7021. Harman, Avraham / Kohn, Paul et al.

Israel Today. Collection of eight volumes of Israel Today including No.2 – Agricultural Settlement / No.6 – The Negev / No.9 – How Israel’s Democracy Works / No.14 – Sport / No.21 – Galilee / No.22 – Health and Medical Care / No.27 – The Kibbutz / No.29 – The Land and the Book.

Jerusalem, Israel Design, 1961-1964. 11.2 cm x 16 cm. 203 pages including back and white photographs. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Stains and slight discolourations on covers. Some folding of corners of No.2 and 27.

7022. Johnston, Harry H.

The Story of My Life.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1923. 15.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, 536 pages. 3 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original navy cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and blind tooling at front board edges. Deckled edges. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very occasional foxing. Interior is otherwise very bright and clean. Binding firm, strong and square.

7023. Anonymus [Roorbach, Orville A.]

Northern Regions, or a Relation of Uncle Richard’s Voyages for the Discovery of a North-West Passage and an Account of the Overland Journies of other Enterprizing Travellers.

London, J. Harris, 1825. 17.4cm x 11.1cm. XII, 315 pages. With 11 [of 12] beautiful full-page-plates, (each with two engravings) and a fold-out map of the arctic regions from 1825. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Binding a little distorted. The cover-illustration faded. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The fold-out map is cleanly torn (now in two parts).

7024. Fuentes, Carlos.

The Campaign. [Signed]

First Edition. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991. Octavo. 246 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

7025. Hill, M.F.

The Dual Policy in Kenya. Being a collection of articles, published in the Kenya Weekly News, between July, 1943, and March, 1944, on the past, the present, and the future of Kenya Colony.

Nakuru, The Kenya Weekly News, no year (c.1944). 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 276 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth]. Poor condition with stronger signs of external wear. Boards are faded. Corners bumped. Boards show smudges and fading. Tears to gutter between pastedowns and endpapers. Binding somewhat shaky but book block intact. Internally clean and bright with sharp corners.

7026. Schapiro, Meyer / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

The Still Life as a Personal Object – A note on Heidegger and van Gogh.

4°. 7 pages. Stapled offprint from “The Reach of Mind: Essays in Memory of Kurt Goldstein” – 1968. Sent by Schapiro to Henry David Aiken (this lot includes the original envelope).

7027. Yeats, W.B.

Drømmerier over barneår og ungdom. [First Danish Edition of “Reveries over Childhood and Youth”]. Oversat af Valdemar Rørdam.

København/Kristiania, Haase/Cammermeyer, 1924. Octavo. 180 pages. Original softcover / Publisher’s printed wrappers. The very fragile wrappers in unusually, very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of former owner William Borberg on titlepage. Rare !

7028. Fuentes, Carlos.

The Hydra Head. [Signed] Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

First Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1978. 22 cm. 291 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition. Beautifully signed by Fuentes on the halftitle.

7029. Weilerstein, Sadie Rose / Berkowitz, Jeannette.

The Adventures of K’TonTon – A Little Jewish Tom Thumb. Illustrations by Jeannette Berkowitz.

New York, League Press (The Women’s League of “The United Synagogue of America”), 1935. 21 cm x 27.5 cm. 100 pages. Original Hardcover (blue cloth). The binding stronger rubbed and corners bumped. Original illustrated endpapers starting to detache only slightly. Internally in very good condition. All illustrations bright and clean. Very rare first edition of this scarce jewish children’s book.

7030. Burnett, Frances Hodgson / Jessie Willcox Smith.

In the Closed Room. Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton [Printed in the USA by “The McClure Press”], 1904. Octavo. Frontispiece, III, [1], 129 pages with 8 beautiful illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Hardcover / original, beautifully illustrated publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spien and three coloured cover illustration. Interior in art nouveau style. One of the illustrations cleanly detached but still in very good condition (slightly frayed), one of the illustrations slightly detached. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some very minor and only very occasional staining to a few of the pages. Binding with some inor spotting to the rear board but very firm with the original artwork on endpapers and pastedown. Name of preowner on endpaper.