Jonathan Cape Limited (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Bumping. Content is tanned. Rough cut pages. DJ with some edge wear, loss and aged toned.

Condition: good. Envoi rapide et soigné.

Condition: good. Envoi rapide et soigné.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 29 p. Illus. First appeared in Now and Then 77-87. Printed at The Alden Press, Oxford. Bound with red string. Edwin Baker (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. 29 pp., original paper wrappers, very good; Christmas gift booklet issued for Jonathan Cape Ltd. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

'Literary Characters'. 12mo (leaf dimensions roughly 18 x 12.5 cm): 32 pp. Stitched with brown thread. Fore-edge and top-edge rough. Unbound as issued. Very good. Cartoon in red ink of man seated at typewriter on front cover, and another, in black ink, of a hatted-figure skulking away with a walking stick held behind his back on back cover. Initial note, with publisher's colophon, on p.2: 'This series of Literary Characters appeared in Now & Then numbers 77-87 and is here reprinted by Jonathan Cape Limited for their friends | Christmas 1954'. 'Imaginary Conversations': 12mo (dimensions roughly 18 x 10 cm): 20 pp. Stapled. In original decorative wraps printed in black, yellow and orange, with illustration on front of rear view of man in evening dress from waist down; similar back view of lower part of woman's torso on reverse. Good, on lightly-aged paper; wraps a little grubby. Note (p.2) reads: 'These seven conversations are selected from the series which has been published in Now and Then. They are here reprinted privately for the friends of Jonathan Cape at Christmas 1956.' No copies of 'Imaginary Conversations' on COPAC, and the only copy of 'Literary Characters' at Cambridge. See IMage.…

Fine copy, uncut Chapter headings include "The Ideal Reader", "The Generous Reviewer", "The Unpublishable Poet" and "The Ideal Author". Wrappers with drawings by Edwin Baker Reprinted from Now and Then and reprinted for friends of the publisher.

A Gestetner copy. Three pages (paginated 1 to 3), with covering sheet, on four leaves each 33 x 21.5 cm. An old copy, creased and spotted. Text clear and complete. An entertaining spoof on how Cape would respond if a novel called 'Othello' by an unknown William Shakespeare were offered to them. At head of first page: 'REPORT OF POLITBURO MEETING, 1.4.58. | Present: R.K., M.S.H., D.G., W.P., N.A., J.S.O., J.A., W.C.1. | The following were discussed: | OTHELLO by William Shakespeare.' Begins 'M.S.H. said that he had got on to this book through reading some sonnets by the author in Encounter. W.P. said he had read them and thought them rather old-fashioned. D.G. thought that they showed a homosexual tendency.' The discussion continues, with R.K. opining that 'the colour problem might be difficult in America'. 'W.P. said he didn't think much of the title. It looked as though an 'h' had been dropped from the beginning. If we made it two words and called it HOT HELLO it would perhaps attract more attention.' A design for the jacket is discussed in similar tone. M.S.H. feels 'we'd had too many books about Cyprus. D.G. said we couldn't wipe Cyprus off the map; a recent book about Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell was a Book Society Choice. [.] D.G. said there weren't any British or Greeks in the book. It was a simple love story about a black man married to a white girl. He suffocated her with some pillows and then committed suicide.' N.A. does not think the book will be 'any good for the Australian market because they never used handkerchiefs there.' 'J.S.O. said he'd got some bio material. The man wrote from Stratford, but whether this was Stratford, London, or Stratford, Warwickshire, he didn't know. He described himself as an actor. M.S.H. thought J.S.O. might find out about this. Perhaps the man was a Jamaican. If so, Ian Fleming might know him. [Fleming was a Cape author]' D.G. considers it 'essentially a woman's book', and suggests the names (covering five lines) of notable women to whom to send the proofs. R.K. reports that the author 'seemed fond of single-word titles. This one was called MACBETH.' Ends with joke title by 'Slyman and Screwster' [i.e. the American publishers Simon and Schuster]. See Image./.…