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ed with drawings by Robert Nadler. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with trivial wear to spine ends and corners, and a couple of small grazes to the spine. $5,500 Ted Hughes dedicated his well-loved children’s story The Iron Man (published in America as The Iron Giant to avoid confusion with a con - temporary cartoon serial) to his three children Nicholas, Frieda and Shu- ra. The book, Hughes wrote to a student studying his works for children, emanated from “a story I told my own children” (The Letters Of Ted Hughes, Faber, 2007), and according to his biographer Jonathan Bate is “Ted’s best selling and best-loved work. It firmly established his place as one of the world’s leading children’s authors as well as one of its most admired poets.”
The author’s most famous work and tour de force of modern literature. The first printing of Ulysses consisted of 1000 numbered copies to be sold by subscription. Copies number 1-100 were printed on Holland hand - made paper and each signed by Joyce; copies 101-250 were printed on vergé d’Arches and the remaining 750 copies on linen paper, the least expensive stock. Following a disastrous serialisation in the Little Review, it was to Sylvia Beach and her small Parisian bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, that Joyce turned. Beach, like Andersen before her, had immediately seen the genius in Ulysses, and wrote to her mother that she might be soon to publish “the most important book of the age”. A printer was found in Maurice Darantière of Dijon and publication was planned for October. The printing process was not nearly as straightfor- ward as anticipated, due in part to Joyce’s continual rewriting of the text and his and Beach’s perfectionism in the printing process. The publica- tion date was continually moved back and eventually 2 February 1922, Joyce’s birthday, was settled upon. Copies were delivered in tranches and all 1000 of the first edition were sold within a month. It is now recognised as one of the key works of the twentieth century and the defining work of the modernist movement. Slocum A17; Connolly 42
A DYSTOPIAN CLASSIC HUXLEY, Aldous BRAVE NEW WORLD Chatto & Windus, 1932 [46694] First edition. Original blue cloth in styl- ish blue dustwrapper. A near fine copy, slightly cocked, in a very good dust - wrapper, spine tanned and with some fraying to the spine ends and a little wear to the folds and corners. $7,500 The author’s highlight and a twentieth cen- tury classic of dystopian fiction.
“...[a] brilliantly plausible fantasy he has constructed from his scientific gleanings. It is a Utopia which is never dull, of which the horror is always credible...” (Connolly)
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JOYCE, James ULYSSES Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1922 [45156] First edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, from a total edition of 1000 copies. Original ‘Greek flag’ blue-green wrappers, lettered in white to upper cover. A near fine copy, with a short tear to the front joint at the base of the spine and trivial wear to the corners with “Ulysses” added in manuscript to the spine, but fresh and crisp, with notably vivid colouring. Internally fine and tight. A superb example of a fragile production and rare in this condition. Housed in chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. $105,000
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