1. [Alexander Calder Collection] – [Calder, Alexander].

“Calder’s Universe” – Large Collection of seventyone (71) Books and Lithograph-Portfolios on and by American Artist Alexander “Sandy” Calder. The collection includes not only rare Monographs, Volumes of Biography and Autobiography and some very rare Exhibition-catalogues but also a collection of wonderful issues of eleven Derriere Le Mirroir [with 54 original Lithographs by Calder (36 single-page-Lithos and 19 double-page Lithos). Also included is the very rare, signed Artist Book: “A BESTIARY” – [One of 50 copies on luxurious Rives-mould, signed by Calder and Wilbur]. The collection includes early monographs as well as later catalogues and is a perfect chance to acquire some good understanding of his works in Mobiles, Stabiles, Oil Paintings, Gouches, Toys and other art. See detailed descriptions and images of every single item within this collection listed under “Libraries & Collections” on our website.

Quarto. The collection includes books in different bindings: Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket / Original Softcover / Hardcover without dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Most books in excellent condition. The price of this collection includes traceable, international UPS Express Saver shipping.

2. Lowth, Robert.

[On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews] De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum : Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii habitæ a Roberto Lowth, et poeticæ publico prælectores; nunc episcopo oxoniensii. Subjicitur Metricæ Harianæ brevis confutatio: et Oratio Crewiana.

Editio Tertia, emendatior. Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano [Imprimatur, J. Browne, Vice-Can. Oxon], 1775. 13 cm x 22 cm. (8), 515 pages plus 11 pages Index and Errata. Original Hardcover / Beautiful 18th century calf with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and the wonderful original marbled endpapers. With the original spinelabel. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. This edition printed on excellent paper with no foxing !

3. [Calder, Alexander] Wilbur, Richard.

A BESTIARY – [One of 50 copies on luxurious Rives-mould, signed by Alexander Calder and Richard Wilbur].

New York, Printed at the Spiral Press for Pantheon Books, 1955. Folio (24 cm wide x 32.5 cm high). Original Hardcover / Half red morocco, beige buckram boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt stamped illustration to front board. A very fine copy in the original board slipcase with very minor signs of shelfwear to the slipcase only. Spine very sightly sunned. A fantastic book with quotes from Yeats and Kafka and many other writers, illustrated by Calder!

4. Ellis, William [Provenance: William Splaine and N. Splaine – Bandon Grammar School 1840].

A Collection of English Exercises – Translated From the Writings of Cicero, For School-Boys to Re-Translate Into Latin; And Adapted to the Principal Rules in The Eton Syntax; With Occasional References to Other Grammars. Sixteenth Edition, in which the Translation has been carefully compared with the Original and Corrected and to which are prefixed, Rules for the Use of the Subjunctive Mood. [Including a Preface of Thomas Dix Hincks of Fermoy School, made to the eighth edition in 1818].

London, Longman & Co., 1839. Small Octavo (10,5 cm x 18 cm). XXVIII, 269, [3] pages. Hardcover / Original full eather with gilt ornament to spine. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Several manuscript entries by preowners of the William Splaine – Family in Bandon.

5. [Homer] Felton, Henry / [Duke of Devonshire].

A Dissertation on Reading the Classics and forming a Just Style [Including the Chapters: “The Opinion that Homer wrote loosly [sic] and without any premeditated Scheme, considered and refuted” and “The late Duke of Devonshire’s Character as a Scholar”]. Written in the Year 1709 and addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roos, the present Marquis of Granby by Henry Felton, D.D. Rector of Whitwell in Derbyshire.

The Third Edition, corrected. London, Printed for Jonah Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-street, 1718. Small-Octavo. XX, [6], 230 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full leather with a new spine in the style of the period. Original spine-label preserved. Excellent restoration by a master-bookbindery. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

6. Griffiths, Gareth.

A Double Exile. African and West Indian Writing between two cultures. [Including a chapter: Childhood and Leavetaking: Growing Up in the Caribbean].

First Edition. London, Marion Boyars, 1978. 8°. 205 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition. (Critical appraisals series)

7. O’Sullivan, M.L. [Michael John] / [Moore, Thomas].

A Fasciculus of Lyric Verses : By the Late M.J.O’Sullivan, Esq., Barrister at Law, dedicated, (by Permission), to Thomas Moore, Esq. [With a Memoir of the Author and a “Biographical Sketch of the Late Joseph Augustine Wade – The Last Production of the AUthor, written a few days before his death”].

First Edition. Cork, From the Machine of W. Scraggs, 102, Patrick-Street, 1846. Octavo. 84 pages. Private half cloth – binding of the time. Bookblock nearly detached form binding. Some rubbing to corners and spine. Interior, pages and titlepage in excellent condition and very clean. Signed and dated by the preowner in the year 1847 (″JSA” or “HA”). Extremely Rare !

8. Sheridan, Thomas / [Benjamin Franklin (mentioned as Subscriber with his address as Ambassador in Paris) / George Washington (mentioned as Subscriber)].

A General Dictionary of the English Language – One main Object of which, is, to establish a plain and permanent Standard of Pronunciation. To which is Prefixed A Rhetorical Grammar. Dedicated to the Volunteers of Ireland. [Including a List of Subscribers mentioning among others also: “Benjamin Franklin (Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of North America, at Paris, who ordered 20 copies)” / Mentioning also as Subscriber: “His Excellency General George Washington, Commander in Chief of all the Forces of the United States of North America”)].

First Dublin Edition. Dublin, Printed by P.Wogan at The Old Bridge and P.Byrne, College-Green, 1784. Octavo (14 cmx 21 cm). [10], LXIX, 825 [unnumbered] pages. Including a lenghty section mentioning the Irish Subscribers to this Dictionary with name and town. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with original, red spine-label with gilt lettering. In protective Mylar. Binding rubbed and with some minor loss to leather. The binding firm and strong and endpapers and pastdeowns intact and NOT cracked ! Small signs of a faded dampstain without any consequence to the very good condition throughout. One page with a tear (Letter G). The unpaginated section was collated as complete.

9. Varadarajan, Mu.

A History of Tamil Literature. Translated from Tamil by E. Sa .Visswanathan.

New Delhi, Madras, Calcutta, Bombay, Shitya Akademi, 1988. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 375 pages. Photograph on inside front and back covers of sculpture from Nagarjunakonda, 2nd century A.D of three soothsayers interpreting Queen Maya’s dream. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Index slightly fingerstained. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

10. Chalmers, Alexander.

A History of the University of Oxford, including the Lives of the Founders, by Alex Chalmers, with a Series of Illustrated Engravings by J.Storey & J.Greig. / A History of the College Halls. And Public Buildings, attached to the University of Oxford. [With 31 plates / steel engravings (including frontispiece)].

First Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Oxford, Printed by Collingwood and Co., 1810. Octavo (14.4 cm wide x 21.7 cm high). Pagination: VolumeI: Frontispiece-Engraving of Oxford, engraved title-page, another title-page with a more explicit title, XVI, 260 pages / Volume II continues the pagination: Halftitle, Title, Pages 261 – 486 plus an Index (13 pages). plus 1 page (List of Plates). Original, very decorative, early 19th century full leather with gilt ornament to boards and masterfully rebacked spine with spine-labels. A superior copy of this often deranged and broken publication. A stunning example of british bindery-craftsmanship and with only minor signs of browning and foxing. The best example of this work we have ever seen. Firm, possible to be handled without fear of breaking, the leather smooth. A perfect gift !

11. Moore, John.

A Journal During a Residence in France, From the Beginning of August, To the Middle of December, 1792. To Which is Added an Account of the Most Remarkable Events That Happened at Paris from That Time to the Death of the Late King of France. [Including the Hand-coloured Map].

First Irish Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Byrne, J.Moore, B.Dugdale, W.Jones, Colbert and J.Rice, 1793. Small-Octavo (11.5 cm x 17.5 cm). 303, 570 pages plus a Hand-coloured “Map of General Dumourier’s Campaign on the Meuse” (showing the area between Metz and Reims as well as Sedan and Nancy). Hardcover / Modern half-leather bound to the style of the 18th-century with spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I. Excellent condition !

