J O N K E R S R A R E B O O K S
C. S . LEWIS’S RARE SECOND BOOK
42. Dymer [LEWIS, C.S.] Clive Hamilton
Dent, 1926. First edition. Original blue cloth with mock-snakeskin design with titles in gilt to the spine and black vignette to the upper cover. Publisher’s adverts dated Au- tumn 1926 to rear. A near fine copy, light toning to spine, some spotting to preliminar - ies. Contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown. [41797] £2,250 C.S.Lewis’s second book was published, like his first, under the pseudonym comprising his Christian name and his mother’s maiden name.
ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY POUND
43. Selected Poems Edited by T.S. Eliot POUND, Ezra
Butler & Tanner Ltd for Faber & Gwyer Ltd, 1928. First edition, limited issue, number 18 of 100 copies, printed on hand made paper and signed by Pound. Original quarter vel- lum over grey paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. A very good copy with some dustiness to the spine and a little wear to the corners. [40850] £4,000 A pioneering edition of Pound’s work, edited by T.S. Eliot and aimed at introducing the poet to the general reader. In his introduction, Eliot expounds upon the originality of Pound’s work, his development as a poet, his influences and influence, and how he has been read and misread by his contemporaries. PROVENANCE: Basil Burton (1906-1970, actor and acquaintance of T.S.Eliot).
“A PEAK IN ENGLISH POETRY”
44. The Tower YEATS, W.B.
Macmillan, 1928. First edition. Original green cloth, with a design by Thomas Sturge Moore, in the original pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with a little tanning to the spine and a touch of wear to the spine ends. A lovely copy. [41507] £4,500 An unusually nice copy of a work that contains “the greatest poetry of Yeats in his difficult later manner... [It] constitutes a peak in English poetry” (Connolly, 100 Key Books Of The Modern Move- ment ).
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