11. Goebel, Joey

Commonwealth.

San Francisco, MacAdam Cage, 2008. 15 cm x 23 cm. 511 pages. Softcover with author photograph by Isolde Ohlbaum. Book design by Dorothy Carico Smith. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper.

12. [Golding, William] Carey, John.

William Golding, The Man and his Books, A Tribute on his 75th Birthday.

London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1986. 14 cm x 22.5 cm 191 pages. Dustjacket with a photograph by Phil Sayer and eight further photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with a short inscription and date in ink by the previous owner on the front free endpaper.

13. Graham, Henry Grey.

Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1901. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XII, 441 pages. Includes an illustrated Frontispiece with a reproduction of a mezzotint after Allan Ramsay (protected with a tissue guard). With a further 31 black-and-white illustrations (portraits). Original Hardcover (blue cloth with gilt lettering). Very good condition with some signs of external wear. Some foxing evident with one illustration plate detached. An interesting Exlibris / bookplate with the engraved Motto: ‘Semper Paratus’ from the library of Albert A. Smith on front pastedown.

14. Irving, John.

Last Night in Twisted River.

New York, Random House, 2009. 17 cm x 24 cm. 554 pages. Jacket design by Gabrielle Bordwin with a jacket image by Everett Irving. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

15. Jeffrey, David Lyle (Editor and Translator).

The Law of Love: English Spirituality in the Age of Wyclif.

Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1988. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. X / 404 pages with many illustrations. Original softcover with plastic cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight scuffing on page edges.

16. Johnson, Samuel.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. Edited with an Introduction by Geoffrey Tillotson and Brian Jenkins.

London, Oxford University Press, 1971. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. XXX, 145 pages. Illustrated with one photographic black and white reproduction of the title page of the first volume of the first edition, 1759. Original Hardcover (blue cloth with embossed gilt lettering). Name of prewoner on endpaper (tiny entry). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with a very few pencil marks in margins. [Oxford English Novels – General Editor: James Kinsley].

17. [Joyce, James] Gorman, Herbert.

James Joyce – Leben und Werk. Mit einem Nachtrag von Carola Giedion-Welcker.

Hamburg, Claasen Verlag, 1957. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 375 Seiten. Original Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren am Umschlag.

18. [McAfee, Mildred Helen] de la Mare, Walter.

Ding Dong Bell.

London, Selwyn & Blount Ltd., 1924. 13 cm x 19 cm. IX, 76 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and fully signed by de La Mare to American academic Mildred Helen McAfee Horton on front free endpaper: “Helen McAfee with all good wishes from Walter de la Mare – June 1924”.

19. Morphy, Countess [Hincks, Marcelle Azra].

English Recipes – Including the Traditional Dishes of Scotland, Ireland & Wales. [Including loosely inserted a Recipe for “Danish Pastries” and “Savarin a la Pompadour”].

New York, Herbert Joseph Ltd. for Selfridge & Co. Limited, 1935. 13,5 cm x 21,5 cm. 224 pages. Modern Hardcover / Recently rebound in modern cloth with new endpapers. Bookblock firm but with some foxing and occasional staining. Otherwise in very good, now firm and restored condition.

20. [Nabokov, Vladimir] Rampton, David.

Vladimir Nabokov – A Critical Study of the Novels.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984. 13.5 cm x 21.5 ccm. X, 233 pages. Softcover. Cover design by Jan van de Watering with a cover photograph of Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux, 1968. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.