Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.
Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk
ARCHER, Leonard C.
Black Images in the American Theatre. NAACP Protest Campaigns – Stage, Screen, Radio & Television. – BOOK SOLD
Brooklyn: Pageant-Poseidon Ltd., 1973
Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. 18 pages of illustrations. Light toning, else very good in slightly rubbed and spotted jacket with a few small chips and short edge-splits.
First edition. Inscribed by Archer, “To Lena Horne with deep appreciation for your personal principles which added pages to Black Images in the American Theatre, sincerely Leonard C. Archer, 1976.” Horne features extensively in the text. Archer was professor of Speech and English at Tennessee State University.
£120 £60
ASHCROFT, Michael.
Victoria Cross Heroes. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales – BOOK SOLD
London: Headline, 2007
Octavo. Original burgundy boards, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. 16 plates. Very good in jacket.
First edition. Signed by the author/collector. The remarkable stories behind the award of a selection of VCs from the finest collection in the world.
£50 £25
ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam.
Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. With Adventures among the Mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks; the Hunting and Pastoral Tribes. Second Edition – BOOK SOLD
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1861
Large octavo (249 × 150 mm) original pinkish purple sand-grained cloth, embossed, title elaborately gilt to the spine and to the upper board together with a large illustrative gilt block “The Dangerous Ride.” Tinted lithographic frontispiece and numerous engraved illustrations to the text, large folding map at the rear. Slightly rubbed, spine sunned, corners a little bumped, front hinges just started, else a very bright copy.
Second edition, issued the year after the first. Having trained as a stonemason, Atkinson became an architect carrying out some highly accomplished commissions in the Manchester area. Around 1844 “inspired by Alexander von Humboldt’s accounts of Siberia, Atkinson then moved to St Petersburg …There, in 1846, he abandoned architecture as a profession for the pursuits of an explorer and topographical artist. Between March and November 1847 he travelled to the Urals, the Kirgiz steppes, and Altai Mountains …Between 1848 and 1853 he travelled extensively in the Russian orient, gathering much geographical and geological information. During this time he produced over 500 water-colours of the landscapes and peoples, some of them 5 or 6 feet square …After his return to Britain, an exhibition of Atkinson’s Siberian and Chinese Tartar scenes was held in 1856 at Colnaghi’s Gallery, London. Some of these were lithographed and published in his narratives of his travels.” (ODNB) He died in 1861, the Athenaeum describing him in their obituary as “the type of an artistic traveller, thin, lithe, and sinewy, with a wrist like a rock and an eye like a poet’s; manner singularly gentle, and air which mingled entreaty with command.”
Howgego, II, A18; Czech p.15; Yakushi A112.
£475 £238
BALLIETT, Whitney.
New York Voices. Fourteen Portraits by …
Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2006
Octavo. Original charcoal grey cloth, title in silver to the spine. With the jacket. Very good in unclipped jacket.
First edition, first printing. This copy inscribed to Berklee instructor, composer and arranger Bob Friedman; “For Bob Friedman a long-time admirer of Magda and Jon Schueler and a sort of cohort of mine. Whitney Balliett, April 7, ’06.” Amongst the 14 portraits offered here is one of abstract artist Schueler and his art historian wife Magda Salvesen. Additionally signed on the half-title.
£150
BOLAN, Marc.
Lyric Book – BOOK SOLD
London: Essex Music International Limited, 1972
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Text printed in brown on pink paper. 8 illustrations from photographs. First gathering loose but still bound in. Wrappers a little rubbed at the extremities. A very good copy.
First edition, first impression. Scarce.
£75 £38
BROONZY, William “Big Bill.”
Big Bill Blue. William Broonzy’s Story as told to Yannick Bruynoghe – BOOK SOLD
London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1955
Octavo. Original brown cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 8 other plates, vignette to title page, and 3 section titles with full-page illustrations from line-drawings by Paul Oliver. Light toning, else very good indeed in slightly rubbed jacket with some chipping at the head of the spine.
