91. Bettelheim, Bruno.

Symbolic Wounds. Puberty Rites and the Envious Male.

First Edition. New York, Stratford Press, Inc., 1954. Size. 286 (2) pages. Frontispiece (colour) of carved ancestral figure from New Ireland. Original Hardcover in original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of wear. Endpaper inscribed and signed by the author Bruno Bettelheim. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger (Cape Clear).

92. 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.

93. Cotton, Henry / [Charles Patrick Ranke Graves].

My Swing [Inscribed and signed by Cotton to British journalist and Travel Writer, Charles Graves].

London, Country Life Limited. 1952. 22 cm x 14,5 cm. 144 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to spine. Inscribed and signed by author to Charles Graves. Rare !

94. [Kaplan, Anatoli Lvovich] Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim.

Nathan der Weise. Ein dramatisches Gedicht in fünf Aufzügen. Mit 15 Kreidezeichnungen von Anatoli L. Kaplan. [Signed and inscribed in russian by Illustrator Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan].

Leipzig, Insel, 1978. Folio. 152 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe mit originalem Schutzumschlag in Brodart / Mylar (Spezielle Sammler – Schutzfolie für Schutzumschläge). Leinen mit illustriertem Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur absolut geringen, rein äußerlichen Gebrauchsspuren. Rücken des Umschlags etwas vergilbt.

95. Updike, John / Ford, President Gerald.

Memories of the Ford Administration. A Novel.

First Trade Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Octavo. 371 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by President Gerald Ford on the halftitle. Also signed and beautifully inscribed by John Updike on the endpaper: “Read this book – it feels unread” / Includes also a typed note in which John Updike asks the recipient of this signed book to refrain from any future attempts to send him books for signing: “Recent changes in postal regulations have made the task of signing and sending back books more complicated than before…..So i ask you to make this your last shipment; any books henceforth received from you will be donated to the local church book fair……”

96. Webster, Charles A.

The Diocese of Ross – Its Bishops, Clergy and Parishes. With Illustrations and Map of the Diocese [Together with an earlier publication [Pamphlet] on the topic by Charles Webster: “The Diocese of Ross and its Ancient Churches”].

Cork / Dublin, Guy & Co. Ltd./Hodges & Figgis, 1932 – 1936. Octavo. Pagination of the book: XXXIV, 127 pages / Pagination of the Pamphlet: 40 pages plus photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover / Original Softcover. The book is inscribed by the author ! With some strong staining to the covers only. Otherwise in very good condition. Very Rare ! / The pamphlet “The Diocese of Ross and its Ancient Churches” was published within the “Proceedings of the Royal Irish Acadaemy” and is in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

97. Skrine, Henry.

Two Successive Tours throughout the whole of Wales. With Several of the Adjacent English Counties, so as to form a Comprehensive View of the Picturesque Beauty, the Peculiar Manners, and the Fine Remarks of Antiquity, in that Interesting Part of the British Island.

London, Printed for Elmsely and Bremner, 1798. 8°. XVIII, 280 pages. Original quarter leather with gilt lettering on spine. Leather on spine with fine cracks but binding fully intact and tight. Besides minor wear to extremities a very good or even better copy. Historical Presentation copy: “From the author”. Exlibris of Producer David Puttnam to front fly-leaf. Ownership-signature of John Powell from 1862 verso front free endpaper.

98. Neel, Alice.

Alice Neel: The Woman and Her Work [Signed / Inscribed by Alice Neel].

Athens (Georgia), Georgia Museum of Art, 1975. Quarto. 160 unnumbered pages. Illustrated throughout with images of art and photographs. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. First edition of this exhibition catalogue. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear and some foxing to endpaper. Inscribed and signed by Alice Neel: “To Elena Urbaitis, with love, Alice Neel, 1976.”

99. [Palme, Olof]

Fataburen – Nordiska Museets och Skansens Arsbok [signed and inscribed by former swedish prime minister Olof Palme to english theatre director Peter Ashmore: “To Peter – A Great Englishman and a true friend of Sweden – Your friend Olof Palme”].

1973. Octavo. 206 pages with several photographs. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

100. Sawyer, Sir James.

Points of practice in Maladies of the Heart – [INSCRIBED / SIGNED – with a signed (monogrammed) portrait-postcard of Sir James Sawyer] – Lumleian lectures at the Royal College of Physicians of London.

First Edition. Birmingham, Cornish Brothers, 1908. Small Octavo. VIII, 96 pages. Hardcover / Original, red publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Vintage portrait-postcard of Sir James Sawyer tipped in verso endpaper. The postcard is monogrammed in ink “J.S.”. The book is inscribed by Sir James Sawyer: “W.V.Bramington, Eng. [..] from the author”. Very Rare ! [Lumleian Lectures].