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New York: Vanguard Press, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. First American Edition of the author's first novel, set in colonial Trinidad, where Naipaul was born. 8vo: xii,[2],7-215,[1]pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in French blue and mid-brown, upper cover with vignette of the mystic masseur; illustrated dust jacket, priced $3.50. Tightly bound (apparently unread) and clean throughout, with bottom edges very lightly rubbed; better than Near Fine jacket, lightly rubbed to head and heal of spine panel, which is lightened a degree or two. Awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1958, a year following its publication in London, by André Deutsch. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association,…
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by FERMOR, Patrick Leigh (1915-2011)
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A Time for Gifts. On foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube; [with] Between the Woods and the Water. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates; [and with] The Broken Road: From The Iron Gates to Mount Athos
by FERMOR, Patrick Leigh (1915-2011)
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London: John Murray [through 2013], 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impressions of Leigh Fermor's magisterial account, in three volumes, of his epic journey at age 18, in 1933, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. Publisher's navy-blue cloth, spines and upper covers lettered and decorated in gold or silver, in the wonderful dust jackets illustrated by John Craxton and Ed Kluz, priced, £6.50 and £25. Gifts: 8vo: [8],291,[1]pp, with frontispiece photographic portrait of Fermor by Valasa Cantacuzène and double-page map on khaki paper. Woods and Water: 8vo: 248pp, with double-page map on mint-green paper. Broken Road: Tall, thick 8vo: xxi, 362pp, with photographic portrait of the author and two full-page maps. Each volume is virtually pristine (neat gift inscription to front fly-leaf of Time of Gifts) and likely unread, Fine, tight, and square, in about Fine jackets (Between the Woods and the Water is price-clipped). A Time of Gifts recounts the journey as far as the Middle Danube. Between the Woods and the Water picks up with Fermor crossing the Mária Valéria bridge from Czechoslovakia into Hungary and ends at the Iron Gate, where the Danube formed the boundary between the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Romania. The Broken Road is a reconstruction of the third leg of Fermor's trek, pieced together by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper from Fermor's diary and an early draft he wrote in the 1960s, to include an account of his exploration of Mount Athos. Throughout, Fermor, a superb prose stylist, offers compelling glimpses of the resplendent domes, monasteries, great rivers, hospitable burgomasters, storks and frogs. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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The Mystic Masseur
by NAIPAUL, V. S. (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad, 1932-2018)
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by [BORCHT, Pieter van der, Illustrator], [Ovid]
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Antwerp: Printed for the Plantins by Joannes Moretus, 1591. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Near Fine. Beautifully presented collection of 72 etchings by Pieter van der Borcht the Elder (who signed the plate on p. 357), from one of the gems of Renaissance illustrated books, a very early juvenilia, Ovid's Metamorphoses abbreviated. Oblong 16mo: 209-212,215-218,221-246,251-310,315-362,[17, index and approbatio]pp, with 72 full-page plates on 71 leaves (the versos of which carry the letterpress texts related to the plates on the rectos); the final plate is the full-page Plantin device, with the legend 'Labore et Constantinia.' Newly bound by Fitterer in full mottled calf with richly gilded spine. A defective copy (priced accordingly), but rich in beautiful plates and beautifully bound. Funck 374-375. Hollstein III, 100, nos. 200-377. Adams O-504 (misidentifuing the format as oblong 8vo]. Delen II, 92-93. The vast majority of pages are interleaved with period blanks, which are neither paginated nor…
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The Collector
by FOWLES, John (1926-2005)
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression of the author's important first novel. 8vo: 283 [1]pp. Publisher's rust-colored cloth with matching top stain, spine stamped in gold; price-clipped first issue dust jacket (without reviews) illustrated by Tom Adams. A Fine, bright example, probably unread, with crimp to head of spine; about Fine jacket (light dust-soiling to back panel). A psychological thriller (and instant bestseller) about a repressed council clerk and butterfly collector, Edward Clegg, who kidnaps an art student, the talented, beautiful Miranda Grey. (The William Wyler film starred Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.) Almost the entire novel is set in the claustrophobic confines of the cellar where Clegg keeps Miranda until she eventually dies of pneumonia. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged…
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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather [Signed]
by XINGJIAN, Gao (b. 1940)
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New York: Harper Collins, 2004. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition (so stated), signed by the author on title page. Crown 8vo: [8],127,[1]pp. Publisher's faux vellum, spine lettered in scarlet, fore-edge untrimmed, strikingly illustrated dust jacket priced $17.95. Very Fine, unread copy, Fine jacket (price-sticker remnant to bar code on back panel). Signed copies of English translations of Gao's books are uncommon. Collection of six short stories, translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee, written between 1983 and 1990. Gao won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2000, "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." In these stories, nothing happens, or does it? In the title story, a man sees a fiberglass fishing rod in a store window and is reminded of the times he went fishing with his grandfather. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable…
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The Golden Notebook
by LESSING, Doris (1919-2013)
