Window Shopping in Fulham Road: January 2016

Jan 14, 2016 | Uncategorized

Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display  changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.

Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk

ARCHER, Leonard C.
Black Images in the American Theatre. NAACP Protest Campaigns – Stage, Screen, Radio & Television. – BOOK SOLD
Brooklyn: Pageant-Poseidon Ltd., 1973
Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. 18 pages of illustrations. Light toning, else very good in slightly rubbed and spotted jacket with a few small chips and short edge-splits.
First edition. Inscribed by Archer, “To Lena Horne with deep appreciation for your personal principles which added pages to Black Images in the American Theatre, sincerely Leonard C. Archer, 1976.” Horne features extensively in the text. Archer was professor of Speech and English at Tennessee State University.
£120     £60

ASHCROFT, Michael.
Victoria Cross Heroes. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales – BOOK SOLD
London: Headline, 2007
Octavo. Original burgundy boards, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. 16 plates. Very good in jacket.
First edition. Signed by the author/collector. The remarkable stories behind the award of a selection of VCs from the finest collection in the world.
£50      £25

ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam.
Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. With Adventures among the Mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks; the Hunting and Pastoral Tribes. Second Edition – BOOK SOLD
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1861
Large octavo (249 × 150 mm) original pinkish purple sand-grained cloth, embossed, title elaborately gilt to the spine and to the upper board together with a large illustrative gilt block “The Dangerous Ride.” Tinted lithographic frontispiece and numerous engraved illustrations to the text, large folding map at the rear. Slightly rubbed, spine sunned, corners a little bumped, front hinges just started, else a very bright copy.
Second edition, issued the year after the first. Having trained as a stonemason, Atkinson became an architect carrying out some highly accomplished commissions in the Manchester area. Around 1844 “inspired by Alexander von Humboldt’s accounts of Siberia, Atkinson then moved to St Petersburg …There, in 1846, he abandoned architecture as a profession for the pursuits of an explorer and topographical artist. Between March and November 1847 he travelled to the Urals, the Kirgiz steppes, and Altai Mountains …Between 1848 and 1853 he travelled extensively in the Russian orient, gathering much geographical and geological information. During this time he produced over 500 water-colours of the landscapes and peoples, some of them 5 or 6 feet square …After his return to Britain, an exhibition of Atkinson’s Siberian and Chinese Tartar scenes was held in 1856 at Colnaghi’s Gallery, London. Some of these were lithographed and published in his narratives of his travels.” (ODNB) He died in 1861, the Athenaeum describing him in their obituary as “the type of an artistic traveller, thin, lithe, and sinewy, with a wrist like a rock and an eye like a poet’s; manner singularly gentle, and air which mingled entreaty with command.”
Howgego, II, A18; Czech p.15; Yakushi A112. 
£475     £238

BALLIETT, Whitney.
New York Voices. Fourteen Portraits by …
Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2006
Octavo. Original charcoal grey cloth, title in silver to the spine. With the jacket. Very good in unclipped jacket.
First edition, first printing. This copy inscribed to Berklee instructor, composer and arranger Bob Friedman; “For Bob Friedman a long-time admirer of Magda and Jon Schueler and a sort of cohort of mine. Whitney Balliett, April 7, ’06.” Amongst the 14 portraits offered here is one of abstract artist Schueler and his art historian wife Magda Salvesen. Additionally signed on the half-title.
£150      

BOLAN, Marc.
Lyric Book – BOOK SOLD
London: Essex Music International Limited, 1972
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Text printed in brown on pink paper. 8 illustrations from photographs. First gathering loose but still bound in. Wrappers a little rubbed at the extremities. A very good copy.
First edition, first impression. Scarce.
£75     £38

BROONZY, William “Big Bill.”
Big Bill Blue. William Broonzy’s Story as told to Yannick Bruynoghe – BOOK SOLD
London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1955
Octavo. Original brown cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 8 other plates, vignette to title page, and 3 section titles with full-page illustrations from line-drawings by Paul Oliver. Light toning, else very good indeed in slightly rubbed jacket with some chipping at the head of the spine.
First edition. This copy signed by Broonzy on the front free endpaper. Ghosted autobiography of the highly influential Chicago blues artist. He recorded prolifically in the 30s and 40s, and in the 50s became part of the folk revival, touring extensively in America and in Europe. An uncommon book, and an extremely uncommon signature.
£1,500      £1,005

