281. Maclean, Kenneth.

England in the Eighteenth Century.

Toronto. The University of Toronto Press, 1942. 8°. 19 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Good condition. Some signs of external wear – corners bumped. Some lines marked in pencil in margins. Binding tight, no loose pages. “With best wishes, Kenneth Maclean” inside front wrapper.

282. Lupton, Hugh / Morden, Daniel.

The Adventures of Odysseus. Illustrated by Christina Balit.

Oxford, Barefoot Books Ltd., 2010. 14 x 21cm. 128 pages, with colour illustrations throughout. Original softcover with French flaps. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Handwritten dedication by author on title page.

283. Lobet, Marcel.

Le feu du ciel. Introduction a la litterature prometheene.

[Paris], La Renaissance du Livre, 1969. Octavo. 170 pages. Reliure originale / Broche. First edition of this study of what the author terms “promethean” literature, including Lautreamont, Artaud, Bataille, Klossowski, Leiris, and other dissident French writers. Preface by Pierre-Henri Simon. Inscribed by the author to Rene Jasinski, “A Monsieur Rene Jasinski, en hommage de haute estime, Marcel Lobet.” With author’s carte-de-visite laid in.

284. Lobet, Marcel.

La ceinture de feuillage. Essai sur la confession deguisee

[Paris], La Renaissance du Livre, 1966. Octavo. 212 pages. Reliure originale / Broche. First edition of this interesting study of the confessional genre in French literature, starting with Benjamin Constant and Chateaubriand, and moving through Valery Larbaud’s “Barnabooth.” Inscribed by the author to Madame Rene Jasinski, “A Madame Rene Jasinski, dont la curiosite intellectuelle retrouvera dans ces pages anciennes un Benjamin Constant ‘a fleur de peau’, avec mes fideles hommages, Marcel Lobet.”

285. Laws, J.A. / Peacock, H.L.

Political Parties – A comparative Survey on Communism, Conservatism, Fascism [The British Union of Fascists], I.L.P., Labour and Liberalism. [Signed and inscribed by author H.L.Peacock to his colleague and fellow historian L.M.Goldthorpe].

Cambridge, W.Heffer & Sons, [1937]. Octavo. 54 pages. Original Softcover. Very condition with only minor signs of external wear to upper and lower spine. Signed under the preface !

286. Larsson, Tage / Sjoegren, Karl Gustav Torsten.

A methodological, psychiatric and statistical study of a large Swedish rural population.

Copenhagen, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1954. Octavo. 250 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed / signed by Karl Gustaf Torsten Sjögren to fellow psychiatrist Erik Strömgren.

287. King, Laurie R.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women.

New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. VIII, 326 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New. Signed by the author on title page. [A Thomas Dunne Book / The Mary Russell Series (No.2 of 15)]

288. Kenner, Hugh.

The Mechanic Muse.

New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 136 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Near new. Some ephemera inside cover including a leaf from publisher noting this book as an advance copy (dated November 27, 1986).

289. Keating, Anthony.

The Ghost Orchard. Poems Lost and Found.

First Edition. Dublin, Swan Press, 2014. 15 x 23 cm. 51 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With a signed dedication by the author to John and Hilary Wakeman on the front free endpaper.

290. [John Minihan Collection] – Minihan, John.

John Minihan’s Cork. Foreword by William Trevor.

London, Robert Hale, 2004. Small-8°. 95 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition. SIGNED by John Minihan on the halftitle.