Achmatowa, Anna.

Ich lebe aus dem Mond, du aus der Sonne – Liebes-Gedichte / Hundert Gedichte über die Liebe. Aus dem Russischen von Alexander Nitzberg Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Olaf Irlenkauser.

Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000. 12.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 118 pages. Cover image – drawing by Amedeo Modigliani. Image on back flap – photograph of Anna Akmatova in 1910. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Adams, Ansel] Szarkowski, John.

Ansel Adams at 100. Foreword by Sandra S. Phillips.

Boston, New York, London, Little, Brown and Company in Association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001. 27.5 cm x 24.5 cm. 200 pages with 114 tritone and 23 duotone photographs. Softcover. Designed by J. Abbott Miller and Jeremy Hoffman, Pentagram. Cover photograph; ‘Grass and Water, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, ca. 1935’ Ansel Adams. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Adams, Scott.

The Dilbert Future – Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century.

First Edition. New York, Harper Collins, 1997. 16 cm x 21.5 cm. X, 258 pages. Several black and white cartoons throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Africa].

Collection of Thirty-Four (34) publications regarding Africa in the Tumultuous Twentieth Century – firsthand accounts of a continent embroiled by decolonisation and Cold-War geo-politics. 1.Charles Allen (editor), Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century / 2. William Boyd, Lynda Schuster, Mark Doyle and others, Africa / 3. Miles Bredin, Blood on the Tracks: A Rail Journey from Angola to Mozmabique / 4. Andrew Buckoke, Fishing in Africa: A Guide to War and Corruption / 5. Alex Garland, W.F. Deedes and others, The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa / 6. Geoffrey Gorer, Africa Dances / 7. Peter Godwin, Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa / 8. Peter Godwin and Ian Hancock, Rhodesians Never Die: The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia, c.1970-1980 / 9. Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda / 10. Blaine Harden, Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent / 11. Jeremy Harding, Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa’s Disputed Nations / 12. Aidan Hartley, The Zanzibar Chest / 13. Dan Jacobson, The Electronic Elephant: A Southern African Journey / 14. David Lamb, The Africans / 15. David Lamb, The Africans / 16. Patrick Marnham, Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa / 17. Pater Marshall, Around Africa: From the Pillars of Hercules to the Strait of Gibraltar / 18. Judith Matloff, Fragments of a Forgotten War / 19. Paul Moorcraft, Guns & Poses: Travels with an Occasional War Correspondent / 20. Chris Munnion, Banana Sunday: Datelines from Africa / 21. Redmond O’Hanlon, Congo Journey / 22. Roland Oliver, In the Realms of Gold: Pioneering in African History / 23. Don Peterson, Revolution in Zanzibar: An American’s Cold War Tale / 24 David Read, Beating about the Bush: Tales from Tanganyika / 25. Keith B. Richburg, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa / 26. Alec Russell, Big Men, Little People: Encounters in Africa / 27. Alex Shoumatoff, African Madness / 28. Stephen Taylor, Livingstone’s Tribe: A Journey from Zanzibar to the Cape / 29. Laurens Van Der Post, The Heart of the Hunter: A Journey into the Mind and the Spirit of the Bushmen / 30. Per Wästberg, Assignments in Africa / 31. Lyall Watson, Lightning Bird: One Man’s Journey into Africa / 32. Michela Wong, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz.

32 volumes. London / Johannesburg / New York / and others, Hamish Hamilton / Johnathan Ball Publishing / Penguin / Random House / and others, 1982 – 2004. 12.7 cm x 19.7 cm to 15.8 cm x 24 cm. circa.10,400 pages. Numerous plates and illustrations throughout volumes. 2 original hardcover with dustjackets and 30 original softcovers with illustrated boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor tanning to otherwise clean and bright interiors.

Anrick, Carl-Julius (editor) / Anrick Calla (editor)

Svenska Turistföreningens Tidning.

8 volumes. Stockholm, Carl-Julius Anrick, 1933 – 1958 21.5 cm x 29 cm. Circa. 4367 pages. Vol.1933-34, 379 pages / Vol.1935-36, 410 pages / Vol.1937-38, 446 pages / Vol.1939, 255 pages / Vol.1940-45, 1183 pages / Vol.1946-50, 955 pages / Vol.1951-54, 764 pages / Vol. 1955-58, 764 pages. Hardcover. 7 volumes with green cloth with gilt lettering on title label on spine. One volume with brown cloth and gilt lettering on spine. Gilt roundel of the Alpine Club on all spines. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some tanning to otherwise clean and bright interior. All binding good and firm and square.

