[Rarebooks] Six Books Discounted

[Allington Books]

All Six Books have sold.
Best Wishes,
Stephen


Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
www.allingtonbooks.com
336-414-0435


On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM Allington Books <allingtonbooks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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> With Thanks for your consideration of the above and
> Best Wishes,
> Stephen
> Allington Antiquarian Books
>
>
>
> Stephen Johnson
> Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
> Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
> www.allingtonbooks.com
> 336-414-0435
>