First edition in book form of Kafka’s The Judgement , here in the scarce case-bound issue in exceptional condition. The story originally appeared in Max Brod’s periodical Arkadia: Ein Jahrbuch für Dichtkunst , in 1913. Written in a single night in 1912 through which, as Kafka related, “the story evolved as a true birth, covered with filth and slime”, Das Urteil was one of the author’s personal favourites. Octavo. Original parchment-backed black boards, spine lettered in black, front cover with lettering and publisher’s insignia in gilt. Housed in a custom black card slipcase. Illustrated bookplate of Werner Rübe. A near-fine copy, with the merest rubbing to tips only, sound and fresh within. ¶ Dietz 31; Raabe 146.4; Wilpert/Gühring 4. £3,000 [155245] 93 KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other poems. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820 a thing of beauty is a joy for ever First edition of Keats’s third and final book published in his lifetime, containing the famous odes on which his reputation now rests. Keats wrote to Charles Brown in regards to the work in June 1820 noting that he had “low hopes, though not spirits . . . this shall be my last trial; not succeeding, I shall try what I can do in the apothecary line” (White, p. 219). Though Keats did not live to see his fame confirmed, this last collection is his greatest single volume: it contains the magnificent series of odes for which he is now best remembered, including “Ode on a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, and “To Autumn”. Duodecimo (163 × 98 mm). Contemporary brown half calf, rebacked with most of an earlier spine laid down, flat spine gilt ruled in compartments, dark brown calf label, marbled paper sides, edges sprinkled brown. Bound without half-title and advertisements. Front pastedown with contemporary Dublin bookseller’s ticket of E. Ponsonby, armorial bookplate of Richard Chambré Hayes Taylor (1819– 1904), British Army officer who served in the Second Anglo- Burmese War, the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, and 20th-century bookplate of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest. A little surface crackling to spine, corners worn with some loss of leather, light scuffs to sides, sporadic light marks to margins, otherwise clean. A very good copy. ¶ Hayward 233; MacGillivray 3; Sterling 523; Tinker 1420; R. White, John Keats: a Literary Life , 2010. £7,500 [159691]
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90 ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. London & Boston: Faber and Faber, 1989 First edition, signed by the author on the title page. This book was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film in 1993, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Octavo. Original black boards, lettering to spine in white. With dust jacket. Minor bump to spine ends, small mark to outer edge, contents clean. A near-fine copy in very good indeed jacket, minor creasing at ends of slightly faded spine panel, faint soiling to edges of flaps, a bright and sharp example. £975 [159789] 91 JOYCE, James. Letters. London: Faber & Faber, 1966 First collected edition, comprising a reissue of volume I, originally published 1957, with the first editions of volumes II and III. Richard Ellmann, who published an acclaimed biography of Joyce in 1959, took over the editorship of the project from Stuart Gilbert, who had edited the 1932 edition of Ulysses , one of the key lifetime printings. 3 volumes, large octavo. Original grey cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges blue. With dust jackets. A near-fine set, minor rubbing to extremities, small marks to top edge of vol.
Octavo in 12s (158 × 92 mm). Contemporary calf, spine with gilt ruled raised bands and red morocco label, board edges tooled in blind, edges sprinkled red. With 2 engraved plates illustrating views of “fortification billiard”, half-page woodcut of draughts board, numerous woodcut tables. Bookplate of one William Clark Esq. to front pastedown. Lower part of front joint slightly cracked but firm, a few spots to covers. A clean copy, very good indeed. ¶ ESTC T87526. Kevin J. Hayes, ed., The Annotated Poe , 2015; David Levy, “The Most Important Hoyle after Hoyle” (accessible online). £475 [155593] 89 ISHERWOOD, Christopher. A Single Man. Signed limited edition, this out-of-series from an edition of 400 copies signed by the author and printed on Barcham Green paper. First published in 1964, it was adapted into the 2009 film, directed by Tom Ford and starring Colin Firth. Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, roll to turn-ins gilt, blue and white diamond patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. A fine copy. £2,000 [148039] London: The Land Press, 1980 “today will be different”
III, in very good, bright jackets, price-clipped, with minor marking and rubbing, tape repair verso of vol. I, overprice stickers to vols. II and III. £650 [155404] 92 KAFKA, Franz. Das Urteil. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1916 “a true birth, covered with filth and slime”
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88 HOYLE, Edmond. Hoyle’s Games Improved. London: J. F. and C. Rivington, J. Wilkie [& 10 others in London], 1779 the most important hoyle after hoyle Second edition, “the most important edition of Hoyle published after his death in 1769”, enlarged from the first of 1775 to include an entirely new section on billiards by John Dew and a treatise on draughts by William Payne. Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), the noted authority on the rules of card games and chess, published his famous and popular Short Treatise on the Game of Whist , the first instructional, scientific book about any card game, in 1742. It was a major success and went through numerous editions. After his death his name became synonymous with any book on card game and the phrase “according to Hoyle” became “a common way to emphasize the authority of anything” (Hayes, p. 177).
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