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1962 Corgi Paperback Movie Tie-in Edition of ‘Lolita’ by Vladamir Nabokov

Debs — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:04:21 +0000

I recently visited a wonderful Stanley Kubrick exhibition in Rome and was reminded of a small piece of my own original Kubrick memorabilia, this 1962 movie tie-in paperback edition of one of my absolute favourite novels - Vladamir Nabokov's Lolita. First reissued by Corgi in 1961, this is the fourth 1962 reprint and although hardly a rare item, is nevertheless an interesting piece of both film and book memorabilia.

	Vladimir Nabokov King Queen Knave 1968 1st Edition HC DJ Lolita Author
			US $19.99	13h 53m

	Nabokov Vladimir LOLITA 1st Edition First Printing
			US $360.00	19h 46m

	Vladimir Nabokov Transparent Things First Edition
			US $47.40	20h 26m

	First Edition Library LOLITA Vladimir Nabokov SEALED
			US $550.00	1d 12h 52m

	Vladimir Nabokov The Eye First Edition VG
		0 Bid	US $18.00	1d 16h 14m

	King Queen Knave Vladimir Nabokov First American Edition 1968
			US $67.49	2d 14h 49m

	Scarce VLADIMIR NABOKOV First Edition 1961 F F
			US $250.00	2d 17h 36m

	1st 1st Edition VERSES AND VERSIONS Vladimir Nabokov RUSSIAN Poetry POEMS
			US $36.00	2d 19h 47m

	Lolita Nabokov Weidenfield nicolson First edition 1959 dust jacket
		0 Bid	US $61.62	2d 19h 56m

	BEND SINISTER by Vladimir Nabokov POLICE STATE 1st Ed
			US $74.99	2d 21h 43m

Vanessa Bell Dust Jacket for ‘A Haunted House’ by Virginia Woolf

Debs — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:12:50 +0000

Some of my favourite historic book jackets are those designed by Vanessa Bell for the Hogarth Press, and in particular, for the books written by her sister, Virginia Woolf. Vanessa Bell, together with her husband Clive Bell, painter Duncan Grant as well as Virginia and Leonard Woolf, belonged to the group of artists and writers known as the Bloomsbury Group, although she has achieved a certain measure of independent success as attested by her paintings which hang in the Tate Britain Gallery. Recent cinema goers may remember Miranda Richardson's excellent portrayal of her in The Hours, opposite Nicole Kidman's Virginia Woolf, an Oscar-clinching performance in the category of Best Actress Wearing a False Nose.

This dust jacket from A Haunted House, a posthumously published collection of short stories by Virginia Woolf, is from a 1943 first edition in War Economy Standard (using cheaper paper etc. to save the country's resources) and includes a fascinating back inner flap advertising the BBC radio broadcasts which transmitted news bulletins and Morse coded news across Europe during the Second World War.

	Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 1953 first edition paperback
		0 Bid	US $5.00	20h 17m

	1921 First US Edition Virginia Woolf Monday or Tuesday
		0 Bid	US $35.00	2d 35m

	The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf First American Edition Authors First Novel
			US $395.99	2d 15h 16m

	The Waves by Virginia Woolf First American edition in dust jacket 1931
			US $200.00	2d 21h 51m

	The Death of the Moth Virginia Woolf 1st 1st UK 1942 First Edition
			US $269.99	3d 16h 4m

Monkey by Wu Cheng-en | Translated by Arthur Waley | Dust Jacket by Duncan Grant

Debs — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:29:40 +0000

Monkey is the title of Arthur Waley's popular 1942 abridged translation of the traditional Chinese folk tale Journey to the West which was first published during the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century and is now ascribed to the scholar Wu Cheng-en. It actually translates only thirty of the hundred chapters of the original tale.

This 1944 War Economy Standard edition was the fourth impression of the book and features a very beautiful dust jacket design by Bloomsbury Group painter Duncan Grant.

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Monkey: Journey to the West has recently been adapted for the stage in the form of a circus-opera by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the co-creators of the virtual pop band Gorillaz, and Chen Shi-zheng.

	Bloomsbury Portraits Vanessa Bell Duncan Grant and
			US $13.98	18h 11m

	Bloomsbury Portraits Vanessa Bell Duncan Grant and Th
			US $50.85	6d 20h 40m

	Duncan Grant A Biography By Frances Spalding
			US $44.99	7d 11h 29m

	Duncan Grant Frances Spalding Good Book
			US $20.00	10d 9h 24m

	KIDETERNITY 2 GRANT MORRISON DUNCAN FEGREDO
			US $4.95	16d 15h 31m