2131. Cipolla, Carlo M.

Il Valore Di Alcune Biblioteche Nel Trecento. [Estratto dal “Bollettino Storico Pavese”].

Pavia, Tipografia del Libro, 1944. Octavo. 20 pages. Original Pamphlet / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. One of the earliest publications by Cipolla. Signed and inscribed by Cipolla on the cover: “With all my regards – Carlo Cipolla”.

2132. [CUMANN NA nINNEALTOIRI] The Institution of Engineers of Ireland / Cormack, Patrick P.

Irish Engineers’ Handbook – Official Handbook of the Engineers’ Association [With a chapter on the engineering profession in Ireland and some Irish Engineers in the Past] / Town Planning / Patrick Leahy – Engineering Aspects of the Emergency / Captain J.G.McDonald – The Army and the Engineer / P.G.Murphy – Electricity Supply in Eire / Thomas Murphy – Applied Geophysics etc.]

Dublin, The Parkside Press, 1944. Octavo. Portrait of Patrick P. Cormack, 313 pages plus advertising. Original blue Hardcover (blue cloth). Very good condition. Very Rare !

2133. [Buckland-Wright, John / Golden Cockerel Press] Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

Hymn to Proserpine. Engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Octavo (16.8 cm wide x 23.7 cm high). 20 pages with seven woodcuts. Original Hardcover (Burgundy cloth). Spine slightly sunned. Otherwise in absolutely excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

2134. Dorman, Sean.

Valley of Graneen – Sketches of Donegal. [Rare signed / inscribed edition]. With Illustrations by Elizabeth Rivers.

Second Impression of the first Edition. London, Peter Davies, 1944. Small Octavo. 170 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket. Some signs of foxing. Signed and inscribed by Sean Dorman: “To Elizabeth, of the glorious contralto with love from Sean”.

2135. Gill, Eric.

Autobiography / Quod ore sumpsimus.

Tenth Impression . London, Jonathan Cape, 1944. Octavo. Frontispiece-Self-Portrait of Eric Gill, 283 pages. With eight Illustrations (including the Frontispiece). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good, firm condition, with the rare dustjacket showing some minro fraying. Occasional foxing only. An excellent version of this classic.

2136. Yeats, William Butler / [George [Georgie] Yeats / Mrs. Eva Hempel / Eduard Hempel].

Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. [Signed / Inscribed by George Yeats to Mrs. [Eva] Hempel, wife of german ambassador to Ireland during World War II].

No.8 / 200 copies, of the original limited edition. Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1944 [September 1944]. Octavo. 58 pages. Original Hardcover. Inscribed by George Yeats on the front free endpaper: “Mrs. Hempel from George Yeats, April 1944”. This has to be of course “April 1945”. The impossibility of signing/inscribing a book in April 1944 if it was only published in September 1944 is easily explained with the classic everyday-mistake of still writing the previous year in the first few months of the following year. A stunning association. The signature and inscription is a solid match to George Yeats’ autographs in her later hand and William Butler Yeats and George Yeats were frequent visitors to the Hempel’s in Dublin. In addition, the low number of the edition (8/200) suggests this being one of the reference copies given to George Yeats, who contributed heavily to the volume and even added an explanatory note (in print) verso the titlepage. This copy is near fine, bound in the publisher’s quarter buckram over yellow, paper-covered boards. The books pages remained unopened. Eva Hempel’s husband Eduard Hempel is one of the most controversial figures in modern Irish history, excoriated by some as ‘Hitler’s man’, defended by others such as the country’s first President, Eamon De Valera. Certainly, Hempel presented William Butler Yeats in 1938 with a copy of ‘Germany Speaks’ whose inscription described an ‘unforgettable afternoon’ spent together by Yeats and Hempel. Eduard Hempel and his wife were accepted socialites in the Dublin world of World War II, famously receiving a condolence call by de Valera upon the death of Hitler. Eduard Hempel and his wife Eva were granted asylum in Ireland after world war II and stayed way beyond the end of World War II.

2137. Johnson, Osa / [Mrs. Martin Johnson].

Jungle Friends.

Third Edition. London, The Travel Book Club, 1944. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 189 pages. 32 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

2138. Barnard, Ellsworth [ed.].

Shelley. Selected Poems, Essays, and Letters. Selected and edited by Ellsworth Barnard, Professor of English, Alfred University.

Third printing. New York, The Odyssey Press, ca. 1944. 12,5 cm x 18 cm. Frontispiece, LXIX, 603 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front pastedown. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

2139. Seago, Edward.

High Endeavour.

First Edition. London, Collins, 1944. 18.5cm x 25cm. 78 (1) pages with 20 illustrations. Original Hardcover (blue cloth) without the dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Private inscription on endpaper.

2140. [Aiken, Henry David] Demos, Raphael.

Collection of Five (5) Manuscript Letters from Greek-American Philosopher, Raphael Demos to Philosopher Henry David Aiken. Besides very few personal matters (Aiken rented a Lice-infested house from Demos), the letters are lengthy and full of content regarding philosophical questions. Demos thanks Aiken for his “thoughtful comments about my article on ‘Society and the Individual’ and Demos reflects on Aiken: “Now as to your point that goodwill is addressed to me which is capable of joys and sorrows and not just an angel – I will distinguish between respect and goodwill. Angels, because rational, have intrinsic worth, and so claim respect certainly. Value and respectability don’t imply capacity for feeling. But goodwill does imply that the recipient is a striving, failing, succeeding, up-ended individual, who has sorrows & grip – not just an angelic being. While the Greek identify man with his rationality, it is noticeable that common sense proceeds otherwise; when the Radcliffe girls say their Professor is so human, they don’t mean he is intellectual, they mean the opposite – that he has non-rational impulses and feelings…..” / The collection of letters originates from the personal collection of Henry Aiken and also comes with a scathing letter from American Philosopher Arthur Edward Murphy in which Murphy writes to Aiken about Raphael Demos and does not hold back in his evaluation of Demos and his Philosophy: “I just saw your remarks re Demos in the Journal. Very well done ! I think Demos is not very bright, however, and it is perhaps better not to give him too much publicity. I don’t think he will convert any one except for those already suffering from dithers & blithers. And it is a waste to refute him. Intelligent people don’t have to be convinced. And bigots like R.D. can’t be convinced. Strictly speaking, before Demos creates an obligation in others… he ought to say in plain unemotional prose what he means by such concepts as ‘God’ & ‘evidence’. It is perfectly possible that if we knew how he uses these terms, we would agree that what he says is trivially true. This discussion is presumably in the domain of logic. But discussion on that domain when one of the parties refuses to make explicit the rules of his game can never terminate in illumination. Nevertheless, I think you handled him neatly & have done yourself no harm as general opinion is concerned. He is a perfect horrible example of retrogression. Ugh ! A perfectly low grade person morally & intellectually nonregarding as a seer & defender of orthodoxy…… Have you seen Lazerowitz’s [Morris Lazerowitz] paper in Mind on Universals. It is highly provocative. I would like to discuss it with you….”.

Westport Point (Massachusetts), c.1944 – 1967. Octavo. 13 pages of letters by Raphael Demos to Aiken / [Plus:] 1 page of a manuscript letter by Arthur Edward Murphy to Aiken about Demos. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Original Letters or anything published by Raphael Demos or Arthur Edward Murphy, are very rare !