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163. HUXley, thomas Henry. life and letters of thomas henry huxley. Macmillan. 1900.
£240
8vo. 2 vols. Publisher’s maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine; pp. xii + 503 + [4, ads], 5 illustrations and viii + 5-4 + [4, ads], 7 illustrations; slight occasional internal spotting but a very good set.
First edition, edited by leonard huxley, the great scientist’s son.
165. isHerWood, Christopher. a single Man. New York. Simon and Schuster. 1964.
£78
8vo. original cloth and dust-jacket; jacket slightly sunned on spine, neat ink note on front-free endpaper,, otherwise a very good copy.
First us edition. 164. isHerWood, Christopher. goodbye to Berlin. Hogarth Press. 1939. £3,950
crown 8vo. original light grey rough cloth, spine lettered in red, top edges red, with the photographic dust- jacket designed by humphrey spender, Wrapper with just a couple of minor nicks and creases, spot on half-title, otherwise .a very good copy.
First edition. one of cyril connolly’s 100 key books of the ‘Modern Movement’. the novel, a semiautobiographical account of isherwood’s time in 1930s Berlin, describes pre-nazi germany and the people he met. it is episodic, dealing as it does with a large cast over a period of several years from late 1930 to early 1933. it is written as a connected series of six short stories and novellas. these are: “a Berlin Diary (autumn 1930)”, “sally Bowles”, “on ruegen island (summer 1931)”, “the nowaks”, “the landauers”, and “a Berlin Diary (Winter 1932-3). it was described by contemporary writer george orwell as “Brilliant sketches of a society in decay”.
the novel was adapted into a Broadway play called I Am a Camera by John Van Druten (1951). it was a personal success for Julie harris as the insouciant sally Bowles, winning her the first of her five tony awards for Best leading actress in a play, although it earned the infamous review by Walter Kerr, “Me no leica.” the title is a quote taken from the novel’s first page (“i am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”). the play was then adapted into a less successful film, also called I Am a Camera (1955), with laurence harvey, shelley Winters and Julie harris, with screenplay by John collier and music by Malcolm arnold.
the book was then adapted into the tony award-winning musical Cabaret (1966) and the film Cabaret (1972) for which liza Minnelli won an academy award for playing sally.
167. Jansson, tove (author and illustrator). tales From Moomin Valley. London; Ernest Benn Limited. 1963.
£98
8vo. original turquoise cloth, lettered in silver to spine, preserved in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [viii], 9-175 + [i]; with illustrations throughout in black and white; a fine clean copy protected by a near fine, unclipped, dustwrapper (13s 6d) with mild rubbing to lower panel, one 15mm closed tear to top edge of the same and a couple of tiny nicks to head of spine.
First english edition of this classic Moomin title.
168. Jardine, William. the natural history of hummingbirds. Edinburgh, London & Dublin, W.H. Lizars & Sterling & Kenney, Longman & Co., and W. Curry Jnr. & Co., 1833.
£700
12mo. 2 vols. contemporary half brown morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering and panels to spines, marbled enfdpapers, all edges marbled; [viii] + pp. 147, and [xii] + pp. 166, with 2 engraved frontispieces, of linnaeus “in his lapland Dress”, and of thomas Pennant, and with 64 fine hand-coloured engraved plates of tropical hummingbirds (the foliage uncoloured); previous owner’s bookplate to ffep with signatures to prelims; boards a trifle rubbed, extremities bumped, otherwise very good.
First edition. this is the most celebrated work in the Naturalist’s Library series and includes useful biographies of linnaeus and thomas Pennant. the plates are charming and accurate and this work rightly deserves its reputation as a minor classic; the text is both erudite and pithy.
cf. Nissen IVB 471; Zimmer p.325; Anker 224. 166
166. isHiGUro, Kazuo. remains of the Day. Faber and Faber. 1989.
£498
8vo. original black cloth, spine lettered in white; a fine copy in a very good dust-jacket which is lightly sunned on the spine.
First edition, signed by the author on the title-page. the 1989 Booker Prize Winner. the film adaptation of the novel, made in 1993 and starring anthony hopkins and emma thompson, was nominated for eight academy awards.
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