First edition. This copy signed by Broonzy on the front free endpaper. Ghosted autobiography of the highly influential Chicago blues artist. He recorded prolifically in the 30s and 40s, and in the 50s became part of the folk revival, touring extensively in America and in Europe. An uncommon book, and an extremely uncommon signature.
£1,500 £1,005
BULLARD, Robert Lee.
Personalities and Reminiscences of the War – BOOK SOLD
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1925
Octavo. Original dark blue combed cloth, title gilt to the spine, and signature block to the upper board, top edge gilt, the others uncut. With the dust jacket. Very good in slightly rubbed, chipped and soiled – but largely complete and not unattractive – jacket.
First edition. Memoirs of commander of US 1st Division, 3rd Corps and finally the 2nd Army, from the arrival of the Americans to the Final Advance. The jacket blurb explains that when extracts were published in the press prior to publication “they created a sensation … for Bullard neither spares feelings nor begrudges praise” Falls concurs, and expands; ” … it is really good, and particularly valuable because of the author’s candid, though generally good-natured character sketches of the famous men, both French & American, with whom he was brought into contact … As a general view of the War held by an intelligent and instructed American soldier, his book is of value …” This copy inscribed by Bullard on the front free endpaper, “For a dear friend and old comrade A.C. Arnold. Robert E. Bullard, Lieut. Genl.” Albert C. “AC” Arnold fought against the British in the Boer War; joined the Seventh Cavalry as a trooper; spent time as a riverboat gambler; and fought beside Brigadier General John J. Pershing on the Mexico Punitive Expedition. In World War I he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for actions with the 1/326 Infantry at Château-Thierry.
Falls * p. 185.
£125 £63
BURTON, Richard F.
Etruscan Bologna: A Study. BOOK SOLD
London, Smith Elder & Co., 1876
Octavo. Original blue cloth, device to upper board gilt, key motif to boards in black and blind, titles to spine gilt. Illustrated throughout, one folding plate. Errata slip present. Some minor spotting to text, spine a little rubbed and lightly tanned. An excellent copy however particularly tight and clean.
First Edition. Hardly common in this condition.
£500 £250
BYRON, Robert.
First Russia Then Tibet – BOOK SOLD
Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1933
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 24 plates. Ownership inscription partially erased from front free endpaper. Light bubbling to cloth, spotting to edges and occasionally to contents. A very good copy in the rubbed jacket with two small marks on the upper panel, nicks to the corners, and tanned spine panel.
First edition, in a remainder binding with the Macmillan’s Miscellany dust jacket.
£750 £503
(CHAPLIN, Charlie) MINNEY, R. J.
Chaplin. The Immortal Tramp. The Life and Work of Charles Chaplin – BOOK SOLD
London: George Newnes Limited, 1954
Octavo. Original fuchsia cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. 48 pages of illustrations from photographs and film stills. Pencil note to front flap of jacket. Light partial toning to free endpapers, spotting to edges of contents. An excellent copy in the rubbed jacket with a crease and a nick to the lower panel.
First edition, first impression.
£65 £33
(CURRAN, Jim) KRAUCH, Elsa.
A Mind restored. The Story of Jim Curran. Introduction by William Seabrook – BOOK SOLD
New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1937
Octavo. Original grey cloth lettered in yellow, in dust jacket. Light marginal browning, else very good, dust jacket rubbed and with a few splits and minor tears, but largely complete.
First Edition. “The story of a successful businessman who became just psychotic enough so that he failed in his work, lost all his money, and largely for lack of money for board, had to live in a mental hospital.”
Original receipt for purchase and shipping to the children’s author Oliver Roberts Barton loosely inserted. Later ink ownership stamp of Saul Rosenzweig, psychologist and the founder of the Common Factors Movement in psycho-therapeutics.
Hornstein p.9; Alvarez pp.264-8
£65 £33
EISENSCHIML, Otto, & E. B. Long.
As Luck would have it. Chance and Coincidence in the Civil War – BOOK SOLD
Indianapolis & New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948
Octavo, original plum buckram, titled in gilt on spine and upper board. In the dust jacket. Plans to the text. Light marginal toning, else very good indeed in unclipped jacket.