BULLARD, Robert Lee.
Personalities and Reminiscences of the War – BOOK SOLD
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1925
Octavo. Original dark blue combed cloth, title gilt to the spine, and signature block to the upper board, top edge gilt, the others uncut. With the dust jacket. Very good in slightly rubbed, chipped and soiled – but largely complete and not unattractive – jacket.
First edition. Memoirs of commander of US 1st Division, 3rd Corps and finally the 2nd Army, from the arrival of the Americans to the Final Advance. The jacket blurb explains that when extracts were published in the press prior to publication “they created a sensation … for Bullard neither spares feelings nor begrudges praise” Falls concurs, and expands; ” … it is really good, and particularly valuable because of the author’s candid, though generally good-natured character sketches of the famous men, both French & American, with whom he was brought into contact … As a general view of the War held by an intelligent and instructed American soldier, his book is of value …” This copy inscribed by Bullard on the front free endpaper, “For a dear friend and old comrade A.C. Arnold. Robert E. Bullard, Lieut. Genl.” Albert C. “AC” Arnold fought against the British in the Boer War; joined the Seventh Cavalry as a trooper; spent time as a riverboat gambler; and fought beside Brigadier General John J. Pershing on the Mexico Punitive Expedition. In World War I he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for actions with the 1/326 Infantry at Château-Thierry.
Falls * p. 185.
£125     £63

BURTON, Richard F.
Etruscan Bologna: A Study. BOOK SOLD
London, Smith Elder & Co., 1876
Octavo. Original blue cloth, device to upper board gilt, key motif to boards in black and blind, titles to spine gilt. Illustrated throughout, one folding plate. Errata slip present. Some minor spotting to text, spine a little rubbed and lightly tanned. An excellent copy however particularly tight and clean.
First Edition. Hardly common in this condition.
£500     £250

BYRON, Robert.
First Russia Then Tibet – BOOK SOLD
Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1933
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 24 plates. Ownership inscription partially erased from front free endpaper. Light bubbling to cloth, spotting to edges and occasionally to contents. A very good copy in the rubbed jacket with two small marks on the upper panel, nicks to the corners, and tanned spine panel.
First edition, in a remainder binding with the Macmillan’s Miscellany dust jacket.
£750      £503

(CHAPLIN, Charlie) MINNEY, R. J.
Chaplin. The Immortal Tramp. The Life and Work of Charles Chaplin – BOOK SOLD
London: George Newnes Limited, 1954
Octavo. Original fuchsia cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. 48 pages of illustrations from photographs and film stills. Pencil note to front flap of jacket. Light partial toning to free endpapers, spotting to edges of contents. An excellent copy in the rubbed jacket with a crease and a nick to the lower panel.
First edition, first impression.
£65      £33

(CURRAN, Jim) KRAUCH, Elsa.
A Mind restored. The Story of Jim Curran. Introduction by William Seabrook – BOOK SOLD
New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1937
Octavo. Original grey cloth lettered in yellow, in dust jacket. Light marginal browning, else very good, dust jacket rubbed and with a few splits and minor tears, but largely complete.
First Edition. “The story of a successful businessman who became just psychotic enough so that he failed in his work, lost all his money, and largely for lack of money for board, had to live in a mental hospital.”
Original receipt for purchase and shipping to the children’s author Oliver Roberts Barton loosely inserted. Later ink ownership stamp of Saul Rosenzweig, psychologist and the founder of the Common Factors Movement in psycho-therapeutics.
Hornstein p.9; Alvarez pp.264-8
£65      £33

EISENSCHIML, Otto, & E. B. Long.
As Luck would have it. Chance and Coincidence in the Civil War – BOOK SOLD
Indianapolis & New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948
Octavo, original plum buckram, titled in gilt on spine and upper board. In the dust jacket. Plans to the text. Light marginal toning, else very good indeed in unclipped jacket.
First edition. Study of the rôle of the aleatoric in the American Civil War. Eisenschiml, an industrial chemist, is best remembered as the controversial author of Was Lincoln murdered? which posited an assassination plot masterminded by Secretary of War Stanton. Long began his career as a journalist and editor in Chicago, became an independent scholar of the War, and ended as the much-respected professor of American Studies at the University of Wyoming.
£120     £60

FARRER, James Anson.
Zululand and the Zulus: Their History, Beliefs, Customs, Military System, Home Life, Legends, etc., etc., and Missions to them. Third Edition. BOOK SOLD
London: Kerby & Endean, 1879
Duodecimo. Original orange printed paper-covered boards. Somewhat rubbed, and rounded at the corners, joints slightly cracked, light browning, contemporary ownership/gift inscription to the title page, owner’s ink-stamp to the half-title, Munger Africana Library blind stamp to the title page, but overall very good.
One of four editions published in 1879, none subsequently. A work of compilation, but an extremely timely one in a handy format which would have placed it in the pockets of many officers travelling out to Natal. “’This little volume was published during the war with the Zulus under Cetywayo, and gives a résumé of the history of the country from the time of Chaka.” (Mendelssohn) It is a reference work, and is fragile, and consequently decidedly uncommon. Farrer was a miscellaneous author who wrote a biography of Adam Smith; studies of literary forgeries and of censorship; but is probably best known for his contribution to the development of a more scientific approach to the study of folklore.
Mendelssohn I, p. 536; Hosken, p. 69.
£750      £503

