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Welcome to our new catalogue of books all bought during the last twelve months or unified by time and, for once, not theme. There are idiosyncratic family histories; books produced during Covid lockdowns; self-help, sexuality and DIY books; the 21st century equivalent of the armchair traveller; War as a game, a theory and a practice; appearances by Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu, Erik Satie, Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, Unica Zurn, Mina Loy and Robert Desnos; at the centre, six books about mortality; a coloring book of feline inventions; Richard Matheson, Mikhail Bulgakov and Cormac McCarthy's best books; and, towards the end, three revisionist histories of women artists, poets and photographers.
Ringwood, Vic: Allen Lane. First Australian edition, 1977.
'Blacks talk to Kevin Gilbert', interviews carried out between October 1974 and August 1976; 'The original aims of this book were to show the actual condition of Aboriginal people in Australia through their own testimony and from this to show how they think about themselves and their background. The interviews fulfill the second of these aims, but not the first'; signed by the author.
Fifty cent piece size clipped from the bottom right corner of the front free endpaper, else very good in dustwrapper. Clipping of an obituary from 'The Canberra Times' laid in.
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London: Victor Gollancz. First English omnibus editions, 1968, 1972.
Two volumes: Nicolas Freeling #1-6, Piet Van der Valk #1-5: 'Love In Amsterdam' (first published 1962), 'Because of the Cats' (1963), 'Gun Before Butter' (1968), 'Double-Barrel' (1964), 'King of the Rainy Country' (1966), and 'The Dresden Green' (1966), all complete.
Review copies with publisher's slips laid in. Vol.1 a little rubbed on the spine, else both fine in dustwrappers. The two vols.
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London: Atlas Press. Second English edition, 2016.
' ... done with the help of his very dear friend Robert Filliou and translated from the French and further anecdotes by their very dear friend Emmett Williams enriched with still further anecdotations by their very dear friend Dieter Roth with 100 reflective illustrations by Topor'. Beginning with a scientific description of the objects on the table of Daniel Spoerri's room, before inviting a few friends to contribute and, voilà, an encyclopedic artists' book. First published by Something Else Press in 1996, then in the Atlas Arkhive in 1995.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Melbourne: Sun Books. First Australian edition, 1978.
A pictorial biography of the career and homeland of the formidable public servant long before his knighthood; introduction by Les Patterson.
Pictorial wrappers. Worn around perimeter. Very good.
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Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Reprint, 1981.
The author's first, only, and enduring book; second impression three months after publication; from childhood in post-colonial Western Australia's wheat district, experiences as a private at Gallipoli, return to civilian life after the war; a television version in 1985.
Pictorial wrappers by Robert Juniper; loose clippings laid in; spine a little sunned else fine.
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London: Farrar Straus and Giroux first American edition, 1978.
Fashion, portraits, travel; one hundred and sixty-two full page reproductions: the slow evolution of his signature style; preface by Harold Brodkey.
Pictorial boards. Fine in printed glassine dustwrapper.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1993.
'This book tracks the path of three crucial illusions in my life. The first section is about the illusion of laughter, and a young man's discovery of the fine line between hilarity and panic. The second section is about the illusion of power. The third section is about the loss of all illusions'; two hundred and eighty-four full page reproductions plot the course; indexed; spectacularly designed by Mary Shanahan.
Printed cloth. A little sunned on spine, else fine.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1995.
Exhibition catalogue: Illustrated retrospective, detailed checklist of works in the exhibition; essays by Adam Gopnik and Jane Livingston, edited by Mary Shanahan.
Printed wrappers. Spine a little sunned. Very good.
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London: Atlas Press. First English trade edition, 1995.
'The Critical and Related Texts', edited by Georges Bataille; Encyclopaedia Da Costa, edited by Robert Lebel and Isabelle Waldberg; biographies by Dominique Lecoq, translations by Iain White and others. Atlas Archive #3. Plus background to, and members of, the Acephale Group; illustrated throughout; assembled and introduced by Alastair Brotchie.
Pictorial wrappers. Laminate a little wrinkled on rear panel, else fine.
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London: Atlas Press. First English edition, 2017.
Inside the secret society of Acephale; texts by Roger Caillois, Pierre Klossowski, Michel Leiris ...; illustrations by Andre Masson; edited and introduced by Marina Galletti and Alastair Brotchie; translations by Natasha Lehrer, John Harman and Meyer Barash; 478pp., indexed and illustrated with printed ephemera and photographs of the members.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: W.W. Norton. First American editions, 2015.
