Brian Aldiss; Various — A Garland of First Lines

Oxford, Printworks, c2002. Paperback. A very scarce chapbook by Brian Aldiss, collecting together some of his favourite first lines in literature, from Aldiss' library. A very scarce work.From the library of the author.'A Garland of First Lines' is a charming chapbook by Brian Aldiss, collecting together some of the best first lines in works across history.Authors quoted in this work include Aldous Huxley, Isaac Disraeli, William Golding, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, and more.A reprint, digitally printed from a copy supplied by Parchment Oxford LTD, for by Printworks in Oxford.From the library of Brian Aldiss, with a note loosely inserted regarding the provenance from his daughter, Wendy Aldiss. Aldiss was a popular English science fiction author, an influential writer of the twentieth century. One of his short stories, 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long', was the basis for the Stanley Kubrick - Steven Spielberg 2001 film 'A. I. Artificial Intelligence&apos. He was part of the British New Wave of sci-fi, and was greatly influenced by H. G. Wells. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .