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William Plomer. The Fivefold Screen (signed limited edition). Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Fivefold Screen" by William Plomer - Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London - 1932 limited edition of 350 copies for the UK market, this being a rare out of series copy signed by Plomer's hand - 63p, 25cmx20cm - condition: very good copy, minor rubbing to boards A Collection of Poems by Plomer William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (10 December 1903 20 September 1973) was a South African and British novelist, poet and literary editor. He also wrote a series of librettos for Benjamin Britten. He wrote some of his poetry under the pseudonym Robert Pagan. Born of British parents in Transvaal Colony, he moved to England in 1929 after spending a few years in Japan. Although not as well known as many of his peers, he is recognised as a modernist and his work was highly esteemed by other writers, including Virginia Woolf and Nadine Gordimer. He was homosexual, and at least one of his novels portrays a gay relationship, but whether he lived as openly gay himself is unclear.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. A lovely copy signed by Raymond Mortimer in the original stiff cream pictorial wrappers designed by John Banting. 12mo. 32 pp. No. 4 in the Hogarth Letters Series. A convincing argument in aid of the appreciation of French painting with cudos to Clive Bell and Roger Fry. Woolmer 299.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Hampson, John. O PROVIDENCE. Signed. The Hogarth Press, 1932, London, 1932.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition beautifully Inscribed and dated by John Hampson, (pseudonym of John Hampson Simpson), on the front free endpaper. "Inscribed for Dora Lawson with the good wishes of John Hampson / Slow Time forces Truth from Providence; but wanton memory roves in Space. 23-5-32." A wonderful copy in grey-blue cloth, spine slightly sunned, gilt titles to the spine. Woolmer 290. [REF32634].
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$452.06 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, one of 400 copies. Pre-publication presentation copy, inscribed by Trevelyan on the front free endpaper, to the Canadian artist, and dedicatee of Trevelyan's Idylls of Theocritus, Elizabeth Muntz (1894-1977): "'E.M.' Betty, from R.C.T. 21 April 1932". The edition was not published until May. Woolmer 311. Octavo. Original marbled paper boards, paper title label to spine and front board. Light wear to extremities with small loss to head of spine, small split to upper front joint, the binding otherwise unfaded and sound, very occasionall faint foxing to contents, else clean and unmarked; a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Trevelyan, Robert Calverly. Rimeless Numbers [SIGNED]. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 80pp. Brown marbled paper covered boards, cream labels printed in black (spine label a bit darkened). Hinges lightly rubbed and minor wear at tips. Tiny chips at extremities of spine, but still a very good + copy. A presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper to H. A. Shelley, from R. C. Trevelyan, dated 26 May 1939. Of this work 400 copies were printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. Robert Calverl(e)y Trevelyan (28 June 1872 - 21 March 1951) was an English "eccentric" poet and translator, of a traditionalist sort, and a follower of the lapidary style of Logan Pearsall Smith.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ signed by Isherwood on the title page. Pink cloth/linen, spine is slightly sunned. Blue top stain. Binding tight. Octavo. 5 X 7" 294 pps. Blue letters on spine. Missing dust jacket.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's classic second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Christopher Isherwood on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John Banting. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Uncommon signed. Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood, the Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy of his father's roguish friend who survived the war. Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the novel in which a dazzlingly talented young writer found his literary voice, the book in which Isherwood became Isherwood.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$2454.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition, 1932. Great association copy with a handwritten inscription by Lady Ottoline Morrell to her half-brother, William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland, with his armorial bookplate inside the front cover. Lady Ottoline was a great patron of literature and frequently hosted the Bloomsbury group, including Virginia Woolf, and developed a stormy relationship with her. In her memoirs, Lady Ottoline said: "She seemed to feel certain of her own eminence. It is true, but it is rather crushing, for I feel she is very contemptuous of other people. When I stretched out a hand to feel another woman, I found only a very lovely, clear intellect." Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, no dustjacket. Some modest shelfwear, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages. The inscription on the front free endpaper reads: "From Ottoline to my loved Brother" dated Dec 28 1932 (looks like 1922 but that is before the book was published). Below the bookplate is a bookseller ticket from London. Association Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.