1711. Nanthavongdouangsy, Viengkham.

Sinh and Lao Women.

Laos, Phaeng Mai Gallery, 2006. 19 cm x 26 cm. 98 pages. With black and white and colour illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor wear to cover. Otherwise interior very bright and clean.

1712. Sotheby’s.

The Library of H. Bradley Martin, Part IV: Highly Important French Literature; Monaco, Oct 16 & 17, 1989.

Monaco, Sotheby’s, 1989. 21.3 cm x 27.7 cm. Unpaginated [approx 400 pages]. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to outer cover (spine) and to front and rear endpapers. Minor discolouration to edges. Otherwise binding strong. Interior bright and clean. Contains Price-Result-List of this auction !

1713. O’Kane, Bernard.

Die Schätze des Islam: Kostbarkeiten Aus Zwei Jahrtausenden.

[Königswinter], Tandem Verlag, 2008. 24 cm x 30.5 cm. 224 pages. With many colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

1714. Haberland, Detlef.

Von Lemgo nach Japan – Das ungewöhnliche Leben des Engelbert Kaempfer 1651 bis 1716.

Bielefeld, Westfalen Verlag, 1990. 19.9 cm x 30 cm. 223 pages. With many black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor wear to cover. Otherwise very clean and bright. Contains label on front endpaper ’ Bücherstube Ilona Hodes’.

1715. Sattmann, Didi.

Die Wiener Szene.

Wien, Orac, 1987. 22 cm x 29.9 cm. 112 pages. With many black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor dampstain to dustjacket rear. Very minor discolouration to edges. Otherwise clean. Inscribed and signed by Photographer and Artist Nanci Ann Coyne to Harry Zohn.

1716. Paroni, Carlo.

Anima Delle Bestie – Impugnata Spirituale Coi Principj Della Metafisica, E Provata Materiale Con Quelli Della Fisica.

Udine, Per Li Fratelli Gallici, 1774. 14.6 cm x 21 cm. VI, 254 pages. Original Softcover / Interims-Cardboard of the 18th-century publisher. Very good condition. Interior bright and clean.

1717. [Carbery, Mary] Sandford, Jeremy.

Mary Carbery’s West Cork Journal. 1898-1901 or “From the Back of Beyond”. Edited by Jeremy Sandford.

Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1998. 16.1 cm x 24 cm. 158 pages. With 10 black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1718. Grey, Zane.

The Rainbow Trail. A Romance.

New York, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1915. 12.8 cm x 19.2 cm. Colour Frontispiece. 372 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front endpaper separated from book block. Spine separated from book block. Edges slightly tanned. Minor wear to spine. Otherwise clean. Contains loose ephemera: Post Card “Lydon Mfg. Co. Chicago, U.S.A.”

1719. Hugo, Richard.

The Triggering Town. Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing.

First Edition. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1979. 14.8 cm x 21.9 cm. XII, 109 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor closed tear to page 75. Otherwise bright and clean. Contains original review slip from W.W. Norton & Company.

1720. [Zinn, Howard] Hershey, John.

Hiroshima [Howard Zinn’s personal copy with his name signed in full to the endpaper, markings in the text and some comments in Zinn’s hand inside the rear cover].

New York, Bantam Books, 1965. 10.6 cm x 17.7 cm. 117 pages. Original Softcover. Very Poor condition. Tears to last few pages. Pages heavily tanned. Contains blue ink markings by influential Anti-War Historian Howard Zinn. This book would have been extremely personal to him and it is telling that he marked the part of the text on page 61 in which a Hospital in Hiroshima was invaded by patients who scolded doctors, sleeping from exhaustion, into helping them. Zinn, an army veteran of World War II, would have known the cost of war and especially would have been able to imagine the cost of nuclear war.