171. Ellis, William [Provenance: William Splaine and N. Splaine – Bandon Grammar School 1840].

A Collection of English Exercises – Translated From the Writings of Cicero, For School-Boys to Re-Translate Into Latin; And Adapted to the Principal Rules in The Eton Syntax; With Occasional References to Other Grammars. Sixteenth Edition, in which the Translation has been carefully compared with the Original and Corrected and to which are prefixed, Rules for the Use of the Subjunctive Mood. [Including a Preface of Thomas Dix Hincks of Fermoy School, made to the eighth edition in 1818].

London, Longman & Co., 1839. Small Octavo (10,5 cm x 18 cm). XXVIII, 269, [3] pages. Hardcover / Original full eather with gilt ornament to spine. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Several manuscript entries by preowners of the William Splaine – Family in Bandon.

172. Ellman, Richard.

The Use of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce. Originally delivered at Bennington College as Lecture Six in the Ben Belitt Lectureship series.

Bennington, VT, Bennington College, 1984. 8°. 25 Pages. Stapled Wrappers (softcover). Excellent condition. “The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature – Published in memory of William Troy”.

173. [Emerson, George Waldo] Brydges, Sir S. Egerton.

Censura Literaria. Containing Titles, Abstracts and Opinions of Old English Books. With Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities. With the articles classed in chronological order under their separate heads.

Second Edition. 7 of 10 volumes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10. (Incomplete). London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. 16 cm x 24 cm. Vol. 1: VIII, LXIII, 432 pages. / Vol. 2: VIII, 450 pages. / Vol. 3: VII, 434 pages. / Vol. 4: VII, 435 pages. / Vol. 6: VIII, 416 pages. / Vol. 8: VIII, 411 pages. / Vol. 10: VIII, 580 pages. Original Hardcover. Volume 1 has dampstaining on boards, front board detached. Volume 8 has small dampstain on front board. All volumes with stronger rubbing, fading on boards, otherwise good condition with content intact.

174. Espriu, Salvador.

Ende des Labyrinths / Final del Laberint. Aus dem Katalanischen übertragen von Fritz Vogelsang. Zweisprachige Ausgabe (Catalan – Deutsch).

Frankfurt am Main, Vervuert, 1986. 8°. 186 Seiten. Softcover / Kartoniert. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Besitzvermerk oder sonstige Eintragungen.

175. Fallada, Hans / Šváb, Jaroslav.

Obcánku, a co ted ? / [Little Man, what now ?] / [Erste tschechische Ausgabe von “Kleiner Mann was nun ?] Roman. [Z nemciny prelozil Josef Vrbata. Treti vydani Typografickou upravu, onbalku a vazbu navrhl Jaroslav Svab Vytiskla “Osveta”, spolecnost s o.r. ve Valasskem Mezirici pro makladatele Josef Hampla v Celakovicich roku 1936].

Celakovicich / Celákovice, Nakladartel Josef Hampl Knihkupec, 1936. Octavo. 301 pages. Original, illustrated softcover, designed by typographer Jaroslav Šváb, in protective collector’s mylar. First czech edition in publisher’s printed wrappers. Unusually excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Uncut pages. Extremely scarce publication of Hans Fallada’s “Little Man, what now ?” / “Kleiner Mann, was nun ?”. Extremely Rare / Scarce !!

176. Farkas, Lidia / Poharnok, Zoltan / Shires, Frances (Translator).

Sly Mike: A Hungarian Story – With ten original, coloured etchings by Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. English Translation by Frances Shires.

No.115 of a signed, limited Edition of 250 copies. Budapest, Published by Dr.George Vajna & Co., (1937). Small Quarto (17.5 cm wide x 23 cm high). 44 unnumbered pages (inlcuding the etchings). The book is signed by both artists, Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. Hardcover / Original, embroidered binding. Some foxing to binding but the endpapers intact and the binding in overall very good condition. All etchings in excellent condition. A wonderful, rare example of a very rare book !

177. [Feldman, Ruth W.] Bradshaw, Vittoria.

From Pure Silence to Impure Dialogue – A Survey of Post-War Italian poetry, 1945-1965. [Working-copy of eminent american Poet and Translator, Ruth W.Feldman, with critical markings and manuscript annotations by Feldman within the book].

New York, Las Américas, 1971. 23 cm. XXV, 809 pages. Original Hardcover Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some slight fading of the spine. Provenance: From the library of american Poet and Translator, Ruth W.Feldman, with her name on the endpaper. Cypress book.

178. [Forster, E.M.] Widdowson, Peter.

E.M.Forster’s Howards End – Fiction as History.

London, Sussex University Press, 1977. 8°. 124 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

179. Freund, Philip / [Jørgen Claudi]

Prince Hamlet.

New York, Bookman Associates, 1953. 14.5 cm x 21.6 cm. 70 pages. Book designed by Richard Miller. Garamond type. Art work by Floriano Vecchi. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing and discoloration to endpapers and edging. Highlighter markings to top edges. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. With his bookplate / Exlibris to front pastedown (Exlibris design by Brian Lalor). Includes a letter as ephemera (dated 1956) to Mrs Erik Haugaard from Mr. Jorgen Claudi, Assistant Head of the Drama Department of Statsradiofonien. Following Mrs Haugaard forwarding Freund’s play to the department, Mr Claudi, in a damning fashion, declines to broadcast Philip Freund’s Prince Hamlet: “….If a great Danish author had adapted a classic in an inspired, modern form, it could be reasonable to try such eksperiment [sic]. But as the author is a rather unknown American, it is not to be expected that the Danish Radio should broadcast it……”

180. [Fromentin, Eugène] Marsh, Edward.

Dominique. Translated from the French by Edward Marsh.

London, The Cresset Press, 1948. 14 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 250 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Minor foxing to edges, slight fraying to crown of dustjacket, otherwise in very good condition.