FORAN, W R.
The Kenya Police, 1887-1960. Foreword by R.C. Catling… Commissioner, Kenya Police – BOOK SOLD
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1962
Octavo. Original dark blue boards, title in silver to the spine. In the dust jacket, slightly trimmed down from insertion into old protective sleeve. 32 plates, 2 double-page maps. Slight tape marking to boards and endpapers, jacket trimmed as noted, else a very good copy.
“An excellent history, giving uniform coverage for the entire period. Foran was a police officer in Kenya for many years, and he is thought to have had access to official archives and files while compiling this account.” That the Government of Kenya are the copyright holders, would seem to confirm this last comment. This copy with gift inscription from the author on a slip of paper mounted on the front free endpaper. Clipped review of this “fascinating history of the Kenya Police” from the East African Standard loosely inserted.
Perkins p.279.
£200      £100

GARON, Paul.
The Devil’s Son-in-Law. The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw and his Songs – BOOK SOLD
London: Studio Vista, 1971
Octavo. Original brown boards, title in silver to the spine. With the dust jacket. Illustrations to the text. A very good copy in slightly rubbed, unclipped, jacket.
First edition, first impression. An uncommon title in the influential “Blues Paperbacks” series, here in the more desirable, and highly anomalous, hardback issue. This copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

£125      £63

GIBBON, Monk.
The Tales of Hoffmann. A Study of the Film
London: Saturn Press, 1951
Quarto. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and decoration to upper board in copper. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and illustrations from photos throughout. Light tanning to edges of boards, contents very slightly toned. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with tanned spine panel.
First edition, first impression.
£175     £88

GILBERT, W. S.
Savoy Operas Iolanthe and the Operas. With Illustrations in Colour by W. Russell Flint – BOOK SOLD
London: George Bell & Sons, 1909 & 10
2 volumes, quarto. Original cloth, titles to spines and upper boards gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 31 plates with printed tissue guards in each volume Small pencilled ownership inscription to each front free endpaper. Slightly rubbed and bumped at extremities, spines a little faded, hinges cracked, some light spotting to contents. A very good set.
First editions, first impressions.
£475

GOFFIN, Robert.
Louis Armstrong. Le Roi du Jazz – BOOK SOLD
Paris: Éditions Pierre Seghers, 1947
Octavo. Original pictorial card wraps. 12 plates. Wraps slightly rubbed, marginal toning.
First edition. Goffin was a Belgian lawyer, poet and author, a Stormy Petrel of the Nazi invasion, who fled to the USA in 1939. In 1932 he had published Aux Frontières du Jazz., one of the earliest serious analyses of the jazz, and contributed “The Best Negro Jazz Orchestra,” translated by Beckett, to Nancy Cunard’s Negro anthology. In exile he supported himself by his writings, including a number of novels on the Nazi occupation of Belgium – La Colombe de la Gestapo and Passeports pour l’Audelà – and lectures, in 1942 collaborating with Leonard Feather to teach what is considered the first course ever on jazz history and analysis, held at the New School for Social Research in New York City
£95     £48

GOULD, Stephen J.
Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes – BOOK SOLD
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983
Octavo. Original green cloth backed white boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Boards very slightly rubbed with a small spot to the upper board. An excellent copy in the very fresh dust jacket.
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half title. A lovely copy. The third collected volume of essays from Gould’s long-running column in Natural History Magazine.
£150

GREEN, Benny.
Fifty-eight minutes to London – BOOK SOLD
London: MacGibbon & Kee 1969
Octavo. Original dun boards, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Very slight fade at the edges of the boards, the consequence of slight rolling of the edge of the jacket, but a very good copy indeed.
First edition. A novel set during the summer season in Brighton, as seen by a group of aspiring jazz musicians. Green’s second novel, and really quite uncommon, particularly in such sharp condition.
£150     £75

HALLPIKE, C. R.
The Konso of Ethiopia. A Study of the Values of a Cushitic People 
The Clarendon Press, London, 1972
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Top edge dusty otherwise near fine, dust jacket lightly faded to spine, otherwise near fine, price clipped.
First Edition, First Impression.
£125     £63

