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38. HUXLEY, Aldous BRAVE NEW WORLD Chatto & Windus, 1932 [46694] First edition. Original blue cloth in stylish blue dustwrapper. A near fine copy, slightly cocked, in a very good dustwrapper, spine tanned and with some fraying to the spine ends and a little wear to the folds and corners. $7,000 The author’s highlight and a twenti- eth century classic of dystopian fic - tion. “...[a] brilliantly plausible fantasy he has constructed from his scientific gleanings. It is a Utopia which is nev - er dull, of which the horror is always credible...” (Connolly) Connolly 75
the original packing case made for shipping the book safely to subscrib- ers, is in virtually unblemished condition. “The Wake reminds me of the unfinished obelisk which lies on its side at Assuan, yet it has passages of unearthly beauty (particularly the last page) and huge comic scenes.” Connolly. 40. LAVATER, Ludwig OF GHOSTES AND SPIRITES WALK- ING BY NYGHT And of strange noyses, crackes, and sundry forewarnynges, which commonly happen before the death of menne, great slaughters, & alterations of kyngdomes. Printed at London by Henry Benneyman for Richard Watkyns, 1572 [44163] First English edition. 4to (183 x 135mm). Bound in full green mo- rocco by Stikeman. A near fine copy, generally very fresh, with light marks to the title page and final leaf, but otherwise crisp. Corner chip to C 3 . $70,000 The first edition in English of one of the most significant and popular ear - ly modern works on demonology, credited as a source for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Lavater was a Swiss protestant reformer, whose work was originally printed in the Netherlands in 1569. His work was the most significant contribution to the debate on ghosts and spirits in the Elizabethan era. Its significance has been lauded by a number of Shakespeare scholars over the course of the previous century. In 1906, F.W. Moorman described it as “the most elaborate treatment of [the] theological ghost question” in arguing for the direct bearing it had on Shakespeare when writing Hamlet. More recently Jonathan Bate has cited it as influencing Hamlet’s dilemma in comprehending the ghost of his father. Rare. No other complete copy has been sold for over 70 years, and only one other undefective copy has been offered since 1921, when this very copy was sold at Herman Le Roy Edgar’s sale at the Anderson Galleries. The USTC locates fifteen copies in institutions, with three copies held by the Folger.
39. JOYCE, James FINNEGAN’S
WAKE Faber & Faber, 1939 [46671] First edition, limited issue. Number 149 of 425 copies signed by Joyce. Original red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In its original yellow cloth slipcase and with its rare
original card ship- ping box. Including a 1945 pamphlet of “Corrections of mis- prints in Finnegans Wake”. A fine copy in a fine slipcase, ex - ceptionally bright and crisp having been protected by the orig- inal shipping box. $40,000 The signed issue of Joyce’s most complex and final substantial work. Initially titled Work in Progress, Fin- negans Wake took Joyce sixteen years to write. The bright yellow slip- case, where present, is particularly prone to soiling. This copy, hav- ing been protected by
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