21. Pasternak, Boris.

Doktor Zhivago. [Rare Original Russian Edition]

Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1959. Thick Octavo. [iv], 567, [1] pages. Original Hardcover / Publisher’s terra-cotta cloth with gilt lettering on spine. No jacket was issued for this book. In protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Second printing of the first authorized edition in Russian (preceded only by two CIA-sponsored, and virtually unobtainable, editions printed in Italy and distributed at the Brussels World Fair in the summer of 1958). Exlibris Janice Clark. Wonderful collectable !

22. Taylor, Tom / [Abraham Lincoln].

Exquisite collection of six (6) items/original, vintage and personal materials by/of Tom Taylor. The collection includes a 2 1/2 page, signed manuscript letter [MLS] by Tom Taylor to an unknown recipient , discussing a memorial he sent to Robert Browning’s patron, John Kenyon and mentioning former Prime Minister Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen]. The collection also includes two vintage 19th century cabinet photographs [Carte de Visite’s] of Tom Taylor, a later edition of Ballads and Songs of Brittany and two beautifully inscribed and signed presentation copies of his major works: 1. The first edition of Ballads of Brittany – London/Cambridge, MacMillan and Co.,1865 with many illustrations by Tissot, Tenniel etc. (This first edition is signed and inscribed by Tom Taylor to Emilia Ventana at Xmas 1864, before the publication of the book commenced) and 2. Tom Taylor’s Historical Dramas. London, Chatto & Windus, 1877. Signed and inscribed by Tom Taylor to Marie de Beauvoisier in March 1879.

London / Cambridge etc., Chatto & Windus / Routledge & Sons / etc., c. 1850-1879. Octavo. Ballads and Songs of Brittany (1865 edition): Frontispice, XXII, 239 pages / Ballads and Songs of Brittany (Later Routledge edition): XVI, 176 pages / Tom Taylor’s Historical Dramas: VIII, 466, 32 pages. / Manuscript Letter: 2 1/2 pages. Original Hardcover / The manuscript letter in a Folder, it includes an A4 manuscript leaf from a 19th century autograph-collector describing the letter by Taylor. / The two vintage cabinet photographs of Taylor included in the Folder with the autograph. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

23. [Musical Times / Jazz News / and others] / Hitching Collection.

Fantastic Collection of c. 750 (sevenhundredandfifty !) Issues of 20 important national and international Jazz & Classical Music – Magazines from the George Hitching Classical Music & Jazz Collection. The collection includes the following magazines: 1.″Classics” – The Review of Mid-Price and Budget Releases (10 issues / February 1992 – January 1993) / 2. “Music in the USSR” (6 Issues / July 1984 – March 1986) / 3. “Records and Recording” (5 Issues / 1970-1978) / 4. “Classical Music” – The Magazine of the Classical Music Profession (13 Issues / October 1997 – April 1998) / 5. “Opus” – The Classical Music Magazine (10 Issues / October 1986 – April 1988) / 6. “Musical America” – The Journal of Classical Music incorporating “Opus” (basically the follow-up magazine for Opus) (7 Issues – July 1988 – July 1989) / 7. “The Musical Times” (23 Issues (August 1993 – September 1995) / 8. “Organists’ Review” (37 Issues between March 1989 – November 2003) [including several IAO News which came with the “Organist’s Review”] / 9. “International Piano” (98 Issues published between Summer 2000 – October 2017) / 10. “International Record Review” (150 Issues between March 2000 – March 2015 plus one old issue from March 1970) / 11. “Slovak Music (5 Issues from 1990 – 1991) / 12. The Dvorak Society – For Czech and Slovak Music (Year-Book from 1991 – 1996 plus one issue – special edition UK and Ireland Tour 12-29 September 1991) / 13. “Czech Music” (8 Issues between Spring 1989 – Winter 1994) / 14. “The Monthly Letter – A Critical Review of recent Recordings” – (More than 250 Issues from October 1950 – November 1967) AND (January 1971 – December 1979) AND then going forward under a new name: “The Monthly Guide to Recorded Music” – January 1981 – December 1984) / 15. “International Classical Record Collector ICRC / Classical Recordings Quarterly CRQ (The World’s Leading Review of Vintage Classical Recordings” [The Review of Historic Recordings] (70 Issues published between May 1995 – Spring 2012) – This is always the same Magazine – edited by the wonderful Tully Potter with a few new owners in-between issues Autumn 2002 and Spring 2008 / 16. “International Piano Quarterly” – (11 Issues from the first issue in Autumn 1997 – Winter 2000) / 17. “International Opera Collector” – (13 Issues from Autumn 1996 – Autumn 1999) / 18. “The Pianola Journal” – The Journal of the Pianola Institute (21 Issues from No1. in 1987 – No. 21 in 2010 / 19. “Jazz Journal (28 Issues from March 1979 – March 1989) / 20. “Jazz News” – Ireland’s Jazz & Blues Magazine (14 Issues from No.1 in December 1986 – No.4 August 1989)

1950-2015. Octavo – Quarto. More than 30000 pages na dillustrations on classical music and Jazz within some of the most important musical Magazines of the second part of the 20th century. Original Softcover Magazines. All in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per DHL Express Courier.

24. [Palme, Olof]

Fataburen – Nordiska Museets och Skansens Arsbok [signed and inscribed by former swedish prime minister Olof Palme to english theatre director Peter Ashmore: “To Peter – A Great Englishman and a true friend of Sweden – Your friend Olof Palme”].

1973. Octavo. 206 pages with several photographs. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

25. [John Minihan Collection] – [Heaney, Seamus] Minihan, John.

First Day Cover of the commemorative stamp for Seamus Heaney. Signed by irish photographer John Minihan, whose portrait of Heaney was used for the stamp. The first day cover is illustrated with a quote from Heaney’s “Bogland”: “We have no prairies – To slice a big sun at evening – Everywhere the eye concedes to – Encroaching horizon…”

Dublin, Anpost, 2014. 19 cm x 13 cm. 1 page. Original Softcover. Excellent condition. Signed and dated by John Minihan on August 28th, 2014.

26. [Auerbach, Frank] Hughes, Frank.

Frank Auerbach. With 174 illustrations in duotone and 80 in color.

London, Thames & Hudson, 1990. 4°. 240 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition.

27. Smorkaloff, Pamela Maria.

If I Could Write This in Fire – An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean. Edited by Pamela Maria Smorkaloff.

New York, The New Press, 1994. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. X, 374 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Book design by Acme Art, Inc. Jacket design by Brian Boyce. Very fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

28. [Inanna / Ishtar] De Shong Meador, Betty / Grahn, Judy.

Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart : Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess.

Austin, University of Texas Press, 2001. Octavo. 225 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. New / Excellent condition.

29. [Inanna / Ishtar] Wolkstein, Diana / Kramer, Samuel Noah.

Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth – Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer.

Harper Perennial, 1983. Octavo. 256 pages. Original, illustrated softcover. New / Excellent condition.

30. [Kandinsky, Wassily] Weiss, Peg.

Kandinsky in Munich – The Formative Jugendstil Years [The Formative Art Nouveau Years].

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1985. 8°. XXI, 268 pages text and 156 illustrations on plates. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.