viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1935

Ernest Hemingway
        Green Hills of Africa
      Charles Scribner's Sons 1935. Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1935. First Edition / First Printing. Dated 1935 on the title and copyright pages. Scribner's Seal and "A" are present on the copyright page with no additional printings listed. Light green cloth boards with gold lettering. Illustrated. One of only 10,550 copies. ref: Hanneman A13a . Book Condition: Very Good+, sunning on the boards and spine, book is tight and square, soft shelf wear, previous owner's name and date at the front endpaper, tight spine, light age toning, light glue residue left at the rear endpaper from a now removed newspaper clipping. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, wrapped in a new clean removable mylar cover, jacket price clipped, author's photo at the rear panel, shelf wear, light chipping, darkening, light spots.

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Breuil, Abbe Henri and Dr. Hugo Obermaier:
        The Cave of Altamira. Forword by The Duke of Berwick and Alba. English Text by Mary E, Boyle.
      Madrid, Tipografia de Archivos, 1935.. New Edition. vii, 223pp with 52 plates, 183 figures, index, age related slightly tanned pages. These Paleolithic caves, discovered in northern Spain in 1879, are the subject of a systematic review, offering a new look at their significance and techniques English. 36 cm, Half-leather, Halbleder Stempel im Vorsatz, antiquarisch gut erhaltenes Exemplar, good copy, slight traces of use, K3342.

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Masaryk, Tomas Garrigue:
        S/W Porträt-Photographie. [ca. 16,7 x 11,8 cm].
      Praha - Vinohrady Central European Photopress, o. J. [um 1935].. . Fotographen-St. a. Rückseiten, leicht fleckig a. Kante, Oberfläche leicht verkratzt. Schöner Original Silbergelatine Abzug. - Masaryk (1850 - 1937), war Gründer und erster Staatspräsident der Tschechoslowakei. Er studierte von 1872 bis 1876 Philosophie in Wien (unter anderen bei Franz Brentano) und Leipzig (unter anderen bei Wilhelm Wundt). 1876 promovierte er, 1878 habilitierte er mit einer Schrift über den Suizid. 1879 wurde er Dozent in Wien, 1882 außerordentlicher und 1897 ordentlicher Professor in Prag. 1886 wurde er auf einen Schlag einer breiten Öffentlichkeit bekannt, als er sich in den Streit um zwei angeblich aus dem Mittelalter stammende, in Wirklichkeit aber zu Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts gefälschte Handschriften ("Kralova" und "Hora Zelena") einschaltete. In der Zeitschrift 'Athenäum' ließ er die Gegner der Echtheit der Königinhofer und Grünberger Handschriften zu Wort kommen und vertrat vehement die Meinung, dass eine moderne Nation sich nicht auf eine erfundene Vergangenheit berufen solle (siehe auch unsere Artikelnummer 9913AB). 1887 ging er auch in die Politik und gründete eine Gruppe unter dem Namen Die Realisten. 1891 wurde er für die so genannten Jungtschechen, einer tschechisch-nationalen Partei, in den österreichischen Reichsrat gewählt, trat aber wegen Meinungsverschiedenheiten mit dieser Partei 1893 wieder zurück. 1900 gründete er die Realistische Partei, für die er 1900-1914 im Reichsrat saß. Nach Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs verließ er Böhmen und ging ins Exil nach Frankreich. Dort und in anderen westeuropäischen Ländern propagierte er in Zusammenarbeit mit der tschechischen und der slowakischen Emigration die Gründung eines gemeinsamen Staates nach Kriegsende (Neoslawismus). Ab Mai 1917 hielt er sich in Russland auf, wo er die so genannte Tschechoslowakische Legion organisierte, ab März 1918 war er in den USA, wo er Ende Mai 1918 mit der slowakischen Emigration den Pittsburgher Vertrag über die Gründung der Tschechoslowakei aushandelte. Am 14. November 1918 wurde er von der Tschechoslowakischen Nationalversammlung zum Präsidenten gewählt, am 21. Dezember 1918 kehrte er in die Tschechoslowakei zurück. In der Folge wurde ganz Böhmen und Mähren (einschließlich des geschlossenen deutschen Siedlungsgebiets in Böhmen, Mähren und österr. Schlesien - Sudetenland) sowie ungefähr das Gebiet der heutigen Slowakei zum Teil auch gegen den Widerstand der Bewohner von tschechoslowakischen Truppen und Truppen der Alliierten als das Gebiet des neuen Staats Tschechoslowakei besetzt. Masaryk wurde insgesamt dreimal wiedergewählt (1920, 1927 und 1934) und war bis zu seinem Tod die dominierende Persönlichkeit des neuen Staates. Nach seinem Rücktritt am 14. Dezember 1935 folgte ihm Edvard Bene nach. (Zitat)

