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.