105 MANN, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927 signed by mann First edition in English, signed limited issue, number 37 of 200 copies signed by the author. Set in a Swiss mountainside sanatorium, Mann’s mythic tale is one of the defining works of 20th-century German literature. It was originally published in Germany as Der Zauberberg in 1924, and here translated into English by the American writer Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter. 2 volumes, octavo. Original Japon vellum-backed patterned paper boards, lettering to spines in gilt, edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom grey cloth slipcase. Frontispiece portrait of the author by E. O. Hoppé in first volume and facsimile of final page of author’s manuscript in second volume, with captioned tissue guards. Vol. I with gift inscription dated 1981 on half-title. Minor shelfwear to edges, light toning to spines and boards, spotting to spine of vol. II, couple of minor marks to boards, still bright, contents crisp and clean. A very good set. £2,750 [159586]
103 LICHTENSTEIN, Roy. Landscape Sketches 1984–1985. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986 signed by lichtenstein First edition limited to 100 copies unbound, signed, numbered and dated inside the box lid by the artist. There was also an edition of 2,500 bound copies. This is Lichtenstein’s take on landscapes drawn with colouring pencils. Landscape quarto. Loose pages and introductory booklet housed in a blue cloth box, lettering to lid in burgundy. 24 full page offset lithographs on Coronado Opaque SST Cover Stock paper after drawings by Lichtenstein. Browning to box, contents fine. £4,500 [159683] 104 MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population. London: printed for J. Johnson, by T. Bensley, 1803 a classic of economic thought, significantly expanded The Great Quarto edition, nominally the second edition of the Essay on Population published in 1798, but so substantially enlarged, rewritten, and re-titled as to be a new book. “He did not claim originality for the idea that population tends to outrun the food supply. In the preface to the second edition he stated that in writing the first edition he had deduced the principle of population from the writings of David Hume, Robert Wallace, Adam Smith, and Richard Price, but that in the intervening period he had become aware that much more had been published on the subject. He nevertheless believed that even more remained to be done, especially in describing the means by which populations are checked and in drawing out the practical implications of the principle of population. In the second edition, he made clear what was only implicit in the first, that prudential restraint should, if humanly possible, be ‘moral restraint’ – that is, delayed marriage accompanied by strictly moral pre-marital behaviour, although he admitted that moral restraint would not be easy and that there would be occasional failures. Whereas in the first edition he had said that all the checks to population would involve either misery or vice, in the second edition he attempted to lighten this ‘melancholy hue’
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( Essay on the Principle of Population , 1st edition, 1798, p. iv) and ‘to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first essay’ (2nd edition, 1803, p. vii) by arguing that moral restraint, if supported by an education emphasizing the immorality of bringing children into the world without the means of supporting them, would tend to increase rather than diminish individual happiness” ( ODNB ). Quarto (266 × 208 mm). Contemporary diced russia, smooth spine elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt, boards with gilt single fillet and thick blind floriate-and-scrollwork roll borders, with gilt-stamped monogram squares at centre, gilt rope-twist roll on turn-ins, dark blue endpapers,
edges sprinkled blue. Housed in a custom green morocco- backed book-form box and chemise. Engraved armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857–1944) on front pastedown. Front joint professionally restored, contents crisp and clean bar some light scattered marginal foxing. A very good copy indeed, presenting very handsomely in a grand contemporary binding. ¶ Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths’ 18640; Kress B.4701. £7,500 [156801]
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