Two volumes: The big six, or the six with the most followers, all the primary texts, plus variants, letters, schisms, and commentary: Hinduism, edited by Wendy Doniger; Buddhism, Donald S. Lopez Jr; Daoism, James Robson; Judaism, David Biale; Christianity, Lawrence S. Cunningham; Islam, Jane Dammen McAuliffe; c.4,000+pp., indexed.
Fine in dustwrappers in pictorial slipcase as issued. The two vols.
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Chicago: Big Table Inc. First American editions, 1959-1960.
Issues #1-5, a complete set. Born of the University of Chicago's refusal to publish 'Old Angel Midnight' by Jack Kerouac and 'Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch' by William Burroughs in the 'Chicago Reader', both included in 'Big Table' #1 – suppressed by the Chicago Post Office, the ban overturned by the courts, into print and creating enough momentum for the four issues that followed, containing work by, among many: Antonin Artaud, John Ashbery, Paul Blackburn, Paul Bowles, Edward Dahlberg, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Leon Golub, Franz Kline, Pablo Neruda, 'The New Poets', Frank O'Hara, and Harold Rosenberg; and, from this distance, wonderful period advertising for bookshops, publishers and books; and, appearing contemporaneously with the Penguin Lady Chatterley controversy and trial in London, an indicator of the literature of the decade about to begin.
Pictorial wrappers. Covers rubbed, extremities darkened, remnants of stain to bottom right corner of #1. Good. The five issues
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London: The Folio Society. Reprint, 2010.
The seventeenth century encyclopedia, first published in 1621 and six more editions until 1651. Three volumes: the text of the 1932 edition, edited by Holbrook Jackson, introduction to this edition by Philip Pullman (8pp.), and Holbrook Jackson's from 1932 (11pp.)
Black cloth and marbled boards. Fine as issued without dustwrappers and in printed slipcase with a short nick at the top edge. The three vols.
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London: Thames and Hudson. First English edition, 1974.
Containing 'The Art and the Life' by John Ardoin, 'The Great Years' by Gerald Fitzgerald, and three hundred and six photographs.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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[Lyme Regis]: The artist., nd.
Colouring book: Eleven, elaborate, full page feline inventions ready to colour; signed by the artist.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. Plus 4 mini-colour pencils.
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Catskill, New York: Siglio. First American edition, 2021.
'On April 11, 2020, I sent Steve Beresford a photograph taken that day while walking through the empty streets of London. The official lockdown in response to the coronavirus epidemic had started on March 23, and by then the city was a ghost town. ... I took this picture because the decorative white balls, irregularly placed on the black fence, reminded me of a musical score. Instantly I thought of Steve confined alone in his flat. I texted him the image with the caption 'How would this sound on the piano?' He responded, 'Leave it with me. I'll send you something this evening.'' Twenty compositions facing the twenty photographs that inspired them. Signed by Steve Beresford.
White plastic and printed boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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London: Sylph Editions, the American University in Paris. First English edition, 2022.
The Cahiers Series #39; the author in lockdown investigates 'her experience of Catholic convent schools for some clues as to how each day might be marked as significant'. Signed by Marina Warner.
Plain wrappers, sewn. Fine in dustwrapper with the pictorial wraparound band.
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Nottingham: Trent Editions. First English edition, 2005.
Four collections published in her lifetime, a collected edition assembled in 1943, Edward Thompson, poetry editor of the publisher, dies in 1944, typescripts left among his papers, eventually deposited at the Bodleian Library, and these are the poems; edited and introduction by John Lucas.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: HarperCollins. First English edition, 2002.
Historian and author of the best-selling 'In Xanadu' turns his attention to 'White Mughals', British colonialists who 'went native', in this case East India Company official James Achilles Kirkpatrick, who converted to Islam and married Khair un-Nissa, the teenage great-niece of Hyderabad's prime minister, during a time of increasing British imperialism.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper
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Adelaide: Rigby. Second Australian edition, 1961.
A remote island, a Eugenicist experiment, Linda Henderson's consciousness; first published in 1934.
Pictorial wrappers. Short tear at base of spine, else very good.
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New York: Grossman. First American edition, 1972.
Selected poems of, initially, a Surrealist poet before a change to direct, vernacular poetry; broken off by World War Two, imprisonment in Buchenwald, and death from typhus, soon after liberation, in Terezin, May 1945; illustrations by the author, translations by William Kulik with Carole Frankel.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Atlas Press. First English edition, 2012.
