7451. Stead, C. K.

The Secret History of Modernism. A Novel.

London, The Harvill Press, 2001. 8°. 230 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only absolutely minor signs of wear.

7452. Stearns, Harold T. / Clark, William O. / Meinzer, Oscar E.

Geology and Water resources of The Kau District, Hawaii (Including parts of Kilauea and Mauna Loa Volcanoes). With a chapter on Ground Water in the Hawaiian Islands by Oscar E. Meinzer.

Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1930. 8°. 194 pages with several maps in pocket of rear cover. Softcover / Original brochure. Good to very good condition with few signs of use. Former library copy with stamps and slightly repaired hinge.

7453. Steegmuller, Francis / Bornstein, Dean (illust.).

The Incident at Naples.

First Edition. New York, Privately Printed, 1992. 8°. 35 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Excellent condition. No text markings. Pages inside clean, fresh and bright. Illustration on p. 7 by Dean Bornstein.

7454. [Steele, Richard] Bickerstaff, Isaac.

The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. [With four engravings by F.Haymandel / C.Grignion].

Four Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, J.Buckland, H. Woodfall, etc., 1764. Small Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). Frontispiece, [2], 300, [14], Frontispiece, [3], 336, [13], Frontispiece, [5], 318, [16], Frontispiece, [7], 320, [12] pages. Hardcover / Oiginal 18th century full leather with original spinelabels and gilt lettering on spine. All four Volumes complete and in protective Mylar. Housed in a wonderful, bespoke Solander-Box. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of each Volume.

7455. Steere, Edward,

A Handbook of the Swahili Language – As Spoken at Zanzibar.

Fourth Edition, Revised. London, The Sheldon Press, 1943. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 184 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Boards are faded. Interior bright and clean.

7456. Steevens, G.W.

From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War. Edited by Vernon Blackburn.

First edition. Edinburgh / London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. 13 x 19.5cm. (8), 180 pages, with a map of the Country round Ladysmith and a large fold-out map at the rear, illustrating the Seat of War in South Africa. Includes a 32 page publisher’s catalogue to rear. Original clothbound hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled edges. Very good condition. Minor signs of external wear, including bumping to corner and small stain to front board. Front endpaper starting to tear. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper.

7457. [Steichen, Edward] – Ewing, William A. / Brandow, Todd.

Edward Steichen – In High Fashion – The The Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937. With Essays by Tobia Bezzola, William A.Ewing, Nathalie Herschdorfer and Carol Squiers.

Minneapolis / Lausanne, New York and London, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis and the musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne in Association with W.W.Norton & Company, 2008. Folio. 288 pages with 242 photographs, reproduced in four-color-process. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear.

7458. Stein, Gertrude.

A Stein Reader – Gertrude Stein. Edited with an Introduction by Ulla E. Dydo.

Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1993. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XIV, 624 pages. Softcover. Cover portrait – ‘Gertrude Stein’ by Pablo Picasso 1906, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Bequest of Gertrude Stein). Cover Design Rich Hendel. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7459. Stein, Johanna.

Wechselndes Licht. Changing Light. Geschichten aus Irland. Stories from Ireland.

Dienheim, Latros Verlag, 2010. 13 x 20 cm. 179 Seiten. Softcover/ Kartoniert. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

7460. Steinbuch, Johann Georg.

Analecten neuer Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen für die Naturkunde. Mit zwei Kupfern.

Fürth, im Bureau fuer Litteratur, 1802. Octavo. 135 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Interimsbroschur des 19.Jahrhunderts. Stellenweise etwas stockfleckig, Titel mit altem Stempel. Mit handschriftlicher Korrektur im Text [Salamander statt “Eidechsen und Froesche”] / Ehemaliges Exemplar der koeniglichen Bibliothek der Akademie Schwedens.