POPPER | A group of ten books and other personal items

POPPER, KARL

A group of ten books, most inscribed by Popper to Melitta Mew, and other personal items:

i) Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Collins, 1967. 12mo, inscribed by Karl Popper to Melitta Mew ("...A Terrible story of a terrorized child. Obviously, the story is true. The rest is fiction...") ii) Joachim Fernau. Rosen Fur Apoll. Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1968. 8vo, cloth, with a 13-LINE INSCRIPTION BY POPPER TO MELISSA MEW

iii) Ernst Gombrich. Weltgeschichte. Vienna: Stenrermuhl, 1936. 8vo, cloth, PRSENTATION COPY inscribed by the author to Karl and Hennie Popper, 1947

iv) Homer. The Iliad. Guild, 1988. 8vo, cloth, inscribed by Karl Popper to Melitta Mew

v) Selma Lagerlöf. Christuslegenden. Leipzig: Hesse & Beder, n.d. 12mo, roan, INSCRIBED BY POPPER TO MELITTA MEW, Christmas 1993

vi) Selma Lagerlöf. Gösta Berling. Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, n.d. 8vo, ownership inscription of Karl Popper

vii) Karl Popper. Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. 8vo, wrappers, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author to Melitta Mew

viii) Karl Popper and Konrad Lorenz. Die Zukunft ist Offen. Munich: Piper, 1985. 12mo, wrappers, inscribed by Popper to Melitta Mew

ix) Bertrand Russell. Philosophy and Politics. London: National Book League, 1947. 8vo, dust-jacket, inscribed by Karl Popper to Melitta Mew ("...with a laudatio of Russell's on p.11...")

x) Albert Schweitzer. J.S. Bach. Leipzig: Breitkopt & Härtel, 1929. 8vo, cloth, INSCRIBED BY POPPER TO MELITTA MEW, Christmas 1993 ("...This is a marvellous book. Schweitzer's phrasing (although here on paper) is almost like attending a two-hour's lesson of Casals - as I was once fortunate enough to do...") 

xi) Music manuscript book, 5 pages plus blanks, 4to, modern spiral binder, d.; also 4 pages of photocopies of music apparently by Popper 

xii) Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold Certificate, awarded to Popper, 17 December 1993; with 3 sets of photocopies of his draft-writings, 42 pages in all 

xiii) Commemorative photograph album for the 1992 Kyoto Prizes, at which Popper was winner of the Arts and Philosophy prize

xiv) Bundle of c.71 photographs of Popper at various stages of his life, modern copy prints

xv-xix) Karl Popper, British passport, issued 1985, with various stamps; also four other identity documents, 1946 onwards