51. Marryat, Frederick.

Peter Simple.

London, George Routledge, 1873. 18 cm. 448 pages with frontispiece portrait of Marryat and 6 plates. Hardcover / Half leather of the early 20th century with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Binding slightly detached from the excellent condition bookblock. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

52. Marryat, Frederick [Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson].

Poor Jack. Illustrated by Clarkson Stanfield.

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1859. 18 cm. VIII, 500 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece, in black and white. Original illustrated hardcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. There is noticeable rubbing to the spine and it has become slightly frayed at its top and bottom; also, an inside page has been cut/torn. Inscribed and signed by Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson to Charles E. Hoyle in 1928.

53. [Mathews, Charles] Anonymous.

Constance : A Novel. The First Literary Attempt of a Young Lady. In Four Volumes.

Volume IV (of four) only. London, Printed at the Logographic Press, 1785. Small Octavo (10.5 cm x 17 cm). 256 pages. Original Hardcover in Mylar. Professionally repaired and with new spine-label. Original Label / Sticker of “Hazard’s Circulating-Library , Cheap-Street in Bath”, mounted on front board. Binding slightly rubbed. Last page with lesion and minor tear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with the name of one of his children in ink on titlepage.

54. Milton, Johann [Milton, John].

[Das verlorene Paradies] Das Verlohrne Paradies, aus dem Englischen Johann Miltons in Reimfreye Verse übersetzt, und mit eignen sowohl als andrer Anmerkungen begleitet von Friedrich Wilhelm Zacharia. Mit Kupfern.

Zweyte, durchaus verbesserte Ausgabe. Zwei Teile in einem Band (vollständig). Altona [Hamburg], David Iversen, Koenigl. priviligierte Buchhandlung in Holstein, 1762-1763. Octak (16,5 cm x 23.5 cm). Portrait-Frontispiz Miltons, [12], 266, 248 Seiten mit 12 ganzseitigen Kupfertafeln (plus Frontispiz). Portrait Miltons von C. Fritzsch. Die 12 blattgrossen Kupfertafeln von C. Fritzsch und Meil nach Haymann. Hardcover / Originaler, zeitgenoessischer Pappband mit handschriftlichem Rueckenschildchen. Bindung firm und sehr gut erhalten. Die gesamte Ausgabe in wunderbarer Erhaltung mit nur ganz geringen Anzeichen von vereinzelten Stockfleckchen. Stempelchen auf Titelblatt. Kleines, ganz dezentes Namensetikett des Vorbesitzers auf dem hinteren Vorsatzblatt.

55. Milton, John.

Paradise Lost: Books I and II only.

London, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1898. 11 cm x 17 cm. Vol. I: 83 pages/ Vol. II: 93 pages. Original softcovers. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

56. [Moore, John] / [Anonymous: “By the Author of Zeluco”].

Edward. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken From Life and Manners, Chiefly in England.

First Irish Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, W.Watson and Son, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1797. Small-Octavo (11.5 cm x 17.5 cm). 331, 376 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings a little shaky but still intact; stronger rubbed with loss to labels. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

57. [Moore, Leonard] Rolfe, Frederick Baron Corvo.

Letters to Leonard Moore. Edited and with an Introduction by Cecil Woolf and Rabbi Bertram W. Korn and Epilogue by Leonard Moore.

First edition / Limited Edition: One of only 290 copies. London, Nicholas Vane, 1960. 16 x 24 cm. 76 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth. Excellent, near Fine condition of a very rare book. [The Centenary Edition of the Letters of Frederick William Rolfe: II].

58. [Morgan, Charles] Duffin, Henry Charles.

The Novels and Plays of Charles Morgan.

London, Bowes & Bowes, 1959. Octavo. 221 pages. Original Hardcover with original, price-clipped dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The dustjacket with some fraying in protective Mylar.

59. [Puttnam, David] Norman, Diana.

The Morning Gift.

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. 8°. 285 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Front endpaper missing. Beautifully inscribed and signed by Diana Norman to producer David Puttnam: “The only thing of value i can give you – a sample of my own blood, sweat + tears – With my best Love – Diana”. From the personal library of producer David Puttnam.

