401. Christo & Jean-Claude.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Sculpture and Projects 1961-96. [SIGNED by Christo and Jean-Claude].

Yorkshire, Exhibition Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, 1997. Oblong Small-Quarto (21 cm wide x 15 cm high). 36 pages with illustrations (some in beautiful colour). Softcover / Original spiral bound. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely rare now with the beautiful signatures of these two landmark-artists of the 20th century.

402. 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 !

403. Watkins, Vernon / [Provenance: Constantine Fitzgibbon (Major Robert Louis Constantine Lee-Dillon)].

Affinities – Poems by Vernon Watkins [Inscribed Association-copy by Vernon Watkins to fellow writer, Constantine Fitzgibbon: “for Constantine from Vernon”].

First Edition. Norfolk (Connecticut), A New Directions Book, 1962. Octavo. 99 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare Association !

404. Mahon, Derek.

Red Sails [Signed by Derek Mahon].

First Edition. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press (Gallery Books), 2014. 8°. 95 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. First Edition in MINT condition. Signed by Derek Mahon. With a minor manuscript-correction of a Typo by Derek Mahon on page 83.

405. Mahon, Derek.

Against The Clock [Signed and Inscribed by Derek Mahon].

First Edition. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press (Gallery Books), 2018. 8°. 79 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. First Edition in MINT condition. Signed and Inscribed by Derek Mahon: “for Peter with best wishes – Derek, Dec. ‘18”.

406. [Bonnard, Pierre] Chauveau, Léopold.

Les Histoires Du Petit Renaud.

Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1927. Quarto (23 cm wide x 28.5 cm high). 93 pages. Original Softcover Brochure with illustrations by Pierre Bonnard / Broché originale et illustree. Excellent, near fine condition with only minor signs of wear / Avec cinquante illustrations dessinées et coloriées au pochoir, en bleu et en rouge, par Pierre Bonnard. Exemplaire 226 des 322 exemplaires sur vélin d’Arches de ces cinq histoires pour enfants. Les seuls contes pour enfants jamais illustrés par Pierre Bonnard. Tres bon exemplaire !!

407. Johnson, Samuel.

A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the words are deduced from their Originals, Explained in their Different Meanings, and Authorized by the names of the writers in whose Works they are found. Abstracted from the Folio Edition, by the Author Samuel Johnson A.M. To which is prefixed, An English Grammar. To this edition are added, A History of the English Language, The Author’s Preface to the Folio and a considerable Number of Words, none of which are contained in the London Octavo.

Dublin, Printed by W.G.Jones, for Thomas Ewing, in Dame-Street, 1768. Octavo (14 cm x 21,5 cm). 1026 unnumbered pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century leather with new spine-label. In protective Mylar. Binding with some rubbing and minor defects to the leather. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of John & Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with the name of John Meade on the titlepage.

408. Pareto, Vilfredo.

Il Mito Virtuista. E La Letteratura Immorale.

Second Italian Edition / Seconda edizione Italiano – Aumentata Dall’Autore. Roma, Bernardo Lux, 1914. 19cm x 12.6cm. VI, 269 (2) pages. Annotations on rear endpaper. Original softcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

409. Johnston, Robert H.

New Mecca, New Babylon: Paris and the Russian Exiles, 1920-1945.

Kingston / Montreal, McGill – Queen’s University Press, 1988. Octavo. IX, 254 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Several pages dogeared ! Several pages with text-markings by previous owner. Otherwise in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Very Rare now !!

410. [Moore, George] Gerber, Helmut E.

George Moore On Parnassus – Letters (1900-1933) to Secretaries, Publishers, Printers, Agents, Literati, Friends, and Acquaintances. Edited, with notes and critical-biographical commentary.

Newark, University of Delaware Press, 1988. Octavo (16 cm wide x 23.5 cm). 896 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The dustjacket in poor condition. The Volume itself in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

411. [Hays, Mary] Wedd, A.F.

The Fate of the Fenwicks – Letters to Mary Hays (1798-1828).

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1927. Octavo (14.5 cm wide x 22 cm high). XVI, 248 pages (including Appendix and Index) plus 8 pages of a book-catalogue to the rear “Methuen’s General Literature”. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. The spine detaching. The binding otherwise firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some minor signs of foxing. A very, very rare book !!

