181. Frye, Northrop.

The Well-Tempered Critic.

First Edition. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1963. 20.7cm x 14cm. 160 pages. Original hardcover in original price-clipped illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Fine in publisher’s cloth-covered boards and like save a small closed tear to the bottom dust jacket. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Northrop Frye to Helen Randell on the title-page.

182. Gaelic Fairy Tale Illustrations – [Mac Liammoír, Micheál] Ó Floinn, Tomás / Proinsias Mac Cana.

Scéalaíocht na Ríthe – [Stories of the Kings]. Tomás Ó Floinn agus Proinsias Mac Cana. A chuir in Eagar. Micheál Mac Liammoír a Mhaisigh.

Baile Átha Cliath, Saírséal & Dill, 1956. 18.1cm. 220, [4] pages. Including 6 plates with beautiful, tipped-in illustrations and their often missing, lettered tissue-guards. Hardcover. / Original, illustrated blue publisher’s cloth. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear / An underestimated publication with all illustrations in place. While the book was also published in softcover-cardboard, the first edition in Hardcover, which we offer here, is the much better version.

183. Gallivan, G.P.

Decision at Easter. A Play in Three Acts. [With the printed dedication: To the Men of Easter Week]. With a foreword by Ignatius Johns.

Dublin, Progress House, 1960. 8°. 74 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Popular Plays Series].

184. George, Stefan [Hilsdorf, Theodor].

Originales Portrait des Dichters Stefan George.

Originales Silbergelatine Print / [Silver Gelatine Print] durch den Photographen Theodor Hilsdorf. Im originalen Karton-Umschlag montiert (Originalumschlag der photographischen Kunstanstalt Friedrich Müller, Inh. Hofphotograph Theodor Hilsdorf, Amalienstrasse 15, München – mit kleinem Adress-schildchen) Der Abzug durch Seidenpapier geschützt. Rückseitig mit Stempel und Nummer: (VIII/2) und unter der Photographie mit Bleistift signiert “Müller-Hilsdorf, 1928”. München, Kunstanstalt Friedrich Müller, 1928. Image / Photographie: 21 x 16,5 cm. Sheet / Blatt: 30 x 22,5 cm. Excellent condition. Very rare ! / Sehr seltene Originalphotographie.

185. Gerhardie, William Alexander / Kingsmill, Hugh / Youngman Carter, Philip.

The Casanova Fable. A Satirical Revaluation. Illustrated by Philip Youngman Carter.

Rare, limited and signed first edition (No.20 of only 150 copies). London, Jarrolds, 1934. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 223 pages. With seven full-page illustrations in colour. Hardcover / Original, spectacular quarter vellum binding. Signed by William Gerhardie and Hugh Kingsmill. Bookplate / Exlibris of Liverpool book-collector, John Raymond Danson, to pastedown. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

186. [Giacometti, Alberto] Bonnefoy, Yves.

“Alberto Giacometti” – A Biography of his Work. Translated by Jean Stewart.

Paris, flammarion, 1991. Folio (25 cm wide x 33 cm high). 575 pages, illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in original slipcase. Unusually excellent, near mint condition. Only the slipcase with wear.

187. Gill, Eric.

Autobiography / Quod ore sumpsimus.

Tenth Impression . London, Jonathan Cape, 1944. Octavo. Frontispiece-Self-Portrait of Eric Gill, 283 pages. With eight Illustrations (including the Frontispiece). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good, firm condition, with the rare dustjacket showing some minro fraying. Occasional foxing only. An excellent version of this classic.

188. [Gill, Eric] MacCarthy, Fiona.

Eric Gill.

Third Edition. London, faber & faber, 1989. Octavo. XIII, 338 pages with 129 illustrations on plates and 58 Figures within the Text. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. A stunning condition of this landmark publication, revealing the paedophile behind the artist and triggering the question: “Can we separate the artist from the abuser ?” [see Guardian – article by Rachel Cooke. April 9th, 2017].

189. Giraudoux, Jean.

Théâtre: Volumes I- IV.

Four Complete Volumes. Paris, Editions Bernard Grasset, 1958, 1959. 13 cm x 21 cm. Vol. I: 315 pages / Vol. II: 329 pages /Vol. III: 353 pages / Vol. IV: 317 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear, for example slight rubbing and discolouration to outer spines.

190. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Sämtliche Werke. West-Östlicher Divan: Teil I & II. Briefe, Tagebücher und Gespräche. Herausgegeben von Hendrik Birus.

Two Complete Volumes. Frankfurt am Main, Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1994. Teil I: 873 Seiten / Teil II: 1196 Seiten. Illustriert / Some illustrations in black and white. Original hardcover (Blaues Leinen) with the Mylar – Covers but without the slipcase (No “Schuber”). The Mylar-Cover of Volume One with small loss to cover-flap (see image). Important: The Volumes themselves in excellent condition / Sehr guter Zustand der Baende bis auf kleine Fehlstelle am Klarsicht-Umschlag von Band 1 (siehe Abbildung) . [Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker].

