121. Knowles, James Sheridan / Willan Smith, Robert.

Virginius – A Tragedy. In Five Acts. As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. (First Edition, 1820) / Bound together with: The Hunchback – A Play in Five Acts (Fourth Edition, 1832). [Presentation copy / Signed copy]

Two Volumes in One. London, Printed for James Ridgway, 1820. Octavo. Pagination: Virginius – 85, (3) pages / Hunchback – VIII, (2), 118 pages. Hardcover / Original, contemporary green cloth with original red morocco label to spine. The Volume is now in protective Mylar. Stronger signs of foxing to “Virginius” but still in very good condition. Inscribed by James Sheridan Knowles to one Robert Willan Smith on the titlepage:″To Mr. Willan with the affectionate Respect + Gratitude of the Author”. Sheridan Knowles had a chance to be Willan’s successor but decided for a literary and acting career. / “The Hunchback” in excellent condition, also with inscription and signature of Knowles on the titlepage and with the ownership-inscription of Robert Willan Smith. Rare Cork related !

122. [Italian-Sehnsucht / The longing for Italy embodied by Byron] – [Byron, Lord George Gordon] Anderson, William.

The Works of Lord Byron – With a Life and Illustrative Notes by William Anderson, Esq.

In Two Volumes with 65 (of 67) Steel-engravings. Edinburgh, A. Fullerton & Co., [c.1840]. Large Octavo. Volume I (with 35 of 36 engravings): Portrait-Frontispiece of a young Byron with a wonderful Facsimile-Inscription to his friend Murray and two facsimile-signatures (as Byron and “Sometimes – Biron”), Engraved Titlepage (″Lausanne”), CCXXIV, 270 pages / Volume II (with 29 of 30 engravings): Frontispiece – Engraving of “Newstrad – Abbey”, Engraved Titlepage (″Villeneuve”), 465 pages. Hardcover / Stunning full leather with gilt lettering and tooling and ornament on boards and spine. English Master-Bindings of the 19th century. Very good condition with some signs of external wear. Some minor paint-staining to bindings.

123. Sand, Georges.

La Mare Au Diable.

Éditions Du Centenaire. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, no year (c.1921-1922) / [1851 (Notice)]. Octavo. III, 217, (2) pages. Hardcover. Original half-leather with original dustjacket / brochure bound in. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some rubbing to binding. Minimal signs of foxing. Very firm !

124. Lewis, Sinclair.

It Can’t Happen Here [The Novel that tells you what will happen to your family if America gets a Dictator].

4th Reprint of the 1939 Edition (with the rare dustjacket). New York, Triangle Books, 1941. Octavo. 458 pages. Original publisher’s Hardcover with the rare, illustrated dustjacket, including the rear flap with the photograph of an idyllic american living-room secenery. In protective Mylar. From the private library of Walter Blake, with his personal stamp to the titlepage. In excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. The dustjacket extremely scarce in this condition.

125. Hamsun, Knut.

La Faim. Traduit du Norvegien.

Première Édition originale française / [First French Edition of ‘Hunger’]. Paris, Albert Langen / Nilsson, 1895. Octavo. 322 pages. Reliure privée du 19ème siècle / Original private Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Bon etat / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

126. [Youghal] Williams, Alexander / Gwynn, Stephen.

Beautiful Ireland – Leinster / Ulster / Munster / Connaught. Painted by Alexander Williams / Described by Stephen Gwynn. [With 48 colour illustrations (12 in each Province-section)].

First Edition. London / Dublin / Belfast, The Gresham Publishing Company Limited, no year [c.1912]. Octavo (18 cm wide x 22.2 cm high). Frontispiece, 64, 64, 64, 64 pages [Total of 256 pages]. Original, beautiful, clover-illustrated Art Nouveau-Hardcover / Publisher’s original cloth. Very good and very firm condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the more underrated publications with 48 stunning colour-illustrations from important locations in all four Provinces.

127. [Woolf, Virginia & Leonard / Hogarth Press] Fry, Roger.

Cézanne – A Study of his Development.

First Edition. London, Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1927. Quarto (20 cm wide x 25.5 cm high). 88 pages text plus XL plates with art / paintings of Cézanne. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the beautifully firm binding.

128. [Calder, Alexander] Sweeney, James Johnson.

“Calder” – Catalogue des Oeuvres exposees. [Du 2 Avril Au 31 Mai 1969] – Fondation Maeght – 06 Saint Paul] / [Avec Texte du Jean-Paul Sartre]. Le texte de J.J.Sweeney a ete traduit de l’anglais par Annick Baudoin, celui de G.Carandente de l’italien par Alain Veinstein.

Fondation Maeght, 1969. Quarto. 226 pages. Illustrated. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

129. Natsume, Soseki.

Collection of Five Rare Natsume-Publications from the Tuttle Classics Series. The collection includes: 1. Soseki Natsume – “The 210th Day – Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu (2002) / 2. Soseki Natsume – “My Individualism and The Philosophical Foundations of Literature” – Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu and Introduced by Inger Brody (2004) / 3. Soseki Natsume – Inside My Glass Doors – Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu (2002) / 4. Soseki Natsume – The Heredity of Taste – Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu and Introduced by Stephen W. Kohl (2004) / 5. Soseki Natsume – Spring Miscellany and London Essays Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu (2002).

Boston, Tuttle Publishing, 2002-2004. Octavo. Original, illustrated Softvover-Volumes. All five Volumes in excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear.

130. Porter, William Henry [Irish Surgeon (1790-1861)].

Observations on the Surgical Pathology and Treatment of Aneurism – Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on That Disease – Delivered in the School of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland During the Session, 1839-40. Part I [possibly all which was ever published because we could only establish Part I in Worldwide Libraries].

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by Joshua Porter, 72, Grafton-Street, no year (c.1840). Octavo (15 cm wide x 23.3 cm high). XV, 214 pages. Original Hardcover with rebacked spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Frome the library of irish cardiologist Eoin O’Brien.