Armando.

Armando – Die Berliner Jahre. Mit Einem Essay von Günther Gercken.

Den Haag, SDU Publishers, 1989. 24.5 cm x 28.5 cm. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Barron, Stephanie / Dube, Wolf-Dieter / Dückers, Alexander / and others.

German Expressionist Prints and Drawings. The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies.

One. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Prestel, 1989. 26.5 cm x 31.5 cm. XVI, 211 pages. Richly illustrated throughout. Hardcover – publisher’s original black cloth with lettering on spine. Large blind-tooled reproduction of Conrad Felixmüller’s ‘Selbstbildnis mit Frau’ on front board. The beautifully illustrated dustjacket illustrated with same reproduction in protective collector’s Mylar. Near fine condition.

[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.

Beckett, Samuel.

Die Welt und die Hose. Aus dem französischen von Erika Tophoven-Schoningh.

Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1990. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. 44 pages. Illustrated with one full colour reproduction of an untitled oil painting dated 1937 by Bram van Velde (Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre George Pompidou, Paris). Softcover with stitched binding. Bindung und Schnitt nur ganz minimal fleckig / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, with minor staining on back cover.

[Beckett, Samuel] Dreysse, Ursula.

Materialien zu Samuel Becketts ‘Warten auf Godot’. [German Edition] Zusammengestellt und ubersetzt von Ursula Dreysse.

Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1973. 11 cm x 17.5 cm. 169 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Beerbohm, Max.

Yet Again.

Melbourne, London, Ontario, William Heinemann Ltd, 1951. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 334 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with a small tear on dustjacket.

Bellow, Saul.

The Adventures of Augie March.

First British Book Edition. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. 536 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very slight discolouring of edges and pages. Two inscriptions on endpaper dated 1954 and 1976.

Boyd, William.

An Ice-Cream War.

London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1982. 14 cm x 22 cm. 370 pages. One black and white map. Original Hardcover with illustrated, unclipped dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by author William Boyd on the titlepage.

Brom, John L.

Twenty Thousand Miles In the African Jungle.

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1958. 14 cm x 22 cm. 224 pages. 41 black and white photographs by J. L. Brom and S. Skulina. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing to edges. Interior bright and clean. Preowner details on front endpaper.

Browne, Major G. St. J. Orde.

The Vanishing Tribes of Kenya – A Description of the Manners & Customs of the Primitive & Interesting Tribes Dwelling on the Vast Southern Slopes of Mount Kenya & Their Fast Disappearing Native Methods of Life. With Many Illustrations & 2 Maps.

London, Seeley, Service & Co., 1925. 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 284 pages. 27 monochrome photographs on 17 plates including frontispiece. Fold-out map at rear showing “The Vanishing Tribes of Kenya.” Hardcover [publisher’s original amber cloth] with lettering on spine. Embossment to front board. Excellent, bright condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discreet bookseller’s label on front pastedown. Minor foxing to edges. Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered.

Buñuel, Luis / Dali, Salvador / Vigo, Jean (Foreword).

Un Chien Andalou. Transcription and Introduction by Phillip Drummond.

London / Boston, Faber and Faber, 1994. 13 cm x 21.5 cm. XXVI, 38 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout the book. Original illustrated softcover slipcase with VHS Tape and book. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to box, book and VHS Tape. From the private library of irish photographer John Minihan.

Chittister, Joan.

The Fire in These Ashes – A Spirituality of Contemporary Religious Life.

Herefordshire, Gracewing, 1996. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XI, 178 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Clarke, Austin / Le Brocquy, Louis (Illustrator).

Poetry in Modern Ireland.

Second Edition. Dublin, Colm O Lochlainn, 1961. 12 cm x 18.5 cm. 77 pages. 6 Sketches by Louis Le Brocquy. Origina, illustrated Softcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookblock intact but cover cleanly detached. Minor discoloration to endpapers only. Pages 45 to 48 untrimmed. [Irish Life and Culture Series for the Cultural Relations Commitee of Ireland (No.2)]

[Conrad, Joseph], Jean-Aubry, G.

Joseph Conrad. Life & Letters.

Two Volumes. London, William Heinemann, Ltd., 1927. 16.5 cm x 25 cm. (VII) 339 pages, (V) 376 pages. Black-and-white illustrations: Volume I – 11, Volume II – 5. Original Hardcover (Dark blue cloth – title in embossed gilt on front and spine). Former library-copy in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Library stamp on frontispiece of Volume I and facing half-title page Volume II. Very slight foxing of pages. One or two faint pencil marks.

