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APPIA, Béatrice.
A fine collection of manuscript and typescript correspondence and humorous drawings, sent to her lover Jean Carteret,...
Paris, 1934–6.
An extraordinary series of love letters, by turns passionate, mocking and lyrical, with copious illustration, sent by the Swiss-born French artist Béatrice Appia (1899–1998), best known for her illustrated children’s books, to the philosopher and astrologer Jean Carteret (1906–1980), here addressed...
£7500
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THICKNESSE, Philip.
A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs and Austrian Netherlands … Vol. I [all published].
London: Printed in the Year 1784.
First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed, of a typically idiosyncratic account of a ‘quarrel-ridden tour’ of the Netherlands and Belgium by ‘the most irascible individual within the arena of late eighteenth-century print culture’ (Oxford DNB).
£1850
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[PFORZHEIMER, Carl H.]
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature, 1475–1700.
New York, Privately Printed [at the Morrill Press], 1940.
First edition, limited, numbered 17 of 150 copies and signed by Pforzheimer on the frontispiece portrait, from the library of the pre-eminent collector of English literature Robert S. Pirie.
£3500
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[ABC.]
Petite géographie amusante abécédaire nouveau offrant pour chaque lettre de l’alphabet une carte coloriée avec l’explication...
Paris, P.-C. Lehuby, [1851].
A charming and very rare ABC intended to teach children European geography, from A for Allemagne to Z for Zara in Dalmatia, published just a few years after the upheavals of the revolutions of 1848.
£3750
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POUND, Ezra.
How to Read …
London, Desmond Harmsworth, [1931].
First edition, a fine association copy. Agnes Bedford (1892-1969) was a lifelong friend of Pound (they first met in 1919 and corresponded until 1963 when he unexpectedly severed contact) and through him of Wyndham Lewis, with whom she had an affair in the 1920s. A vocal coach and accompanist,...
£750
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RADCLIFFE, Ann.
The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance; interspersed with some Pieces of Poetry ... in four Volumes ...
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson ... 1794.
First edition of a cornerstone of gothic fiction, ‘a book so rich in Gothic ideas and techniques that its far-reaching influence can scarcely be overstated … Its wild and lush landscapes became ubiquitous too, in the imagination of contemporaries, and it is no surprise to find Keats, in 1818, writing...
£3500
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BARKER, Nicolas.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana: The Lives and Collections of Alexander William, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of...
Chatham, ‘Printed [by W. & J. Mackay Limited] for presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club’, 1977.
Limited edition, dedicated and presented to the Roxburghe Club, specially bound in quarter morocco for presentation to Members.
£250
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WORMALD, Francis; Jonathan ALEXANDER, editor.
An Early Breton Gospel Book: A ninth-century Manuscript from the Collection of H.L....
Cambridge, ‘Printed [at the University Press] for presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club’, 1977.
First edition, dedicated and presented to the Roxburghe Club by Philip Bradfer-Lawrence, a member’s copy presented to Adrian McLaughlin.
£175
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HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, attributed.
[Portraits of Celebrated Courtezans].
ts of Celebrated Courtezans].
A famous series of London courtesan portraits, long attributed to Hollar, but that attribution rejected by Pennington and New Hollstein. The first mention of the series comes in print dealers’ catalogues of the early nineteenth century, though the British Museum has an example on laid paper that may...
£1200
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[KAFKA, Franz, et al.]
Vom jüngsten Tag. Ein Almanach neuer Dichtung.
Leipzig, [W. Drugulin for] Kurt Wolff, 1916.
First edition of the first collective publication of the younger generation of German writers Wolff had assembled under the rubric of Der jüngste Tag.
£250
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[WEDDING POETRY.]
Applausi alli felicissimi sponsali dell’illustrissimo Sig. Cavaliere Deifebo Perini Brancadori, con l’illustrissima...
Siena, Stamperia del Pubblico, 1699.
Seemingly unrecorded collection of sonnets written to mark the marriage of two Sienese nobles, Deifebo Perini Brancadori and Ottavia Orlandini. The fourteen sonnets, whose authorship remains unknown, take inspiration from the family name of the groom and aspects of the arms of both families, with...
£350
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[BYRON, George Gordon, Lord].
Lara, a Tale. [and] Jacqueline, a Tale [by Samuel Rogers].
London, Printed for John Murray …, 1814.
First edition, Randolph’s fourth variant (with the crooked roman numeral on p. 82 and the fallen period on p. 20). By 1814 Byron was heavily pressed by debts, having previously refused payment for his poems. For Lara, the fourth of Byron’s Levantine poems, published on the back of The...
£400
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KAFKA, Franz, and Jean CARRIVE, translator.
L’épée. Deux textes suivis d’un N.B. du traducteur.
Paris, [Imprimerie des 2 Artisans], 1939.
First separate edition in French of Das Schwert, and of an aphorism from Er: Aufzeichnungen aus dem Jahre 1920 (‘Er war früher Teil einer monumentalen Gruppe…’). The translations, by Jean Carrive, first appeared in Giration in July 1939, and are issued here as a tirage à part.
£250
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Zhivoi trup. Drama v 6 deistviiakh i 12 kartinakh [A Living Corpse. A drama in 6 acts and 12 scenes].
Moscow, A. Ia. Petrov, [1911].
One of the earliest printings of Tolstoy’s Living Corpse, one of a number of editions in 1911, the year it was first staged, posthumously, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, offered with a traditional gypsy folk song included in the performance of Act II of The Living Corpse, first edition...
£2750
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GOR’KII, Maxim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
Katalog izdatel’stva “Vsemirnaia Literatura” pri narodnom...
St Petersburg, “Vsemirnaia Literatura”, 1919.
A catalogue marking the launch of a series of popular editions of the classics of world literature by the publishing house ‘Vsemirnaia Literatura’ (‘World Literature’), established by Gorky in 1919.
£650
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ASCHEHOUG, Torkel Halvorsen.
Social-økonomik: en videnskabelig fremstilling af det menneskelige samfunds økonomiske virksomhed.
Christiania, H. Aschehoug, 1903–1908.
First edition of a systematic handbook on economics written by the Norwegian lawyer, political scientist, politician, historian, and economist Torkel Halvorsen Aschehoug (1822–1909).
£350
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[KAFKA, Franz, et al.]
Das Jüdische Prag. Eine Sammelschrift.
Prague, Verlag der “Selbstwehr”, 1917 [i.e. 1916].
First edition, rare: an anthology produced by the Prague German-language Zionist weekly newspaper Der Selbstwehr, including the first authorised appearance in print of Kafka’s Ein Traum, one of only two excerpts from Der Prozess (The Trial) which were published during...
£1000
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REYES, Alfonso.
Corrected carbon typescript, signed, of an essay entitled ‘Chesterton y los titeres’ [Chesterton and the puppets].
[1950s.]
Corrected carbon typescript of Alfonso Reyes’s essay entitled ‘Chesterton y los titeres’, concerning G.K. Chesterton’s play The surprise, a religious allegory written in 1932 but first published posthumously in 1952.
£1000
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[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.]
Iubileinyi Al’bom v pamiat’ stoletiia so dnia rozhdeniia poeta 1799–1899 [A Jubilee Album...
St Petersburg, A.F. Marx, 1899.
First edition of an album in celebration of Pushkin, published as a supplement in the literary magazine Niva.
£1500
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[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.]
Al’bom Pushkinskoi Iubileinoi Vystavki v Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk v S. Peterburg, Mai 1899...
Moscow, K.A. Fisher, 1899.
The catalogue of an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Pushkin’s birth, held at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg.
£800