First edition. Study of the rôle of the aleatoric in the American Civil War. Eisenschiml, an industrial chemist, is best remembered as the controversial author of Was Lincoln murdered? which posited an assassination plot masterminded by Secretary of War Stanton. Long began his career as a journalist and editor in Chicago, became an independent scholar of the War, and ended as the much-respected professor of American Studies at the University of Wyoming.
£120 £60
FARRER, James Anson.
Zululand and the Zulus: Their History, Beliefs, Customs, Military System, Home Life, Legends, etc., etc., and Missions to them. Third Edition. BOOK SOLD
London: Kerby & Endean, 1879
Duodecimo. Original orange printed paper-covered boards. Somewhat rubbed, and rounded at the corners, joints slightly cracked, light browning, contemporary ownership/gift inscription to the title page, owner’s ink-stamp to the half-title, Munger Africana Library blind stamp to the title page, but overall very good.
One of four editions published in 1879, none subsequently. A work of compilation, but an extremely timely one in a handy format which would have placed it in the pockets of many officers travelling out to Natal. “’This little volume was published during the war with the Zulus under Cetywayo, and gives a résumé of the history of the country from the time of Chaka.” (Mendelssohn) It is a reference work, and is fragile, and consequently decidedly uncommon. Farrer was a miscellaneous author who wrote a biography of Adam Smith; studies of literary forgeries and of censorship; but is probably best known for his contribution to the development of a more scientific approach to the study of folklore.
Mendelssohn I, p. 536; Hosken, p. 69.
£750 £503
FORAN, W R.
The Kenya Police, 1887-1960. Foreword by R.C. Catling… Commissioner, Kenya Police – BOOK SOLD
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1962
Octavo. Original dark blue boards, title in silver to the spine. In the dust jacket, slightly trimmed down from insertion into old protective sleeve. 32 plates, 2 double-page maps. Slight tape marking to boards and endpapers, jacket trimmed as noted, else a very good copy.
“An excellent history, giving uniform coverage for the entire period. Foran was a police officer in Kenya for many years, and he is thought to have had access to official archives and files while compiling this account.” That the Government of Kenya are the copyright holders, would seem to confirm this last comment. This copy with gift inscription from the author on a slip of paper mounted on the front free endpaper. Clipped review of this “fascinating history of the Kenya Police” from the East African Standard loosely inserted.
Perkins p.279.
£200 £100
GARON, Paul.
The Devil’s Son-in-Law. The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw and his Songs – BOOK SOLD
London: Studio Vista, 1971
Octavo. Original brown boards, title in silver to the spine. With the dust jacket. Illustrations to the text. A very good copy in slightly rubbed, unclipped, jacket.
First edition, first impression. An uncommon title in the influential “Blues Paperbacks” series, here in the more desirable, and highly anomalous, hardback issue. This copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
£125 £63
GIBBON, Monk.
The Tales of Hoffmann. A Study of the Film
London: Saturn Press, 1951
Quarto. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and decoration to upper board in copper. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and illustrations from photos throughout. Light tanning to edges of boards, contents very slightly toned. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with tanned spine panel.
First edition, first impression.
£175 £88
GILBERT, W. S.
Savoy Operas Iolanthe and the Operas. With Illustrations in Colour by W. Russell Flint – BOOK SOLD
London: George Bell & Sons, 1909 & 10
2 volumes, quarto. Original cloth, titles to spines and upper boards gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 31 plates with printed tissue guards in each volume Small pencilled ownership inscription to each front free endpaper. Slightly rubbed and bumped at extremities, spines a little faded, hinges cracked, some light spotting to contents. A very good set.
First editions, first impressions.
£475
GOFFIN, Robert.
Louis Armstrong. Le Roi du Jazz – BOOK SOLD
Paris: Éditions Pierre Seghers, 1947
Octavo. Original pictorial card wraps. 12 plates. Wraps slightly rubbed, marginal toning.