Two novels: 'Liberty or Love!', Sanglot the Corsair pursues Louise Lame in Paris (first published in 1924) and 'Mourning for Mourning', the author's first book, and one of the Surrealists' automatic texts (1924); both translated and introduced by Terry Hale.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications. First English edition, 2017.
Collects poems written between 1915 and 1944, or from age fifteen to his death from typhus in Terezin death camp in 1945; arranged chronologically and in the categories of the title, parallel text for all the poetry; translated and introduced by Timothy Ades who has inscribed this copy; 500+pp.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Sheffield: RGAP. First English edition, 2011.
Ten essays / memoirs, contributors include: Dawn Ades, Paul Hammond, Gail Earnshaw and Michael Richardson; a miscellany of 'Earnshaviana' (19pp.), collected writings (26pp.); illustrated throughout in colour by the subject's works; chronology, bibliography.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 2009.
Leonid Eitingon, Max Eitingon, and Motty Eitingon, stir in their connections with the assassination of Trotsky, friendship with Freud, relations with the KGB and FBI and, for the author, family members to get to know; a non-fiction version of a William Boyd novel.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Virago. First English edition, 2010.
Dramas in the Dickinson family, the title is from a line of the poet's, 'My Life has stood - a Loaded Gun'
Fine in dustwrapper
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London: The Grey Walls Press. First English edition, 1946.
The second of three volumes of autobiography beginning, 'This book is about me, for the most part a human being like yourself. If you don't like the kind of mirror that throws you back at yourself in an odd, perhaps too truthful way don't read this.' Inscribed to Derek Patmore, the English novelist, in 1948.
Very good in dustwrapper darkened around perimeter.
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London: Allen Lane. Reprint, 2022.
Harold Gillies' work of reconstructive and plastic surgery on 'the human wreckage from the Front'; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Melbourne: Text. First Australian edition, 2005.
Along the Hawkesbury River during the second decade of the nineteenth century; inscribed by the author in 2006.
Extremities faintly tanned, no lettering on the spine, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Henningham Family Press. First English edition, 2019.
Animism among the everyday combined with DIY to make a lover; organised by the season and illustrated by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons. First English edition, 1964.
Or 'Something that has been, or might have been, inscribed upon a tomb'; a small selection, including George Herbert on Henry Danvers, Alexander Pope on Simon Harcourt, Sir Henry Newbolt on the Battle of Spine Kop during the Boer War; woodcuts by Pamela Hughes.
Plain wrappers, sewn. Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Boar's Head Press. First American edition, 1953.
Casting a long shadow over twentieth and twenty-first century literature: 'King Turd', 'King Turd Enslaved' and 'Turd Cuckolded', 'Ubu Roi' complete in English for the first time; translation by Beverley Keith and Gershon Legman; preface, the speech by the author before the first performance, Paris 1896; dedicated to Marcel Schwob.
A little edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. First American paperback edition, 2015.
The life of a man 'intent on inventing (and destroying) himself' and most everything else while he was at it; inscribed with 'Pataphysical Greetings' by the author; first published in 2011.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Panther. First English paperback edition, 1968.
A three-week voyage on the Barents Sea with the author's consciousness along for the trip; B.S. Johnson's third novel.
Pictorial wrappers. Owner signature. Extremities evenly tanned. Very good.
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London: Trigram Press. First English paperback edition, 1972.
'These poems were written between 1964 and 1971. While I am reasonably (even over-) prolific in other forms of writing, I manage so few poems that it was seven years or so ... before I have enough for a collection.'
Pictorial wrappers. Near fine.
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London: Hutchinson. First English edition, 1973.
Nine pieces written between 1960 and 1973; introduction, 22pp., by the author.
Offsetting to prelims, else very good in dustwrapper with a couple of nicks
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Lans-en-Vercors, France: Locus Solus., 1961-1962.
Issues #1-4 (of five published) in three volumes. The pull of Europe and its Literature for another generation of American poets and writers, many from the New York school who brought with them their love of collaborations; contributors include: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Edwin Denby, Larry Rivers, Diane di Prima; Paul Eluard and Yves Tanguy, Andre Breton and Rene Char; three long installments of 'The Conversions' by Harry Mathews; and two poems by Ern Malley.