12. Linklater, Eric.

A Year of Space: A Chapter in Autobiography.

London, The Reprint Society, 1954. 13 cm x 19 cm. 319 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with some clear signs of external wear. Contains stamp by previous owner.

13. Christ, Hans D. / Dressler, Iris / Peters, Christine.

Acts of Voicing.

Leipzig, Spector Books in conjuction with Wurttembergischer Kunstverein/Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. 2014. 17.5 cm x 25 cm. 555 pages. Original Hardcover. (Blue cloth with an embossed illustration in black on front board. Title in black embossed lettering on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

14. Tennyson, Hallam / [James Mackenzie Maclean Provenance]

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son [Two Volumes]

Two Volumes (complete set). New York, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1897. 15 cm x 23.9 cm. Pagination: Volume I: XXIV, 516 pages. Black and white frontispiece and twelve illustrations / Volume II: VI, 551 pages including a thorough Index. Black and white frontispiece and ten illustrations. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Both volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor rubbing to both spines. Deckled edges. Binding strong. Tissue-guards for illustrations and therefore the illustrations and portraits with some browning. From the library of british journalist and conservative politician James Mackenzie Maclean. Both volumes contain his Exlibris “J.M. MacLean”.

15. Dickens, Charles.

American Notes for General Circulation.

First single-volume edition. London, Chapman and Hall, 1850. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece by C. Stansfield, XIII, 175 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Endpapers and pastedown with original publisher’s advertising. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this excellent and firm condition.

16. [Rees-Mogg, William / Cholwell House] [Lever, Charles].

Arthur O’Leary – His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands. Edited by his friend, Harry Lorrequer and Illustrated by George Cruikshank. [William Rees-Mogg’s personal copy from his library at Cholwell House and with his armorial Bookplate / Exlibris to pastedown].

New Edition. London, Henry Colburn, 1845. Octavo. Frontispiece-Portrait of Arthur O’Leary, 364 pages with ten illustrations by Cruikshank (including the Frontispiece). Hardcover / Original 19th century half leather with two spine-labels, professionally rebacked and restored by a professional bookbindery. Original pastedowns retained with the original bookbindery-label of C.T.Jefferies & Sons from Bristol. Some of the Cruikshank-plates very good, some with strong foxing (as usual). The text fresh and clean. After the restoration, this Volume is now in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

17. Eliot, T.S.

Ausgewählte Gedichte [Selected Poems].

Bilingual Edition: Englisch und Deutsch / Erste Ausgabe. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 149 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Der Schutzumschlag minimal angeraendert und mit einigen wenigen Gebrauchsspuren / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket.

18. Meister, Ernst.

Ausstellung – Gedichte von Ernst Meister [Originalausgabe / wahrscheinlich das originale Korrekturexemplar des Autors oder Verlags].

Erste Ausgabe. Marburg, Verlag Marburger Flugblätter, 1932. Oktav. 64 Seiten. Original Softcover (cremefarbene Englisch-Broschur mit roter Betitelung). Der Buchblock minimal von der Broschur gelöst. Sonst in sehr gutem Zustand, mit Merkmalen eines Korrekturexemplars: Der obere Schnitt etwas uneben, einige Seiten mit handschriftlicher, zusätzlicher Numerierung (und auch Anmerkung) die eine andere Paginierungsfolge oder Reihenfolge der Gedichte suggeriert. Einige Textstellen mit handschriftlicher Änderung einzelner Buchstaben. Kurze Widmung auf dem Vorsatzblatt: “f. Ulla” (nicht verifizierbar ob von Meister). Das Gedicht “Der Gebückte” mit einer handschriftlichen Anmerkung die eine eventuelle, dreimalige Wiederholung des ersten Teiles (‘Er geht’) mit zwei Fragezeichen erwägt. Sehr seltene, erste Veröffentlichung von Ernst Meister. Der Fund dieser Ausgabe ist eine kleine Sensation da Ernst Meister die Auflage persönlich vernichtete nachdem der Verlag Ihm die Bücher zurückgesendet hatte. Seine Ehefrau Else Meister rettete, laut einigen Quellen, nur einige wenige Exemplare aus der Mülltonne. / Als Zugabe zu der Ausgabe liegt dem Band eine Sammlung von sehr seltenen “Mitteilung[en] für Freunde” bei. Ernst Meister hat diese “Im Handsatz als Manuskript gedruckt”. Beiliegen No.2 – 6 der Mitteilungen”. Diese sind signiert mit dem Namenszug “Ernst Meister” versehen und der Jahreszahl der Herausgabe auf der Titelbroschur.

19. Cioranescu, Alexandre.

Bibliographie De La Littérature Française Du Dix-Huitième Siècle.

Three Volumes, Complete Set. Paris, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, 1969. 18.8 cm x 27.5 cm. Pagination: Unpaginated. Volume I: X, [760 pages], Authors A-D. Volume II: [761-1439 pages], Authors E-Q. Volume III: [1440-2137 pages], R-Z et Index [Plus extra: Volume III (Second Edition), [1440-2137 pages], N-Z et Index. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor stains to covers. Very minor foxing to edges. Otherwise, clean, bright and strong binding. The price for this heavy set includes international shipping per Courier !

20. Roche, Regina Maria [Author of “The Children of the Abbey”].

Clermont – A Tale.

Second Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed by William Porter, 1799. Small-Octavo (11,5 cm x 17,5 cm). Volume I: 269 pages / Volume II: 326 (of 329) pages [3 pages missing at the end]. Hardcover / Modern, very decorative half-leather bindings with replicated spinelabels in the style of the 18th century. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Name of Richard Meade of Ballymartle on titlepage of both Volumes. Minor lesion and tear to titlepage of Volume II. Overall very good ! Extremely scarce publication in first or second edition !

21. Viereck, George Sylvester / [Frederick Franklin Schrader] / [Mentioning of Oscar Wilde / Lord Alfred Douglas].

Collection of early Manuscript Material (which is a Manuscript Ballad / Poem), a two-page Manuscript Letter (which is a MLS mentioning Oscar Wilde, Lord [Alfred] Douglas, Viereck’s literary tastes etc.) and the personal copy of “House of the Vampire”, all by the controversial german-american author George Sylvester Viereck. The collection includes: 1. One six-page, hitherto unpublished Manuscript – Ballad [Poem], called “Die Ballade vom Sündigen Glück” [Translates: “The Ballad of sinful Pleasure”]/ 2. A lengthy and extremely insightful Two-Page Manuscript Letter, signed in New York, 1902, which accompanied and talks about the enclosed Six-Page Manuscript – Ballad [The letter and Poem was not conclusively but very likely addressed by Viereck to Frederick Franklin Schrader, then editor of the New York Dramatic Mirror and shortly thereafter co-founder with George Sylvester Viereck of “The Fatherland” / 3. The collection also includes Viereck’s personal copy of his publication “The House of the Vampire” with handwritten, manuscript entry of his name, address in New York City as well as a pasted statement on the endpaper by the author Viereck: “Concerning “The House of the Vampire” : This book went through several editions when it was first published and was dramatized. It played for eight weeks in New York and for two years on the road under the management of the Shuberts. Critics have compared it to such books as Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Lady Into Fox, and Dorian Gray”]. The two-page letter is of great value and touches on Viereck’s admiration for Schrader and his “Blatt” [Newspaper]. Viereck is advertising himself to Schrader by introducing himself as a critical admirer with substantial references (Viereck details his working for numerous newspapers in America). Viereck mentions his secessionist tendencies and name-drops Oscar Wilde, Rosetti and Lord Douglas (whom he claims to know personally). This amazing, autographed/signed Manuscript-Material was created by Viereck directly during his transition from writer to propagandist and is an example of his early, bullish personality, which wants to be heard, which needs attention and it is here, in 1912, where his career begins to develop. This large Archive of manuscript material [8 pages in total] is stunning and unpublished (see partial Transcription of the original german material on our website). Viereck’s close friends included Nikola Tesla and even Theodore Roosevelt was among his acquaintances.

