[Scott, Walter] Lockhart, J.G.

The Life of Walter Scott.

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1893. 23.8cm x 16cm. XII, 806 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with signs of external wear and some foxing. Lovely gilt lettering on the cover and spine.

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.

Brodrick, James.

Saint Peter Canisius.

London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1963. 15 x 23cm. (15), 859 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dust dulled.

Langton, Neville.

The Prince of Beggars.

Third Edition. London, Hutchinson & Co., [1925]. 19 x 12 cm. vii, 224 pages. Original green cloth with black title on spine. Very good condition. Some shelf wear to book. Internally mildly foxed, otherwise clean. Edges dust dulled. Dust jacket has a few tears and minor paper loss to the spine. Gift plate glued to front paste down. Very neat, dated 1925.

Uglow, Jenny.

The Lunar Men. The Friends who made the Future.

London, Faber and Faber, 2002. 24cm x 16cm. xx, 588 pages. With colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dust jacket has minor tear and some fraying at the bottom of the spine. Now in protective Brodart jacket.

Himmelfarb, Gertrude.

Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution.

First Edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1959. 21 x 13 cm. ix, 422 pages. With a frontispiece and a fold out map. Original red cloth with gilt title on spine. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened. Front hinge starting to open, but sound binding. Some edge wear to dust jacket, now in protective plastic jacket.

Pierce, David.

Yeats’s Worlds: Ireland, England and the Poetic Imagination. With contemporary photographs by Dan Harper.

First Edition. New Haven / London, Yale University Press, 1995. 20 x 26cm. (14), 346 pages, with illustrations throughout. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition, as new. Boards, text and dustjacket bright and clean, binding firm.

MacGinty, Blathnaid.

The Game – The Game is Over. A Memoir.

First Edition. No publishing information. 21 x 14 cm. 156 pages. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Original stiff paper wrappers. Soft covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Name of previous owner. Signed by the Author on title page. Internally clean.

Mac Liammóir, Micheál.

Enter a Goldfish – Memoirs of an Irish Actor, Young and Old.

First Edition. London, Thames and Hudson, 1977. 23.7cm x 16cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. Name of previous owner on ffep. Edges dust dulled. Internally clean.

Sepet, Marius.

Jeanne D’Arc.

Deuxieme Edition Revue. Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1887. 27 x 18 cm. 535 pages. Illustrated with Plates in B&W. Original red cloth. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Spine and rear board partially faded and warped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Some mild staining. Internally clean.