60. [Ravilious, Eric / Golden Cockerel Press] Suckling, John.

A Ballad Upon A Wedding. With Engravings by Eric Ravilious.

First Edition. Waltham Saint Lawrence (Berkshire), Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Octavo (13.7 cm wide x 20.3 cm high). 13 pages with eight original woodcuts. Original Hardcover (Quarter cream cloth with artist-paper-covered boards) with original, illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The jacket with stronger loss in upper corner and some fraying but now protected in mylar. The Volume itself in wonderful, near fine or better condition with only very minor signs of wear.

61. [Ravilious, Eric / Pierre-Simon Fournier].

Almanack 1929. With Twelve Designs Engraved on Wood by Eric Ravilious – And a Specimen of the Roman & Italic of Fournier-le-Jeune composed on the ‘Monotype’.

First Edition, First state in full buckram. London, Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd., 1929. Slim Octavo (12.8 cm wide x 19.2 cm high). 46 unnumbered pages with twelve Zodiac-woodcuts by Eric Ravilious, a two-colour titlepage with typographical zodiac-designs on the titlepage. Original Hardcover in Mylar/ Full tan buckram with the year 1929 in gilt on upper spine. Minor staining to edges. Note on endpaper states: “On Japanese Vellum”.

62. [Ravilious, Eric] Shakespeare, William.

“Twelfth Night or, What You Will” by William Shakespeare – With Engravings by Eric Ravilious. With 29 wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious, printed in Grey and Maroon.

No.47 of a limited Edition of 275 copies on Batchelor Paper. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Folio (24.3 cm wide x 34 cm high). Pagination: Endpaper, (2), 41 leaves, (1), Endpaper. With 29 wood-engravings throughout. Hardcover / Original half-leateher, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with their bindery-stamp to pastedown. Binding wonderfully firm and cloth only slightly rubbed, else an excellent copy pf a very scarce book from the beloved Golden Cockerel Press.

63. Rider Haggard, H.

She – A History of Adventure.

Eighth Edition. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1888. Octavo. Double Frontispiece, [3], 317, 16 pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor signs of foxing only. The last 16 pages of the book are an advertising catalogue for the publisher. Name of preowner on titlepage, “J.Brady, ‘88”.

64. Robinson, Charles Napier.

The British Tar in Fact and Fiction. The poetry, pathos, and humour of the sailor’s life. With introductory chapters on the place of the sea officer and seaman in naval history and historical literature by John Leyland.

Reprint of the 1909 Edition. Washington, Singing Tree Press, 1968. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. XXIII, 520 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece in colour and one hundred and thirty reproductions of old prints, engravings, and woodcuts, in black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. A slight stain on front cover. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard.

65. Rogers, Samuel.

Human Life. A Poem.

London, John Murray, 1819. Duodecimo. Halftitle removed. 100 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful contemporary red morocco with gilt lettering and ornament. Gilt edges. Besides the cleanly removed halftitle in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

66. Sanborn, Kate.

My Literary Zoo. [Animal Stories: Everybody’s Pets / Devoted to Dogs / Cats / All Sorts]

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1896. 18.1cm x 10.7cm. 149 pages. Original Hardcover (red cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on frontcover). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

67. Sayers, Dorothy L.

Creed or Chaos ? – And other Essays in popular Theology.

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1947. Small Octavo. VII, 88 pages. Hardcover / Original, red publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dustjacket not present ! Very minor finger-staining on page three. Edges slightly foxed and corners slightly bumped. Otherwise in excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. The rare first edition of one of the more uncommon Sayers-titles.

68. Scott, Michael.

Tom Cringle’s Log. With Illustrations by Frank Brangwyn.

Two Complete Volumes. London, Gibbings & Co., 1894. 11 cm x 18 cm. Vol I: 397 pages / Vol II: 415 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Original illustrated hardcovers. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Minor signs of foxing only. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown of Volume one.

69. Self, Will.

The Quantity Theory of Insanity.