New York, Moffat, Yard & Company, 1902-1912. Play and Letters: 20.3 cm x 25.3 cm / Book: 13 cm x 19,5 cm. Pagination: Balld (Poem): 6 pages / Manuscript Letter (MLS): 2 pages / Book: 190 pages. Original Hardcover / Blue publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine in protective collector’s mylar / The play protected in clear folder. The manuscript pages overall in excellent condition besides page IV of the play which has two abrasions with small parts of the text missing only. The book in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Viereck’s usual vanity made him add the lovely littel note of critical success. The personal copy of this controversial author’s most interesting book is a unique possibility for each collector of unusual Vampire material. Extraordinary collection !

22. [de Man, Paul] Durling, Robert M. / Rosiek, Jan / Weiss, T.[Theodore Russell Weiss] / Hughes, Langston / Levin, Harry.

Collection of five books from the library of Paul de Man and Pat de Man. Three of the books inscribed/signed by the author’s. The Collection includes: 1. Robert M. Durling – The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic. [Inscribed by Durling: “For Paul de Man – with fond regards – Bob”] / 2. Jan Rosiek – Figures of Failure – Paul de Man’s Criticism 1953-1970 [Unsigned / Not inscribed] / 3. T. Weiss – The Catch – The Twayne Library of Modern Poetry [Inscribed by Weiss: “To Pat + Paul, for real friendship + a book of their own soon. Ted”] / 4. Edward J. Mullen – Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti [Inscribed by Langston Hughes: “Ma cheri Pat, may this slight token of appreciation for your past (and hopefully) future, intellectual ministrations to your petit frère recall to you fond memories of your peregination. Love, Langston – Chritmas, 1979 (Late, as usual)”] / 5. Karry Levin – Grounds for Comparison [Unsigned / Not inscribed].

Cambridge (Mass.) / Aarhus / New York and others, Harvard University Press / Archon Books / Twayne Publishers / Aarhus University Press, 1951 – 1992. 8°. Volume I.: VIII, 280 pages / Volume II: 247 pages / Volume III: 77 pages / Volume IV: 193 pages / Volume V: 423 pages. Three Volumes in original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar / One Volume in Softcover / One Volume in Hardcover. Very good condition. From the library of Paul de Man. Especially the Durling – Volume of interest. Inscribed by the author: “For Paul de Man with fond regards – Bob”.

23. Wilde, Oscar.

Collection of Four Rare Presentation Review Copies of Publisher Methuen & Co., with publisher’s Ephemera (presentation-slip regarding the wish for Review and publication-date, as well as a booklet “The Library of Devotion”) / The collection includes: 1. Intentions (4th Edition, 1909) / 2. Lady Windermere’s Fan – A Play about a Good Woman (3rd Edition, 1909) / 3. An Ideal Husband (3rd Edition, 1909) / 4. The Importance of Being Earnest – A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (3rd Edition, 1909).

4 Volumes. London, Methuen & Co., 1909. Small Octavo. Pagination: “Intentions”: 263 pages / “Lady Windermere’s Fan”: 157 pages / “An Ideal Husband”: 246 pages / “The Importance of Being Earnest”: 181 pages. Original Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth with bevelled edges and gilt lettering and ornament to spine and cover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear and mild staining to bindings only.

24. [Joyce, James].

Collection of interesting and important publications by and on James Joyce. Including a portrait of Joyce, First editions and essential Textversions of his Masterpieces and literary criticism etc. etc. [Please enquire for access to excellent photographs and descriptions to each title, included in this collection]. The collection includes: 1. Ulysses [The Corrected Text]. The Corrected Text – Edited by Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior and with a New Preface by Richard Ellmann. Corrected Edition of the critical and synoptic edition from 1984. / 2. Ulysses [A Reader’s Edition]. Edited by Danis Rose. Completely revised edition. / 3. McHugh, Roland. Annotations to Finnegans Wake. / 4. The Restored Finnegans Wake. Edited and with a Preface and Afterword by Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon. Note by Seamus Deane. / 5. Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New and Revised Edition [The First Revision of the 1959 Classic]. / 6. Ellmann, Richard. Selected Letters of James Joyce. / 7. Joyce, James. Chamber Music. / 8. Eco, Umberto. The Middle Ages of James Joyce – The Aesthetics of Chaosmos. Translated from the Italian by Ellen Esrock. / 9. Freund, Gisèle. Three Days with Joyce – Photographs by Gisèle Freund. Preface by Richard Ellmann. / 10. Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce – A Biography. / 11. James Joyce – Poems and Shorter Writings – Including ‘Epiphanies’, ‘Giacomo Joyce’ and ‘A Portrait of the Artist’. Edited by Richard Ellmann, A Walton Litz and John Whittier-Ferguson. / 12. [Joyce, James] Synge, John Millington. Riders to the Sea. La Cavalcata al Mare. Italian translation James Joyce and Nicolo Vidacovich. Introduction and Notes Dario Calimani. / 13. [Joyce, James] Krewani, Angela [Hrsg.]. Artefacts, artefictions. crossovers between contemporary literatures, media, arts and architectures = Artefakte, Artefiktionen ; for Christian W. Thomsen on the occasion of his 60th birthday [Including articles on Joyce: Kurt Otten – James Joyce and the Rise of Early Modernism in English Literature / Ralf Schnell – Beuys and Joyce]. Articles in english and german. / 14. Gilbert, Stuart. James Joyce’s Ulysses. A Study. / 15. [Joyce, James] Beach, Sylvia / Laughlin, James (Introduction). Shakespeare and Company. New Edition. Lincoln, 1991. / Joyce, James. Pomes Penyeach. London, Faber & Faber, 1952. / 16. Joyce, James. The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies – A Fragment from Work in Progress. [The Initial Letter, Tail-Piece and Cover were specially designed by the author’s daughter, Miss Lucia Joyce]. No. 564 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. The Hague / New York, The Servire Press / Gotham Book Mart, 1934. /

London and other places, Penguin / Picador / Oxford University Press / etc., 1975 – 1997. Octavo. More than 2000 pages. Original Hardcover / Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The price of the collection includes free international shipping per UPS Express.

25. De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo / [Giovan Gherardo de Rossi].

Commedie.

[Seconda Edizione]. 4 Volumes in 2 (complete set). Prato, Fratelli Giachetti, 1826. Octavo. Tomo Primo: XIX, 291, [1] pages / Tomo Secondo: 314, [2] pages / Tomo Terzo: 328, [2] pages / Tomo Quattro: 251, [1] pages. Original, wonderful and decorative vellum bindings. With new spinelabels. Very Rare, original edition of the second edition of de Rossi’s comedies.

26. Gogol, Nikolai.

Das Bildnis. Eine Novelle. Mit Zeichnungen von W. Masjutin. Ins Deutsche uebertragen von Alexander Eliasberg.

Stuttgart, Verlag Julius Hoffmann, 1920. Quarto. 96 Seiten. Hardcover / Modernes Halbleder mit Rueckenschild in neuem Spezial – Schuber mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

27. Broch, Hermann.

Der Tod des Vergil.

New York, Pantheon, 1945. 8°. 522 Seiten. Originaler Halbleinenband ohne den Schutzumschlag aber in perfekt angepasstem Schutz-Mylar. Erste deutschsprachige Ausgabe. Nur wenige Wochen nach der englischen Erstausgabe publiziert, ist “Der Tod des Vergil” die wohl bedeutendste Publikation der deutschen Exilliteratur.

28. Bock, Alfred.

Deutsche Dichter in ihren Beziehungen zur Musik [Widmungsexemplar von Alfred Bock]. Klopstock – Wieland – Lessing – Schiller – Goethe – Herder – Jean Paul – Romantiker – Hoffmann – Lenau – Heine – Grillparzer.