First edition. Goffin was a Belgian lawyer, poet and author, a Stormy Petrel of the Nazi invasion, who fled to the USA in 1939. In 1932 he had published Aux Frontières du Jazz., one of the earliest serious analyses of the jazz, and contributed “The Best Negro Jazz Orchestra,” translated by Beckett, to Nancy Cunard’s Negro anthology. In exile he supported himself by his writings, including a number of novels on the Nazi occupation of Belgium – La Colombe de la Gestapo and Passeports pour l’Audelà – and lectures, in 1942 collaborating with Leonard Feather to teach what is considered the first course ever on jazz history and analysis, held at the New School for Social Research in New York City
£95 £48
GOULD, Stephen J.
Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes – BOOK SOLD
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983
Octavo. Original green cloth backed white boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Boards very slightly rubbed with a small spot to the upper board. An excellent copy in the very fresh dust jacket.
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half title. A lovely copy. The third collected volume of essays from Gould’s long-running column in Natural History Magazine.
£150
GREEN, Benny.
Fifty-eight minutes to London – BOOK SOLD
London: MacGibbon & Kee 1969
Octavo. Original dun boards, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Very slight fade at the edges of the boards, the consequence of slight rolling of the edge of the jacket, but a very good copy indeed.
First edition. A novel set during the summer season in Brighton, as seen by a group of aspiring jazz musicians. Green’s second novel, and really quite uncommon, particularly in such sharp condition.
£150 £75
HALLPIKE, C. R.
The Konso of Ethiopia. A Study of the Values of a Cushitic People
The Clarendon Press, London, 1972
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Top edge dusty otherwise near fine, dust jacket lightly faded to spine, otherwise near fine, price clipped.
First Edition, First Impression.
£125 £63
HAYGARTH, Henry William.
Recollections of Bush Life in Australia, during a Residence of Eight Years in the Interior. STEFFENS, Henry. Adventures on the Road to Paris, during the Campaigns of 1813-14, extracted from the Autobiography of Henry Steffens. Translated from the German – BOOK SOLD
London: John Murray, 1848
Octavo (171 × 115 mm) Contemporary red half calf on marbled boards, title gilt to spine, flat bands, milled, gilt devices to the compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. A little rubbed, spine a touch darkened, text toned, else very good.
First editions, issued in Murray’s Home and Colonial Library. The first a lively account of squatter life by a man who was later vicar of Wimbledon; the second is an account of the experiences of a Dane in the Prussian service during the Napoleonic Wars.
Ferguson 4789 for the first-named; Sandler 3155 for the second.
£150
HOPKINS, A. I.
In the Isles of King Solomon. An Account of Twenty-five Years spent amongst the Primitive Solomon Islanders – BOOK SOLD
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1928
Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine, gilt block of an islander with a spear to the upper board. With the pictorial dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 other plates, full-page map to the text, folding map at the rear. Slight lean, light toning, a few informed pencilled notes to the margins, else very good in the slightly rubbed and chipped, but pictorially and typographically complete jacket.
First edition. Uncommon account, particularly desirable in the jacket. Hopkins “joined the Mission in 1900. At that time, N. Mala in the Solomon Islands was the most difficult problem in its whole area. A large island with a population of over 60,000, it was known to contain the wildest lot of cannibals in the Pacific. No white man had ever stayed on the island. With a few native teachers he established himself in the face of great dangers. The bush people continually raided and killed his teachers and converts. He was on Mala when the Queensland Government returned the Kanakas, the majority of whom belonged to Mala. It was a very difficult and dangerous time. Gradually he obtained an influence over the natives, and established schools. As a result, Mala is now becoming Christian, cannibalism no longer exists, and the island is one of the Government centres, with a Resident Deputy Commissioner. In 1919, Mr. Hopkins became Principal of the Theological College at Siota, and until 1926 was responsible for the training of all Ordination Candidates.” (From the Bishop of Rochester’s introduction to the official account of the mission, compiled by Hopkins, and published by the SPCK the previous year.)
