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Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. First edition. Near Fine. True first issue of both volumes with the price of 900 Francs printed on the back of each cover. A Near Fine set with the spine a trifle toned, but otherwise clean, fresh copies, appearing unread. Volume 2 with a slight paper flaw affecting one gathering where it looks like the pages bound in have a slight uncut edge (but this appears to be a bindery issue). Housed in a custom clamshell case. This controversial novel is frequently on the list of top books from the past century. Originally released in France because American publishers were wary of such "obscene" material, Lolita tangles sexual taboo and violence with incredibly seductive prose. "Shocking is the reaction the author somehow manages to elicit from his readers: empathy. Readers always read, I think, out of a tremendous curiosity about other human beings, we're looking for another soul on the page, and that's what Nabokov has so fearlessly, so complexly, so gorgeously given us.…
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Lolita (in 2 vols.)
by Nabokov, Vladimir
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Pale Fire
by Nabokov, Vladimir
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book in very Nearly Fine jacket. Red topstain bright and unfaded, book clean and fresh, appearing unread and unused. Jacket showing very minimal age toning to the spine, one small piece of tape at the verso of the spine. A lovely copy of a difficult book to find in collectible condition. "On first read, Pale Fire is a book that appears to be a different book entirely. It takes the form of a long biographical poem written by the eminent and recently deceased poet John Shade, followed by several hundred pages of annotations by Shade's friend and fellow professor Charles Kinbote. Very quickly, an astute reader becomes aware of three things: 1) Kinbote is unstable. 2) Kinbote is convinced that Shade's poem 'Pale Fire' is not about Shade at all but about Kinbote's own delusional history as the exiled king of the (possibly fictional) country of Zembla. 3) Kinbote's 'interpretation' of the poem takes over the book and,…
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A House for Mr. Biswas (Reviewer's copy)
by Naipaul, V. S.
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Near Fine book in a bright, unfaded VG+ jacket. Chipping and creasing to jacket's spine ends; dampstaining to verso of jacket not visible on recto. Spine ends of book creased and bumped. Internally clean and unmarked. A reviewer's copy, accompanied by the McGraw-Hill reviewer card requesting two copies of a two-hundred word review; also included is one typed copy of the review composed by recipient David Fidler. "Among the poor a common denominator is the lack of privacy. To Mr. Biswas, a sensitive man, the wonder of living in one' own house could create almost unbearable pleasure. For five years, until his death at 46, Mr. Biswas lived his dream. If he was cheated in buying a house he could not afford, it was infinitely superior to the room or two his family had occupied under sufferance of relatives...This colorful and moving novel of Hindu life in the West Indies deals with the chronically impoverished Mr. Biswas, a high-caste…
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Espana en el Corazon
by Neruda, Pablo
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Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Ercilla, 1937. First edition. Good. A worn, but complete copy of this scarce publication by one of Latin America's most prominent poets. Original self wrappers printed in red, gray and yellow, spine cracked and professionally reattached (lacking a small chip), wrappers soiled, and a dampstain affects the top edge of leaves throughout. Rare in the original wraps, most first edition copies have been rebound. Just two thousand copies of this original edition were produced, each containing 16 black and white photographic reproductions, as here. Posted in Spain as a diplomat during the Spanish Civil War, Neruda witnessed the destruction and transformation of Spain during these turbulent years. Neruda commemorates the republican fighters, figures, and values in Espana en el Corazon. Good.
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Poems from the Canto General (Signed Limited)
by Neruda, Pablo (David Alfaro Siqueiros, illustrator)
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New York: Racolin Press, 1968. First thus. Fine/Near Fine. Out of a limitation of 235, one of ten lettered copies A-J (this copy being J), signed by the artist on the limitation page and on each of the 10 lithographs. A truly striking combination of poetry and visual arts, measuring an impressive 1040 x 600mm. Complete as issued in 63 pages with 10 lithographed and signed illustrations. Housed in the original publisher's linen clamshell with just a touch of fraying to spine ends. Of the 14 copies listed at institutions according to OCLC, only three are of the lettered limitation (B at Illinois, D at Hamilton, and G at Stony Brook). While individual lithographs frequently come up at auction, only one complete copy is documented in Rare Book Hub. A collaborative masterwork, Poems from the Canto General pairs some of Neruda's most important political lyrics with muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros large-scale lithographs. Originally conceived as a more traditional livre des artistes, the scale of…
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Religious and literary commonplace book of a young woman
by [Commonplace Book] [Spirituality] Frances Phoebe Newton
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[England], 1867. Full sheep embossed in blind with gilt to front board, measuring 200 x 160mm and comprised of 155 manuscript pages. A gift inscription to the front pastedown reads "Frances Phoebe Newton, A Present from her Mother, Mrs. A. Morley. July 31st, 1841." On the first page, Phoebe has created a formal title page: "Phoebe Newton's Album. July 31st, 1841." A dense and research-rich piece, in which a young woman documents her reading from a variety of sources including collections of poetry, popular magazines and circulars, church sermons, and oral stories within her community. Potential projects include but are not limited to Victorian reading practices, women's reading, the intersection of popular and evangelical literatures, genealogy, and paleaography. Within her commonplace book, Phoebe gravitates toward poetry and short anecdotes in which the narrating voice calmly uses rhetoric and logic to undermine non-believers or convert doubters. Her faith is the underlying basis for each…
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