51. Radcliffe, Ann.

The Mysteries of Udolpho.

First Edition. 4 Volumes [complete set]. London, Printed for G. G. and J.Robinson, 1794. Octavo. Collation complete with all four half-titles: Volume I: 428 pages / Volume II: 478 pages / Volume III: 463 pages / Volume IV: 428 pages. Original, unaltered, 18th-century half leather with gilt lettering on original spinelabels. All four bindings with vintage paper-covered boards and their original, reinforced corners. The set is now housed in a custom-made solander-box / clamshell-box. Excellent, firm condition of all four volumes with minor lesions to hinges and some rubbing to extremeties only and some general, neglectable external wear to corners and upper spines. In Volume I, two sentences partly censored with manuscript editing in ink. Interior very good with the occasional lesion (I, p.109), minor tear (II, p.93), and stains to a page here or there and a faded, very mild dampstain in the background of some pages of Volume IV. Two excellent provenance signs: Bookplate / Exlibris of “William Tennant, Ashton Hall” to the pastedown of each Volume / Previous owner-stamp of “O.W.O’Grady Young – Castlerea”. A fantastic, in this state, unbelievably rare version, of one of the most desirable books in the english language. The seminal gothic novel, a most desirable collectable and the best copy of this first edition we have ever handled.

52. 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.

53. 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.

