MacManus, Francis.

Men Withering.

Second Edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited, 1944. 18.6cm x 12.4cm. 288 pages. Original Hardcover (half cloth with black lettering on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Botkin, B.A.

A Treasury of American Folklore. Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People.

Third Printing. New York, Crown Publishers, 1944. 21 x 14 cm. xxvii, 932 pages. Original blue cloth with gilt dragon on front board and gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Front free end paper missing. Some shelf wear. Binding and edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.

MacManus, Francis.

Pedlar’s Pack. Stories, Sketches, Essays, Verse.

First Edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press, 1944. 18 x 12 cm. 244 pages. Original paper covered boards. Cloth spine with title. Good condition only. Binding seriously rubbed and bumped (see images). Gift inscription on front free end paper. Edges and end papers age darkened and stained. Text block clean.

MacManus, Francis.

Statue for a Square.

First Edition. Dublin, The Talkot Press Limited, 1945. 16.7cm x 12.7cm. 286 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with external wear on the cover.

Sitwell, Edith.

The Song of the Cold.

First Edition. Advance Review Copy issued by Publisher. London, Macmillan & Co., 1945. 14 x 22 cm, viii, 115 pages. With a lose card: Advance Review Copy. Original dark blue cloth hard cover with gilt title on spine. In original dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and signs of use. Some age darkening and mild foxing. Dust jacket rubbed and with some minor paper loss to the ends of the spine.

Doyle, Lynn (editor) / McGamish, Gil (translator).

Babel Babble – An Extravaganza.

First edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited, 1945. 22 x 14,5 cm. 26 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs on dustjacket and rubbed edges.

Eliot, T.S.

The Family Reunion.

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1945. 15 x 22.5 cm. 136 pages. Original Hardcover. No dustjacket. Good condition with some signs of external wear. Red lettering on the spine. Front hinge shaken and loose. Corners slightly bumped.

Bell, William (Editor), Drummond, Allison / Larkin, Philip / King, Francis et al.

Poetry from Oxford in Wartime.

First Edition. London, The Fortune Press, 1945. 19 x 12 cm. 94 pages plus two pages publishers list. Original dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally clean. A nice copy.

Eliot, T.S.

What is a Classic? an address delivered before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944.

First Edition. London, Faber & Faber, 1945. 22 x 14 cm, 32 pages. Original light blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Book is slanted and begins to open between pages 8 and 9. Binding is faded. Some shelf wear and dust dulling. Internally bright and clean.

Sweeney, James Johnson (editor) / Calder, Alexander (illustrations).

Three Young Rats and other Rhymes. Drawings by Alexander Calder. Edited with Introduction by James Johnson Sweeney.

First Trade Edition. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1946. 26 x 20 cm. xviii, 130 pages, (6). Illustrated throughout. Original pale cloth. Hard cover inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edges dust dulled. Internally a nice clean copy.