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Posted in First Editions, Rare Books on Aug 25th, 2008
“For 160 Days We Marched Through The Forest”
“Only a man of Stanley’s iron resolution and invincible resource could have carried through the awful marches and counter-marches in the tropical forests…” (DNB).
Stanley had already successfully completed three major expeditions in Africa by the time he accepted what would prove to be his most ambitious and most [...]
Posted in First Editions, Rare Books on Aug 20th, 2008
“One Of The Classics Of Antarctic Literature”
Apsley Cherry-Garrard served as assistant zoologist on Robert Scott’s 1910-12 expedition to Antarctica. While Scott set out for the South Pole, Cherry-Garrard and two companions headed for the base of Mount Terror to collect Emperor Penguin eggs; it proved a journey so treacherous that he later titled his account [...]
Posted in First Editions, Rare Books on Jul 11th, 2008
“Passages Of Unearthly Beauty”
Joyce began writing Finnegans Wake in 1922, the same year Ulysses saw publication. Compared to that book, Finnegans Wake “took longer to write… was conceived and executed under a greater range of symbolic and mythic guidelines, was dictated to more famous amanuenses, among them Samuel Beckett, was used as a weapon [...]
Posted in First Editions, Rare Books on Jun 20th, 2008
“A Woman Must Have Money And A Room Of Her Own If She Is To Write Fiction”
Based on two lectures she gave at a women’s college in Cambridge in 1928, Woolf’s foundational essay on women and writing has become a classic feminist text. “Her aim was to establish a woman’s tradition, recognizable by its circumstances, [...]