7771. Hartz, Louis.

Three offprints: 1. The Reactionary Enlightenment: Southern Political Thought before the Civil War (1952) / 2. The Whig Tradition in America and Europe (1952) / 3. American Political Thought and the American Revolution (1952) //

Utah, University of Utah, / The American Political Science Review, 1952. 8°. 21, 20, 13 pages. Softcover. Three offprints in very good condition.

7772. Metcalf, Paul C.

Three Plays. An American Chronicle, The Confidence Man, The Players.

Rocky Mount, NC, North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, c1993. 23cm. 138 pages. Original softcover in protective covering. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by Paul Metcalf on the titlepage.

7773. [Levin, Harry] Barzun, Jacques.

Three Talks by Jacques Barzun at Northern Kentucky University. [What are the Cracks in our Civilization ? / Language and Life: On the Necessity of a Common Tongue / This Business of Humanities]

Heighland Hights, Northern Kentucky University, 1980. 8°. 58 pages. Softcover. With a 9-line handwritten complimentary note by Jacques Barzun to Harry Levin.

7774. Lorca, Federico Garcia / O’Connell, Richard L. (translator) / Graham-Lujan, James (translator).

Three Tragedies of Federico Garcia Lorca: Blood Wedding – Yerma – Bernarda Alba.

New York, New Directions, 1947. 14 cm x 21 cm. 378 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

7775. O’Casey, Sean.

Three Volumes of Sean O’Casey’s famous Autobiography: I. I Knock at the Door – Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me (Rare Second Edition, Printed in the year of the First Edition, 1939) / III. Drums under the Windows (First Edition 1945) / VI. Sunset and Evening Star (First Edition, 1954).

Three Volumes (of Six). London, MacMillan & Co., 1939 – 1954. Octavo (15 cm x 22 cm). Volume I (″I Knock at the Door”): includes a fine Frontispiece-Photograph of “Mrs.Susan Casside in a Gala Dress”, VII, 268, [3] pages / Volume III (″Drums under My Window”): includes a Frontispiece-Photograph of “The Rev.E.M.Griffin”, 339, [2] pages / Volume VI (″Sunset and Evening Star”: includes a very fine Frontispiece-Photograph of “The O’Casey’s” [Niall O’Casey, Breon O’Casey, Sean O’Casey, Shivawn [Shivaun] O’Casey, Eileen O’Casey], VII, 311, [1] pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjackets. All three Volumes in their original state with the original dustjackets frayed but still very good. Volume I and III with two excellent Bookplates / Giftnote to dustjacket of Volume I; Giftnote to endpaper of Volume VI. Exlibris to pastedown “The Vernons” with artwork from artist H. Cutler” .

7776. Calder, Alexander.

Three Young Rats And Other Rhymes – Drawings by Alexander Calder. Edited with Introduction by James Johnson Sweeney.

One of 3000 copies of the second edition (MOMA 1946). New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 31.5 cm high). XVIII, (1), 130, (4) pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The jacket frayed and with larger pieces missing and now protected in Mylar. The volume itself in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of preowner N.E. Norton in pencil on endpaper.

7777. Calder, Alexander.

Three Young Rats And Other Rhymes – Drawings by Alexander Calder. Edited with Introduction by James Johnson Sweeney.

One of 3000 copies of the second edition (MOMA 1946). New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 31.5 cm high). XVIII, (1), 130, (4) pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The jacket slightly frayed but now protected in Mylar. Overall the volume in a very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7778. Pastene, Jerome.

Three-Quarter Time: The Life and Music of the Strauss Family of Vienna.

First Edition. New York, Abelard Press, 1951. Octavo. 307 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only some stronger signs of external wear. Jerome Pastene’s personal copy with his name to the endpaper, and with some corrections in ballpen and annotations in pencil.

7779. [Crawford, Mabel] Anonymous.

Through Algeria.

London, Richard Bentley, 1863. 12 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 362 pages. The frontispiece is a colour-lithograph of El Kantara. Attractive hardcover [publisher’s original purple cloth] with gilt lettering and ornamental design on spine. Gilt lettering and richly decorative tooling on front board. Blind tooling on back board also. Pebbled boards. All edges gilt. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cloth frayed at spine head and tail. Slight cracking to gutter between front pastedown and endpaper. Binding still very good and firm. Some foxing to endpapers. Interior very clean and bright. Some untrimmed pages. Handwritten message on front endpaper reads “A Prize gained by Louisea Mells for Progress in her French studies, Xmas. 1869. Magdalen House.” An extremely rare, rather scarce, early publication by an Irish Woman Traveller in Africa who also lived and helped through the Irish Famine and was not only an early Feminist but also one of the first members of the Suffragette Movement.

7780. Roome, Wm. J.W.

Through Central Africa for the Bible. [Inscribed – Signed / Including a map showing the Journeys of William J.W.Roome].

London and Edinburgh, Marshall, Morgan & Scott Ltd, [1929]. 14 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, 208 pages. 10 plates with black and white photographs. Map in front of Frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine slightly faded. Occasional foxing. Interior bright and clean with sharp corners. Binding is solid and square. Front endpaper carries signed inscription from author, “To my friend, W. H. Rowdon – With the Author’s good wishes, Wm. J.W. Roome, Feb. 5. 36.”