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WILDE, Oscar (1854–1900). The Importance of Being Earnest. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. 4to. xvi, 151, [1]pp. (Light browning and occasional sp...

FORE-EDGE PAINTED BOOK OF HOURS. MAZZINELLI, Alessandro (1671-1741). Officio della B V Maria per tutti i tempi dell' anno… Dedicato alli Gloriosis...

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION. CHARLEMAGNE, Théophile Lefebvre (1811-1860) and others. Voyage en Abyssinie exécuté pendant les années 1839, 1840, 1841, 184...

HMS VICTORY - PHOTOGRAPH.  An early monochrome photograph of the ship in water, [c.1880?]. Pasted onto board and annotated on the verso in blue pe...

RIPA, Cesare (1560–1645). Iconologia… ampliata dal Sig. Cav. Gio. Zaratino Castellini romano. Venice: Nicolò Pezzana, 1669. 4to. 3 parts in one, t...

Album di stampe antiche [19th century]. Folio. An account book reused as a scrapbook album displaying woodcut and engraved fragments in back and r...

HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013). Midsummer Feast. Oldham: Incline Press, 2002. 8vo. Publisher's quarter green cloth with marbled boards. LIMITED EDITIO...

ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965). The Cocktail Party. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1950. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth with red and blue dust-jacket (clot...

POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000). A Buyer's Market. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1952. 8vo. (Light browning). Publisher's red cloth with black and o...

EROTICA - Including: COUSINS Sheila's To beg I am ashamed (London: The Obelisk Press, 1938). FIRST EDITION. GINZBURG Ralph's An unhurried view of ...

LA BERN, Arthur (1909-1990). Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square. London: W. H. Auden, 1966. 8vo. Publisher's black/grey cloth with blac...

J. MACLAREN-ROSS. The stuff to give the troops. Twenty-five Tales of Army Life. London: Jonathan Cape, 1944. 8vo (paste-downs slightly spotted). O...

A small selection of first edition novels (some SIGNED), including John UPDIKE's Bech at bay. A quasi novel (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998). Han...

SURREALISM - Including Paul ILIE's The Surrealist Mode in Spanish Literature ([US]: The University of Michigan Press, 1968). Jean GENET's Miracle ...

DU MAURIER, Daphne (1907-89). Rebecca. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1948. 8vo. (Occasional light spotting). Publisher's green cloth (light stainin...

BOLAN, Marc (1947-1977). The Warlock of Love. [No place]: Lupus Music, 1969. 8vo. (Occasional light spotting). Publisher's monochrome photographic...

LITERATURE- A quantity of novels including: D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (Privately Printed, 1929). George ORWELL's The road to Wigan ...

WELSH, Irvine (1958-). Trainspotting. [No place]: Minerva, 1993. 8vo. Original monochrome photographic wrappers. SIGNED by Welsh on the title page...

HUGHES, Ted (1930-98). Prometheus on his Crag. 21 poems by Ted Hughes with a Drawing by Leonard Baskin. London: The Rainbow Press, 1973. Publisher...

CRISP, Quentin (1908-99). How to Have A Life-Style. London: Cecil Woolf, 1978. 8vo. (Occasional light spotting). Publisher's green cloth and pink ...

CAPOTE, Truman (1924-84). In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965. 8vo. (Occasional light spotting). Publisher's red cloth with black and whit...

ART- A collection of works including: De Chirico by de Chirico. New York: The New York Cultural Centre, 1972. Folio. Original grey/black & white p...

SURREALISM- Including: Samuel Beckett's Molloy (Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955). FIRST EDITION. Samuel Beckett's Come and Go. (London, 1967). Prov...

ISHERWOOD, Christopher (1904-86). Christopher and His Kind. London: Eyre Methuen, 1977. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth and brown/orange, sepia photo...

EROTICA - Including: Carlson Wade's She-Male The Sex-Reversal True Life Story of Coccinelle. (New York: Epic Publishing Co., Inc. 1963). FIRST EDI...

MELLY, George (1926-2007). Owning-Up. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965. 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth with red, yellow, black and white picto...

CRISP, Quentin (1908-99). The Naked Civil Servant. [London]: Fontana/Collins, 1977. 8vo. (staining to at the margin/gutter throughout). Publisher'...

ART - A collection of works including: Herve Delabarre's Les dits du sire de Baradel.  Éditions Peralta, Ussel, 1968. 4to.  10 illustrations (fron...

LOOS, Anita (1889-1981). Kiss Hollywood Good By. New York: The Viking Press, 1974. 8vo. Publiusher's quarter purple cloth with yellow/orange board...

