31. [John Minihan Collection] – [Minihan, John].

“John Minihan’s Beckett Photographs” [in: Magazine “Ireland of the Welcomes” / SIGNED by John Minihan].

2001. Quarto. Fantastic 8-page article with beautifully reproduced colour-photographs of a happy Samuel Beckett. Softcover. From the personal library of John Minihan !

32. Rawls, John / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

“Justice as Fairness” [First Edition of the First Appearance of John Rawls’ Theory of “Justice as Fairness” which would lead to “A Theory of Justice”. This is the very rare Double Number of the separate Double Number-Issue in its original wrappers-version; Provenance: from the library of John Rawls’ friend, Henry David Aiken. [in: “The Journal of Philosophy” – Volume LIV. No.222: October 24, 1957 (Double Number) – Contents: American Philosophical Association Eastern Division – Symposium Papers – To be presented at the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting, Harvard University, December 27-29, 1957: Symposium: “Justice a Fairness” – I. “Justice as Fairness”: John Rawls [pages 653 – 651] / II.Justice as Fairness: “A Modernized Version of the Social Contract”: Everett W. Hall [pages 662 – 669] / Symposium: “The Evidence for Esthetic Judgment” – I. “The Importance of a Choice of Context”: Mortimer R. Kadish [pages 670 – 678] / II. On the Grounds of Esthetic Judgment: Albert Hofstadter [pages 679 – 687] / Symposium: “Substance and Form in Aristotle” – I. “Substance and Form in Aristotle”: Wilfrid Sellars [pages 688 – 698] / II. Forms of Particular Substances in Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Rogers Albritton [pages 699 – 707]//

New York, The Journal of Philosophy, 1957. Octavo. pages 653 – 712. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only and some mild staining to front and rear wrapper. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

33. Arens, Hiltrud.

“Kulturelle Hybridität” in der deutschen Minoritätenliteratur der achtziger Jahre.

Tübingen, Stauffenburg-Verl, 2000. 23 cm. 256 Seiten. Softcover / Broschierte Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar. [Stauffenburg discussion ; Bd. 12].

34. [Benjamin, Walter].

“L’Oeuvre d’art à l’époque de sa reproduction mécanisée” [First Edition of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, surely the most important work on cultural criticism ever written and here available in its first printing within Volume I of Jahrgang V, 1936 [Annual V, 1936] of the “Zeitschrift fuer Sozialforschung”]. All three Volumes of the very rare “Jahrgang V” are present with one Volume bearing the name of Walter Benjamin’s friend Alfred Sohn-Rethel on the cover]. This most spectacular provenance is not the only surprise but the 1936-set of “Jahrgang V” came to us as part of a nearly complete set of the Zeitschrift fuer Sozialforschung [24 Issues printed in 22 Issues with only three issues missing (Jahrgang I, Heft 1 und Heft 2 und Jahrgang IX, Heft 1)] and the Periodical does not only include all the Volumes with Benjamin’s Essays but one of the issues is actually an original “File Copy” of the “Institute for Research in Social Science” and one issue is stamped “New School Library – Aug 26 1940” and another from the “William Graham Sumner Club at the Sociology Department / Yale University”.

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1936. Octavo. Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. The Volume which includes the First Edition of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in stunning condition. Three Volumes with stronger signs of wear and all other Volumes in good, very good+ or even better condition. Fantastic provenance also of the Issue 3 of Jahrgang V in 1936 which bears Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s name. Sohn-Rethel’s possession of this issue is not only plausible but reflects all the developments known in critical writings of the Frankfurt School and is the exact time in which he tried, through his friendship with Adorno, to find a philosophical home within the Institute for Social Research. An endeavour which eventually failed through the intervention of Horkheimer but this would not have stopped him to follow the path of the Institute in Exile and its seminal Periodical. We can NOT determine if the other issues belonged to Sohn-Rethel as well. [More images on request].

35. Institut Francais de Francfort.

“Les buvards de Francine” – Werbung der 50er Jahre auf Löschblättern.

Frankfurt, Institut Francais de Francfort, 1991. 8°. 31 Seiten. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand.

36. Schmidt, Arno.

“Lesen ist schrecklich !” [Hörbuch]. Vorgelesen von Joachim Kersten, Bernd Rauschenbach und Jan Philipp Reemtsma. Live aufgenommen am 8.Februar 1998 im Rabenloft im Steinfelsareal in Zurich.

