1988 - 2072 FOREIGN LITERATURE
81 2068 Stona M 
81 2068 Stona M 
- Endpapers trifle foxed. Corners showing; spine plasticized.
= One of 200 DELUXE copies signed by the author and artist.
81 2069 Sullivan V = B Vian 
- First 10 pages cut shorter in outer margin, just outside the text. Lacks backwr.; frontwr. loose and dam. along edges; spine heavily worn.
= Under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan, Boris Vian wrote rather bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, which were highly controversial at the time of their release. This pulp fiction book was published as a provocation by the author to his critics. Both the publisher Vendôme press and this book were solely created to make people believe in the existence of Vian's alias. The original French publication J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (1946) was also written by Sullivan, although he let people believe it was written by an underappreciated young black author whose work was banned in his native country. Very rare.
81 2070 Swift J 
- Plates trifle foxed, not affecting image; endpapers browned; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding trifle/ sl. worn along extremities; remnants of paper titlepiece on backstrip.
Bunyan, J. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. London, J.C. Nimmo, 1895, XII,379p., etched frontisp. portrait of the author, etched htitle and 12 plates by W. STRANG, contemp. cl. w. gilt spine, 4to.
- Contents occas. trifle foxed along margins, otherwise fine. Backstrip (sl.) dam.
AND 2 others in 3 vols., i.a. F. RABELAIS, Works (...) (London, n.d. (1921), 2 vols., ills. and plates by W. HEATH ROBINSON, orig. unif. gilt cl., 4to).
81 2071 Tomlinson H M 
= Comprises the following: 1. Autograph letter signed to Mrss Constable & Co. covering the sending of Tomlinson's introduction to Pierre, or the Ambiguities ((1)leaf, recto only); 2. Typescript of the introduction to Pierre, or The Ambiguities for the edition publ. by Dutton, NY in 1929 ((8) leaves, recto only); 3. Autograph letter signed to C.A. Williamson, one leaf, recto only, w. printed letterhead "Ridgewood, Croham Manor Road, South Croydon", w. orig. envelope, commenting i.a. "It looks to me as if it is not worth while to educate children whose parents frustrate your efforts"; 4. Autograph letter signed to "Major Dawson", dated "18.11.41", 1 leaf, recto and verso. Affectionate response to Dawson's appreciation of a radio broadcast by Tomlinson on Joseph Conrad, expressing his gladness at finding that "not only sanity subsists, but understanding, & good will (...) in a world curiously alien" [the war years].
81/2072 Vesennyj salon poetov Spring salon of poets 
- Dedication on first blank. Wrappers reattached and sl. creased and waterst.; backstrip restored.
= The first (and as it turned out, final) issue of a literary almanac intended to be published on a regular basis to present the latest movements in Russian poetry. With contributions by i.a. Anna Akhmatova, Aleksandr Blok, Zinaida Gippius, Sergei Yesenin, Osip Mandelshtam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva.