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hidden, presumably belonging to Charles Clarke or to John Townley. An important<br />
source of data on early Irish coinage which has recently been issued in a reprint edition.<br />
The text is complete and in very good condition but the calf binding has deteriorated with<br />
both front and rear boards detached. $375.00<br />
71. Oe, Kenzaburo. JAPAN, THE AMBIGUOUS, AND MYSELF THE NOBEL PRIZE<br />
SPEECH AND OTHER LECTURES. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1995. Fine in a fine<br />
dust jacket. Signed by Oe on the half-title page in Japanese and English. $125.00<br />
Occo, Adolph. IMPP. ROMANORUM NUMISMATA. See item No. 68.<br />
72. Osborne, John. THE ENTERTAINER. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. Fine in<br />
light blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, in a fine dust jacket featuring the well-known<br />
photograph by Tony Armstrong Jones of Sir Laurence Olivier in the title role. Osborne’s<br />
second play. $75.00<br />
73. Paz, Octavio. LA ESTACIÓN VIOLENTA. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura<br />
Económica, 1958. Fine in light tan cloth with dark gilt lettering and design, in an<br />
attractive near-fine light gray dust jacket, printed in green and black, with light wear at<br />
the extremities of the spine. Issued as number 42 in the publisher’s Letras Mexicanas<br />
series and one of only 2,000 copies. $175.00<br />
74. [Poe, Edgar Allan] Mary E. Phillips. EDGAR ALLAN POE THE MAN. With a<br />
Foreword by James H. Whitty. Two volumes. Chicago: The John C. Winston Co., 1926.<br />
Fine in dark blue cloth with exceptionally bright lettering on the front panel and spine.<br />
The edges of volume I are lightly spotted but otherwise the text of both volumes appears<br />
to be fresh and unread. The dust jackets are both fine with no chips or tears but with<br />
somewhat darkened spines. A heavily illustrated account of Poe’s life which functions<br />
more as a pictorial diary of almost every day in his life than as a standard literary<br />
biography. $175.00<br />
75. Poole, Ernest. HIS FAMILY. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. About<br />
fine in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on the front panel and spine, but<br />
lacking the scarce dust jacket. Still, a worthy copy of the first Pulitzer Prize novel, in a<br />
firm square binding with an especially bright front panel and no markings in the text. An<br />
eight-page section of the publisher’s advertisements is included in the rear. $375.00<br />
The first English-Portuguese dictionary<br />
76. [Portuguese] [Justice, Alexander] A. J. A COMPLEAT ACCOUNT OF THE<br />
PORTUGUEZE LANGUAGE: BEING A COPIOUS DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH<br />
WITH PORTUGUEZE AND PORTUGUEZE WITH ENGLISH. TOGETHER WITH A<br />
EASY AND UNERRING METHOD OF ITS PRONUNCIATION BY A DISTINGUISHED<br />
ACCENT, AND A COMPENDIUM OF ALL THE NECESSARY RULES OF CONSTRUCTION<br />
AND ORTHOGRAPHY DIGESTED INTO A GRAMMATICAL FORM. London: Printed by R.<br />
Janeway for the Author, 1701. Folio, very good in contemporary mottled calf which has<br />
recently been professionally repaired. The near contemporary hand-written paper spine<br />
label uses the spelling “Portuguese.” With both the half-title and title pages printed in red<br />
and black. The pages are not numbered and the signatures are re-used: (i-iv) half-title,<br />
blank, title, blank; To the Reader. a2, verso of a(2) blank; Vocabularium Anglo-