signed by the illustrator
STEADMAN, Ralph [illustrator] - MITCHELL, Adrian.
For Beauty Douglas. Adrian Mitchell's Collected Poems 1953-79.
London, Allison & Busby, 1982.
Adrian Mitchell was well known for his anti-establishment poetry and as a noted figure in the British left. Ralph Steadman's images and scribbles are equally satirical, incorporating Christian, capitalist, and nationalist imagery in ways equally humorous as harrowing.
The eponymous Beauty Douglas is the name of a Black South African girl who died before she turned one month old, buried in the children's graveyard in Dimbaza, South Africa, 'where women & children who are not needed by the white economy are sent'. The foreword describes her grave, littered with rubbish among hundreds of other young children's graves, featured in the film Last Grave at Dimbaza (1974).
First edition, signed by the illustrator in pen to title page; containing around 100 in-text and full page illustrations and small flourishes by Ralph Steadman; publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver, a very good copy with original typographic dust-jacket in very good condition with price scribbled out in pen; 263pp.
Stock code 119573
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For Beauty Douglas.
WOOLF, Virginia.
Orlando: A Biography.
1928.
A signed, limited edition copy of Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicholson, Vita Sackville-West's son, declared Orlando to be 'the longest love letter in literature', 1928
£6,500.00
WOOLF, Virginia; STRACHEY, Lytton.
Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey Letters.
1956.
A handsome first edition of Virginia Woolf anf Lytton Strachey Letters, Edited by Leonard Woolf and James Strachey.
£225.00
PLATH, Sylvia.
Two Uncollected Poems.
1980.
A limited edition copy of The Uncollected Poems by Sylvia Plath.
£325.00