Corbett, Jim.

My India.

Delhi / Bombay / a.o., Oxford University Press, 1989. 14 cm x 21 cm. 190 pages. One black and white map. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Creasey, John.

Inspector West at Bay. Unabridged.

3rd Printing. London, Pan Books Ltd., 1962. 11 cm x 17.5 cm. 185 pages. Original Softcover. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages tanned. Previous owner’s name in ink pen to half title page.

Culler, Jonathan.

The Pursuit of Signs – Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction.

New York, Cornell University Press, 1981. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XIII, 242 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Dorfles, Gillo.

Gute Industrieform und ihre Ästhetik. [Industrial Form and its Aesthetics]

Munchen. Verlag Moderne Industrie. 1964. 24 cm x 28 cm. 104 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar / Leinen mit illustriertem Schutzumschlag in Mylar (lose Schutzfolie). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Two small tears in dustjacket. / Der Schutzumschlag etwas angeraendert.

[Dou, Gerard] Martin, W.

Gerard Dou. Translated from the Dutch by Clara Bell.

London, George Bell and Sons, 1902. 13 cm x 20 cm. XII, 152 pages. Several black and white plates throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Endpapers and pastedowns markedly discoloured with signs of an old dampstain and some tanning of first and last few pages. A little colour staining between cover and endpaper. Internal pages and plates in good condition. Some foxing throughout. Rare. [Bell’s Handbooks of the Great Masters in Painting & Sculpture. Edited by G.C. Williamson, Litt.D.]

[Dunn, Douglas / Gunn, Thom / Heaney, Seamus / Hill, Geoffrey / Kinsella, Thomas / Larkin, Philip / Muldoon, Paul / Murphy, Richard / Paulin, Tom / Raine Graig / Haffenden, John.

Viewpoints – Poets in Conversation with John Haffenden. Douglas Dunn, Thom, Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Thomas Kinsella, Philip Larkin, Paul Muldoon, Richard Murphy, Tom Paulin, Craig Raine.

First edition. London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1981. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 189 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Durkheim, Emile.

L’Éducation Morale. Bibliotèque de Philosophie Contemporaine. Fondée par Félix Alcan. Avertissement de Paul Fauconnet.

Nouvelle Édition. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1963. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 242 pages. Reliure originale (Broche) / Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cut pages.

[Eliot, T.S.] Jones, Genesius.

Approach to the Purpose – A Study of the Poetry of T.S. Eliot.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. 15 cm x 22 cm. 351 pages. Original Hardcover (green cloth with embossed gilt lettering on spine). Vormer library copy in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some marking and entries to front free endpaper and marked over stamp on titlepage.

[English History Collection] – Wakefield, Alan.

Christmas in the Trenches.

Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing Limited, 2006. 17.5 cm x 25 cm. XI, 211 pages. Several black and white photgraphs and other illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As new condition.

Fletcher, John Gould.

Goblins and Pagodas.

Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. XXIV, 98 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Good condition with signs of external wear and fraying. Pages slightly discoloured throughout and more notably on endpapers and pastedowns. Water staining evident throughout also. Inscription in black ink pen on endpaper dated 1918. [The New Poetry Series (No.10 of 12)]

[Forster, E.M.] Armstrong, Paul B.

E.M. Forster Howard’s End ‘Only Connect’. Authoritative Text, Textual Appendix, Backgrounds and Context Edited by Paul B. Armstrong.

New York, London, W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. 13 cm x 21 cm. XIII, 473 pages. Cover photograph – Forster at age six on a pony with his mother in front of Rooksnest. Author portrait – Forster in 1938 by Howard Coster. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Foster, R.F.

Words Alone – Yeats and His Inheritances.

Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 2011. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. XIX, 236 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New.

Frame, Janet.

The Carpathians.

London, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 1988. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 196 pages. Dustjacket designed by AB3 Design with an illustration by Dulce Tobin. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Frost, Robert.

The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. With a Foreword and Postscript by Louis Untermeyer.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1964. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 388 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Design and typography by Ernst Reichl. Besides some very minor staining to the edge in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscription of previous owner to front-free endpaper.

Gandert, Gero.

Der Film der Weimarer Republik – 1929. Ein Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Kritik (Deutsch / German).[Film in the Weimar Republic] Im Auftrag der Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek herausgegeben von Gero Gandert.

Berlin, New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1993. 20 cm x 27 cm. XXVII, 916 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in slipcase. Dustjacket photograph – Louise Brooks in ‘Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen’. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Garton, Robin.

