81. [Palme, Olof]

Fataburen – Nordiska Museets och Skansens Arsbok [signed and inscribed by former swedish prime minister Olof Palme to english theatre director Peter Ashmore: “To Peter – A Great Englishman and a true friend of Sweden – Your friend Olof Palme”].

1973. Octavo. 206 pages with several photographs. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

82. Pasternak, Boris.

Doktor Zhivago. [Rare Original Russian Edition]

Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1959. Thick Octavo. [iv], 567, [1] pages. Original Hardcover / Publisher’s terra-cotta cloth with gilt lettering on spine. No jacket was issued for this book. In protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Second printing of the first authorized edition in Russian (preceded only by two CIA-sponsored, and virtually unobtainable, editions printed in Italy and distributed at the Brussels World Fair in the summer of 1958). Exlibris Janice Clark. Wonderful collectable !

83. Paz, Octavio.

Poemas (1935 – 1975) [Spanish Edition].

First edition / Primera edicion. Barcelona, Caracas, Mexico, Editorial Seix Barral , S.A, 1979. 13 cm x 20.5 cm. 719 pages. Illustrated with 16 black and white photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. There is a small library plate in the top right corner of the front free endpaper.

84. Porter, Jane.

Flatha na h-Alban. – [Gaelic translation of “The Scottish Chiefs” [William Wallace]]. Domhnall Ó Grianna, translator.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Diolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, [1937]. Octavo. 546 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket design by VP (Victor Penney). The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

85. Priestley, John Boynton ( J.B.) / Jaroslav Šváb.

Dálava.

Praze / Prague, Ant.Sveceny, (1938). Octavo. 420 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket, designed by Jaroslav Šváb in protective collector’s mylar. First edition. Signed by Priestley on title page. Half-leather with gilt lettering and illustration on spine. In publisher’s marbled boards in dust jacket. Few tiny wormholes to hinge. Jacket spine is torn and browned, else good. Inside near fine. Very Rare !

86. Rilke, Rainer Maria.

Dve prazske povidky. [Zwei Prager Geschichten] Preklad Jan Löwenbach.

Erste tschechische Ausgabe. Praha / Prague, Nakladem J. Otty V Praze, 1908. Small Octavo. 123 Seiten. Hier liegen beide Einbandvarianten dieser seltenen Rilke – Erstausgabe vor. Original Hardcover und die Ausgabe in illustrierter Broschur. Beide Ausgaben in Mylar. First Czech translation of the “Zwei Prager Geschichten.” / Erste tschechische Ausgabe von Rilke’s “Zwei Prager Geschichten” / Das Vorsatzblatt und Titelblatt der Hardcover-Ausgabe etwas angeraendert. / Very fresh binding ! Very good+, with some fraying to the brittle endpaper and titlepage. / Both binding-variations of this very rare Rilke publication / Signed by a preowner (not Rilke) on the cover of the softcover-edition.

87. Roche, Regina Maria [Author of “The Children of the Abbey”].

Clermont – A Tale.

Second Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed by William Porter, 1799. Small-Octavo (11,5 cm x 17,5 cm). Volume I: 269 pages / Volume II: 326 (of 329) pages [3 pages missing at the end]. Hardcover / Modern, very decorative half-leather bindings with replicated spinelabels in the style of the 18th century. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Name of Richard Meade of Ballymartle on titlepage of both Volumes. Minor lesion and tear to titlepage of Volume II. Overall very good ! Extremely scarce publication in first or second edition !

88. Rousseau, Henri le Douanier.

Une visite a` l’Exposition de 1889. Avec une preface de Tristan Tzara.

Limited Edition (One of 200 copies). Geneva, Pierre Cailler, 1947. Smoall Octavo. 141 pages. Original Softcover. Unusually excellent condition.

89. Sabatini, Rafael.

Scaramúis. Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin ‘d’aistrigh.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foilseacháin Rialtais, 1936. Octavo. 476 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket Design by M.A.Keane. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

90. Salda, F.X. / Obrtel, Vit.

Nejmladsi Poesii Ceské. Dve Prednaskaya Dve Stati.

Praze / Prague, O. Girgal, 1928. Octavo. 105 pages. Original, illustrated softcover, designed by Vit Obrtel, in protective collector’s mylar. First edition in publisher’s printed wrappers – Typography of the wrappers by Vit Obrtel. A very good copy, starting upper hinge, some browning.