1441. Comic Relief Ltd.

The Utterly, Utterly Amusing and Pretty Damn Definitive Comic Relief Revue Book.

London, Penguin Books, 1989. 21 cm x 30 cm. 95 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

1442. Comiskey-Texier, Helena (Editor).

The Letter: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis. Spring 1995.

No Place of Print, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, 1995. 19 cm x 23 cm. 131 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

1443. [Commissioners of National Education in Ireland].

Seventh Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland for the Year 1840. To His Excellency Hugh Earl Fortescue, Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland.

1840. 21.7cm x 13.2cm. 38 pages. Softcover / Cover missing. Pages loosened.

1444. [Commonwealth & Colonial History & Law] – Luke, Sir Harry [Lukach, Harry] – ‘the most unwasted life of any man I have known’ – (Sir Ronald Storrs on Sir Harry Luke)

Very Large Archive / Collection of British Colonial Official & Lieutenant-Governor of Malta, Sir Harry Luke. The Archive is Sir Harry Luke’s very personal and one might say, confidential collection of original autographed letters, correspondence and books he surrounded himself with at the end of his life. The Archive includes important and meaningful personal and official letters from important historical figures in the Arena of the Middle East and especially Palestine with for example interesting legal insights into the Jewish-Arab conflicts of the 1920s, as well as working-copies of books which Luke wrote himself at every location he was posted to during his career. In order to understand the vastness of the Archive you need to visit our website and see the nineteen (19) chapters of Material we synchronised chronologically with Sir Harry Luke’s life [Search for “Library & Collections” and find 19 chapters at the bottom of that page]. The Archive contains an unbelievable and impressive array of several highly interesting letters and correspondence regarding key historical events as disparate as the Mudros/Gallipoli-Campaign under Rosslyn Wemyss, the Jaffa Riots, the Western Wall Riots of Jerusalem in 1929 as well as information on diplomatic activity prior to the Suez Crisis, descriptions of locations like Guadalcanal prior to the War in the Pacific, detailed information on personell at Gardner Island / Phoenix Islands during the vanishing of Amelia Earhart, to only name a few bizarre coincidences. The books contain manuscript annotations and preparatory notes for later editions as well as many letters written to Luke regarding the many postings he served at during his long career in the Colonial Service. The Archive includes several hundred pages of correspondence between Luke and other officials within the Colonial Office, often in multi-page letters. Also included is proof of Luke’s connections to the Ecclesiastical World of the Vatican and Lambeth Palace, his diplomatic abilities are praised in letters from friends and officials alike. Luke received cordial letters from Queens (Queen Salote) as well as polarizing letters from Politicians. Included are manuscript notepads as well as confidential reports from other diplomats on locations where Luke was soon to be taking office, e.g. British Western Pacific Islands. The Archive is unique in its form because it represents not only the correspondence between Luke as an official but also allows us a view into the life of a Career Diplomat of the last days of the Colonial British Empire who develops a deep connection with everyone he served with and under. Luke did not only keep correspondence with famous friends like Ronald Storrs but also emotional letters from those who served under him and respectfully stay in touch beyond the termination of Luke’s service. Many letters to family colleagues in the Colonial Office, Politicians, Priests with political functions, are preserved with Luke’s original typescript-answer or initial letter. The official and often explosive and historically meaningful content with striking relevance for reinterpreting Mediterranean, Middle Eastern Conflicts etc. makes this archive a must for research and posterity. This is not just any diplomat’s archive. The majority of these letters are unpublished but are waiting to be discovered (see for example the long letter by Sir Kenneth Roberts-Wray on the Palestine Commission. Also included his Luke’s very valuable, handwritten manuscript-notebook of colonial postings-recipe-collections together with his working copy of the very special cookery book “The Tenth Muse”. The majority of the collection is now catalogued and visible on our website. A collection of c. 89 letters and 43 items of Ephemera has not been catalogued yet.

England / Palestine / Israel / Malta / Cyprus, Fiji / Sierra Leone etc., 1898 – 1968. Octavo / Quarto / Folio. c.15000 pages (books) / Collection of hundreds of Letters (see images) / Photographs and ephemera etc. Original Hardcover / Softover – Bindings (also private interim-bindings), often with the rare dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar, some without dustjackets. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Please check our website under “Libraries & Collections” and see detailed listings of books and letters, all categorized.