British Printmakers – 1855-1955. A Century of Printmaking from the Etching Revival to St Ives.

Special Collector’s Edition / Limited to 25 copies with Suite/3 prints. Devizes, Garton & Co, 1992. 26 cm x 32.5 cm. 326 pages. 585 illustrations. Hardcover / Publisher’s original quarter-leather with green buckram boards and raised bands. Gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. With original green-cloth slipcase. Including the additional folio-suite of 3 prints: 1. ‘Nude with Pillow’ woodcut by John Nash / 2. ‘Abstract Flower Design’ by Enid Marx / 3. ‘Old Tree’ by Reynolds Stone. Near fine condition. Very rare edition of a stunning volume, excellently presented.

Gernhardt, Robert.

Lichte Gedichte.

Zurich, Haffmans Verlag, 1997. 12.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 264 Seiten. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Front dustjacket illustration by Robert Gernhardt / Originaler Pappband mit illustriertem Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains two small pieces of ephemera from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Giles, Ronald “Carl”.

Giles – Sunday Express & Daily Express Cartoons. Fourth Series. An Express Book Publication.

London, Express Newspapers plc., 1987. 25.5 cm x 19 cm. 164 pages (unpaginated). Black and white cartoon to every page. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Golding, William] Carey, John.

William Golding, The Man and his Books, A Tribute on his 75th Birthday.

London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1986. 14 cm x 22.5 cm 191 pages. Dustjacket with a photograph by Phil Sayer and eight further photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with a short inscription and date in ink by the previous owner on the front free endpaper.

Goldman, Judith.

American Prints: Process & Proofs. [Chuck Close / Jim Dine / Helen Frankenthaler/ Jasper Johns / Frank Stella / Robert Motherwell / James Rosenquist etc.]

First edition. New York, Icon Editions, Harper & Row, Publishers – Whitney Museum of American Art, 1981. 20 cm x 25 cm. 176 pages. 144 illustrations, 43 in full colour. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Designer Marcus Ratliff. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and one small tear on front dustjacket.

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.

Herbert, A. S.

Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible, 1525-1961. Revised and Expanded By A.S. Herbert.

London / New York, The British and Foreign Bible Society / The American Bible Society, 1968. 19.2 cm x 25.4 cm. XXXI, 549 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Gilt decoration and title on spine. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges. Small tear to mylar. Otherwise clean and bright. Contains Errata – leaf / ‘Errata to Historical Catalogue’.

Heyerdahl, Thor.

Aku-Aku – The Secret of Easter Island.

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1958. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 367 pages. Several colour photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with debossed Easter Island head on cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor smudging to endpaper and pastedown only. Red painted top edge.

Hughes, Gerard W.

In Search of a Way – Two Journeys of Discovery.

Rome / Sydney, E.J. Dwyer Publishers, 1978. 12 cm x 20 cm. 232 pages. Several black and white maps throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some annotations in highlighter pen.

Humphreys, Emyr.

Unconditional Surrender.

First Edition. Bridgend, Wales, Seren, Poetry Press Wales Ltd, 1996. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 156 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Irving, John.

Last Night in Twisted River.

New York, Random House, 2009. 17 cm x 24 cm. 554 pages. Jacket design by Gabrielle Bordwin with a jacket image by Everett Irving. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

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 dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Joyce, James] Gorman, Herbert.

James Joyce – Leben und Werk. Mit einem Nachtrag von Carola Giedion-Welcker.

Hamburg, Claasen Verlag, 1957. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 375 Seiten. Original Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren am Umschlag.

[Kafka, Franz] Kremer, Detlef.

Kafka – Die Erotik des Schreibens.

Bodhenheim b. Mainz, Philo Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1998. 12.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 183 Seiten. Softcover. Sehr guter Zustand.

Kearton, Richard.

Wild Life at Home – How to Study and Photograph It. Author of “With Nature and a Camera”, “British Birds’ Nests”, etc. etc. Fully Illustrated by Photographs Taken Direct From Nature by C. Kearton.

London / Paris / a.o., Cassell and Company, Limited, 1899. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece (Male bearded Tit feeding its young), XV, 188 pages. Several black and white photgraphs throughout. Hardcover / Stunning early 20th century masterbinding with ornament borders and gilt ornamented spine. Matching marbeled Endpapers and edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear (abrasion to an area on the rear board). Very minor blemish to margin of pages VI to XV. Internal pages clean and bright. Private giftinscription on endpaper (Harry from Podsy, Xmas 1902). Bookplate of J.Henry H.V. Lane on pastedown.

