41. Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Jakob Ludwig Felix.

Collection / Sammelband of original, printed scores. The Volume contains the following scores: I. “Symphony No. 3” – Composed and Dedicated by Permission to her most gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, arranged as a Piano Forte Duett, by the author. Op. 56 (67 pages) London, Published by J.J.Ewer & Co., [c. 1860] / II. “Overture to Melusine”. Arranged for Piano Forte, composed by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Op. 32 (17 pages) London, Cramer, Addison & Beale, [c. 1839] / III. “Caprice”, for the Piano Forte, composed by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. (15 pages) London, Cramer, Addison and Beale, [c. 1840] / IV. “Fantasia” on a Favourite Irish Melody for the Piano Forte. Composed by F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Op. 15) – 8 pages, London, Cramer, Addison & Beale, [c. 1840] / V. “Two Musical Sketches” for the Piano Forte. Composed by F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy. 7 pages – London, Cramer, Addison & Beale, [c. 1840] / VI. “Capriccio for the Piano Forte. Composed & Dedicated to Miss Honoria Taylor. By F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Op. 16) No. 2; 4 pages – London, Cramer, Addison & Beale, [c. 1840] / VII. “The Rivulet” Rondino for the Piano Forte. Composed and Dedicated to Miss Susan Taylor, by F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Op. 16) – No. 3; 4 pages – London, Cramer, Addison & Beale, [c.1840] / VIII. “Twenty-Seven Melodies” by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, arranged for the Piano – Forte from his Ops. 8 and 9. In Four Books:– Book I, II, III and IV (13, 13, 13, 13 pages) – London, Ewer & Co., [c. 1840] All the four books have separate titlepages / IX. “Six two-part Songs, for Female Voices with Accompaniments of the Piano – Forte, composed by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Op. 63) – 29 pages; London, J.J.Ewer * Co., [c. 1840] / X. “The Garland”, by Thomas Moore Esq. Set to Music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. 5 pages; London, J.J.Ewer & Co., [c. 1840] //

London, Ewer / Addison / Beale and others, [c.1840 – 1863]. Folio. c 180 pages. Modern Hardcover, beautiful half morocco with gilt lettering on spine and marbled paper covered boards. Original Softcover, engraved scores bound in. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only three of the scores with some tears, one with a dampstain ! Overall an extremely attractive compilation of Mendelssohn’s work in a recent mster-binding. Highly collectable and a beautiful gift ! Ask for multiple images.

42. 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 !

43. Radcliffe, Ann.

The Mysteries of Udolpho – A Romance; interspersed with some pieces of Poetry.

First Dublin Edition / First Irish Edition. 3 Volumes [complete set]. Dublin, , by Hillary and Barlow, for Messrs. P. Wogan, W. Jones, and H. Colbert, 1794. Small Octavo (17.5 cm x 11 cm). Collation complete: Volume I: 310 pages / Volume II: 321 pages / Volume III: 357 pages. [Few pages with misprinted numerals, as often the case, but all pages in order and complete]. Original, unaltered, 18th-century full leather with gilt lettering on original spinelabels. Very rare, complete set of the first Dublin Edition. Very good- condition with stronger signs of external wear but all three Volumes in firm, original condition. Lesions to the leather-covered-boards and some stronger rubbing to extremeties. Interior with only very few problems. All three Volumes used to have two endpapers before and after the text and some of these endpapers are torn or missing. Textblock in general very good with some very minor and only occasional staining only. In Volume I, tear to corner of page 101/102 and 135/136. Faded stain to only the outer margins of pages 239 to 310 (text never affected). Volume II with small tear to pages 21/22 / Volume III with lesion to page 281/282 and tear to corner 305. These all sound worse than they are and the set is still in very good- condition. From the library of the Meade family in Ballymartle, the titlepage of each Volume bears the name of Helena Meade. An extremely rare and highly collectable set of one of the rarest titles in english literature.

44. Rooney, Hubert E.

The Well-Known Songs of Ireland. [Forty Songs] Edited and arranged by Hubert E. Rooney.