412. 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 !

413. Baudelaire, Charles.

The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs Du Mal . [with Ephemera – Publisher’s advertising flyer] Translated into English verse by various hands. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by James Laver and illustrated with engravings by Pierre-Yves Trémois.

Limited Edition signed by Illustrator. 2 Volumes (complete). New York, The Limited Editions Club at the Press of A. Colish, 1971. Octavo and Slim Quarto Volume. XXXVI, 201 (3) pages / X, 188, (2) pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative quarter cloth Volumes in specially designed slipcase. Both Volumes in original publisher’s glassine wrapper. The Volumes in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The glassine wrappers with some fraying.

414. Viereck, Peter.

Collection of very interesting offprints, pamphlets and reviews by Peter Viereck and on Peter Viereck (all from Peter Viereck’s personal library). The Collection includes: 1. “Peter Viereck – Profile” – Article by E.V. Griffith in “Poetry Now”, Vol, VI, No. 2 [Issue 32] – With three excellent photographs of Viereck, shown throughout the article. Griffith discusses Viereck’s genesis as a writer, his time in Harvard and his important contribution to conservatism etc. / 2. Peter Viereck – “The Last Decade in Poetry- New Dilemmas and New Solutions” (In this 1954 – Offprint from “Literature in the Modern World”, Nashville, George Peabody College for Teachers, Viereck discusses Wallace Stevens (″Wallace Stevens’ is the sorcery of surfaces. For this he pays a price: the sacrifice of deep feeleing″and Robert Lowell) / 3. Peter Viereck – “Decorum and Terror: Homage to Goethe and Hart Crane” – Original Offprint from “Essays in Criticism”, with a manuscript correction by Viereck / 4. Peter Viereck – “New Views on Metternich” (Offprint from “The Review of Politics”) / 5. Peter Viereck – “The Rootless ‘Roots’: Defects in the New Conservatism (Original Offprint from “″The Antioch Review”, Summer 1955, issue) / 6. Galleyproof Review for NY Times Sunday Book section of Russell Kirk, by Peter Viereck – With two manuscript notes on the Galley by Peter Viereck to american philosoper and Leo Strauss admirer, Harvey Mansfield: “Harvey, many thanks for your piece on Spitzer + Auerbach which meant a lot to me (I’d known Spitzer). Warm regards to both of you – Peter” and a second manuscript entry by Viereck: “Saw Brodsky …..Finishing a new book…poems – Peter” [Mansfield and Viereck must have sent the Galley back and forth between each other]. / 7. Peter Viereck – “First Advance Reviews on “McCarthy and the Communists” by James Rorty and Moshe Decter – With a highlighting of the review-citation of Peter Viereck’s opinion “All conservative and liberals reading this irrefutable indictment of McCarthy’s methods should unite to conserve our traditional Constitutional framework against subversion by McCarthyism as well as by Communism” / 8. “Peter Viereck – A List of his principal works” / 9. Peter Viereck – “Unlaughing and Untragic” – (Original Offprint from “American Quarterly” with some markings by Viereck, ticking off each paragraph) / 9. Peter Viereck – “Reply to a critique of one of Viereck’s publications” / 10. Peter Viereck – “Ogling through Ice: The Sullen Lyricism of Georg Heym” [Original Offprint from “Books abroad”, April 1971, 11 pages – Including Peter Viereck’s Translation of Georg Heym’s poem “Letze Wache” (″Final Vigil”)] / 11. Original Book Review by Jacques Barzun of Peter Viereck’s Masterpiece: “Metapolitics – From the Romantics to Hitler” – Original Offprint from “Journal of the History of Ideas, January 1942, Vol. VIII., No.1” – Including Peter Viereck’s Reply to Barzun’s “passionate” Review, calling Viereck’s book “an ardent attempt to psycho-analyze the religion of the Nazis”. 6 pages/

Notre Dame / New York and others, 1951 – c. 1955 Octavo. Original Offprints and loose pages etc. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Peter Viereck.

415. [Viereck, Peter] Williams, Oscar (ed.)

New Poems 1942 – An Anthology of British and American Verse. [Including: Wallace Stevens – “Six Discordant Songs”].

