Nov 5, 2014 | Videos
Pom Harrington presents the first American edition of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
First American edition, first printing, printed on wove paper, with the half-title and frontispiece printed on separate leaves (verso of half-title and recto of frontispiece blank).
The American edition was published around the beginning of December 1876, preceded by the London edition published in June the same year.
More information on this edition can be found on our website by clicking here. (BOOK SOLD)
Nov 5, 2014 | Videos
Adam Douglas presents this superb collection of original script material from the golden age of the most successful comic partnership in film history.
English-born comedian Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) and Oliver “Babe” Hardy made over 100 films together, some 30 of them silent, and almost all of them produced by Hal Roach Studios.
Their golden age was between 1929 and 1935, when they created a prolific stream of 20-minute shorts, coming to a close with the classic Thicker Than Water, the last script present here.
In the 1930s they began to make feature films, and in 1940 they left Roach. The subsequent features they made are widely considered a falling-off from the earlier high standards. Laurel and Hardy scripts or scenarios from their golden age are exceptionally rare; we can trace no other example of comparable material ever having appeared in commerce.
These will be of enormous interest to film historians, showing how the original scenario or scenarios (present here in all but three films) differed from the final produced version. For example the original scenario of their last film, Thicker Than Water, notably lacks its famous sight-gag ending, in which Laurel and Hardy swap bodies.
More details of this collection can be found by clicking here.
Nov 5, 2014 | Videos
First edition of this James Bond classic in an exceptionally bright original dust jacket.
Fleming (1908-1964) finished Casino Royale over the period of two months in early 1952, while at Goldeneye, his “tropical hideaway on Jamaica’s north shore”
Published in April 1953, the book was a success and Fleming would thereafter use “his Caribbean holidays to write a James Bond story every year until his premature death in 1964″
We have a number of James Bond first editions at Peter Harrington. To browse our full selection, follow this link.
Nov 5, 2014 | Videos
Senior Book Specialist Adam Douglas presents this first edition set of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
First edition of one of the keystone books for any collection of 19th-century literature, Charlotte Brontë’s first published novel and the first published novel by any of the Brontë sisters.
Published at 31s. 6d. on 19 October 1847, in an edition of 500 copies, her novel followed the unsuccessful publication of Poems by the three sisters in May 1846, and the rejection of her first novel The Professor.
In this copy the publisher’s catalogue is dated October 1847, while others have June 1847. There is no priority between them; both were issued at the same time.
To view this set in more detail, click here.
Nov 5, 2014 | Videos
Pom Harrington inspects our superior copy of Ulysses.
This book is a first edition, primary issue, one of 100 copies on Dutch handmade paper; this copy numbered 45 and signed by Joyce on the limitation page.
The first printing of Ulysses consisted of 1,000 copies, divided into three issues. The first 100 were designated the primary issue: printed on fine Dutch handmade paper, numbered 1–100 and signed by Joyce, these copies bulk thickest of the three issues and were the most expensive, at 350 francs ($30).
Of the remainder, 150 unsigned copies were done on larger but inferior paper, and the remaining 750 on linen paper, noticeably thinner and slightly smaller than the Dutch paper issue.
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