Neue Ausgabe. Giessen, J.Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, 1900. Octavo. XI, 264 Seiten. Original Hardcover / Originaler, sehr dekorativer Ganzleinenband mit wundervollen Jugendstil-Elementen. Nahezu neuwertige Erhaltung. Extrem seltenes Widmungsexemplar von Alfred Bock. Die Widmung liest sich: “Meinem Freund – Prof. Dr. H. Walther in aufrichtiger Gesinnung – G[iessen], May.18 – Der Verf[asser]”.”

29. Hemingway, Ernest.

Die grünen Hügel Afrikas.

13.-20.Tausend. Hamburg, Rowohlt Verlag Hamburg, 1954. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 250 Seiten. Original Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dustjacket. Colour photograph of Ernest Hemingway on back cover of dustjacket from ‘Look, New York’. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

30. [Dinter, Gustav Friedrich]

Dinter’s Todtenfeier im sächsischen Erzgebirge. Am 23. Julius 1831.

Neustadt, Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1831. Gr.-8°. VIII, 84 Seiten. Originale, bedruckte Titelbroschur. Unbeschnittenes, breitrandiges Exemplar der Originalausgabe mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Die hintere Broschur sauber geloest und etwas angeraendert. Selten !

31. Pasternak, Boris.

Doktor Zhivago. [Rare Original Russian Edition]

Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1959. Thick Octavo. [iv], 567, [1] pages. Original Hardcover / Publisher’s terra-cotta cloth with gilt lettering on spine. No jacket was issued for this book. In protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Second printing of the first authorized edition in Russian (preceded only by two CIA-sponsored, and virtually unobtainable, editions printed in Italy and distributed at the Brussels World Fair in the summer of 1958). Exlibris Janice Clark. Wonderful collectable !

32. [Fromentin, Eugène] Marsh, Edward.

Dominique. Translated from the French by Edward Marsh.

London, The Cresset Press, 1948. 14 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 250 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Minor foxing to edges, slight fraying to crown of dustjacket, otherwise in very good condition.

33. Pritchett, V.S. / Evelyn Hofer (Photographer).

DUBLIN – A Portrait. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer.

London / Sydney / Toronto, The Bodley Head, 1967. Quarto (22 cm x 28 cm). 99 pages with 16 pages of photographs in full colour and 78 photographs in monochrome gravure. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some minor tears to dustjacket, now in protective sleeve, but else in unusually very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A fantastic publication.

34. [Sainsbury, Hester Margaret (Illustrator)] / Morand, Paul.

Earth Girdled. With Eight Woodcuts by Hester Sainsbury. Translated from the French ‘Rien que le Terre’ by Charles Emile Roche.

London, Alfred A. Knoff, 1928. 14.5 cm x 22.6 cm. 172 pages. Black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Marbled boards. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket has minor edgewear. Minor rubbing to edges. Minor tanning to edges, endpapers and pastedowns. Otherwise bright and clean. Binding strong.

35. [Moore, John] / [Anonymous: “By the Author of Zeluco”].

Edward. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken From Life and Manners, Chiefly in England.

First Irish Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, W.Watson and Son, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1797. Small-Octavo (11.5 cm x 17.5 cm). 331, 376 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings a little shaky but still intact; stronger rubbed with loss to labels. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

36. Caruth, Cathy.

Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions – Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud. [Inscribed]

Baltimore, London, The Johns Hopkins Univesity Press, 1991. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. VIII, 167 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design by Joanna Hill. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear with a personal, signed inscription by the author Cathy Caruth on the front free endpaper.

37. Akutagawa, Ryunosuke.

Exotic Japanese Stories – The Beautiful and the Grotesque. 16 Unusual Tales and Unforgettable Images. Translated by Takashi Kojima and John McVittee. Introduction by John McVittee.

New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1964. 14.9 cm x 21.9 cm. Colour Frontispiece, 431 pages. 22 Collage Illustrations: 6 Colour and 16 Black and White by Masakazu Kuwata. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. A very good+ hardcover copy in black and grey cloth stamped in silver and red gilt with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges and very minor fading to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Minor fraying and fading to dustjacket. From the reference library of Hans Christian-Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard.

38. Taylor, Tom / [Abraham Lincoln].

Exquisite collection of six (6) items/original, vintage and personal materials by/of Tom Taylor. The collection includes a 2 1/2 page, signed manuscript letter [MLS] by Tom Taylor to an unknown recipient , discussing a memorial he sent to Robert Browning’s patron, John Kenyon and mentioning former Prime Minister Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen]. The collection also includes two vintage 19th century cabinet photographs [Carte de Visite’s] of Tom Taylor, a later edition of Ballads and Songs of Brittany and two beautifully inscribed and signed presentation copies of his major works: 1. The first edition of Ballads of Brittany – London/Cambridge, MacMillan and Co.,1865 with many illustrations by Tissot, Tenniel etc. (This first edition is signed and inscribed by Tom Taylor to Emilia Ventana at Xmas 1864, before the publication of the book commenced) and 2. Tom Taylor’s Historical Dramas. London, Chatto & Windus, 1877. Signed and inscribed by Tom Taylor to Marie de Beauvoisier in March 1879.

London / Cambridge etc., Chatto & Windus / Routledge & Sons / etc., c. 1850-1879. Octavo. Ballads and Songs of Brittany (1865 edition): Frontispice, XXII, 239 pages / Ballads and Songs of Brittany (Later Routledge edition): XVI, 176 pages / Tom Taylor’s Historical Dramas: VIII, 466, 32 pages. / Manuscript Letter: 2 1/2 pages. Original Hardcover / The manuscript letter in a Folder, it includes an A4 manuscript leaf from a 19th century autograph-collector describing the letter by Taylor. / The two vintage cabinet photographs of Taylor included in the Folder with the autograph. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

39. Huxley, Aldous.

Eyeless in Gaza.

First Edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1936. 15.5 cm x 21 cm. 620 pages. Original Hrdcover / Publisher’s cloth. Excellent, very good + condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding firm ! Name of preowner in pencil to endpaper.

40. [Joyce, James] Behan, Dominic.

Finnegan’s Wake. – The Songs of James Joyce – Performed by Dominic Behan.

London, Collector Records, 1958. 8°. 2 pages. Original Softcover Sleeve. The Sleeve: Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The Record itself: Near Mint Condition ! Very Rare original Reading / Performance by Dominic Behan. Recorded in London with Robin Hall on the Guitar.

41. Joyce, James.

Finnegans Wake.

First American Edition. New York, The Viking Press, 1939. Large-8° (15.7 cm wide x 24.7 cm high). 628 pages. Hardcover without the original dustjacket / Original black publisher’s buckram with gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. Wonderful tight and excellent overall condition of this rare first american edition of Finnegans Wake. Provenance: From the library of one Robert D. Parsons with his bookplate to the front pastedown, dated in 1941. Tiny Booksellers Label from McClelland & Co. in Columbus, Ohio.

42. Skinner, B.F.

Has Gertrude Stein a Secret ?

First Edition Offprint. Atlantic Monthly, 1934. 8°. 8 pages. Stapled Softcover. Original offprint from “The Atlantic Monthly” (1959).

43. Watson, Lyall.

Heaven’s Breath.

Japanese Edition. Tokyo, Tuttle-Mori Agency, 1984. 13.4 cm x 19.5 cm. LVIII, 411 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor stain to top of spine. Only very minor foxing to edges, front and rear pastedown enpapers and enpapers. From the reference library of Hans Christian-Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard.

44. [Hecataeus of Miletus] / Klausen, Rud. Henr.

Hecataei Milesii Fragmenta. Scylacis Caryandensis Periplus.

Berlin, Impensis G. Reimeri, 1831. Octavo. [3], Large Fold-Out-Map of the Ancient Mediterranean, titled: “Tabula Europae, Asiae, Libyae”, 324 pages including a thorough Index of Places. Hardcover / Original 19th century boards with new spine and spinelabel, bound to style of the 19th century. New endpapers. The Volume is now protected by Mylar. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

45. [Cumberland, Richard] Anonymous.

