Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.
Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk
(ANTARCTIC.) WILD, Frank.
Shackleton’s Last Voyage.The Story of the Quest. From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923
Large octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, front cover lettered in black and with large pictorial block, pictorial endpapers. Coloured frontispiece, 100 black and white plates from photographs, sketch maps in the text. Armorial bookplate of A. H. Richardson, who has inscribed his name in ink at the foot of the front cover and on the top edges; bookplate of J. B. Prentice on verso of front free endpaper. Binding a little used, small stain at head of spine, scattered foxing.
First edition. Wild had been with Scott on the Discovery, was with Mawson in 1911–14, “and was a close friend of Shackleton on both the Nimrod expedition of 1907-09 and second-in-command on the Transantarctic Expedition of 1917-17… Wild joined Shackleton on his final voyage to the Antarctic in 1921-23 but the explorer’s death sapped Wild’s desire to continue” (Howgego). A “handsome publication” reproducing “the last photographs of Shackleton to be taken” (Taurus). Wild emigrated to South Africa, and drifted into bankruptcy and alcoholism. He died destitute in Johannesburg in 1939.
£1,250
(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.) DOWSON, Ernest.
The Poems.With a Memoir by Arthur Symons, Four Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley and a Portrait by William Rothenstein.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1905
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, decoration to front board gilt from a design by Aubrey Beardsley, top edge gilt others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Housed in a purple cloth chemise and slipcase covered in purple paper. Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, one photographic plate and four illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley in the text. Typescript note tipped in p. 27. Corners of boards faintly bumped, edges of text block and prelims lightly spotted. An excellent copy in a jacket which has been reinforced with orange paper backing.
First edition, first impression. Publisher’s addendum tipped in p. 166. Scarce in the dust jacket.
£950
(BERRIGAN, Ted.) SCHUYLER, James.
The Fireproof Floors of Witley Court.English Songs and Dances.
Vermont: The Janus Press, 1976
Octavo. Original orange wrappers, crescent moon to front cover in silver, orange endpapers with green and purple cut-outs featuring a silhouette of the topiary gardens of Levens Hall, Westmoorland. A fine copy.
First edition, limited edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to fellow poet Ted Berrigan on the front free endpaper, “To Ted Berrigan, with love, Jimmy. Xmas, ‘75”; it is subsequently inscribed by Berrigan, “To Tom Carey, on his birthday, Ted. April 9th, 1978.” Carey was was a literary assistant to poets James Schuyler and John Ashbery, and friend of Berrigan. This is number 20 of 150 copies bound by Clare Van Vliet, and printed on Kozu, Fabriano and Canson paper.
£1,250
BOWLES, Paul.
Next to Nothing.
Kathmandu: Sharada Printing Press, 1976
Octavo (pp. 28). Original wrappers stitched as issued, design on front cover by Maya, Kufic design on back cover by the author. Title page decoration by Sidney Hushour, tipped-in photographic frontispiece by Dana Young, 2 illustrations by Patra Vogt and Lee Baarslag. An excellent copy of a fragile publication.
First and limited edition, number “1C” of 500 copies. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “For Lawrence, So here it is, best, Paul 15/iv/77 – Tangier”. It is possible that “Lawrence” is Lawrence Delbert Stewart, author of Paul Bowles: The Illumination of North Africa (1974).
£875
DALI, Salvador.
Femme à cheval. (Woman on Horseback.)
Paris: Graphik Europa Anstalt, 1969
Hand coloured drypoint etching on Japon nacré paper. Plate size: 31.5 x 23.5 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black and silver wooden frame with linen mount.
Edition of 145. Signed in pencil lower right by Dali, numbered lower left. Dali blindstamp to lower right. One of 16 prints from the Vénus aux Fourrures portfolio.
£2,000
DALI, Salvador.
Polyanthus tubarosa et cygnus vegetales. (Water-Hybiscus Swan.)
Paris: Editions Graphiques Internationales, 1972
Lithograph and acrylic on heavy Arches paper. Plate size: 56.5 x 38.5 cm. Sheet size: 74.7 x 55. Some loss to the acrylic, mainly to the leaves, glue residue to the verso. Presented in limed ash frame.
Signed in pencil lower left “Bon a tirer, Dalí”. An edition of 350 was published with embossing and a psuedo latin title beneath the image, this copy has built-up acrylic instead of embossing and no title beneath the image.
£10,000
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz.”
London: Richard Bentley, 1838
3 volumes, octavo (200 x 115 mm). Contemporary dark blue morocco, raised bands, titles and panelling to compartments gilt, triple frames to boards and ruling to turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt, dark green morocco doublures, white moiré silk endpapers. 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank including the “Fireside” plate (facing p. 313 in vol. III). Half-titles to Volumes I and II; one advertisement leaf to Volume III. Original brown cloth bound into each volume. Extremities very gently rubbed, text blocks gently toned with occasional light spotting, plates browned. An excellent set.
