{"title":"Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ernest-hemingway-the-sun-also-rises-1926-first-issue-susan-myrick-copy","title":"Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises, 1926 - Susan Myrick's First Issue Copy in Morocco","description":"\u003ch3 data-section-id=\"kpjkdv\" data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"513\"\u003e\u003cspan role=\"text\"\u003eHEMINGWAY, ERNEST. \u003cem data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"400\"\u003eThe Sun Also Rises.\u003c\/em\u003e First Edition, First Printing, First Issue, 1926. Susan Myrick's Copy in a Red and Black Morocco Design Binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"600\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHEMINGWAY, Ernest. \u003cem data-start=\"538\" data-end=\"559\"\u003eThe Sun Also Rises.\u003c\/em\u003e New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"663\"\u003eFirst edition, first printing, first issue. Hanneman A6a. Octavo. Bound in a striking full red and black morocco design binding, exquisitely crafted and richly finished in gilt. The boards are decorated with a sweeping painted and onlaid design inspired by the muleta, the red cloth used by the matador in the final act of the bullfight: its curved, flowing forms travel across both covers in dramatic contrast against panels of deep black morocco, the whole enclosed and accented with elegant gilt tooling. The spine is similarly accomplished, with raised bands, decorative gilt motifs and dark red morocco labels lettered in gilt; hand-sewn endbands and vivid red, black and gold Spanish marbled endpapers complete the presentation. With the bookplates of Susan Myrick and Aaron B. Berndt to a preliminary blank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1439\" data-end=\"1897\"\u003eAn exceptional first issue of Ernest Hemingway's first major novel, one of the defining works of twentieth-century American literature. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons in October 1926, the first printing consisted of only 5,090 copies. This copy retains the principal first-issue point: the celebrated misprint \"stoppped\" for \"stopped\" on page 181, line 26. The copyright page bears the Scribner's seal and makes no reference to later printings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1899\" data-end=\"2396\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1899\" data-end=\"1919\"\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/em\u003e follows Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley and their circle of American and British expatriates from Paris to the fiesta and bullfights of Pamplona. Drawing closely upon Hemingway's own experiences in France and Spain, the novel gave lasting literary expression to the post-war generation identified in Gertrude Stein's famous epigraph as \"a lost generation.\" Its restrained, exact prose established the literary style with which Hemingway would become permanently associated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2398\" data-end=\"2973\"\u003eThe binding is particularly apposite to the novel. The bullfight provides the book with its central ritual of beauty, discipline, violence and fate, reaching its climax in the figure of Pedro Romero. Here, the repeated sweep of the red morocco across the boards recalls the movement of the matador's muleta, while the black panels and controlled gilt decoration lend the volume a sense of theatre and intensity. It is a highly accomplished visual interpretation of Hemingway's Spanish setting and of the novel's preoccupation with courage, grace under pressure and mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2975\" data-end=\"3427\"\u003eThis copy is further distinguished by its provenance, bearing the bookplate of Susan Dowdell Myrick (1893-1978), the American journalist and author who served as technical advisor and dialect consultant during the production of \u003cem data-start=\"3207\" data-end=\"3227\"\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/em\u003e. A friend of Margaret Mitchell, Myrick was recommended by her to advise the film's production on Southern speech, costume and custom. A further bookplate records the ownership of Aaron B. Berndt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3429\" data-end=\"3847\"\u003eInternally, the original 1926 text block displays the warm age toning characteristic of copies of this edition, together with occasional minor marking and small stains visible on preliminary leaves. The binding presents with great visual impact, the red and black morocco richly coloured, the gilt bright, and the Spanish marbled endpapers particularly effective. No dust jacket, the volume having been finely rebound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3849\" data-end=\"4135\"\u003eA highly individual copy of the first edition, first printing, first issue of \u003cem data-start=\"3927\" data-end=\"3947\"\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/em\u003e, combining Hemingway's breakthrough novel with Susan Myrick provenance and an outstanding muleta-inspired morocco design binding perfectly attuned to the drama and atmosphere of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hemingway, Ernest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46519279354123,"sku":"","price":4750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20241210_094946138_iOS_af9e761e-df40-4324-b3a8-666d94b0cab6.jpg?v=1779785330"},{"product_id":"daphne-du-maurier-rebecca-1938-first-impression-painted-morocco-binding","title":"Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca, 1938 - First Edition, First Impression - Manderley-Inspired Painted Morocco Binding","description":"\u003ch3 data-section-id=\"5ti8hz\" data-start=\"2166\" data-end=\"2272\"\u003e\u003cspan role=\"text\"\u003eDU MAURIER, DAPHNE. \u003cem data-start=\"2189\" data-end=\"2199\"\u003eRebecca.\u003c\/em\u003e First Edition, First Impression, 1938. Painted Manderley Design Binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2274\" data-end=\"2347\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDU MAURIER, Daphne. \u003cem data-start=\"2298\" data-end=\"2308\"\u003eRebecca.