Paris Lectures, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Spender on FFEP 'To Stathis and Ralph.' Stathis Orphanos was a photographer noted for his portraits of writers, including Stephen Spender. He and his partner, Ralph Sylvester also operated the Los Angeles fine-press publishing company 'Sylvester & Orphanos.' Spender collaborated with them in the publication of Graham Greene's *Weed Among Flowers* and *Tsarouchis: The Face of Modern Greece*. First Printing. 347pp. Red cloth gilt spine lettering. Some toning to edges, edges of covers a bit toned, otherwise clean and sound. DJ is a bit toned and chipped around the edges. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. George S. Davis, Detroit, 1885. Copyrighted 1885. xvii,491 pages. Engravings of medico-electrical appliances. 9.75 x 6.25", cloth. Translator's copy: rubberstamp 'E.P. Hurd, M.D., Newburyport, Mass.' on blank, title, 'Library of E.P. Hurd' in pencil, pencil corrections in text; 4 articles inserted; 4p signed autograph letter, 'Mon Cher Monsieur Hurd, 21-6-89', discussing publications; author preface praises translator's 'assiduity, pains-taking, and accuracy'. Spine professionally repaired, text toned, French clipping pasted-in, 4 articles laid-in, G.

Peisse had already published his translation of 'Fragments de Philosophie de M. William Hamilton' (Paris, 1840), and had followed this with one from Dugald Stewart (1842-5). 2pp, 12mo. Forty-one lines of closely-written text. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with chipping and closed tears to edges. Folded once. Signed 'L. Peisse / Louis Peisse, conservateur de l'ecole impériale des Beaux-arts. 2. Rue Boursault.' The British recipient (one of Hamilton's executors?) is not named (in a postscript Peisse apologises for being unable to decipher his details, or those of his co-editors). Peisse is keen to answer the recipient's proposal regarding to Hamilton's lectures, pointing out that, since he has published a French translation of 'les articles philosophiques de Sir W. H. de L'edinburgh-Review, publication qu'il a bien voulu citer aux éloge dans plusieurs de ses ouvrages posterieurs et qui m'a valu de sa part de précieux témoignages privés déstime et de Bienveillance, je serais très disposé a agréez la proposition qui m'est faite au nom de sa famille'. The greater part of the letter is taken up with detailed questions regarding the proposal, needing to be answered before Peisse feels he can proceed. The proposal came to nothing, but in 1866 Peisse would publish a translation from John Stuart Mill.