London, Bloomsbury, 1991. 19.8cm x 12.7cm. (8) 211 pages. Original illustrated softcover (Paperback). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Titlepage signed by the Will Self.

70. [Shakespeare] Home, Gordon.

Stratford-on-Avon. A Sketchbook.

London, Adam & Charles Black, no year(c.1920). 15.8 cm x 22.5 cm. Unpaginated. c. 50 pages. 16 drawn illustrations by author. Hardcover [publisher’s original tanned cloth] with title-label on front board. In protective mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Crack to gutter between front pastedown and endpaper, cloth exposed. Binding still good and firm. Some browning to edges. Interior bright and clean. Private inscription dated April 1916 on front endpaper. [Beautiful Britain – Series].

71. Shakespeare, William.

Collection of 9 interesting publications of literary criticism and history regarding William Shakespeare. The collection includes: 1. Brents Stirling – The Shakespeare Sonnet Order (1968) / 2. Katharine Cooke – A.C.Bradley and his influence in Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism (1972) / 3. Nichol Smith – Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare. Second Edition (1963) / 4. Walter Whiter – A Specimen of a commentary on Shakespeare – Being the text of the first (1794) edition revised by the author and never previously published. edited by Alan Over – Completed by Mary Bell (1967) / 5. Kenneth Muir – Shakespeare – The Comedies. A Collection of critical Essays. Edited by Kenneth Muir. Englewood Cliffs, 1965 / 6. Peter Quennell – Shakespeare the poet and his background (1963) / 7. S.C.Sen Gupta – Shakespeare’s Historical Plays (1964) / 8. Anne Righter – Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play (1964) / 9. Bertrand Evans – Shakespeare’s Tragic Practice (Clarendon Press, 1979)//

Berkeley / Los Angeles and others, University of California Press (and other publishing houses), c. 1968 – 1975 8°. c. 2000 pages. All volumes in hardcover. All titles are former library copies with ugly red markings on edges and bindings. Inside very good. More images upon request.

72. Skeat, Rev. Walter W.

An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language.

A New Edition, Revised and Enlarged [Fourth Edition]. Oxford, At The Clarendon Press, 1924. Quarto. XLIV, 780 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A wonderful of this beautifully typeset publication with spacious margins and a delight to use. From the personal library of William Spark (20 Blades Street, Lancaster), with his name and address in ink to endpaper.

73. Smith, Charlotte.

Desmond – A Novel in Two Volumes.

First Irish Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, W. McKenzie, H.Colbert, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1792. Small-Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). VII, 276, 306 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings rubbed with loss to labels. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

74. Snow, C.P.

Corridors of Power.

First Edition. London, Macmillan & Co., 1964. 12.5 cm x 19.5 cm. VIII, 408 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

75. Stanhope, Earl Philip Henry.

Miscellanies. With some supplementary letters.

Second Edition. London, John Murray, 1863. 12 cm x 19 cm. 144 pages. Original Hardcover (full brown calf with gilt lettering to spine). Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

76. Stevenson, Robert Louis.

Prayers – Written at Vailima. [Prayers written for Family Use at Vailima].

London, Henry E. Walter, 1945. Small Octavo. 32 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

77. Stone, Harry.

Fairy Tales and Ogres : Dickens’ Imagination and “David Copperfield”.

Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1964. 8°. 7 Pages (pp. 24-30). Stapled blue wrappers (softcover). Good condition. Some rust marks from staples. “DICKENS” and “Sincere regards, HS” (Harry Stone) written in pen on front cover. Some text markings. [Offprint from: “CRITICISM, a Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, Vol.VI, No.4, 1964.]

78. Stutchbury, Rosamond.

Journey To Grandmother.

Surrey, Gayles Ltd., 1973. 14.2 cm x 22.3 cm. 74 pages. Black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine and top of front board slightly sunned. Minor foxing to pastedowns, endpapers and edges. Interior clean and bright.

79. [Swift, Jonathan] Irving, David.

The Elements of English Composition [With an essay on ‘Critical examinations of a passage in the writings of [Jonathan] Swift’].