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unbekannter Künstler
        Oktoberfestfahne "Eröffnungsrennen - 125 Jahre Münchener Oktoberfest 1810-1935", der Ehrenpreis für den Sieger des Eröffnungspferderennens am 29. September 1935
      [München] 1935. Die Fahne weißt zahlreiche aufgenähte Gold-Ornamente auf. Das Bild ist in Öl auf den Stoff der Fahne gemalt. Maße (H x B): Fahne 107 x 72 cm; Rahmen 129 x 94 cm Zustand: siehe Bild; Die Fahne ist gut erhalten und befindet sich in einem Bilderrahmen hinter Glas. Der Bilderrahmen ist ein massiver und schwerer Holzrahmen. PREIS SOWIE WEITERE DETAILS UND FOTOS AUF ANFRAGE / PRICE, MORE DETAILS AND PHOTOS ON REQUEST.. Sehr seltenes Sammlerstück in TOP-QUALITÄT! - Die Fahne stammt von einem der Wies'n Pferderennen und ist vermutlich die Siegerfahne des Eroeffnungsrennens, das am 29. September 1935 stattfand. Die Fahne ist ein Familienerbstueck aus der Familie des damaligen Siegers, die von einem Bauernhof in Unterbachern [85232 Bergkirchen, ca. 4 km nordwestlich von Dachau], stammt. Gewonnen wurde die Fahne vom Urgrossvater J. Kronschnabl aus Unterbachern der bei diesem Rennen zwei Pferde am Start hatte. Die Starter des Rennens sind im original Programm zum Festzug und den Rennen auf Seite 27 zu finden. (http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0004/bsb00049107/images/index.html?id=00049107&fip=eayayztsewqeayaxssdasyztsqrseayaxs&no=14&seite=29) - Die Pferderennen sind einer der traditionellsten Veranstaltungen auf dem Oktoberfest und waren seit dem ersten Oktoberfest fester Bestandteil. Zwischen dem ersten und dem zweiten Weltkrieg fand das Oktoberfest nur noch sporadisch statt und die Pferderennen wurden erst 1934 wieder aufgenommen und hatten dann bis 1939 Bestand. Nach dem Krieg fanden Pferderennen nur zum 150-jaehrigen und zum 200-jaehrigen Jubilaeum im Jahr 2010 statt. - Das heute bekannte, große Münchener Oktoberfest blickt mittlerweile auf eine über 200-jährige Geschichte zurück. Es fand erstmals am 17. Oktober 1810 statt. Anlässlich der Hochzeit von Kronprinz Ludwig und Prinzessin Therese am 12. Oktober 1810 veranstaltete der Bankier und Major Andreas Michael Dall'Armi auf einer Wiese vor den Stadtmauern Münchens ein großes Pferderennen. Seitdem heißt das Gelände Theresienwiese, woher die mundartliche Bezeichnung Wiesn für das Oktoberfest stammt.

