Cranston, Maurice.

The Noble Savage – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754-1762.

First Edition. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1991. 23.5cm x 15.3cm. XI, 399 pages. With 16 historical illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition.

[Weill, Kurt] Kotschenreuther, Hellmut.

Kurt Weill.

Berlin, Max Hesses Verlag, 1962. 21.5cm x 15.2cm. 103 pages. With Illuatrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Cranston, Maurice.

The Solitary Self – Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity. With a Foreword by Sanford Lakoff.

First Edition. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1997. 23.5cm x 15.3cm. XII, 247 pages. With 16 beautiful illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition.

Doyle, Lynn (editor) / McGamish, Gil (translator).

Babel Babble – An Extravaganza.

First edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited, 1945. 22 x 14,5 cm. 26 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs on dustjacket and rubbed edges.

POGGIOLI, Renato.

The Phoenix and the Spider, a Book of Essays about some Russian Writers and Their View of the Self.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. 24x16cm, 238pp. First English language edition of Poggioli’s first book to be translated into English. This work covers nine Russian writers including Tolstoy, Goncharov, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Bunin and Babel. A scholar of comparative literature in the European tradition, Poggioli’s areas of expertise encompass literary historiography, the theory of the avant-garde, the notion of modernity, decandence and barbarism, Russian literature, and Dante. His daughter Silvia is European correspondent for National Public Radio. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.

Weir, Alison.

The Lady Elizabeth.

New York, Ballantine Books, 2008. 16 x 24cm. 477 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition, like new.

Brown, John Russell.

Shakespeare’s Plays in Performance.

London, Edward Arnold Ltd., 1966. 14.5 x 22cm. (10), 244 oages, with black and white plates. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Minor signs of wear to dustjacket, otherwise excellent condition.

Lucas, E.V.

The Colvins and their Friends.

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. 22 x 15 cm. x, 365 pages. With a frontispiece and 25 other Illustrations. Original red cloth with with paper label on spine. Top edge gilt, others deckle. Very good condition. Binding mildly rubbed and bumped, partially faded. Front hinge opened, but binding holding. Internally some foxing and age darkening, mainly to the end papers and the first and last few pages of the book. Bookblock internally bright and clean.

Father James Clare S.J. (Editor)

The Life of Blessed Julie Billiart. Foundress of the Institute of Sisters of Notre Dame. By a Member of the Same Society.

Edinburgh and London, Sands and Company, 1909. 20 x 13 cm. xxxii, 559 pages. Illustrated throughout in B&W. With a folding map. Black cloth covered stiff cardboard covers with gilt title on spine. Gilt decorations on front board: Convent of Notre Dame Birkdale. Decorated end papers. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Some material losses to spine (see images). Neat inscription (prize) on verso of half title, dated 1909. Internally age darkened but clean.

De Gaulle, Charles.

War Memoirs Unity 1942 – 1944. Documents. Signed and inscribed to Field-Marshal Alanbrooke.

First UK Edition. Two Volumes. London, Weidenfels and Nicolson, 1959. 20 x 13 cm. Vol.1: 340 pages / Vol.2: 424 pages. Original green (Vol.1) and blue (Vol.2) cloth with gilt titles on spine. In original unclipped dust jackets. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. Minor edge wear to dust jackets. Vol.1 inscribed by Charles De Gaulle to General Sir Alan Brooke. Vol.2 signed and dated by Charles De Gaulle.