1801. [Inisfada / Genevieve Garvan Brady / William J. Babington Macaulay] American Art Association.

Antique Furniture, Tapestries, Rugs, Other Art Property – Including four famous Gothic Tapestries and a Superb Sixteenth Century Ispahan Carpet – Collection of Genevieve Garvan Brady [Mrs. William J. Babington Macaulay]. [This is not only the Full Catalogue but it also comes with a second Volume, a special, shorter version of an auction-sale-brochure, an excerpt of the full sale, designed for the majority of visitors on the day. This rather fragile pamphlet rarely survived; it included several images of artwork but also plenty of excellent photographs of the rooms at Inisfada]. The full, bound catalogue contained chapters on Linen and Lace / Porcelain / Japanese Carved Ivories / Tsuba and Lacquer Boxes / French, Spanish and Italian Renaissance Furniture and Decorations / Garden Furniture / Lists also famous artwork like James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s “Lady Archibald Campbell, as Orlando” / etc. etc. Public Sale on the Premises INISFADA – Manhasset – Long Island.

Manhasset, American Art Association, 1937. 20,5 x 29 cm. 555 pages – Illustrated throughout Plus: Special pamphlet for the sale with 4 pages of introductory text and 16 pages of photographs plus a loosely inserted sheet with “Sizes of The Four Gothic Tapestries”. Original Hardcover for the Catalogue / Original Softcover for the additional sales-prospect. The special sales-prospect which comes with the full catalogue, detached from wrapper, else excellent. The full catalogue in excellent, firm condition with minor signs of external wear. The full auction catalogue from this May 1937 sale of 2115 lots from the estate of Genevieve Garvan Brady (1879-1938), at one time married to Nicholas Frederic Brady (1878-1930) and then to Irish Diplomat William J. Babington Macaulay.

1802. [Inisfada / Genevieve Garvan Brady / William J. Babington Macaulay] American Art Association.

Antique Furniture, Tapestries, Rugs, Other Art Property – Including four famous Gothic Tapestries and a Superb Sixteenth Century Ispahan Carpet – Collection of Genevieve Garvan Brady [Mrs. William J. Babington Macaulay]. [With a large amount of ephemera, newspaper-clippings with reports on the auction, admission-tickets etc.]. With chapters on Linen and Lace / Porcelain / Japanese Carved Ivories / Tsuba and Lacquer Boxes / French, Spanish and Italian Renaissance Furniture and Decorations / Garden Furniture / Lists also famous artwork like James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s “Lady Archibald Campbell, as Orlando” / etc. etc. Public Sale on the Premises INISFADA – Manhasset – Long Island.

Manhasset, American Art Association, 1937. 20,5 x 29 cm. 555 pages – Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover. Excellent, firm condition with minor signs of external wear. The full auction catalogue from this May 1937 sale of 2115 lots from the estate of Genevieve Garvan Brady (1879-1938), at one time married to Nicholas Frederic Brady (1878-1930) and then to Irish Diplomat William J. Babington Macaulay.

1803. Farkas, Lidia / Poharnok, Zoltan / Shires, Frances (Translator).

Sly Mike: A Hungarian Story – With ten original, coloured etchings by Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. English Translation by Frances Shires.

No.115 of a signed, limited Edition of 250 copies. Budapest, Published by Dr.George Vajna & Co., (1937). Small Quarto (17.5 cm wide x 23 cm high). 44 unnumbered pages (inlcuding the etchings). The book is signed by both artists, Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. Hardcover / Original, embroidered binding. Some foxing to binding but the endpapers intact and the binding in overall very good condition. All etchings in excellent condition. A wonderful, rare example of a very rare book !

1804. Smithson, Annie M. P.

The White Owl.

First Edition with dustjacket in first issue. Dublin / Cork, The Talbot Press, 1937. Octavo. 300 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. The rare dustjacket with fraying and a larger tear to the bottom. Some foxing. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare Book !

1805. Brownlee, Frank.

Corporal Wanzi. Stories by Frank Brownlee.

First Edition. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1937. Octavo. 257, [7] pages. Original Hardcover with price-clipped dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The jacket with some fraying but overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Private giftinscription to endpaper.

1806. Runze, Marianne (aus Berlin).

Lebenshaltungen unehelicher Mütter. Dargestellt an ihrer Beziehung zum Kind.

Berlin, 1937. 8°. 62 Seiten. Softcover / Titelbroschur. Stempel.

1807. Smythe, F.S.

Over Tyrolese Hills. Photographs by the Author.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, no year (c.1937). 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 292 pages. 35 other illustrations. Fold-out map at rear showing the Tyrolese Alps. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine. Vignette on front board. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing to edges. Interior very bright and clean with sharp corners.

1808. [Sohn-Rethel, Alfred] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang VI, Heft 1 [Volume VI, Issue 1].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1937. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. With some markings in pencil and one annotation [in pencil: “Marcuse – Befreiung des Tieres”] in the chapter by Max Horkheimer “The latest attack on metaphysics”.

1809. Buchan, John.

Midwinter. Tomás Ó Gallchobhair d’aistrigh ón mBéarla.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1937. Octavo. xiii, 314 pages. Original Hardcover. The Volume in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

1810. Harvey, Basil.

Growing Pains. An Autobiography.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1937. 22 cm. 287 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece portrait, in black and white. Original hardcover. Good condition with signs of external wear. Some noticeable rubbing and discolouration to spine, fading of frontcover, and foxing on inside pages. Name on titlepage. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard.