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London: Michael Joseph, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of the Nobel laureate's "indispensable" masterpiece, significant "as the most massive statement made, up to that time, on the position of woman in the modern world." (Burgess). Tall, thick 8vo: 568pp. Publisher's black boards, spine lettered in gilt; first-issue typographic dust jacket (photograph of Lessing to rear panel) designed by William Belcher, priced 30s. About Fine (dust-soiled edges, mild offsetting to end papers), square, tight, probably unread; about Fine jacket (lightly dust soiled back panel, several edge nicks), still vibrant and bright. Time 100. Burgess 99. p.86. NYPL Books of the Century, p.130. Callil and Toibin 52. "Anna Wulf is a writer who keeps four notebooks, each a different color, each reflecting a different part of her. The black one contains recollections of her youthful wartime years in West Africa . . . In the red one she reflects on her later life in London's leftist and intellectual…
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by [BORCHT, Pieter van der, Illustrator], [Ovid]
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Antwerp: Printed for the Plantins by Joannes Moretus, 1591. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Near Fine. Beautifully presented collection of 72 etchings by Pieter van der Borcht the Elder (who signed the plate on p. 357), from one of the gems of Renaissance illustrated books, a very early juvenilia, Ovid's Metamorphoses abbreviated. Oblong 16mo: 209-212,215-218,221-246,251-310,315-362,[17, index and approbatio]pp, with 72 full-page plates on 71 leaves (the versos of which carry the letterpress texts related to the plates on the rectos); the final plate is the full-page Plantin device, with the legend 'Labore et Constantinia.' Newly bound by Fitterer in full mottled calf with richly gilded spine. A defective copy (priced accordingly), but rich in beautiful plates and beautifully bound. Funck 374-375. Hollstein III, 100, nos. 200-377. Adams O-504 (misidentifuing the format as oblong 8vo]. Delen II, 92-93. The vast majority of pages are interleaved with period blanks, which are neither paginated nor…
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Girl with a Pearl Earring [First State, Signed]
by CHEVALIER, Tracy
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London: HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression (no further printings noted), in first state dust jacket, with 'earing' misspelled on back panel. Small 8vo: [6],248,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brilliant); pictorial dust jacket, priced £9.99. Signed by Chevalier on title page. Laid in is a ticket from the literature festival in Derby where the book was autographed. Fine (small decorative book plate to front fly-leaf) in about Fine jacket (tiny nick to base of spine panel). The author's second novel, which sold more than five million copies worldwide and was translated into 36 languages. Supposedly, a poster of Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring," hanging on Chevalier's bedroom wall for some 15 years, inspired this novel set in 17th century Delft. Chevalier was lying in bed gazing absent-mindedly at the poster when she fixed on the mysterious girl's expression (her half open mouth and expectant gaze) and…
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On the Black Hill [Signed]
by CHATWIN, Bruce (1940-1989)
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. First Impression. 8vo: 248,[2]pp. Publisher's slate grey cloth, spine stamped in gilt, wraparound pictorial dust jacket, by Mon Mohan, unclipped and unpriced (one of the export copies Jonathan Cape issued; priced copies include the exception, "UK only"). Signed by Chatwin (without dedication) on title page. Presented the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982 and the Whitbread First Novel of the Year Award (there is debate as to whether Chatwin's The Viceroy of Ouidah, a fictionalized account of an actual eighteenth-century Brazilian slave trader, published two year before On the Black Hill, should be considered fiction or nonfiction). Near Fine or better (spine tips bumped, stray spot or two to top and fore-edges, short, thin ink line to bottom edge of front cover); About Fine jacket (lightly nicked to one flap fold). Chatwin's first novel (and third book), "written in the tradition of Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence,…
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The Golden Notebook
by LESSING, Doris (1919-2013)
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London: Michael Joseph, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of the Nobel laureate's "indispensable" masterpiece, significant "as the most massive statement made, up to that time, on the position of woman in the modern world." (Burgess). Tall, thick 8vo: 568pp. Publisher's black boards, spine lettered in gilt; first-issue typographic dust jacket (photograph of Lessing to rear panel) designed by William Belcher, priced 30s. About Fine (dust-soiled edges, mild offsetting to end papers), square, tight, probably unread; about Fine jacket (lightly dust soiled back panel, several edge nicks), still vibrant and bright. Time 100. Burgess 99. p.86. NYPL Books of the Century, p.130. Callil and Toibin 52. "Anna Wulf is a writer who keeps four notebooks, each a different color, each reflecting a different part of her. The black one contains recollections of her youthful wartime years in West Africa . . . In the red one she reflects on her later life in London's leftist and intellectual…
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Fong and the Indians [Signed]
by THEROUX, Paul
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression, signed by Theroux on title page, his second novel (after Waldo). Small 8vo: [8],199,[1]pp. Publisher's turquoise cloth, spine stamped in gilt, dust jacket illustrated by Michael Foreman. Price-clipped and repriced on sticker £8.50, else a virtually pristine unread copy. From the author of The Mosquito Coast and The Great Railway Bazaar, a comic morality tale featuring a Chinese storekeeper in East Africa. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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A Time for Gifts : On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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John Murray, Great Britain, 2013. Softcover. Good Condition. In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable burgomasters who welcomed him, and that world's grandeurs and courtesies. His powers of recollection have astonishing sweep and verve, and the scope is majestic. 367 pages. Cover has a crease. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Travel. ISBN: 1590171659. ISBN/EAN: 9781590171653. Inventory No: 268899.. 9781590171653
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