11. [Rossetti] Beerbohm, Max / [John Gilbert “Jack” Bohun Lynch].

Rossetti and his Circle [Association Copy – Inscribed / Signed by Max Beerbohm to his friend, Biographer and fellow Caricaturist, (John Gilbert)″Jack [Bohun] Lynch”].

First Edition. London, William Heinemann, 1922. Quarto. Frontispiece, IX, [1] pages with 23 tipped-in plates (including the now famous Oscar Wilde – Caricature) with lettered tissue-guards. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The dustjacket very poor and fragmented but the Volume itself in excellent, firm condition. All colour-plates with tissue-guards in place and in wonderful condition. Excellent association-copy with the personal inscripton by Max Beerbohm to his friend Jack Lynch by incorporating the half-title: “Jack Lynch’s copy of [Rossetti and his Circle] from Max – 1923”.

12. Moore, George.

Conversations in Ebury Street. [With an interesting full-page manuscript letter by George Moore, written in ink into the book verso titlepage].

Second edition. New York, Boni and Liveright, Inc., 1924. 14.5 x 21.5cm. 315 pages. Original hardcover with spine label. Deckled edges. With a fantastic, full-page, signed message written inside the book by George Moore. Very good – condition of the binding with signs of external wear (some spotting). Moore responds in his manuscript note on the halftitle possibly to the request of Frieda Lawrence, wife of D.H.Lawrence, who requested a copy of Moore’s book “The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe”. Moore sent her instead this edition.

13. Hoffenstein, Samuel.

Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing.

New York, Boni & Liveright, 1928. 8°. 217 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. First edition. A classic collection of humorous verse, including a section of parodies. Dark offsetting to half of each free endpaper, top edge stain a bit faded, else overall very good+ in dust jacket with occasional shallow chipping to extremities. Inscribed (fully signed) by Hoffenstein to Abraham Heller on the front free endpaper.

14. [Tey, Josephine / Daviot, Gordon] / [Gielgud, John].

Josephine Tey – John Gielgud Collection of stunning Association copies of Plays which crucially defined both of their careers as writers and actors. The collection includes important, signed and inscribed association – copies of the two significant productions “Richard of Bordeaux” and “Queen of Scots”, both from John Gielgud’s personal library and with manuscript inscriptions to John Gielgud [and Laurence [Larry] Olivier] by Josephine Tey, aka Gordon Daviot, aka Elizabeth MacKintosh. The collection includes: 1. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] – “Richard of Bordeaux – A Play in Two Acts” – With John Gielgud’s Bookplate (Ex Libris). The ultimate Association-copy, warmly and lengthy inscribed by Josephine Tey to John Gielgud. First Edition. London, Victor Gollancz, 1933 / 2. “Richard of Bordeaux” – Original Programme of “The Streatham Hill Theatre”, 1934. Signed by John Gielgud / 3. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] – “Richard of Bordeaux” – Original File-copy with dustjacket and Publisher’s wrapper “The Play of the Year” at the New Theatre” – First Edition, 1933 / 4. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] Gordon Daviot – “Richard of Bordeaux – A Play in Two Acts” – [Fifth Edition, 1933] – Special Cast, Producer and Production-Signed copy and inscribed to one “Eileen Grainger”, with the most interesting dedications in manuscript signatures – Signed and inscribed by lead actor and producer John Gielgud [Richard II], Signed and inscribed by leading Lady, actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Signed and inscribed by Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey], Also beautifully signed and inscribed with a musical score by Shakespeare-composer and Musical Director for John Gielgud, Herbert Menges OBE ! / 5. “Queen of Scots – A Play in Three Acts” – The Ultimate Association-copy, inscribed by Josephine Tey to her producer: “John Gielgud – from ‘his Gordon Daviot’ / July 1934” / 6. Gordon Daviot – “Queen of Scots – A Play in Three Acts” – Association-copy, signed and warmly and lengthy inscribed by Josephine Tey to Laurence Olivier / 7. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] – “Richard of Bordeaux” – A Softcover-Version of the Play in Fourth Impression, 1933 / 8. Josephine Tey – “The Daughter of Time” – First Edition, Second Impression (Second Printing). London, Peter Davies, July 1951 [The First Edition was in June 1951]. Original Hardcover with the slightly frayed original dustjacket in Mylar / 9. John Gielgud – “Early Stages” – New and Revised Edition. London, The Falcon Press, 1948. With pages of detail about the work of John Gielgud with Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] / 10. Jennifer Morag Henderson – “Josephine Tey – A Life” – With a Foreword by Val McDermid. Sandstone Press, 2015 //

London, Victor Gollancz, 1933 – 1948. Octavo. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

15. [Wolff, Kurt Heinrich] Mannheim, Karl / Wolff, Kurt Heinrich.

