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199. PITTE, Jean-Robert. French Gastronomy. The History and Geography of a Passion. Translated by Jody Gladding New York : Columbia University Press. 2002.
£20
8vo., original cloth with dust wapper. A fine copy. First edition.
200. PLATH, Sylvia. Winter Trees. Faber and Faber. 1971. £148 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy.
First edition. “The poems in this collection were all written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath’s life and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were chosen. Her radio play Three women, also included here, was written slightly earlier, in the transitional peiod between The Colossus and Ariel.”
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201. POPPER, Karl R. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. New York: Basic Books, Inc. 1959.
£160
8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. 480; spine of wrapper a little sunned, otherwise near fine.
First US edition. Originally published in German as Logik der Forschung in 1934, this book has the rare distinction of being a major work rewritten in a second language by the author himself, rather than being translated. It is one of the most important works of logic of the twentieth century, centring on Popper’s crucial argument that science should progress along a methodology of falsification, as, while no experiment can ever prove a theory definitively, it can easily disprove one. He also argues that the only true knowledge is scientific, empirical knowledge. These two arguments, which now seem so plain, formed the basis of Popper’s reputation and revolutionised science. As the Times Literary Supplement wrote: “Professor Popper’s thesis has that quality of greatness that, once seen, it appears simple and almost obvious.”
202.RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). Charles and Mary LAMB (authors). Tales From Shakespeare. London; J.M. Dent & Co. Ltd. 1909.
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198. PEAKE, Mervyn (author and illustrator). Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1945.
£348
Royal 8vo. Original fine cream cloth boards lettered in green, preserved in pictorial yellow dustwrapper; pp. [48]; printed throughout on variously coloured grounds including pink, yellow, blue and grey with details also picked out in colour; illustrated on every page; an excellent copy with just one small, and neat, triangular corner excised from upper edge of title-page; preserved in a similarly fresh, unclipped, dustwrapper (7s 6d), with only a trace of light dusting.
Second edition; being the first with coloured images. The bulk of the first edition of this work, which was published by Country Life in 1939 with drawings in black and white, was famously destroyed in a bombing raid in World War II. At the end of the war Peake’s pirate story was relaunched in this superior edition, with enhanced colour.
Royal 8vo. Original pale grey-green cloth pictorially decorated in gilt to upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, other edges grey, pictorial endpapers; pp. [xii] + 304; with 12 coloured plates guarded by tissues and 37 black- and-white drawings in line; a bright, clean, and attractive copy with very pale dusting to boards; internally generally very fresh with some spotting to prelims and frontispiece tissue, the usual offset toning to free endpapers and the occasional marginal fox-mark.
First edition with coloured plates by Arthur Rackham.
203. RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). William SHAKESPEARE (author). The Tempest. London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926. £698
4to. Original black cloth gilt, top edge ochre, protected by the original cream dustwrapper printed in red; pp. ix + 185; illustrated with 20 beautiful mounted coloured plates; externally very good with light rubbing and weakening to head of spine and a small bruise to bottom fore-corner of upper cover; internally fine, and immaculate, with all plates in pristine condition; the elusive dustwrapper (priced 21s) preserved in remarkable, and near fine, condition with a vertical crease to spine and a tiny closed nick to head (5mm).
First edition illustrated by Rackham.
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