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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS; F. L. LUCAS (trans.) Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.[London] : 1948
First edition thus, copy 26 of 100 deluxe copies bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe and signed by the translator F. L. Lucas, from a total edition of 750 copies. This Golden Cockerel Press edition exhibits the ancient Greek poetic hymns to Aphrodite, goddess of love, with both the Greek text and Lucas's translation, alongside woodcut illustrations by Belgian... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 145202
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of Shakespear. In Six Volumes.London : 1725
First edition of Pope's Shakespeare, the first collected edition in quarto and only the second modern edition of Shakespeare, intended by Pope to remedy what he perceived as the deficiencies of his friend Rowe's 1709 edition. After the four Folios and two Rowe editions, this is the seventh edition overall.
Pope had been working simultaneously... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 147523
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MATISSE, Henri (illus.); JOYCE, James. Ulysses.New York : 1935
First illustrated edition, signed limited, number 478 of 1,500 copies signed by Matisse.
Within weeks of the lifting of the US ban on the book (6 December 1933), Limited Editions Club impresario George Macy approached Joyce about a special edition of Ulysses, and by February 1934 he was en route to Paris to speak to Matisse about illustration.... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 147814
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SHEEHAN, Neil. Remarkable one-page typed letter signed to Abe Rosenthal of the New York Times, concerning the withdrawal from Vietnam.Washington, D.C. : 1975
On the eve of the withdrawal from Saigon, Pulitzer-winning journalist Neil Sheehan writes to legendary editor Abe Rosenthal: a letter of superb content and context, conveying disillusionment with the Vietnam "experiment" and the anger that informs Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie, the "one book that captures the Vietnam War in the sheer Homeric scale... Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 141264
