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175.KUreisHi, Hanif. the Buddha of suburbia. Faber and Faber, 1990.
£78
8vo. original black boards, spine lettered in white, dustwrapper with illustration after Peter Blake, poor paper stock lightly browned at margins (as commonly), otherwise a very good copy.
First edition signed by the author. Kureishi’s first novel, based in part on his own upbringing and family (the protagonist’s father — the ‘Buddha of suburbia’ — is based on the author’s own), which won the Whitbread First novel award. it was adapted for television by Kureishi in 1993, with a soundtrack by David Bowie, and won one BaFta tV award, and was nominated for a further four.
176. latroBe, Christian ignatius. Journal of a Visit to south africa in 1815 and 1816 with some account of the Missionary settlements of the united Brethren, near the cape of good hope ... With a new introduction by Frank r. Bradlow. Facsimile reprint. Cape Town: C. Struik (Pty) Ltd., 1969.
£95
4to (269 x 208mm). original brown cloth, boards with gilt borders, spine gilt in compartments, green lettering panel, fabric marker; pp. [2 (title, limitation on verso)], [1]-44, [4 (acknowledgements, bibliography, and endnotes)], [i]-vii, [1 (directions to the binder)], [1]-406, [2 (publisher’s advertisement)]; portrait frontispiece after t. Barber, one folding map with routes printed in red and blue, 16 plates, 12 colour-printed; very slightly rubbed and with a few very light marks, otherwise a very good copy.
Facsimile reprint of the first edition, no. 352 of 1,000 copies. the Moravian missionary and composer rev. c.i. latrobe (1758-1836) was appointed secretary of the international Moravian church in Britain in 1795, and was described by William Wilberforce as ‘truly as the head and hands [in england] of the Moravian mission and who manages much of their correspondence all over the world [...] a man of education, gentlemanly manners, good sense & piety, both in principle and practice’ (quoted in oDnB). in 1815-1816 he undertook a visitation to the Mission in south africa in 1815-1816, which resulted in his Journal, which was reprinted in 1821. the present edition is a well-produced facsimile of the first edition, with a substantial intorduction by Bradlow.
For the 1st ed., cf.: Abbey Travel 325; Gay 3117; SAB III, p. 59; Tooley 292.
“the DoMestication oF the ostrich MaY Be
DesignateD one oF the great achieVeMents oF MoDern ciViliZation”
177. laUFer, Berthold. ostrich egg-shell cups of Mesopotamia; and the ostrich in ancient times. Chicago. Field Museum of Natural History. 1926.
£98
8vo., original printed card wrappers. With 9 plates and 10 text-figures. a fine copy.
leaflet 23 from the Field Museum of natural history Department of anthropology. containing chapters on the ostrich in Mesopotamia, the ostrich in Palestine, syria, and arabia, the ostrich in ancient egypt, the ostrich in the traditions of the ancients, the ostrich in the records and Monuments of the chinese, the ostrich in africa, the Domestication of the ostrich, and the ostrich in america.
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Berthold laufer (1874-1934), curator of asian anthropology at the Field Museum in chicago from 1908 to 1934, was a pioneer in the study of asian cultures. With a doctorate in oriental languages from the university of leipzig, laufer was a sinologist who was fluent in more than a dozen languages, many of which were non indo-eurpoean. Polymath and polyglot, his interests seemed unbounded and his linguistic skills unequaled.
Beginning this pamphlet with an examination of ostrich egg-shells in Mesopotamia, laufer goes on to offer an account of the bird throughout the ages and across the regions of the world, culminating with the domestication of the ostrich which he describes as “a positive contribution to the progress of humanity and humaneness, and may be designated one of the great achievements of modern civilization.”
laufner died in 1934 upon leaping from the roof of the hotel in which he lived in chicago.
liMiteD to 1,000 sets, each VoluMe signeD BY the author
178. laWrenCe, thomas edward. t.e. lawrence to his Biographer, robert graves [—to his Biographer, liddell hart]. information about himself in the Form of letters, notes, and answers to Questions, edited with a critical commentary. London: Faber and Faber, 1938.
£895
8vo (228 x 152mm), 2 volumes. original red buckram with grey-ground title-panels on the upper board and spine lettered and ruled in gilt and grey buckram with red-ground title-panels on the upper board and spine lettered and ruled in gilt respectively, top edges gilt, others uncut, original grey cloth slipcase; pp. i [graves]: [2 (limitation leaf, recto blank)], ix, [1 (blank)], 187, [1 (blank)]; ii [hart]: [2 (limitation leaf, recto blank)], viii, [2 (section-title, verso blank)], 233, [3 (blank)]; titles printed in brown and black inks, with vignettes of trophies of arms and flags, portrait frontispieces after eric Kennington et al., and one half-tone plate; ‘t.e. lawrence’s amendments and notes on the typescript of “lawrence and the arabs”’ (i, pp. 59-144) with lawrence’s deletions overprinted in red; spines slightly faded and one leant, very slight cockling on slipcase, very light offsetting on first ll., nonetheless a very good, clean set.
First British edition, no. 462 of 1,000 numbered sets signed by Graves and Hart, of which 500 sets were for great Britain and the remaining 500 for america. ‘these volumes [...] are remarkable documents showing lawrence’s intimate work with two of his biographers. the letters, manuscript commentary and corrections, reveal the nature of information lawrence supplied and the interpretation he allowed the authors to derive from it. these volumes expose a process of biographical writing that is rarely documented’ (o’Brien). the set was printed in the united states, and higginson and Williams state that the graves volume was first published in the united states in December 1938, and that the British edition of the volume was first published on 12 January 1939 (despite the statement on the verso of the title-page that it was first published in December 1938 in great Britain).
O’Brien A210 and A211; Higginson and Williams A49b (Graves vol. only).
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