GIFTS 100 “The Plague Never Dies Or Disappears For Good” 163CAMUS, Albert. The Plague. London, 1948. Octavo, original bluegreen cloth, dust jacket. $1800 First edition in English of Camus’ gripping allegory of the German occupation, published one year after the French first edition. “Camus is not only a giant among French moralists—an important and characteristic strain in French literature—but he stands as one of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century as well” (Pribic, Nobel Laureates in Literature, 75). Book with a bit of discoloration to endpapers, bright dust jacket with minor soiling to rear panel, tape repairs to verso. “The Greatest Achievement In Spanish Literature Since Don Quixote” (Neruda) 164GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York, 1970. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $4500 First edition in English, in scarce first-issue dust jacket. “One of the best-known and highly esteemed works of Latin American magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude… allegorizes cosmic questions and literary concerns while remaining an absorbing story” (Barron, Fantasy and Horror 7-130). Cloth with a few stray faint marks; bright dust jacket with toning to spine and along folds, tiny chip and fold to rear panel. A lovely copy. “The Best And Best Known” 165LE MAY, Alan. The Searchers. New York, 1954. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1500 Signed limited first edition, one of 800 copies signed by Le May on a tipped-in leaf, the basis for director John Ford’s immortal Western. LeMay is particularly remembered for “the best and best known of all his books…The Searchers,” which was adapted to the screen by legendary director John Ford in his 1956 Western starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood (Smiley, 185). Book fine, dust jacket with mild toning to spine, slightest wear to head of spine. “War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength” 162ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Weston, Massachusetts, 1984. Folio, original half blue morocco, slipcase, shipping box. $1000 Limited edition, one of 275 copies of this facsimile edition of the extant manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four, edited by Peter Davidson and with a preface by Daniel G. Siegel. Published in 1984, this sumptuous privately printed edition presents in facsimile all that survives of the preliminary draft versions of Nineteen Eight-Four. Fine.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NDg3OTM=