Dublin, James Duffy & Co. Ltd., (1905). Quarto. 85 pages with 40 songs (text and set to music). Beautiful modern half leather with marbled – paper – covered boards. Bound by Dublin bookbinder J.F.Newman with the original printed wrappers. The volume is now in protective collector’s mylar ! Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare in this excellent condition. The paper of this publication is notoriously frail and was professionally restored and strengthened. With an inscription in gaelic by one William de Teal (Tipperary) in July 1911.

45. Sendak, Maurice (1928 – 2012).

Collection / Archive of three (3) very large gicleé prints of original drawings from the book “Where the Wild Things are” by Maurice Sendak of which one is beautifully signed by Maurice Sendak. The collection includes: ‘Off to Bed without their Supper’ (signed) / ‘Let the Wild Rumpus Start’ (I and II).

Gicleé prints. [New York], [Harper and Row], c.1975. Two prints measure: 37 cm x 60 cm / The signed print measures: 28 cm x 50 cm. Very good condition.

46. Sendak, Maurice (1928 – 2012).

Collection / Archive of two very rich and personal, handwritten & signed letters on cards by Sendak, plus a rare, multi-folded, advertising-leporello of Maurice Sendak’s publications, together with a wonderful collection of fourteen (14) loose gicleé prints of original drawings by Maurice Sendak in colour or black and white: ‘A Kiss for Little Bear’ x 2 (26.5 cm x 34.5 cm) / ‘Zlateh the Goat’ x 2 (24 cm x 30 cm and 37.5 cm x 30 cm) / ‘Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present’ x 1 (33.4 cm x 41.5 cm) / Lullabies and Night Songs’ x 2 (35 cm x 26.5 cm and 44.5 cm x 33.5 cm) / ‘Hector Protector’ x 1 (46 cm x 26 cm) / ‘In the Night Kitchen’ x 4 (50 cm x 36 cm) / Higglety Pigglety Pop x 2 (28 cm x 35.5 cm). The two cards are addressed to “Minnie” [that is “Minnie Kate”] and were written at Christmas 1986 and Christmas 1987. According to a colleague in the trade, who helped us to identify the recipient “Minnie”, Minnie Kate, together with her mother, maintained a long friendship with Maurice Sendak by sending him colored stones or rocks that they sourced from local beaches in the northwest of the United States (Washington Statel). Most of Maurice Sendak’s correspondence with Minnie Kate and her mother, is preserved at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia. Both cards are similar in content. One of the cards featuring Sendak’s art from the cover of Nutcracker and addressed to Minnie, reading in part “I worked all year on a picture-book – a Grimm tale (my first book in 8 years !!). I am in love with it and it gets published next year….my wild things celebrate their 25th anniversary. I hope i enjoy it all. Am hoping for a quiet year ahead illustrating a Grimm tale and staying put – I am tired of travelling and theatre projects. And look forward to creeping back into my old role as book illustrator” / “The rocks arrived while I was away working in England. They are wonderful, of course, and very much appreciated. Thank you again and again. My animals. I have but one. My darling Golden Retriever, Io, had to be put to sleep 2 weeks ago. She was 15 1/2 and I held her and stayed with her to the end. It is so sad, naturally, but the memory fills me with a kind of joy. I have a 3 1/2 year old German Shepherd named Runge after a German painter (19th century). It was anything but a lazy year – too full! This coming year will be lazy-ish”.

Letters: 4 pages on two cards / Gicleé prints: 15 sheets (unsigned). [New York], 1986 – 1987. Very good condition.

47. 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.

48. 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.

49. Olympia 1940 – Sysimetsä, Ilmari.

Original Poster – Designed in 1938 during a competition for the XII. Olympic Games in Helsinki, after the Olympic Games in Tokyo were cancelled: “XII. Olimpiskas Speles – Helsinki – Somija – 20.VII – 4.VIII.1940”.

[Helsinki] Finland, A.B.Tilgmann, 1938. Framed Poster measures: 32 cm x 44 cm. Poster itself measures: 25,5 cm x 38,7 cm. The original poster is still in its original frame. Some minor signs of foxing only to the original Poster. Very good condition in strong and bright colours. Very Rare in this condition.

50. 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.