, else very bright and sharp. £550 [156691]
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