Keener, Frederick M.

English Dialogues of the Dead – A Critical History, An Anthology, and A Check List.

New York / London, Columbia University Press, 1973. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 302 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to dust jacket mainly.

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).

Kramer, Jürgen.

British Cultural Studies.

Munchen, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1997. 17 cm x 24 cm. 255 pages. Illustrated thoughout with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with one minor inscription by previous owner on inside front cover.

Le Breton, F.H.

Up-Country Swahili Exercises – For the Soldier, Settler, Miner, Mercahnt, and Their Wives. And for All Who Deak With UP-Country Natives Without Interpreters.

Thirteenth Edition. Richmond, R.W. Simpson and Co., (1956). 12 cm x 17.5 cm. 96 pages. Softcover/ publisher’s original. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Upper corner of front board bumped. Name of preowner on pastedown.

Lily Tuck.

Interviewing Matisse or The Woman Who Died Standing Up.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1991. 15 cm x 22 cm. 148 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and deckled edges. Jacket Design by Chip Kidd. Author photograph by Bill Hayward. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Mann, Klaus.

Der Wendepunkt – Ein Lebensbericht.

München, Edition Spangenberg, 1976. 11.5 cm x 19 cm. 596 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Mann, Thomas / Lowe-Porter, H.T. (Translator)

The Magic Mountain.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1946. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. IX, 716 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spotting on first and last few pages, endpapers and pastedowns only. Two small notes made in pencil on endpaper.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Toward a Psychology of Being. An Insight Book Under the General Editorship of David C. McClelland.

New York / Cincinnati / a.o., D. Van Nostrand Company, 1968. 12 cm x 19 cm. XVI, 240 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Good+ condition with signs of external wear and tear. Pages discoloured. Foxing mostly to endpapers and covers. Several annotations in ink pen throughout.

[McAfee, Mildred Helen] de la Mare, Walter.

Ding Dong Bell.

London, Selwyn & Blount Ltd., 1924. 13 cm x 19 cm. IX, 76 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and fully signed by de La Mare to American academic Mildred Helen McAfee Horton on front free endpaper: “Helen McAfee with all good wishes from Walter de la Mare – June 1924”.

McPhee, John.

The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 184 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Red painted top edge.

Mills, C. Wright.

The New Men in Power – America’s Labor Leaders. With the assistance of Helen Schneider.

First Edition. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 323 pages. Several tables throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with obvious signs of external wear to the dust jacket and minor wear to the cover. Pages only slighty discoloured. Name in ink pen on endpaper. Annotations in pencil throughout.

Morrow, Bradford (Editor) / et al.

Conjunctions – The Music Issue, Bi-Annual Volumes of New Writing. Contributing Editors Walter Abish / John Ashbery / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge / Guy Davenport / Elizabeth Frank / William H. Gass / Susan Howe / Kenneth Irby / Robert Kelly / Ann Lauterbach / Patrick McGrath / Nathaniel Tarn.

New York, Bard College / Random House Inc., 1991. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 350 pages. Some black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Muldoon, Paul.

Madoc. A Mystery.

London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1990. 12.5cm x 19.5 cm. 261 pages. Cover illustration: ‘Rushes Through the Middle, a Brave’ by George Catlin. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Muldoon, Paul.

The Annals of Chile.

First Edition. London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1994. 12.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 189 pages. Softcover. Cover painting by Dermot Seymour. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with a bookplate on front free endpaper.

Nabokov, Vladimir.

The Enchanter – His Long Lost Novel. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

London, Picador, published by Pan Books, 1987. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 127 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket painting – F Vallatton, 1913. Author photograph – Philip Halfman. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor inscription by previous owner on front pastedown.

[Nabokov, Vladimir] Rampton, David.

Vladimir Nabokov – A Critical Study of the Novels.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984. 13.5 cm x 21.5 ccm. X, 233 pages. Softcover. Cover design by Jan van de Watering with a cover photograph of Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux, 1968. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Nexö, Martin Andersen / Hartmann, Jacob Wittmer (translator).

Days in the Sun.

New York, Coward -McCann, 1929. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. 297 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. [Jacket Design signed T.L.] Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear to dustjacket. Interior bright and clean.

Ó Céileachair, Séamas (an chuir in eager) [Micheál Mac Liammhóir, Seán ó Ríordáin, Liam ó Murchú].

Nuafhilí (1942 – 1952).

Baile Áitha Cliath, Oifig An tSoláthair, 1965. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. XV, 249 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor discolouration on paintdowns and endpapers only. Four very small ink pen marks on page 152 with some evidence of this being a well thumbed page.