Zurich, Haffmanns Verlag / Raben-Records, 1998. 14 cm x 12.5 cm. 1 CD mit Booklet (2 Seiten). Original Softcover. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren.

37. [Clandillon, Seamus / Hannaga, Margaret].

“Londubh an Chairn” Being Songs of the Irish Gaels. In Staff and Sol-Fa / With English metrical translations. Edited by Maighread Ni Annaga agus Seamus de Chlanndioluin.

First Edition. Volume I (All Published). London / Oxford / Edinburgh etc., Published for the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust by the Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1927. Quarto (21.5 cm wide x 28.2 cm high). XII, 36, 150 pages [with scores and notations]. With the often missing Errata-Leaf. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

38. [Bloody Sunday / Pamphlet plus Rare original Letters and Witness Statements of members of “The Association of Irish Priests” Priests who were eyewitnesses to the Bloody Sunday Events].

“Massacre at Derry” [Pamphlet] plus: Typed Letter and Typed Statements by Donal Flanagan (Secretary of the Central Committee of the Association of Irish Priests) and original Typescript-Statements by the Association of Irish Pries: Typescript 1: “Documentation on the Situation in the North of Ireland” [″Statement on ‘Violence’ by the Ulster Branch of the Association of Irish Priests”] (3 pages) / Typescript 2: “Statement issued by seven priests who were in Derry’s Bogside during the Shootings on 30th January 1972” (″We accuse the Colonel of the Parachute Regiment of wilful murder…..It is untrue that shots were fired at the troops in Rossville Street before they attacked….signed (typed) by Reverends Anthony Mulvey, Edward Daly, G.McLaughlin, Denis Bradley, Michael McIvor, Thomas O’Gara) / Typescript 3: “Letter of Reverend Terence M.O’Keefe, Secretary Ulster Branch, Association of Irish Priests (Published in ‘Irish Press’, 5 February 1972 (″May i be permitted the use of your columns to give account of what i personally witnessed in Derry on Sunday afternoon”….″hen the Paratroopers arrived to us, Fr. Bradley and myself were refused permission on three occasions to attend to the wounded and dying, this with the most foul abuse and some blows from rifle butts”…″I was brought to a lorry, batoned in into it and taken to the army base on the Strand road….I find myself with bruised legs, arm and some back pain…I was lucky….Many others from the second lorry-load had faces smashed and heads cracked during their journey to the army centre….I might, perhaps, be counted as a reasonably credible witness as a Roman Catholic Priest, a university lecturer (in philosophy) and at present Dean of the School of Humanities at the New University of Ulster. I suppose that at present my feelings are of sickness, disgust and, I am afraid, anger. All I can hope is that some time in the future forgiveness and love will replace these. Till then is it too much to ask that the truth be told and that Westminster face the question of responsibility for what I personally, can only see as callous and brutal murder?” (Signed (Typed): Terence M.O’Keefe) /

First Edition (possibly only edition). Derry & Maynooth, Civil Rights Movement & Letters and Staments form Priest of St.Patrick’s College (Maynooth) and the Association of Irish Priests (Eagras Sagart Eireann), 1972. Octavo. Pamphlet: 48 pages / Typed Letter and Statements: “Letter by Donal Flanagan”: 1 page / “Documentation on the Situation in the North of Ireland”: 3 pages / “Statement by Seven Priests”: 1 page / “Letter of Reverend Terence O’Keefe”: 2 pages. Stapled, original, illustrated softcover pamphlet and stapled Letters/Statements. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely rare Pamphlet but even rarer original documents from the Priest of Maynooth College in Protest of the events of Bloody Sunday and a general analysis of the Situation in the North (Sociological Analysis). Extremely scarce collection.

39. Shaw, Kevin.

“Mates” – Images of the Kimberley.

Melbourne, (Victoria), Australian Scholarly Publications., 2003. 24 x 25 cm. XIII, 119 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by photographer Kevin Shaw in April 2004.

40. [Christo].

“MEIN KÖLNER DOM WRAPPED” (Project for 1980 by Christo), Chapter in Exhibition-Catalogue: “MEIN KÖLNER DOM” Zeitgenössische Künstler sehen den Kölner Dom. 3. Katalog d. Ausstellung d. Kölnischen Kunstvereins u. des Museum Ludwig. Bearb. v. D. Teuber.

Cologne, 1980. Quarto. 173 pages. Illustrated throughout. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.