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ADDAMS, Jane.
[Two autograph letters.] Twenty years at Hull House with autobiographical notes.
New York, Macmillan, 1910.
First edition, second printing (issued in the same month and year as the first). William Scarlett was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, and one of the founders of the Grace Hill Settlement House in St. Louis, based on Addams’s model for Hull House. The letters, addressed to Scarlett in New...
£650
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Writer and the Absolute …
London, Methuen & Co., Ltd., [1952].
First edition, inscribed ‘To my dear friend Geoffrey Bridson / Wyndham Lewis / 25 June 1952’. The work was published the following day.
£750
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BAKER, Valentine.
Clouds in the East: travels and adventures on the Perso-Turkoman frontier …
London, Chatto and Windus, 1876.
First edition of Baker Pasha’s account of his journey to Central Asia.
£550
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DI FIORE, Fedele.
Il trionfo della verginità ossia breve elogio storico del Cristiano eroismo di Maria Regina Pedena vergine Modenese...
Naples, dalla tipografia dei fratelli Paci, 1828.
Very rare work prompted by the death of Maria Regina Pedena, a fourteen-year-old embroiderer who was found dead at her home in Modena in July 1827 with stab wounds to her throat and other wounds all over her body. A family friend, the thirty-five-year-old violin maker Eleutero Malagoli, was discovered...
£300
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POUND, Ezra.
Selected Poems.
The New Classics Series. [New York, New Directions, 1949.]
First edition, inscribed in a characteristic mix of the formal and the faux-Cockney ‘Geoffrey Bridson certified + worthy owner hereof. / To which mi ’and [i.e. my hand]/ Ezra Pound / 9 A[ugust?] ’56’. The book was given to the BBC Broadcater D.G. Bridson on the occasion of his visit...
£2750
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WILLIAMS, William Carlos.
Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].
Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]
First collected edition of Books One to Four and first edition of Book Five; inscribed on the front free endpaper of One to Four (in Williams’s distinctive scrawl, in two different pens after the first ran out of ink) ‘D.J. [i.e. G.] Bridson with my compliments / William...
£1250
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[POUND.]
FROBENIUS, Leo. Il Liuto di Gassire. Legenda Africana con una nota di Ezra Pound.
Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], [1961].
First edition, translated into Italian from the German by Siegfried Walter di Rachewiltz, Pound’s grandson (b. 1947), and with a ten-page note by Pound. A presentation copy, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey Bridson with the compliments of Siegfried W. de Rachewiltz / Brunnenburg 30. 5. 61’.
£100
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POUND, Ezra, and Ernest FENELLOSA.
Introduzione ai Nô, con un drama in un atto di Motokiyo: Kagekiyo.
Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], [1958].
Third edition, translations of Pound’s ‘Introduction’ and one play from Certain Noble Plays of Japan by his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz. This third edition added ‘Un intervallo di 40 anni’ by Pound, dated November 1958.
£30
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WALKER, George.
The three Spaniards, a Romance …
London: Printed by Sampson Low; for G. Walker ...; and Hurst ... 1800.
First edition, very rare; the very brief Preface sets the popular tone: ‘In compliance with the present taste in literary amusement, this work is presented to the Public.’
£4000
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HAYWARD, Thomas.
The British Muse, or, a Collection of Thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English Poets: who flourished...
London, Printed for F. Cogan … and J. Nourse … 1738.
First edition of this interesting antiquarian miscellany of literary extracts. The subjects, arranged alphabetically, range from ‘Abbeys’ to ‘Youth’ via ‘Abstinence’, ‘Hypocrite’ ‘Mediocrity’ ‘Rebellion’ ‘Self-Murder’, and ‘Travel’. The authors quoted include Beaumont,...
£575
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[HOMILETIC.]
Meditations de la seconde annee.
[France, c. 1700.]
Apparently unpublished set of meditations for the Sundays in the liturgical year running from the seventh to the twenty-fourth week after Pentecost, shedding light on tools and practices in the homiletic art. Themes range from reflections on the Eucharist, to considerations on mortality, on...
£750
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POPE, Alexander.
Windsor-Forest. To the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdown …
London: Printed for Bernard Lintott … 1713.
First edition of Pope’s second separately published poem, preceded by An Essay on Criticism in 1711. Written in the tradition that young poets begin with pastoral verse, Windsor-Forest, with its epigraph from Virgil’s Eclogues, was the poem that first won Swift’s regard and...
£2750
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Lion and the Fox. The Role of the Hero in the Plays of Shakespeare …
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1955.]
Reprint of the second edition of Lewis’s ‘first political book’, a collection of essays engaging with Shakespeare and Machiavelli first published in 1927 and then reissued by Methuen in 1951; inscribed in a very shaky hand ‘To Geoffrey Bridson from Wyndham / Oct 1956’.
£300
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MEITNER, Lise, and Otto R. FRISCH.
On the Products of the Fission of Uranium and Thorium under Neutron Bombardment.
Copenhagen, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1939.
First edition of this highly important paper, published in Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Mathematisk-Fysiske Meddelelser, vol. 17, no. 5.
£850
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ANSELMI, Giorgio, the younger.
Georgii Anselmi nepotis Epigrammaton libri septem. Sosthyrides. Peplum Palladis. Aeglogae...
Venice, Maffeo Pasini, September 1528.
The definitive edition of the epigrams of Giorgio Anselmi, grandson of the astrologer and music theorist of the same name, with several epigrams on his grandfather’s lost works on magic and the occult.
£875
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RICHARDSON, James.
Narrative of a mission to central Africa performed in the years 1850-51, under the orders and at the expense...
London, Chapman and Hall, 1853.
First edition recounting the English explorer, missionary and abolitionist James Richardson’s 1850-1851 expedition through central Africa, including the first known crossing of the Libyan Hammada al-Hamra, or ‘Red Plateau’.
£300
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GOBAT, Samuel.
Journal of a three years’ residence in Abyssinia, in furtherance of the objects of the Church Missionary Society...
London, Hatchard & Son; and Seeley & Sons, 1834.
First edition of a journal written by the Swiss Calvinist missionary and later Bishop of Jerusalem Samuel Gobat during his residence in Abyssinia between early 1830 and late 1832.
£275
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BOYSON, Violet Fenton.
The Falkland Islands … With notes on the natural history by Rupert Vallentin.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.
First edition of Violet Fenton Boyson’s history of the Falkland Islands, in what remains a standard work on the subject. Boyson was initially asked by the naturalist Rupert Vallentin to edit his notebooks on the natural history of the island. In response, Boyson suggested supplementing these notes...
£300
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DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles William.
Savage life in the black Sudan. An account of an adventurous journey of exploration amongst wild...
London, Seeley, Service & Co., 1927.
First edition of Charles William Domville-Fife’s account of the wildlife and indigenous peoples of Sudan, complete with maps and photographs taken by the author himself.
£75
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CUNNINGHAM, Robert.
Notes on the Natural History of the Strait of Magellan and West Coast of Patagonia made during the Voyage of...
Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1871.
First edition of the travel account of Robert Oliver Cunningham (1841-1918), a Scottish naturalist employed aboard the H.M.S. ‘Nassau’ during a surveying expedition of the Strait of Magellan between 1866 and 1869.
£400