Henry. By the Author of “Arundel”. In Two Volumes.

First Irish Edition. Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P. Byrne, W.Jones etc., 1795. Small Octavo (12 cm x 17 cm). IX, 440, VIII, 411 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather, bound to style of the 18th-century with spine-labels. Housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Excellent condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of Volume Two. Name of Richard Meade to both titlepages.

46. Overbury, Sir Thomas.

His Wife. – With Additions of New Characters and Many Other Wittie Conceits Never Before Printed. [With a manuscript inscription by a contemporary owner of the book [″Alexander Keith”] about Overbury going on an “Embassy to Muscovy” (Russia)]

The fifteenth Impression. London, Printed by R.E. for Robert Allot and are to be sold at the sign of the Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1632. Duodecimo (9,8 cm x 14,5 cm). 317 unnumbered pages (collated complete). 18th century Hardcover (full leather with gilted spinelabel ‘Overbury’). The binding professionally repaired. 18th century endpaper with handwritten notes in ink. Manuscript exlibris ‘Paul Exner ex libris 939’. Several contemporary ownership signatures within the book (for example Henry Grier, 12th of Apryll 1687). Titlepage professionally repaired. Wonderful example of this rare book.

47. [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.

48. O’Brien, Edna.

House of Splendid Isolation.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. 16cm x 24cm. 216 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition. Beautifully signed and inscribed during a promotional booktour by author Edna O’Brien during a visit to the english booktown Hay-on-Wye in the year 1994.

49. [Buckland-Wright, John / Golden Cockerel Press] Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

Hymn to Proserpine. Engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Octavo (16.8 cm wide x 23.7 cm high). 20 pages with seven woodcuts. Original Hardcover (Burgundy cloth). Spine slightly sunned. Otherwise in absolutely excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

50. MacLean, Alistair.

Ice Station Zebra. A New Novel of Intrigue and Suspense.

First Edition. New York, Doubleday & Company Inc., 1963. Octavo. 276 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

51. Smorkaloff, Pamela Maria.

If I Could Write This in Fire – An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean. Edited by Pamela Maria Smorkaloff.

New York, The New Press, 1994. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. X, 374 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Book design by Acme Art, Inc. Jacket design by Brian Boyce. Very fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

52. Pearson, Michael.

Imagined Places – Journeys Into Literary America. With photographs by John Lawrence and Joel Mednick.

Jackson (Mississippi), London, University of Mississippi, 1991. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XIX, 323 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Front cover of dustjacket: detail from ‘Breaks the Blank Day’, a painting by Lynn Green Root. Author photo by Bob Firek. Very fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

53. Slaughter, Frank G.

In A Dark Garden.

Garden City, New York, Doubleday and Company, 1946. 14.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 435 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

54. Lewis, Sinclair.

It Can’t Happen Here [The Novel that tells you what will happen to your family if America gets a Dictator].

4th Reprint of the 1939 Edition (with the rare dustjacket). New York, Triangle Books, 1941. Octavo. 458 pages. Original publisher’s Hardcover with the rare, illustrated dustjacket, including the rear flap with the photograph of an idyllic american living-room scenery. In protective Mylar. From the private library of Walter Blake, with his personal stamp to the titlepage. In excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. The dustjacket extremely scarce in this condition.

55. [Joyce, James] Budgen, Frank.

James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses – With a Portrait of James Joyce and four Drawings by the Author [Frank Budgen’s famous illustrations for Ulysses].

First Edition. [Two Volumes]. London / Mayfair, Grayson & Grayson, 1934. Octavo (15 cm wide x 22.4 cm high). Frontispiece – Portrait of a reclining Joyce, 320 pages, complete with all the illustrations in place. Hardcover (original, publisher’s quarter cloth with original spine-label). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Firm example of this rare first edition.

56. [Wolfskehl, Karl] Blasberg, Cornelia.

Karl Wolfskehl und Kiechlinsbergen. “Sprechen die Steine ?” ; [eine Veröffentlichung der Arbeitsstelle für Literarische Museen, Archive und Gedenkstätten in Baden-Württemberg].

Marbach am Neckar, Dt. Schillerges., 1995. Gr.-8°. 15 Seiten. Illustriert. Softcover / Originale Broschur. Aus der Bibliothek des Mediaevisten Josef Fleckenstein mit seinem Namenszug auf der ersten Seite und einige feine Bleistiftanstreichungen von seiner Hand. Kleiner Lichtrand. [Spuren ; 30].

57. Kipling, Rudyard.

KIM – Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling.

Later Edition. London, MacMillan and Co. Ltd., 1935. Small-Octavo (11.5 cm wide x 17.5 cm high). 413 pages with Illustrations throughout by Rudyard Kipling’s father, John Lockwood Kipling. Hardcover / Absolutely stunning original Publisher’s binding with gilt letering and ornament to spine and gilted cover-illustration armorial embossing “Unto God Only Be Honour And Glory”. Unusual excellent and firm condition. The book is in protective Mylar. A very, very rare example of this beautiful “elephant binding”, the iconic pictorial cover design used by the publisher Macmillan for various works by Rudyard Kipling, first used in the Jungle-Book bindings. With a name of the preowner on the endpaper. Gift-Bookplate for pre-owner to pastedown (from “Howell’s School in Llandaff”).

58. Boccaccio, Giovanni / [Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari].

L’amorosa fiammetta di M. Giovanni Boccaccio, di Nuovo Corretta et Ristampata, con La Tavola et le Postille delle cose Piu Notabili.

Venetia, Appresso I Gioliti, 1584. 9.5 cm x 15.4 cm. 107, [1] pages including illustrated titlepage with Giolito’s printer mark and Giolito’s stunning colophon of Phoenix rising from the ashes and the Motto: “Semper eadem” (″Always the same”). Hardcover in custom – made solanderbox. Recently rebound in half-leather with marbled paper-covered-boards. The bookblock in very good condition with some minor, contemporary inkstains. Name of preowner “Exlibris Bernard Rielliae [″Bernard Reilly”] in contemporary ink (16th or 17th century entry). Small lesion to titlepage and first three pages only. Very faint, faded dampstain to the outer margins of a few pages.

59. [Horace / Horatius Flaccus Quintus] Fabrini, Giovanni Francesco.

L’Opere D’Oratio – Poeta Lirico Commentate da Giovanni Fabrini da Fighine in Lingua Vulgare Toscana, con ordine, che’l Vulgare e Comento del Latino; et il Latino e Comento del Vulgare, ambedue le Lingue Dichiarandosi l’una con l’altra. Dinuouo in questa terza Editione da molti errori emendato.

[Third Edition]. In Venetia, Appresso Giovanni Battista Sessa & fratelli, 1581. Small Quarto (16 cm wide x 21 cm high). [4], 390 pages. Hardcover / Original Vellum in Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Faded dampstain to a few pages in the rear. Titlepage professionally restored. Preowners name verso titlepage, signed in Ink as “Antonio Bartoly, 1793”.

60. Dubuffet, Jean.

La botte à nique.

Genève, Albert Skira, 1973. Slim Fpolio Box with Oxtcavo Volume and Slim-Folio Screen-print separate. 112 pages (collation complèt) plus une sérigraphie (Silkscreen: ‘Quatre Figures’) dans une chemise séparée. Original Hardcover in original box with additional folder for the silkscreen. Complete, a fantastic publication ! Some signs of foxing ! Otherwsie in EXCELLENT condition with only minor signs of wear and including the often missing screen-print in the separate chemise. / Edition originale, Exemplaire No.38 des 165 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin d’Arches. Notre exemplaire est bien complet de sa sérigraphie présentée sous une chemise à part.

61. Hamsun, Knut.

La Faim. Traduit du Norvegien.

Première Édition originale française / [First French Edition of ‘Hunger’]. Paris, Albert Langen / Nilsson, 1895. Octavo. 322 pages. Reliure privée du 19ème siècle / Original private Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Bon etat / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

62. Sartre, Jean-Paul.

La Putain Respectueuse. Pièce en un acte et deux tableaux.

