2051. Eliot, T.S.

Poetry and Drama.

First Edition. London, Faber & Faber Ltd., 1950. 22.5cm x 14.5cm. 35 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear on dustjacket (some fraying to upper jacket).

2052. Eliot, T.S.

The Cocktail Party. A Comedy by T.S. Eliot.

Second Impression of the First Edition ! London, Faber and Faber Ltd., MCML [1950]. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 167 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2053. Krige, Eileen Jensen.

The Social System of the Zulus. With Illustrations and Maps.

Pietermaritzburg, Shuter & Shooter, no year (c.1950). 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XIX, 420 pages. 12 illustrations. 2 maps near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original grey cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2054. Wood, Paul.

Diseases of the Heart and Circulation.

First Edition. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. Octavo (17 cm wide x 24.5 cm). Colour-Frontispiece, XXX, 589 pages. Numerous illustrations throughout. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with faded lettering on spine. Very good, firm condition with only minor signs of external wear, like some rubbing and bumping to top and bottom spine. Name of preowner on endpaper. Otherwise the interior bright and clean. Extremely rare book !

2055. Andrews, James / Bland, Clifford T. / Blockey, Robert / Farmiloe, Robin / Harrison, Robin / Inge, John / Lee-Elliott, Christopher / McArthur, Alastair / Service, Douglas / Shepard, Michael.

Wildfowling. With sixty-three Illustrations (49 Plates and 14 Text Illustrations).

London, Seeley, Service & Co., (1950). 15 cm x 22 cm. 352 pages. Original Hardcover in Mylar. Very good condition. Name of the preowner on the endpaper. [The Lonsdale Library Vol. XXIX]

2056. [Gray, Cleve / Motherwell, Robert] Smith, David.

David Smith – Exhibition Catalogue April 18 – May 13, 1950. [Cleve Gray’s personal copy]. [With a two page introduction / statement by Robert Mothwell].

New York, Willard Gallery, 1950. Small Octavo. 8 unnumbered pages. Original, illustrated softcover / stapled. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Copy of american abstract expressionist painter Cleve Gray, with his name in ballpen on cover. One part of Motherwell’s introductory – statement with a pencil mark at the side highlighting this section: “When I saw David places his work against the mountains and sky, the impulse was plain, an ieffable desire to see his humanness related to exterior reality, to nature at least if not man, for the marvel of the felt scale that exists between a true work and the immovable world, the relation that makes both human”.

2057. Kasper, Karl.

Bunter Traum auf gewebtem Grund. Aus der Wunderwelt des Stoffdrucks.

Berlin, Elsner Verlagsges, [c.1950]. 8°. 159 Seiten. Umfangreich illustriert. Sämtliche Aquarelle und Zeichnungen nach Originalen von Erwin Bindewald. Hardcover / Originaler, bedruckter Leinenband. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

2058. Waters, Frank.

Masked Gods – Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialism.

Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1950. 18 x 26 cm. 438 pages, including illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the Author.

2059. Charles, Ray.

Ray Charles Instrumental Folio.

(Original, printed score). New York, Progressive Music Publishing Co., c. 1950. Quarto. 43 pages. Original Softcover. Good condition with some signs of external wear.

2060. Vakil, C.N. / Cirvante, V.R. / Brahmananda, P.R. / Desai, T.M.

Economic Consequences of Divided India. A study of the Economy of India and Pakistan.

Bombay, Vora & Co. Publishers, 1950. Gr.-8°. XV, 555 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent collector’s condition with the rare dustjacket ! Some minor signs of foxing. Dustjacket in excellent condition. Early review slip from publishers attached to the titlepage. A magnificent copy of this rare book !