6141. [Dou, Gerard] Martin, W.

Gerard Dou. Translated from the Dutch by Clara Bell.

London, George Bell and Sons, 1902. 13 cm x 20 cm. XII, 152 pages. Several black and white plates throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Endpapers and pastedowns markedly discoloured with signs of an old dampstain and some tanning of first and last few pages. A little colour staining between cover and endpaper. Internal pages and plates in good condition. Some foxing throughout. Rare. [Bell’s Handbooks of the Great Masters in Painting & Sculpture. Edited by G.C. Williamson, Litt.D.]

6142. McKee, Alexander.

Farming The Sea – The First Steps into Inner Space.

London, Souvenir Press, 1967. 14 cm x 22 cm. 314 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing, on endpapers and pastedowns mostly.

6143. [Swedenborg, Emanuel] White, William [Swedberg, Jesper]

Emanuel Swedenborg: His Life and Writings. In Two Volumes. Volume I (of II).

London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1867. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, XXIV, 604 pages. [The Frontispiece shows Jesper Svedberg, Bishop of Skara]. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some discolouring of pages and foxing on endpapers. Name inscribed on pastedown in ink pen, the name Dr. W.F. Arnold stamped on pastedowns and endpapers.

6144. Whittow, J.B.

Geology and Scenery in Ireland.

Middlesex, Penguin Books Ltd., 1974. 12.5 cm x 20 cm. 301 pages. Several black and white photographs in centre of publication. Original Softcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing on endpapers only. Page 219 to end of bookblock cleanly detached from cover.

6145. Wells, H.G.

Experiment in Autobiography – Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866).

Volume II (of II). London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. / The Cresset Press Ltd., 1934. 13 cm x 20 cm. VIII, 423 pages [being 417 – 840 of complete work]. Original Hardcover. 44 black and white drawings and photographs of Wells, his wife and other writers, throughout book. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to endpapers and pastedowns only.

6146. [O’Brien, Conor Cruise] Akenson, Donald Harman.

Conor – A Biography of Conor Cruise O’Brien. Volume II (of II), Anthology.

Montreal / Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XIII, 356 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6147. Fletcher, John Gould.

Goblins and Pagodas.

Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. XXIV, 98 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Good condition with signs of external wear and fraying. Pages slightly discoloured throughout and more notably on endpapers and pastedowns. Water staining evident throughout also. Inscription in black ink pen on endpaper dated 1918. [The New Poetry Series (No.10 of 12)]

6148. Elliot, Anita / Nilsson, Liz / Nilsson-Valimaa, Lotte.

Pink Thursday. Essay by Lesley Millar (Professor of Textile Culture).

Sweden, Trelleborg Museum, 2008. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. 28 unnumbered pages. Several colour photographs and some sketches throughout. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Black and white photograph of artists on endpaper. A very colourful publication with bilingual text in Swedish and English printed in black and pink. Excellent quality colour photographs depicting some of the work from the exhibition. Unusual pink endpapers and line of stenciled holes on cover as part of the original design.

6149. Fitzgerald, C.P.

The Birth of Communist China.

Middlesex, Penguin Books Ltd., 1971. 11cm x 18 cm. 288 pages. Original Softcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages discoloured throughout. Spotting to endpapers and inside cover only.

6150. [Nietzsche, Friedrich] Hollingdale, R.J.

A Nietzsche Reader. Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R.J. Hollingdale.

London / New York / a.o. Penguin Books Ltd., no year. 12.5 cm x 20 cm. 285 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name and date in ink pen on endpaper.