[Olson, Charles] Clark, Tom.

Charles Olson – The Allegory of a Poet’s Life.

New York, London W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. 17 cm x 24 cm. XI, 403 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design Jay J. Smith. Cover photography of Charles Olson Goliard Press. Leading edge deckled. Very good, actually in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Ondaatje, Michael.

Divisadero.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 15 cm x 22 cm. 273 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Deckled Edges. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Parker, Brant / Hart, Johnny.

The Wizard of Id: Every Man is Innocent Until Proven Broke.

New York, Fawcett Gold Medal, 1976. 10.5 cm x 18 cm. Unpaginated. Black and white cartoons throughout. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Yellow painted edges.

Peter, Laurence J. / Hull, Raymond.

The Peter Principle.

London, Souvenir Press, 1969. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 179 pages. Some black and white illustrations and graphs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear mostly to dustjacket.

Phillips, Jayne Anne.

Machine Dreams.

New York, E.P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, 1984. 16 cm x 24 cm. 331 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, very good+ or even better condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Jayne Anne Phillips on the titlepage.

Pildas, Ave / Irwin Smith, Lucinda.

Movie Palaces – Survivors of an Elegant Era. Text by Lucinda Smith, Foreword by King Vidor.

New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc/Publishers New York, 1980. 23.5 cm x 30.5 cm. 128 pages. Illustrated with 181 full colour photographs and 15 black-and-white photographs by Ave Pildas. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. The dustjacket with some tears but otherwise the publication overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Pound, Ezra] Carpenter, Humphrey.

A Serious Character – The Life of Ezra Pound.

London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1988. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. XII, 1005 pages. Illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains two minor items of ephemera from ‘The Times Literary Supplement’ 1989 [Review of the book by William H.Gass in TLS in January 1989 and Responses to the review, also printed in TLS, in February 1989].

Private Eye Productions Ltd.,

The Best of Private Eye or A Load of Old Rubbish. Originally published as The Best Of Private Eye 1974.

London, Quartet Books Limited, 1975. 15.5 cm x 21 cm. No Page Numbers. Hundreds of black and white illustrations, photographs, cartoons and drawings throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [ The Best of Private Eye Two]

Rabb, Jonathan.

Shadow and Light.

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 371 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by the author. [Berlin Trilogy (part two)]

Rhodes, Elvi.

Doctor Rose.

London, Corgi Books, 1989. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. 256 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor foxing to endpapers and edges.

Runcie, James.

Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death.

First Edition. London / Berlin / a.o., Bloomsbury, 2012. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 392 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition. Out of print. [The Cranchester Mysteries (Volume 1 of 6)]

Shields, David.

Remote.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 14 cm x 20 cm. 203 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

Sikes, Sylvia / [Natural History of the African Elephant]

Personal Papers / Archive of Material Related to the Life and Career of Zoologist Sylvia Sikes, the Foremost African Elephant Specialist of her time. All materials from her personal collection / working copies and manuscript material. Including her extensive, two-volume-thesis: “Cardiovascular Disease in Freeliving Wild Animals with particular Reference to the African Elephant (Loxodonta africana)”. A collection of professional and academic papers, copies of Sikes’ monographs, zoological manuscripts and a plethora of photographs and personal newsletters, letters, pamphlets and manuscripts spanning seven decades of Sikes’ personal and professional life in Africa and the UK. The collection is composed of 92 specific pieces (some of which are comprised of one or more items). A detailed bibliography of the collection has been outlined in a Word Document (please request). The collection also includes personal copies of three monographs Sylvia Sikes has published, an original copy of her two-volume doctoral thesis, 37 academic articles and 5 unpublished draft manuscripts. There are also 7 booklets and a book by a third author among the collection. The collection is rounded off by a large number of vintage colour and monochrome photographs, letters, single-sheet newsletters, newspaper and magazine cuttings.

Africa and the UK, Various, 1937 – 2012. 21 cm x 26 cm – 24.5 cm x 31 cm. Circa 2,500+ pages. Numerous monochrome and colour photographs throughout the collection. Includes Hardcover book with dustjacket, softcover book, reprints of academic journal articles in paper wrappers and a variety of loose material in cellophane files. The archive, running from 1937 to 2012, is contained in two green (24.5 cm x 31 cm x 10.5 cm) boxes, four additional folders (32 cm x 24 cm) and two hardcover volumes (21.5 cm x 26cm). Very good condition.