Édition Originale. Paris, Les Éditions Nagel, 1946. 19 x 12 cm. 163 pages. Softcover / Broché. Bon état général. Bon exemplaire avec petit dommage à la reliure. Intérieur impeccable.

63. Blair, Hugh.

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters.

First Dublin Edition. In Three Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Colles, Burnet, Moncrieffe etc., 1783. Large Octavo (13,5 cm x 21 cm). Pagination: Volume I: 429 pages / Volume II: 444 pages / Volume III: 389 pages plus 34 unnumbered pages of an Index. Hardcover / Original full leather. Original Trinity College Dublin price-binding with supralibros on all boards (some in gilt) and three beautiful price-bookplates from Trinity College, awarded to Ricardo Meade, on the pastedowns. Some old wormhole-damage. Still overall very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

64. [Bonnard, Pierre] Chauveau, Léopold.

Les Histoires Du Petit Renaud.

Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1927. Quarto (23 cm wide x 28.5 cm high). 93 pages. Original Softcover Brochure with illustrations by Pierre Bonnard / Broché originale et illustree. Excellent, near fine condition with only minor signs of wear / Avec cinquante illustrations dessinées et coloriées au pochoir, en bleu et en rouge, par Pierre Bonnard. Exemplaire 226 des 322 exemplaires sur vélin d’Arches de ces cinq histoires pour enfants. Les seuls contes pour enfants jamais illustrés par Pierre Bonnard. Tres bon exemplaire !!

65. Sartre, Jean-Paul / de Beauvoir, Simone / Merleau-Ponty, Maurice / Beckett, Samuel / etc.

Les Temps Modernes [Modern Times]. Revue Mensuelle. 2e année – No. 14 (Novembre 1946).

Paris, Les Temp Modernes [Gallimard (1945-1948)], 1946. Octavo. Original Softcover / Reliure Originale (Broche / Printed Wrapper). Frayed and damaged spine. Wrapper detached !

66. Sartre, Jean-Paul / de Beauvoir, Simone / Merleau-Ponty, Maurice / Beckett, Samuel / Benjamin, Walter etc.

Les Temps Modernes [Modern Times]. Revue Mensuelle. 88 (eightyeight) Issues / Volumes of this important Periodical / [Lot de 88 numéros: 2e année – No. 13 (Octobre 1946) – 11e année – No. 125 (Juin 1956)]. The collection includes reviews / critique of famous essays like Simone de Beauvoir’s “La Lesbienne” and Jean-Paul Sartre’s “La mort dans l’ame” and “Le Diable et le Bon Dieu” / Werner Krauss – “Un Allemand a Paris / Enno Kind – La Resistance allemande etc. The collection includes: Year 1947: 2e année, No.13 / 2e année, No.14 / 2e année, No.22 / 2e année, No.23/24 / 2e année, No.25 / 3e année, No.26 / 3e année, No. 27 / Year 1948: 3e année, No.28 / 3e année, No.29 / 3e année, No. 30 / 3e année, No.31 / 3e année, No.32 / 3e année, No.33 / 3e année, No.34 / 3e année, No.35 / 3e année, No.36 / 4e année, No.37 / 4e année, No.38 / Year 1949: 4e année, No.39 / 4e année, No.40 / 4e année, No.41 / 4e année, No.42 / 4e année, No.43 / 4e année, No.44 / 5e année, No.45 / 5e année, No.46-47 / 5e année, No.48 / 5e année, No.49 / 5e année, No.50 / Year 1950: 5e année, No.51 / 5e année, No.43 / 5e année, No.54 / 5e année, No.55 / 5e année, No.56 / 6e année, No.57 / 6e année, No.58 / 6e année, No.59 / 6e année, No.60 / Year 1951: 6e année, No.63 / 6e année, No.64 / 6e année, No.65 / 6e année, No.66 / 6e année, No.67 / 6e année, No.68 / 7e année, No.69 / 7e année, No.70 / 7e année, No.71 / 7e année, No.72 / 7e année, No.73 / 7e année, No.74 / Year 1952: 7e année, No.75 / 7e année, No.76 / 7e année, No.77 / 7e année, No.79 / 7e année, No.80 / 8e année, No.81 / 8e année, No.82 / 8e année, No.83 / 8e année, No.84-85 / 8e année, No.86 / Year 1953: 8e année, No.87 / 8e année, No.88 / 8e année, No.89 / 8e année, No.90 / 8e année, No.91 / 9e année, No.92 / 9e année, No.93-94 / 9e année, No.95 / Year 1954: 9e année, No.99 / 9e année, No.100 / 9e année, No.101 / 9e année, No.102 / 9e année, No.103 / 10e année, No.104 / 10e année, No.105 / 10e année, No.106 / 10e année, No.107 / 10e année, No.108 / Year 1955: 10e année, No.109 / 10e année, No.110 / 10e année, No.111 / 10e année, No.112-113 (Numero Special: “La Gauche” – avec Simone de Beauvoir, Victor Leduc, Maurice Duverger, Claude Lanzmann, Jean T. Desant etc. etc.) / 10e année, No.114-115 / Year 1956: 11e année, No.121 / 11e année, No.122 / 11e année, No.123 / 11e année, No.124 / 11e année, No.125 //

Paris, Les Temp Modernes [Gallimard (1945-1948) / Julliard (1949-1965), 1946 -1956. Octavo. Original Softcover / Broche Originale. Some of the issues with condition-problems but in general in good to very good condition with some of the issues having frayed and detached wrappers. Only one frontwrapper with titles missing. A very rare run of 88 issues of this rare periodical. 88 Issues with interruptions in between.

67. [Webb, William Livingston / United Irishmen] [Muralt, Béat Louis de (1665-1749)].

Lettres sur les Anglois et les François et sur les Voiages [Voyages].

Three Volumes bound in Two (complete set). [Paris], 1726. Small-Octavo (10 cm x 16 cm). 200, 200, 224 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century leather with gilt lettering on spine. New Spine-Label applied to Volume I. Both Volumes housed in a bespoke built Solander Box. Some minor rubbing. Provenance: From the library of a member of the 1798 Rebellion under Wolfe Tone, William Livingston Webb, with Webb’s name in ink to the titlepage of Volume I and his name also to the first page of Volume II. Webb notes in Volume two that he purchased the books in Lille. While other Protestant Leaders of the Rebellion were hanged, William Livingston Webb was exiled. With a manuscript-poem in english and remarks in french, citing “Voltaire” to rear endpaper of Volume II: “Les Tome auteur n’art de l’esprit qui autart qu’il enfant, ny le recherchant jamais pensent avec priment avec clarte” (?) – Voltaire (?).

68. Belitt, Ben.

Literature and Belief: Three “Spiritual Exercises”. Originally delivered at Bennington College as Lecture Eight in the Ben Belitt Lectureship Series October twenty-ninth, 1985.

Hoosick Falls, Bennington College, 1985. 8°. 29 pages with three reproductions of illustrations from William Blake’s “Book of Job” from the year 1825. Softcover. One of only 1000 hand-numbered copies. Two of the tipped-in illustrations loosened. Otherwise in excellent, close to new condition. [The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature – Published in Memory of William Troy]

69. Strickland, Agnes / [and Elizabeth Strickland].

Lives of the Queens of England, From the Norman conquest. Now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public. A new edition, revised and greatly augmented, embellished with Portraits of every Queen.