Printed wrappers. Covers a little marked. Extremities dusty. Very good. The three volumes
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Highlands, North Carolina: The Jargon Society. First American edition, 1982.
Born in London in 1882, arriving in Paris in 1900, then back to London, Paris, Florence, New York, back and forth, New York, Aspen, dies 1966; two collections published in her lifetime, this 'the closest we will ever get to the Collected' (Robert Conover) and containing: 'Early Poems: 1914-1925', 'Satires: 1914-1923', 'Love Songs: 1915-1917', 'Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose: 1923-1925', 'Later Poems: 1930-1950', previously unpublished, 'Didactic, Polemical and Prescriptive Writings' (including first publication of 'Feminist Manifesto', written in Florence in 1914), 'Profiles and Interviews', and 'Ready Mades', 330+pp; edited, introduced (45pp.), chronology and textual notes by Robert L. Conover, note by Jonathan Williams, illustrated with photographs; Jargon #53, signed by Conover and Williams.
Spots of foxing top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. First American edition, 2023.
Exhibition catalogue: Essays by Ann Lauterbach, Roger Conover, Dawn Ades (who has signed this copy) and the editor; poems and other writings by Mina Loy, including the highly provocative, posthumously published 'Feminist Manifesto' addressed to women 'on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval ... the lies of centuries have got to go ... there is no half measure ... No scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition will bring about reform, the only method is absolute demolition'; illustrated throughout by her artworks.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 2010.
Ten stories, spanning his entire writing career, and including 'The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga' – written when he was 14; short introduction by the author; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Greenwich, CT: Fawcett. Reprint, 1962.
A radioactive cloud engulfs Scott Carey, causing him to shrink half an inch per day until microscopic; a classic sci-fi fantasy about one man's psychological emasculation; adapted into one of the highest-grossing science fiction films of the 1950s with an appropriate qualifier added to the title.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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London: Fourth Estate. First English edition, 2007.
Letters between the sisters plaited together to fashion a family history not unconnected with the events of the twentieth century; signed by Charlotte Mosley and Deborah Devonshire, the one surviving sister at the time of publication; illustrated, indexed, 800+pp.
Fine in dustwrapper. Invitation to the launch and clippings laid in.
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Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books. First English edition, 1996.
'Contemporary Poems of Bereavement', grief and other emotions, the questions we ask ourselves to make sense of it all, and a reminder that others have suffered loss and survived. The contributors, both uncomfortable and comforting, include: Sharon Olds, Frances Horowitz, Philip Hodgins, Elizabeth Jennings, Edmind Jabes, Seamus Heaney, Charles Bukowski, Anna Akhmatova, Federico Garcia Lorca, Peter Porter and Les Murray; introductions by the editors, foreword by Dr. Irene Higginson; indexes of poets, translators, titles, and first lines, 300+pp; inscribed to Judy Gascoyne by Agneta Falk.
Pictorial wrappers. Book label of David and Judy Gascoyne. Very good.
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London: Belmont Press. First English edition, 2002.
First separate edition, originally published in 'The New Yorker'. Jonathan Franzen's award-winning memoir of his father's death in the 'slow motion way of Alzheimer's'; #81/200 copies, signed by the author.
Blue corrugated wrappers, sewn. Fine.
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Camberwell, Vic: Viking. First Australian edition, 2007.
After a diagnosis, three sections: Donald Horne's journal co-written with Myfanwy Horne, 'Requiem' by Myfanwy Horne, and 'A Last Look Around: Essays and Talking Points' – ten pieces by Donald Horne collecting his last thoughts on contemporary dilemmas such as the Iraq War, anti-Americanism and the meaning of democracy.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Koln: Taschen. First edition, 2013.
A Grand Tour of the natural world, 500+pp; editing, concept and design by Lelia Wanick Salgado, foreword by the photographer; booklet (34pp.), laid in at rear identifying all the subjects of the images, biography of the photographer, exhibitions etc.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Thames and Hudson. First English edition, 1994.
Eugene Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Robert Frank are the pillars of this recontexualised pantheon; inside, the work of many others in two hundred and sixty-one reproductions, eight in colour.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Brooklyn, NY: PowerHouse Books. First American edition, 2011.
A secret oeuvre, history, the street, its inhabitants and the photographer as her subjects; over one hundred reproductions; foreword by Geoff Dyer.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Thames and Hudson. First American edition, 2012.
