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København [Copenhagen]: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel & Son), 1890. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Printing of perhaps Ibsen's "most frequently performed play in the modern theatre." (PMM) In Danish (then the literary language of both Denmark and Norway). Foolscap 8vo: [4],236pp. Publisher's green cloth (copies were also identically bound in red, brown, and grey, no known priority), front cover elaborately blocked in gilt and black, back board with blind-stamped borders and central publisher's logo, floral patterned endpapers, gilt edges. A brilliant copy, barely rubbed to spine ends. PMM 375. First trade edition, preceded by twelve copies printed in London, in Norwegian, "under a well-intentioned illusion that this was necessary for copyright protection." (PMM) Published on December 16, 1890, although the play only premiered on January 31, 1891, at the Königliches Residenz-Theater, in Munich. Together with The Lady from the Sea and Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler forms the… Read More

[Moscow]: [Intourist / Moscow / Hotel Metropol], 1932. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine-. Early tourist booklet, in English, featuring Leningrad and Moscow. Crown 8vo (201 x 148mm): 30pp, with two large folding maps in color (273 x 389mm), profusely illustrated with partial page images from photographs of life in the USSR. Full-color pictorial wrappers stapled. An excellent example (wrappers very light dust-soiled) with virtually pristine maps. Intourist, headquartered in Moscow, long served as the primary travel agency for foreign tourists in the Soviet Union. It was founded on April 12, 1929, and privatized in 1992, and from 2011 was partly owned by the British Thomas Cook Group until its collapse in September, 2019. In November, 2019, Anex Tours acquired the stake from the British Official Receiver. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly.… Read More

London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. First Impression (one of only 1,222 copies) of this "remarkably acute and assured novel about the pre- and post-war generations, seen from both sides of the divide" (ODNB) in the uncommon first-state binding. Crown 8vo (183 x 118mm): 294pp. Publisher's pale pink coarsely woven linen, spine lettered in blue; mid-brown dust jacket illustrated by Jack Banting, printed in blue and priced 7/6. About Fine, tightly bound and clean throughout (apparently unread); jacket virtually pristine. Woolmer 294. According to the Literary Encyclopedia, the death of Isherwood's father in the First World War and the deep, lifelong mourning into which his mother fell provide much of the background for the family dynamics of Isherwood's early novels, including The Memorial, in which Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father and his envy… Read More

London: Hogarth Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. Fourth Impression (so stated; only 1,730 copies of the first impression were issued) of Isherwood's "snapshot of a lost world, the antic, cosmopolitan Berlin of the 1930 s." (Time 100) Crown 8vo (186 x 120mm): 280pp. Publisher's citron cloth, spine lettered in brown with matching top stain; cream dust jacket (price-clipped) printed in maroon, designed by John Banning. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout (offsetting to end papers); jacket spine panel lightly tanned and gently rubbed, else about Fine. Wolmer 369. First published in 1935 and often paired for publication with another of Isherwood's short novels as Berlin Stories, Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin "form one coherent snapshot of a lost world, the antic, cosmopolitan Berlin of the 1930 s, where jolly expatriates dance faster and faster, as if that would save them from the creeping rise of Nazism. One of Isherwood's greatest… Read More

London: Hogarth Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Impression of these "Brilliant sketches of a society in decay" (Orwell). 8vo: 317,[1]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven oatmeal-colored cloth, spine stamped crimson with matching top-stain. Near Fine, cloth and edges dust-soiled, lettering slightly faded, but pages clean, tight and bright. According to Woolmer (451), only 3350 copies were printed. Connolly 86. A series of six loosely interconnected character sketches that unfold against the backdrop of the doomed Weimar Republic. Despite Isherwood's disclaimer, Goodbye to Berlin is firmly rooted in his biography; all the principle characters were inspired by people he had known. Isherwood originally envisioned a sweeping Tolstoyan novel combining the characters from Goodbye to Berlin and Mr. Norris Changes Trains (in fact, both novels are often packaged as The Berlin Stories and both were later adapted for stage and film, most memorably in the Tony Award-winning musical Cabaret… Read More