3511. [John Minihan Collection] – [Beckett, Samuel] / [Minihan, John] – Wakeman, John and Hilary.

The Shop – A Magazine of Poetry – Issue number 8 / Spring 2002 [Specially signed John Minihan – Samuel Beckett – Issue with cover illustration bearing the rare color-photograph of Samuel Becket by John Minihan showing Beckett in his Hyde Park Hotel-Room in London, 1980. Also included in this issue is a black-and-white photograph of Beckett, printed opposite David Wheatley’s essay “Beckett’s Last Word”].

Dublin, THE SHOP, 2002. 20,5 cm x 24 cm. 77 pages with illustrations by Hammond Journeaux, Mary Norman, Joakim Saeflund, Rody Treacy and photographs by John Minihan Original, illustrated Softcover. Signed by John Minihan on the cover. Rare !

3512. [Stanley Cavell Collection] – Cavell, Stanley [Stanley Louis Goldstein].

Collection of important and rare publications by and on american philosopher Stanley Cavell. The books in this collection originate from the personal library of Stanley Cavell, his friends Victor and Jacqueline, as well as from the library of philosopher Graham Parkes [Please see each title described and photographed in our section “Libraries & Collections” and search for “Stanley Cavell Collection”]. The collection includes: 1. Must We Mean What We Say ? – Modern philosophical essays in morality, religion, drama, music and criticism. First Edition, 1969. Signed and inscribed by Stanley Cavell / 2. Stanley Bates and Ted Cohen – More on what we say. First Edition. Chicago, Middlebury College, 1972 / 3. Cavell, Stanley – Themes out of School. Effects and Causes. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1984. Signed and inscribed by Stanley Cavell / 4. Cavell, Stanley. The World Viewed – Reflections on the Ontology of Film. New York, The Viking Press, 1971. Signed and inscribed by Stanley Cavell in the year 1971, to his friends Victor and Jacqueline / 5. [Cavell, Stanley] Oksenberg Rorty, Amélie. The Many Faces of Philosophy. Reflections from Plato to Arendt. First Edition. Oxford and others, Oxford University Press, 2003. Signed and inscribed by the Editor to Cavell. / 6. [Cavell, Stanley] – Massimo Cacciari – Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture – Stanley Cavell’s personal copy with notes and annotations. / 7. [Cavell, Stanley] Desan, Wilfrid – The Tragic Finale – An Essay on the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre – with interesting annotations and textmarkings by Stanley Cavell / 8. Cavell, Stanley. Pursuits of Happiness – the Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1981. From the librray of philosopher Graham Parkes / 9.Cavell, Stanley. The World Viewed- Reflections on the Ontology of Film. Enlarged Edition. Massachusetts, Harvard Universaity Press, 1979. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

New York / Cambridge / and others, Charles Scribner’s Sons / Harper / Yale University Press / Oxford University Press / Viking Press etc., 1969-2003. Large Octavo (17 cm x 23,5 cm). XXIX, 365 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth / Softcover. All books in very good or better condition; many signed or inscribed. A rare opportunity to look into the mind of an important philosophical thinker through his annotations and notes, especially in the book on Sartre.

3513. Day, Angelique (Editor).

Letters from Georgian Ireland: The correspondence of Mary Delany, 1731-68. Edited by Angelique Day. Foreword by Sybil Connolly.

Belfast, The Friar’s Bush Press, 1991. Octavo. VIII, 303 p ages with 66 black & white illustrations plus 16 color plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

3514. Cardiff Bay Development Corporation.

Renaissance – The Story of Cardiff Bay 1987-2000.

Cardiff, Cardiff Bay Development Corporation. 2000. 24,5 x 34,5 cm. 144 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

3515. [John Minihan Collection] – 100 Years National Geographic Centennial Issue [1888 – 1988].

