36 129. HERBERT, James. ‘48. Harper Collins. 1996. £198 8vo., original spiral bound proof plastic wrappers. A near fine copy.
Page proofs, inscribed by Herbert to his official biographer Craig Cabell “To Craig Cabell, keep working, keep reading! All good wishes, James Herbert”.
130.HOBAN, Russell (author). Lillian HOBAN (illustrator). The Mouse and His Child. London; Faber And Faber. 1969. £98
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131. HOUSMAN, Alfred Edward. A Shropshire Lad. London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. at The Ballantyne Press for Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd [for Housman], 1896.
£2,950
8vo (173 x 105mm). Original parchment-backed, pale-blue-paper-covered boards, printed paper title-label on spine [Carter, Sparrow and White variant B], uncut; pp. vii, [1 (blank)], 96; title printed in red and black, fleuron ornaments in the text; extremities of boards a little marked and rubbed, spine-label slightly darkened and chipped on margins, very light marginal browning on text, light offsetting onto front endpapers from loosely-inserted note, otherwise a very good copy; provenance: Bernard Quaritch, London (pencilled collation note on rear pastedown; sold to:) — Percy Whiting Brown (pencilled note ‘£40 (160 dollars) July 1949’ on front free endpaper and presumably purchased on the same occasion as Last Poems (see the following item); loosely-inserted clipped catalogue description of another copy, annotated by Brown ‘Gabriel Engel N.Y. 2-28-56’; loosely-inserted pencilled note by Brown giving bibliographical details and referring to an article by John Carter in Colophon).
First edition, English issue of 350 copies, the putative second binding-up with spine-label B. Written while Housman was professor of Latin at University College, London, A Shropshire Ladwas a collection of sixty-three lyrics, which was originally titled Poems by Terence Hearsay; ‘the volume was refused by Macmillan, but published by Kegan Paul in March 1896 at Housman’s expense. A second edition, in September 1898, was issued by another publisher, Grant Richards, who became a close friend [although, as Housman later wrote, this edition ‘contains nothing new [...] except a few misprints’ (Carter, Sparrow and White, p. 8)]. Though not an instant success, the little volume gradually won a large audience through the universality of its dominant themes (nature, love, war, and death) and the directness of its language and rhythms. In a period of war, uneasy peace, and rapid social change, Housman was one of the most familiar and most highly regarded of the poets of his time. His celebration of landscapes and a rural life distinctively and traditionally English contributed to his poetry’s appeal’ (ODNB).
The first edition of A Shropshire Lad was of 500 copies; of these, 150 sets of sheets were bound up with a cancel title bearing the imprint of John Lane in New York and dated 1897, and of the 350 sets for British publication, 250 were bound up on publication and the remaining 100 later. Four variants of the
spine-label are identified by Carter, Sparrow and White, and this copy has variant B, which is conjectured to have been printed after the first binding- up of English sheets and before the binding up of the American sheets; if this hypothesis is correct, then this copy belongs to the second binding-up of the English issue.
Carter, Sparrow and White, A2; Hayward, English Poetry, 305.
8vo. Original bluish-grey cloth lettered in silver to spine, preserved in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [xii], 13-200; illustrated in line by the author’s wife Lillian Hoban; a fine copy preserved in an equally fine, and unclipped, dustwrapper.
First U.K. edition; originally published in the U.S. two years earlier.
132. HOUSMAN, Laurence (author). A.H. WATSON, Alec BUCKELS (contributing illustrators). Turn Again Tales. Oxford; Basil Blackwood. [1930].
£98
4to. Original oatmeal cloth panelled in black, with onlaid pictorial plate to upper cover; pp. [iv], v-vii + [i] + 280; with 6 coloured plates mounted- at-large on grey stock and a profusion of drawings in line throughout; an unusually crisp and clean copy with just faint yellowing to spine; internally fine and clean, with an engraved school prize label to front pastedown and some light speckling to edges of book block.
First edition thus. A collection of seventeen short stories for children with a small newspaper cutting tipped into gutter of half-title: “The lucky child who received a gift of Mr. Laurence Housman’s Turn Again Tales will be grateful for many years to come… This is one of the best Christmas books for the young”.
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