First Edition. New York, Peter Pauper Press, 1942. 16 x 24 cm. 286 pages. With a section of photographs of the poets. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Inscribed by Oscar Williams to Peter Viereck in May 1947. Very good condition with minor rubbing and edgewear on the dustjacket.

416. [Viereck, Peter] Eliot, Alexander.

Proud Youth.

First Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953. 13 cm x 21 cm. 222 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Marble coloured boards, top edge green. Personal copy of the american poet Peter Viereck, signed and inscribed with a long inscription by his father George Sylvester Viereck: “For Peter – Xmas 1953 – G.S.V. – The most startling book I’ve come across this side of pornography, written by a descendent of President Eliot”.

417. [Viereck, Peter] Abse, Dannie.

Dannie Abse.

First Edition. London, Vista Books, 1963. 11,2 cm x 18,9 cm. 48 pages. Original softcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Dannie Abse to american writer Peter Viereck: “To Peter – A poor exchange for the books you have been kind enough to give me, and which I so value – Dannie – Amherst, April ‘68”. [The Pocket Poets].

418. [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.

419. Borges, Jorge Luis.

Cosmogonias. Illustrated by Aldo Sessa.

No. 1930 of 300 numbered copies of a limited edition. Buenos Aires, Instituto Salesiano de Artes Graficas, 1976. 33 cm wide x 31 cm high. Unpaginated (30 unnumbered pages / illustrated). Illustrated Hardcover in protective Mylar. One layer (Prologo) cleanly detached. Laminated boards peeling a bit at the edges, some light water staining to interior pages, covers rubbed and corners a little bumped, otherwise a very good and firm copy.

420. O’Brien, Edna.

House of Splendid Isolation.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. 16cm x 24cm. 216 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition. Beautifully signed and inscribed during a promotional booktour by author Edna O’Brien during a visit to the english booktown Hay-on-Wye in the year 1994.

421. Aleichem, Scholem.

Den Lille Verden. I Oversættelse Fra Jiddisch ved S. Friedman og Eric Erichsen.

[Copenhagen], Scandinavisk Bogforlag, 1949. Large Octavo. 220 pages. Softcover / Original, publisher’s illustratedwrappers. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Stamped “Anmeldereksemplar” on cover and endpaper. Extremely rare !

422. 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.

423. Vonnegut, Kurt.

Jailbird. A Novel.

First Edition. New York, Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence, 1979. Octavo. XXXVIII, 246 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Edge slightly dusty. Otherwise in very good+ condition.

424. [Swift, Jonathan] Irving, David.

The Elements of English Composition [With an essay on ‘Critical examinations of a passage in the writings of [Jonathan] Swift’].

The Fourth Edition. London, Printed for Richard Phillips, 1816. Octavo. X, 318 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s interimsbinding. Binding slightly rubbed. Endpaper with small abrasion (minor tear). Bookseller-sign on pastedown: “Sold by J.Bolster, Bookseller, No.7, Patrick Street, Cork”. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle) / Name of preowner John Meade in ink on titlepage.

425. Stanhope, Earl Philip Henry.

Miscellanies. With some supplementary letters.

Second Edition. London, John Murray, 1863. 12 cm x 19 cm. 144 pages. Original Hardcover (full brown calf with gilt lettering to spine). Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

426. Rogers, Samuel.

Human Life. A Poem.

London, John Murray, 1819. Duodecimo. Halftitle removed. 100 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful contemporary red morocco with gilt lettering and ornament. Gilt edges. Besides the cleanly removed halftitle in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

427. [Pearse, Patrick / Pearse, Pádraic] Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais.

An Mháthair agus sgéalta eile. [The Mother and Other Stories].

Second Edition with Vocabulary. Dun Dealgan [Dundalk], The Dundalgan Press [William Tempest], 1927. 19.5cm x 12.8cm. 95 pages with frontispiece and further beautiful illustrations throughout the publication. Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition of the rare softcover-issue with only minor signs of external wear.

428. O’Casey, Sean.

Three Volumes of Sean O’Casey’s famous Autobiography: I. I Knock at the Door – Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me (Rare Second Edition, Printed in the year of the First Edition, 1939) / III. Drums under the Windows (First Edition 1945) / VI. Sunset and Evening Star (First Edition, 1954).