Reporting on “the world and all that is in it” [Alexander Graham Bell, 1914] / With the wonderful photo-essay by Jane Livingston: “The Art of Photography at National Geographic”

First Edition. Washington D.C., National Geographic Society, 1988. 24.5cm x 19cm. 433 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of irish photographer John Minihan. Cover signed by John Minihan.

3516. [John Minihan Collection] – [Minihan, John] Mannion, Michael B.

Michael B. Mannion – The Bard of Kensington – Vintage Vinyl with an early cover – photograph of Mannion by John Minihan. Including John Minihan’s signature and brief titleing of the Record.

London, Tuba Press, 1982. Original Vinyl with original Vinyl in protective sleeve. Some signs of wear but overall in very good condition. SIGNED by John Minihan.

3517. [Roberts, William] [Exlibris Gulielme (sic) Roberts] Bonnechose, Émile de / L.Dussieux (cartographer).

Géographie Physique, Historique et Politique de la France avec dix-huit cartes coloriées représentant la formation successive du Royaume.

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1847. Octavo (14 cm x 23 cm). V, (2), 104 pages, suivies de 18 cartes aux contours colorisés, de la France dans ses états successifs (104 pages plus 18 hand-coloured maps of France by L.Dussieux showing France through its History, with special maps showing historical military events with England etc. Original Softcover. Spine rubbed and slightly damaged. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of preowner William Roberts in pencil on titlepage [being William Roberts of the irish family Westropp-Roberts].

3518. [Walter Benjamin Collection] – [Benjamin, Walter] Bertaux, Félix / Hermann Kesten (Herausgeber).

Neue französische Erzähler.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1930. Octavo. 369 Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Verlagsleinen. Minimal berieben und etwas fleckig. Bindung firm und innen sauber und tadellos. Signiert von Hermann Kesten auf dem Titelblatt im Jahr 1967. Die bedeutende Anthologie mit Walter Benjamin’s Übersetzung der Einleitung durch Felix Bertaux sowie Walter Benjamin’s Übersetzung des Texts von Marcel Jouhandeau: “Fräulein Zeline oder Gottes Glück zum Gebrauch eines alten Fräuleins”.

3519. Mallett.

Mallet – English and Continental Antique Furniture and Objets d’Art.

London, Mallett, 1995. 21,5 x 28 cm. 95 pages. Original Softcover in original dustjacket. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

3520. Martin, Robert Montgomery.

The British Colonies; Their History, Extent, Condition and Resources. 6 Volumes bound in 3 Volumes (Text only without maps and illustrations). The Set includes: Volume I – British North America / Volume II – Australia / Volume III – New Zealand, Tasmania / Volume IV – Africa and the West Indies / Volume V – British India / Volume VI – Ceylon, East India and Meditteranean Settlements /

First Edition. London and New York, The London Printing and Publishing Company [that was J. and F. Tallis], no year (c. 1850). Quarto (20 cm x 27 cm). Volume I (British North America [Canada / USA]): Frontispice illustrated titlepage, XXIV, 360 pages with pages 1 – 9 missing / Volume II (Australia): pages 361 – 744 pages / Volume III (New Zealand / Tasmania): II, 384 pages. / Volume IV (Africa and the West Indies): II, 188 pages / Volume V (British India): II, 564 pages with pages 455 – 456 missing / Volume VI (Ceylon, East India and Mediterranean Settlements): II, 172 pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative publisher’s halfleather with gilt lettering and ornament to spines. Bindings rubbed but overall in firm and very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All maps and illustrations besides one illustration removed by a previous owner. In the course of removal of maps and illustrations, one page slightly torn and 11 pages of text missing. This is still one of the most important text-sources of British Colonial History, itsevaluation in Britain and a plethora of data on economical and political impact the Colonies had for the former Empire. No other contemporary 19th century publication includes details on colonial produce, movement of population and local History from Tasmania to Quebec, from Hong Kong to Heligoland (Helgoland), and in general on the depition of “England, the ‘Nursing Mother’ of Nations” (Introductory page XXIV by Montgomery Martin).