141. Mount St. Michael Centenary Committee.

Mercy in Rosscarbery 1894 – 1994: History, Development and Reminiscences.

Cork, Mount St. Michael Centenary Committee, 1994. 16 x 22.5cm. (17), 236 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. Extremely rare !

142. Kuryluk, Ewa.

Century 21 [First edition, with a manuscript postcard from Ewa Kuryluk to Brad Morrow, editor of Conjunctions, laid-in. Signed by Ewa Kuryluk].

Normal, IL, Dalkey Archive Press, 1992. Large Octavo. 340 pages with 24 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

143. Hockney, David.

A Retrospective – Organized by Maurice Tuchman and Stephanie Barron / With a Foreword by R.B.Kitaj.

First Edition. LA / New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Harry N.Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1988-1989. Quarto ( 288 pages plus an Appendix with an additional, stunning, 24 colour-pages titled “Commercial Printing is an Artists Medium”. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with some minor signs of external wear.

144. Harrison, Jim.

Just Before Dark. [Signed]

Livingston, Montana, Clark City Press, 1991. 17 cm x 24 cm. XIII, 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

145. Freiberg, Siegfried.

Elegien und Oden. [Mit gewidmetem, signiertem Gedicht-Typoskript an Hanns Martin Elster].

Wien, Gerold & Co, 1935. 8°. 22 Blatt. Hardcover / Oiginaler Leinenband. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen, rein äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren. Aus der Bibliothek von Harry Zohn. Beiliegend: Maschinenschriftlicher Brief mit Unterschrift von Siegfried Freiberg an Harry Zohn in welchem Freiberg einen Zeitungsausschnitt zu Paul Celan ankuendigt, sowie eine Postkarte von Freiberg an Zohn. Beiliegend auch ein korrigiertes und signiertes Original Typoskript von Siegfried Freiberg, mit handschriftlicher Widmung an den deutschen Schriftsteller Hanns Martin Elster, mit einer durchgestrichenen Widmung und dem Vermerk eines neuen Pseudonym’s Elster’s (″jetzt Elisa Wolf-Fellinger”) und einem Hofmannsthal-Zitat. Das Gedicht-Typoskript trägt den Titel: “Hymne dem Sänger der Zeit”.

146. [English History Collection] – Morton, H.V.

In Search Of England / In Search Of Scotland / In Search Of Wales / In Scotland Again.

Four volumes. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929 / 1929 / 1936 / 1934. 13 x 19.5cm. 232 / 288 / 273 / 415 pages, with illustrations and maps. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Very good condition with only minor signs of shelf wear and some stronger signs of foxing to edges. Wonderful set. [From the series “The Search Books”].

147. [Hatton, Brian] Cule, W. E.

The White Caravan. Illustrated by Brian Hatton.

London, James Nisbet & Co., Ltd., 1914. 15.5 x 22cm. 184 pages. With four colour illustration plates and decorative endpapers. Original, illustrated hardcover in protective Mylar. The binding in unusually excellent and firm condition. Endpapers undsiturbed and perfect. Foxed on the edges and some mild foxing inside. Very minor lesion to the outer margins of 6 pages only. Private gift-inscription and letter included: Inscribed “To Elsie with best wishes from E.Miller”. An original, signed letter by Aunt Miller to Elsie is loosely inserted. All the wonderful colour-plates by Brian Hatton are in place and in excellent condition. An extremely scarce book.

148. Grass, Günter.

Local Anaesthetic. Translated by Ralph Manheim.

New York, A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book / Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. Octavo. 284 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. First US edition of this novel narrated from a dentist’s chair. Fine in dust jacket with review slip laid in. Signed by Grass. Dustjacket Illustration after a painting by the author.