• For your consideration:
• A LOT of TWO (2) First Edition UK HARDCOVERS:
• BY RICHARD HUGHES, Author of A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA, THE FOX IN THE ATTIC, etc.
• “RICHARD HUGHES is a genuine case of unfair neglect, and will some day be seen again as one of the very best novelists of the past hundred years from Great Britain.” —FINANCIAL TIMES (UK)
• TITLE 1: “IN THE LAP OF ATLAS: Stories of Morocco”
(Chatto & Windus, 1979) (Hardcover, First UK Edition)
• “The stories are almost certainly creative reworkings of tales told after dinner by HUGHES’s Moorish friends or by his highly intelligent manservant, HAMED, who saw it as his duty to instruct his employers in the ways of a rich and ancient culture. In their mixture of humour, savagery, cunning and irony, these stories are rich and authentic additions to THE ARABIAN NIGHTS….”
—THE PUBLISHER
• TITLE 2: “THE WONDER-DOG: The Collected Children Stories”
(Chatto & Windus, 1979) (Hardcover, First UK Edition Thus)
• “The most original fairy stories of the past half-century, guaranteed to hold spellbound children of seven to ten years of age…. They are superlative and unique,”
—CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN EDUCATION
• “A most welcome new edition of all HUGHES’s abrupt, off-beat, wonderfully tellable stories; and his foreword, written just before his death, sheds some light on how they gained their imitable flavor.”
—THE (LONDON) TIMES
• “Once upon a time there [books of] unpredictable stories by RICHARD HUGHES…that those who encountered them never forgot. Happily, they’re back—with a brief, thought-provoking introduction by HUGHES… and suitably dry and outrageous illustrations by ANTONY MAITLAND…. Each is as crisply told as a news story, however ultimately unfathomable. Thirty altogether, most only a few pages long, every one a tease and, in some oblique way, a comfort.”
—KIRKUS REVIEW
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S OTHER BOOKS:
• “A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA (aka THE INNOCENT VOYAGE)” (1929)
• “An admirable novel, vivid, exciting, delicate and swift. The strangeness is never exaggerated, the descriptions are exact as well as beautiful.”
—CYRIL CONNOLLY
• “A work of genius…. It has genius because it sees something that a million people have seen before, but sees it uniquely.”
—HUGH WALPOLE
• “By turns funny, ironic, and brutally sad, this is a complex and astonishing novel.”
—SUE MILLER
• “The style is brilliant, the ingenuity of narrative is brilliant, the characterisation is brilliant.”
—ARNOLD BENNETT
• “Deeply bizarre and sometimes hilarious...particularly diverting is the sly narrative voice, which keeps darting around and sneaking up on you. It’s the perfect intellectual seafaring adventure.”
—EMILY TEMPLE, LITERARY HUB
• “IN HAZARD” (1938)
• “The most intense reading experience of the year—easily—was discovering RICHARD HUGHES’s 1938 novel, IN HAZARD, a small masterpiece of lyric terror about a cargo ship that runs into a hurricane, but also about the rest of life.”
—SIMON SCHAMA, THE GUARDIAN
• “A thrilling yarn as any you are likely to pick up…. Magnificent.”
—DESMOND MacCARTHY
• “To take the same subject as CONRAD in TYPHOON would be foolhardy if it were not so triumphantly justified.”
—GRAHAM GREENE
• “RICHARD HUGHES is a genuine case of unfair neglect, and will some day be seen again as one of the very best novelists of the past hundred years from Great Britain.... IN HAZARD is much more than a brilliant sea story. The tale is about extreme danger and human reactions to it.” —FINANCIAL TIMES
• “THE FOX IN THE ATTIC” (1961)
• “There are few living writings of whom one would say that they had genius; but somehow it seems the most natural thing in the world to say about RICHARD HUGHES.” —GORONWY REES
• “A magnificent, authoritative, compassionate, ironic, funny, and tragic book.”
—TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
• “An impressive and unusual historical novel.”
— MICHAEL HOLROYD
• “HUGHES does not write with a researcher’s smug wisdom-after-the-event but with an artist’s power of recording the past as if it were the living present…. The long passages on the Munich beer-hall putsch of 1923, HITLER’s escape, hiding and capture are a tour de force of dreamlike action.
—TIME
• “[THE FOX IN THE ATTIC] has many virtues, many strong and compelling moments; it continues Hughes’s particular method of tracing the misapprehensions, confusions, and wrong-headedness of people who are either not able to grasp the complex currents of the world they live in, or are blinded by the obsessions of child mentality or political fanaticism or religion.”
—JOHN CROWLEY, THE BOSTON REVIEW
• “RICHARD HUGHES is one of the most sublime discoveries of my literary life.”
—JOEL MARKS, AMAZON REVIEW
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• For more details about each title in this Lot, please see below.
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TITLE 1: “IN THE LAP OF ATLAS: Stories of Morocco”
AUTHOR: RICHARD HUGHES
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PAGES: 124
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: CHATTO & WINDUS (London), 1979
EDITION: First UK Edition, First Printing*
ISBN: 0-7011-02430-X
CONDITION of DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD. Price (L4.95) has NOT been clipped. Slight chipping at top of spine & at top corner on front. Bottom of spine is slightly rubbed. Spine is slightly darker than rest of cover; this same discoloration happens across the top of front & back (& down the front fore edge) in a long, perfectly rectangular shape. (Please see photos.) Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.
CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Cover-boards are clean with sharp corners. Spine is tight. Spine tips are lightly bumped. Edges have light smudging. Pages are clean & bright. Looks unread.
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TITLE 2: “THE WONDER-DOG: The Collected Children Stories”
AUTHOR: RICHARD HUGHES
ILLUSTRATIONS: ANTONY MAITLAND
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PAGES: 180
ISBN: 0-7011-5091-2
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: CHATTO & WINDUS (London), 1979
EDITION: First Edition Thus
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 1931 (selections from THE SPIDER’S PALACE) and 1940 (selections from DON’T BLAME ME!)
ISBN: 0-7011-02430-X
CONDITION of DUST JACKET: GOOD. Price (L3.95) has NOT been clipped. Top & bottom of spine are lightly rubbed; corners are chipped. Soiling runs along entirety of top edge—with light staining at very top of the back inside flap. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.)
CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: GOOD. Cover-boards are clean with bumped corners. Top & bottom of spine are bumped. Bottom has scuffs & light shelf-wear. Top edge is blue with some fading & white showing through; fore edge has scuffing & light streaks. A black-ink inscription appears on FFEP (reading: “Congratulations, Fairlight. 2nd Prize Cricket Poetry Contest. Love, Cricket”). Pages are lightly tanned but clean & bright.
•• SHIPPING NEWS: Each book in this lot will be wrapped separately before being shipped together in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ••
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