James S. Jaffe Rare Books. Rare Books & First Editions, Fine Printing & Literary Art, Autograph Lett
By James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
James S. Jaffe Rare Books. Rare Books & First Editions, Fine Printing & Literary Art, Autograph Lett The catalogue includes the Nobel Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias’s rare first literary work, Rayito de Estrella (Paris, 1929); a fine first edition of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899); a fine copy in the extremely rare dust jacket of the first edition of Irma Bombech’s The Joy of Cooking (St. Louis, 1931); the rare first American edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Philadelphia, 1844); Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Poems (London, 1898) in the rare dust jacket; a fine copy of the first edition, first issue of Seamus Heaney’s first book, Eleven Poems (Belfast, 1965); Ted Hughes’s Roosting Hawk (Northampton, 1959) inscribed by Hughes to Sylvia Plath’s mother; the first edition of Keats’s Lamia (London, 1820) in original boards; a fine run of Philip Larkin’s appearances in his school literary magazine The Coventrian (Coventry: King Henry VIII School, 1935-1944); the publisher Gaston Gallimard’s copy of the deluxe issue of Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dès (Paris: Gallimard, 1914); Wilfred Owen’s Poems (London, 1920) in the rare dust jacket; and an important presentation copy of Sylvia Plath’s The Colossus (London, 1960), among others. Among the manuscripts and letters offered are letters from Ray Johnson and Robert Rauschenberg to Hazel Frieda Larsen, the artists’ friend and photography instructor at Black Mountain College; a fine manuscript of Thomas Hardy’s “In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’”, and a highly important series of letters from the poet Charles Olson to Ralph Maud.
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