8 Volumes (complete set). London, Colburn & Co., 1851. Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of Agnes Strickland and engraved titlepage, XXII, 614 pages with 15 illustrations (including Froontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume II: Frontispiece-Portrait of Isabella of Valois, engraved titlepage, VIII, 704 pages with 16 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume III: Frontispiece-Portrait of Jane Seymour, engraved titlepage, [4], 588 pages with 10 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume IV: Frontispiece-Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, engraved titlepage, [4], 790 pages with 4 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume V: Frontispiece-Portrait of Anne of Denmark, engraved titlepage, [4], 703 pages with 8 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume VI: Frontispiece-Portrait of Mary of Modena, engraved titlepage, [2], 672 pages with 5 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume VII: Frontispiece-Portrait of Mary II when Princess of Orange, engraved titlepage, [3], 466 pages with 4 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume VIII: Frontispiece-Portrait of Queen Anne, engraved titlepage, [2], 556 pages with 3 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) // Original, very decorative half-leather bindings with gilt lettering and ornaments on spines, marbled-paper-covered-boards and marbled edges. Excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear. The set comes frm the private library of Major General Cosmo Alexander Richard Nevill, with his armorial bookplate / Ex Libris to the pastedown of each Volume, bearing his family-motto: “Ne Vile Velis” [″Wish for nothing Vile”].

70. Stendhal / Seager, Allan (Translator) / Barr, Roger (Illustrator).

Memoirs of a Tourist. Preface by Allan Seager.

Evanston, Northwester University Press, 1962. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XIII, 305 pages. With many illustrations. Original hardcover with protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Considerable underlining by preowner. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

71. McDonagh, Philip.

Memories of an Ionian Diplomat.

Delhi, Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2004. 22 cm x 14 cm. IX, 99 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. In protective mylar. Excellent, close to new condition. Association copy: Inscribed / Signed by the author Philip McDonagh to fellow irish poet, Adam Wyeth: “Adam, with best wishes, Philip McDonagh, 25th August, 2006”.

72. Morgan, Thais E.

Men Writing the Feminine. Literature, Theory, and the Question of Genders.

Albany, New York, State University of New York Press 1994. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 207 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

73. Eliot, T.S.

Milton. Annual Lecture on a Master Mind. Henriette Hertz Trust of the British Academy 1947.

Third Impression 1948. London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1948. 8°. 19 pages. Softcover / Original brochure. Spine with some minor splitting and minor tears to rear wrapper. Otherwise very good.

74. Stanhope, Earl Philip Henry.

Miscellanies. With some supplementary letters.

Second Edition. London, John Murray, 1863. 12 cm x 19 cm. 144 pages. Original Hardcover (full brown calf with gilt lettering to spine). Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

75. Joya, Mock.

Mock Joya’s Things Japanese.

Sixth Edition. Tokyo, Tokyo News Service Limited, 1971. 15.5 cm x 17.5 cm. XXI, 745 pages. Illustrated throughout with a few black-and-white vignettes. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

76. [Dufy, Raoul] Derys, Gaston.

Mon Docteur – Le Vin. Avec 19 Aquarelles de Raoul Dufy – Texte de Gaston Derys. [Préface du Maréchal Pétain] / Typographie de A. M. Cassandre.

Paris, Freres Draeger, 1936. Folio (26 cm wide x 32 cm high). 44 pages with 19 aquarelles. / 19 photolithographs of watercolors (18 in colors), plus 1 photolithograph of a drawing (wrappers). Original, illustrated Softcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

77. Smith, Charlotte.

Montalbert – A Novel.

First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1795. Small-Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). 270, 276 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

78. [Moore, John] / [Anonymous: “By the Author of Zeluco and Edward”].

Mordaunt. Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners, in Various Countries; Including the Memoirs of A French Lady of Quality. By the Author of Zeluco and Edward.

First Irish Edition. Three Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for W. Watson and Son, G. Burnet, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1800. Small-Octavo (10.5 cm x 17 cm). II, 239, 276, 283 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th/19th-century leather with original spinelabels. All three Volumes in protective Mylar. The labels and spoine slightly damaged only. All Volumes firm and in overall very good condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his bookplate to the pastedown of Volume I. Bindings a little shaky but still intact; stronger rubbed with loss to labels. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

79. Zola, Emile / Widmer, Walter [transl.].

Nana. Mit Illustrationen von Vertes.

Guetersloh, Bertelsmann Reinhard Mohn OHG, c 1996. 16 cm x 24 cm. 477 pages. Original Hardcover. With illustrated slipcase. Deutschsprachige Ausgabe / German Translation. Excellent condition, with only very minor signs of external wear.

80. Charry Lara, Fernando.

Nocturnos y Otros Sueños. Prólogo de Vicente Aleixandre. Ilustraciones de Fernando Botero.

Bogotá, El Áncora Editores, 1991. 33,5 cm x 25 cm. 125 pages. With colour illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed / signed by author.

81. [Bonnard, Pierre] Anet, Claude.

Notes Sur L’Amour. Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard and engraved by Yvonne Mailliez.

Exemplaire non numéroté sur Alfa bouffant. Paris, G. Crès & Cie, 1922. 26cm x 21.3cm. 74 pages. With beautiful, intimate illustrations. Hardcover / Modern half cloth with marbled-paper-covered-boards in slipcase. Bound with the original wrappers Excellent condition.

82. Heinlein, Robert.

Novel and Two Stories of the Future. Revolt in 2100.

London, Lowe and Brydone Ltd., 1964. 12.5 cm x 18 cm. 305 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition first UK edition with only very minor signs of external wear.

83. [Scott, Sir Walter].

Novels and Tales of The Author of Waverley (12 Volumes) / Novels and Romances of The Author of Waverley (7 Volumes) / Historical Romances of The Author of Waverley (6 Volumes).

The Third Edition. 25 Volumes (complete set). Edinburgh, Printed for Archibald Constable, 1822. Octavo (14 cm x 21,5 cm). c. 12000 pages including 25 Vignettes of Historical Illustration in steel-engravings on each titlepage by W. Archibald after Alexander Nasmyth. Hardcover . Original, very decorative half – leather with gilt lettering on spine and original spine-labels. All Volumes from the library of a “Robert Barker”, with his Exlibris. Minor signs of wear only. All Volumes with some slight foxing and very few with a faded dampstain but all Volumes also firm and in very good or even better condition with some minor signs of wear only. Excellent paper and typography. A wonderful reading experience of classics like Ivanhoe.

84. Porter, William Henry [Irish Surgeon (1790-1861)].

Observations on the Surgical Pathology and Treatment of Aneurism – Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on That Disease – Delivered in the School of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland During the Session, 1839-40. Part I [possibly all which was ever published because we could only establish Part I in Worldwide Libraries].

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by Joshua Porter, 72, Grafton-Street, no year (c.1840). Octavo (15 cm wide x 23.3 cm high). XV, 214 pages. Original Hardcover with rebacked spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Frome the library of irish cardiologist Eoin O’Brien.

85. Monro, Thomas [Editor] / [Bishop George Horne / Samuel Johnson].

Olla Podrida, A Periodical Paper, published at Oxford in the year 1787.

First Irish Edition. Dublin, Printed by P. Byrne (108) Grafton – Street, 1787. Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). 286 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with original spine-label. Binding with some stronger rubbing and minor loss to leather on spine. Still very firm and tight. Minor signs of a faded dampstain to a small part of the first 10 pages only. Otherwise very clean. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown and his name in ink to the title-page.

86. Lewis, Wyndham.

One-Way Song.

London, Faber and Faber, 1933. 15 cm x 23 cm. 132 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective mylar. Volume in very good condition. Multiple small tears and missing patches from edges and spine of dustjacket. Browning of volume cover and page-edges. Two inscriptions by pre-owners.

87. Pellico, Silvio.

Opere Complete. Con le Addizioni di P. Maroncelli.

Napoli, Franc. Rossi, 1848. 14.3 cm x 22 cm. XXI, 529 pages. Original Hardcover with marbled boards. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine shedding, rubbed and separated from book block. Corners rubbed. Heavy foxing to edges. Minor foxing to pastedowns, endpapers and to pages throughout. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

88. Rausch, Friedrich.

Original, trilingual handbook with loosely inserted plates, showing the phonetics (position and look of tongue, lips and teeth-positions during speaking certain words) Handausgabe von Rausch’s Lauttafeln [Inclusive dem englischen “th”] – 26 lithographische Tafeln mit Lautbezeichnungen der Association Phonetique Internationale nach Vietor’s Lauttafeln. Zusätzlich mit einer deutschen Lauttafel (System Vietor) welche nach Lippenlauten, Zahnlauten, Gaumenlauten und Kehllauten trennt.

