41. Amichai, Yehuda.

Poems. Translated from the Hebrew by Assia Gutmann With an Introduction by Michael Hamburger.

First U.S. Edition New York / Evanston, Harper & Row, 1969 14.6 cm x 21.2 cm. 57 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Myler. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear in cloth boards. Inscribed by the author “To William Jay Smith, with appreciation and friendship, Yehuda Amichai.” Occasional marks on some titles in ball pen.

42. 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 !

43. [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.

44. [Viereck, Peter] Eliot, Alexander.

Proud Youth.

First Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953. 13 cm x 21 cm. 222 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Marble coloured boards, top edge green. Personal copy of the american poet Peter Viereck, signed and inscribed with a long inscription by his father George Sylvester Viereck: “For Peter – Xmas 1953 – G.S.V. – The most startling book I’ve come across this side of pornography, written by a descendent of President Eliot”.

45. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis] / [Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire] / [Publisher Blackie & Son – Publishing House in Glasgow].

Publisher’s original “Private Library” – Correction-Copy of “The Two Duchesses”, for the “Second Edition”, with necessary alterations and wishes for changes marked by the corrector / publisher in pencil. Comparisons between pages allow to see the changes in effect if one compares the first and second edition. [A sensational find] / Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire – Family Correspondence of and Relating to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, Earl of Bristol (Bishop of Derby), The Countess of Bristol, Lord and Lady Byron, The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Augustus Foster Bart, and Others, 1777-1859. First Edition. With 17 illustrations.

London / Glasgow and Dublin, Blackie & Son Limited, 1898. Octavo (16 cm x 22,5 cm). XII, 497 pages with 16 full-page-illustrations and one small vignette, showing the Two Duchesses in cordial embrace. Hardcover / Original, green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and armorial supralibro to cover with the Motto of the “British chivalric Order of the Garter”: “Honi soit qui mal y pense” [″shame on anyone who thinks evil of it”]. Excellent, very clean binding. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. “Publisher’s Copy” with the publisher’s library sticker and bookplate to pastedown: “Blackie & Son Limited – Private Library – Case Kd – Shelf 5” – Exlibris of Blackie & Son below the library-sticker.

46. [Rosset, Barney / Minihan, John]

Remembering Samuel Beckett (Essay by Barney Rosset, juxtaposed to a printed photograph of Beckett by John Minihan, hugging Rosset in Paris on Beckett’s 80th birthday) – The page of this contribution inscribed and signed by Barney Rosset to irish photographer John Minihan: “To John Minihan – For the Pleasure of being with you for your photog. and your friendship – Barney Rosset 12/16/09”. In: Conjunctions: 53 – Not Even Past, Hybrid Histories, Bi- Annual Volumes of New Writing.

New York, Bard College, 2009. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 346 pages. Some black and white photographs and advertisements throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed / Inscribed by Barney Rosset to John Minihan (Excellent association).

47. [Gray, Cleve] Barzun, Jacques.

Romanticism and the Modern Ego. [Beautifully inscribed by Jacques Barzun to american abstract expressionist painter Cleve Gray].

6th edition. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1947. Octavo. 359 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Barzun to Cleve Gray on the endpaper: “Cleve Gray, painter, whose seeing eye does not stop at the outside of books. Dec. 15’ 48 – Jacques Barzun”. With several markings in pencil by Gray inside. [An Atlantic Monthly Press Book].

48. Gellner, Ernest.

Saints of the Atlas.

First Edition. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Octavo. 317 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good copy in publisher’s cloth covered boards in like dust jacket. Author’s presentation card loosely inserted. Inscribed and signed by Gellner on the half title :″With all the best wishes, Ernest.”

49. [Wolff, Kurt Heinrich] Sharp, Gene.

Social Power and Political Freedom.

First Edition. Boston, Porter Sargent Publishers, 1980. 21.5cm x 14.6cm. 432 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good or better copy in publisher’s cloth covered boards in like dust jacket. Inscribed by Gene Sharp on the titlepage to sociologist Kurt Wolff: “To Carla and Kurt (Wolff), with much love and gratitude for your kindnesses for so many years. Gene. 27 February, 1981.”

50. [Schneemann, Carolee] Fraser, Kathleen.

Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake. [Association Copy] –

Berkeley, Kelsey St. Press, 1984. 22.9cm x 17.8cm. (10) 34 (4) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Cover stained. Otherwise very good. From the library of Carolee Schneemann, with her ownership – stamp to the endpaper (New Paltz – New York) / Inscribed by the author to Carolee Schneemann: “for Carolee – twenty years later – wonder/full to have survived all this and to live, still, in the imagining moment – love – Kathleen – San Francisco – 11.15.84”.