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Le Corbusier / [Bloc, Andre, ed.].
        La ville radieuse. Elements d'une doctrine d'urbanisme pour l'equipement de la civilisation machiniste.
      Boulogne, Editions de l'architecture d'aujourd'hui / Paris, Imprimerie Jourde s.d. [1935].. Quer-4°. 345 SS., 1 Bl. Reich illustriert mit Tafeln, Abbn., Illustrationen, Karten- u. Planskizzen, Grundrissen etc. OHLn. (etwas gebräunt, berieben u. leicht bestossen). Erste (Original-) Ausgabe / Edition originale. Leichtere Alters- u. Gebrauchsspuren, Besitzerstempel a. fl.Bl. Gesamthaft sauberes, recht gutes Exemplar.. BNF no. FRBNF35521611 - 'Collection de l'equipement de la civilisation machiniste'. Nebentitel / sous-titre: 'Cet ouvrage est dedie a l'Autorite, Paris mai 1933'. - Paris, Geneve, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Montevideo, Buenos-Aires, Alger, Moscou, Anvers, Barcelone, Stockholm, Nemours, Piace [Picacenza]. - "Les plans ne sont pas de la politique. Les plans sont le monument rationnel et lyrique dresse au centre des contingences. Les contingences sont le milieu: regions, races, cultures, topographies, climats. Ce sont, d'autre part, les ressources apportees par les techniques modernes. Celles-ci sont universelles. Les contingences ne doivent etre evaluees qu'en fonction de l'entite 'homme', que par rapport a l'homme, que par rapport a nous, a nous autres: une biologie, une physique." (page de titre). - Gliederung des Inhalts / Structure des matieres: 1. Preliminaires, 2. Les techniques modernes, 3. Les temps nouveaux, 4. La ,Ville radieuse', 5. Prelude, 6. Des plans, 7. Reorganisation rurale, 8. Conclusion. (Vgl. dazu auch http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheus.aspx?sysId=25&sysLanguage=fr-fr&itemPos=1&sysParentId=25&clearQuery=1 ) -- Le Corbusier (bürgerl. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret; La Chaux-de-Fonds 1887-1965 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Cote d'Azur), von Le Locle, ab 1930 französischer Staatsbürger. Architekt, Planer, Designer, Maler und Grafiker. "1900-1906 Besuch der Kunstgewerbeschule La Chaux-de-Fonds, zuerst Ausbildung zum Graveur und Ziseleur, ab 1905 Studiengang Kunst und Dekoration unter der Leitung von Charles L'Eplattenier. Dieser bewegte ihn dazu, sich mit Architektur zu befassen [..]. [..] 1930 zeigte Le Corbusier in seinem Projekt 'La Ville radieuse' (Die strahlende Stadt), wie eine Stadt ohne Vororte aussähe. [..] Der Architekt, Maler, Bildhauer, Städtebauer und Theoretiker Le Corbusier übte einen massgebenden Einfluss auf die Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts aus." (Aus: P. G. Gerosa, in HLS). Vgl. auch Andreas Krasser, Le Corbusier: Städtebautheorien (online; hier mit korr. Druckfehlern) : "1922 gründete er gemeinsam mit seinem Vetter Pierre Jeanneret in der Rue de Sevres 35 in Paris ein Architekturatelier [..]. Während dieser Zusammenarbeit entstand die Villa Ozenfat in Paris und das Konzept für die zeitgemässe Stadt für 3 Millionen Einwohner ('Ville Contemporaine'). [..] 1935 unternahm Le Corbusier seine erste Reise in die USA, woraufhin er ein weiterentwickeltes Stadtplanungskonzept mit dem Titel 'La Ville radieuse' veröffentlichte."

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[Woolf, Virginia]. Lewis, C. Day
        A TIME TO DANCE And Other Poems. Signed By Virginia Woolf
      London: The Hogarth Press, 1935 Lewis, C. Day. A TIME TO DANCE And Other Poems. Signed By Virginia Woolf. London: The Hogarth Press, 1935. First Edition briefly Inscribed by Virginia Woolf on the title-page. "Your Virginia Woolf". 8vo. 64 pp. Near fine in red cloth, gilt titles to the spine in the cream dustwrapper lettered in red. It was through John Lehmann's position at the Hogarth Press that the new poets of the "Left", Stephen Spender, C. Day Lewis, W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood were introduced to Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Woolmer 364. . Signed. First Edition.

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DOWDING, G. V., ed
        Book of Practical Television
      London: The Amalgamated Press Limited,, 1935. London: The Amalgamated Press Limited,, 1935. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles and television design to upper board in blind. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 62 plates, line drawings throughout. Corners bumped, a couple of small spots in the contents. Cloth fresh. An excellent copy in the rubbed, dulled, and slightly creased jacket with some small chips and short closed tears. First edition, first impression. A lovely copy, rare in the dust jacket. This detailed and copiously illustrated volume covers in-depth the early history and technology of the television, with numerous practical examples and instructional diagrams.

