1641. Starr, Meredith / [Roland Meredith Starr] / [Meher Baba].

The Way of Escape.

First Edition / Original Edition. Cambridge, Published by the National Poetry Circle, [1931]. Small Octavo (12.7 cm x 18.8 cm). 15 pages. Original Softcover, stapled with cover-illustration by Meredith Starr, monogrammed in the plate “M.S. 1931”. The booklet rests loosely inside the original softcover wrappers. The staples a little rusty. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. This pamphlet is of extreme scarcity ! The last two pages of the publication are basically an advertising for the retreat center which Meredith Starr established in 1931 at East Challacombe, North Devon (a couple of miles from Combe Martin), to where he invited Meher Baba in order to come and meet westerners. In his preface, [Roland] Meredith Starr writes: “The Way of Escape” is a symbolic poem that deicts some of the complexes of modern life, particularly those responsible for the cleavage between thought and reality ! The ways of Escape, the path leading to the North, represents the attainment of synthesis (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual maturity) in a world disintegrated by analysis. Neither realism nor idealism can satisfy the needs of the present age. Both are necessary and both must be integrated in a Higher Consciousness. In this connection the remarks of Jung in “Psychological Types” concerning the symbol will repay serious investigation. A symbol is composed of elements that are both real and unreal, and hence can bridge the gulf between and illusion. In the poem this Higher Consciousness is indicated by the description of Alaska and by the utterances of Christ – not the Christ of dogmatic religion, but the living Christ of universal love and wisdom immanent in every human heart and personified by the great religious teachers of Mankind – Combe Martin, Meredith Starr”.

1642. Treatt, C. Court.

Out of the Beaten Track – A Narrative of Travel in Little Known Africa. With 46 Illustrations.

London, Hutchinson & Co, no year (c.1931). 16 cm x 22.5 cm. 288 pages. 37 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Scoff marks to front board. Rubbing to head and heel of spine. Some foxing to interior but otherwise clean and bright. Binding and book-block firm and strong. Preowner’s name on both pastedowns.

1643. [Lawrence, D.H.] Murry, John Middleton.

Son of Woman: The Story of D. H. Lawrence.

First Edition. London / Toronto, Jonathan Cape, 1931. 20.5cm x 14cm. 397 pages. Original Hardcover with protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowners on endpaper and pastedown.

1644. [Walter Benjamin Collection] – Soldan, George / [Part of Walter Benjamin Collection].

Zeitgeschichte in Wort und Bild – [The Weimar Republic and Rise of Hitler in Historical Photographs].

3 Bände (vollständig). München, National-Archiv, 1931-1934. Gr.-8°. 512, 518, 599 Seiten. Hardcover / Dekorative Originalleinenbände. Alle Bände in firmer Bindung. Rücken des 2.Bandes etwas stärker berieben. Sonst nahezu neuwertig / Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price includes international shipping per courier !

1645. [New York] Hall, Edward Hagaman.

A Guide to the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the City of New York.

Tenth Edition. New York, The Laymen Club of the Cathedral, 1931. 12 x 17 cm. 142 pages with 42 illustrations. Frontispiece photograph of North Elevation of the Cathedral. Original softcover with illustrated front cover. Binding a little shaky with some pages loosened / Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by preowner on front endpaper.

1646. Rilke, Rainer Maria / Pickman, Hester.

Rainer Maria Rilke – An Essay by Hester Pickman [A two-volume biographical study, contained in two issues of ‘Hound & Horn’].

2 Volumes (complete set). Concord (New Hampshire), Hound & Horn, 1931. Octavo. The essay on Rilke has 85 pages and includes the reproduction of a photograph of Rilke from 1906. The two Volumes of Hound & Horn have overall 328 pages (131, 197). Contemporary Hardcover / Quarter blue crushed morocco with marbled boards. Top edge gilt, gilt lettering and ornament on both spines. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. An unusual but wonderful collector’s edition. Uncommon.