£300 £150
HORNE, Lena, & Richard Schickel.
Lena – BOOK SOLD
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. 8 pages of illustrations from photographs. Ink inscription to rear pastedown. Spine rolled, front endpapers tanned from inserted material. A very good copy in the rubbed and torn jacket with tape repairs to both sides.
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Barbara Lee most sincerely, Lena Horne. 1965”. The autobiography of the American singer, actress, and Civil Rights activist.
£60 £30
HUBERT, Susan J.
Questions of Power. The Politics of Women’s Madness Narratives. BOOK SOLD
Newark, University of Delaware, 2002
Octavo. Original black cloth in dust jacket. Fine in dust jacket.
First Edition. Scholarly analysis of the genre, such classics as Packard, Agnew, Marian, also more recent examples Kate Millett and Janet Frame.
£85 £43
KANTER, Emanuel.
The evolution of war. A Marxian study – BOOK SOLD
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1927
Octavo. Original ochre cloth, spine in black to spine and upper board. In the dust jacket. Very minor handling wear to the jacket, else very good indeed.
First edition. “Eris and Mars, brother and sister of discord and strife, are the two deities that the civilzed mind has ever attempted to comprehend and fathom.” (From the Introduction.)
£80 £40
LEONARD, Neil.
Jazz and the White Americans. The Acceptance of a New Art Form – BOOK SOLD
London: The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with the University of Chicago Press, 1964
Octavo. Original light blue boards, titles to spine and upper board in green. With the dust jacket. Corners bumped, contents faintly toned. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket with a few tiny nicks at the corners.
First UK edition, first impression of this “fine study of the jazz controversy” (Ogren, The Jazz Revolution, p. 167), originally published in the US in 1962. A lovely copy, uncommon in such nice condition.
£50 £25
LINDNER, Robert M.
Rebel Without a Cause. The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath. Introduction by Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor T. Glueck – BOOK SOLD
London: Research Books, Ltd, 1945
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Black pen mark covering “all rights reserved” statement on the verso of the title page. Binding lightly rubbed. A very good copy in the rubbed, nicked, creased, and tanned jacket.
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in 1944.
£45 £23
MARCHETTI TOMASSI, Gaetamo, conte.
Nuovo Trattato sulla vera Rettificazione del Circolo Misurato esattmente con il Diametro, utile alla Trigonometria … Con una Dissertazione sul Modo di navigare sott’Acqua. Edizione Seconda.
Foligno: Feliciano Campitelli, 1817
Quarto (204 × 144 mm). Contemporary bottle green half skiver on patterned paper boards, crudely marbled edges. 6 etched plates. A little light toning, some worming at the spine with trails penetrating through the text-block, largely marginal, but minor loss to text and plates, rear hinge cracked but holding, remains very good.
First edition to include the section on underwater navigation, illustrated with a wonderful etching of a submarine propelled by oars, including a cut-away view. Count Gaetano Marchetti Tomassi (1774–1857), a nobleman born in Foligno near Perugia, was an amateur scientist. He devised one of several methods of squaring the circle, which constitutes the first part of the first treatise of the present book, the second part containing a discussion on conical sections. The most interesting part, however, is the second treatise, where the author proposes a new model of submarine, moved by the tides and able to submerge and resurface with the use of a mechanism similar to the swimbladder of fish. Marchetti Tomassi claims to have first described this boat in a publication issued in Ancona in 1800, though in a very imperfect form. Apparently a boat built to those specifications was given a trial at Rouen, under the eye of Napoleon. Thus Marchetti Tomassi anticipated Fulton at least in the concept of a submarine, though he does not appear to have heard of him. Marchetti proposes military applications for his submarine, though he has no conception of a torpedo and only mentions the use of classical artillery kept dry in his submarine.
Cat. Weil 6, 275: “very uncommon … seems to be very rare”.
£1,500 £1,005
POWELL, Michael.
A Waiting Game. BOOK SOLD
London: Michael Joseph, 1975
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt, map endpapers. With the dust jacket. Contents tanned. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with scattered dampstain.