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Lange, Jakob E.:
        Flora Agaricina Danica. 5 vols. bound in 2 vols.
      Copenhagen, Recato AS, 1935 - 1940.. Original, kein Reprint. Vol. 1 (1935): 90 + VI Seiten + 40 Farbtafeln. Vol. 2 (1936): 105 + VI Seiten + 40 Farbtafeln. Vol. 3 (1938): 96 + VI Seiten + 1 weißes Blatt + 40 Farbtafeln. Vol. 4 (1939): 119 + VII Seiten + 40 Farbtafeln. Vol. 5 (1940): 106 + VI Seiten + 40 Farbtafeln + 2 Titelblätter + XXIV Seiten. Zusammen ca. 575 Seiten + 200 Farbtafeln, vollständig. Vol. 1 - 3 und Vol. 4 - 5 in je einem Band gebunden. Ca. 31,5 cm x ca. 24,5 cm, zusammen ca. 8,5 cm stark, ca. 5,5 kg schwer. Braune Halbledereinbände mit geprägten Verzierungen des Leders auf den Deckeln. Die Rücken mit 5 Bünden und grünen Rückenschildern mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln. Die Deckelpapiere sehr schön marmoriert. - Published under the auspices of the Society for the andvancement of mycology in Denmark and the Danish botanical society. Collaborators: N. F. Buchwald, M. P. Christiansen, C. Ferdinandsen, Poul Larsen, F. H. Möller, Ö. Winge et al. In English. - Stafleu and Cowan, Taxonomic Literature 4.178 - Es werden 1.184 Taxa dargestellt. - Sehr schöne Exemplare.. Nur sehr wenig berieben oder bestoßen. Keine Einträge. Papier nicht gebräunt, nicht fleckig. Vorders Innengelenk des 2. Bandes angebrochen; dennoch ist die Bindung sehr gut und fest. Zustand I - II (deutsche Schulnotenskala). Auf Wunsch senden wir Ihnen gern per E-Mail Fotos des Werkes zu.

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Walcott, Mary Vaux
        Illustrations of North American Pitcherplants. Descriptions and Notes on Distribution, by Edgar T. Wherry. Notes on insect associates, by Frank Morton Jones
      Washington, D.C: The Smithsonian Institution, 1935 - Beautiful images of the American pitcherplants by the great twentieth- century botanical artist Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940), whose series of paintings for North American Wild Flowers (1925) established her as an artist of the first rank No. 40 of 500 copies, signed by the artist "Mary Vaux Walcott" on the limitation leaf. 4to. WIth 15 color plates, each with letterpress description; maps in text. Text: [vii], [vii-viii, blank]; 34 pp. Plates and letterpress descriptions loose; text in two stitched gatherings, as issued in morocco backed cloth portfolio (spine a bit rubbed) [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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TATSUI, Matsunosuke.
        GARDENS OF JAPAN. A PICTORIAL RECORD OF THE FAMOUS PALACES, GARDENS AND TEA-GARDENS.
      Tokyo The Zauho Press 1935 - FIRST EDITION 1935, edited by Naoya Shiga and Motoi Hashimoto. Folio, approximately 420 x 330 mm, 16½ x 13 inches, xii pages of contents etc, title page printed in red and black,150 full page photographic plates in monotone, 6 pages of plans of the famous gardens still existing, 9 text illustrations, 28 pages of text divided into chapters with headings as follows: A Short History of the Japanese Garden; The Division of Modern Gardens; Constructional Material for The Japanese Garden; Arts and Crafts in Garden Details; An Example of Garden Design in the Edo Period. Original publisher's de luxe binding of white soft leather spine with gilt lettering, silk cloth boards with gilt lettering and picture, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. Spine slightly rubbed with some slight soiling, light uneven browning to silk cloth boards, two lower corners bumped and soft, some slight wear to extremities, the fold of the folding plate has neat professional repair from head to tail on blank side, not affecting image, small round blind stamp to bottom of title page, otherwise a very good clean tight copy. Heavy book will require extra postage. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Woolf, Virginia
        THE ROGER FRY MEMORIAL EXHIBITION
      N.p.: N.P.: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, , 1935 Woolf, Virginia. THE ROGER FRY MEMORIAL EXHIBITION. N.P.: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, 1935. First Edition. White printed wrappers. 12mo. 12 pp. According to the bibliographer [Kirkpatrick and Clarke A21] only 125 copies of this item were printed. It was not offered for sale. Distribution seems to have been entirely private. Just the slightest trace of foxing, else a fine copy of one of the rarest "A" items in the Woolf canon missing from most collections. In a lovely custom gilt-stamped red morocco case in fine condition. In a speech opening the Roger Fry Memorial Exhibition, Woolf spoke of how Fry had transformed the way people looked at art and in a letter to Vanessa Bell, she described Fry as "the plume in Bloomsbury's cap". . First Edition.