54. Schoeser, Mary / Rufey, Celia / Wrey, Lady Caroline / Heath, Adrian & Ditte / Calloway, Stephen and many others.

Collection of 92 important books and smaller publications on Interior Design with books on the History of Textiles, Fabrics, Interior Design Styles of different countries, Arts & Crafts for Interior Design and Classical as well as Modern Furniture for Historical and Modern Architecture. The collection comes from the two libraries of a furniture historian and textile historian. The collection includes: 1. Mark Girouard – Sweetness and Light – The Queen Anne Movement 1860 – 1900 / 2. Gerhard Bott – Art Nouveau / Jugendstil / 3. Country House Lighting – Temple Newsam Country House Studies / 4. The Fashionable Fire Place / 5. Mary Schoeser & Celia Rufey – English and American Textiles / 6. Pentagon Informal Design / 7. Adrian & Ditte Heath with Aage Lund Jensen – 300 Years of Industrial Design / 8. Gideon Bosker – Michele Mancini – John Gramstad – Fabulous Fabrics of the 50s and other Terrific Textiles of the 20s, 30s and 40s / 9. Arabian Ornament from the 12th to the 18th century / 10. Michael Johnson – Problem solved – A Primer in design and communication / 11. Edward Booth-Clibborn – Design a la Minale Tattersfield – A unique philosophy applied to all aspects of design (Graphics / Corporate Identities / Interior & Retail Design / Packaging & Products / Furniture) / 12. The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair / 13. Sembach – Leuthaeuser – Goessel – Meubeldesign van de 20ste eeuw / 14. Tim & Quentin Newark Brassey’s Book of Camouflage / 15. Alice Kaufman and Christopher Selser – The Navajo Weaving Tradition 1650 to the Present / 16. Sarah E. Braddock and Marie O’Mahony – Techno Textiles – Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design / 17. Jon Catleugh – William de Morgan Tiles / 18. Historic Paper Hangings from Temple Newsam and other English Houses / 19. Kate Wells – Fabric Dyeing & Printing / 20. Henrietta Spencer-Churchill – Classic Fabrics / 21. Jenny Ridgwell – A-Z of Textiles Technology / 21. Laura Ashley – Complete Guide to Home Decorating / 22. David Linley – Design and Detail in the Home / 23. Karen Howes – Vacation Homes and Perfect Weekend Hideaways / 24. Josephine Ryan – French Home / 25. Caroline Seebohm and Christopher Simon Sykes – English Country – Living in England’s Private Houses / 26. John Cornforth – The Inspiration of the Past – Country House Taste in the 20th century / 27. Barbara & Rene Stoeltie – Country Houses of England / 28. A Treatise and General Primer on the Properties of Early American Paints / 29. Clarence P. Hornung – Treasury of American Design (Two Volumes in One) / 30. Maggie Stevenson – Architectural Details – A Home Source Book of Interior Fixtures from Taps to Tiles, Doors to Floors / 31. Michael Snodin and John Styles – Design & The Decorative Arts (Britain 1500-1900) / 32. The Victorian Catalogue of Household Goods – A complete Compendium of over five thousand items to furnish and decorate the Victorian Home / 33. Armelle Baron – Axel Vervoordt – Timeless Interiors / 34. Henrietta Spencer-Churchill – Classic English Interios / 35. Bill Laws – Irish Country Style – A Celebration of Ireland’s Enduring Charms / 36. Traditional Paint News (4 Volumes) / 37. A Directory of Authentic Renovation – Putting Back the Style / 38. Lars Sjoeberg and Ursula Sjoeberg – The Swedish Room / 39. Sally Griffiths – Nina Campbell on Decorating / 40. Margaret and Alexander Potter – Interiors / 41. Suzanne Slesin a.o. – Spanish Style / 42. Katrin Cargill – Swedish Style / 43. Monisha Bharadwaj – Inside India – Quintessential Indian Style / 44. Lady Caroline Wrey – The Complete Book of Bedroom Elegance with over 30 projects for stylish soft furnishings / 45. Stephen Calloway – The House of Liberty – Masters of Style & Decoration / 46. Jocasta Innes – The New Paint Magic / 47. Melanie Fleischmann – In the Neoclassic Style – Empire, Biedermeier and the Contemporary Home / 48. The Laura Ashley Book of Home Decorating by Elizabeth Dickson & Margaret Colvin / 49. The Ideal Home – Volume XXIX (12 Issues – for example with Art Deco Interior Design essays and images for the whole year of 1934) / 50. Fire Earth – 1000 Years of Tiles in Europe / 51. Elizabeth Eames – English Medieaval Tiles / 52. Elizabeth Eames – Medieval Craftsmen – English Tiles / 53. – Lee Allane – Kilims – A Buyer’s Guide / 54. Don Dedera – Navajo Rugs / 55. Caroline Davidson – A Woman’s Work is never Done – A History of Housework in the British Isles 1650 – 1950 / 56. Manual of Housekeeping – A practical Guide to the conservation of historic houses and their contents / 57. Mary Schoeser – Fabrics and Wallpapers – 20th century design / 58. The Language of the Fan / 59. Geoffrey Beard – The English House Interior / 60. Going for a song: English Furniture – Arthur Negus talks to Max Robertson / 61. Buyer’s Guide to Contemporary British Textiles for the Interior / 62. Colour – Making and Using Dyes and Pigments / 63. George Savage – Porcelain through the Ages / 64. Elizabeth Burthon – The Early Victorians at Home / 65. Adrian Fisher and Diana Kingham – Mazes / 66. Sylvia Katz – Early Plastics / 67. Hans van Lemmen – Victorian Tiles / 68. Hans van Lemmen – Delftware Tiles / 68. Kenneth Beaulah – Church Tiles of the nineteenth Century / 69. Hans van Lemmen – Tiled Furniture / 70. Clare Taylor – Wallpaper / 71. Elizabeth Gale – From Fibres to Fabrics / 72. Jessica M.F. Rutherford – The Royal Pavilion – The Palace of George IV / 73. FLOS – Design Catalogue / 74. Catrine Clay – Princess to Queen (Pictorial Biography of Elizabeth II. with several images of interior design and her personal fashion) / 75. John Goode – Irish Ceramics / 76. Fay Sweet – SOURCE – an internet directory of modern interior design / 77. Barbara Winbfield – The Complete Book of Home Details / 78. John Pym – Merchant Ivory’s English Landscape Rooms, Views and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes / 79. Chic Simple Components: “Bath” / 80. Charles W. Jacobsen – Check Points on How to Buy Oriental Rugs / 81. Ingo Maurer – Systeme Catalogue / 82. Mitchell Beazley – Period Details Sourcebook / 83. Esther Meynell – Portrait of William Morris / 84. Charles L. Eastlake – Hints on Household Tase – The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration / 85. Exhibition Design / 86. Irish Brooke – A History of English Costume / 87. James Laver – A Concise History of Costume / 88. Gail Greet Hannah – Elements of Design – Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual Relationships / 89. Maggie Toy – Practically Minimal – Inspirational Ideas for Twenty-First Century Living / 90. Patricia Frost – Collecting Textiles / 91. Susan Lasden – Victorians at Home / 92. Pierre Moulin – Pierre Le Vec and Linda Dannenberg – Pierre Deux’s French Country – A Style and Source Book /

London etc., Thames and Hdson and other Publishers, c.1960 – 2000. Quarto. More than 5000 pages with illustrations. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. This collection is heavy and needs special shipping costs applied depending on the destination.

55. 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.

56. 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.

57. 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.

58. 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.

59. 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.

60. Tracy, Spencer / [Hal Phyfe]. (American Actor 1900 – 1967).

Vintage black and white photograph of a young Spencer Tracy, by famous Broadway photographer Hal Phyfe, signed and inscribed by Tracy “To L.I. Bergman with best wishes – Spencer Tracy – 7/1/33”.

Brussels, J.Ganz, c.1880. 20 cm x 25 cm. Excellent condition. Wonderfully rare autograph by one of America’s most beloved actors of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

61. [Vanity Fair] Bowles, Thomas Gibson / [Fantastic collection of political caricature portraits of 19th century American Politicans / British Politicians]

Vanity Fair: A Weekly Show of Political, Social & Literary Wares – Complete Annual for the year 1872 with 51 full-page portraits of victorian statesmen of england as well as the united states of america (Hamilton Fish, Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley etc.), politicians, writers, artists, “men of the day” and men of influence, portrayed in chromolithography / chromolithographs in colour (January 6, 1872 – June 29, 1872 & July 6, 1872 – December 28, 1872 ).