\u003c\/em\u003e London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2349\" data-end=\"2385\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2349\" data-end=\"2385\"\u003eFirst edition, first impression. \u003c\/strong\u003eOctavo. Finely rebound in a remarkable full black morocco design binding, with a continuous painted pictorial composition extending across both boards. Against a dark ground, bands of deep blue, crimson, orange and gold sweep across the covers like reflected fire and night sky, while a stark, leafless black tree rises from the lower front board. The design powerfully evokes the haunted landscape of Manderley, the encroaching drive and the fatal glow that closes du Maurier's novel. The binding is framed in gilt, the black morocco spine divided by raised bands and decorated with red and gilt floral devices, with the title, author and date lettered in gilt. Blue and black marbled endpapers complete the presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3111\" data-end=\"3496\"\u003eA striking first impression of Daphne du Maurier's most celebrated novel, published by Victor Gollancz in 1938. Opening with the unforgettable return to Manderley in dream, \u003cem data-start=\"3288\" data-end=\"3297\"\u003eRebecca\u003c\/em\u003e follows its unnamed narrator from Monte Carlo into marriage with Maxim de Winter and into the shadow of his first wife, whose presence continues to dominate Manderley, its household and its secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3498\" data-end=\"3959\"\u003eDu Maurier's fusion of psychological suspense, Gothic atmosphere and romantic obsession made \u003cem data-start=\"3591\" data-end=\"3600\"\u003eRebecca\u003c\/em\u003e an immediate success and established it as one of the defining novels of the twentieth century. In the United States it received the American Booksellers Association's National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938. Its enduring hold upon readers was confirmed in 2017, when it was voted the UK's favourite book of the preceding 225 years in a WHSmith poll.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3961\" data-end=\"4213\"\u003eThe novel's afterlife in film has been equally powerful. Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 adaptation, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, won the Academy Award for Best Picture and remains one of the best-known screen interpretations of a modern novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4215\" data-end=\"4784\"\u003eThe present binding is exceptionally apposite to the text. The black morocco ground suggests the secrecy and oppressive shadow of Manderley, while the painted colours gather into an atmosphere of gathering heat, fire and unease. The solitary tree, rendered in black against the glowing sky, recalls the overgrown approach to the house and the natural world reclaiming the estate in the novel's opening vision. Across both boards, the design moves from beauty into disturbance, giving physical form to du Maurier's themes of memory, possession, jealousy and destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4786\" data-end=\"5154\"\u003eInternally, the original 1938 text block is preserved, with age toning and occasional spotting visible in places, consistent with the paper stock of the edition. The modern design binding presents with considerable impact, the painted surface vivid, the gilt bright and the marbled endpapers especially effective. No dust jacket, the volume having been finely rebound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5156\" data-end=\"5399\"\u003eAn arresting collector's copy of the first edition, first impression of \u003cem data-start=\"5228\" data-end=\"5237\"\u003eRebecca\u003c\/em\u003e, combining du Maurier's Gothic masterpiece with a highly accomplished painted morocco binding inspired by the atmosphere, landscape and destruction of Manderley.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DU MAURIER, Daphne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46519300391179,"sku":"","price":4750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20241210_094132711_iOS_96094ce4-7aba-47d0-aac2-aa84c587b396.jpg?v=1779786514"},{"product_id":"roald-dahl-first-edition-collection-sixteen-books-dust-jackets","title":"Roald Dahl - A Library of Mischief and Magic - Sixteen First Editions, 1972-1991 - In Dust Jackets","description":"\u003ch3 data-section-id=\"1k3y9aj\" data-start=\"2049\" data-end=\"2210\"\u003e\u003cspan role=\"text\"\u003eDAHL, ROALD. \u003cem data-start=\"2065\" data-end=\"2099\"\u003eA Library of Mischief and Magic.\u003c\/em\u003e Sixteen First Editions, 1972-1991, Including \u003cem data-start=\"2145\" data-end=\"2154\"\u003eThe BFG\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"2156\" data-end=\"2165\"\u003eMatilda\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"2170\" data-end=\"2183\"\u003eThe Witches\u003c\/em\u003e, in Original Dust Jackets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2212\" data-end=\"2638\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2212\" data-end=\"2228\"\u003eDAHL, Roald.\u003c\/strong\u003e A highly appealing collection of sixteen first edition, first impression books, published between 1972 and 1991, bringing together many of the author's most enduring works for children alongside his two autobiographical volumes. Illustrated principally by Quentin Blake, with \u003cem data-start=\"2509\" data-end=\"2522\"\u003eThe Minpins\u003c\/em\u003e illustrated by Patrick Benson and \u003cem data-start=\"2561\" data-end=\"2599\"\u003eCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator\u003c\/em\u003e illustrated by Joseph Schindelman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2640\" data-end=\"2918\"\u003eSixteen volumes, octavo and quarto, in their original pictorial dust jackets. Some jackets neatly price-clipped; condition varies slightly across the set, with light rubbing, handling marks and minor age-related wear, but overall a very attractive and well-presented collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2920\" data-end=\"3437\"\u003eRoald Dahl created one of the most distinctive imaginative worlds in modern children's literature: a world of extraordinary children, repulsive adults, secret schemes, giants, witches, chocolate inventors, talking animals, airborne elevators and gleefully subversive verse. This collection gathers together many of the books through which that world became familiar to generations of readers, from \u003cem data-start=\"3318\" data-end=\"3356\"\u003eCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"3361\" data-end=\"3394\"\u003eDanny the Champion of the World\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem data-start=\"3398\" data-end=\"3407\"\u003eThe BFG\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"3409\" data-end=\"3422\"\u003eThe Witches\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"3427\" data-end=\"3436\"\u003eMatilda\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3439\" data-end=\"4176\"\u003eAt the heart of the collection are several of Dahl's defining children's books. \u003cem data-start=\"3519\" data-end=\"3528\"\u003eThe BFG\u003c\/em\u003e introduced Sophie and the dream-blowing giant in 1982; \u003cem data-start=\"3584\" data-end=\"3597\"\u003eThe Witches\u003c\/em\u003e followed in 1983; and \u003cem data-start=\"3620\" data-end=\"3629\"\u003eMatilda\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1988, became one of Dahl's final and best-loved major novels. 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