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170
170A
171
171
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HOUSEHOLD, GEOFFREY.
The Third Hour * The Salvation of
Pisco Gabar.
Together, 2 volumes. The
Third Hour: 8vo, publisher’s cloth; dust
jacket, creasing to top edge with a few
short closed tears, toned, with original
wrap-around band laid-in (tape mended
tears) * The Salvation of Pisco Gabar:
8vo, rose cloth; dust jacket, spine panel and
folds tanned, few soft horizontal creases,
one tiny chip to spine and front panel fold.
London: Chatto &Windus, 1937; 1938
[300/400]
FIRST EDITIONS OF HIS FIRST TWO BOOKS
,
preceded only by a l936 book for young people.
Bright, clean copies.
170
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HOLBEIN, HANS.
The Dances of Death, Through the Various Stages of
Human Life.
Illustrations etched by D. Deuchar, including portrait frontispiece, additional
title, and 46 full page copper engraved plates. Text in English and French. 4to, contempo-
rary full green morocco gilt extra, wear to spine and joints; hinges cracked, bookplates and
shelf label to front pastedown, occasional minor smudging; later cloth slipcase.
London: S. Gosnell for John Scott and Thomas Ostell, 1803
[400/600]
Han’s Holbein’s series of woodcuts was first published in 1536 and became the most famous
illustrations ever published on this theme. Minns 269.
170A
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HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY.
Poems.
Edited with notes by Robert
Bridges. With 2 portraits and 2 double-page facsimiles. 8vo,
1
/
4
linen-backed grey-blue
boards, soiled, spine darkened, spine label browned and chipped.
London: Humphrey Milford, 1918
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION OF HOPKINS
’
FIRST BOOK
.
One of 750 copies printed. “Hopkins’s poetry with its
religious faith, his experiments in versification, his ‘dark night of the soul’ would have reduced all his
Victorian contemporaries to immediate insignificance - like Rimbaud’s in France - had they but
known of him” (Connolly 33). Hayward 335.