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The Head of Kay s -
P. G. Wodehouse
1905 - Adam &, London - First Edition
An elegantly bound 120 year old first edition of Wodehouse’s sixth novel, featuring Eckleton boys school and encapsulating Wodehouse’s writing on boarding school life, the sports, camaraderie, Latin teachers, high jinks, and jolly good adventures. Illustrated with eight black and white plates by T.M.R. Whitwell. Housed in a bespoke blue cloth slipcase.
‘It is the general view at Eckleton school that there never was such a house of slackers as Kay's. Fenn, head of house and county cricketer, does his best to impose some discipline but is continually undermined by his house-master, the meddlesome and ineffectual Mr Kay. After the Summer Concert fiasco, Mr Kay resolves to remove Fenn from office and puts his house into special measures, co-opting Kennedy, second prefect of Blackburn's, as reluctant troubleshooter with a brief to turn the place around. But without the backing of Fenn, and the whole house hostile towards him, how can he achieve the impossible ...?’ [Penguin]
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1905 - Adam &, London - First Edition
An elegantly bound 120 year old first edition of Wodehouse’s sixth novel, featuring Eckleton boys school and encapsulating Wodehouse’s writing on boarding school life, the sports, camaraderie, Latin teachers, high jinks, and jolly good adventures. Illustrated with eight black and white plates by T.M.R. Whitwell. Housed in a bespoke blue cloth slipcase.‘It is the general view at Eckleton school that there never was such a house of slackers as Kay's. Fenn, head of house and county cricketer, does his best to impose some discipline but is continually undermined by his house-master, the meddlesome and ineffectual Mr Kay. After the Summer Concert fiasco, Mr Kay resolves to remove Fenn from office and puts his house into special measures, co-opting Kennedy, second prefect of Blackburn's, as reluctant troubleshooter with a brief to turn the place around. But without the backing of Fenn, and the whole house hostile towards him, how can he achieve the impossible ...?’ [Penguin]
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The Waves -
Virginia Woolf
1931 - Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Woolf’s most complex and innovative novel, in a nice example of the delicate Vanessa Bell designed dust jacket, without restoration.
‘The pure, delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry.’ – The New York Times
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, following their development from childhood to youth to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters – their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.
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Price HK$ 28,000
1931 - Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Woolf’s most complex and innovative novel, in a nice example of the delicate Vanessa Bell designed dust jacket, without restoration.‘The pure, delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry.’ – The New York Times
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, following their development from childhood to youth to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters – their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.
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Price HK$ 28,000
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