First edition, first impression. A suspense novel by the renowed film director.
£45 £28
(RANK, J. Arthur) WOOD, Alan.
Mr. Rank – BOOK SOLD
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1952
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, brown top-stain. With the dust jacket. Upper board bowed, spotting to edges of contents. An excellent copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket.
First edition, first impression. A biography of the film producer J. Arthur Rank, who was responsible for raising the profile of British cinema in relation to Hollywood and producing some of Britain’s most important films, including Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.
£45 £23
RAWLING, Gerald. Cinderella Operation.
The Battle for Walcheren 1944 – BOOK SOLD
London: Cassell, 1980
Octavo. Original red, textured boards, titled in silver on the spine. With the dust jacket. 8 plates, 5 full-page maps. Very good.
First edition. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, “For Major General Jim Moulton with grateful acknowledgement for help in the research on this book, Gerald Rawling, Chard, June 1980.” The taking of Walcheren was a key part of Operation INFATUATE which aimed to open up Antwerp to shipping. The author served as a gunnery officer in an LCF – landing craft flak – at Walcheren, having previously seen similar service at Sicily, Salerno, and on D-Day. The recipient commanded 48 Royal Marine Commando during the operations, is mentioned twice in the text, and his account Battle for Antwerp (Ian Allan, 1979) is included in the bibliography. An excellent association copy.
£100 £50
RIVERS, Larry.
What Did I Do? The Unauthorized Autobiography – BOOK SOLD
New York: Harper Collins, 1992
Octavo. Original black cloth backed red boards, titles to spine in red and to upper board in blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with only a few tiny spots.
First edition, first printing of the autobiography of the jazz saxophonist and “grandfather” of pop art. A lovely copy.
£35 £18
ROSSER, W. H.
The Law of Storms Considered Practically; Being a Digest of the Circular Theory of Storms and the Modifications of that Theory as Due to the In-Going Spiral Circulation of the Wind in a Cyclone; Together with a Summary of the Results of Recent Investigation. With Numerous Illustrations. Second Edition, with Important Corrections and Additions – BOOK SOLD
London: Norie & Wilson, 1886
Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, design to upper board blocked in black and to lower board in blind. Illustrations within the text. Tips lightly rubbed but cloth otherwise fresh, hinges cracked, residue of library ticket to front pastedown. A very good copy.
Second edition, revised and corrected. An attractive little volume on storm patterns, analysing the accuracy of folk knowledge of storms and providing practical rules for storm behaviour based on scientific measurements.
£50
RUDDOCK, Alwyn A.
Italian Merchants and Shipping in Southampton 1270–1600 – BOOK SOLD
Southampton: University College, 1951
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 2 plates. Pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Bump to lower corner, head of spine slightly faded, spotting to endpapers and occasionally to contents. An excellent copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket with a small chip from the head of the spine panel not affecting text.
First edition, first impression.
£125 £63
SCHREBER, Daniel Paul.
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness. Translated, Edited, with Introduction, Notes and Discussion by Ida MacAlpine and Richard A. Hunter – BOOK SOLD
London: Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd., 1955
Octavo. Original black buckram, title gilt to spine, blind panels to the boards, in dust jacket. Frontispiece. Small inked ownership stamp to the front free endpaper – Richard B. Drooz, onetime Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY College of Medicine – else a really sharp copy, spine of the dust jacket just a little tanned.
First Edition in English. “The classic story of a schizophrenic judge.”
For many years the President of the Supreme Court of Saxony, Schreber suffered several minor lapses of sanity before finally succumbing in 1894. At times he believed that he had been transformed into a woman in order that he could redeem the World, once convincing himself that he had been impregnated by God. On other occasions he was sure that God would turn him over to the asylum attendants to “use as a harlot”. “A book full of queer ideas. Schreber wrote down his thoughts as they came to him – usually mixed up, confused, and incoherent. His writing shows how disorganized the mental processes of a schizophrenic can be.” Freud described it as “this gifted paranoiac’s invaluable book.”