1647. [Poland Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Birecki, Tadeusz / Cizancourt, Henry De / Dzulynski, Stanislaw / Radomski, Andrzej / Smith, Alec J. / Kinle, J. / Tokarski, Adam / Sokolowski, J.

Collection of ten (10) important publications on the Geology of Poland from the William Daniel Gill Collection. The collection includes the following publications (all first editions): 1. J.Sokolowski and A.Tokarski – “The Present State of Oil and Gas Geological Prospection in Poland” (1969) (together with a large colourful Tectonic Map of Poland: “Mapa Tektoniczna Polski” (Map is from 1974)) / 2. Adam Tokarski – “O stratygrafii salinarnego retu monokliny przedsudeckiej” (1965) / 3. Stanislaw Dzulynski – “O Zagadkowych Hieroglifach Na Gornych Powierzchniach Piaskowcow Beloweskich” [Translates: “Problematic hieroglyphs of probable organic origin from the Beloveza beds (Western Carpathians)] (1957) / 4. Stanislaw Dzulynski and Andrzej Radomski – “Pochodzenie sladow wleczenia na tle teorii pradow zawiesinowych” (1955) / 5. Stanislaw Dzulynski and Alec J.Smyth – “Flysch Facies” (english) – Inscribed and signed by Smith (1964) / 6. Stanislaw Dzulynski and Andrzej Radomski – “Zagadnienie Zyl Klastycznych w Osadach Fliszowych Na Tle Sedymetacji Fliszu Karpackiego” (Translates: “Clastik dikes in the Carpathian Flysch” / with an english section in the publication) (1957) / 7. Henry de Cizancourt – “Geology of Oil Fields of Polish Carpathian Mountains” (1931) / 8. Tadeusz Birecki – “Budowa Geologiczna Synkliny Bobowej” (1964) / 9. Julian Sokolowski – “Rola Halokinezy W Rozwoju Osadow Mezozoicznych I Kenozoicznych Struktury Mogilna I Synklinorium Mogilensko-Lodzkiego” [Translates: “The Role of Halokinesis in the Development of Mesozoic And Cainozoic Deposits of the Mogilno Structure and of the Mogilno-Lodz Synclinorum” – with 16 figures and 2 plates] (1966) / 10. Adam Tokarski – Udzial wapienia muszlowego w budowie Przedgorza Karpat (1965) /

1931 – 1969. Octavo and Quarto. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Many publications inscribed and signed.

1648. [Wolff, Christian] Joesten, Clara (aus Köln).

Über Christian Wolff’s Grundlegung der praktischen Philosophie. I.Teil.

Naumburg, Lippert, 1931. 8°. 34 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Titelbroschur. Minimale Gebrauchsspuren.

1649. [Earl of Southesk, Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th] [Provenance: Adam Smith, Lady [Janet] and subsequently the Alpine Club London] / Carnegie, V.M.

A Kenyan Farm Diary – With Illustrations. [From the library of eminent scottish Writer, Mountaineer and Literary Critic, Janet Adam Smith and subsequently the Alpine Club in London for which Janet Adam Smith was Vice-President during the years 1978-1980 and to which she possibly had donated this book (our company has purchased a large stock of fantastic books and periodicals from the famous Alpine Club through Forum Auctions several years ago)].

Second Impression. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1931. Octavo. Frontispiece, XII, 271 pages. With seven photographic illustrations on four plates. Original Hardcover with the very rare original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and foxing to the edges and several pages. This book is very rare in its original dustjacket. Inscribed and signed by Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk (1854-1941): “To Lady Adam Smith from the Earl of Southesk – Jan 1934”. With a newspaper-clipping on an event of Inverness Central School loosely inserted and with a newspaper-clipping shopwing the elderly “Earl of Southesk and Mr. Donald Steuart-Fothringham going out to shoot over Petterden Moor, Angus”. A wonderful association copy !

1650. Chambers, Sir Edmund.

Matthew Arnold.

First Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1932. 8°. 25 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition. Signs of wear – wrappers chipped and bumped. Some underlining and pencil markings within. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XVIII.]