First edition, first issue with Boz title pages and the Fireside plate. Walter E. Smith explains the bibliographical details in Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth: “when Bentley decided to publish Oliver in book form before its completion in his periodical, Cruikshank had to complete the last few plates in haste. Dickens did not review them until the eve of publication and objected to the Fireside plate (“Rose Maylie and Oliver” )… Dickens had Cruikshank design a new plate which retained the same title … This Church plate was not completed in time for incorporation into the early copies of the book, but it replaced the Fireside plate in later copies… Dickens not only objected to the Fireside plate, but also disliked having “Boz” on the title page. He voiced these objections prior to publication and the plate and title page were changed between November 9 and 16.”
£5,000
DISNEY, Walt.
The Story of Snow WhiteWith the individual stories of each of the dwarfs.
Racine, Wis: Whitman Publishing Co., 1938
8 volumes, quarto. Pictorial paper wraps, side staple bound. Walt Disney Studio illustrations throughout. Mild toning to pages, light wear to extremities, an excellent set.
First editions, first printings. A wonderful group of picture books each featuring one of the title characters.
£1,000
EDKINS, Ernest Arthur.
The Scarlet Cockatoo.
Chicago: The Lincoln Printing Company, 1928
Octavo. Black cloth-backed, brightly colour-printed paper-covered boards – the cockatoo of the title, in scarlet on a golden yellow background, title in black letters, shadowed in red, further eye-wrenchingly shadowed in shocking pink – title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. A couple of spots of foxing to the endpapers, light toning to the text, else very good in slightly rubbed and soiled jacket with minor spot to the spine, overall very good. Contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
First and only edition, uncommon, just 10 locations listed on OCLC. Caustic verses from “Ernie of Highland Park”, English-born executive at Commonwealth Edison, occasional journalist, and friend of H.P. Lovecraft. Caustic verses including “Six Reverent Kow-tows to the Intelligentsia”, skits on Dorothy Parker, James Branch Cabell, H.L. Mencken, Samuel Hoffenstein – at the time enjoying notoriety for his Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing, but better known as screenwriter on the 1931 Fredric March Dr. Jekyll, and The Wizard of Oz – and Ezra Pound in “Pound tells the Canaille where to get off”; “Imbecile! drop that book,/Nor further look/Within its pages; not for you/My cantilations, – only the august few/May safely quaff that dark emancipating brew”.
£125
FORD, Charles Henri (ed.)
The Overturned Lake.
Cincinnati: The Little Man Press, 1941
Small octavo. Original pale blue cloth, titles to spine red, text printed on blue paper. With the dust jacket. Title page by Matta. Spine and board edges a little faded, contents mildly toned; an excellent copy in the toned jacket with a couple of nicks and chips to extremities.
First edition, signed limited issue. Number 39 of 50 copies signed by Ford, from an edition of 400 copies.
£325
GRIMM, Jakob & Wilhelm.
German Popular Stories,Translated from the Kinder und Haus-Marchen , collected by M. M. Grimm, From Oral Tradition.
London: C. Baldwyn; James Robins & Co., and Joseph Robins, Junr., 1823 & 1826
2 volumes, duodecimo (170 × 100 mm). Near contemporary full red morocco, raised bands, titles and decorations to compartments gilt, triple frames to boards and floral rolls to turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt. 2 etched pictorial title-pages and 20 plates by George Cruikshank, those in Volume I printed brown; bound with the half titles but without adverts. Bookplate of Herbert Standen to front pastedowns. Light offsetting from turn-ins, text blocks gently tanned, occasional mild spotting to margins. An excellent set.
First English edition, first issue (with no umlaut over the “a” in “Marchen” on Volume I engraved title page), of the best known collection of children’s stories ever published.
£7,500
HAGUE, Michael.
Original watercolour for The Hobbit.
Watercolour and ink on heavy watercolour board. Board size: 481 x 598 mm. Image size: 475 x 352 mm. Presented in a handmade white gold leaf frame with UV glass. In excellent condition.
Original watercolour by American illustrator and author Michael Hague and signed by him in the lower left hand corner. Hague’s watercolour depicts Bilbo, Gandalf and the thirteen dwarves travelling through the forest and appeared on pp. ?? in the illustrated edition of The Hobbit published in 1984 by Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
£3,750
HAGUE, Michael.
Original watercolour, “Water Babies”.