Exhibition catalogue: Retrospective exhibition after the photographer's death in 2006, tracking high end portraiture through sixty years of the twentieth century: artists, authors, gallery dealers, architects, dancers etc; see adjacent image; essays by Arthur Ollman, David Coleman, and two by the curator; biographies of the subjects by Corinne Currat; two hundred and ten reproductions, twenty-two in colour.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Viking. First English edition, 2015.
A nation's history via its art, aka 'The Nation Through Its Portraits', the catalogue of the BBC series; 600pp., illustrated throughout, indexed.
Pictorial boards. Fine in printed dustwrapper
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London: Enitharmon Press. First English edition, 2004.
'Poems Celebrating the Wireless', the warmest of the hot media; contributors include: Bertolt Brecht, Philip Larkin, Derek Mahon, Eleanor Farjeon, Seamus Heaney, Peter Porter and D.H. Lawrence; introduction by the editor, preface by Jenny Abramsky; inscribed to Judy Gascoyne by Sean Street, the collection 'in memory of David Gascoyne'.
Pictorial wrappers. Book label of David and Judy Gascoyne. Fine.
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New York: Richard L.Feigen. First American edition, 1992.
Exhibition catalogue: 'The Lewis Carroll of painting', favourite of the French, then American surrealists during the 1920s and 1930s; introduction by Frances F.L.Beatty, memoir by the publisher and Billy Wilder; statement by the artist; eighteen black and white reproductions.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Book label of David and Judy Gascoyne. Errata slip and colour postcard, adjacent image, laid in. A couple of marks on covers, very good.
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Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago. First American edition, 2017.
Exhibition catalogue: 'Soviet Art Put to the Test': revolutionary and 1920s art organised into: 'School', 'Press', Theatre', 'Home Storefront', 'Factory', 'Festival', 'Exhibition' and 'Demonstration'; essays and reproductions for each, checklist, bibliography; two hundred and ninety-five reproductions.
Fine in dustwrapper with a tiny nick at the crown of the spine.
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London: Atlas Press. First English illustrated edition, 2017.
Fifty-four pieces, divided into three main categories: 'Written for Performance' and 'Written for Publication' and 'Private Writings' and including 'Childish Prattle ...', 'Book-loving', 'On Dizziness', 'The Musician's Day', 'Hidden Corners of My Life'; edited and introduced by Ornella Volta, translations by Antony Melville; catalogue of the author's literary and musical works; first published in the Atlas Arkhive series in 1996, illustrations from the archives of the Erik Satie Foundation.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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London: Frederick Muller. First English edition, 1944.
Responses to seventy per cent of the earth's surface; contributors include: Homer, Ovid, William Blake, Henry Kendall, Christina Rossetti ...; illustrations by Mona Moore.
Very good in dustwrapper missing a small piece from the base of the spine.
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London: Atlas Press. First English edition, 2016.
A classic of meditational travel writing, beginning, 'I have always tended to assume that tales such as this one are rather suspect or fanciful ...'; along the Chinese Tibetan border towards the end of World War One; 'Equipee', first published in 1929, translation and introduction by Natasha Lehrer; Atlas Anti-Classics #23.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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London: J.M. Dent and Sons. Second edition revised, 1965.
'... and how to acquire it'. A much needed self-help book: chapters on 'The Theory of Good Handwriting', 'How to Improve Your Handwriting', 'Materials and Tools', 'A Historical Survey of Written Letters' ...; poignantly illustrated.
Printed wrappers. Bookplate, else fine.
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Boston, MA: MIT Press. First American edition, 1983.
October #25, the complete issue. The significance of the representation, and obscuring, of Christ's genitals in European Art from the Renaissance onwards; two hundred and forty-six reproductions; first publication of the author's groundbreaking study: a new course through European Art museums and churches.
Printed wrappers. Perimeter a little darkened, else fine.
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East Hampton, NY: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. First American edition, 2000.
First exhibition of these two series of early work produced in 1976: 'Bus riders' (fifteen prints) and 'Murder Mystery People' (seventeen); cd by The Glove Compartment, laid in at rear, designed to be played while reading the catalogue; signed by Cindy Sherman on the title page.
Pictorial boards. All fine, as issued without dustwrapper. 1,000 copies.
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London: The Swedenborg Society. First English edition, 2018.
Revised transcript of a talk given by the author in 2009, 'My neurosis persists: the only ways worth negotiating with this world, while still hoping to connect with the rhythms of the cosmos, are by walking and swimming.'
