201. [Fonteyn, Margot – Her personal copy] Reyna, Ferdinando.

A Concise History of Ballet.

Second Edition. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1965. 15cm x 21.5cm. 255 pages. 232 gravure illustrations, 16 in full colour. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money. Margot Fonteyn’s own copy with inscription to pastedown: “To Margo from Wally – Christmas ‘66”.

202. [John Minihan Collection] – Helmut Gernsheim.

A Concise History of Photography Third Revised Edition with 307 illustrations, including 26 in full colour.

New York, Dover Publications, 1986. 21 cm x 28.5 cm. 150 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

203. Rusbridger, Alan.

A Concise History of the Sex Manual 1886 – 1986.

First Edition. London, Faber And Faber, 1986. 13 x 21.5 cm. 204 pages with illustrations by Posy Simmonds. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Stronger traces of foxing to endpapers and pastedowns.

204. Twain, Mark.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Edited by Bernard L. Stein.

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1979. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 475 pages. All the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library].

205. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Sutherland, Capt RL / Crichton, Stewart.

A Creek to a Haven – Fifty Years of the Orkney Fishermen’s Society.

Orkney, Orkney Fishermen’s Society, 2003. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. 78 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the authors on title page.

206. [Neale, John William] Willis, Anne.

A Critical Edition of Neal’s Celebrated Irish Tunes [that is: “John William Neale”].

[c.1972]. Large Quarto. 158 pages with scores and analysis of tunes. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Stunning, very comprehensive and specialized publication. Extremely rare work on this seminal irish musician. From the library of Tadgh O Murchu, with his name and date (1972).

207. Meigs, Cornelia et. al.

A Critical history of Children’s Literature. A survey of children’s books in English. Prepared in four parts. Decorations by Vera Bock.

First edition. New York, Macmillan, 1953. 24 cm. XXIVI, 624 pages. Frontispiece illustration. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Spine has noticeable rubbing and a tear at its bottom. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown. With a private giftinscription to Erik Haugaard to the endpaper.

208. Hunter, James.

A Dance Called America. The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada.

Edinburgh / London, Mainstream Publishing, 1995. 15.6cm x 23.4cm. 288 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

209. Friedberg, Maurice.

A Decade of Euphoria – Western Literature in Post-Stalin Russia, 1954-64.

Bloomington/London, Indiana University Press, 1977. 8°. 371 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition.

210. Bushrui, Suheil.

A Defence of Poetry.

First Edition. London, Temenos Academy, 2000. Octavo. 24 pages. Original Softcover. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.