War: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Highlights of Peter Harrington's latest catalogue Ruinous Wrath: The Literature of War include:

• Signed first edition of Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo (1947) Levi’s Holocaust memoir, from the library of his translator and close friend Stuart Woolf
• Gregory Corso, Bomb (1958), the original signed typescript of the Beat-era poem, one of the first literary responses to nuclear warfare
• Albert Camus's L’Espagne Libre corrected typescript (1946) for his preface on the Spanish Civil War
• Testament of Youth (1933), the first edition of Vera Brittain's novel inscribed during the Second World War to an RAF pilot
• J. R. R. Tolkien (ed.), A Spring Harvest (1918), rare first edition in its dust jacket, edited and with a preface by Tolkien, of his late friend Geoffrey Bache Smith’s poetry collection