7991. [Tey, Josephine / Daviot, Gordon] / [Gielgud, John].

Josephine Tey – John Gielgud Collection of stunning Association copies of Plays which crucially defined both of their careers as writers and actors. The collection includes important, signed and inscribed association – copies of the two significant productions “Richard of Bordeaux” and “Queen of Scots”, both from John Gielgud’s personal library and with manuscript inscriptions to John Gielgud [and Laurence [Larry] Olivier] by Josephine Tey, aka Gordon Daviot, aka Elizabeth MacKintosh. The collection includes: 1. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] – “Richard of Bordeaux – A Play in Two Acts” – With John Gielgud’s Bookplate (Ex Libris). The ultimate Association-copy, warmly and lengthy inscribed by Josephine Tey to John Gielgud. First Edition. London, Victor Gollancz, 1933 / 2. “Richard of Bordeaux” – Original Programme of “The Streatham Hill Theatre”, 1934. Signed by John Gielgud / 3. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] – “Richard of Bordeaux” – Original File-copy with dustjacket and Publisher’s wrapper “The Play of the Year” at the New Theatre” – First Edition, 1933 / 4. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] Gordon Daviot – “Richard of Bordeaux – A Play in Two Acts” – [Fifth Edition, 1933] – Special Cast, Producer and Production-Signed copy and inscribed to one “Eileen Grainger”, with the most interesting dedications in manuscript signatures – Signed and inscribed by lead actor and producer John Gielgud [Richard II], Signed and inscribed by leading Lady, actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Signed and inscribed by Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey], Also beautifully signed and inscribed with a musical score by Shakespeare-composer and Musical Director for John Gielgud, Herbert Menges OBE ! / 5. “Queen of Scots – A Play in Three Acts” – The Ultimate Association-copy, inscribed by Josephine Tey to her producer: “John Gielgud – from ‘his Gordon Daviot’ / July 1934” / 6. Gordon Daviot – “Queen of Scots – A Play in Three Acts” – Association-copy, signed and warmly and lengthy inscribed by Josephine Tey to Laurence Olivier / 7. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] – “Richard of Bordeaux” – A Softcover-Version of the Play in Fourth Impression, 1933 / 8. Josephine Tey – “The Daughter of Time” – First Edition, Second Impression (Second Printing). London, Peter Davies, July 1951 [The First Edition was in June 1951]. Original Hardcover with the slightly frayed original dustjacket in Mylar / 9. John Gielgud – “Early Stages” – New and Revised Edition. London, The Falcon Press, 1948. With pages of detail about the work of John Gielgud with Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] / 10. Jennifer Morag Henderson – “Josephine Tey – A Life” – With a Foreword by Val McDermid. Sandstone Press, 2015 //

London, Victor Gollancz, 1933 – 1948. Octavo. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7992. [Benjamin, Walter].

“L’Oeuvre d’art à l’époque de sa reproduction mécanisée” [First Edition of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, surely the most important work on cultural criticism ever written and here available in its first printing within Volume I of Jahrgang V, 1936 [Annual V, 1936] of the “Zeitschrift fuer Sozialforschung”]. All three Volumes of the very rare “Jahrgang V” are present with one Volume bearing the name of Walter Benjamin’s friend Alfred Sohn-Rethel on the cover]. This most spectacular provenance is not the only surprise but the 1936-set of “Jahrgang V” came to us as part of a nearly complete set of the Zeitschrift fuer Sozialforschung [24 Issues printed in 22 Issues with only three issues missing (Jahrgang I, Heft 1 und Heft 2 und Jahrgang IX, Heft 1)] and the Periodical does not only include all the Volumes with Benjamin’s Essays but one of the issues is actually an original “File Copy” of the “Institute for Research in Social Science” and one issue is stamped “New School Library – Aug 26 1940” and another from the “William Graham Sumner Club at the Sociology Department / Yale University”.

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1936. Octavo. Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. The Volume which includes the First Edition of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in stunning condition. Three Volumes with stronger signs of wear and all other Volumes in good, very good+ or even better condition. Fantastic provenance also of the Issue 3 of Jahrgang V in 1936 which bears Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s name. Sohn-Rethel’s possession of this issue is not only plausible but reflects all the developments known in critical writings of the Frankfurt School and is the exact time in which he tried, through his friendship with Adorno, to find a philosophical home within the Institute for Social Research. An endeavour which eventually failed through the intervention of Horkheimer but this would not have stopped him to follow the path of the Institute in Exile and its seminal Periodical. We can NOT determine if the other issues belonged to Sohn-Rethel as well. [More images on request].

7993. [Benjamin, Walter] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang III, Heft 1 [Volume III, Issue 1].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1934. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

7994. [Benjamin, Walter] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang V, Heft 1 [Volume V, Issue 1].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1936. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. With very few pencil-markings in the essay by Herbert Marcuse.

7995. [Benjamin, Walter] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang VI, Heft 2 [Volume VI, Issue 2].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1937. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. With an annotation (and exclamation mark) in the chapter on Knut Hamsun (page 315).

7996. [Benjamin, Walter] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang VIII, Doppelheft 1/2 [Volume VIII, Double-Issue 1/2].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1939. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

7997. [Benjamin, Walter] [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang IV, Heft 2 [Volume IV, Issue 2].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1935. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

7998. [Sohn-Rethel, Alfred] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang V, Heft 3 [Volume V, Issue 3].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1936. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. With several pencil-markings and exclamation-markings in the segment of Philosophical reviews (pages 411 forward). Text-Markings include highlighting a book by Stomps on Heidegger’s Hermeneutics, a review of Benedetto Croce etc.

7999. [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Studies in Philosophy and Social Science [Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung] Volume IX, Issue 3 [Jahrgang IX, Heft 3].

First Edition. New York (Morningside Heights), Published by The Institute of Social Research, 1941. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

8000. [Sohn-Rethel, Alfred] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang VI, Heft 1 [Volume VI, Issue 1].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1937. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. With some markings in pencil and one annotation [in pencil: “Marcuse – Befreiung des Tieres”] in the chapter by Max Horkheimer “The latest attack on metaphysics”.