2. Auflage der verkleinerten Ausgabe. Marburg, N.G.Elwert / Association Phonetique International, [1913]. Octavo. 26 Tafeln in Postkartengröße, lose in originaler Verlags-Flügelmappe. Softcover. Sehr guter Zustand dieser seltenen Ausgabe / Tafel 1 rückseitig mit Bibliotheksstempel. Alle Tafeln vorderseitig mit zusätzlicher (verkehrter) Numerierung in Buntstift. / Reduced edition (pocket edition) of Friedrich Rausch’s phonetic plates, illustrating the speech sounds, including one plate for the digraph “th”.

89. Nai’an, Shi / Guanzhong, Luo.

Outlaws of The Marsh. Translated by Sidney Shapiro.

Three Volumes (complete set). Bejing, Foreign Languages Press, 1980. 13.6 cm x 20.2 cm / 13.6 cm x 21.2 cm Volume I (Modern softcover): pages 1 – 597 / Volume II (Original 1980 Hardcover-Edition): pages 561 – 1133 of the overall set. Black and white illustrations / Vol III (Original 980 Hardcover-Edition): pages 1135 – 1605 of the overall set. Black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar and one Softcover – Volume. All three volumes in very good+ condition. A substituted set with Volume I being a later edition in paperback ! Only very minor foxing to dustjackets and edging of Volume II and III. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

90. Yeats, William Butler / [George [Georgie] Yeats / Mrs. Eva Hempel / Eduard Hempel].

Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. [Signed / Inscribed by George Yeats to Mrs. [Eva] Hempel, wife of german ambassador to Ireland during World War II].

No.8 / 200 copies, of the original limited edition. Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1944 [September 1944]. Octavo. 58 pages. Original Hardcover. Inscribed by George Yeats on the front free endpaper: “Mrs. Hempel from George Yeats, April 1944”. This has to be of course “April 1945”. The impossibility of signing/inscribing a book in April 1944 if it was only published in September 1944 is easily explained with the classic everyday-mistake of still writing the previous year in the first few months of the following year. A stunning association. The signature and inscription is a solid match to George Yeats’ autographs in her later hand and William Butler Yeats and George Yeats were frequent visitors to the Hempel’s in Dublin. In addition, the low number of the edition (8/200) suggests this being one of the reference copies given to George Yeats, who contributed heavily to the volume and even added an explanatory note (in print) verso the titlepage. This copy is near fine, bound in the publisher’s quarter buckram over yellow, paper-covered boards. The books pages remained unopened. Eva Hempel’s husband Eduard Hempel is one of the most controversial figures in modern Irish history, excoriated by some as ‘Hitler’s man’, defended by others such as the country’s first President, Eamon De Valera. Certainly, Hempel presented William Butler Yeats in 1938 with a copy of ‘Germany Speaks’ whose inscription described an ‘unforgettable afternoon’ spent together by Yeats and Hempel. Eduard Hempel and his wife were accepted socialites in the Dublin world of World War II, famously receiving a condolence call by de Valera upon the death of Hitler. Eduard Hempel and his wife Eva were granted asylum in Ireland after world war II and stayed way beyond the end of World War II.

91. Brecht, Bertolt / [Eric Bentley / Maja Bentley (Translators)].

Parables for the Theater, Two Plays. The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. English Versions by Eric and Maja Bentley.

First Edition. Minneapolis / London, University of Minnesota Press / Oxford University Press, 1948. 22.3 cm x 14.5 cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Good+ condition with signs of external wear. Rubbing to top and bottom of spine and to hardcover edges. Discoloration and foxing to enpapers and edges. Dustjacket in very poor condition. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

92. Milton, John.

Paradise Lost: Books I and II only.

London, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1898. 11 cm x 17 cm. Vol. I: 83 pages/ Vol. II: 93 pages. Original softcovers. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

93. Rumohr, Theodor.

Peter Tordenskjold.

Copenhagen, A. Christiansens Forlag, C.1885. 19.7 cm x 28.9 cm. 546 pages. With many black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Half eather and marble boards. With gilt lettering and decorative spine. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rubbing to edges and boards. With marble front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Deckled edges decorated in green. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator- Erik Haugaard.

94. Trollope, Anthony.

Phineas Redux.

2 volumes. London, Ward, Lock and Co., no date [c.1884]. 17.4cm x 11.8cm. IV, 595 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

95. [Beatles, The] Sansom, Clive A. / Marchbank, Pearce / Coke, Jane.

Pocket Beatles Complete. [Easy to Read Arrangements of 184 Beatles Songs, Including a Complete Discogrpahy of British Record Releases].

London, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Cologne, Wise Publications, 1979. 14 cm x 20 cm. 383 pages. Illustrated with eight black-and-white portrait photographs of The Beatles and one black-and-white group photograph (on inside front pastedown). Original Hardcover (yellow cloth with embossed black lettering on cover and spine). Designed by Peace Marchbank. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

96. Paz, Octavio.

Poemas (1935 – 1975) [Spanish Edition].

First edition / Primera edicion. Barcelona, Caracas, Mexico, Editorial Seix Barral , S.A, 1979. 13 cm x 20.5 cm. 719 pages. Illustrated with 16 black and white photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. There is a small library plate in the top right corner of the front free endpaper.

97. Craig, Maurice.

Poems – Selected and Edited by Andrew Carpenter. With an Introductory Essay by Lucy Collins.

Signed / Limited Edition No.4/50. Dublin, Liberties Press, 2011. Octavo. 73 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and a small paper-fault to endpaper/pastedown.

98. [Poems of Heine / The 19th century Emotion] – Heine, Heinrich.

Poems of Heinrich Heine. Selected and Translated, with an Introduction, by Louis Untermeyer and Illustrated by Fritz Kredel.

New York, The Heritage Press, 1957. Large Octavo. LII, 297 pages with Illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

99. [Morrison, John / Midleton / Castlemartyr] / [Prior, Matthew].

Poems on Several Occasions by the late Matthew Prior [Including “Memoirs of the Life of Mr.Prior” / Including: “Solomon on the Vanity of the World” / “An Ode Humbly Inscrib’d to the Queen, on the Glorious Success of her Majesty’s Arms, MDCCVI. Written in Imitation of Spenser’s Style” / “Alma, or the Progress of the Mind – In three Cantos” / “Downhall – A Ballad – To the Tune of King John and the Abbott of Canterbury” ].

First and Forurth Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, J.R.Tonson and S.Draper and H.Linto / C.Hitch at the Red Lyon and J. Hodges at the Looking-Glass, 1754. Small-Octavo (10,5 cm x 16,5 cm). Volume I [First Edition, printed by Tonson]: [11], 402, [3] pages with two title-pages/ Volume II: [Fourth Edition, printed by C. Hitch and J.Hodges], Frontispiece, LXXII, 356 pages with two full-page copper-engravings by van Gucht (plus engraved Frontispiece). Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. With the name “John Morrison” on the titlepage of both Volumes [possibly the 18th century – Architect John Morrison from Midleton, with a connection to Castlemartyr]. These books came subsequently from, the Library of Daniel Conner, Connerville / Bandon / Manch House in which also a set of Buffon, from the library of Richard Boyle Bernard, Dean of Leighlin and MP for Bandon Bridge was included.

100. Cabral de Vasconcelos, Paulino António.

Poesias de Paulino Cabral de Vasconcelos, Abade de Jazente.

Porto, Na Officina de Antonio Avvarez Ribeiro, 1786. Small-Octavo (10.5 cm x 15 cm). [4], 245 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full leather with new spinelabel. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Last four pages with minor evidence of a faded dampstain (only peripheral). Extremely rare publication. A second Volume was published one year later, in 1787, but the first Volume is complete in itself. Contemporary drawing and name (″Brodrick”) on rear pastedown.