Octavo. Finely bound in blue morocco with wraparound onlay depicting the fishing village copied from the dust jacket, titles to spine in silver, twin rule to turn-ins in silver, blue endpapers, silver edges. Housed in a blue cloth flat-back box lettered in silver by the Chelsea Bindery. A fine copy. £4,750 [158223] 24 KERR, Judith. The Tiger Who Came To Tea. London: Collins, 1968 “a big, furry stripy tiger” First edition, first printing, notably scarce. This children’s classic telling the story of Sophie, Sophie’s mummy, and “a big, furry, stripy tiger” has never been out of print: it has been translated into 11 languages and sold over five million copies. It has also been adapted for the theatre, and an animated short film was produced for television. Quarto. Finely bound in bright blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, onlay on front cover of Sophie having tea with the tiger, onlay on rear cover of Sophie riding the tiger, turn-ins ruled in gilt, orange endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a blue cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Colour illustrations throughout by the author. A fine copy. £6,750 [156774]
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21 HAMMETT, Dashiell. Complete detective novels. [Comprising:] Red Harvest; The Dain Curse; The Maltese Falcon; The Glass Key; The Thin Man. New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929–34 "tomorrow i'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight" First editions, first printings, of the complete series of Hammett’s seminal full-length detective novels. As usual The Glass Key is the first American edition: the scarce first edition was printed in
London three months earlier during Knopf’s ill-fated attempt to break into the British market. 5 works, octavo. Finely bound in dark blue morocco, pictorial motifs in gilt on front covers after the originals, covers and turn-ins ruled in gilt, purple endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a dark blue cloth slipcase by The Chelsea Bindery. A fine set. £12,500 [116919] 22 HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 “you do look glum! what you need is a gramme of soma” First UK edition, first impression, published on 2 February 1932, preceded only by the US signed limited edition of 250 copies published on 21 January. Brave New World is a seminal dystopian novel which established Huxley’s “fortunes and reputation as the best-known British novelist between the wars” ( ODNB ). Octavo. Finely bound in red and blue morocco with lettering onlaid in tan morocco above an onlaid diagnonal stripe in white and tan morocco, white onlay of soma tablet on rear cover, turn-ins ruled in gilt, blue endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. £3,000 [155381] 23 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1952 “now is no time to think of what you do not have. think of what you can do with what there is” First edition, first printing. Hemingway’s final work of fiction and among his best-known works, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and was cited by the Nobel Committee in their awarding of Hemingway’s Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
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