Cultured Oyster Books

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