modernisms

BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS
cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, minor bump to bottom corner, dustjacket with
backstrip panel gently faded and a trifle frayed at head, very good £150
Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘To Vivian and Anne [Ridler], With many
thanks for all their help and encouragement, from Helen’. An important study, and an
appealing presentation copy to friends of both author and subject - Anne Ridler had
been Eliot’s secretary at Faber, and went on to gain recognition as a poet, whilst her
husband was the Printer to the University of Oxford at OUP between 1958 & 1978.
Anne Ridler’s markings, towards the close of the text, mostly correct typographical
errors, but she also adds an interesting footnote regarding the phrase ‘ring the bell
backwards’ that updates Gardner’s understanding of the term via the author herself.
[With:] (Order of Service.) Helen Louise Gardner, 1908-1986, St. Hilda’s College and
Lady Margaret Hall, [Memorial Service at] The University Church of St. Mary the
Virgin, Saturday 22 November 1986, pp. [8], foolscap 8vo, stapled self wrappers, fine
condition
[And:] Gardner (Helen) Literary Studies. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the
University of Oxford on [left blank] 1967, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1967,
UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, spot at head of final page,
pp. 32, crown 8vo, original stapled wrappers a little faded around spine, stamped
proof copy on rear, very good.
45. Faulkner (William) Light in August. New York:
Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932, FIRST EDITION,
pp. [iv], 480, 8vo, original tan cloth, backstrip blocked
in blue and orange, the first issue binding with the front
cover blocked in orange, very faint endpaper browning,
fore-edges roughtrimmed, the dustjacket in wonderful
condition with just three very tiny tears to the head of
the rear panel and one to the backstrip panel, light blue
drop-down-back cloth box with gilt lettered mid blue
morocco labels, near fine (Massey p. 52) £3,000
46. Fitzgerald (F. Scott) Flappers and Philosophers. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1920, FIRST EDITION, pp. [viii], 272, crown 8vo, original mid green cloth,
tarnished gilt backstrip lettering faintly readable, front cover blocked in blind,
ownership name on front free endpaper, roughtrimmed, good (Bruccoli A 6.I.a)
£325
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