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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 Tyrants Destroyed First Edition
			US $50.00	2d 17h 43m

	Nabokov Vladimir Pnin First Edition
			US $201.00	3d 23m

	First Edition Library LOLITA Vladimir Nabokov SEALED
			US $550.00	4d 2h 25m

	VLADIMIR NABOKOV PNIN FIRST EDITION
			US $64.31	13d 13h

	Vladimir Nabokov Lolita First Edition
			US $40.00	14d 6h 40m

	Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING
			US $40.00	24d 16h 52m

	FIRST EDITION TITLED GLORY BY VALDIMIR NABOKOV
			US $45.00	26d 10h 23m

	FIRST EDITION TITLED TRANSPARENT THINGS BY NABOKOV
			US $45.00	26d 10h 24m

	FIRST EDITION TITLED ADA BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV
			US $55.00	26d 10h 28m

	FIRST EDITION LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS NABOKOV
			US $45.00	26d 10h 35m

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.

	VIRGINIA WOOLF Jacobs Room FIRST UK EDITION
		0 Bid	US $1,700.00	31m

	VIRGINIA WOOLF HER WORLD JOHN LEHMANN FIRST EDITION 975
			US $4.95	9h 15m

	THE WAVESVIRGINIA WOOLFFIRST US EDITION1931
		0 Bid	US $5.99	3d 10h 50m

	Virginia Woolf 1961 First Edition by Monique Nathan
			US $10.00	9d 8h 49m

	Virginia Woolf by James King First American Edition
			US $10.00	19d 6h 12m

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.

	Harpers Queen 3 75 CoutureCollectionsDuncan GrantOIL
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	Private The Erotic Art of Duncan Grant Duncan Grant Do
			US $37.82	1d 5h 27m

	CCM Magazine Aug 1985 AD Bryan Duncan AMY GRANT
			US $19.99	3d 15h 12m

	Duncan Grant and the Bloomsbury Gro By Douglas Blair Tu
			US $18.71	4d 17h 33m

	Cloud and Weather Atlas Hugh Duncan Grant Good Book
			US $25.49	6d 9h 31m