1. Albert, Hans.

Traktat über kritische Vernunft. [Widmungsexemplar].

3., erweiterte Auflage. Tübingen, J.C.B.Mohr, 1975. 8°. XVI, 219 Seiten. Softcover. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand. Mit der gedruckten Widmung an Karl Popper. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung und Signatur von Hans Albert an Oswald Schwemmer. / Inscribed by the german philosopher Hans Albert to fellow philosopher Oswald Schwemmer in 1975. Inscribed books by Albert are very uncommon.

2. Aragon, Louis.

Le Paysan de Paris.

Premiére éditions. Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1926. 19 x 12 cm. 252 pages. Broché. Bon état général. Trés Bon exemplaire. Intérieur propre malgré de légéres rousseurs éparses. Exemplaire numéroté: 286, un des 900 ouvrage déstinés aux Amis de l’édition originale in-octavo couronne sur papier vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. / One of the great works by this co-founder of surrealism, a prose poem which created a “modern mythology, revealing the wonders of city life and celebrating the fusion of imagination and reality in a virtuoso style.” One of 900 copies for amis de l’edition in a total first printing of 1053 copies. A very good+ copy with some dark shelf residues to bottom edge.

3. Bruno, O.S.B. (Bruno of Segni; Bruno Astense; Brunonis Astensis; Bruno di Segni).

Opera. [Sancti Brunonis Astensi Episcopi Signiensium et Abbatis Montis Casini Opera in Duos Tomos Distributa aucta et Adnotationibus Illustrata Regiae Celsitudini Caroli Emmanuelis Pedemontii Principis &c. &c.].

Romae, Joannis Zempel, 1789-1791. Folio. C, 634, XXXVII, 688, III pages. Hardcover / Original parchment with gilt lettering on spine Former copy of St.Joseph’s College / Mill Hill Library.

4. Claudel, Paul.

Den Sedmý Odpocinkem. Hra O Trech Jednanich. Vyzdobil Vlastislav Hofman.

Praze (Prague), (Frantisek Obzina), (1920). 8°. 82 pages. Original, illustrated softcover in protective collector’s mylar. Very good+ condition. Small chip to frontcover. Early publication with expressionistic full-page illustrations. [Sestá kniha Druzstva Pratel Studia v Praze. Vyzdobil Vlastislav Hofman. Vydal Ladislav Kuncir v Praze Il. Spalená 15. Vytiskl Frantisek Obzina ve Vyskove na léta Páne 1920].

5. Constant, Benjamin.

Des Motifs Qui Ont Dicte Le Nouveau Projet De Loi Sur Les Elections.

Paris, Chez Béchet, 1820. 8°. IV, (2), 74, (2) pp. Softcover / Broche. Bon etat. / Unbound ! This is the original edition. It was part of a collection of pamphlets bound together with publications by Antoine Français de Nantes etc.

6. De Bourdeille, Messire Pierre.

Memoires De Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome, Contenans Les Vies de Dames Galantes de fon temps.

Volume I et II en un volume. Amsterdam, Chez Jean de la Tourterelle, M.DC.LXXXIX [1689]. 8,5 cm x 14 cm. 358 pages, 408 pages. Hardcover / Original vellum. A tear to bottom of spine, some foxing to page edges, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookplate to pastedown.

7. Derrida, Jacques & Fathy, Safaa.

Tourner les mots: au bord d’un film. [Signatures autographes de Jacques Derrida]

Edition limitée (No.60/70). Paris, Galilee, 2000. 8°. 169 pages with illustrations / photographs in colour. Softcover / Reliure Broché. Pages Unopened ! Signatures autographes de Jacques Derrida / First edition, one of seventy examples printed on “verge ivoire,” of this work produced as a companion to the film “D’ailleurs, Derrida”. Only seventy copies were produced, and most were distributed among the film’s collaborators. This copy signed by Derrida on the half title. Fine in publisher’s printed wrappers.

8. [Dou, Gerard] Martin, W.

Gerard Dou. Translated from the Dutch by Clara Bell.

London, George Bell and Sons, 1902. 13 cm x 20 cm. XII, 152 pages. Several black and white plates throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Endpapers and pastedowns markedly discoloured with signs of an old dampstain and some tanning of first and last few pages. A little colour staining between cover and endpaper. Internal pages and plates in good condition. Some foxing throughout. Rare. [Bell’s Handbooks of the Great Masters in Painting & Sculpture. Edited by G.C. Williamson, Litt.D.]

9. Duras, Claire Duchesse de.

Ourika.

Édition Originale. Paris, Chez Ladvocat, 1824. 18 x 11 cm. 172 pages. Relié plein cuir vert / Beautiful contemporary Hardcover. Intérieur bon état malgré légéres rousseurs éparses. Couverture défraichie et tachée. Provenance: Exlibris: A Debidour (Élie Louis Marie Marc Antonin Debidour) / Premiere edition dans le commerce après la rare édition originale publiée entre 25 et 40 exemplaires en décembre 1823 par l’Imprimerie royale pour les amis de l’auteur. Ce court récit fut rapidement écrit en 1820 lors d’une retraite de convalescence. Sollicitée par Chateaubriand, ami de la Duchesse de Duras depuis 1809, qui avait parti- culièrement aprécier le texte, l’auteur se décida à publier l’ouvrage anonymement. L’histoire de cette jeune sénégalaise, éduquée en France se rendant compte à l’âge de 12 ans des préjudices liés à sa couleur de peau, est considérée comme le premier roman de la littérature française à aborder les problèmes de racisme. / First published edition, following a private printing of 25 copies. A very good+ copy in contemporary paper-covered boards. An anonymously published novel by a French woman who was a close friend of Chateaubriand and who established a well-known salon in London. Her work has been compared to that of Richardson and Rousseau for obvious reasons, but she is perhaps more relevantly understood in the context of the early 19th-century French women’s writing that has only rather recently become a subject of study. Based on the true story of a Sengalese servan, unaware of her race until she overhears talk of it among the French family for whom she works, and thus begins her life as a black woman. In large part the tale recounts her hopeless love for a white man and her eventual retreat to a convent. This is the first European novel featuring a black female protagonist, and according to John Fowles who at least in part based his own The French Lieutenant’s Woman on the work, the first attempt by a European to enter the mind of a black character. An attractive copy of this cultural landmark.

10. [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.