Peter Harrington

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Peter Harrington is one of the most respected and dynamic names in the world of rare books, with permanent galleries in London and New York. From its beginnings in London in 1969, the firm has built an international reputation for sourcing and selling the finest first editions, signed and inscribed books, rare manuscripts, fine bindings, and library sets. Over more than fifty years, Peter Harrington has handled thousands of significant works, from incunabula, early illuminated manuscripts, and Shakespeare folios to landmark works of science, literature, political thought, travel, philosophy, and the arts. With a team of subject specialists and bibliographers, the firm brings exceptional depth of knowledge to every item it handles, and works closely with collectors, libraries, and institutions to build collections of lasting cultural and scholarly value. Its galleries in Chelsea and Mayfair in London, as well as New York’s Upper East Side, offer a welcoming, elegant setting to explore rare books and works on paper. The firm also exhibits at leading rare book and art fairs across the globe, from New York and Los Angeles to Hong Kong, Maastricht, Abu Dhabi, and Melbourne – reflecting its place at the heart of the international rare book community.

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AKHMATOVA, Anna (trans.). Koreiskaia klassicheskaia poeziia; Tsiui Iuan. Stikhi. Perevod s kitaiskogo. 1954 & 1956.
$5700
The bard of St Petersburg looks East. First editions, presentation copies, both inscribed by Akhmatova to the linguist Aleksandr Kholodovich, who collaborated extensively with Akhmatova on her translations of Korean poetry. Akhmatova is one of the most significant Russian poets of the 20th century and was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 and 1966. Two works. Original cloth.
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CRICKET. Souvenir programme for the 1948 Australian test tour of England, signed by the Don, his 16 fellow players, and the team manager, Keith Johnson. 1948.
$2850
“The Invincibles”. An impressive collection of signatures gathered by a steward onboard RMS Strathaird, the P&O vessel that brought Bradman and his now-legendary team to England. Pleasingly, Sidney Barnes, who averaged 56 with the willow during the tour, has signed with a pen rather than using his customary rubber stamp. One pamphlet. Original wrappers.
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MILNE, A. A.; SHEPARD, Ernest H. (illus.). Original artwork for Winnie-the-Pooh: “For some time now Pooh had been saying ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ in turn, with his eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying”. c.1956.
$115000
An original preliminary drawing in colour. This is a redrawn version of the illustration which appeared on page 49 of Winnie-the-Pooh (first published in 1926) and was presumably a preparatory drawing for The World of Pooh, an omnibus edition of Pooh stories, first published in 1957. Original drawing (113 x 127 mm) on paper, ink and coloured pencil, unsigned, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size 327 x 327 mm).
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GLAISHER, Cecilia & James. “On the Severe Weather at the beginning of the year 1855; and on Snow and Snow-crystals.” 1855.
$18500
“The most accurate observations published before the development of photomicrography”. First edition of this skilfully executed catalogue of snowflakes, their distinctive schematic forms engraved in bright colours. A collaborative effort between husband and wife, the study simultaneously influenced the sciences and the decorative arts. One volume. Contemporary cloth.
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NAXI. Manuscripts written in the Dongba pictographic script.
$28500
Examples of the only pictographic script still in active use, though now critically endangered. Dongba belongs to the Naxi people of north-western Yunnan, China, but knowledge of the pictograms and their complex meaning is confined to the community’s shamans. The language was entered into the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2003. Six manuscripts (each c. 95 x 300 mm), totalling 54 leaves sewn between sets of contemporary covers.
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KELMSCOTT PRESS: CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works, now newly imprinted.
$335000
A most sympathetic arts and crafts presentation. First Kelmscott edition, one of 425 copies on paper, in an embroidered slipcover dated 1899 and unrecorded in the published census. This accomplished piece of amateur needlework reproduces Burne-Jones’s Hypsipyle and Medea woodcut and belongs to an illustrious tradition of removable textile covers associated with what Yeats described as “the most beautiful of all printed books.” Folio. Original holland-backed blue paper boards. With custom contemporary embroidered silk satin slipcover.
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