The Fourth Edition. London, Printed for Richard Phillips, 1816. Octavo. X, 318 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s interimsbinding. Binding slightly rubbed. Endpaper with small abrasion (minor tear). Bookseller-sign on pastedown: “Sold by J.Bolster, Bookseller, No.7, Patrick Street, Cork”. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle) / Name of preowner John Meade in ink on titlepage.

80. Thomas, Alan.

The Director.

London, Victor Gollancz, 1958. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some foxing to the page edges. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

81. Thomson, James / [Newton, Sir Isaac / Walpole, Robert].

The Works of James Thomson. Volume The First only [of Two]. Containing, The Seasons, Liberty, The Castle of Indolence and Poems on Several Occasions [Includes also: “Antient and Modern Italy compared: Being the First Part of ‘Liberty’, A Poem”].

Volume I (of II). Dublin, Printed for G.Risk, G. and A. Ewing and W.Smith, Booksellers in Dame-Street, 1751. Small – Octavo (10 cm x 16,5 cm). 363 pages with all four original engravings (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) and also including the section with “A Poem sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole”. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full calf. In protective Mylar. Endpaper with small tear. The engraving “Spring”, loosened and with damage to upper margin (effecting the image). The three other engravings in place and in very good condition (see photographic images). Provenance-Entry: “Eliza Hungerford, March 5, 1771” [Elizabeth Hungerford].

82. Trollope, Anthony.

Phineas Redux.

2 volumes. London, Ward, Lock and Co., no date [c.1884]. 17.4cm x 11.8cm. IV, 595 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

83. Tupper, Martin F. [Farquhar].

Proverbial Philosophy.

Thirty-fifth Edition. London, Hatchard and Co., 1859. Octavo. Frontispiece – steel-engraving of a bust showing Martin Tuppper, 385 pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative full morocco with gilt lettering to spine. In protective collector’s Mylar. Some children’s writing to frontcover. Slightly rubbed binding. Overall in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. Edges gilt. Small stain to edge.

84. [Viereck, Peter] Abse, Dannie.

Dannie Abse.

First Edition. London, Vista Books, 1963. 11,2 cm x 18,9 cm. 48 pages. Original softcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Dannie Abse to american writer Peter Viereck: “To Peter – A poor exchange for the books you have been kind enough to give me, and which I so value – Dannie – Amherst, April ‘68”. [The Pocket Poets].

85. Waller, Edmund / [Provenance: John Morrison].

The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in Verse and Prose.

First Dublin Edition. Dublin, Printed by W.G.Jones for W. and W.Smith and T.Ewing in Dame-Street, 1768. Small-Octavo. [8], LXIV, 272 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Binding very firm and only slightly bumped and rubbed. Overall in a very good condition with some signs of external wear. With the name “John Morrison” on the titlepage [possibly the 18th century – Architect John Morrison from Midleton, with a connection to Castlemartyr]. This book came subsequently from the Library of Daniel Conner, Connerville / Bandon / Manch House in which also a set of Buffon, from the library of Richard Boyle Bernard, Dean of Leighlin and MP for Bandon Bridge was included.

86. Wells, H.G.

Marriage.

London, Thomas Nelson, no year [c. 1920]. 12cm x 18cm. 430 pages. Original Hardcover. Some minor stains to the front cover and slightly dogeared. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

87. White, Henry Kirke.

Henry Kirke White’s Poetical Works and Remains. Life of Henry Kirke White By Robert Southey.

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1855. 11 cm x 17 cm. XLVII, 112 pages with illustrations. Original hardcover in leather. A protective plastic cover on the outside. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Writing on front page to previous owner. Pages stained in many places more so on illustrated pages. Maroon full-leather hard covers, highly decorated with gilt, raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, all page edges in glit. Solid binding.

88. [Woolf, Virginia] Sterne, Laurence.

A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy: with an introduction by Virginia Woolf.

[First Edition. Limited printrun of 5000 copies. Kirkpatrick B 7]. London, Oxford University Press, 1928. 9.5 x 15.5cm. (17), 233 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of shelf wear. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper. [Oxford World’s Classics, No. 333].