This edition reprints three detailed reports on the case by Dr. Weber the leading medico-legal psychiatrist consulted at the time, together with a discussion of Freud’s analysis and extensive notes.
Alvarez p.344
£175 £88
STERN, Henry A.
The Captive Missionary: being an Account of the Country and People of Abyssinia. Embracing a Narrative of King Theodore’s Life and his Treatment of Political and Religious Missions. BOOK SOLD
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin,
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, entwined in shackles, blind panels to the boards, large gilt device of an Abyssinian warrior to the upper board. Steel engraved group portrait frontispiece and 7 other steel-engraved plates. A little rubbed, hinges repaired and spine lined, light toning, but a very good copy.
First edition. One of the key accounts of the events which led to the Abyssinian Expedition. Stern – “an arrogant bigot” (ODNB) – was treated particularly harshly. “The detention of Stern and his companions was widely publicized by Mrs Stern. The imprisonment of Cameron and Rassam was, however, politically more important, for it caused the British government to decide on military intervention. An expedition commanded by Sir Robert Cornelis Napier was dispatched from Bombay in the summer of 1867… The British crossed northern Ethiopia without opposition. The first engagement took place below Maqdala, on 10 April 1868, when Téwodros’s army was overwhelmed by British superiority in weapons. The emperor, wishing to make peace, released Stern and the other Europeans, but Napier decided to storm Maqdala, on 13 April. Téwodros, to escape capture, committed suicide. Maqdala, to Stern’s satisfaction, was burnt to the ground on 17 April, after which the British expedition withdrew from Ethiopia.” His health damaged by his experiences, Stern, who had originally gone to Ethiopia to convert the Falashas, remained in London thereafter and continued his work for the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, dying in 1885.
£650 £436
(STRAYHORN, Billy.) HADJU, David.
Lush Life. A Biography of Billy Strayhorn – BOOK SOLD
New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996
Octavo. Original black cloth backed white boards, title in silver to the spine and silver “autograph” block to the upper board, in dust jacket. 16 plates. Slight mark to the fore-edge, else very good.
First Edition. Elegantly written enquiry into the life of Ellington’s long-time friend and collaborator.
£45 £23
WHITMARK, Isidore, & Isaac Goldberg.
From Ragtime to Swingtime. The Story of the House of Whitmark. BOOK SOLD
New York: Lee Furman, Inc., 1939
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black, top edge dyed ed. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. Library ink stamps to front free endpaper, rear pastedown, and title page. Edges of boards faded and dulled, dampstain to spine and lower board, contents toned, tape residue to pastedown, lower joint cracked. A good copy in the rubbed and chipped jacket with tears at the folds.
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For F. B. Van Man, with compliments of George M. Cohan & best wishes of Isidore Whitmark. May 11/39”. Isidore Whitmark (1869–1941) was a founder and president of the Whitmark & Sons music publishing firm, which so successful that it absorbed ten of its competitors and by 1900 had branches in Chicago, San Francisco, Paris, London, and Melbourne. The firm pioneered the national marketing of sheet music of popular numbers and the brothers “enjoyed a special rapport with other composers and performers” (Isidore Whitmark Papers, Columbia University), including George M. Cohan, “the greatest single figure the American theatre ever produced – as a player, playwright, actor, composer and producer” (NYT obituary, November 6, 1942). Cohan published his first song, “Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home”, with the Whitmarks and remained a good friend and collaborator, making several colourful appearances in the present volume. The recipient of this volume is unknown, but may have been involved with the Veteran’s Administration, as this volume contains library stamps from VA hospitals.
£75 £38
40 WILSON, Horace Hayman (trans.)
Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus Translated from the original Sanskit. BOOK SOLD
London, Trübner & Co. 1871
2 volumes, octavo. Bound in full vellum, two black labels, titles and decoration to spines gilt, rules and centre designs to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, edges dyed yellow. Some light wear to boards with a shall split to the top of volume I spine, otherwise clean copies in very good condition.
Third Edition.
£475
