1091. O’Connor, G.B.

Irish and other Fragments. [Includes the following essays: Irish Ethical Problems / Marshal Saxe and Diminishing Populations / The Irish Republican Demand / The Anglo-Saxon Myth / Irish Facts and Foreign Fictions / The Irish and the Law / Some Anglo-Irish Writers / A National Delusion / The Irish Lord Lieutenant].

Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co., no year (c. 1920). Small Octavo. 73 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A very rare book !!

1092. Original Earl 20th century German Expressionism in Original Woodcuts – Mann, Thomas.

Der kleine Herr Friedemann.

München, Phantasus-Verlag, 1920. Quarto. [4], 58, [3] Seiten. Mit elf (11) ganzseitigen Original-Bleischnitten und vier (4) kolorierten Bleischnitt-Initialen von Otto Nückel. Hardcover / Originales Halbpergament. Einband minimal fleckig. Sonst in sehr gutem Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

1093. Pearce, F.B.

Zanzibar – The Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa. With Illustrations and Maps.

First Edition. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. 17.5 cm x 25.5 cm. Frontispiece, XI, 421 pages. 50 illustrations. Two maps near front and also including the often missing large fold-out map of Zanzibar and Pemba Islands at rear. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Embossment to front board. A little rough but still in Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor bumps to corners of boards. Spine cloth frayed at head and tail. Binding is still firm and strong. Some spotting throughout to an otherwise clean interior. With tissue guard in good condition. New endpapers !

1094. Pitman, Isaac.

New Course in Pitman’s Shorthand. New Era Edition.

London, Sir Issac Pitman & Sons, no year (c.1920-1945). 12,5 x 19 cm. 174 pages. Hardcover (Original publisher’s cloth). Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

1095. Potter, Beatrix.

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse.

Later Edition. London / New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1920]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, pages. Original Hardcover with original endpapers. Binding firm ! Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine and covers slightly stained. Minor stain on title and frontispiece.

1096. Potter, Beatrix.

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.

Later Edition. London / New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1920]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, pages. Original Hardcover with original endpapers. Binding firm ! Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1097. Sander, Fritz.

Alte und neue Staatsrechtslehre – Kritische Bemerkungen zu Karl Bindings “Zum Werden und Leben der Staaten”.

Wien/Leipzig, Franz Deuticke, 1920. 8°. 57 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Broschur. Sonderdruck aus der “Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht” – Herausgegeben von Hans Kelsen. Mit beiligendem Billet “Vom Verfasser überreicht”.

1098. Sidgwick, Henry.

The Development of European Polity [With Chapters on “Functions of Government and Relation of Law to Government in Greece and Rome” / “Constitution-Making of the Nineteenth Century” and “Political Thought of Hobbes and Locke”]. With a Preface by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick.

Third Edition. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920. 14.7 cm x 23 cm. XXVI, 454 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering. Former library-copy in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of german philosopher Manfred Walther, with a bookmark in the chapter “Constitution-Making of the Nineteenth Century”.

1099. Tawney, R.H.

The Sickness of an Acquisitive Society.

First Edition. London, Fabian Society/Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1920. 21cm x 13.7cm. 86 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Spine-damaged printed red paper wrappers over boards. Else inside text-block very good with a few marginal pencil markings and dampstain to last page.

1100. Webster, Charles A.

The Diocese of Cork. With [18] Illustrations.

Cork, Guy & Co. Ltd., 1920. 15.5 cm x 23.3 cm. Frontispiece, XXXII, 420 pages. 18 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Frontispiece cleanly detached and loosely inserted. Cracks to valley of index pages near rear of textblock. Binding still good and firm and text block is solid and square. Some untrimmed pages. Foxing to edges and to endpapers and very occasionally to interior. An extremely scarce publication.