6781. Solé, Robert / Valbelle, Dominique.

The Rosetta Stone. The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics.

New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 184 Pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6782. [Solinas, Franco] Cosulich, Callisto.

Scrivere il cinema: Franco Solinas.

Rimini, Maggioli Editore, 1984. 8°. 96 pages. Original Softcover. Editione Italiano.

6783. Sollers, Philippe.

Writing and the experience of limits. Edited by David Hayman. Translated by Philip Barnard with David Hayman.

New York, Columbia University Press, 1983. 22 cm. xxxi, 213 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [European perspectives].

6784. Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich.

Natsionalnyj vopros v Rossii / Nacional’nyj vopros v Rossii. [The national question in Russia].

Moskva, 1884. Large Octavo. 107 pages. Original, illustrated softcover in protective collector’s mylar. Unusually excellent condition. Uncut / Unopened version of this extremely scarce publication in original printed wrappers.

6785. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander.

August 1914. Translated by Michael Glenny.

First english Translation. London / Sydney/ Toronto, The Bodley Head, 1972. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 645 Pages. One fold out map at back of book. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Red Painted top edge. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. Edge stained. Ex Libris (Erik Haugaard).

6786. Sombart, Werner / [Erwin von Beckerath – Third Freiburg Circle / Dritter Freiburger Kreis].

Vom Menschen – Versuch einer geisteswissenschaftlichen Anthropologie.

Erste Ausgabe / First Edition. Berlin, Charlottenburg, Buchholz & Weisswange Verlagsbuchhandlung, MCMXXXVIII, (1938) 17.5 cm x 24.5 cm. XXIII, 461 pages. Original Hardcover (Black cloth – title in embossed gilt on cover and spine). Sehr seltenes Widmungsexemplar von Werner Sombart an Erwin von Beckerath im Januar 1939.

6787. [Somerville & Ross] / Verling, John / [Edith Somerville & Violet Martin].

Somerville & Ross – Portfolio of ten (10) original, large Etchings by John Verling [signed].

Ballydehob / Schull, John Verling & Schull Books, 1984. Folio – Sheets (38.2 cm x 28.5 cm). Ten original etchings in bespoke Folder with original tissue-guards. Original Hardcover-Folder with one additional, signed inlay-etching to frontcover. The ten etchings and the folder with the original inlay-art, are all in mint condition. The etchings all protected by their original tissue guards. A stunning publication of a wonderful West Cork – Artist. A must-have for all collector’s of rare and signed Somerville & Ross collectables, this find is simply an unusual occurance because the artwork was originally designed to be framed. One usually never finds this edition with the artwork still in its original folder !

6788. Somerville-Large, Peter.

Irish Eccentrics – A Selection.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975. Octavo. VIII, 286 pages with several illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

6789. Somerville-Large, Peter / Fiennes, Mark (photographer).

The Grand Irish Tour.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1982. 19 cm x 25 cm. 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

6790. Somerville, E. OE. / Ross, Martin (Edith Somerville and Violet Martin).

The Big House of Inver.

London / Melbourne / New York, Quartet Books, 1978. 11 x 20cm. 312 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name on half-title page.

6791. Somerville, E. OE. / Ross, Martin.

The Real Charlotte.

London / New York, Quartet Books, 1986. 12.5 x 20cm. 344 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear to spine. Inscribed with previous owner’s name.

6792. Somerville, E. Œ. [Edith].

Slipper’s ABC of Fox Hunting. By E.OE. Somerville, M.F.H. Joint Author of “Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.”, “A Patrick’s Day Hunt”, &c. [With the printed dedication: “Dedicated in token of ancient friendship to The West Carbery Hounds”].

London / New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. Folio (31 cm wide x 39.4 cm high). 85 pages with opposing full-page plates in colour. Original Hardcover with illustrated cover in protective Mylar. Binding a little shaky but overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. One page detached. A rare and complete set of this wonderful work of caricature of West Cork Hunts and Local People, familiar to Edith Somerville.

6793. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin [Violet Martin].

A Patrick’s Day Hunt. [Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans].

Westminster [London], Archibald Constable & Co., no year [c.1902]. Oblong Folio. 47 pages with eight (8) plates in colour and several illustrations in black-and-white. Original, illustrated Hardcover, now in professional colloctor’s Mylar. Some of the plates with some minor staining, one plate cleanly detached. But all plates in wonderful and vibrant condition overall (see photographs).

6794. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin (that is Violet Martin).

Notions in Garrison. [SIGNED by Edith Somerville]. Illustrated Edith Œ. S[omerville].

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1941. Octavo (17.8 cm wide x 21.3 cm high). IX, 134 pages with ten illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The very rare dustjacket with some fraying and staining. Beautifully signed by Edith Somerville on the titlepage.

6795. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin (that is Violet Martin).

Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. [Inscribed / Signed by Violet Martin] Illustrated by W.W. Russell, from ‘Sketches by Edith Œ. Somerville’.

London, W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1893. 19.8cm x 13cm. vii, 200 (33) pages with several illustrations. Original publisher’s binding (the red cloth variant),decoratively illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Good condition still with the binding shaky and the cover stroonger rubbed. Front free endpaper sellotaped. One of the very rare occasions in which Violet Martin signed with her full name, a few months prior to the books official publication in November 1892. Very rare, early Edith Somerville and Martin Ross (Violet Martin) title !

6796. [Somes, Michael].

Michael Somes. With Forty-Four Illustrations.

First Edition. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1955. 19cm x 25cm. 32 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Dustjacket attached to the binding. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money.

6797. Sommer, Christian.

Grundlage zu einem vollkommenen Staat.

[Nachdruck der Ausgabe] Köln 1802. [Königstein], Scriptor, 1979. 20 cm. 256 Seiten. Hardcover (Leinen). Neuwertig (noch in Folie eingeschweißt). [Scriptor-Reprints : Aufklärung und Revolution : Dt. Texte 1790 – 1810.]

6798. Sommer, James van / Spohr, Louis / Keller, Karl / Beethoven, Ludwig van / Hummel, Johann Nepomuk / Weber, Carl Maria von / Eberwein, Traugott Maximilian / etc.

Manuscript of: “Songs &c., chiefly by German Composers. With English Words by James van Sommer, by whom also the Music was ruled and transcribed”. / 19th century Manuscript by british composer James van Sommer with transcriptions of German Lieder in poetry form and score. Marvellous original manuscript with early transcriptions into english of some unusual composers. The manuscript in a beautiful and steady hand in ink/ Originales Manuskript von Transkriptionen teilweise ungewoehnlicher Lieder deutscher und europaeischer Komponisten des spaeten 18. und fruehen 19.Jahrhunderts. Wundervolle, sehr akkurate Handschrift.

[England, possibly Hoxton], James van Sommer, 1837. Octavo. 157 pages. Modern, unsophisticated Hardcover with new endpapers. Excellent condition.

6799. [Songling, Pu], Zeitlin, Judith.

Historian of the Strange – Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale.

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1993. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 332 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6800. Sontag, Frederick.

Love Beyond Pain: Mysticism Within Christianity.

New York / Ramsey / Toronto, Paulist Press, 1977. 13.5 x 20cm. 137 pages. Original softcover. Some signs of external wear, internally in very good condition.