151. [Pound, Ezra] Carpenter, Humphrey.

A Serious Character – The Life of Ezra Pound.

London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1988. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. XII, 1005 pages. Illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains two minor items of ephemera from ‘The Times Literary Supplement’ 1989 [Review of the book by William H.Gass in TLS in January 1989 and Responses to the review, also printed in TLS, in February 1989].

152. Pritchett, V.S. / Evelyn Hofer (Photographer).

DUBLIN – A Portrait. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer.

London / Sydney / Toronto, The Bodley Head, 1967. Quarto (22 cm x 28 cm). 99 pages with 16 pages of photographs in full colour and 78 photographs in monochrome gravure. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some minor tears to dustjacket, now in protective sleeve, but else in unusually very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A fantastic publication.

153. [Provenance Marie Cohn (1887-1967) (famously painted by Anders Zohn)] Bashkirtseff, Marie.

Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff – Avec un Portrait.

Onzieme Mille. Two Volumes (complete). Paris, Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1896. Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait, 401 pages. / Volume II: 591 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful, blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed by a family-member to Marie Cohn (Marie Helene Johanna Weber (Meyer-Cohn) 1887-1967), daughter of Berlin Banker Dr.Heinrich Cohn, on her birthday in 1898 (1887-1967). Marie Cohn has later added her own name to the books and dated her personal enry to 27.II.1898.

154. [Raevsky-Hughes, Olga].

Sud’by pokoleniia 1920-1930-kh godov v emigratsii / [The Lives of the 1920-1930 generation of emigration]. Ocherki i vospominaniia.

Moskva, Russkii put’, 2006. 22 cm. 470 pages. Illustrated with many photographs. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.SOme annotations and text-markings.

155. Ratushinskaya, Irina.

Pencil Letter.

1st Edition. Newcastle upon Tyne / London / a.o., Bloodaxe Books / Hutchinson, 1988. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 89 pages. Five pages of facsimiles of original work. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collectors Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and dated by Irina Ratushinskaya in 1988 during her Residency at Northwestern University.

156. Rausch, Friedrich.

Original, trilingual handbook with loosely inserted plates, showing the phonetics (position and look of tongue, lips and teeth-positions during speaking certain words) Handausgabe von Rausch’s Lauttafeln [Inclusive dem englischen “th”] – 26 lithographische Tafeln mit Lautbezeichnungen der Association Phonetique Internationale nach Vietor’s Lauttafeln. Zusätzlich mit einer deutschen Lauttafel (System Vietor) welche nach Lippenlauten, Zahnlauten, Gaumenlauten und Kehllauten trennt.

2. Auflage der verkleinerten Ausgabe. Marburg, N.G.Elwert / Association Phonetique International, [1913]. Octavo. 26 Tafeln in Postkartengröße, lose in originaler Verlags-Flügelmappe. Softcover. Sehr guter Zustand dieser seltenen Ausgabe / Tafel 1 rückseitig mit Bibliotheksstempel. Alle Tafeln vorderseitig mit zusätzlicher (verkehrter) Numerierung in Buntstift. / Reduced edition (pocket edition) of Friedrich Rausch’s phonetic plates, illustrating the speech sounds, including one plate for the digraph “th”.

157. [Ravilious, Eric / Golden Cockerel Press] Suckling, John.

A Ballad Upon A Wedding. With Engravings by Eric Ravilious.

First Edition. Waltham Saint Lawrence (Berkshire), Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Octavo (13.7 cm wide x 20.3 cm high). 13 pages with eight original woodcuts. Original Hardcover (Quarter cream cloth with artist-paper-covered boards) with original, illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The jacket with stronger loss in upper corner and some fraying but now protected in mylar. The Volume itself in wonderful, near fine or better condition with only very minor signs of wear.

158. [Ravilious, Eric / Pierre-Simon Fournier].

Almanack 1929. With Twelve Designs Engraved on Wood by Eric Ravilious – And a Specimen of the Roman & Italic of Fournier-le-Jeune composed on the ‘Monotype’.

First Edition, First state in full buckram. London, Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd., 1929. Slim Octavo (12.8 cm wide x 19.2 cm high). 46 unnumbered pages with twelve Zodiac-woodcuts by Eric Ravilious, a two-colour titlepage with typographical zodiac-designs on the titlepage. Original Hardcover in Mylar/ Full tan buckram with the year 1929 in gilt on upper spine. Minor staining to edges. Note on endpaper states: “On Japanese Vellum”.

159. [Ravilious, Eric] Shakespeare, William.

“Twelfth Night or, What You Will” by William Shakespeare – With Engravings by Eric Ravilious. With 29 wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious, printed in Grey and Maroon.

No.47 of a limited Edition of 275 copies on Batchelor Paper. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Folio (24.3 cm wide x 34 cm high). Pagination: Endpaper, (2), 41 leaves, (1), Endpaper. With 29 wood-engravings throughout. Hardcover / Original half-leateher, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with their bindery-stamp to pastedown. Binding wonderfully firm and cloth only slightly rubbed, else an excellent copy pf a very scarce book from the beloved Golden Cockerel Press.

160. Rennert, Jack.

100 Jahre Circus Plakate. [Translates: “100 Years of Circus Advertising Posters”].

Zurich / Stuttgart, Werner Classen Verlag, 1975. Folio. (28 cm wide x 41 cm). 112 pages with illustrations throughout the Volume. Original softcover. Spine damaged with the pages and illustrations loosened.