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Bell, Julian
        WORK FOR THE WINTER MORE OR LESS FOR CHRISTMAS. Inscribed
      London: N.P. N.D. (ca. 1935). Privately printed for the author., 1935 Bell, Julian. WORK FOR THE WINTER MORE OR LESS FOR CHRISTMAS. Inscribed By Julian Bell. N.P. N.D. (ca. 1935). Privately printed for the author. 8vo. 8 pp. First Edition. Stiff white wrappers printed in black. This rare booklet was effectively an elaborate Christmas card containing six poems, five of which were later collected by the Hogarth Press in 1936 and similarly titled Work For The Winter. The later book contains changes only to the poem, The River Flows. Inscribed by Julian Bell in a strong hand on the upper inside cover: "To Margaret / From Julian". An exceedingly uncommon Woolf family item from Vanessa Bell's son who was killed just two years later (1937) in the Spanish Civil War. "The last time I saw Julian was at Clive's, two days before he went to Spain...I was determined not to think about the risks, because, subconsciously I was sure he would be killed; that is I had a couchant unexpressed certainty, from Thoby's death I think; a legacy of pessimism, which I have decided never to analyze". (VW QB2 App. C) . Signed by Author. First Edition.

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THOMAS, Henry (Translated out of Spanish by) ; Attributed to LOPE DE VEGA.:
        The Star of Seville : A Drama in Three Acts and in Verse.
      Newtown: Gregynog Press: First Limited Edition 1935 - 4to., xii, [2pp.], 108pp., + 2pp. (Limitation leaf & GG colophon leaf). Bembo type on Batchelor special making of GG watermarked hand made paper, text printed in red and black, initial letters in green, arms of Seville on title-page designed by W Charles Thomas, top edges blocked in gilt. Bound in full black Oasis leather, blocked on both covers with a design of Moorish character, composed of interlaced blind strapwork and gold stars. Spine decorated in blind and gilt with strapwork and stars, titling and device in gilt. A fine clean copy in a superb leather binding. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION of 175 Copies. (Harrop, 32). THE GREGYNOG PRESS was the brainchild of two sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. It was established in 1922 at their house, Gregynog Hall, in rural mid-Wales. During the next eighteen years the Press gained a reputation for producing limited edition books of the highest order and ranked alongside the leading Private Presses of the day. Between 1922 and 1940, there were four controllers of the Press, Robert Ashwin Maynard, William MacCance, Lord Haberly and James Wardrop, each of whom left his own mark on the works he issued. Among the illustrators were Blair Hughes-Stanton, David Jones, H.W. Bray and Agnes Miller-Parker. Forty two books were published at the Press. Lope de Vega (also Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio or Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His reputation in the world of Spanish letters is second only to that of Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequalled: he is estimated to have written up to 1,500 three-act plays  of which some 425 have survived until the modern day  together with a plethora of shorter dramatic and poetic works. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Walcott, Mary Vaux
        Illustrations of North American Pitcherplants. Descriptions and Notes on Distribution, by Edgar T. Wherry. Notes on insect associates, by Frank Morton Jones
      Washington, D.C: The Smithsonian Institution, 1935. Washington, D.C: The Smithsonian Institution, 1935. No. 40 of 500 copies, signed by the artist "Mary Vaux Walcott" on the limitation leaf. 4to. WIth 15 color plates, each with letterpress description; maps in text. Text: [vii], [vii-viii, blank]; 34 pp. Plates and letterpress descriptions loose; text in two stitched gatherings, as issued in morocco backed cloth portfolio (spine a bit rubbed) . Beautiful images of the American pitcherplants by the great twentieth-century botanical artist Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940), whose series of paintings for North American Wild Flowers (1925) established her as an artist of the first rank

