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First edition. Original brown cloth with black titles and Art Deco design. Top edge stained blue. A fine copy with beautifully clean cloth and distinct lettering and design. There are a couple of small production blemishes to the rear cover and the slightest fraying to part of the rear joint, but beyond that looks barely han- dled. Internally, notably fresh and clean and most unusually free from foxing. An exceptional copy. $35,000 The author’s first novel, which sees the first appearance of M. Hercule Poirot. Due to the wartime restrictions this book was made from poor quality stock which browns very easily. The boards are also very frag - ile with the majority of copies surviving only in a disbound or heavily repaired state. Copies as well preserved as this one are very rarely en - countered.
BECKETT, Samuel EN ATTENDANT GODOT piece en deux actes Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1952 [46721] First edition. Original cream wrappers with blue and black titles to upper cover, spine and advertisement on back cover. Edges uncut. A fine copy, with just a couple of very faint marks around the head of the spine and a neat owner’s name and address stamp to front free end paper. An exceptionally clean crisp copy. $4,250 Beckett’s first published play that captured post-war existential uncer - tainty, expressing a world where meaning and progress were no longer guaranteed. It revolutionised theatre by rejecting traditional plot and in - fluenced modern drama and culture.
AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS PUBLISHER ELIOT, T. S. OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS Faber & Faber, 1940 [46607] First illustrated edition. Original cream cloth with coloured il- lustration of two dancing cats to the upper cover, red titles to spine, in dustwrapper recreating cover image with black and red titles. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed to his publisher and parents of the principle dedicatee on the front endpaper “For
A FINE COPY CHRISTIE, Agatha THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES Bodley Head, 1921 [46054]
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