Three Volumes (of Six). London, MacMillan & Co., 1939 – 1954. Octavo (15 cm x 22 cm). Volume I (″I Knock at the Door”): includes a fine Frontispiece-Photograph of “Mrs.Susan Casside in a Gala Dress”, VII, 268, [3] pages / Volume III (″Drums under My Window”): includes a Frontispiece-Photograph of “The Rev.E.M.Griffin”, 339, [2] pages / Volume VI (″Sunset and Evening Star”: includes a very fine Frontispiece-Photograph of “The O’Casey’s” [Niall O’Casey, Breon O’Casey, Sean O’Casey, Shivawn [Shivaun] O’Casey, Eileen O’Casey], VII, 311, [1] pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjackets. All three Volumes in their original state with the original dustjackets frayed but still very good. Volume I and III with two excellent Bookplates / Giftnote to dustjacket of Volume I; Giftnote to endpaper of Volume VI. Exlibris to pastedown “The Vernons” with artwork from artist H. Cutler” .

429. [Nerses IV / Saint Nerses of Armenia / David L. Arthur].

Preces Sancti Nersetis Clajensis Armeniorum Patriarchae. Viginti quatuor linguis editae. [Polyglot Edition of 24 Prayers by Saint Nerses with interesting Typography of different languages like Gaelic (Gaeilge), Hebrew, Syrian etc.].

Venice, Insula S. Lazari, 1837. Duodecimo. Portrait Frontispiece, engraved title, (4), 434 pages. Original Hardcover / Contemporary full leather with original spinelabel and gilt ornament on spine and boards. Binding rubbed. One corner slightly damaged. Rear panel stronger rubbed. Minor, faded dampstain to first four pages, frontispiece and some pages within. Overall very good ! From the library of David L. Arthur / ExLibris / Bookplate of David L. Arthur to pastedown, with his Motto: “Tout Vient De Dieux”.

430. [Moore, Leonard] Rolfe, Frederick Baron Corvo.

Letters to Leonard Moore. Edited and with an Introduction by Cecil Woolf and Rabbi Bertram W. Korn and Epilogue by Leonard Moore.

First edition / Limited Edition: One of only 290 copies. London, Nicholas Vane, 1960. 16 x 24 cm. 76 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth. Excellent, near Fine condition of a very rare book. [The Centenary Edition of the Letters of Frederick William Rolfe: II].

431. Milton, Johann [Milton, John].

[Das verlorene Paradies] Das Verlohrne Paradies, aus dem Englischen Johann Miltons in Reimfreye Verse übersetzt, und mit eignen sowohl als andrer Anmerkungen begleitet von Friedrich Wilhelm Zacharia. Mit Kupfern.

Zweyte, durchaus verbesserte Ausgabe. Zwei Teile in einem Band (vollständig). Altona [Hamburg], David Iversen, Koenigl. priviligierte Buchhandlung in Holstein, 1762-1763. Octak (16,5 cm x 23.5 cm). Portrait-Frontispiz Miltons, [12], 266, 248 Seiten mit 12 ganzseitigen Kupfertafeln (plus Frontispiz). Portrait Miltons von C. Fritzsch. Die 12 blattgrossen Kupfertafeln von C. Fritzsch und Meil nach Haymann. Hardcover / Originaler, zeitgenoessischer Pappband mit handschriftlichem Rueckenschildchen. Bindung firm und sehr gut erhalten. Die gesamte Ausgabe in wunderbarer Erhaltung mit nur ganz geringen Anzeichen von vereinzelten Stockfleckchen. Stempelchen auf Titelblatt. Kleines, ganz dezentes Namensetikett des Vorbesitzers auf dem hinteren Vorsatzblatt.

432. Lowth, Robert.

[On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews] De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum : Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii habitæ a Roberto Lowth, et poeticæ publico prælectores; nunc episcopo oxoniensii. Subjicitur Metricæ Harianæ brevis confutatio: et Oratio Crewiana.

Editio Tertia, emendatior. Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano [Imprimatur, J. Browne, Vice-Can. Oxon], 1775. 13 cm x 22 cm. (8), 515 pages plus 11 pages Index and Errata. Original Hardcover / Beautiful 18th century calf with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and the wonderful original marbled endpapers. With the original spinelabel. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. This edition printed on excellent paper with no foxing !