PULP FICTION - [c.1950's-60]. A collection of works including: Erich Kuby's Rosemarie (USA, 1960). Jack LAIT and Lee MORTIMER's Chicago Confidenti...

SURREALISM - A collection of works including: Marcel Jean's The History of Surrealist Painting. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1960) and Moscou ...

PHOTOGRAPHY - A collection of works including: Henri Cartier-Bresson Photoportraits. (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985). David Douglas Duncan's The...

PHOTOGRAPHY - A collection of books including works relating to Bill Brandt, Edward Weston, Dr. Paul Wolff and Adolf Morath, including some erotic...

LITERATURE - A collection of works including: Salman Rushdie's Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies. [US]: Pantheon, 1994. 8vo. 14pp. [Promotional cha...

PHOTOGRAPHY- A small quantity of books on photography including: Jim DINE's Birds (Göttingen: Steidl, 2001): Commonsensual. The works of Rut Blees...

PHOTOGRAPHY- A small quantity of books on photography including: Sophie CALLE's Prenez soin de vous. Take care of Yourself (Arles: Actes Sud, 2007...

EROTICA - A small quantity of works including: Baron Wolman's Groupies And Other Electric Ladies ([No place]: Iconic Images Fine Art Archives Publ...

STEADMAN, Ralph (1936-); Adrian MITCHELL.  Who Killed Dylan Thomas? Swansea: Ty Llen Publications, [n.d]. Folio. Original red and brown/grey picto...

WOODMAN, Betty (1930-). Betty Woodman. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2006. Oblong 4to. Colour photographic plates throughout. Publisher's colour ...

LITERARY MISCELLANY- WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). A Writer's Diary. London: The Hogarth Press, 1953. 8vo. (Occasional light spotting). Publisher's...

LITERARY MISCELLANY - Including: Tennessee Williams' Un Tramway Nomme Desir adapte par Jean Cocteau. [Paris?]: Bordas, 1949. 8vo. (Occasional ligh...

GERSON, Jean (1363-1429). Opera. Secunda pars. [Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1494]. Folio. 258 ff., Gothic type, text on double column, 53 lines plus...

BAYLE, Pierre (1647-1706). A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical... edited by John Peter Bernard, Thomas Birch and John Lockman. London: J...

CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947). The Diary of a Drug Fiend. London: W. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1922. 8vo. (Occasional light spotting). Publisher's...

BEATON, Cecil (1904-80). The Wandering Years Diaries: 1922-1939. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1961. 8vo. (Occasional light spotting). Publish...

NELSON, Horatio (1758-1805). A clipped signature SIGNED 'Nelson Bronte', pasted onto a engraving of Nelson. (Signature page browned, engraving bro...

GUNTHER, John (1901-70). Inside Russia Today. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. 8vo. Original red cloth (no dust-jacket, lightly rubbed). PRESENTATIO...

THE PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR. [WHISTLER, Rex (1905-44)].  ["Celebrations at End of South African War"]. An original pen-and-ink drawing by Rex Whi...

[WHISTLER, Rex (1905-44)].  ["Dick Turpin sometimes haunts the passages of 'The [?]Sun'!" (title taken from inscription on the gallery label on ve...

WHISTLER, Rex (1904-44, illustrator) - Jonathan SWIFT (1667-1745).  Gulliver's Travels. London: THE CRESSET PRESS, 1930. 2 volumes, folio (360 x 2...

WHISTLER, Rex (1904-44, illustrator) - Simon HARCOURT-SMITH (1906-82). The Last of Uptake or The Estranged Sisters. London: B. T. Batsford, 1942. ...

WHISTLER, Rex (1904-44, illustrator) - Walter DE LA MARE (1873-1956).  The Lord Fish. London: Faber & Faber, [1933]. Large 8vo (208 x 140mm). Half...

WHISTLER, Rex (1904-44, illustrator) - Elizabeth GODLEY.  Green Outside. London: Chatto and Windus, [1931]. 4to (207 x 155mm). Half title, coloure...

WHISTLER, Rex (1904-44) - EPHEMERA & printed material. "In Aid of the Royal Northern Hospital. The Four Georges Loan Exhibition of Pictures (Gain...

WHISTLER, Rex (1905-44) - Frank SWETTENHAM (1850-1946). Arabella in Africa. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1925. 8vo. Half title, fron...

WHISTLER, Rex (1905-44) & Laurence WHISTLER (1912-2000), and others - Laurence WHISTLER. Children of Hertha and Other Poems. Oxford: Printed for ...

GREGYNOG PRESS - Colin SEE-PAYNTON (b. 1946).  Of a Feather. Avian Collective Nouns & Terms of Assembly, Group Names & Associated Terms ... with a...

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