81 2055 Science fiction Clarke A C 
- Folding flap of frontwr. w. vertical crease.
= The novel based on the screenplay that was written by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick.
81 2056 Science fiction Delaire J 
- Fine. = Rare first edition.
AND 4 others, i.a. P. STEWART and C. RIDDELL, Midnight over Sanctaphrax (London etc., 2000, 1st ed., orig. w. dustwr. Very fine; The Edge Chronicles: Vol.3) and P. PULLMANN, His Dark Materials (London, Scolastic, 2001, 1st collected ed., orig. boards w. dustwr.).
81 2057 Science fiction Forester C S 
81 2057 Science fiction Forester C S 
81 2057 Science fiction Forester C S 
- Trifle/ sl. foxed. Cloth of backcover sl. spotted. Dustwr. very fine.
= Very rare in the orig. dustwrapper. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
81 2058 Scott Fitzgerald F 
- Lacks vol.1; three vols. price-clipped; one vol. 3 trifle waterwrinkled in lower margin.
AND 12 others, all modern American/ Canadian fiction, nearly all 1st Am./ Engl. eds. in orig. harcover binding w. dustwr., all fine, i.a. E.L. DOCTOROW, Loon Lake (New York, 1980); R. DAVIES, The Lyre of Orpheus (London, 1988); IDEM, What's Bred in the Bone (New York, 1985, 4th printing. Dustwr. price-clipped) and M. PIERCY, Vida (New York, 1979).
81 2059 Sebald W G 
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Otherwise fine.
Idem. De emigrés. Dutch transl. by R. van Hengel. Ibid., idem, 2005, 253,(1)p., ills., orig. boards w. dustwr. (fine). - AND 5 others publ. by the same, all in Dutch transl. by the same, all first Dutch editions in orig. boards w. dustwr., all in fine condition: Naar de natuur (2006); De ringen van Saturnus. Een Engelse pelgrimage (2007, ills.); Duizelingen (2008, ills. Bookplate on upper pastedown); Campo Santo (2010, ills.) and Logies in een landhuis (2012, ills. Bookplate on upper pastedown). - ADDED: W.G. Selbald. Een hommage aan een unieke auteur (ibid., 2008, orig. wr.).
- Endpapers foxed. Bindings sl. soiled; binding vol. 1 sl. affected by silverfish and w. sm. dam. spot on backcover.
= Large paper copy, printed in 100 numb. copies.
- Velours trifle darkened at extreme lower end of spine.
AND 9 others, mostly 1st Engl./ Am. first editions, all in orig. hardcover binding w. dustwr., i.a. B. UNSWORTH, Motslity Play (London, 1995, orig. boards w. dustwr.); D. POTTER, Blackeyes (London, 1987, orig. boards w. dustwr.); I. DINESEN, Letters from Africa 1914-1931. Engl. transl. by A. Born (London, 1981, orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and W. TREVOR, A Bit on the Side (New York, 2004, orig. boards w. dustwr.)
81 2062 Smith A 
- Spine sl. sunned.
= One of 6 presentation copies printed on handmade paper, with signed dedication by the editor and his bookplate on upper pastedown.
AND 3 others by/ on the same: City Poems (Cambr., 1857, 1st ed., orig. cl.), Dreamthorpe. A Book of Essays written in the Country (Portland, 1913, printed in 700 copies, orig. boards w. dustwr.) and T. BRISBANE, The early years of Alexander Smith. Poet and Essayist (London, 1869, orig. gilt cl.).
81 2063 Soirées d'Anvers Ed Paul Neuhuys No I XII all published 
= I.a. contributions by Patrick Conrad, Pierre Dewalhens, Sophia Dupray, Max Elskamp, Leon van Essche, Michel de Ghelderode, Alain Germoz, Gust Gils, Franz Hellens, Robert d'Hondschoote, Paul Joostens, Paul Justement, Max Kazan, Ben Klein, Willy Koninckx, Marcel van Maele, Paul Neuhuys, Bob de Nijs, Adriaan Peel, Willy Prins, Tony Rombouts, Adriaan de Roover, Clem Schouwenaars, Werner Spillemaeckers, Dimitri Tchermetiev, Freddy de Vree and Paul de Vree.
