1. Atwood, Margaret.

Collection of four important association copies of poetry by Margaret Atwood (plus two signed Novels), given to her friend Jerome Hamilton Buckley, influential Professor of English Literature. All four association copies in first edition and all beautifully inscribed. The Novel only signed. The collection includes: 1. The Animals in that Country (1968 / Hardcover) [Signed and with the printed dedication “For J.” and a personal inscription on the halftitle to Jerome Buckley] / 2. The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970 / Softcover) [Signed and inscribed] / 3. You are Happy (1973 / Hardcover) [Signed and inscribed] / 4. Murder in the Dark – Short Fictions and Prose Poems (1983 / Softcover) [Signed and inscribed]. / 5. The collection also includes a signed copy of Atwood’s “The Robber Bride” (1993 / Softcover) / 6. The collection also includes a signed and inscribed copy of “The Tent” (signed as “Margaret Atwood”).

Toronto / New York, Oxford University Press / Harper & Row / Coach House Press / Doubleday, 1968 – 1993. Octavo. 69, 64, 96, 62, 466, 155 pages. Original Hardcover and Softcover – publications with the rare illustrated dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. All inscriptions beautifully signed as Peggy or Peggy A. or in one case even Peggy Atwood.

2. [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.

3. 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.

4. [Mielziner, Joseph “Jo”] Henderson, Mary C.

Mielziner – Master of Modern Stage Design. Foreword by Frank Rich.

New York, Back Stage Books, 2001. Oblong-Quarto. 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare Out-of-Print-title !

5. McCulloch, Susan.

Contemporary Aboriginal Art – A guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture.

Australia, Allen & Unwin, 2001. 18.5 cm x 26 cm. 247 pages. Lavishly illustrated with colour plates throughout. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. Kirk, Malcolm / Strathern, Andrew.

Man as Art – New Guinea. [With an essay by Andrew Strathern: “Dress, Decoration and Art in New Guinea”]. Photographs by Malcolm Kirk.

San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1993. Quarto. 144 pages with photographs throughout the whole book. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Private giftinscription !

7. [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.

8. [Jones, David] Blamires, David.

David Jones: Artist and Writer.

Second Edition. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1971. Octavo. 220 pages. Illustrated with six plates: 1. The Chester Play of the Deluge / 2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / 3. Portraits of a Boy / 4. The Terrace / 5. Thorn Cup / 6. Vexilla Regis. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. [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.

10. Christ, Hans D. / Dressler, Iris / Peters, Christine.

Acts of Voicing.

Leipzig, Spector Books in conjuction with Wurttembergischer Kunstverein/Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. 2014. 17.5 cm x 25 cm. 555 pages. Original Hardcover. (Blue cloth with an embossed illustration in black on front board. Title in black embossed lettering on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.