1411. [McAfee, Mildred Helen] de la Mare, Walter.

Ding Dong Bell.

London, Selwyn & Blount Ltd., 1924. 13 cm x 19 cm. IX, 76 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and fully signed by de La Mare to American academic Mildred Helen McAfee Horton on front free endpaper: “Helen McAfee with all good wishes from Walter de la Mare – June 1924”.

1412. Buchner, Ernst / Feuchtmayr, Karl.

Oberdeutsche Kunst der Spätgotik und Reformationszeit [Including a section on Jerg Ratgeb’s “Passover Meal”, one of the earliest depictions of Passover in the History of Art].

Augsburg, Benno Filser, 1924. Quarto (25 cm wide x 32 cm high). 322 pages with Illustrations throughout. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s cloth. [Provenance: Ex Libris Julius Böhler. With a rare original Bookplate showing Pallas Athena in front of the “Cathedral of our dear Lady” in Munich (Frauenkirche zu München)]. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [Beiträge zur Geschichte der Dt. Kunst, Band I].

1413. Moore, George.

Conversations in Ebury Street. [With an interesting full-page manuscript letter by George Moore, written in ink into the book verso titlepage].

Second edition. New York, Boni and Liveright, Inc., 1924. 14.5 x 21.5cm. 315 pages. Original hardcover with spine label. Deckled edges. With a fantastic, full-page, signed message written inside the book by George Moore. Very good – condition of the binding with signs of external wear (some spotting). Moore responds in his manuscript note on the halftitle possibly to the request of Frieda Lawrence, wife of D.H.Lawrence, who requested a copy of Moore’s book “The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe”. Moore sent her instead this edition.

1414. [100 Years Buddenbrooks in America] Mann, Thomas.

Buddenbrooks. [First American Edition in stunning condition with an amazing, signed Letter by Thomas Mann, thanking an admirer for reflecting on reading his masterpiece “Buddenbrooks”. Signed on 21st of June 1940, on personalized stationery of Thomas Mann from Princeton, New Jersey, Mann wrote: “Thank you for writing to me and for telling me that you liked ‘Buddenbrooks’ when you read it recently at Colby College. It gave me pleasure, too, to know that you heard my daughter Erika lecture and had ‘thoroughly enjoyed’ yourself. With all good wishes, yours sincerely. Thomas Mann” ]. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter [American Translator Mrs. Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter].

Two Volumes (complete set). New York, Knopf, 1924. Octavo. 389, 359 pages. Original Hardcover with the very rare, original dustjackets in breathtaking condition (now in protective collector’s Mylar). Unusually Fine condition with the meaningful letter by Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann.

1415. Pearse, Pádraic H.

Plays – Poems – Stories.

Sixth Edition. Dublin/Cork/Belfast, The Phoenix Publishing Co., [1924]. 8°. Portrait of Pearse as Frontispiz, XIX, 340, VIII pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Preowner’s name on endpaper (″Katie O’Shea”). [Collected Works of Pádraic H. Pearse].

1416. Yeats, W.B.

Drømmerier over barneår og ungdom. [First Danish Edition of “Reveries over Childhood and Youth”]. Oversat af Valdemar Rørdam.

København/Kristiania, Haase/Cammermeyer, 1924. Octavo. 180 pages. Original softcover / Publisher’s printed wrappers. The very fragile wrappers in unusually, very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of former owner William Borberg on titlepage. Rare !

1417. Meinecke, Friedrich.

Die Idee der Staatsräson in der neueren Geschichte.

Erste Ausgabe. München / Berlin, Druck und Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, 1924. 15 cm x 22 cm. 542 Seiten. Original Hardcover. Sehr schoene Ausgabe in der originalen Verlagsleinen-Bindung. Sehr gut erhaltenes, ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar in welchem die alten Besitzvermerke mit dezenten Schildchen fachmaennisch unkenntlich gemacht wurden. Sehr gut erhalten. Innen ganz sauber, ohne Eintragungen.

1418. [Beethoven, Ludwig van] Leitzmann, Albert.

Beethoven’s Briefe. In Auswahl herausgegeben von Albert Leitzmann.

Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1924. Octavo. XIX, 307 Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Leinenband mit verziertem und vergoldetem Einbandrücken. Außergewöhnlich guter Erhaltungszustand. Namenseintrag und Adresse des Vorbesitzers auf dem Vorsatzblatt.

1419. Stanton, Hervey de.

Michaelhouse – Notes on the History of Michaelhouse published on the 600th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Society.

(Cambridge), Printed Privately, 1924. 4°. IV, 61 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. Interior excellent. Loosely inserted an ephemera leaflet: “With the compliments of the Master and Fellows” (on stationery of Trinity College, Cambridge).

1420. Kraus, Karl.

Sprüche und Widersprüche.

4. bis 6. Tausend. Wein-Lepizig, Verlag Die Fackel, 1924. 12 cm x 19 cm. 272 Seiten. Original Hardcover. Aussergewoehnlich guter Zustand. Nur der Einbandruecken leicht verblichen.