Modern First Editions.-

A collection of 21 volumes, including: Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, original cloth, no dust jacket, shelf lean, some fading and spotting, 1949; Barrett (William E.) The Edge of Things, first edition, inscribed to Paul Gallico on the front free endpaper: ‘who has captured in words better than has anyone else, the mystical side of an open cockpit flight, as it was and will never be again [...]’, Garden City, 1960; Wyndham (John) The Outward Urge, 1959; Vasconcelos (José Mauro de) My Sweet-Orange Tree, first American edition, with a loosely-inserted typewritten letter from the publisher to Paul Gallico, Alfred A . Knopf, New York, 1970; with others similar, two by Lawrence Bachmann inscribed to Paul Gallico, later editions of The Caine Mutiny and 3 works by Bert Leston Taylor, mixed condition, spotting and offsetting to pages, original cloth, the majority with original dust jackets, mixed condition with some wormholing, staining and short tears, v.s. (21)