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Ditchling, Sussex: Pepler and Sewell, St Dominic's Press, 1934. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Hagreen, Philip. One of 300 copies, octavo size, sixteen unpaginated leaves. The text of a lecture given in London by Fr. McNabb to the Catholic Poetry Society. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in brown quarter-cloth over green paper covered boards, limitation page states, "300 copies have been printed by hand in Caslon 14 point Old Face type on Head's hand-made paper, January 1934. This is No. 255."; "Stones from the Brook: No. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer" (printed on the half-title); octavo size, (8" x 5 1/4"), sixteen unpaginated leaves. In a paper wrapper with black lettering on both panels and flaps. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, boards have straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some fading to green color of both boards in uneven patches and on back boards around perimeter. The paper wrapper very good, overall light sunning, the right margin of the front flap unevenly torn vertically, and a 3/4" closed tear near head of spine. ___CITATION: Taylor & Sewell, no. A234, which notes the title-page engraving by Philip Hagreen. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Washington DC: E. R. Marden, 1911. A 23 1/2" x 22" color land development plat for Villa Park Heights Washington DC. This was a proposed development between Eastern Avenue on the north and Bunker Road on the south, It also included McKinley Circle. The narrative describes how it is some of the only vacant land available in the District of Columbia and would provide for property improvement and beautification paid for by the US Government and no assessments for street paving. It elaborates on beautiful squares and circles and the convenience of the location. Plat printed in yellow and green. The reverse is an inventory of the properties including the lot number, square footage, price per square foot and total cost of the land. Terms: 10% discount for cash, $10 down and $10 per month. No interest or taxes until one-third of the purchase price has been paid. Letter folds. Unfortunately the development, including the proposed McKinley Circle did not happen, due to the untimely death of one of the developers leading to a lawsuit between the wife of the deceased and his business partner. It is currently the Woodbridge area and McKinley Circle is the 21 acre Barnard Hill Park. E. R. Marden was married to Clara Marden. His business partner was Earl P. Hopkins. The two men were also partners in the Washington Civil Services School.

London, UK: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930. First UK Edition, First Printing, Limited Edition #45/900. Hardcover. Octavo, 66 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Tan spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, has mild shelving wear, mild wear along the extremities, chipping along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges, open tears along the spine head and tail edges, stains on the front and rear covers, and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the extremities, a dent on the rear tail edge, mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, and bending wear along the spine tail edge. Textblock has splitting to the gutter from the title page to page 4 and page 24-45, staining on the end-pages and pastedowns, mild wear along the edges, and moderate age-toning throughout. Signed flat by Lord Dunsany on publisher's limitation page, limited edition #45/900. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. Only numbers 1-100 of the 900 limited editions of "The Old Folk of the Centuries" were signed by the author. 1388634. Special Collections.

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1923. 1st ed. in German. Hardcover. Good. 68 mounted plates (mostly in color) plus several smaller, mostly mounted, illustrations (some color) on text pages, Original vellum quarterbinding (purple boards backed in vellum). 37 cm. Small gilt figure on front cover. Front and back cover quite faded around outlines of smaller books that protected the original color. Center half of rear joint split (and then visibly reglued). There is also a small gouge at the bottom of the front joint. Cover edges heavily rubbed. Contents sound and clean with a few creases on tissue guards. Minimal foxing. No slipcase or jacket. German text. Editions of this book also appeared in English ("Bakst, the Story of the Artist's Life") and French ("Bakst: Histoire de Leon Bakst"). Bakst was born in Grodno (now part of Belarus) to Jewish parents. He later changed his name and achieved fame in Russia and elsewhere as an artist and designer of sets and costumes for the Ballet Russes.

Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex Officini Francisci Halma, 1694. First Tollius edition. 4to, pp., [28], 408, [12]. Engraved title-page; Printed with Greek and Latin texts on facing pages, woodcut printer's device, ornaments and initials, full vellum backed marble boards with leather label. Upper margin along the hinge shows a water mark in the preliminary matter, o/w a very nice clean copy. Longinus was a Greek Platonic philosopher and rhetorician of the 3rd century AD. He studied in Alexandria and taught in Athens. He was beheaded by Emperor Aurelian in 273 A.D. but is remembered for his Philosophical Discourses, On First Principles, On the Chief End. His authorship of the present work is desputed. Praised by Dibdin and Gibbon, this edition of these commentaries on The Sublime by the anonymous author known as Longinus "is one of the greatest of all critical acheievements. An illuminating dissertation on style, accompanied by many penetrating judgements as well as suggestive pronouncements on critical standards and principles, the treatise is unique in its interpretation of the classical spirit, its compelling enthusiasms, its sanity, its freshness and its unerring insights into the essentials of art."(OCD).