433. Kiely, Benedict.

Honey Seems Bitter.

London, Methuen and Co Ltd., 1954. 13 cm x 19 cm. 194 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket, designed by Geoffrey Ireland, in protective Mylar. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Inscribed / Signed by Benedict Kiely during his time as visiting Professor in Eugene, Oregon in 1965 on the titlepage: “For Bill Smith – One against 1000. DR the Solomon Martini – Ben Kiely – Sept. 1965”.

434. Jerome, Jerome K.

Three Men in a Boat – (To say nothing of the Dog). Illustrations by A. Frederics.

First Edition, second state, with “11 Quay Street” on titlepage. Bristol/ London, J.W. Arrowsmith / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. Limited, 1889. 8°. 315 Pages plus three nn. pages (Publisher’s Advertisement). Hardcover / Original, publisher’s illustrated cloth with gilt lettering on the Spine. Professionally repaired and strengthened binding in prtective Mylar. Private gift-inscription to mirror of title-page. Minor fraying to last page of text. Rare in this condition with minor staining only and all illustrations in beautiful condition.

435. Helps, Arthur.

Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon.

Three Volumes (Original Series – Vol. I and II / New Series: Vol. II (of II)). London, William Pickering / John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1849 – 1859. 12.1 cm x 19.7 cm. Pagination: Volume I: Book One: VIII, 228 pages / Volume I: Book Two: VI, 324 pages / New Series – Volume II: VI, 370 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decoratiove full leather with raised bands, gilt lettering and ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

436. Gogol, Nikolai.

Das Bildnis. Eine Novelle. Mit Zeichnungen von W. Masjutin. Ins Deutsche uebertragen von Alexander Eliasberg.

Stuttgart, Verlag Julius Hoffmann, 1920. Quarto. 96 Seiten. Hardcover / Modernes Halbleder mit Rueckenschild in neuem Spezial – Schuber mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

437. Gerhardie, William Alexander / Kingsmill, Hugh / Youngman Carter, Philip.

The Casanova Fable. A Satirical Revaluation. Illustrated by Philip Youngman Carter.

Rare, limited and signed first edition (No.20 of only 150 copies). London, Jarrolds, 1934. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 223 pages. With seven full-page illustrations in colour. Hardcover / Original, spectacular quarter vellum binding. Signed by William Gerhardie and Hugh Kingsmill. Bookplate / Exlibris of Liverpool book-collector, John Raymond Danson, to pastedown. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

438. [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”.

439. [Croker, John Wilson].

Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, Esq. – On the Present State of the Irish Stage. Fourth Edition, with considerable Additions.

Dublin, Printed by Graisberry & Campbell and sold by all booksellers, 1805. Small Octavo (11.5 cm x 18 cm). XXX, 178 pages plus Errata-leaf. Hardcover / Stunning, recent half leather and marbled-paper-covered-boards with gilt lettering and ornament to spine, bound to style of the 18th/19th century. Excellent condition. Tear in Errata-leaf professionally repaired. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his name in ink to titlepage.

440. [Croker, John Wilson].

An Intercepted Letter from J- T-, Esq. – Writer at Canton, to his friend in Dublin, Ireland.

Fourth Edition. Dublin, Printed for M.N.Mahon, 109, Grafton Street, 1804. Small Octavo (11.5 cm x 18 cm). III, 42 pages. Hardcover / Stunning, recent half leather and marbled-paper-covered-boards with gilt lettering and ornament to spine, bound to style of the 18th/19th century. Excellent condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his name in ink to titlepage.

441. Cowper, William.

The Minor Poems of William Cowper of the Inner Temple.

First Edition. Two Volumes in One (complete set). London, Printed for John Sharpe, 1818. Small Octavo (10 cm x 16,5 cm). Volume I: Illustrated Titlepage, VI, 108 pages with one additional engraving (″On his Mother’s Picture”) / Volume II: Illustrated Titlepage, IV, 108 pages with three additional engravings (1. “The Negro’s Complaint” / 2. “The Dog and the Water Lilly” / 3. “The Lily and the Rose” / “Drawn by Richard Westall R.A., Engraved by John Romney and Published by John Sharpe, Piccadilly, 1817”). Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

442. [Combe, William] / [Thomas Rowlandson].