81 2064 Solzhenitsyn A 
- Some sm. stains on backwr. A good/ fine copy. = Rare early tamizdat edition.
81 2065 Solzhenitsyn A 
- A few library stamps/ annots.; sl. stained and fingersoiled; partly dogeared.
= Rare early tamizdat edition.
81 2066 Solzhenitzyn A 
- Owner's entry on first blank. Wrs. sl. foxed and creased.
81 2067 Staël Holstein A L G de 
- Backstrips worn; top of spines chipped.
= Cf. Vicaire VII, p.653, listing a second edition published in Paris, 1814: "Je n'ai pu voir la première édition publiée, en 1810, chez le même éditeur [Paris, Nicolle]". Quérard, La France Littéraire IX, p.252 (French 2nd ed., 1814): "La première édition, tirée à 10.000 exemplaires, fut saisie en entier et brûlée ou mise au pilon: il n'en est échappé que quelques exemplaires."
81 2068 Stona M 
81 2068 Stona M 
- Endpapers trifle foxed. Corners showing; spine plasticized.
= One of 200 DELUXE copies signed by the author and artist.
81 2069 Sullivan V = B Vian 
- First 10 pages cut shorter in outer margin, just outside the text. Lacks backwr.; frontwr. loose and dam. along edges; spine heavily worn.
= Under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan, Boris Vian wrote rather bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, which were highly controversial at the time of their release. This pulp fiction book was published as a provocation by the author to his critics. Both the publisher Vendôme press and this book were solely created to make people believe in the existence of Vian's alias. The original French publication J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (1946) was also written by Sullivan, although he let people believe it was written by an underappreciated young black author whose work was banned in his native country. Very rare.
81 2070 Swift J 
- Plates trifle foxed, not affecting image; endpapers browned; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding trifle/ sl. worn along extremities; remnants of paper titlepiece on backstrip.
Bunyan, J. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. London, J.C. Nimmo, 1895, XII,379p., etched frontisp. portrait of the author, etched htitle and 12 plates by W. STRANG, contemp. cl. w. gilt spine, 4to.
- Contents occas. trifle foxed along margins, otherwise fine. Backstrip (sl.) dam.
AND 2 others in 3 vols., i.a. F. RABELAIS, Works (...) (London, n.d. (1921), 2 vols., ills. and plates by W. HEATH ROBINSON, orig. unif. gilt cl., 4to).
81 2071 Tomlinson H M 
= Comprises the following: 1. Autograph letter signed to Mrss Constable & Co. covering the sending of Tomlinson's introduction to Pierre, or the Ambiguities ((1)leaf, recto only); 2. Typescript of the introduction to Pierre, or The Ambiguities for the edition publ. by Dutton, NY in 1929 ((8) leaves, recto only); 3. Autograph letter signed to C.A. Williamson, one leaf, recto only, w. printed letterhead "Ridgewood, Croham Manor Road, South Croydon", w. orig. envelope, commenting i.a. "It looks to me as if it is not worth while to educate children whose parents frustrate your efforts"; 4. Autograph letter signed to "Major Dawson", dated "18.11.41", 1 leaf, recto and verso. Affectionate response to Dawson's appreciation of a radio broadcast by Tomlinson on Joseph Conrad, expressing his gladness at finding that "not only sanity subsists, but understanding, & good will (...) in a world curiously alien" [the war years].
81/2072 Vesennyj salon poetov Spring salon of poets 
- Dedication on first blank. Wrappers reattached and sl. creased and waterst.; backstrip restored.
= The first (and as it turned out, final) issue of a literary almanac intended to be published on a regular basis to present the latest movements in Russian poetry. With contributions by i.a. Anna Akhmatova, Aleksandr Blok, Zinaida Gippius, Sergei Yesenin, Osip Mandelshtam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva.
81 2073 Agriculture Duchesne E A 
81 2073 Agriculture Duchesne E A 
- Lacks frontisp.; the plates loose; occas. sl. foxed. = Rare.
81 2074 Agriculture Herrera A de 
- Two index lvs. lack lower corner; sm. tear along lower inner margin title. Frontcover and backstrip chafed.