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Human Animals.

1915Best.-Nr. 188802London: William Rider & Son. Ltd. 1915. First edition. An appealing collection exploring beliefs regarding human transformation into animals from "the point of view of folklore and occultism" - tales of "wer-wolves" and "wer-foxes" witches and their familiars animal dances human serpents phantom cats and cocks. The author was herself a suitably studious if somewhat quirky character. A wartime production uncommon in such sharp condition. For its date a typically well-produced Rider publication a serious and well-researched enquiry into the uncanny. Florence Hamel 1870-1957 began her career as an author of popular biographies in the main of prominent French women Émilie du Châtelet Agnès Sorel Dauphines of France Fair Women at Fontainebleau but also of La Fontaine and Lady Hester Stanhope. She later diversified writing a number of novels including the supernaturally themed Tiger-Wolves The Luminous Pearl and Trust to Boyd. In 1912 she founded Grafton & Co. which became the leading publishers of bibliographical and librarianship textbooks and of the trade journal Library World which she edited until her death; in 1919 an antiquarian department was added under the notable if slightly disreputable bibliographer R. A. Peddie. Bookseller Robin Waterfield offers colourful reminiscence of the place "I applied and got the job and absolutely loved the work. The proprietor was a South African called Fanny Hamel who wore a red wig. Somehow Fanny had entered into a liaison with Mr R. A. Peddie who was my boss at Grafton's. Peddie was a most distinguished bibliographer but had been dismissed from his post as librarian of St Bride's Printing Library for irregularity of attendance and drunkenness. There was always a large bottle of whisky under the counter to 'encourage' librarians" Markham. Octavo. Original greyish yellow pictorial cloth lettered in black to spine and to the front cover with image of a werewolf in black against a brilliant blue mountain range. Spine a touch tanned light rubbing of the cover design; free endpapers slightly browned light foxing front back and fore-edge pale toning to the text; overall solid square and clean a very good copy. Andrew Block A Short History of the Principal London Antiquarian Booksellers and Book-Auctioneers 1933; Frank Hamel obituary The Library World 58 4 April 1957; Sarah Markham In Conversation on-line. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Vereinigtes Königreich875,00 £≈ 1.045,05 €

STRACHEY, Ray; [NIGHTINGALE, Florence]:Biblio.com

THE CAUSE: A Short History of The Women's Movement in Great Britain.

Best.-Nr. 23591London: G. Bell and Sons. 1928. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles the the spine in dustwrapper. Containing "Cassandra" a previously unpublished essay on the position of women in society by Florence Nightingale Appendix. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates of paintings drawings and photographs.An excellent near fine copy the binding square and firm the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents with very light spotting to the prelims are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is toned to the spine and panel edges and with a clean closed score without loss to the bottom edge of the lower panel. An attractive example in original dustwrapper of Ray Strachey's "best-known and most successful book" ODNB uncommon thus. An in-depth history of the women's movement collected and written by a woman who was instrumental in much of the movement itself. Strachey came from a liberal artistic family which had close ties with the Bloomsbury group. She campaigned and wrote extensively on women's suffrage and later stood as an independent for Brentford and Chiswick for three general elections before becoming the parliamentary secretary for the UK's first female MP Nancy Astor and then the head of the Women's Employment Federation. Her papers are held at The Women's Library at the London School of Economics. "While acknowledging in a limited way the importance of the militants the book established a version of the suffrage movement that endorsed the views and celebrated the role of Millicent Fawcett and the NUWSS" ODNB. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: G. Bell and Sons. 1928 hardcover

Lucius Books · Vereinigtes Königreich750,00 £≈ 895,76 €

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