The Tour of Doctor Syntax – In Search of the Picturesque – A Poem [plus: “Volume Second”: “The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax – In Search of Consolation – A Poem”].

Volume One in Fourth Edition / Volume Two in First Edition. Two Volumes. London, Published by R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts, 1813 – 1820. Large Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece, engraved titlepage, [2], 276, plus 1 page with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates”. With 31 handcoloured illustrations (including Frontispiece and titlepage) by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson / Volume II: Frontispiece, [1], 277 pages plus 1 page with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates”. With 22 (of 24) handcoloured illustrations by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson. Hardcover / Original half leather with original spine-labels and ornaments. Both Volumes with some rubbing but both in firm, original condition. Interior of Volume I with some mild foxing and fingerstaining only but all plates excellent. Interior of Volume II with a tear and loss of paper to the front free endpaper, some mild foxing, one plate and one textpage (page 11) slightly detached and with fraying). Minor wormholedamage to rear board (neglectable). Overall these two Volumes are in very good condition !

443. [Byron, Lord George Gordon] Marchand, Leslie A.

Byron’s Letters and Journals 1798-1824. Volume I – In My Hot Youth 1798-1810; Volume II – Famous in My Time 1810-1812; Volume III – Alas! The Love of Women 1813-1814; Volume IV – Wedlock’s the Devil 1814-1815; Volume V – So Late into the Night 1816-1817; Volume VI – The Flesh is Frail; Volume VII – Between Two Worlds 1820; Volume VIII – Born for Opposition 1821; Volume IX – In the Wind’s Eye 1821-1822; Volume X – A Heart for Every Fate 1822-1823; Volume XI – For Freedom’s Battle 1823-1824; Volume XII – The Trouble of an Index.

Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1973-1982. 8°. c. 3000 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjackets in protective collector’s mylar. 12 volumes (complete). The dustjackets slightly worn but unclipped. Pages 148 – 156 of volume 1 with very few small stains. Else near Fine or better condition.

444. Addison, Joseph / Steele, Richard.

The Spectator [This is the Rare Dublin Edition with Bookseller-Label of T. Connolly (Dublin)]. [With Frontispiece – Illustrations by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, Jacques Philippe de Bas and Francis Hayman].

8 Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for W.Wilson, 1778. Small Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece, VI, 325 pages plus 14 unnumbered pages of an Index (includes the notable essay “Inkle and Yarico” (Spectator 11) / Volume II: Frontispiece, IV, 336 pages plus 6 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume III: Frontispiece, IV, 314 pages plus 10 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume IV: Frontispiece, VI, 303 pages plus 9 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume V: Frontispiece, III, 301 pages plus 11 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume VI: IV, Frontispiece, 305 pages plus 19 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume VII: Frontispiece, V, 333 pages plus 9 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume VIII: Frontispiece, VIII, 300 pages plus 12 unnumbered pages of an Index [includes the Bookseller’s copyright-warning to the Reader that “no other Papers which have appeared under title of Spectator, since the closing of this eighth Volume, were written by any of those Gentlemen who had a hand in this or the former Volumes”. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather. All Volumes firm and with some stronger rubbing (no broken spines or weak hinges). Binding of all eight Volumes look overall poor, with spinelabels missing or broken. Interior in excellent condition with some occasion faded dampstains but overall no browning and all the frontispieces in place. The Dublin Edition comes rarely to the market !

445. Calder, Alexander.

Three Young Rats And Other Rhymes – Drawings by Alexander Calder. Edited with Introduction by James Johnson Sweeney.

One of 3000 copies of the second edition (MOMA 1946). New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 31.5 cm high). XVIII, (1), 130, (4) pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The jacket slightly frayed but now protected in Mylar. Overall the volume in a very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

446. [Calder, Alexander].

“Calder – Autobiographie”.

Paris, Maeght Éditeur, 1972. Quarto. 209 pages / Illustrated. Reliure originale / Original, illustrated Hardcover. Extremely rare, as new condition in original shrinkwrap from the publisher (Unopened !!!).