11. Booth, Philip.

Available Light.

First Edition. New York, The Viking Press, 1976. 15 x 22 cm. 83 pages. Original Hardcover in blue cloth with original dustjacket. Very good+ condition. Beautiful association copy with Booth’s dedication to Jane Cooper on the free front endpaper. With the author’s corrections on pages 24 and 65. Minimal signs of wear on the dustjacket only.

12. [Bridgman, Percy Williams] Alpert, Harry.

Operational Definitions in Sociology. [Inscribed by Harry Alpert: “To Professor P.W.Bridgman – Cordially, Harry Alpert”].

[New York], American Sociological Review, 1938. Octavo. 8 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Nobel Laureate, Percy Bridgman. [Reprinted from American Sociological Review – Volume III, No.6, December, 1938].

13. Cantwell, Kevin.

One of those Russian Novels.

First Edition. Los Angeles, What Books Press, 2009. 69 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With the author’s dedication to John and Hilary Wakeman on the title page.

14. [Cardiac catheterization / Nobel Price Lecture] – Forssmann, Dr. Werner.

Collection of important offprints, publications and correspondence (signed letters etc.) by Nobel Laureate Werner Forssmann, many of which are inscribed and signed by Forssmann to his colleague, irish cardiologist and clinical scientist, Eoin O’Brien. The collection includes: 1. A signed / inscribed version of Forssmann’s first offprint-edition of his Nobel-Lecture: “Die Rolle der Herzkatheterung und Angiocardiographie in der Entwicklung der Modernen Medizin” (pages 177 – 181, Stockholm, 1957, SIGNED and beautifully inscribed to O’Brien in July 1976) / 2. A signed, original Offprint: “The Evolution of Modern Cardiology” (11 pages, SIGNED Offprint from “Perspectives in Biology and Medicine – Vol.12, No.1, Autumn 1968) / 3. A Signed / Inscribed Offprint: “Die Sondierung des Rechten Herzens”, 1957-Reprint of the original 1929 – publication, (4 pages with portrait of Forssmann, published in “Therapeutische Berichte”, 29, 5, 1957) / 4. A Signed, original Offprint: “Euthanasie” (with minor tear), (7 pages, SIGNED, Offprint from Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung Heft 31, Seiten 1127-1133, 1975) / 5. Signed TLS (Typed Letter Signed by Forssmann to Eoin O’Brien, fellow cardiologist in Ireland). / 5. First english edition of Werner Forssmann – “Experiments on Myself – Memoirs of a Surgeon in Germany”, together with two TLS (Typed Letters Signed) by Translator Hilary Davies to Eoin O’Brien, who Peer-reviewed the book. Hilary Davies also included a press-release for the book and gave Eoin O’Brien access to Forssmann by alerting him to Forssmann’s address in Germany. Included are Eoin O’Brien’s typescripts of his correspondence with Forssmann.

Germany, 1956 – 1976. Octavo. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and inscribed items by Forssmann are of great rarity. The Nobel Lecture alone is very scarce and very rarely available signed.

15. [Collection Tomi Ungerer] – [Bonet, Jordi / Ungerer, Tomi] Folch-Ribas, Jacques.

“The Sign and The Earth / Le Signe et la Terre / El Signe i la Terra / El Signo Y la Tierra” – [Book with an “Original drawing of two Nudes” on the endpaper of the publication. Signed and inscribed by Jordi Bonet to Tomi Ungerer: “A Tomi – Jordi”].

First Edition. Montreal, Editions du Centre de Psychologgie et de Pedagogie, 1964. Quarto (21.7 cm x 22 cm high). Hardcover / Original Publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely Rare Nude Drawing dedicated by Jordi Bonet to Illustrator Tomi Ungerer during their time living in Newfoundland.

16. Crymble, Phillip.

Wide Boy.

First Edition. Belfast, Lapwing Publications, 2007. 14 x 20,5 cm. 39 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Association copy with a signed dedication by the author to fellow poet Adam Wyeth on the title page.

17. [Dawson, Miles Menander / Meynell, Alice] Rittenhouse, Jessie B.

The Little Book of American Poets 1787-1900 [Association copy: Inscribed by american Poet and Philosopher Miles Menander Dawson and his wife to english Poet Alice Meynell: “To Mrs. Alice Meynell with the best regards of her friends Mr. + Mrs. Miles M. Dawson”].

First Edition. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. Small Octavo. XX, 306 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare and beautiful association between these two Poets.

18. [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”.

19. Derrida, Jacques.

Du Droit á la philosophie. [Envoi autographe signé de Jacques Derrida].

Paris, Galilée, 1990. Large Octavo. 658 pages. Original Softcover / Broché in Mylar. Envoi autographe signé de Jacques Derrida. / Excellent condition. Inscribed, signed and dated on the half-title by Jacques Derrida to his friend André in New York.

20. Droit, Roger-Pol,

L’oubli de l’inde. Une amnesie philosophique.

First Edition. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1989. 14 x 20 cm. 262 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Association copy with the author’s dedication to Parkes on the half title. With Parkes’ markings in the text.