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Winston S. Churchill
        The Great War, the publisher's Home Library binding in four volumes with original wrappers
      London: George Newnes Limited, 1935. Hardcover. Very good. Here is a four-volume set of the Home Library issue in previously unknown cellophane and paper wrappers. The Great War is the first illustrated edition of Churchill's history of WWI, The World Crisis. This edition was originally published in 26 magazine format parts in 1933 and 1934. "Magazine format" does not do justice to the publication, which is profusely illustrated on very durable, heavy paper. The publisher subsequently offered two different 3-volume binding options. A final publisher offering in 1935 was this four-volume set produced jointly with The Home Library Book Company. This last binding option is the most elaborate and striking. It features silver, gilt, and blind stamped decoration on marbled red boards with beveled edges, marbled endpapers, and gilt top edges. This binding commands attention on the shelf. What particularly commands our attention about this set - and indeed makes it a minor bibliographic discovery - is the presence of thick, clear visqueen-type jackets with heavy red paper flaps that nicely complement the red marbled endpapers. These jackets give every appearance of being contemporary to the books. The jackets are age-yellowed, quite brittle, and shrunk, with wear and losses at the extremities and a few small other chips - as we would expect given the age and material. The thick, heavy boards have been very slightly warped, consistent with the contraction of the aging jackets over time. The books show minor soiling at the binding extremities where the jackets have receded due to shrinkage, but are notably clean beneath the jackets. Moreover, though we are incapable of chemical analysis to definitively identify the jacket material, the timing for some variation of Cellophane fits, with widespread introduction of cellulose film to the United Kingdom in the 1930s by the British textile company Courtaulds, which was producing a viscose film named viscacelle in 1930 and by 1935 had evolved into British Cellophane. The fact that the jacket material ages very poorly combined with the commanding attractiveness of the bindings beneath would explain why we have not previously seen any such jackets. Undoubtedly, the few unattractive survivors such as these would be likely to be discarded. The books beneath the jackets are in very good condition. The bindings are clean and tight, apart from the previously mentioned minor soiling at the binding extremities and slight warping of the boards caused by the jackets. The contents remain bright and we find no previous ownership marks. Modest spotting appears confined to the prelims and page edges. The fore and bottom edges are a bit soiled. The top edge gilt remains bright, if a bit dusty. In short, this is not the very nicest set we have ever seen, but is the only set we have ever seen thus, bearing the jackets and thus commanding collector attention. Please note that this heavy set may require additional postage. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A69.9.d, Woods/ICS A31(dc), Langworth p.118

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AUSTIN, ROBERT.
        Two Bell Ringers. An original drawing with colour wash.
      Self-published. 1935 - Two Bell Ringers. Painted on thick textured buff coloured paper in umber, grey and mauve. This drawing relates to another drawing that we have for sale of a bell ringer. Campbell Dodgson wrote that Austin would do studies in situ and figure studies, incorporating the two together. Although Austin never did a plate of Bell Ringers, he did several plates of Belfries, bells and a Bell ringers Wife (Etching 1934). I think this sketch is a study with possibly a etching of bell ringers in mind, but not completed.There are several pinholes made by the artist for attaching onto board, otherwise in very good condition. There is a Studio stamp on reverse.Image size 370 x 250mmSheet size 485 x 385mm [Attributes: First Edition]