Wilton Park, England: NP, 1946. First edition. Softcover. vg. Collection of two German POW Camp Newspapers providing a first-hand account of the feelings and emotions of the men, as well as their day-to-day activities during their internment in Great Britain. The monthly newspapers were produced by prisoners in Berechurch Hall (Camp 186) and in Wilton Park: - "Anruf: Zeitschrift der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Wilton Park, Nr. 1, Februar 1946." Folio. 25, [1]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. "Anruf" was published in Wilton Park (Beaconsfield), a war camp set up in 1942 to hold prisoners likely to have information of high intelligence value, such as German and Italian officers, pilots and u-boat commanders. Among the occupants was Gerd von Rundstedt, the last Commander-in-Chief of German forces in the West. The White House was a three storey Palladian mansion that was turned into an officers' mess for staff and interrogators. A series of Nissen huts was built for staff of other ranks. Prisoners were housed in a compound of flat-roofed brick and concrete cells. The first high ranking prisoners began to arrive in the middle of 1943. These included Marshall Messe, Field-Marshalls von Rundstedt and Busch and Rudolph Hess. As the summer of 1945 turned into autumn, the generals and the marshals departed. By November 7, 1945, Wilton Park was ready for its new role, a re-education facility for German prisoners of war. Indeed, between January 1946 and June 1948 more than 4,000 Germans attended re-education classes at Wilton Park, where they discussed democratic processes with visiting political figures and intellectuals, including philosopher Bertrand Russell, social reformer Lord William Beveridge, and the first female Member of Parliament, Lady Astor. The first participants at Wilton Park included some of the most senior German PoWs in Britain and many became leading figures in the rebuilding of post-war Germany. Helmut Schmidt, for example, the former German Chancellor, hailed Wilton Park’s role for post-war Germany, stating that “many ideas became a political reality.” The success of these classes is epitomised in one German participant’s statement of his time at Wilton Park: “I was a Nazi; I came to Wilton Park and it changed my life.” This first issue of "Anruf" opens with a long poem by Wolfgang Weyrauch titled "Anruf." Articles by Martin Guetter; Dr. Erwin Weghorn; Gustav Radbruch; Justus Franz Wittkop; Alfred Brasch, and others. The articles deal with current problems in Europe, democracy 'as exemplified in Britain,' the Nuremberg Trial, the United Nations organization, politics, religion, etc.. and above all a strongly anti-Nazi stance. Includes two in-text b/w drawings of the camp. Contemporary stamp on inside of front cover: "Wilton Park Training Centre. Authorised to be retained by P. W. Georg Kunz - 312 495 (prisoner's name and matricule are handwritten). Typed text in German. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. - "Querschnitt: Monatszeitschrift des Camp 186." Folio. 20pp. Original illustrated stappled wrappers. "Querschnitt" was published in Berechurch Hall (Essex), a camp which served as one of the country’s largest transit centres for German prisoners captured during the final stages of the Second World War. It was the first 1,500 men to arrive on September 19, 1944, who helped the camp take shape in those early days. Transported in by lorry at night, they were ordered to pitch their own bell-tents on a field encircled by a few strands of barbed wire. Work on improvised kitchen and toilets did not start until the next day, and hot food was not available until that night. But as Camp 186 grew to cope with more than 6,000 prisoners at a time, new facilities, including Nissen huts for housing and a 120-bed medical center, were added. There were also orchestras, a newspaper ("Querschnitt"), two theatre groups - one of which performed the works of Dante, Schiller and Shakespeare in large marquees - and even a 300-student Catholic seminary. This issue contains articles by Heinz C. Woelfle (of the Geheimefeldpolizei, who served in the Channel Islands at a base called "Silvertide," Havre-de-Pas, Jersey); Dr. F. Glasau; Herbert Hellmann, and others. Illustrated with two woodcuts (front and back covers), and 6 inside. The content features various items such as news reports (Nuremberg Trial), gardening, alimentation, entertainment programs, and above all, the usual anti-Nazi editorial stance. Minor and faint creasing mark throughout. Typed text in German. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition.

Belle Isle en Mer, 1840. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Manuscript local history of Breton island written with a beautiful cursive hand, a beautiful watercolor of a shore panorama and a highly decorative title page. 4to. 25.5 by 19 cm. 650 pp. (325 leaves.) The watercolor is actually dated 1840, and this suggests strongly to us that the manuscript text was of this later date, and probably a copy of an earlier manuscript, especially since the ruling on the pages and the style of cursive is entirely consistent with that of the mid-19th century. Bound by Bauzonnet Trautz in full brown morocco, tooled turn-ins. Belle-Isle is in the Department of Morbihan, a part of ancient Brittany. It was the last stronghold of about 7,000 Royalists in 1795. With several small ports, the island's economy was heavily reliant on pichard fishing. In more recent times it has become predictably a favored location for second homes. The history begins with the formation of the island, its place in antiquity and indigenous population. The island does have historic significance as an important vantage point during wartime. The island was also closely associated with the Fouquet family. Condition: leather with rubbing and some abrasions, but still attractive. Interior tight and clean.