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61. WAUGH, Evelyn BRIDESHEAD REVISITED The Sacred & Profane Memo- ries of Captain Charles Ryder Chapman & Hall, 1945 [46591] First edition. Original red cloth in light grey dustwrap- per printed in grey and red. A fine copy in a very near fine dustwrapper, exception - ally clean and crisp with just a trace of wear to the head of the spine and slight toning to the spine, though less so than is typical with this book, and the lettering unfaded. A su- perbly well preserved copy of this notoriously fragile wartime production. $16,500
for The Science Schools Journal, a magazine that he had founded whilst a student. Some six years later he revised them for the National Observer, and then rewrote them as the serial “The Time Traveler’s Story” for the The New Review. The editor of both journals, W.E. Henley, then per- suaded Heinemann to publish the whole story as a book. So it was that Wells came to write The Time Machine, not only his first novel but also a pioneering highlight of the science fiction genre. “And if you want to know what impresses me it is to see how you con- trive to give over humanity into the clutches of the Impossible and yet manage to keep it down (or up) to its humanity, to its flesh, blood, sor - row, folly. THAT is achievement!” (Joseph Conrad)
63. WILDE, Oscar POEMS Da- vid Bogue, 1882 [46734] Fourth edition. 8vo. Full white parchment lettered and with floral decoration in gilt. Printed on Van Gelder hand made pa- per. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Author’s presentation copy, in- scribed on the verso of the half ti- tle, ‘With compliments of the au - thor, to Mrs Russell Stephenson. Montreal. May. 21st’. Housed in a custom half green morocco, green cloth box. A very good copy indeed with a little dust- iness to the vellum and slight bumping to the spine ends. $38,500
An uncommonly bright copy of Waugh’s best known and most successful work which, on account of wartime paper restrictions, is now seldom encountered in such nice condition. 62. WELLS, H.G. THE TIME MACHINE An Invention Heine- mann, 1895 [46479] First UK edition, first issue in oatmeal grey cloth lettered in purple, top and foredges
uncut (i.e. Curry’s A state). Sixteen undated pages of adverts at the rear headed The Manx- man. A very good copy indeed, with some tanning to spine and some dustiness to the covers, though less than is usual- ly seen. Internally clean. $7,000 In 1888 Wells had written a series of ar- ticles concerning time travel entitled “The Chronic Argonauts”
During his North American tour, Oscar Wilde visited Montreal, where he deliv- ered a lecture on the 16th of May. On the 20th of May, he received an invitation from the Women’s Hospital Committee to present a lecture titled ‘The House Beautiful’. Many of the audience, pre- dominately women, dressed in costume and offered Wilde an enthusiastic wel- come. This particular copy was inscribed the following day for Mrs Russell Ste- phenson, a well known socialite of Mon- treal. Mason [307]
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