[Smith, W. Eugene] Lasko, Gene (Director).

Photography Made Difficult. Writer Jan Hartman from the letters of W. Eugene Smith. Production Design Stephen McCabe, Cinematography William Megalos, Editor Susan Steinberg, Co-Producer Marthe Smith, Executive Producers Greg Andorfer and Susan Lacy, Produced by Kirk Morris. Running Time 89 Minutes, English Language PAL VHS.

New York, WES FORee Productions, Inc. / QED Communications, Inc. / Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 1989. 16cm x 19.5 cm. One VHS Tape. Original VHS and case. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Sombart, Werner / [Erwin von Beckerath – Third Freiburg Circle / Dritter Freiburger Kreis].

Vom Menschen – Versuch einer geisteswissenschaftlichen Anthropologie.

Erste Ausgabe / First Edition. Berlin, Charlottenburg, Buchholz & Weisswange Verlagsbuchhandlung, MCMXXXVIII, (1938) 17.5 cm x 24.5 cm. XXIII, 461 pages. Original Hardcover (Black cloth – title in embossed gilt on cover and spine). Sehr seltenes Widmungsexemplar von Werner Sombart an Erwin von Beckerath im Januar 1939.

Sotheby’s.

Old Master, 19th and 20th Century and Contemporary Prints, London Tuesday 30th June and Wednesday 1st July 1992.

London, Sotheby’s, 1992. 16 cm x 24 cm. 386 pages. Origina softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear and some ink stains on edges of pages.

[South Africa – From Union to Rainbow Nation].

A Collection of Thirty [30] publications related to the evolution of South Africa – from Boer republics, Apartheid to the post-Mandela era. 1. Denis Beckett, Madibaland / 2. Gavin Bell, Somewhere Over The Rainbow / 3. Trewhella Cameron, Jan Smuts: An Illustrated Biography / 4. Justin Cartwright, Not Yet Home: A South African Journey / 5. Apollon Davidson, Cecil Rhodes and His Time / 6. Eugene de Kock, A Long Night’s Damage: Working for the Apartheid State / 7. John Fisher, Paul Kruger: His Life and Times / 8. Darrell Hall, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / 9. Pat Hopkins, Eccentric South Africa: A Celebration of Extraordinary People and Places / 10. Stanley Jackson, The Great Barnato / 11. Phyllis Scarnell Lean, One Man in his Time: A Pictorial Review of the Life of Jan Christian Smuts, May 24th 1870 – September 11th 1950 / 12. Rian Malan, My Traitor’s Heart / 13. Richard Mendelsohn, Sammy Marks: ‘The Uncrowned King of the Transvaal’ / 14. Mike Nicol, The Waiting Country: A South African Witness / 15. Ellen Palestrant, Johannesburg One Hundred: A Pictorial History / 16. Richard Rive, ‘Buckingham Palace’, District Six (2 copies) / 18. David Robbins, Driving South / 19. David Robbins, The 29th Parallel: A South African Journey / 20. Kevin Shillington, History of Southern Africa / 21. J.C. Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts / 22. Allister Sparks, Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa / 23. Allister Sparks, The Mind of South Africa: The Story of the Rise and Fall of Apartheid / 24. Allister Sparks, Tomorrow is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa’s Negotiated Revolution / 25. Lester Venter, When Mandela Goes: The Coming of South Africa’s Second Revolution / 26. René De Villiers and S. Brooke-Norris, The Story of the Rand Club / 27. John Wentzel, A View from The Ridge: Johannesburg Retrospect / 28. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Randlords: The Men who Made South Africa / 29. Zapiro, Dr Do-Little and the African Potato: Cartoons from Sowetan, Mail & Guardian and Sunday Times / 30. The Staff of Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company, The Story of ‘Johnnies’ (1889-1964): A History of the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited.

London / Johannesburg / Moscow / And Others, Victor Gollanz / Penguin Books / Arrow / Progress Publishers / And Others, 1952 – 2002. 11 cm x 18 cm to 22 cm x 28.5 cm. Circa 7,800 pages. Numerous plates throughout volumes. 9 hardcovers (7 with dustjackets) and 21 softcovers with decorated boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some internal browning to some volumes but most are clean and bright. Crack at hinge of front board near head of spine of ‘Sammy Marks’ Volume. Binding still firm and strong.

Stancer, G. Herbert / Shaw, Reginald / Way, John.

The C.T.C Gazette – The Official Organ of the Cyclists’ Touring Club. 11 volumes in total. 10 Volumes of ‘The C.T.C. Gazette’ and one volume for 1974 called ‘Cycle Touring’.

