Search Results: Titles starting with A from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

London: The Adelphi, July, 1934. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good/very good. A set of three SCARCE monthly issues of the "Adelphi", a monthly magazine published in London, England, these being the issues for August, 1933, October, 1933, and July, 1934, each bound in the Publisher's original yellow wrappers and each containing writing cited to Eric Blair, the writer who would later be known as "George Orwell". Each issue is age-toned and shows wear, and the original staples have rusted as can be seen on the wrappers and on the leaves within. On the front cover of each issue, a prior owner has written "Orwell" in pencil. George Orwell's first full-length book publication, "Down and Out in Paris and London", was a Memoir published in two parts, the first part being an account of his living in those two prosperous cities in extreme poverty, his experience in each city being told in fictionalized form, was first published by Gollancz in January, 1933 after having been rejecterd by T. S. Eliot and… Read More

New York: Random House, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. An Essentially Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (slight push to the spine head, some fading to the board extremities; J. M. Coetzee's sixth novel. The book won the 1990 Sunday Express Book of the Year, the most lucrative prize for novels in Britain at the time. The tale presents a picture of social and political tragedy unfolding in a country ravaged by racism and violence; an excellent work on South African apartheid and its effect on that nation's people. J. M. Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature for being a writer "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider." In his Presentation Speech for the Prize, Per Wästberg of the Swedish Academy stated: "Coetzee sees through the obscene poses and false pomp of history, lending voice to the silenced and the despised. Restrained but stubborn, he defends the ethical value of poetry, literature and imagination. Without them, we… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $30. NOW $20. A Fine copy of the first American Edition, first printing with a push to the spine tail, in a Near Fine dust jacket with some soiling to the rear panel. Her penultimate published novel published only six (6) years prior to her death. Per Wikipedia: Spark received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1965 for The Mandelbaum Gate, the Ingersoll Foundation T. S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing in 1992 and the David Cohen Prize in 1997. She became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1967 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993 for services to literature. She was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, in 1969 for The Public Image and in 1981 for Loitering with Intent.... In 1998, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN for a "Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature"....In 2008, The Times ranked Spark as No. 8 in its list of… Read More

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Fine. A Fine copy, tight and unread copy of the first wrappered edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original wrappers with contributions by the aforementioned authors.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fine. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $50.00. NOW $22.00. A Very Good copy of the first American trade edition, first printing in a fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY JULIAN BARNES on the title page. But for a small mar to the rear board an bump to the rear board's upper leading corner, the volume is in Fine condition. The dust jacket is in Fine condition and states: "From one of England's most esteemed novelists, an utter astonishment that captures an era through one life celebrated internationally and another entirely forgotten. In the vast expanse of late-Victorian Britain, two boys come to life: George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, in shabby genteel Edinburgh, both of them feeling at once near to and impossibly distant from the beating heart of Empire. One falls prey to a series of pranks en route to a legal vocation, while the other studies medicine before discovering a different calling entirely, and it is years… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/fair. A Very Good copy of the first trade edition, first printing, in the remnants of the EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE glassine dust jacket (some general handling soil to the binding along with a bit of corner rubbing and some darkening at the spine head and tail; within, this copy lacks the front free endpaper and three of the eight tissue guards -- but all of the illustrations are present, half title page shows prior seller's notes in pencil and is loose at the top and bottom sections but holding rather well): being the first trade edition published following a private printing for Whittier's friends which private printing included fewer poems than are contained in the trade edition. The text is on the rectos only, the front board is lettered, illustrated, and lined in gilt, the spine is lettered and decorated in gilt, and the closed page block's top edge is in gilt as well. Whittier was a… Read More

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1883. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good copy of the second edition (printed in the same year as was the first edition), in the Publisher's original red cloth with the spines lettered and decorated in gilt and black and the front board of each volume lettered in black. The volumes are askew and each shows sunning to the spine, some cracking to the hinges, general wear, and a prior owner's signature to the half-title's recto. Volume I hosts a Preface by Trollope's son Henry where in the son explains the Autobiography's publication and his father's letter regarding the same, which letter the father gave to the son with instructions that it was not to be opened until after the father's death. The Chicago Tribune, after describing Trollope's miserable childhood and youth, and his early failures as a Post Office employee (a career at which he ultimately had remarkable success and in which he became an important and notable figure), described this… Read More