6251. [Gessner, Salomon / Collyer, Mary].

The Death of Abel in Five Books. From the German of Gessner.

Halifax, Printed fro William Milner, 1837. Duodecimo / Miniature book. Frontispiece, XX, 169 pages. Original Hardcover (dark green cloth with floral embossement and gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare Halifax print !

6252. Viereck, Peter.

Inner Liberty: the stubborn grit in the machine.

First Edition. Wallingford, Pendle Hill, 1957. 8°. 24 pages. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of american poet Peter Viereck.

6253. Lator, Laszlo.

The Belling.

First Edition. Cork, Southword Editions, 2005. Octavo. 62 pages. Original Softcover. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Laszlo Lator on the titlepage. Also signed by the translators Eugene O’Connell, Liz O’Donoghue and Patrick Cotter. Signed books by Laszlo Lator are extremely scarce.

6254. Theal, George McCall.

History of the Boers in South Africa. Or The Wanderings and Wars of the Emigrant Farmers From Their Leaving The Cape Colony To The Acknowledgement Of Their Independence by Great Britain.

London, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co, 1887. 15.5 cm x 22.5 cm. XVI, 392 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Small gilt embossment to front board. Blind ruling to boards. Gilt top-edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding firm. Interior is unmarked and bright.

6255. Viereck, Peter.

Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals – Babbitt Jr. vs. the Rediscovery of Values. [″A powerful, often violent, often eloquent, often bitterly sardonic attack on mushy liberalism” – Gilbert Highet in Harper’s].

First Edition – Second Printing. Boston, The Beacon Press, 1953. 8°. XVI, 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent FINE / FINE condition. From the library of american poet Peter Viereck. Signed by Peter Viereck on the endpaper.

6256. [Calder, Alexander].

Jean de Lafontaine – Selected Fables. Translated by Eunice Clark. With Forty-Eight Illustrations by Alexander Calder.

New York, Dover Publications, 1968. Small Quarto. 88 pages / Illustrated. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6257. Shioya, Sakae.

Chushingura: An Exposition. Illustrated with Hiroshige’s Coloured Plates.

Second Edition. Tokyo, Hokuseido Press, 1940. 23 cm. Colour frontispiece with lettered tissue-guard, XII, 236 pages. 4 folded, colour plates (including Frontispiece) with tissue-guards. Original Hardcover. Good condition with signs of external wear. Upper spine damaged ! Interior in very good condition. All the Plates in excellent condition.

6258. [Partition / Tuairim Pamphlets] Barrington, Donal / Gibson, Norman.

Collection of the two rarest early Tuairim Pamphlets: 1. Donal Barrington – Uniting Ireland (Tuairim Pamphlet No.1) / 2. Norman Gibson – Partition Today – A Northern Viewpoint (Tuairim Pamphlet No.2).

Dublin, Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1958. Octavo. 24, 12 pages. Original Softcover. Some minor dogears and a small lesion to the cover of Pamphlet 1. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6259. Daly, Seán.

Cork: a city in crisis. A History of Labour Conflict & Social Misery, 1870-1872.

Volume I (all that was published). Cork, Tower Books, 1978. Large Octavo. XVI, 336 pages with 25 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Initials of preowner on the endpaper.

6260. Dormitzer, Else / [Kohn, Hein]

Theresienstädter Bilder. [Gift from dutch exile – publisher Heinz Kohn to exiled sociologist Kurt H. Wolff according to Wolff’s note to endpaper)].

Hilversum, De Boekenvriend, 1945. 14.7 cm x 22.3 cm. 23 Seiten. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren. No. 222 von 500 Exemplaren. Exemplar des Soziologen Kurt H. Wolff, mit seinem Namenszug dezent auf dem Vorsatzblatt.