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de Buck, Adriaan (1892-1959)
        The Egyptian Coffin Texts. Vol. I: Texts of Spells 1-75; Vol. II: Texts of Spells 76-163; Vol. III: Texts of Spells 164-267; Vol. IV: Texts of spells 268-364; Vol. V: Texts of spells 365-471; Vol. VI: Texts of spells 472-786; Vol. VII: Texts of spells 787-1185. (7 Volumes)
      The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1935 - Volume 1 (1935): [xx] - 405 pages; Volume II (1938): [xvi] - 405 pages; Volume III (1962, Second Impression): [xvi] - 400 pages; Volume IV (1951): [xvi] - 413 pages; Volume V (1961, Second Impression): [xvi] - 400 pages; Volume VI (1956): [xvi] - 415 pages; Volume VII (1961): [xviii] - 521 pages, 15 folding plans. All are FIRST EDITION except for Volume III and V. Cover are lightly rubbed at the corner and spines, otherwise very strong. All the books have an ink seal and are signed to front endpaper by M.A.R. Barker (Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker - born Philip Barker - was a professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies). Otherwise inside pages are in very good condition, unmarked, clean and tight. Photos available upon request. 16 kg. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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LAWRENCE, T.E
        Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. ( A Triumph)
      London, Jonathan Cape. 1935.. London, Jonathan Cape. 1935., 1935. LIMITED ISSUE of the FIRST EDITION, published for general circulation (originally published privately in 1926). No.486 of 750 copies. Illustrated with three manuscript facsimiles and forty-seven plates including four in colour. Four folding maps. One-quarter pigskin over brown buckram with crossed swords in gilt to front panel, titled in gilt to backstrip, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. Some minor wear/scuffing to spine ends else a near fine copy, with the accompanying plain paper wrapper (worn). 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph' is the autobiographical account of the experiences of T. E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918. This monumental work had been privately printed in 1922, and a 1926 self-financed subscriber's edition had left Lawrence facing bankruptcy, so author vowed "No further issue of the Seven Pillars will be made in my lifetime". This first trade issue therefore followed in 1935, within weeks of the motorcyle accident that so tragically and prematurely claimed the life of one of the greatest visionary heroes of modern times. O'Brien A40

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MAN RAY
        Facile: Poèmes de Paul Éluard, Photographies de Man Ray
      Paris: Editions G.L.M., 1935. Paris: Editions G.L.M., 1935. Pages lightly browning as always; very close to near fine in illustrated wrappers with light creasing to the spine as usual.. First Edition. Small quarto. Number 912 of 1200 press-numbered copies. Seven unbound signatures laid into illustrated wrappers. A wonderful collaboration of love poems and photographs of Paul Éluard's wife, Nusch, who would go on to be one of Man Ray's trusted models. The juxtaposition of Man Ray's solarized imagery with the simple and beautiful typography of Éluard's poetry creates one of the purest and most visually pleasing books of the Modernist era. (Roth 86-87; Parr / Badger , v1, 104-105; Open Book 118-119; Auer 217).

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WEBB, Sidney & Beatrice
        Soviet Communism:
      Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., London,, 1935. A New Civilization. 2 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spines gilt. An excellent set. Second Edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper of the first volume, "To Stafford & Isobel Cripps with affection [illegible] Sidney & Beatrice Webb Nov 1935" With an original photograph of the Webbs annotated by them and mounted to the front pastedown of the first volume. A major association set. Stafford Cripps the parliamentarian and writer was a key figure in the development of the political landscape of the twentieth century. He served in the war cabinet and was second only to Attlee in the government formed after the 1945 election. Churchill once quipped of the notoriously arrogant Webb, "There but for the grace of God goes God".

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

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Van Sinderen, Adrian
        Canter, Please! Random Memories of Glenholme Farm and of our Playmates and Playgrounds
      [New York]: Privately Printed [by the Derrydale Press], December, 1935. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with photographs throughout (especially pp. 63-93). 93 pp. White japan vellum spine and red paper over boards upper cover titled in gilt. Fine copy (lacking the plain red slipcase). Custom red half morocco slipcase and chemise. Frazier V-2-a ("my guess is that his first 1935 book had no more than a couple of hundred copies, and probably fewer"); not in Siegel . The first of van Sinderen's Christmas books, and the only one produced by the Derrydale Press. Van Sinderen was a friend of Connett and Ingraham, and the Derrydale connection is apparent from the chapter entitled "A Shelf of Books". Subsequent books were produced by Rudge, in progressively larger limitations

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller]

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RIDING, Laura.
        Progress of Stories.
      London: The Seizin Press, Deyá Majorca, and Constable & Co Ltd, 1935 - Octavo. Original light green cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. A little wear to corners and ends of spine, spine and edges of boards tanned, contents tanned. A very good copy in the rubbed, dulled, and tanned jacket with some nicks and short splits. First edition, first impression of this esteemed collection of eighteen short stories, which, "marked by impressive variety and a somewhat flamboyant wit, is unlike her poetry in tone although it treats similar themes of truth, self, unity, and perfection" (Poetry Foundation biography). Uncommon in the dust jacket. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington. ABA member]