1992
Watercolour and ink on heavy watercolour board. Board size: 521 x 456 mm. Image size: 465 x 400 mm. Presented in a handmade gold leaf frame with UV glass. Edges of board a touch rubbed and bumped. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Original watercolour by American illustrator and author Michael Hague and signed by him in the lower left hand corner. Produced for the Land of Dreams calendar published by AMCAL in 1992, this water colour, entitled “Water Babies” and used for November, depicts two human children and several merchildren playing with bubbles.
£3,500
(HAGUE, Michael.) BAUM, L. Frank.
The Wizard of Oz.colour illustrations by Michael Hague.
New York: Holy, Rinehart and Winston, 1982
Quarto. Original pictorial laminated boards, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by Michael Hague. Inscription to front endpaper, price clipped to mid of front flap of the dust jacket. An excellent copy.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Hague with an original ink illustration of the Scarecrow on the verso of the front endpaper.
£225
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Death in the Afternoon.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1932
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and decoration to spine gilt, facsimile signature to front board gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by the Chelsea Bindery. Coloured frontispiece and numerous black and white photographic illustrations. Extremities slightly rubbed, mild mottling to edges of boards, light tanning to endpapers. An excellent copy in a lightly toned jacket with slightly nicked and chipped extremities, and a 4 cm closed tear to front joint.
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: “To Cedric R. Crowell Esq. with all best wishes, Ernest Hemingway, Cooke, Montana, September 193.” The book was published on 23 September 1932. Hemingway’s pen slipped off the page, failing to complete the final digit of the year, but this was inscribed on first publication, in the same format as other known presentation copies of this title. Crowell was general manager of the Doubleday Doran book shops.
£20,000
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894 & 1895
2 works, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spines gilt, pictorial designs to spines and front boards gilt, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated throughout by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. Extremities very slightly rubbed and bumped, occasional mild spotting to text blocks. An excellent set.
First editions of Kipling’s classic tales.
£3,750
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Just So Stories.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1902
Octavo. Finely bound in mid 20th-century red full crushed morocco by Bayntun Rivière, titles and decoration gilt to spine separated by raised bands, single rule to boards gilt with pictorial block to front gilt, decoration gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 12 black and white illustrations by the author. Excellent condition.
First edition, first impression. A particularly handsome copy.
£1,250
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
North to the Orient.With maps by Charles A. Lindbergh.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and plane design to front cover, all in silver, top edge dark blue, map endpapers. With the dust jacket, housed in a custom blue buckram chemise and dark blue full morocco pull-off case. Portrait frontispiece, map panels above chapter headings. Tips bumped and slightly worn, a couple of light damp patches to cloth, internally fine; an excellent copy in the creased and nicked jacket, that has a couple of shallow chips to extremities.
First edition, first issue. Presentation copy, inscribed by the Lindberghs on the title page to the psychoanalyst and writer Claude Delay, “For Mlle Claude Delay, with best wishes, Anne Morrow Linbergh, Charles A. Lindbergh.”
Delay was a close friend of Coco Chanel, and wrote her biography, Chanel Solitaire. The Lindberghs led a peripatetic life when on the ground, with homes in France, England, New Jersey, Michigan, Connecticut, Switzerland and Hawaii. The book has the requisite issue points of “Abacadabra” on p. 11, line 11, and no reviews of the book on the rear flap of the jacket. An account of the Lindberghs’ flight from Long Island to Nanking by the Great Circle Route via Canada, Siberia, and Japan. The trip was made in Tingmissartoq – Greenland Inuit for “one who flies like a big bird” – a Lockheed Sirius, a plane originally developed by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee to meet Charles Linbergh’s requirements for a low-winged, high-performance monoplane, in this case retrofitted as a float-plane. Includes an account of the Lindberghs’ services bringing aid on the Yangtze to the victims of the Central China Floods of 1931, one of the deadliest natural disasters of the twentieth century. Tingmissartoq is now in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
£1,500
PUZO, Mario.
The Fourth K.A Novel.
New York: Random House, 1990
Octavo. Original red cloth-backed black paper boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Boards very faintly scuffed, a few light spots to edges of text block. An excellent copy in a bright jacket.
Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his old friend Joseph Heller and his wife Valerie, “For Joe and Valerie, affectionately Mario” (front free endpaper). Puzo and Heller both belonged to the Gourmet Club, a group of male friends who shared the common characteristics of being good talkers and good eaters. The club, which also included Mel Brooks, Joseph Stein and Speed Vogel, regularly met at New York restaurants from the 1960s to the 80s. First edition, second printing. A very appealing association.
£750
SEUSS, Dr.
Green Eggs and Ham.
New York: Beginner Books, Inc., 1960
Octavo. Original pictorial orange boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Boards very lightly rubbed and bumped, spine ends and corners a touch worn. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed and toned jacket with lightly nicked and creased extremities and a few minor chips to spine ends and corners.
