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Jenkins to verso of front free endpaper; near fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, no. 591 of 1,200 copies signed by the author, of the first English translation of the book that inspired the Judge Dee series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDee Goong An\u003c\/i\u003e is an eighteenth-century Chinese crime novel, previously untranslated, which Van Gulik discovered in an antiquarian bookshop in Tokyo. The protagonist, Judge Dee, is modelled on the historical figure Di Renjie, a seventh-century Tang-dynasty magistrate. The novel, comprising three cases – “The Double Murder at Dawn”, “The Case of the Strange Corpse”, and “The Case of the Poisoned Bride” – inspired Van Gulik to develop the character of Judge Dee for his later, original, crime series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA distinguished sinologist with a deep interest in traditional East Asian book production, Van Gulik designed this edition to reflect classical Chinese models. It includes nine woodblock illustrations: three reproduced from original Chinese sources and six executed by Van Gulik himself. The woodcut-printed boards replicate the design of the illustration facing p. 62 and are seldom encountered in such fresh condition. 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Earlier essays were carefully reworked: phrasing was refined, illustrative material drawn from his reading introduced, and arguments expanded by the addition of sentences or whole sections. Several pieces were entirely recast in a more formal and structured manner, while others retain, or deliberately recover, the spare and aphoristic character of the earliest essays. The work thus displays a deliberate variety of form, reflecting both the evolution of Bacon’s thought and his sustained experimentation with the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross its successive versions, the \u003ci\u003eEssayes\u003c\/i\u003e reveal an increasing preoccupation with civil life and public affairs, shaped by changing political circumstances as well as by Bacon’s own career as lawyer, courtier, statesman, philosopher, and moralist. 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Auden’s erotic poem about a spontaneous sexual encounter with a twenty-four-year-old mechanic, first published in the \u003ci\u003eFuck You Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e in New York in 1965.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEd Sanders, the founder of  \u003ci\u003eFuck You Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, allegedly obtained a copy of the typescript from an employee of the Morgan Library, reproducing it in vol. 5, no. 8, of the magazine of the Fuck You Press without Auden’s permission (under the title ‘The Gobble Poem’), with cover illustrations by Andy Warhol, publishing it separately as ‘The Platonic Blow’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf this edition, ‘copies which were put together first have light violet […] card covers, but when this stock was exhausted vivid green […] card covers were used’ (Bloomfield \u0026amp; Mendelson).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloomfield \u0026amp; Mendelson, pp. 367–68.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124853\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57400454381945,"sku":"2124853","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124853.jpg?v=1780915257"},{"product_id":"yeats-william-butler-a-packet-for-ezra-pound","title":"YEATS, William Butler. 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Publisher’s linen-backed boards with blue paper sides, upper board lettered in black, printed spine label, blue endpapers, bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown; pp. [1], [3 (blank)], 37, [2]; woodcut vignette to title by Thomas Sturge Moore; slight discolouration to spine, a few small stains to cloth; a very good, clean copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, one of 425 copies, of Yeats’s musings on his complex relationship with Pound, later forming the introduction for his 1937 revision of \u003ci\u003eA Vision\u003c\/i\u003e, print-ed by Elizabeth ‘Lolly’ Corbet Yeats, Yeats’s sister and co-founder of the Cuala Press in Dublin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYeats and his wife arrived in Rapallo, near Genoa – a reflection on which opens the present work – in February 1928 for William’s health. Ezra and Dorothy Pound had been there since 1924. Here, Yeats characterises Pound’s ‘art as the opposite of mine’; his ‘criticism con-demns what I most condemn, a man with whom I should quarrel more than with anyone else if we were not united by affection. Here, Yeats describes, \u003ci\u003einter alia\u003c\/i\u003e, his lengthy conversations with Pound in Rapallo on the structure and development of the \u003ci\u003eCantos\u003c\/i\u003e, Pound feeding the stray cats of Rapallo, his conflicted and shifting reception of Pound’s work (‘I had never understood until now that the translations from Chinese, from Latin, from Provençal, are as much a part of his original work … as the vituperation, the railing, which I had hated but which now seem a necessary balance’), and a long letter to Pound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Yeats had trained at the Women’s Printing Society in London at the suggestion of Emery Walker of the Doves Press, and in 1908 she and her sister Lily set up Cuala Industries, an embroidery workshop and printing house. ‘In total she published seventy-seven volumes […] each corresponding to their earliest ideal of 14 point Caslon old style font, light ivory-toned rag, mould-made paper manufactured near Dublin, bound in a small quarto format between blue- or grey-covered boards with a linen spine. Her clearly legible, slender volumes with their distinctive paper labels may be seen as the sole survivors of the handcrafted ideal established in 1900 by Walker and T. J. Cobden-Sanderson’s Doves Press’ (\u003ci\u003eODNB\u003c\/i\u003e). W. B. Yeats was the press’s editor, and the Cuala Press published more than twenty of his works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWade 163; postdates Ransom (see pp. 238–41).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124690\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57400458576249,"sku":"2124690","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124690.jpg?v=1780915350"}],"url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/collections\/english.oembed?page=2","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}