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Auckland, 1982 *** ONLY EDITION THUS; COMPRISING SIX FABLES IN SAMOAN PROSE. This edition appeared simultaneously with an edition of the same fables translated into Niuean (another Polynesian language) by Aiao Kaulima (b. 1935) and similarly illustrated by McNee. Aesop's animals, of course, were unknown in Samoa before the eighteenth century; and so many of their names here are transparently European, eg, 'asini 'donkey', rane 'frog', manuki 'monkey', mole 'mole', pusi 'cat', luko 'wolf'. -- Out of print, and already VERY SCARCE. -- Cover title: Tala mai nu'u mamao = Stories from faraway places. -- Reference: OCLC 23008181.. Pictorial wrappers, wire-stitc. 3 volumes (209 x 147 mm): Pp 1-16, 1-16, 1-16. .

FIRST EDITION (only edition), one of 200 numbered copies, this being no. 77 INSCRIBED AND SIGNED "For Jay Dillon-- Who solved the sine of 4 (and came up with the Seven-per cent solution)-- Josh Pachter" in blue ink on the upper wrapper recto. -- --

The allusion, of course, is to the mathematical sine of four degrees, which is 0.0696 (Pachter's imprint) or seven percent. This alludes in turn to Conan Doyle's "seven-per-cent. solution" in 'The sign of four' 1890 page 3, which begs the question: Did Doyle himself know that seven percent is the sine of four? (And if not, then why not six percent? or eight?) -- --

This is quite a two-pipe problem. -- --

Collation: 280 x 217 mm (11 × 8½ inches): Twenty-four leaves paginated [i-ii] [1] 2-33 [34-46 blank], including the cover-title on gray paper as issued, errata-slip laid in. Binding: Wire-stitched as shown, as issued. Condition: The upper wrapper moderately stained as shown, else very good. -- --

References: De Waal (1994) no. C22833;… Read More

London &c: Peter Owen, 1986 (Series: Modern romance classics, no. [1].) ||| Collation: In 16s (197 x 127 mm). Pp. [vii], 263. Binding: Red boards, dust-jacket. Condition: A fine copy. Reference: ISBN 0720606705. .

London &c, 2005     ¶ Boethius ca 1000 ex Cockerell, the only complete Anglo-Saxon manuscript in private hands; Jerome and Bede ca 1100 ex Drury; and Virgil 1459 ex Phillipps, "Probably the finest Renaissance manuscript of any classical text in private hands, and one of the finest manuscripts of Virgil ever made". (Sale 5240, lots 80-82.)   ||| Collation: 270 x 210 mm: Twenty-eight leaves, paginated [1-5] 6-54 [55-56].  Illustration: Ten full-page and thirteen smaller color illustrations.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers lettered in gilt. Color-pictorial dust-jacket.  Condition : As new.  .

New York: Random House, 1967 ¶ FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF ISAK DINESEN (KAREN BLIXEN), FIRST PRINTING (with statement "First Printing" on the title verso). ||| Collation: In 16s (237 x 158 mm). Pp. xi [xii-xix], 325 [326-327]. Errata-slip laid in. Fifty-six halftone illustrations (chiefly portraits, printed recto and verso on sixteen leaves inserted). Binding: Publisher's white cloth, dust-jacket. Condition: As new. Reference: LCCN 67014475. Provenance: Nicolas Ekstrom, son of the author. ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below. .

New York, 1997     ¶ Only edition; presenting fifty-two rare books 1469-1955 generously annotated, in four sections, viz: Philosophy and literature; Religious works; History, geography, & cosmography; School-books and dictionaries. Indexes, pages [85-86]; References cited, [87-90].  (H. P. Kraus, Inc. Catalogue 206.)   ||| Collation: 272 x 200 mm: Fifty leaves, paginated [i-iv] v-x, 1-84 [85-90].  Illustration: Full-page color facsimile (page [ii]), 22 full-page facsimiles, 26 smaller.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine.  Reference: NYPL.  .

¶ ÉDITION ORIGINALE, et la seule séparée; EXEMPLAIRE NOMINATIF pour Béatrice Leval, qui était une cliente importante de l’éditeur en 1939 et 1944–46; avec la carte gravée de son directeur Raymond Nasenta, qui « prie Madame Fernand Leval de bien vouloir accepter cet exemplaire de ‘La Traversée de Paris’ imprimé spécialement à votre intention, en hommages respectueux de l’éditeur ».   ¶ FIRST EDITION, and still the only separate edition; completed on Bastille Day 1946. This is an unnumbered exemplaire nominatif printed specially for Beatrice Leval of New York, who was buying some fairly serious pictures at the time — notably Vuillard La table, la fin du déjeuner chez Madame Vuillard ca 1895, which brought $2.48 million at auction last year.   ||| Series: Le vin de Paris, 2.  Collation: In 4s (330 × 255 mm irregular): Fifty-two leaves, paginated [1–6] 7–98 [99–104], including the last leaf (pages [103–104]) blank and genuine. Title printed in red and black, Charpentier’s device on title printed in red,… Read More

New York: A Wyatt book, for St Martin's Press, 1994 ¶ FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, first printing (with statement "First Edition: May 1994" and code "10 . . . 3 2 1" on the title verso). ||| Collation: 209 x 140 mm. Pp. [xii], 594 [595–596]. Binding: Publisher's quarter black cloth, dust-jacket. Condition: As new; UNOPENED. Reference: ISBN 0312110839..

First edition of the second Jane Eyre in Greek, first issue (priced 4000 drachmae). The translator was probably Vasilis Rotas (1889-1977), after Harry Glickman 1947. The upper cover depicts not Jane but Rochester's mad wife Bertha. Sold as is.

New York, 1942     ¶ A short-lived 'house organ' devoted to stoking morale in the civilian women's Auxiliary Aircraft Warning Service in New York. Scarce; not in the Library of Congress.   ||| Collation: 241 x 174 mm: Two leaves, paginated [1] 2-4. Text printed in three columns.  Illustration: Portrait, facsimile (reproduction of recruiting-poster), two cartoons.  Binding: A bifolium unbound as issued.  Condition: Very good, one lateral fold..