1811. [Walter Benjamin Collection] – [Benjamin, Walter] Holz, Detlef.

Deutsche Menschen – Eine Folge von Briefen [Umschlag-Titel: “Deutsche Menschen: Von Ehre ohne Ruhm – Von Größe ohne Glanz – Von Würde ohne Sold”]. Auswahl und Einleitungen von Detlef Holz.

2. Auflage. Luzern, Vita Nova Verlag, 1937. Octavo. 116 Seiten. Original Softcover / Originale Titelbroschur. Die Bindung, besonders die Broschur, in aussergewöhnlich guter und frischer Erhaltung. Der Buchblock, wie so oft, mit einigen starken Stockflecken zu Beginn und am Schnitt. Grossteil des Texts ist ganz sauber.

1812. Ffoulkes, Charles / Lord Cottesloe.

The Gun-Founders of England – With a List of English and Continental Gun-Founders from the XIV to the XIX Centuries. With a Preface by Lord Cottesloe.

Cambridge, University Press, 1937. Folio. XVI, 133 (1) pages. Modern, professional Hardcover-binding (Beautiful quarter Buckram). Excellent condition after the restoration ! The image shows this book together with similar publications.

1813. Moulton, Forest Ray (Editor).

The World and Man as Science Sees Them.

New York, The Literary Guild of America, INC. 1937. 23,5 cm x 16,2 cm. XIX, 533 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Book itself in very good condition. Dustjacket in bad condition. In protective mylar.

1814. Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) / Ó Liatháin, Séan.

Saontacht an Athar De Brún – The Innocence of Father Brown. Seán Ó Liatháin d’aistrigh ón mBéarla.

First gaelic Edition. Baile Átha Cliath [i.e. Dublin], Oifig díolta foillseacháin rialtais, [1937]. Octavo. [6], 335, [1] pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

1815. Porter, Jane.

Flatha na h-Alban. – [Gaelic translation of “The Scottish Chiefs” [William Wallace]]. Domhnall Ó Grianna, translator.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Diolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, [1937]. Octavo. 546 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket design by VP (Victor Penney). The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

1816. [London Collection] – Graham, Willam Hussey / Adams, R.R.D. / Banfield, Frank. (Compiled by).

The Book Of The Cheese. Being Traits and Stories of “Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese”.

London, “Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese”, 1937. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. XII, 96 pages with illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. A Small ink stain at bottom edge and some textmarkings in ballpen.

1817. Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason.

Adrift on an Ice-Pan.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1937. Octavo. XXVI, 69 pages. Original Hardcover. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name – stamps of the preowner on pastedown. [The Riverside Literature Series].

1818. Keller, Robert von.

Das Ende der strukturellen Arbeitslosigkeit ?

Jena, Fischer, 1938. 8°. 30 Seiten. Softcover / Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. [Sonderdruck aus: Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv – Begründer : Bernhard Harms].

1819. [Churchill, Sir Winston / Theodore Roosevelt / Herbert Hoover / Léon Blum / Sven Hedin / Alexej Tolstoi / Jules Romain and others].

Excentric Shampoo [Camouflage Resistance Pamphlet against Fascism and the November Pogrom and Kristallnacht in 1938 in Berlin – Germany]. This rare, original, german-language pamphlet, was deliberately published hidden in an envelope, disguised as a shampoo-sample and fabricated to have been published by the company “Lloyd Parfumerie” [Lloyd Perfumes].

[possibly London], Lloyd Parfumerie, [c.1938 / 1939]. Small Octavo (8,7 cm x 14,2 cm). 47 pages in vintage envelope. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

1820. Various Authors: Lopez de Ayala, Pedro / Ruiz, Juan / Manrique, Gomez / Teresa de Jesus, Santa / Cruz, Juan de La, San / Quevedo Villegas, Francisco de / Machado, Antonio / Jiminez, Juan Ramon / Garcia Lorca, Federico / Lime, Jorge de etc.

Hispanic Notes & Monographs Series: Translations from Hispanic Poets [Poets from Cuba (Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda), Argentina (Bartolomoe Mitre / Martiniano Leguizamon / Leopoldo Lugones / Enrique Banchs / Rafael Alberto Arrieta / Alfonsina Storni / Oscar Bietti / Brazil (Jorge de Lima / Carlos Pezoa Velis / Gabriela Mistral) / Colombia (Jorge Isaacs / Jose Asuncion Silva / Guillermo Valencia / Luis Carlos Lopez / Costa Rica (Carlos Luis Saenz / Fernando Lujan) Mexico (Amado Nervo / Maria Enriqueta / Jaime Torres Bodet / Juana Ines de la Cruz / Joaquin Arcadio Pagaza / Francisco A de Icaza / etc.) / Nicaragua (Ruben Dario) , Peru (Manuel Gonzalez Prada / Jose Santos Chocano) / Uruguay (Fernan Silva Valdes / Emilio Oribe / Juana de Ibarbourou) / Venezuela (Rufino Blanco-Fombona) / Spain and Portugal (Juan Ruiz / Pedro Lopez de Ayala / Payo Gomez Charino / Auzias March / Garcilaso de la Vega / Juan Boscan / Santa Teresa de Jesus / Fernando de Herreira / Lope Felix de Vega Carpio / Tomas de Iriarte / Federico Garcia Lorca / Rafael Alberti / Manuel Altolaguirre / Adriano del Valle (Bullfight at Sevilla) / etc. etc. etc.].

New York, The Hispanic Society of America, 1938. 14 cm x 19 cm. XVI, 271 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Scratches to outer cloth covering. Browning of page edges.