Holiday Gifts 2020

18 Holiday Gifts December 2020 A “Deceptively Profound Little Book” (Rampersad) 42. HUGHES, Langston. The First Book of Rhythms. New York, 1954. Square quarto, original green cloth, dust jacket. $850. Click for more info First edition, first printing, of the pivotal second work in Hughes’ influential series, showing “how all the world is connected by rhythm,” a work that also signals the “jazz, blues and Black vernacular speech rhythms in his poetry,” with colorful illustrations by Robin King, in bright original dust jacket, a beautiful copy. Fine. First Trade Edition Of Finnegans Wake 41. JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London, 1939. Large octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $5500. Click for more info First trade edition of Joyce’s “inscription on the walls of eternity.” Book fine, bright price-clipped rare dust jacket near-fine. “Secures His Place At The Very Front Of American Writers Of Fiction” 40. FAULKNER, William. Light in August. New York, 1932. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $8500. Click for more info First edition, first issue, of one of Faulkner’s most powerful and ambitious novels, a splendid copy. Book fine, dust jacket about-fine. L i t e r a t u r e