First edition, first printing, first issue, with the “50 word vocabulary” sticker to the front panel of the jacket.
£3,000
SHACKLETON, Ernest H.
The Heart of the AntarcticBeing the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909. With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S.
London: William Heinemann, 1909
2 volumes, large octavo. Original blue pictorial cloth, front covers with large silver block, spines lettered gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. With the drab paper, typographical dust jackets, Rosove’s No.1 without the pricing details. Photogravure frontispiece to each volume, 12 captioned tissue-guarded coloured, and 255 black and white other plates in all, 3 maps, panorama in end-pocket of volume II, and numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout. Without the errata slip in volume II. Light damping at the fore-edge of all boards, the silver blocks to the front boards slightly oxidised as always, frontispieces browned verso, light browning else, foxing to the fore-edges, the jackets a touch rubbed, minor chipping and splitting at the heads of the spines, small hole to the lower panel of that of volume II, but overall very good set indeed, entirely unrestored.
First edition. Shackleton’s account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907–9 (Nimrod), reviewed on publication by the Manchester Guardian as “the best book of Polar travel which has ever been written”. The sledge expedition “to the south magnetic pole was one of the three foremost achievements of this expedition. The other two achievements were, first, the ascent and survey of Mount Erebus (12,448 feet), the active volcano on Ross Island and, second, the southern sledge journey, which reached within 100 miles of the south pole” (ODNB). The expedition established Shackleton as a “bona fide English hero,” but the success of the book did little to alleviate “the financial problems left to him by the expedition” (Books on Ice). Sir Raymond Priestley (1886–1974), a British Geologist and Antarctic explorer who accompanied Shackleton on the 1907–1913 Antarctic expeditions, said, “For scientific leadership, give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems to be no way out, get on your knees and pray for Shackleton”. Rosove notes “dust-jackets are very scarce”.
£8,500
STEADMAN, Ralph
Hunter S. Thompson in Straight Jacket.
Lexington, KT: Petro III Graphics, 2010
Screenprint on white Rising Stonehenge deckle edge paper. Sheet size: 76 x 56 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black wooden frame with UV protective glass.
Edition of 250. Signed in pencil lower right by Steadman, numbered lower left.
£675
STEADMAN, Ralph.
Let’s Party.
Petro III Graphics, 2006
Two colour screenprint on White Rising Stonehenge deckle edge paper. Sheet size: 56 x 76 cm. Excellent condition. Presented float mounted in a black wooden frame with conservation glass.
Edition of 250. Signed in pencil lower right by Ralph Steadman, numbered lower left.
£800
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Jailbird.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1979
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine silver and gilt, facsimile signature to front board gilt, blue endpapers, top edge yellow. With the dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge; an excellent copy in the jacket with toned edges and nick to head of spine.
First trade edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half-title. This is a review copy, with the publisher’s promotional material laid-in. It was preceded by a limited edition of 500 copies.
£375
WEINSTEIN, Meyer H.
Arbitrage in Securities. With an Introduction by Walter E. Lagerquist.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1931
Octavo. Publisher’s maroon cloth, spine and font board lettered gilt, with the dust jacket. Tiny chip to the head of the dust jacket spine; an excellent copy, clean and fresh.
First edition of “the first book to analyze and describe the methods of security arbitrage. How arbitrage is carried on with securities in the international markets and in equivalent securities is fully and simply explained” (dust jacket), written by an experienced arbitrage practitioner.
£4,750
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Piccadilly Jim.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited,
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front board in dark green, publisher’s device to rear board in dark green. Spine a little faded and rolled, extremities lightly rubbed, a few scattered spots to endpapers and endleaves, half-title and last leaf faintly tanned. An excellent copy.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Arnold M. Strange, with best wishes from the author, P. G. Wodehouse, Feb 26. 1930”. Piccadilly Jim was originally published in the US in 1917, and in the UK in 1918. This is the second reissue of the UK edition.
£750
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Right Ho, Jeeves.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1934
Octavo. Original buff cloth, spine and front board lettered in red, publisher’s device to rear board in red, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Neat contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Spine rolled, touch of foxing to fore-edge of book block and prelims, nicks, chips and tears to jacket (closed-tear across spine and front panel), old tape repairs on verso. A very good copy, not commonly found with the dust jacket.
First edition, first impression. The second full-length novel featuring Jeeves and Wooster, published on 5 October 1934, following hot on the heels of Thank You, Jeeves (March 16 1934), and “containing one of the most memorable drunk scenes in all English literature when Gussie presents the prizes … A Wodehoue classic” (Jasen).
£2,750