191. [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von] Rickert, Heinrich / Koch, Franz / Pfaff, Peter / Mommsen, Katharina / Gronicka, André von etc..

Sammlung mit Sekundärliteratur zu Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Collection of german and english publication of Literary Criticism on german writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Weimar und andere Orte, Hermann Böhlau / Braemer / Acta humaniora und andere Verlage, 1933 – c.1965. 8°. c.2500 Seiten. Hardcover und flexible Einbände. All copies former Library-copies with the usual stamps and markings of library-copies / Alle Bücher sind ausgesonderte Bibliotheksexemplare mit den üblichen Merkmalen (Stempel, Rückenschildchen, teilweise unschönen Markierungen am Schnitt). Ausser diesen Merkmalen sind alle Bände in guten bis sehr guten Zuständen.

192. Gogol, Nikolai.

Das Bildnis. Eine Novelle. Mit Zeichnungen von W. Masjutin. Ins Deutsche uebertragen von Alexander Eliasberg.

Stuttgart, Verlag Julius Hoffmann, 1920. Quarto. 96 Seiten. Hardcover / Modernes Halbleder mit Rueckenschild in neuem Spezial – Schuber mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

193. Golding, William.

The Brass Butterfly: A Play in Three Acts.

First Edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1958. 13 cm x 21 cm. 80 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.

194. Goldoni, Carlo / Aldington, Richard.

The Good-Humoured Ladies: A Comedy By Carlo Goldoni. Translated from the Italian by Richard Aldington. To which is prefix’d an Essay on Carlo Goldoni by Arthur Symons. The whole embellish’d with Cuts by Ethelbert White.

London, C.W.Beaumont, 1922. 8°. XXIII, 76 pages. Original Hardcover / Quarter vellum with decorative paper-covered boards. The boards slightly bumped. The vellum spine in excellent condition. No.16 of only 75 copies printed. Signed by Arthur Symons, Ethelbert White and Richard Aldington. [The fifteenth book issued by the Beaumont Press].

195. Goldsmith, Oliver/ [Washington Irving] / [Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886)].

A History of The Earth and Animated Nature – With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. [Includes a Biographical Sketch of Oliver Goldsmith: “A Life of the Author”, by Washington Irving]. (Illustrated Edition with full-page portrait of Goldsmith, 45 (of 46) full-page hand-coloured Plates of Butterflies, Birds, Rhonocerous etc. as well as two hand-coloured, additional Titlepages with animal-scenes [plate XXVI (Crocodile) is missing and plates XXXI and XXXVIII were never inteded to be bound with the work]).

First Edition with the Biography of Goldsmith by Washington Irving. Six Parts in Two Volumes (complete set). London, Edinburgh and Dublin, A. Fullerton and Co., 1846-1848. Large Octavo. Pagination: Frontispiece-Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith by S. Freeman from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Engraved and hand-coloured Titlepage (with tissue-guard), LIV, Hardcover / Original, decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Plate 40 with a minor defect to the outer margins only (no image effected). Bindings in wonderful and firm condition. From the library of one Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886), her full name, year and place of lodgings signed by her on the titlepage.

196. Goll, Yvan.

Gedichte. Eine Auswahl. Mit vierzehn Gedichten von Claire Goll. Herausgegeben und mit einem Kommentar versehen von René A. Strasser.

Erste Auflage. Meilen, Magica Verlag, 1968. 17 x 24 cm. 438 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe mit originalem Schutzumschlag in Brodart / Mylar (Spezielle Sammler – Schutzfolie für Schutzumschläge). Sehr guter Zustand.

197. Graham, Henry Grey.

Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1901. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XII, 441 pages. Includes an illustrated Frontispiece with a reproduction of a mezzotint after Allan Ramsay (protected with a tissue guard). With a further 31 black-and-white illustrations (portraits). Original Hardcover (blue cloth with gilt lettering). Very good condition with some signs of external wear. Some foxing evident with one illustration plate detached. An interesting Exlibris / bookplate with the engraved Motto: ‘Semper Paratus’ from the library of Albert A. Smith on front pastedown.

198. Grass, Günter.

The Call of the Toad. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.

First English language edition. London, Secker & Warburg, 1992. 23 cm. 248 pages. Illustrations in black and white, including photograph of author on back of dustjacket. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition first english langauge edition with only very minor signs of external wear.

199. [Grazzini, Antonfrancesco] Rodini, Robert J.

Antonfrancesco Grazzini – Poet, Dramatist, and Novelliere 1503-1584.

Milwaukee / London, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. 15 cm x 22 cm. XV, 242 pages. Some black and white plates grouped in centre pages of the book. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine sunned. Minor foxing to top and fore edge only. Internal pages clean and bright.

200. Greene, Graham.

The End of the Affair.

London / Melbourne / Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd., 1951. Octavo. 237 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. This Book also includes the rare original advertising-strip identifying this book as the Book of the Month-Choice of the Daily Mail. Very good + condition with mild foxing as usual. The dustjacket with splits, some fraying and some minor loss to upper spine but mostly complete. Very Rare with the Daily Mail wrapper.