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213. LE CARRÉ, John A LEGACY OF SPIES Viking, 2017. First edition. Black boards with silver let- tering to spine, in original printed dust- wrapper. Signed by the author. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with a Foyles sticker to the upper cover and a short, closed tear to the front fold. [46393] £95 The last of Le Carre’s Smiley novels, both a prequel and a sequel to The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A contemporary reviewer described it as “poign- ant and brilliant”.
215. MACNEICE, Louis AUTUMN JOURNAL A Poem Faber, 1939. First edition. Original brown cloth let- tered in gilt, in a brown dustwrapper lettered in cream. A fine copy with a little spotting to the top edge in a fine dustwrapper with just a trace of wear to the head of the spine. [45083] £750 The author’s most compelling work, a long, semi-autobiographical poem, setting the trivia of everyday life against the events of the world outside in the run up to the Sec- ond World War. Connolly Modern Movement 85
214. LEWIS, C.S. MIRACLES A Preliminary Study Bles, 1947. First edition. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in its original dustwrapper. A near fine copy with whitener marks to front free endpaper, in a near fine dustwrapper which is a touch tanned to the spine. [46493] £225
216. ORWELL, George THE ENGLISH PEOPLE Collins, 1947.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green paper covered boards with lettering and design in white. Eight colour and 17 black and white illustrations from paintings. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with very slight scratch marks to upper cover. [46176] £200 Part of the popular Britain in Pictures series conceived of during war- time to present Britain and its people in illustrations by various well- known artists including Edward Ardizonne and Henry Lamb, and
“Miracles is, in essence, Lewis’s last sustained work of apologetics, and save oc- casional... essays on specif- ic topics; for the rest of his career Lewis turned almost exclusively to writing fic- tion.” [C.S.Lewis Review, 2008]
texts designed to boost public morale by exceptional writers like Orwell. Written in 1944 (the delay in publi- cation was caused by the “wartime paper shortage”) the extended essay covers what it is, according to Orwell, to be English - and includes moral and political beliefs, the class system and the English language, which he states “has two outstanding characteristics to which most of its minor oddities can be finally traced.... a very large vocab- ulary and simplicity of grammar.”
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