1315 - 1344 FOREIGN LITERATURE
- Wrappers sl. yellowed along margins.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to "A. Glavimans, qui est mon bon ange hollandais (...)".
- Contents sl. foxed. Spine sunned.
AND 1 other by the same: Poiroit investigates (later reprinted ed., 1939).
- Price-clipped. A fine copy of the first edition.
- Frontcover sl. rubbed.
= From the library of the Dutch composer RUDOLF ESCHER (1912-1980), with his owner's entry on first free endpaper and w. a loosely inserted ms. leaf "Wilfred Owen uit de brieven (voorlopige keuze)", listing a selection done by Escher; with ballpoint underlinings in the selected letters in the book.
AND 5 others similar in 7 vols. from the library of R. Escher, all but one with his owner's entry (1x w. dedication by him), all clothbound, i.a. H. OWEN, Journey from Obscurity. Wilfred Owen 1893-1918, Memoirs of the Owen Family (ibid., 1963-1965, plates, unif cl.); J. STALLWORTH, Wilfred Owen (ibid., 1974, ills., orig. cl.) and the Collected Poems of S. SASSOON and E. THOMAS.
= The Horus Heresy Series. One of 2500 numb. DE LUXE copies in orig. leather and board clamshell box.
= The Horus Heresy Series. One of 2500 numb. DE LUXE copies in orig. leather and board clamshell box.
= The Horus Heresy Series. One of 2500 numb. DE LUXE copies in orig. leather and board clamshell box.
= The Horus Heresy Series. One of 2500 numb. DE LUXE copies in orig. leather and board clamshell box.
= The Horus Heresy Series. One of 2500 numb. DE LUXE copies in orig. leather and board clamshell box.
London, Chatto & Windus, 1958, 1st Engl. ed., 320p., orig. cl. w. dustwr.
- Wrappers sl. yellowed (backstrip sl. browned).
Brenan, G. The face of Spain. Ibid., Turnstile Press, 1950, 1st ed., 268p., plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.
- Dustwr. sl. frayed; spine of dustwr. sl. browned; lower outer corners of frontcover cracked.
Pritchett, V.S. The Spanish Temper. Ibid., Chatto & Windus, 1954, 1st ed., 218,(2)p., plates, orig. cl. w. (sl. frayed) , dustwr. - AND 22 others, almost all first editions in orig. cl. w. dustwr., i.a. F. STUART, Victors and Vanquished (ibid., 1958, 1st ed. With the orig. bellyband); R. GRAVES, The Isles of Unwisdom (ibid. etc., 1950, 1st ed. Dustwr. sl. worn and spine browned); L. NORFOLK, Lemprière's Dictionary (ibid., 1991, 1st ed. Very fine copy); A. WILSON, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (ibid., 1956, 1st ed. A few sm. tears in dustwr., otherwise fine); O. MANNING, The Great Fortune (ibid., 1960, 1st ed. Backwr. sl. foxed and sm. hole due to silverfish) and J. MASTERS, The Road Past Mandalay (ibid., 1961, 1st ed. Very fine copy).
= With an ORIGINAL DRAWING (pen and black ink) on htitle and AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on verso frontwr. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXI.
- Backwr. sl. foxed along margins. Otherwise a very fine copy.
White, P. Voss. Ibid., Eyre & Spottiswoode/ The Book Society, 1957, 1st ed., 478p., orig. cl. w. dustwr.,
- Backwr. chafed and vaguely stained in lower margin; frontwr. sl. foxed and sm. strengthened spot at top of spine. Contents very fine.
- Dustwr. sl. browned along margins. Otherwise fine. = Wobbe A42a.
Chatwin, B. On the Black Hill. London, Jonathan Cape, 1982, 1st ed., 248,(1)p., orig. boards w. dustwr. Mishima, Y. Thirst for Love. London, Secker and Warburg, 1970, 1st Engl. ed., (4),187,(1)p., orig. boards w. dustwr.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Dustwr. price-clipped and sl. yellowed on verso of upper margin. Otherwise fine.
AND 14 others, i.a. E. HEMINGWAY, The Old Man and the Sea (New York, 1952 1st ed. (w. "A" on colophon leaf), orig. giltlettered and blindst. cl. Giltlettering dulled and backstrip darkened and sl. foxed).
- Without the 1st vol.; the dustwrappers worn/ sl. dam. and rather brittle.
= Rare first German translation of the classic novel, published 3 years after the original Czech edition. Incl. 3 vols. with the extremely rare dustwrapper by Josef Lada.
- Both vols. w. remnants of ticket (bookplate?) on upper pastedown. Both vols. professionaly rebacked (backstrip vol. 2 lacks sm. portion at top).
ADDED: part 1 and 2 of J. MACAULAY, History of England (London, 1866, 2 (of 8) parts in 1 vol., contemp. polished calf, spine richly gilt w. 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces).
= Privé-domein no. 90, 104, 115, 131, 152.
AND 5 others in 6 vols., i.a. Privé-domein no. 95 (wr. yellowed) and A. COHEN, Van anarchist tot monarchist (ibid., 1961, 2 vols., orig. unif. boards w. dustwr. Spines browned).
- Sl. foxed throughout; receding waterstain in lower blank outer corner of the preliminary leaves up to p.19. Corners sl. worn, spine-ends sl. rubbed; sm. oval paper ticket on frontcover.
= Collation conforming to Carteret, p.403: "Faux titre, titre [dated 1832], frontispice [dated Novembre 1831], XIIIp., faux titre, 387 pages, 2 feuilles n. ch. Table." The very rare first edition, printed in 500 copies, with p.81 misnumbered as p.18. Carteret, Le trésor du bibliophile p.403: "Ouvrage capital parmi les Poésies de Victor Hugo, très rare (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXI.
- Spine-ends occas. sl. worn; otherwise fine.
- Very fine copy.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ browned. Some rubbed spots.