1445. Community Council to End the War in Vietnam.

A Poetry Reading for Peace in Vietnam.

First Edition. Santa Barbara, Unicorn Press, 1967. 14,5 x 21,5 cm. 18 pages. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition. Signed by Philip Levine on page 9. Minimal discoloration on the cover only.

1446. Compiled by Marine Committee.

Massachusetts on the Sea – 1630-1930. In commemoration of the enterprise of the seamen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and in recognition of the maritime accomplishments of their descendents.

No.2210 of a limited edition. Massachusetts, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1930. 26,5 cm x 20 cm. 32 pages. With several black-and-white photographs. Original Hardcover. Only minor signs of external wear (really only slightly rubbed and bumped). One page with photograph shows slight tear.

1447. Compton, J.

The Curtain Rises. A Collection of Plays.

Second Edition. London, Methuen & Co, 1932. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 151 pages plus 8 additional pages of publisher’s advertising. Original clothbound hardcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Pencil marks on covers and in inner pages.

1448. [Comte, Auguste de] Andreski, Stanislav.

The Essential Comte. Selected from Cours de Philosophie Positive by Auguste Comte. First published in Paris 1830-42.

London / New York, Croom Helm / Barnes & Nobles Books, 1974. 21.6cm x 13.8cm. 252 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good + condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor annotation on endpaper (pen).

1449. Concilium Legionis Mariae.

The Official Handbook of the Legion of Mary.

Dublin, Concilium Legionis Mariae, 1953. 13 x 19 cm. V, 276 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Bookblock slightly fragile.

1450. Condon, Eddie.

We Called It Music – A Generation of Jazz. Narration by Thomas Sugrue.

Fourth Printing of the first edition. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1970. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 341 pages. Eight pages of black and white photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover (yellow cloth) / No dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with occasional pencil markings.

1451. Condry, William.

Birds & Wild Africa.

London, Scientific Book Club, 1967. 20 cm. 192 pages with 16 plates, 2 maps. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The jacket with a blemish to the lower spine.

1452. Congo – Tuckey, James Hingston. (1776 – 1816)

Vintage, 19th century manuscript map “Chart of the River Zaire from Capt. Tuckeys Narrative”.

Ink on Paper. Britain, c. 1850. 18.4 cm wide x 11.3 cm high. Mounted on paper (partially detached). Mounted on paper with an additional manuscript map of East Tartary. These maps were drawn in a 19th-century hand and used to be part of a Sammelband of Maps in the Public Library of South Shields.

1453. Congo / Kongo – Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909) – King of the Belgians and Owner / Absolute Ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.

Collection of four very important and meaningful manuscript letters by Leopold II to his administrator and Foreign Minister of the Congo – Free-State, Baron Adolphe de Cuvelier (1860-1931) with a total of 16 pages filled with Leopold’s instructions on pressing issues regarding a warning about an imminent visit by the Rector of the Mill-Hill Missionaries [probably Herbert Alfred Henry Vaughan (1832 – 1903)] and Leopold’s qualification of the visit of being detrimental to the Congo Free State (″ne travaillent pas pour l’État”). Leopold continues in another letter to talk about the hostile positions of english officials (consuls) and missionaries (″que les consuls anglais et les missionnaires anglais se conduisent bien mal envers l’État”). Interestingly, Leopold also touches on the nuisance of the german press criticizing Belgian Railway Lines and he is of the opinion that this is all happening in order to force the german parliament [″Reichstag”] to finance the building of the Tanganyika Railway [between Dar es Salaam and Kigoma]: (″cherche à effrayer l’opinion [en] Allemagne à propos de mes chemins de fer afin d’obtenir du Reichstag des fonds pour la ligne allemande vers le Tanganika”.

16 pages of MLS, Manuscript Letters (signed) on 10 leaves of Leopold’s official stationery “Château de Laeken” and “Palais de Bruxelles”. Laeken / Brussels, Château de Laeken [Palace of Laeken], 1901 – 1906. The leaves with different sizes (13,5 cm x 9 cm) and (18 cm x 11,5 cm). Excellent condition. Unsigned. Tremendously rare to find original letters by Leopold II on the open market in which the Colonial Free State and the protection against inquisitive visitors is discussed in such clear and instructive fashion. Leopold’s correspondence with Adolphe de Cuvelier shows how he is very much trying to still protect and influence the narrative of his Colonial Slavery Outpost even in the final years of his life.

