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
Ash Wednesday | T. S. Eliot, signed
This is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. This rare, signed, limited edition copy has the dedication “To my wife”, referring to Eliot’s first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, with whom he had a difficult relationship. He initiated a legal separation from her in 1933 and removed the dedication to her from editions that followed.
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.