311. Atlantic Islands – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Islands in the Atlantic – Azores or Western Isles – Madeira [Inset] – Canary Islands – Cape de Verde Islands – Bermudas or Summer Islands. With Vignettes and illustrations of Faval, Azores, Chapel in the Rock, St Vincente, Tenerife, Canary Islands and Funchal, Madeira.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations drawn and engraved by H. Winkles. London & New York, John Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 24.5 cm x 36.5 cm. Sheet Size: 27.2 cm x 37.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

312. Atlas, James.

The Great Pretender.

First Edition. New York, Atheneum, 1986. 14 cm x 21 cm. 277 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

313. Attali, Jacques.

Les trois mondes: pour une théorie de l’après-crise.

Paris, Fayard, 1981. Octavo. 335 pages. Broche / Softcover. A theory of post-crisis economics by the bold and dashing thinker and statesman, one of the somehow representative presences on the French intellectual scene during the post-structuralist period. Very good in publisher’s printed wraps, rear and front covers bumped at top with resulting crease to covers and pages. Inscribed by the author to Stephen Graubard.

314. Atti del convegno internazionale Desenzano del Garda / Paoloni, Giovanni.

Gli Archivi per la storia della scienza e della Tecnica. Atti del convegno internazionale Desenzano del Garda,4-8 giugno 1991.

Roma, Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, 1995. Gr.-8°. 1337 pp. Softcover / Original brochure. 2 volumes (complete). Italian Edition. Excellent condition.

315. Atwood, Margaret.

Cat’s Eye. Note by Madeleine MacMurragh-Kavenagh.

First Edition. London, York Press, 2000. 14,5 x 21 cm. 128 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. [York Notes Advanced].

316. Atwood, Margaret.

Collection of four important association copies of poetry by Margaret Atwood (plus two signed Novels), given to her friend Jerome Hamilton Buckley, influential Professor of English Literature. All four association copies in first edition and all beautifully inscribed. The Novel only signed. The collection includes: 1. The Animals in that Country (1968 / Hardcover) [Signed and with the printed dedication “For J.” and a personal inscription on the halftitle to Jerome Buckley] / 2. The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970 / Softcover) [Signed and inscribed] / 3. You are Happy (1973 / Hardcover) [Signed and inscribed] / 4. Murder in the Dark – Short Fictions and Prose Poems (1983 / Softcover) [Signed and inscribed]. / 5. The collection also includes a signed copy of Atwood’s “The Robber Bride” (1993 / Softcover) / 6. The collection also includes a signed and inscribed copy of “The Tent” (signed as “Margaret Atwood”).

Toronto / New York, Oxford University Press / Harper & Row / Coach House Press / Doubleday, 1968 – 1993. Octavo. 69, 64, 96, 62, 466, 155 pages. Original Hardcover and Softcover – publications with the rare illustrated dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. All inscriptions beautifully signed as Peggy or Peggy A. or in one case even Peggy Atwood.

317. Atwood, Margaret.

Morning in the burned house. New poems.

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1995. 14 cm x 19 cm. 127 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Loosely inserted is a related newspaper – clipping on which John or Hilary Wakeman noted: “One of my favorite authors: She has bite”.

318. Atwood, Margaret.

Murder in the Dark. Short Fictions and Prose Poems.

First Edition. Toronto, Coach House Press, 1983. 12,5 x 21 cm.` 62 pages. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. Very good+ condition. Beautiful association copy: Inscribed and signed by Margaret Atwood to Jerry Buckley and his wife Elizabeth on the title page in 1983. Very clean and tight copy with only minimal signs of wear to the spine.

319. Atwood, Margaret.

The Animals in That Country.

First Edition. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1968. 13 x 22 cm. 69 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good+ condition. Association copy, inscribed by Margaret Atwood to Jerry Buckley and his wife on the half title. One of the earliest dedications from Atwood to Jerry Buckley (1968).

320. Atwood, Margaret.

The Heart Goes Last [Signed].

First Edition. London / Oxford / New York / New Delhi / Sydney, Bloomsbury, 2015. Octavo. 308 pages. Hardcover / Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed by Margaret Atwood on the titlepage.