2101. Simpson, Charles.

Animal and Bird Painting. The Outlook and Technique of the Artist. Illustrated by the Author and with reproductions of famous paintings.

First Edition. London, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1939. 14.5cm x 22cm. VII, 136 pages with 80 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with some stronger signs of wear to the binding.

2102. Joyce, James.

Finnegans Wake.

First American Edition. New York, The Viking Press, 1939. Large-8° (15.7 cm wide x 24.7 cm high). 628 pages. Hardcover without the original dustjacket / Original black publisher’s buckram with gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. Wonderful tight and excellent overall condition of this rare first american edition of Finnegans Wake. Provenance: From the library of one Robert D. Parsons with his bookplate to the front pastedown, dated in 1941. Tiny Booksellers Label from McClelland & Co. in Columbus, Ohio.

2103. MacCallum Scott, John H.

Eastern Journey.

London, Ebenezer Baylis and Son, Ltd., 1939. 21,5 cm 14,2 cm. XI, 276 pages. With several black-and-white photographs. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [The Travel Book Club]

2104. Massingham H.J. / Hennell, Thomas (Illustrator).

Country Relics. An account of some old tools and properties once belonging to English craftsmen and husbandmen saved from destruction and now described with their users and their stories. “Infinite riches in a little room”.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1939. 16.5 cm x 24.5 cm. XV, 239 pages. Several black and white drawings throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled bottom edge. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing on dustjacket, edges, pastedowns and endpapers

2105. Doyle, Lynn.

The Spirit of Ireland. Illustrated from Photographs and from Drawings by Brian Cook.

Third Edition. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1939. 14,5 cm x 22 cm. VIII, 120 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Chipped dustjacket, shaken, some foxing, otherwise in Good condition. Private inscription to front free endpaper.

2106. Stringer, Margaret E.

In a Green Land. With five illustrations from sepia drawings by Gertrude E. Horn.

First Edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press, 1939. 14 x 22 cm. 59 pages. Original Hardcover. Linen. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

2107. [Society for the Propagation of the Gospel]

Son of Man. Pictures and Carvings by Indian, African and Chinese Artists.

First Edition. Wesminster, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1939. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 51 Pages with numerous photographs. Original Softcover. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. Slight damages to the covers.

2108. Colum, Pádraic.

Caisleán an Smachta. Niall Ó Domhnaill a rinne an leagan Gaedhilge.

First gaelic edition of “Castle Conquer”. Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig an tSoláthair, 1939. (8º). 435 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

2109. Richardson, Edgar Preston.

The Way of Western Art 1776-1914.

Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1939. 20 cm x 27.9 cm. Frontispiece. XI, 204 pages. With 174 black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2110. St. John Joyce, Weston.

The Neighbourhood of Dublin – Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Association. With numerous Illustrations from the Author’s Photographs & Sketches.

Fourth Impression of the First Edition. Dublin, M.H.Gill & Son, 1939. Large – Octavo. XX, 512 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. The Volume in firm and excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.