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Hollywood: Marcel Rodd. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. The spine is sun-lightened and the gilt title is very pale. Rear cover has a tiny, light mark or two and two faint scratches. Tiny mark to front endpaper. Creases to corner of the half title. Lacks the dust jacket.; Charles Baudelaire was a poet, translator, and critic in 19th century France. He was known for his "prose poetry" and dark, sometimes controversial subject matter. His works were often judged as obscene and their publication suppressed. His journals, excerpted in this book, reveal a often lost, questioning man with contempt for others and for himself. The Translator's Preface by Christopher Isherwood is apt, describing Baudelaire's life of vice, absinthe, opium, debt to the point of financial ruin, contempt for ethics, instability, anger, madness, and brilliance as an author. Isherwood's friend W. H. Auden provides the Introduction which takes a high-level view of the philosophies… Read More

Dublin Ireland: Cuala Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1942. Limited/Numbered Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Endpapers are wrinkled where they meet the gutter. Dark speck on front cover. Light, 1/2" long impression at the head edge of the front cover and a similar, very faint impression to the head edge of the back cover. Lower corners of the boards are bumped at the fore edge. Lacks the ephemeral tissue wrapper.; This compelling memoir recounts the author's childhood views of living in Dublin Ireland during seven consecutive winters, her summers being spent in County Cork. The memories are detailed and evoke both the chilled, gray days and the beauty of Dublin. Founded and operated by women, entirely, the Cuala Press was focused on new works in the emerging Irish Literary Revival. One of only two titles published by the press in 1942, as the entire press operation was moved to a different location in that year. This is copy 448 of an edition of 450 "finished in… Read More

Whittington, London: The Whittington Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. The original glue on the tipped in prospectus and frontispiece was acidic, had darkened, and bled through both pieces. Some wrinkling to the leaf where the frontis was reattached. Offsetting to title page from original glue of the frontis. Tiny dark spot to front endpaper. Small spotting to pages 24, 25, 55.; Largely a witty memoir of John St. John's time with the British Royal Marines in European theaters of World War II. His account of time in service highlights the ludicrous aspects of military life and the boring futility of tramping around Europe without enemy engagement. Evelyn Waugh was in the author's Royal Marines unit, was an occasional, conversational companion, and appears only sporadically in this ambitiously-titled memoir, mostly in incidents observed by the author. St. John also notes individuals and situations that were prototypes for what… Read More