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Second-Hand Time. The Last of the Soviets
$800.00
Alexievich, Svetlana
London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016. First UK edition. A paperbound original.
Signed to the title page by the author, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, and dated in the latinate style as is her wont. Not to be confused with the 2024 Fitzcarraldo edition, limited to 1000 copies signed on a bookplate.
Few small finger smudges, else fine in wrappers.
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The Ascent Of Everest
$1,200.00London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. First edition. Signed by the author, the expedition leader of the first successful British team to reach Mount Everest’s peak. In a designer mountain-themed binding from Jane Francis of the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (U.K.) in dual blue Oasis morocco and alum tawed pigskin with foil tooling. Exhibited at the 1969 Thomas Harrison Craft Bookbinding Memorial Competition. Accompanied by exhibition pamphlet and Miss Francis’ invitation to the event. Prelims lightly foxed, spine a little faded, some tanning to the pigskin. Very good or better in custom slipcase with uneven fading.
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Scarce Anthology of Modernist Poetry
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