6461. Walpole, Hugh.

Portrait of a Man with Red Hair – A Romantic Macabre [Signed and Inscribed by Hugh Walpole].

First Edition. London, MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1925. Octavo. XI,264 pages. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. In bespoke slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Beautifully inscribed by Hugh Walpole: “With the best wishes of Hugh Walpole – May 1927”.

6462. Blicher, Steen Steensen.

Udvalgte Noveller [Illustreret med 125 traesnit af Povl Christensen]. Udvalg Ved Kjeld Elfelt. Traesnit af Povl Christensen.

Volumes I & II (Complete Set). Copenhagen, Hans Reitzel, 1964. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 280 pages. Several black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcovers with illustrated dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar. Both volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to dustjackets mainly. Both volumes with bookplates on pastedowns (Erik Haugaard). Slight foxing and discoloration to endpapers and pastedowns.

6463. Xingjian, Gao.

L’Encre et la Lumière. [Ink and Light]

Limited Edition [One of only 222 copies, signed and numbered]. Voix, Jeanne Hyvrard, 1998. Duodecimo. 40 unnumbered pages with illustrations and poetry. Includes also the very fragile, folded illustration on fine, extra-thin paper. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely rare publication of the exiled nobel laureate from China. Envoi signé et limitee.

6464. [Viereck, Peter] Acton, Harold / Yi-Hsieh, Lee.

Four Cautionary Tales [Inscribed by Harold Acton to George Sylvester Vviereck]. Translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton and Lee Yi-Hsieh. With an introduction by Arthur Waley.

First John Lehmann Edition. London, John Lehmann Ltd., 1947. 13 cm x 19 cm. XIII, 159 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare, illustrated, original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. The dustjacket shows some tears and fraying with minor loss to the edges. Traces of foxing on the pages and on the edges. Signed and inscribed by Harold Acton: “To the great Mr. Viereck with homage and fervent best wishes – Harold Acton”. [Second Collection of a trilogy compiled and edited by Feng Menglong in 1624].

6465. Foreman-Lewis, Elisabeth.

Jung Fu wird Kupferschmied [Third German Edition of “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, 1932”]. Leben und Abenteuer eines wackeren Chinesenjungen von Elisabeth Foreman-Lewis. Zeichnungen und Buchschmuck von Kurt Wiese.

Salzburg-Lepizig, Pustet, o.J. ca. 1940. 8°. 248 Seiten. Original Hardcover (without dustjacket). Minor signs of foing to the binding only. Interior in excellent condition.

6466. [Quin, Carmelo Arden] Goodman, Shelley.

Carmelo Arden Quin – when art jumped out of its cage. Foreword by Jorge Glusberg.

Limited Edition No.140 of only 200 printed. Dallas, MADI Museum and Gallery, 2004. Quarto (24.2 cm wide x 30 cm high). 405 pages. Illustrated throughout. Hardcover / Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the dustjacket only. Signed and inscribed by the author Shelley Goodman on the titlepage.

6467. [Hughes, Langston] Hesse, Eva / Knesebeck, Paridam von dem.

Meine dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung [Translates: “My dark Hands – Modern Negro-Poetry in original and Translation”]. Herausgegeben und übertragen von Eva Hesse und Paridam von dem Knesebeck.

Bilingual Publication in English – German. München, Nymphenburger Verl.-Handl., 1953. 8°. 90 Seiten. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag in Brodart. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren am Umschlag.

6468. Stokes, William.

Memory.

Seventy-eighth Edition, Revised & Enlarged. London, Houlston & Sons, 1882. Duodecimo (8 cm wide x 13.8 cm high). Frontispiece-Portrait of William Stokes,286 pages. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering to cover. Very few pages slightly detached but complete. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6469. [Defoe, Daniel].

Bibliographical account / Robinson Crusoe Collection / Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe Bibliography – Privately documented and bound collection of 576 different versions of Robinson Crusoe editions in 40 languages. Among them Gaelic, Hindi, Afrikaans, Arabic etc. etc. / The Life and Strange surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

Germany, c.1998. Folio. c. 580 pages. (Xeroxed coverpages with bibliographical accounts attached). Hardcover (half cloth). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor dampstain to lower spine. This xerox compilation was done in preparation of selling a private collection in the 1990’s by a german antiquarian bookdealer. Very Rare, probably unique account / bibliography (we are not aware of more copies of this record).

6470. Kennedy, J.P. [Secretary John Pitt Kennedy] / [House of Commons].

Instructions to Committees of Relief Districts – Extracted from Minutes of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed in reference to the apprehended Scarcity.

[Dublin Castle], 28th February, 1846. Octavo. 4 Pages. Softcover / Original Pamphlet. Historical publication of great scarcity and importance. With manuscript notification to front and one annotation within the text. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Provenance: From the private collection of Irish cardiologist and clinical scientist, Eoin O’Brien