The Master of The House by Hall, Radclyffe - 1932

A complete set of signed first editions of Ali Smith's stunning Seasonal Quartet. Fine in fine dust jackets. Each has a David Hockney illustrated band and is wrapped in mylar. Smith has signed each book on the title page, her signature on Winter is dated March 27, 2019. An exceptional set of novels published with thoughtful design.

Alfred Knopf, 1967. First edition in English. Hardback, 361 pp. Green cloth binding shows very slight fading throughout and slight bumping to the corners. In near fine condition. Dust jacket is only slightly worn on the top and bottom edges, price-clipped on front flap. In near fine condition.The Apple in the Dark is Lispector's first novel to ever be translated into English. Translated and introduced by Gregory Rabassa, arguably the most important translator of South American literature into English of the second half of the twentieth century. This novel is both a reflection of the Brazillian literary climate of modernism and innovation and of Lispector's personal style, introspective and claustrophobic, as Rabassa writes, "closer perhaps to original thought patterns than the language had ever managed to approach before". Lispector was born in Ukraine to a Jewish family who was already en-route to Brazil to escape persecution during the Russian Civil War. Her family history of migration and trauma… Read More

Miriam Tlali was the first Black South African woman to publish a novel in English in South Africa. Muriel at the Metropolitan is a devastating portrayal of life of a Black woman working a clerical job at a white business called 'Metropolitan' in Johannesburg under Apartheid. According to Dr. Barbara Boswell, 45 different editions of the novel were published and translated into several languages between 1975 and 2005, including this Polish edition.
Muriel w Metropolitan [Muriel at the Metropolitan] Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1989. 20.5 x 14.5 x 1.5. 183 pages. First Polish Edition. Translated by Maryla Topczewska-Metelska.

University of Minnesota Press, 1989. First edition. Paperback, 80 pp. White graphic wraps with moderate shelf wear. Spine is slightly rubbed and creased. Very good condition. Clarice Lispector's seventh novel, originally titled Água Viva, is considered to be her masterpiece. It is a perfect example of her particular poetic style, her profound understanding of language and her ability to play beyond its boundaries. It was first translated into English by Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz for this edition, as part of the Emergent Literatures series. Published many years before Lispector became renowned in the English speaking world. It includes an introduction by Hélène Cixous, who was a translator of the novel herself into French.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972. First Edition. 8vo. 286pp. Publisher's original tan cloth titled in gilt to the spine, in a very good, clean, and sharp example of the dustjacket, some minor edgewear, and a little spotting to the top edge and the inside flap, but essentially a near fine copy of an outstanding book. Inscribed by the author to the title page:"To Lisa - Best Wishes, Angela"The recipient is Lisa Tuttle, award winning science fiction author who very much shared Carter's desire for feminist interrogation of existing tropes, or the practice of asking "New questions of old texts", a direct quote from Tuttle, in the service of a kind of feminist revisionist mythology, the practice of which Angela Carter all but perfected in works like The Bloody Chamber, and The Magic Toyshop. A nice association in lovely condition.

A complete set of signed first editions of Ali Smith's stunning Seasonal Quartet. Fine in fine dust jackets. Each has a David Hockney illustrated band and is wrapped in mylar. Smith has signed each book on the title page, her signature on Winter is dated March 27, 2019. An exceptional set of novels published with thoughtful design.

Alfred Knopf, 1967. First edition in English. Hardback, 361 pp. Green cloth binding shows very slight fading throughout and slight bumping to the corners. In near fine condition. Dust jacket is only slightly worn on the top and bottom edges, price-clipped on front flap. In near fine condition.The Apple in the Dark is Lispector's first novel to ever be translated into English. Translated and introduced by Gregory Rabassa, arguably the most important translator of South American literature into English of the second half of the twentieth century. This novel is both a reflection of the Brazillian literary climate of modernism and innovation and of Lispector's personal style, introspective and claustrophobic, as Rabassa writes, "closer perhaps to original thought patterns than the language had ever managed to approach before". Lispector was born in Ukraine to a Jewish family who was already en-route to Brazil to escape persecution during the Russian Civil War. Her family history of migration and trauma… Read More

Miriam Tlali was the first Black South African woman to publish a novel in English in South Africa. Muriel at the Metropolitan is a devastating portrayal of life of a Black woman working a clerical job at a white business called 'Metropolitan' in Johannesburg under Apartheid. According to Dr. Barbara Boswell, 45 different editions of the novel were published and translated into several languages between 1975 and 2005, including this Polish edition.
Muriel w Metropolitan [Muriel at the Metropolitan] Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1989. 20.5 x 14.5 x 1.5. 183 pages. First Polish Edition. Translated by Maryla Topczewska-Metelska.

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1968, Several Perceptions is Angela Carter's third novel. Set in the Vietnam era, the insular urban vignettes focus on 22-year-old unemployed Joseph. Several Perceptions is notable for its Alice in Wonderland references, and the surreal book cover image reflects the collage-like nature of the novel.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. First US edition. Hardback, in dust jacket. 21 x 14 x 2. 153 pages. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth lettered gilt at front and spine. Dust jacket slightly water-stained at rear, slightly grubby. Very good book in very good dust jacket.

University of Minnesota Press, 1989. First edition. Paperback, 80 pp. White graphic wraps with moderate shelf wear. Spine is slightly rubbed and creased. Very good condition. Clarice Lispector's seventh novel, originally titled Água Viva, is considered to be her masterpiece. It is a perfect example of her particular poetic style, her profound understanding of language and her ability to play beyond its boundaries. It was first translated into English by Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz for this edition, as part of the Emergent Literatures series. Published many years before Lispector became renowned in the English speaking world. It includes an introduction by Hélène Cixous, who was a translator of the novel herself into French.