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
        Taps at Reveille
      New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1935. First edition, first state, with pages 349-52 uncancelled and with "catch it" reading on page 351. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, "For Isabel Owens Hoping we'll both be able to look back to this winter as a bleak exception, in a business way from F. Scott ("Old Scrooge") Fitzgerald". Isabel Owens worked full-time as Fitzgerald's Baltimore secretary from 1932-36. She continued part-time in this role until his death in 1940. In addition to her secretarial duties, Owens acted as a foster mother to the Fitzgeralds' daughter Scottie and companion to Zelda. A bright near fine copy with the spine gilt bright in a very good dust jacket with some professional restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A splendid association copy.Taps at Reveille was published in 1935 and is a collection of 18 short stories, the final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published. He chose for inclusion in this volume what he considered his best short stories from the previous decade. The Freshest Boy, Crazy Sunday, and Babylon Revisited are the more popular short stories. Edith Walton reviewed the collection in The New York Times (1935): "Basil Duke Lee [in The Freshest Boy] is a bright, sensitive, likeable boy, constantly betrayed by a fatal tendency to brag and boss. He knows his failing, especially after the minor hell of his first year at boarding school, but again and again he is impelled to ruin an initial good impressionMr. Fitzgerald is always miraculously adept at describing adolescent love affairs and adolescent swagger." Walton considered Babylon Revisited, however, "probably the most mature and substantial story in the book. A ruefulfarewell to the Jazz Age, its setting is Paris and its tone one of anguish for past follies." In 1954, the short story was cinematized by MGM and starred Elizabeth Taylor and Roger Moore's as his Hollywood debut. The Oscar winning title song, by Jerome Kern, featured first in Lady Be Good (1941) but it was popularized by its play in this beloved drama. Film critic Bosley Crowther praised it when she said, "Where Fitzgerald did it in a few words-in a few subtle phrases that evoked a reckless era of golden dissipation toward the end of the Twenties' boom-Richard Brookshas done it in a nigh two-hour assembly of bistro balderdash and lush, romantic scenes" (Crowther, 1954). Consequently, Taps at Reveille both sheds light on the literary and cinematic climate of the decade and provides insight into some of Fitzgerald's final publications. Fitzgerald dedicated Taps at Reveille to his literary agent Harold Ober, who worked also for writers of Walton's status - J.D. Salinger and William Faulkner.

      [Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB ]

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FAULKNER, William
        Pylon
      New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc.,, 1935. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt on black ground, top edge dyed black. With the dust jacket. Housed in a blue cloth folding case. Gilt titles chipped, lightly rubbed at extremities, mark to edge of lower board. A very good copy in the rubbed and chipped jacket. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Faulkner on the front free endpaper, "To a little 'big girl' in the south from Phoebe Omlie [signed in her own hand] and William Faulkner. Miss Stella Aiken. Oxford, Miss, April 29, 1935". Phoebe Omlie was a female aviation pioneer; her husband Vernon taught Faulkner to fly in 1933, and the pair went barnstorming and stunt flying in the Oxford vicinity. The characters of Roger and Laverne Shumann in this novel were modelled on the Omlies. A superb inscription.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

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Faulkner, William
        Pylon (Signed Limited Edition)
      New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. First Edition. One of 310 numbered copies (this being No. 176) SIGNED by the author. Faulkner's tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book was published. Basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk film "The Tarnished Angels" featuring Robert Stack, Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone.& & Very Good plus lacking the publisher's slipcase. Pages uncut. Spine lightly faded as often found, chip to the fore-edge of the front board, and light rubbing overall. A presentable copy.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

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TOZER, Katharine.
        The Wanderings of Mumfie.
      London: John Murray, 1935 - Octavo. Original pink cloth backed boards, blue titles to spine, pink topstain, pictorial paper to sides. With the pictorial dust jacket. Some light marking and spotting within and without, a very good copy in the torn and tanned jacket. Illustrated throughout with plates (many of which colour) and vignettes in the text after drawings by the author. First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed,"For Mrs Macdonald, with love and gratitude for her extreme kindness to me. Katherine Tozer." [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington. ABA member]

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