London, Vanity Fair, 1872. Folio. 208, 208 pages. Complete set. Interleaved with 51 chromolithographic portraits. Beautifully restored, original Hardcover (half-leather with orginal spine (gilt letttering and ornament). With new, linen-covered boards, using the original pastedowns and endpapers. A stunning Volume in excellent condition. All illustrations in wonderful colour.

62. Viereck, George Sylvester / [Frederick Franklin Schrader] / [Mentioning of Oscar Wilde / Lord Alfred Douglas].

Collection of early Manuscript Material (which is a Manuscript Ballad / Poem), a two-page Manuscript Letter (which is a MLS mentioning Oscar Wilde, Lord [Alfred] Douglas, Viereck’s literary tastes etc.) and the personal copy of “House of the Vampire”, all by the controversial german-american author George Sylvester Viereck. The collection includes: 1. One six-page, hitherto unpublished Manuscript – Ballad [Poem], called “Die Ballade vom Sündigen Glück” [Translates: “The Ballad of sinful Pleasure”]/ 2. A lengthy and extremely insightful Two-Page Manuscript Letter, signed in New York, 1902, which accompanied and talks about the enclosed Six-Page Manuscript – Ballad [The letter and Poem was not conclusively but very likely addressed by Viereck to Frederick Franklin Schrader, then editor of the New York Dramatic Mirror and shortly thereafter co-founder with George Sylvester Viereck of “The Fatherland” / 3. The collection also includes Viereck’s personal copy of his publication “The House of the Vampire” with handwritten, manuscript entry of his name, address in New York City as well as a pasted statement on the endpaper by the author Viereck: “Concerning “The House of the Vampire” : This book went through several editions when it was first published and was dramatized. It played for eight weeks in New York and for two years on the road under the management of the Shuberts. Critics have compared it to such books as Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Lady Into Fox, and Dorian Gray”]. The two-page letter is of great value and touches on Viereck’s admiration for Schrader and his “Blatt” [Newspaper]. Viereck is advertising himself to Schrader by introducing himself as a critical admirer with substantial references (Viereck details his working for numerous newspapers in America). Viereck mentions his secessionist tendencies and name-drops Oscar Wilde, Rosetti and Lord Douglas (whom he claims to know personally). This amazing, autographed/signed Manuscript-Material was created by Viereck directly during his transition from writer to propagandist and is an example of his early, bullish personality, which wants to be heard, which needs attention and it is here, in 1912, where his career begins to develop. This large Archive of manuscript material [8 pages in total] is stunning and unpublished (see partial Transcription of the original german material on our website). Viereck’s close friends included Nikola Tesla and even Theodore Roosevelt was among his acquaintances.

New York, Moffat, Yard & Company, 1902-1912. Play and Letters: 20.3 cm x 25.3 cm / Book: 13 cm x 19,5 cm. Pagination: Balld (Poem): 6 pages / Manuscript Letter (MLS): 2 pages / Book: 190 pages. Original Hardcover / Blue publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine in protective collector’s mylar / The play protected in clear folder. The manuscript pages overall in excellent condition besides page IV of the play which has two abrasions with small parts of the text missing only. The book in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Viereck’s usual vanity made him add the lovely littel note of critical success. The personal copy of this controversial author’s most interesting book is a unique possibility for each collector of unusual Vampire material. Extraordinary collection !

63. Yeats, William Butler / [George [Georgie] Yeats / Mrs. Eva Hempel / Eduard Hempel].

Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. [Signed / Inscribed by George Yeats to Mrs. [Eva] Hempel, wife of german ambassador to Ireland during World War II].

No.8 / 200 copies, of the original limited edition. Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1944 [September 1944]. Octavo. 58 pages. Original Hardcover. Inscribed by George Yeats on the front free endpaper: “Mrs. Hempel from George Yeats, April 1944”. This has to be of course “April 1945”. The impossibility of signing/inscribing a book in April 1944 if it was only published in September 1944 is easily explained with the classic everyday-mistake of still writing the previous year in the first few months of the following year. A stunning association. The signature and inscription is a solid match to George Yeats’ autographs in her later hand and William Butler Yeats and George Yeats were frequent visitors to the Hempel’s in Dublin. In addition, the low number of the edition (8/200) suggests this being one of the reference copies given to George Yeats, who contributed heavily to the volume and even added an explanatory note (in print) verso the titlepage. This copy is near fine, bound in the publisher’s quarter buckram over yellow, paper-covered boards. The books pages remained unopened. Eva Hempel’s husband Eduard Hempel is one of the most controversial figures in modern Irish history, excoriated by some as ‘Hitler’s man’, defended by others such as the country’s first President, Eamon De Valera. Certainly, Hempel presented William Butler Yeats in 1938 with a copy of ‘Germany Speaks’ whose inscription described an ‘unforgettable afternoon’ spent together by Yeats and Hempel. Eduard Hempel and his wife were accepted socialites in the Dublin world of World War II, famously receiving a condolence call by de Valera upon the death of Hitler. Eduard Hempel and his wife Eva were granted asylum in Ireland after world war II and stayed way beyond the end of World War II.