1454. Conn, Eileen (editor) / Stewart, James (editor).

Visions of Creation.

Alresford, Godsfield Press, 1995. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XIX, 139 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Fold-crease at corner of front cover. Partially torn-off name-sticker inside front cover. Volume clean inside with binding intact.

1455. [Connemara] Anonymus [Bowden-Smith, Richard].

Fly Fishing in Salt & Fresh Water. With Six Plates, representing artificial Flies, etc. [Handcoloured]. [With a special chapter on Flyfishing in Connemara – Fly-Fishing Lough Ina, near Clifden, in Bertraghboy Bay, at the Skyard Rocks, at Deer Island and off the Isle of Mweenish and the Isle of Arran].

First and only edition. London, John van Voorst, 1851. Octavo. VIII, 74, (1) pages plus VI plates (including the frontispiece) of which V plates are beautifully handcoloured. Hardcover / Original publisher’s blindstamped cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With some fraying to two pages. Unbelievably rare edition with the excellent handcoloured plates in fresh colours and overall excellent condition.

1456. [Conner of Manch] Burke, Sir Bernard / [Ulster King of Arms].

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland [Including “An Essay on the Position of British Gentry”]..

Fourth Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Harrison, Pall Mall, Bookseller to the Queen and H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, 1863. Slim-Quarto (17,5 cm x 25 cm). XVIII, 1759 pages (Two Volumes with continued pagination). Hardcover / Original, red half-leather with original marbled endpapers. Both Volumes in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Both Volumes firm and strong in their bindings.

1457. Conner, Daniel / [Daniel Conner Library (Connerville / Manch House / Bandon)].

On offer here is a large 18th / 19th century Country House Library from an Irish Country-House-Estate. 200 important and meaningful publications (comprising roughly 500 Volumes), from the stunning 18th & 19th century Irish Country House – Library of Daniel Conner – Alumni of Magdalen College / Oxford University. Daniel Conner and his extended family and relations, resided at Manch House, Dunmanway, West Cork (19th century) as well as in Connerville, Bandon (18th century). [To see each title in this Library photographed and described comprehensively – Please go to our website-section: “Libraries & Collections”]. Inanna Rare Books offers here the professionally documented, c. 200 titles in roughly 500 Volumes, many of them professionally restored and rebound to style by british and german bookbinders. The building and rebuilding of the Conner library is ongoing. Many of the important titles are already listed and photographed in detail on our website (www.inannararebooks.com). This is an unusual possibility to acquire a meaningful, historical Library with publications not only on General History, Classical Literature and Philosophy of Greece and Rome but also Landmark Publications in Philosophy, Economics, Religion, Travel, Irish and English History, Americana, Irish & British History and Constitutional Relations, Legal History and Law Publications of Ireland and England, Poetry and Literature of Women in Literature of 18th and 19th century England, Ireland and Continental Europe. The Conner Library reflects the 18th century enlightenment as well as the 19th century fashion of solitary education in a Country House Library on topics like Literature and Art, History and Travel etc. etc.

200 Titles in c. 500 Volumes. Manch / Bandon, c.1750 – 1880. Octavo. Original Hardcover Volumes or original wrappers. The overall condition of these books is very good or even better, mainly restored and professionally repaired, with some Volumes still at the bookbindery and in process of repair and restoration. The Library will be delivered per International Courier UPS.

1458. Conner, Patrick.

The Inspiration of Egypt. Its Influence on British Artists, Travellers and Designers, 1700-1900.

Brighton, Brighton Borough Council, 1983. 24cm x 16cm. viii, 168 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1459. Connolly, James.

The Re-Conquest of Ireland. With an introduction by A. Raftery.

Dublin, New Books Publications, 1972. 19 cm. x, 74 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

1460. Connolly, S.J. (Editor).

The Oxford Companion to Irish History.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998. 16 cm x 23 cm. 618 Pages. Original Softcover. Edge slightly stained. Otherwise in very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.