41. De Bernières, Louis.

Corelli’s Mandolin. [Captain Corelli’s Mandolin].

Advance Reader’s Edition. New York, Pantheon Books, 1994. 14.5 x 22cm. 437 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, with only very minor signs of shelfwear.

42. [de Man, Paul] Durling, Robert M. / Rosiek, Jan / Weiss, T.[Theodore Russell Weiss] / Hughes, Langston / Levin, Harry.

Collection of five books from the library of Paul de Man and Pat de Man. Three of the books inscribed/signed by the author’s. The Collection includes: 1. Robert M. Durling – The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic. [Inscribed by Durling: “For Paul de Man – with fond regards – Bob”] / 2. Jan Rosiek – Figures of Failure – Paul de Man’s Criticism 1953-1970 [Unsigned / Not inscribed] / 3. T. Weiss – The Catch – The Twayne Library of Modern Poetry [Inscribed by Weiss: “To Pat + Paul, for real friendship + a book of their own soon. Ted”] / 4. Edward J. Mullen – Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti [Inscribed by Langston Hughes: “Ma cheri Pat, may this slight token of appreciation for your past (and hopefully) future, intellectual ministrations to your petit frère recall to you fond memories of your peregination. Love, Langston – Chritmas, 1979 (Late, as usual)”] / 5. Karry Levin – Grounds for Comparison [Unsigned / Not inscribed].

Cambridge (Mass.) / Aarhus / New York and others, Harvard University Press / Archon Books / Twayne Publishers / Aarhus University Press, 1951 – 1992. 8°. Volume I.: VIII, 280 pages / Volume II: 247 pages / Volume III: 77 pages / Volume IV: 193 pages / Volume V: 423 pages. Three Volumes in original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar / One Volume in Softcover / One Volume in Hardcover. Very good condition. From the library of Paul de Man. Especially the Durling – Volume of interest. Inscribed by the author: “For Paul de Man with fond regards – Bob”.

43. De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo / [Giovan Gherardo de Rossi].

Commedie.

[Seconda Edizione]. 4 Volumes in 2 (complete set). Prato, Fratelli Giachetti, 1826. Octavo. Tomo Primo: XIX, 291, [1] pages / Tomo Secondo: 314, [2] pages / Tomo Terzo: 328, [2] pages / Tomo Quattro: 251, [1] pages. Original, wonderful and decorative vellum bindings. With new spinelabels. Very Rare, original edition of the second edition of de Rossi’s comedies.

44. Deluxe Illustrated Children’s Book – Kipling, Rudyard.

All the Puck Stories. With Illustrations by H.R.Millar and Charles E.Brock.

First Deluxe Edition (Published simultaneously with the trade edition). London, MacMillan and Co., 1935. Octavo. Frontispiece-Illustration, X, 670, [2] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover / Decorative full red leather with gilt lettering and gilt illustration of Puck on the front board. In its original, rare dustjacket. The dustjacket frayed with some loss. The Volume itself in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear to upper and lower hinge only.

45. Dickens, Charles.

American Notes for General Circulation.

First single-volume edition. London, Chapman and Hall, 1850. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece by C. Stansfield, XIII, 175 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Endpapers and pastedown with original publisher’s advertising. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this excellent and firm condition.

46. Dickens, Charles.

Collection of six First Editions, all bound uniformely around 1850 and all in their original state. A stunning set with nearly all of the books in their First state of First Edition printing and with all plates complete. The collection includes: Bleak House / Little Dorrit / Nicholas Nickleby / Martin Chuzzlewit / Dombey and Son / David Copperfield. A very rare occasion in which a contemporary 19th-century lover of Dickens’ Literature had all Novels in their first edition bound to his/her liking. The mid-19th-century bindings beautiful in their simplicity and uniform style.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1839 – 1857. Octavo. Hardcover / Mid-19th-century Half-Leather with gilt lettering on spine. Original marbled endpapers. Very good condition with only few layers and illustrations loosened and the usual tanning to the illustrations. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [The David Copperfield Volume has a defect (see detailed description below)]. Perfect collection of first editions to start a Dickens-Collection in contemporary, 19th-century bindings.

47. Dickens, Charles.

The Major Works – Unabridged Cambridge Scholars Classic Texts Edition [The Major Works of Charles Dickens in 29 Volumes].

29 Volumes. Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Octavo. c.5000 pages in 29 Volumes. Original Softcover / Paperback Edition. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear. All the texts have been newly typeset for this edition.

48. Dickens, Charles.

The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. With Thirty-Eight instead of Forty-Three Illustrations by R[obert] Seymour and PHIZ.

First Edition of Charles Dicken’s First Book. London, Chapman and Hall, 1837. Octavo. Double-Frontispiece, XIV, [1], 609 pages plus 38 illustrations (instead of 43). Hardcover / Beautiful contemporary half leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. with dustjacket. Lesion to outer margin of pages 569/570. Two plates with very minor tears. Faded dampstain to very few pages. The Frontispiece the cleanest example we have ever seen, the interior illustrations as usual with some browning but some of them very clean indeed. Overall an unusually clean and beautiful example of the First Edition with some minor signs of wear only.

49. [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 !

50. Doyle, Arthur Conan.

The Last Galley – Impressions and Tales. With Illustrations.

First Edition. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. Octavo. Frontispice (in colour), VI, 298, (6) pages. With both illustrations present. Hardcover / Original, illustrated publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt illustration to front board. Poor but firm condition with endpapers to front and rear perfectly attached. Some some minor staining to some pages. Wonderful collection of short stories by Doyle.

51. [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.

52. Durrell, Gerald M.

The Overloaded Ark. With illustrations by Sabine Baur.

Fourth impression. London, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1959. 14.5 x 22cm. 238 pages, with maps and line-drawn illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition, other than minor signs of wear to dustjacket including small tear to spine, edges very slightly foxed. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper.

53. Eliot, T.S.

Ausgewählte Gedichte [Selected Poems].

Bilingual Edition: Englisch und Deutsch / Erste Ausgabe. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 149 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Der Schutzumschlag minimal angeraendert und mit einigen wenigen Gebrauchsspuren / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket.

54. Eliot, T.S.

Milton. Annual Lecture on a Master Mind. Henriette Hertz Trust of the British Academy 1947.

Third Impression 1948. London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1948. 8°. 19 pages. Softcover / Original brochure. Spine with some minor splitting and minor tears to rear wrapper. Otherwise very good.

55. Eliot, T.S.

The Cocktail Party. A Comedy by T.S. Eliot.

Second Impression of the First Edition ! London, Faber and Faber Ltd., MCML [1950]. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 167 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

56. 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.

57. [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.

58. Felton, Henry / [Duke of Devonshire].

A Dissertation on Reading the Classics and forming a Just Style [Including the Chapters: “The Opinion that Homer wrote loosly [sic] and without any premeditated Scheme, considered and refuted” and “The late Duke of Devonshire’s Character as a Scholar”]. Written in the Year 1709 and addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roos, the present Marquis of Granby by Henry Felton, D.D. Rector of Whitwell in Derbyshire.

The Third Edition, corrected. London, Printed for Jonah Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-street, 1718. Small-Octavo. XX, [6], 230 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full leather with a new spine in the style of the period. Original spine-label preserved. Excellent restoration by a master-bookbindery. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

59. 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……”

60. [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.