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FREDERIC WARBURG
An occupation fro gentlemen.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. 8vo. Illustrated.
Publisher’s white clothbacked red boards. Titled in red
and brown to spine. In dust jacket.
A very good to near fine jacket. Book in fine condition.
Frederic Warburg [1898-1981], publisher and founder of
the publishing house Secker & Warburg. This autobiography
is his first published work.
INSCRIBED to Nobel Price Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer
”[…] a magnificent writer from an amateur. Frederic
Warburg, May 18, 1962”. Isaac Bashevis Singer [1902-
1992], recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1978,
published many of his books on Secker & Warburg.
750,- | £55 | $70
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FAY WELDON
The fat woman’s joke.
Bristol: MacGibbon & Kee, 1967. 8vo. Publisher’s red
boards, gilt to spine. In dust jacket.
INSCRIBED by Weldon to Norwegian book collector
and rare book dealer, Per Otto Lövstad, dated 1.11.96.
Jacket slightly creased to upper edge, corners and lower
spine end. Else a fine copy.
Fay Weldon’s debut novel grew out of her 1966 television
play «The fat woman’s tale».
Self-declared Fay Weldon’s [1931-2023] work features
what she described as ”overweight, plain women” – as
she deliberately sought, she said, to write about and give
a voice to women who are often overlooked or not featured
in the media. From The «Fat Woman’s Joke» [1967] onwards,
she depicted women’s fates in such a way that
different stages of modern feminism have been reflected.
Weldon’s narrative style was both harsh and tender, and
her attitudes were unorthodox: she was not critical of
dominant and selfish men, but also of women without a
sense of loyalty, warmth and assertiveness.
3 000,- | £225 | $285
131
[TENNESSEE WILLIAMS]
MOHAMED CHOUKRI & PAUL BOWLES
Tennessee Williams in Tangier. Translated by
Paul Bowles.
Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1979. Small 8vo. Publisher’s
wrappers with illustration mounted to upper wrapper. In
original acetate jacket.
A fine copy.
No. 19 of 200 copies SIGNED by Choukri & Bowles.
900,- | £70 | $85
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