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217. SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Being and
Nothingness.Methuen & Co., Ltd. 1956.
£100
8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. lxvii + 636; slight rubbing to dustwrapper, internally fine, a very nice copy.
First UK edition, translated by Hazel E. Barnes. This is the fundamental text of existentialism in which Sartre considers the individual consciousness and its relationship with the world. He stresses the freedom of the individual consciousness because it lives in what is essentially ‘nothingness’, although that freedom is constrained by the rules and forced choices of the physical world. In that tension reside disappointment and frustration, as one’s consciousness is bound to strive for “completion”, the God-like state of existing because of nothing but oneself.
218. SAYERS, Dorothy L. Unpopular Opinions. Twenty-one Essays. Gollancz. 1946.
£98
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Wrapper a little chipped and sunned. A very good copy.
First edition. Including 5 essays on Sherlock Holmes.
219. SCHULBERG, Budd. Moving Pictures. Memories of a Hollywood Prince. New York. Stein and Day. 1981.
£38
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A little rubbing to wrapper otherwise avery good copy.
First edition.
220. SCORESBY, William, the younger. The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger. Volume I. The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813. Edited by C. Ian Jackson [—Volume II. The Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816. Edited by Ian C. Jackson with an Appendix by George Huxtable; —Volume III. The Voyages of 1817, 1818 and 1820. Edited by Ian C. Jackson with an Appendix by Fred. M. Walker]. London: The University Press, Cambridge for The Hakluyt Society (I); The University Press, Cambridge for Ashgate for The Hakluyt Society (II); MPG Books Group for Ashgate for The Hakluyt Society (III), 2003-2009.
£125
8vo (246 x 174mm), 3 volumes. Original dark-blue cloth, upper boards with the Society’s device in gilt, spines lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, dustwrappers; pp. I: lxi, [1 (blank)], 242; II: xxxvii, [1 (blank)], 308, [6 (blank ll.)]; III: xli, [1 (illustration)], 245, [1 (blank)]; frontispieces, illustrations, diagrams, plans and maps in the text, some full-page; a fine set.
First complete edition. Third series, nos 12 and 20-21. A monumental and scholarly edition of the Arctic journals of William Scoresby junior (1789-1857), prepared from the transcripts of his journals held by the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society, of which Scoresby was a co- founder. These journals cover the period from 1811 to 1820, and include Scoresby’s journeys on the Resolution (the command of which passed to Scoresby from his father, when the younger William reached the age of
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221. SCOTT, Sir Walter. Poetical Works. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1869.
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4to, full green morocco by Ramage, boards with central blind-ruled fillets with gilt Imperial Crown corner-pieces all enclosed within triple blind- ruled borders, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in one, others with central floral tool, gilt-ruled board edges, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; engraved frontispiece after Raeburn, additional engraved title-page, other engravings after J.M.W. Turner; spine faded and board edges a little dust soiled but very good.
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