7041. Somerville-Large, Peter.

Irish Eccentrics – A Selection.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975. Octavo. VIII, 286 pages with several illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

7042. Somerville-Large, Peter / Fiennes, Mark (photographer).

The Grand Irish Tour.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1982. 19 cm x 25 cm. 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

7043. Somerville, E. OE. / Ross, Martin (Edith Somerville and Violet Martin).

The Big House of Inver.

London / Melbourne / New York, Quartet Books, 1978. 11 x 20cm. 312 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name on half-title page.

7044. Somerville, E. OE. / Ross, Martin.

The Real Charlotte.

London / New York, Quartet Books, 1986. 12.5 x 20cm. 344 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear to spine. Inscribed with previous owner’s name.

7045. Somerville, E. Œ. [Edith].

Slipper’s ABC of Fox Hunting. By E.OE. Somerville, M.F.H. Joint Author of “Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.”, “A Patrick’s Day Hunt”, &c. [With the printed dedication: “Dedicated in token of ancient friendship to The West Carbery Hounds”].

London / New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. Folio (31 cm wide x 39.4 cm high). 85 pages with opposing full-page plates in colour. Original Hardcover with illustrated cover in protective Mylar. Binding a little shaky but overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. One page detached. A rare and complete set of this wonderful work of caricature of West Cork Hunts and Local People, familiar to Edith Somerville.

7046. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin [Violet Martin].

A Patrick’s Day Hunt. [Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans].

Westminster [London], Archibald Constable & Co., no year [c.1902]. Oblong Folio. 47 pages with eight (8) plates in colour and several illustrations in black-and-white. Original, illustrated Hardcover, now in professional colloctor’s Mylar. Some of the plates with some minor staining, one plate cleanly detached. But all plates in wonderful and vibrant condition overall (see photographs).

7047. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin (that is Violet Martin).

Notions in Garrison. [SIGNED by Edith Somerville]. Illustrated Edith Œ. S[omerville].

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1941. Octavo (17.8 cm wide x 21.3 cm high). IX, 134 pages with ten illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The very rare dustjacket with some fraying and staining. Beautifully signed by Edith Somerville on the titlepage.

7048. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin (that is Violet Martin).

Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. [Inscribed / Signed by Violet Martin] Illustrated by W.W. Russell, from ‘Sketches by Edith Œ. Somerville’.

London, W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1893. 19.8cm x 13cm. vii, 200 (33) pages with several illustrations. Original publisher’s binding (the red cloth variant),decoratively illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Good condition still with the binding shaky and the cover stroonger rubbed. Front free endpaper sellotaped. One of the very rare occasions in which Violet Martin signed with her full name, a few months prior to the books official publication in November 1892. Very rare, early Edith Somerville and Martin Ross (Violet Martin) title !

7049. [Somes, Michael].

Michael Somes. With Forty-Four Illustrations.

First Edition. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1955. 19cm x 25cm. 32 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Dustjacket attached to the binding. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money.

7050. Sommer, Christian.

Grundlage zu einem vollkommenen Staat.

[Nachdruck der Ausgabe] Köln 1802. [Königstein], Scriptor, 1979. 20 cm. 256 Seiten. Hardcover (Leinen). Neuwertig (noch in Folie eingeschweißt). [Scriptor-Reprints : Aufklärung und Revolution : Dt. Texte 1790 – 1810.]

7051. Sommer, James van / Spohr, Louis / Keller, Karl / Beethoven, Ludwig van / Hummel, Johann Nepomuk / Weber, Carl Maria von / Eberwein, Traugott Maximilian / etc.

Manuscript of: “Songs &c., chiefly by German Composers. With English Words by James van Sommer, by whom also the Music was ruled and transcribed”. / 19th century Manuscript by british composer James van Sommer with transcriptions of German Lieder in poetry form and score. Marvellous original manuscript with early transcriptions into english of some unusual composers. The manuscript in a beautiful and steady hand in ink/ Originales Manuskript von Transkriptionen teilweise ungewoehnlicher Lieder deutscher und europaeischer Komponisten des spaeten 18. und fruehen 19.Jahrhunderts. Wundervolle, sehr akkurate Handschrift.

[England, possibly Hoxton], James van Sommer, 1837. Octavo. 157 pages. Modern, unsophisticated Hardcover with new endpapers. Excellent condition.

7052. [Songling, Pu], Zeitlin, Judith.

Historian of the Strange – Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale.

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1993. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 332 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7053. Sontag, Frederick.

Love Beyond Pain: Mysticism Within Christianity.

New York / Ramsey / Toronto, Paulist Press, 1977. 13.5 x 20cm. 137 pages. Original softcover. Some signs of external wear, internally in very good condition.

7054. Sophokles.

Antigone. Eine Tragödie. Übertragen von August Böckh.

Leipzig, Insel Verlag, unbekannt. 12 x 18,5 cm. 61 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. [Insel-Bücherei]

7055. Sorensen, Donna.

Dream Country.

First Edition. Dublin, New Island, 2013. Octavo. XIV, 50 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Press Release is loosely inserted.

7056. Sorescu, Marin.

Abendrot N[umme]r 15. Gedichte.

München/Zürich, Piper, 1985. 8°. 123 S. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. [1. – 2. Tsd.] 1985. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren (Umschlag mit kleinem Einriss/Minimal lichtrandig). KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Besitzvermerk oder sonstige Eintragungen.

7057. Sorkin, Michael (ed.).

The Next Jerusalem. Sharing a Divided City.

New York, The Monacelli Press, 2002. 18.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 431 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7058. Soseki, Natsume.

Light and Darkness. An Unfinished Novel by Natsume Soseki.

New York, Perigee Books, 1971. 8°. 397 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

7059. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co.

Catalogue Of Children’s Books Drawings And Juvenilia. No. 6 of 1977/78. (including the list of estimates). / The Property of J.R.Bailey / A. Bancroft / Mrs. R. Woodhead / Mrs. J.Hancock / Commander P.L.Johns.

London, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1977. 15,5 cm x 24,5 cm. 138 pages, [16] plates. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7060. Sotheby’s.

Dance – Theatre – Opera – Cabaret – Costume and Decor Designs, Drawings, Photographs and Books. Illustrated Catalogue Date of Sale Thursday 6 December 1979 [accompanied by the list of results for this Sale].

First Edition. New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet and Co, 1979. 18cm x 24.5cm. 110 unnumbered pages. Original Paperback. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money.