first edition inscribed by the author
JACOBSON, Howard.
Coming from Behind.
London, Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1983.
This first edition is inscribed by the author to 'Clive', most likely Clive James FRSL (1939-2019), a literary critic, journalist, broadcaster, and friend of Jacobson. The week after James' death, Johnson published a deeply felt tribute to his late friend's personality and work, ending with this encapsulation of what he admired about James' career, 'he exceeded the brilliance of his early promise and demonstrated, in his own extraordinarily various career, that literature is never truer to itself than when it operates in the messy present, away from all ivory towers, down here among the unweeded passions of humanity'.
First edition, inscribed by the author in pen to front free endpaper; 8vo; some spotting on top edge; publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, a very good copy with pictorial dust-jacket faded on spine panel; 202pp.
Stock code 119582
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Coming from Behind.
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