German Sociology (1918 – 1933) – [Signed and Inscribed offprint – Presentation-copy by famous sociologist Karl Mannheim to his student and colleague, the sociologist Kurt Heinrich Wolff: “To Prof.Kurt Wolff in friendship – K.Mannheim – London, April 1946”].

POLITICA, February, 1934. Large Octavo. 21 pages. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The stunning association copy between two german social scientists in exile is a testament to their collegiality and friendship. With one annotation and some markings by Wolff. It is not clear if Wolff met Mannheim in London or if the offprint was sent to him. There is a note in ink by Wolff on the endpaper stating: “Columbus, May 13 ‘46”.

16. Laws, J.A. / Peacock, H.L.

Political Parties – A comparative Survey on Communism, Conservatism, Fascism [The British Union of Fascists], I.L.P., Labour and Liberalism. [Signed and inscribed by author H.L.Peacock to his colleague and fellow historian L.M.Goldthorpe].

Cambridge, W.Heffer & Sons, [1937]. Octavo. 54 pages. Original Softcover. Very condition with only minor signs of external wear to upper and lower spine. Signed under the preface !

17. [Bridgman, Percy Williams] Alpert, Harry.

Operational Definitions in Sociology. [Inscribed by Harry Alpert: “To Professor P.W.Bridgman – Cordially, Harry Alpert”].

[New York], American Sociological Review, 1938. Octavo. 8 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Nobel Laureate, Percy Bridgman. [Reprinted from American Sociological Review – Volume III, No.6, December, 1938].

18. [Gandon, Yves] Sauvage, Marcel.

Premier Manifeste du Vitalisme.

Paris, Debresse, 1939. Small Octavo. 48 pages. Original Softcover / Broche. Avec une dedication de l’auteur á Yves Gandon / Inscribed by Marcel Sauvage to Yves Gandon. The first statement of the Vitalist group, whose members included Vlaminck.

19. [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.

20. Yeats, William Butler / [George [Georgie] Yeats / Mrs. Eva Hempel / Eduard Hempel].

Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. [Signed / Inscribed by George Yeats to Mrs. [Eva] Hempel, wife of german ambassador to Ireland during World War II].

No.8 / 200 copies, of the original limited edition. Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1944 [September 1944]. Octavo. 58 pages. Original Hardcover. Inscribed by George Yeats on the front free endpaper: “Mrs. Hempel from George Yeats, April 1944”. This has to be of course “April 1945”. The impossibility of signing/inscribing a book in April 1944 if it was only published in September 1944 is easily explained with the classic everyday-mistake of still writing the previous year in the first few months of the following year. A stunning association. The signature and inscription is a solid match to George Yeats’ autographs in her later hand and William Butler Yeats and George Yeats were frequent visitors to the Hempel’s in Dublin. In addition, the low number of the edition (8/200) suggests this being one of the reference copies given to George Yeats, who contributed heavily to the volume and even added an explanatory note (in print) verso the titlepage. This copy is near fine, bound in the publisher’s quarter buckram over yellow, paper-covered boards. The books pages remained unopened. Eva Hempel’s husband Eduard Hempel is one of the most controversial figures in modern Irish history, excoriated by some as ‘Hitler’s man’, defended by others such as the country’s first President, Eamon De Valera. Certainly, Hempel presented William Butler Yeats in 1938 with a copy of ‘Germany Speaks’ whose inscription described an ‘unforgettable afternoon’ spent together by Yeats and Hempel. Eduard Hempel and his wife were accepted socialites in the Dublin world of World War II, famously receiving a condolence call by de Valera upon the death of Hitler. Eduard Hempel and his wife Eva were granted asylum in Ireland after world war II and stayed way beyond the end of World War II.