361. Levine, Philip.

Breath: Poems.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 15 cm x 23.5 cm. X, 82 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near Fine condition. Signed by the author Philip Levine.

362. Mathers, E. Powys.

The Eastern Anthology – Anthology of Eastern Love. Eastern Love: Volumes I & II & III: The Lessons of a Bawd and Harlot’s Breviary. English Versions of the Kuttanimatam of Damodaragupta and Samayamatrika of Kshemendra. Volume I: The Lessons of a Bawd of Damodaragupta. Volume II: The Harlot’s Breviary of Kshemendra. Volume III: The Book of Women and The Education of Wives.

3 Volumes in one (complete set). London, John Rodker For Subscribers, 1927. 15.2 cm x 23.5 cm. Pagination: Vol I: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 92 pages / Vol II: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 100 pages / Vol III: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 152 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful, actually stunning, private full morocco in Art Deco – Style (see images), Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Deckled edges. Top edge gilt. Gilt on spine and red leather hardcover. Minor discolouration and staining to front and rear pastedown enpapers and endpapers. This edition of the Kuttanimatam of Damodaragupta, the Samayamatrika of Kshemendra, the Zenan-Nameh of Fazil-Bey, and Ta’Dib Ul-Nisvan, being Volume I, II and III of the “Eastern Art of Love”, are here translated into English for the first time, by E. Powys Mathers. This edition of 1,000 copies on all rag paper was printed by Messrs. Molyneux, 3 & 4, New Street Hill, London. The copper plate engravings are by Hester Sainsbury and have been printed and hand coloured by Messrs. A. Alexander and Sons, Ltd. This copy is No. 695.

363. McDonagh, Philip.

Memories of an Ionian Diplomat.

Delhi, Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2004. 22 cm x 14 cm. IX, 99 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. In protective mylar. Excellent, close to new condition. Association copy: Inscribed / Signed by the author Philip McDonagh to fellow irish poet, Adam Wyeth: “Adam, with best wishes, Philip McDonagh, 25th August, 2006”.

364. Price, Reynolds.

The Collected Poems.

New York, Scribner, 1997. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXIV, 474 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some signs of wear. Partially detached front endpaper. Signed by the author Reynolds Price.

365. Rilke, Rainer Maria / Pickman, Hester.

Rainer Maria Rilke – An Essay by Hester Pickman [A two-volume biographical study, contained in two issues of ‘Hound & Horn’].

2 Volumes (complete set). Concord (New Hampshire), Hound & Horn, 1931. Octavo. The essay on Rilke has 85 pages and includes the reproduction of a photograph of Rilke from 1906. The two Volumes of Hound & Horn have overall 328 pages (131, 197). Contemporary Hardcover / Quarter blue crushed morocco with marbled boards. Top edge gilt, gilt lettering and ornament on both spines. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. An unusual but wonderful collector’s edition. Uncommon.

366. Scott, Walter.

The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. In one complete volume. With all his introductions and notes also various readings, and the Editor’s notes.

Edinburgh, Robert Cadwell, 1850. 17 cm. 821 pages. Steel-engraving of Abbotsford (as frontispiece) and white and folded facsimile of Sir Walter Scott’s Handwriting (1810). Original illustrated hardcover/ Full red morocco prize binding (with Emblemata) for King Edward’s Free Grammar School in Birmingham (1852). Very good condition 1850 edition with only very minor signs of external wear. There is some rubbing to the spine, and some white marking on front page. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

367. Tennyson, Hallam / [James Mackenzie Maclean Provenance]

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son [Two Volumes]

Two Volumes (complete set). New York, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1897. 15 cm x 23.9 cm. Pagination: Volume I: XXIV, 516 pages. Black and white frontispiece and twelve illustrations / Volume II: VI, 551 pages including a thorough Index. Black and white frontispiece and ten illustrations. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Both volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor rubbing to both spines. Deckled edges. Binding strong. Tissue-guards for illustrations and therefore the illustrations and portraits with some browning. From the library of british journalist and conservative politician James Mackenzie Maclean. Both volumes contain his Exlibris “J.M. MacLean”.

368. Various Authors: Lopez de Ayala, Pedro / Ruiz, Juan / Manrique, Gomez / Teresa de Jesus, Santa / Cruz, Juan de La, San / Quevedo Villegas, Francisco de / Machado, Antonio / Jiminez, Juan Ramon / Garcia Lorca, Federico / Lime, Jorge de etc.

Hispanic Notes & Monographs Series: Translations from Hispanic Poets [Poets from Cuba (Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda), Argentina (Bartolomoe Mitre / Martiniano Leguizamon / Leopoldo Lugones / Enrique Banchs / Rafael Alberto Arrieta / Alfonsina Storni / Oscar Bietti / Brazil (Jorge de Lima / Carlos Pezoa Velis / Gabriela Mistral) / Colombia (Jorge Isaacs / Jose Asuncion Silva / Guillermo Valencia / Luis Carlos Lopez / Costa Rica (Carlos Luis Saenz / Fernando Lujan) Mexico (Amado Nervo / Maria Enriqueta / Jaime Torres Bodet / Juana Ines de la Cruz / Joaquin Arcadio Pagaza / Francisco A de Icaza / etc.) / Nicaragua (Ruben Dario) , Peru (Manuel Gonzalez Prada / Jose Santos Chocano) / Uruguay (Fernan Silva Valdes / Emilio Oribe / Juana de Ibarbourou) / Venezuela (Rufino Blanco-Fombona) / Spain and Portugal (Juan Ruiz / Pedro Lopez de Ayala / Payo Gomez Charino / Auzias March / Garcilaso de la Vega / Juan Boscan / Santa Teresa de Jesus / Fernando de Herreira / Lope Felix de Vega Carpio / Tomas de Iriarte / Federico Garcia Lorca / Rafael Alberti / Manuel Altolaguirre / Adriano del Valle (Bullfight at Sevilla) / etc. etc. etc.].

New York, The Hispanic Society of America, 1938. 14 cm x 19 cm. XVI, 271 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Scratches to outer cloth covering. Browning of page edges.

369. [Viereck, Peter] Setterlind, Bo.

Bo Setterlinds Dikter. I Urval Och Med Kommentarer. Teckningar Av Lars Wellton.

Stockholm, Bonniers Folkbibliotek, 1957. 19cm x 12cm. 119 (7) pages. Original illustrated hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Bo Setterlind to american writer Peter Viereck: “Peter Viereck – Cordially – […] Setterlind – Stockholm, April 28, 1963”.

370. Wright, Charles / McLellan, Leigh.

Dead Color. Poems.

San Francisco, The Meadow Press, 1980. Oblong Quarto. 16 pages. Original green wrappers (Softcover). First edition. One of an edition of only 285. Signed by Charles Wright and Leigh McLellan in pencil. French-folded pages, With four woodcut illustrations by Leigh McLellan. Fine.