11. [Dinter, Gustav Friedrich]

Dinter’s Todtenfeier im sächsischen Erzgebirge. Am 23. Julius 1831.

Neustadt, Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1831. Gr.-8°. VIII, 84 Seiten. Originale, bedruckte Titelbroschur. Unbeschnittenes, breitrandiges Exemplar der Originalausgabe mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Die hintere Broschur sauber geloest und etwas angeraendert. Selten !

12. [Dunn, Douglas / Gunn, Thom / Heaney, Seamus / Hill, Geoffrey / Kinsella, Thomas / Larkin, Philip / Muldoon, Paul / Murphy, Richard / Paulin, Tom / Raine Graig / Haffenden, John.

Viewpoints – Poets in Conversation with John Haffenden. Douglas Dunn, Thom, Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Thomas Kinsella, Philip Larkin, Paul Muldoon, Richard Murphy, Tom Paulin, Craig Raine.

First edition. London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1981. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 189 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. [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.

14. [Grandville] Böttger, Adolf.

Die Pilgerfahrt der Blumengeister [The Pilgrimage of the Fairy Spirits / “Les Fleurs animées”]. Mit 36 colorirten Bildern nach Grandville. Mit 36 colorirten Bildern nach Grandville / With 36 handcoloured pictures of flower fairies from his famous illustration cycle: “Les Fleurs animées”.

Zweite, umgearbeitete und verbesserte Auflage. Leipzig, Friedrich Fleischer, 1854. Octav. Handcoloriertes Frontispiece, (4), 296 Seiten mit 36 handkolorierten Stahlstichen. Moderner Meistereinband in rotem Maroquin mit vergoldetem Rueckentitel und feiner Ornamentik. Dreiseitig vergoldeter Schnitt. Das hier gezeigte Bild ist die tatsaechliche Ausgabe ! Exzellente Bindung. Die handkolorierten Tafeln in sehr guter Erhaltung. Das Buch wie immer etwas staerker stockfleckig ! Der Buchblock fest und sehr gut erhalten. Private Widmung des 19.Jahrhunderts auf dem Titelblatt.

15. [Gray, Cleve] Barzun, Jacques.

Romanticism and the Modern Ego. [Beautifully inscribed by Jacques Barzun to american abstract expressionist painter Cleve Gray].

6th edition. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1947. Octavo. 359 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Barzun to Cleve Gray on the endpaper: “Cleve Gray, painter, whose seeing eye does not stop at the outside of books. Dec. 15’ 48 – Jacques Barzun”. With several markings in pencil by Gray inside. [An Atlantic Monthly Press Book].

16. [Hamsun, Knut] Hansen, Thorkild.

Processen mod Hamsun. [Signed by Thorkild Hansen]

3 Volumes (complete set). Denmark, Gyldendal, 1978. Large Octavo. 375, 157, 305 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjackets. The complete set in the original slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the slipcase. Signed by Thorkild Hansen on the endpaper of the first Volume. The rare first edition of this groundbreaking biography of Norway’s most famous writer.

17. [Hecataeus of Miletus] / Klausen, Rud. Henr.

Hecataei Milesii Fragmenta. Scylacis Caryandensis Periplus.

Berlin, Impensis G. Reimeri, 1831. Octavo. [3], Large Fold-Out-Map of the Ancient Mediterranean, titled: “Tabula Europae, Asiae, Libyae”, 324 pages including a thorough Index of Places. Hardcover / Original 19th century boards with new spine and spinelabel, bound to style of the 19th century. New endpapers. The Volume is now protected by Mylar. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

18. [Hedouin, Edmond / Boilvin, Emile] Book of Wisdom.

The Song of Songs [The Song of Solomon / Das Hohelied Salomos]. With 26 etchings from designs by Edmond Hedouin and Emile Boilvin. From Designs by BIDA.

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1887. 25 cm x 32 cm. 47 pages of verses juxtaposed to 24 fine etchings, the additional two etchings are the frontispiece and a smaller signet etching to the titlepage. All of the fine etchings mounted to stiff paper. Original hardcover / Decorative quarter morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very few of the etchings with foxing. Very good condition of this extremely rare edition (no.129 of 250 copies only) with only very minor signs of external wear / some rubbing to the binding and bumping to the corners. Some corners very slightly fingerstained and with a hint of a faded dampstain. Name of former owner on endpaper: “Martin F. Jackson – 501 – 5 ave. New York City”.

19. 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 we offer here is the much better version.

20. [Milton, John] Redman, Harry.

Major French Milton Critics of the Nineteenth Century.

Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press, 1994. 8°. XIII, 390 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good+ / Near fine condition with only minor signs of use to the binding.