11 volumes. London, The Cyclists’ Touring Club, 1942 – 1974. 16.3 cm x 22.7 cm – 18.5 cm x 25 cm. Circa 3,500 pages. 10 volumes of the C.T.C Gazette total circa 3,300 pages and 244 pages for the single volume of the Cycletouring Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on either spine or front boards. Some minor staining to a few pages in the volume for 1944. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interiors lightly tanned and clean throughout. All bindings firm and square.

Stein, Gertrude.

A Stein Reader – Gertrude Stein. Edited with an Introduction by Ulla E. Dydo.

Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1993. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XIV, 624 pages. Softcover. Cover portrait – ‘Gertrude Stein’ by Pablo Picasso 1906, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Bequest of Gertrude Stein). Cover Design Rich Hendel. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Tan, Amy.

The Valley of Amazement.

London, Fourth Estate, 2013. 15.5 cm x 24 cm. XIV, 589 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Taylor, D. J..

After the War – The Novel and English Society since 1945.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1993. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXVI, 310 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket illustration by Jeff Fisher. Author-photograph to rear dustjacket-flap by Andy Rott. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

The Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Physical, Medical and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings.

Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, 1979. 16.5 cm x 24.5 cm 706 pages. XLV, 706 pages. Over 150 black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Two small items of publisher’s ephemera. Exemplar von Siegfried Unseld / Copy from the library of german publisher Siegfried Unseld / (Die Ausgabe wurde ihm von Iwanami Shoten im November 1985 ins Frankfurter Suhrkamp – Haus geschickt).

Thesiger, Wilfred.

My Kenya Days.

London, Flamingo, 1995. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. XIII, 159 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. A few dog ears to pages.

Thomas, Dylan.

A Child’s Christmas in Wales. With Woodcuts by Ellen Raskin.

Fourth Printing. New York, James Laughlin, 1959. 15 cm x 13.5 cm. Pages not numbered. Woodcut prints on every other page. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Blindstamped, private library-stamp on endpaper.

Townshend, Charles.

Easter 1916 – The Irish Rebellion.

London, Penguin, 2006. 20 cm. xxi, 442 pages with 8 pages of plates. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Allen Lane history.

University College Cork ( R.F.C.).

U.C.C. R.F.C. Centenary History – 1874 – 1974.

Cork, University College Cork, 1974. 18 cm x 24.5 cm. XXII, 120 pages. Several black and white photographs and advertisements throughout. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Valade III, Roger M.

The Essential Black Literature Guide. Published in Association with the Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture.

Detroit, New York, Washington D.C., Toronto, Visible Ink Press, 1996. 15 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 446 pages. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white portrait photographs. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Wagner, Otto], Geretsegger, Heinz, Peintner, Max.

Otto Wagner, 1841-1918. Unbegrenzte Groszstadt, Beginn der Modernen Architektur. Unter Mitarbeit von Walter Pichler. Neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Ausgabe.

Salzburg, Vienna, Residenz Verlag, 1978. 23.5 cm x 28 cm. 283 pages. 306 illustrations, 6 full-page colour illustrations and a map of Vienna. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Walpole, Hugh.

The Herries Chronicle: Rogue Herries; Judith Paris; The Fortress; Vanessa.

London, The Reprint Society, 1955. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. XII, 1482 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.

[Weegee] (Arthur Fellig), Talmey, Allene.

Aperture Masters of Photography: Weegee.

Cologne, New York, Konemann Verlags Gmbh and Aperture Foundation, Inc. 1997. 21 cm x 21 cm. 95 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover design by Peter Feierabend. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Wells, A.W.

South Africa- A Planned Tour of the Country To-Day Describing Its Towns, Its Scenic Beauties, Its Wild and Its Historic Places, and Telling of the Men Who Made Or Discovered Them. With 32 pages of Coloured Maps, 30 Photogravure Illustrations and Reference Sections.

First Edition. London, J.M Dent & Sons Ltd., 1939. 13.5 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 432 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind stamp on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded. Binding still firm and strong. Interior very bright and clean. Preowner details on front pastedown (″D.A.Cannon – Durban, June 1941”).

Wells, H.G.

Experiment in Autobiography – Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866).

Volume II (of II). London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. / The Cresset Press Ltd., 1934. 13 cm x 20 cm. VIII, 423 pages [being 417 – 840 of complete work]. Original Hardcover. 44 black and white drawings and photographs of Wells, his wife and other writers, throughout book. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to endpapers and pastedowns only.