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  1. MACNEICE, Louis.

    Out of the Picture. A Play in two Acts.

    London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1946].

    First edition, third impression.

    £25

  2. LEWIS, Wyndham, and Anne Gladys LEWIS.

    Christmas card to the Bridsons.

    [1950s].

    ‘To Joyce [née Thirlaway] + Geoffrey with Christmas love from Froanna + Wyndham …’

    £50

  3. WATSON, Sheila.

    ‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the Underground Press’, a special issue of artscanada, November 1967, issue...

    The recordings included are three sections from One-Way Song, made at Harvard in 1940 alongside his lecture, and ‘Marshall McLuhan recalls Lewis’.

    £50

  4. POUND, Ezra.

    Cantos 110–116 …

    printed & published by the Fuck You / press at a secret location in the lower east side, New York City, USA, 1967.

    Unauthorised edition (unsurprisingly), no. 261 of 300 copies. The contents are extracts and include a number of apparently unidentified lines; this piracy forced the publication of Drafts and Fragment of Cantos CX–CXVII (1969).

    £150

  5. POUND, Ezra.

    Gaudier-Brzeska, a Memoir …

    [London,] The Marvell Press, [1960].

    Revised edition, inscribed by Dorothy Pound on behalf of her husband to ‘J[oyce] + G[eoffrey] Bridson. DP for EP / Sept 1961. Brunnenburg’.

    £250

  6. SULLIVAN, J.P., editor.

    Ezra Pound, a critical Anthology.

    [London, Penguin, 1970.]

    First edition.

    £30

  7. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    The Letters … Edited by W.K. Rose.

    London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1963].

    First edition. Letters to Bridson appear on pp. 540 and 545.

    £50

  8. TREVLYN GRIEVE, Valda.

    High Death.

    Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.

    1 of 100 copies, inscribed ‘with affection and some embarrassment Valda’.

    £75

  9. JOYCE, James.

    Pomes Penyeach.

    London, Faber & Faber, [1952].

    Sixth Faber printing.

    £40

  10. POWYS, John Cowper.

    Autobiography.

    London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1934].

    First edition, signed on the half-title ‘John Cowper Powys, April 1935’. A very nice copy of a work not often found signed.

    £250

  11. DAVID, [Pierre Drapeyron de].

    A History of the Campaigns of General Pichegru, containing the Operations of the Armies of the North,...

    London, for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1796.

    First edition in English, printed in the same year as the French original, of this account of General Pichegru’s campaigns during the early French Revolutionary Wars.

    £185

  12. DICKENS, Charles; Hablot Knight BROWNE and George CATTERMOLE, illustrators.

    Master Humphrey’s Clock.

    London, Chapman and Hall, 1840–41.

    First edition in book form, of Charles Dickens’ weekly periodical, featuring a collection of short stories and his two novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.

    £175

  13. [DRESS HABITS.]

    Considerazioni d’una dama ad una sua amica intorno al vestiario odierno.

    [S.l.,] Impresso dal Curti del fu Giacomo, 1810.

    Extremely rare set of six pious reflections on modern dress habits, ostensibly written by an anonymous lady to her friend.

    £350

  14. MOORE, Thomas.

    Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance … eleventh Edition.

    London, [A. & R. Spottiswoode for] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1822.

    An early edition of Thomas Moore’s popular orientalist poem Lalla Rookh, owned by a young Siegfried Sassoon.

    £450

  15. MÖSSBAUER, Rudolf Ludwig.

    ‘Kernresonanzabsorption von Gammstrahlung in Ir191’ [in: Die Naturwissenschaften … fünfundvierzigster...

    Berlin, Springer, November 1958.

    First appearance of Mössbauer’s PhD work on the recoilless nuclear fluorescence of gamma rays in 191 iridium, later named the Mössbauer effect, which involves the recoil-free emission and absorption of gamma radiation by an atomic nucleus bound in a solid. The effect was later used by Robert...

    £200

  16. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre civili de Romani tradotto da M. Alessandro Braccio secretario...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for Federico Torresano, April] 1538.

    A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine Press productions, the two complementary works on the history of Rome’s wars by Appianus in the Italian translation of Alessandro Braccio (or Braccesi), which had first appeared in 1519 – the first vernacular versions.

    £3000

  17. CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.

    De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum opus … Accesserunt enim antehac nunquam visa … Omnia...

    Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, March 1545.

    Handsome folio edition of Curtius Rufus’ history of Alexander the Great, edited by the German humanist Christoph Bruno (fl. 1541–1566), with extensive sixteenth-century marginal annotations.

    £2000

  18. ERASMUS, Desiderius.

    Collectanea adagiorum.

    [(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, 1519.]

    Intensely annotated copy of a lifetime edition of Erasmus’ repository of Greek and Latin proverbs. The first version of the Adagia, containing about eight hundred maxims, had been published in 1500. Erasmus continued to add to his thesaurus for over thirty years, the success of this...

    £5850

  19. EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.

    Ευστρατιου και αλλων τινων επισημων υπομνηματα εις...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, July 1536.]

    Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by Eustratius of Nicaea, Michael of Ephesus, the Peripatetic philosopher Aspasius, and other anonymous scholiasts, published by the Aldine press, annotated by a contemporary scholar.

    £5500