Feliz Ano Novo | Happy New Year | Bonne Année | Feliz Año Nuevo | Buon Anno 2016

Neste quase final de ano, resta-me apenas desejar a todos os leitores que tiveram a paciência de percorrer algumas das páginas publicadas (e que já são muitas) neste espaço desejo um excelente 2016.

Como é de livros que aqui se fala, não quero terminar sem vos fazer uma sugestão de leitura para 2016.

Trata-se de Of Mice and Men | Ratos e Homens de John Steinbeck, que foi uma das obras que mais gostei de ler, aqui representado neste belo exemplar, já vendido nesta quadra festiva, pela Bauman Rare Books (o que atesta da sua qualidade e raridade):

“AN’ YOU GET TO TEND THE RABBITS”: SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF STEINBECK’S CLASSIC OF MICE AND MEN, A STUNNING COPY

STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, (1937). Small octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition, first issue, of Steinbeck’s “beautifully written [and] marvelous picture of the tragedy of loneliness” (Eleanor Roosevelt), in scarce original dust jacket.

"As a young man, Steinbeck worked on ranches in the small towns around Salinas, absorbing local color later applied to the Soledad, California setting of this novel, originally entitled Something That Happened" (Salinas Public Library, 24). The author began Of Mice and Men as a children's story. "Although the finished novelette does not seem appropriate for children—that intention was obviously abandoned—the simplicity of its style and the clarity and precision of its imagery may well have been prompted by this original purpose… " (Benson, 326). The result is "a sophisticated and artful rendering of the basic conflict between two worlds: between an idealized landscape and the real world with its pain and anguish" (Literary History of the American West, 433). First issue, with the words "and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula" printed as lines 20 and 21 on page 9, and bullet between the eights on page 88. Goldstone & Payne A7a. Bruccoli & Clark I:354.

A fine copy.

Bom Ano Novo – um 2016 recheado de sucessos nas vossas vidas pessoais e profissionais.

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