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Edinburgh: Privately printed at the Tragara Press. First English edition, 1984.
'Facts about his life are muddied by speculation. Rumours blur discernible outlines. The picture will probably always remain unclear. Let us see if we can uncover, though, a fragment of the original canvas. His obsession with erotica he hardly bothered to suppress ...'; text of a talk given at The Society in London, 16 March 1984 by the subject's bibliographer; 1/85 numbered copies (total edition 110) printed on W S Vellum.
Plain wrappers. Fine in printed dustwrapper.
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Sydney: State Library of New South Wales. First Australian paperback edition, 1991.
Sydney, 1925-1950, 'through the eyes of Sam Hood and His Studio'; one hundred and seventeen reproductions, all captioned, most full page; and all of 'Sydney Town'; signed by Alan Davies.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Pymble, NSW: Simon and Schuster. First Australian edition, 2004.
'A Middle Harbour Memoir' or the combination of water, bushland and proximity to the city, unique to Sydney; illustrated, map; inscribed by the author in the year of publication.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Peter Owen. First English edition, 1989.
Posthumous festschrift for Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (1915-1983), writer, founder of 'Poetry London', Editions Poetry London and Lyrebird Press; contributors include: Michael Hamburger, John Lehmann, Timothy Leary, David Gascoyne, Lawrence Durrell, Iris Murdoch, work and letters by Tambimuttu, for other contributors see adjacent image; a checklist of 'Poetry London'; photographs; Kathleen Raine consultant editor, introduction by Robin Waterfield; 1,000cc.
Book label of David and Judy Gascoyne. Faint foxing to top edge, very good in dustwrapper with a small piece detached from the top left corner of the front panel loose in the book.
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Oxford: Oxford University Press. Second edition with corrections, 2003.
Holidays, holy days, anniversaries, names for the months etc: entries for each day of the year; indexed, 950+pp; our endless shot at making time real.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Atlas Press. First English edition, 2018.
'A whirlwind romance', illustrated by the author; translated and introduced by Andrew Hodgson; first published in France in 1978 and, according to the translator, 'Topor again addresses the horrors of social alienation via his staple themes of 'le sang, la merde et le sexe'.'
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Bristol, UK: Bristol Classical Press. First English edition, 1989.
Quite a lineup, including: Charlotte Mew, Stevie Smith, Elizabeth Jennings, Kathleen Raine, Geoffrey Chaucer, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath and Edward Lear; foreword by John Fowles, introduction by the editors, 'The intention of this book is to present evidence of our deep cultural need for trees and woods and to inspire people to take care of them.'
Pictorial wrappers. Book label of David and Judy Gascoyne. Very good.
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London: The Folio Society. Reprint, 2013.
Thoughts on war from China in the fifth century BC; translation, introduction and commentary by Roger T. Ames first published in 1993; preface by Rupert Smith; booklet containing Chinese and English text for the complete treatise laid in.
Black cloth and printed crushed silk. Fine without dustwrapper as issued in original slipcase.
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Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon Press. First American trade edition, 1979.
'They are a record of a series of friends in the arts with faces too interesting to be missed even by a poet on the run'; thirty tipped-in colour prints with text re the subject on facing page; subjects include: Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton, R.B. Kitaj, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, Christopher Logue, Dorothy Brett; 1/1800 numbered copies.
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London: Coracle. First English edition, 1989.
Sixtieth birthday celebrations, March 8th, 1989, for the 'poet, publisher, photographer, topologist, essayist, champion of the wild, wonderful and ignored ...'; poetry, prose, illustrations; contributors include Sandra Fisher, Eric Mottram, R.B. Kitaj, Basil Bunting, Edwin Morgan, Charles Tomlinson, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Simon Cutts and John Seed; designed by Colin Sackett.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: Abbeville Press. First American edition, 1994.
Illustrated history of women behind the camera, 1840 onwards, two hundred and sixty plates, most full page; organised chronologically, followed by short biographies of two hundred and forty photographers including: Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, Mary Ellen Mark, Susan Meiselas, Lisette Model and Hannah Hoch; indexed, 356pp.
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London: Atlas Press. First English edition, 2020.
Five autobiographical prose pieces, 'One night in the sixth year of her life a dream conducts her behind the tall mirror which hangs on a mahogany frame on the wall of her room. This mirror becomes an open door ...'; translation, notes and introduction by Malcolm Green; first published in France in 1971; Atlas Anti-Classics #25.
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