J O N K E R S R A R E B O O K S
A very good copy with a little wear to the spine ends and cor - ners. Ownership stamp neatly erased the front end paper. $2,650 Woolf’s first novel.
bit in love with my mother: she had always been a little afraid of him... What she feared was his manner, his prickliness and not least his intelligence, for which she felt herself to be no match. Another complication was pro- vided by my father, who went through periods of disliking Waugh intensely - the feeling be- ing entirely mutual - though they made it up in the end.” A FINE COPY WAUGH, Evelyn BRIDES- HEAD REVISITED The Sa - cred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Chap- man & Hall, 1945 [46591]
History, Politics and Exploration
SIGNED BY CHURCHILL CHURCHILL, Winston S. MY EARLY LIFE A Roving Commis - sion Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1934 [46500] First Keystone Library edition. Red cloth, blind stamped rules and vignette to upper cover, gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper “To Major Geof - frey Kitson from Winston S. Churchill. January 1937”. A very good copy indeed, faded to head of spine, light foxing to page edges and preliminaries. $6,500 Churchill’s account of his youthful years, education and military train- ing. Written in his 50s after the Great War, he reflects on the social struc - tures of his youth as those of a bygone era. SIGNED BY KENNEDY KENNEDY, Robert F. TO SEEK A NEWER WORLD New York, Doubleday, 1967 [46339]
First edition. Original red cloth in light grey dustwrap- per printed in grey and red. A fine copy in a very near fine dustwrapper, exception - ally clean and crisp with just a trace of wear to the head of the spine and slight toning to the spine, though less so than is
First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in original photographic dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Loose letter of deaccession from the University of Vermont librar - ies. Fore-edge untrimmed. A very good copy, with a library bookplate to the front pastedown and library stamp to the copyright page, in a very good price- clipped dustwrapper, with light wear. $1,800 This remains Kennedy’s personal testament, and is a call to arms against injustice, poverty, and violence. In it he calls for a reassessment of the national priorities and asks for a greater emphasis on social justice, peace and equality in America. The title is taken from Tennyson’s Ulysses, and the final line of the poem, “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” encompasses Kennedy’s view that acceptance of the status quo need not be absolute.
typical with this book, and the lettering unfaded. A superbly well preserved copy of this notori - ously fragile wartime production. $17,500 An uncommonly bright copy of Waugh’s best known and most successful work which, on account of war- time paper restrictions, is now seldom encountered in such nice condition. WOOLF’S FIRST NOVEL WOOLF, Virginia THE VOYAGE OUT Duck- worth, 1915 [46543] First edition. Original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and black titles on the upper cover.
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