1. Kuryluk, Ewa.

Century 21 [First edition, with a manuscript postcard from Ewa Kuryluk to Brad Morrow, editor of Conjunctions, laid-in. Signed by Ewa Kuryluk].

Normal, IL, Dalkey Archive Press, 1992. Large Octavo. 340 pages with 24 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

2. Hamsun, Knut.

La Faim. Traduit du Norvegien.

Première Édition originale française / [First French Edition of ‘Hunger’]. Paris, Albert Langen / Nilsson, 1895. Octavo. 322 pages. Reliure privée du 19ème siècle / Original private Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Bon etat / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

3. Updike, John / Ford, President Gerald.

Memories of the Ford Administration. A Novel.

First Trade Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Octavo. 371 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by President Gerald Ford on the halftitle. Also signed and beautifully inscribed by John Updike on the endpaper: “Read this book – it feels unread” / Includes also a typed note in which John Updike asks the recipient of this signed book to refrain from any future attempts to send him books for signing: “Recent changes in postal regulations have made the task of signing and sending back books more complicated than before…..So i ask you to make this your last shipment; any books henceforth received from you will be donated to the local church book fair……”

4. O’Rahilly, Professor Alfred.

Money. With a Foreword by Prof. John Busteed.

Dublin / Cork, Cork University Press, 1941. Octavo. XXX, 441 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. The rare dustjacket a little dusty but unclipped and in very good condition. The Volume itself in Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor signs of spotting and foxing only. SIGNED by Alfred O’Rahilly on the endpaper ! Signed editions of this book are very scarce !

5. Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M.

Robert Kennedy and his Times. Illustrated with Photographs.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1978. Large-8°. XVII, 1066 pages. Hardcover / Decorative red quarter morocco with gilt lettering on spine. In original slipcase. One of 500 signed copies of the Collector’s Edition. With two pages dogeared and only absolutely minor signs of wear. The book itself unread ! Signed by Schlesinger on front free endpaper.

6. Baudelaire, Charles.

The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs Du Mal . [with Ephemera – Publisher’s advertising flyer] Translated into English verse by various hands. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by James Laver and illustrated with engravings by Pierre-Yves Trémois.

Limited Edition signed by Illustrator. 2 Volumes (complete). New York, The Limited Editions Club at the Press of A. Colish, 1971. Octavo and Slim Quarto Volume. XXXVI, 201 (3) pages / X, 188, (2) pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative quarter cloth Volumes in specially designed slipcase. Both Volumes in original publisher’s glassine wrapper. The Volumes in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The glassine wrappers with some fraying.

7. [Carbery, Mary] Kartoffel, Baron von.

The Germans in Cork – Being the Letters of His Excellency “The Baron von Kartoffel” (Military Governor of Cork in the Year 1918) and others.

First and only Edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited, 1918. Small Octavo. 112 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear, the spine intact. Extremely rare publication written by Mary Carbery under the pseudonym “Baron von Kartoffel (Potatoe)”. An extraordinary spoof, long undetected as Mary Carbery’s invention and proven by a mention in an advertisement of her works in another of her books (The Farm by Lough Gur).

8. Wilson, H. W. [and Hammerton, J. A.].

The Great War – Volume I: Opening Moves / Volume II: Digging In / Volume III: Deadlock / Volume IV: Carnage / Volume V: Continuing Struggle / Volume VI: Victory At Last. The Illustrated History of the First World War.

Reprinted 1999 from the 1914 & 1915 editions. 6 Volumes (Complete). Croatia, Trident Press International, 1999. 25,5 cm x 33 cm. Pagination: 452 pages; 448 pages; 560 pages; 560 pages; 624 pages; 596 pages. Hardcover / Original black cloth binding with original illustrated, unclipped dustjackets in protective Mylar. Slight foxing, staining to top and fore-edges, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Silver lettering and ornament to spine and front board.

9. McGreal, Stephen.

The War on Hospital Ships 1914-1918.

Barnsley, Pen & Sword, 2008. 16 cm x 24 cm. 272 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Out of print.

10. [Ungerer, Tomi].

ZUT ! – TOMI UNGERER. – à l’occasion du quatre-vingtième Anniversaire de Tomi Ungerer, Le Magazine ZUT ! est Heureux de vous offrir un exemplaire de ce Hors-Série.

Zut, 2001. 4°. 261, (4) pages. Softcover. Excellent condition. Beautifully signed in his calligraphic hand by Tomi Ungerer on the cover. / Von Tomi Ungerer auf dem Umschlag kalligraphisch signiert. [ZUT – Hors – Série 01]