– 57 – A u g u s t 2 0 2 2 First Edition Of Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Killer Angels 66. SHAARA, Michael. The Killer Angels. A Novel. New York, 1974. Octavo, original blue paper boards, dust jacket. $4000. First edition of Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, one of the most popular and acclaimed works of Civil War fiction. “Stephen Crane once said that he wrote The Red Badge of Courage because reading the cold history was not enough; he wanted to know what it was like to be there, what the weather was like, what men’s faces looked like. In order to live it he had to write it. This book was written for much the same reason” (Shaara). “A book that changed my life… I had never visited Gettysburg, knew almost nothing about that battle before I read the book, but here it all came alive” (Ken Burns). Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with a small closed tear to front panel and slightest rubbing to extremities. A lovely copy. “Hail To Thee, Blithe Spirit!”: Beautifully Bound And Printed Large-Paper Set Of Shelley’s Works 67. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Complete Poetical Works. Cambridge, 1892. Four volumes bound in eight. Octavo, contemporary full crushed crimson morocco gilt. $6200. Limited large-paper edition, one of only 250 large-paper sets finely printed and beautifully bound in full morocco gilt with morocco doublures. “Some of the loveliest lyrics in English, together with longer poems unsurpassed in beauty and grandeur, came from [Shelley’s] pen… The dominant impression of his work is that of pure and ineffable beauty” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 359). “The text newly collated and revised and edited with a memoir and notes by George Edward Woodberry.” With frontispiece portrait. Interiors generally clean. A beautifully bound set in fine condition.
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