[Rarebooks] FS: Six Books Discounted

[Allington Books]

Greetings to All.
Subject to the terms set forth below, today and tomorrow we offer the
below-described works at a substantial  discount:
Shaw, George Bernard
The Doctor's Dilemma; Getting Married; The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1911. First Edition, First
Printing.Hardcover.
A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing of these three
George Bernard Shaw plays published together, in the Publisher's original
green cloth (some toning to the spine, modest wear to the cloth) with the
closed page block's top edge gilded. The leading dramatist of his
generation, George Bernard Shaw won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature “for
his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating
satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty”. "The Doctor's
Dilemma" (a work which presents the moral dilemmas created by limited
medical resources, and well as the conflicts between the demands of
medicine as a business and a vocation), was a particularly great dramatic
and popular success. The Play's main character is a Doctor who has
developed a cure for tuberculosis, but has only enough of the medication to
cure ten, perhaps eleven, people. He chooses ten people from a group of
fifty patients, choosing those who he determines to be the most worthy of
being saved. When he thereafter concludes that he has enough medication to
cure one more person, he must choose between an old friend and colleague
who reveals he has the disease and the request of a Mrs. Dubedat who comes
to him requesting that he heal her husband. The husband is a gifted artist
who can contribute much to society but who is an unpleasant, amoral
womanizer and bigamist. The Doctor's quandary is made more complicated by
the fact that he has fallen in love with Mrs. Dubedat; a Play that presents
issues that society must deal with even today. A Very Good + copy. Very
good +. Item #2689

Price: $75.00  NOW AVAILABLE AT $20.


Malone, Michael
The Delectable Mountains

New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A
Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing (some tanning to the
board extremities) in a Very Good dust jacket (some wear to the spine panel
ends), Malone's Debut Novel. The New York Times described the work as a
"breezy, picaresque first novel". Copies of Malone's Debut nonfiction book
are surprisingly uncommon to the market and are especially so without the
remainder mark commonly found on copies of it. Very good / very good. Item
#2687

Price: $75.00  NOW AVAILABLE AT $20.


Eliot, T. S.
Little Gidding

London: Faber and Faber, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. A
Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's
original stapled wrappers, a poem which later appeared in Eliot's "The Four
Quartets". T. S. Eliot won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. A Very Good
copy. Very good. Item #2677

Price: $45.00   NOW AVAILABLE AT $15.


Eliot, T. S.
The Dry Salvages

London: Faber and Faber, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. A
Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's
original stapled wrappers (short split to spine above the top staple), a
poem which later appeared in Eliot's "The Four Quartets". T. S. Eliot won
the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. A Very Good copy. Very good. Item #2676

Price: $55.00  NOW AVAILABLE AT $17.50.


Parker, Robert B.
Pale Kings and Princes [Signed]

New York: Delacorte Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Fine copy of the first trade edition, first printing, in Fine dust
jacket, SIGNED BY ROBERT B. PARKER on the title page; Parker's fourteenth
featuring his famous detective Spenser on whom was based the successful TV
series "Spenser for Hire". This novel's title was taken from the last verse
of the poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad" by John Keats ["I saw pale
kings, and princes too, / Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; / Who
cry'd—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci / Hath thee in thrall!"] and provided the
basis for the 1994 made-for-TV movie of the same name. A Fine copy, SIGNED
BY ROBERT B. PARKER. Fine / fine. Item #2668

Price: $45.00   NOW AVAILABLE AT $15.00
Pynchon, Thomas
Mason & Dixon

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987. First Edition, First
Printing.Hardcover.
A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (a gap between the
spine and the page block caused by the page block's heaviness, a bit of
shelf soil to the closed page block's bottom leading edge), in a Fine dust
jacket covered with a Near Fine clear overjacket with the author's name and
the book's title thereon in black; Pynchon's fifth novel, a fictional
account of a collaboration between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in
astronomical and surveying exploits in Cape Colony (a British Colony also
known as "The Cape of Good Hope), Saint Helena (one of the world's most
remote islands), Great Britain, and in the United States along the
Mason-Dixon line (a line surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to
resolve a border dispute involving the British colonies of Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and Delaware) just prior to the beginning of America's
Revolutionary War, a line that has come to represent the border between the
North and the South in the United States. Writing in the New York Times,
Michiko Kakutani described the book as Pynchon's "most emotional and
affecting work in his oeuvre to date" and describes the work as "a
rollicking picaresque tale, filled with songs, jokes, aphorisms and bad
puns, a story populated by talking clocks, petulant automatons, oracles,
ghosts, golems and a giant cheese, as well as a populous cast of humans
with odd, Pynchonesque names." A Near Fine copy. Near fine / fine. Item
#2667

Price: $125.00  NOW AVAILABLE AT $25.

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