Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Augustine Birrell
20th Century Masters
Stirrings Still | Samuel Beckett
This is a rare, first-edition copy of Samuel Beckett’s last work of prose. The dedication is to his longtime friend and publisher Barney Rosset. Beckett had decided to stop writing but, along with his friend Louis le Brocquy and as a favor to his Rosset, he created this work.
Ulysses | James Joyce
This is the first British edition of Joyce’s best known work, Ulysses, in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in various literary styles, including stream of consciousness.
First published in France in 1922, it took 14 years for British censors to allow this UK publication.
Cathay, Poems After Li Po | Ezra Pound
The pure lyricism and clear imagery of his poems has been appreciated by readers in China and Japan for centuries. Through Ezra Pound’s translations, Li Po became central to the modernist revolution in the West.
Beautifully bound, with contemporary Italian artist Francesco Clemente‘s woodcuts interpreting the text, this is a true work of art.