HAYGARTH, Henry William.
Recollections of Bush Life in Australia, during a Residence of Eight Years in the Interior. STEFFENS, Henry. Adventures on the Road to Paris, during the Campaigns of 1813-14, extracted from the Autobiography of Henry Steffens. Translated from the German – BOOK SOLD
London: John Murray, 1848
Octavo (171 × 115 mm) Contemporary red half calf on marbled boards, title gilt to spine, flat bands, milled, gilt devices to the compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. A little rubbed, spine a touch darkened, text toned, else very good.
First editions, issued in Murray’s Home and Colonial Library. The first a lively account of squatter life by a man who was later vicar of Wimbledon; the second is an account of the experiences of a Dane in the Prussian service during the Napoleonic Wars.
Ferguson 4789 for the first-named; Sandler 3155 for the second.
£150

HOPKINS, A. I.
In the Isles of King Solomon. An Account of Twenty-five Years spent amongst the Primitive Solomon Islanders – BOOK SOLD
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1928
Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine, gilt block of an islander with a spear to the upper board. With the pictorial dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 other plates, full-page map to the text, folding map at the rear. Slight lean, light toning, a few informed pencilled notes to the margins, else very good in the slightly rubbed and chipped, but pictorially and typographically complete jacket.
First edition. Uncommon account, particularly desirable in the jacket. Hopkins “joined the Mission in 1900. At that time, N. Mala in the Solomon Islands was the most difficult problem in its whole area. A large island with a population of over 60,000, it was known to contain the wildest lot of cannibals in the Pacific. No white man had ever stayed on the island. With a few native teachers he established himself in the face of great dangers. The bush people continually raided and killed his teachers and converts. He was on Mala when the Queensland Government returned the Kanakas, the majority of whom belonged to Mala. It was a very difficult and dangerous time. Gradually he obtained an influence over the natives, and established schools. As a result, Mala is now becoming Christian, cannibalism no longer exists, and the island is one of the Government centres, with a Resident Deputy Commissioner. In 1919, Mr. Hopkins became Principal of the Theological College at Siota, and until 1926 was responsible for the training of all Ordination Candidates.” (From the Bishop of Rochester’s introduction to the official account of the mission, compiled by Hopkins, and published by the SPCK the previous year.)
£300     £150

HORNE, Lena, & Richard Schickel.
Lena – BOOK SOLD
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. 8 pages of illustrations from photographs. Ink inscription to rear pastedown. Spine rolled, front endpapers tanned from inserted material. A very good copy in the rubbed and torn jacket with tape repairs to both sides.
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Barbara Lee most sincerely, Lena Horne. 1965”. The autobiography of the American singer, actress, and Civil Rights activist.
£60     £30

HUBERT, Susan J.
Questions of Power. The Politics of Women’s Madness Narratives. BOOK SOLD
Newark, University of Delaware, 2002
Octavo. Original black cloth in dust jacket. Fine in dust jacket.
First Edition. Scholarly analysis of the genre, such classics as Packard, Agnew, Marian, also more recent examples Kate Millett and Janet Frame.
£85     £43

KANTER, Emanuel.
The evolution of war. A Marxian study – BOOK SOLD
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1927
Octavo. Original ochre cloth, spine in black to spine and upper board. In the dust jacket. Very minor handling wear to the jacket, else very good indeed.
First edition. “Eris and Mars, brother and sister of discord and strife, are the two deities that the civilzed mind has ever attempted to comprehend and fathom.” (From the Introduction.)
£80     £40

LEONARD, Neil.
Jazz and the White Americans. The Acceptance of a New Art Form – BOOK SOLD
London: The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with the University of Chicago Press, 1964
Octavo. Original light blue boards, titles to spine and upper board in green. With the dust jacket. Corners bumped, contents faintly toned. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket with a few tiny nicks at the corners.
First UK edition, first impression of this “fine study of the jazz controversy” (Ogren, The Jazz Revolution, p. 167), originally published in the US in 1962. A lovely copy, uncommon in such nice condition.
£50     £25

LINDNER, Robert M.
Rebel Without a Cause. The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath. Introduction by Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor T. Glueck – BOOK SOLD
London: Research Books, Ltd, 1945
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Black pen mark covering “all rights reserved” statement on the verso of the title page. Binding lightly rubbed. A very good copy in the rubbed, nicked, creased, and tanned jacket.
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in 1944.
£45     £23

MARCHETTI TOMASSI, Gaetamo, conte.
Nuovo Trattato sulla vera Rettificazione del Circolo Misurato esattmente con il Diametro, utile alla Trigonometria … Con una Dissertazione sul Modo di navigare sott’Acqua. Edizione Seconda.
Foligno: Feliciano Campitelli, 1817
Quarto (204 × 144 mm). Contemporary bottle green half skiver on patterned paper boards, crudely marbled edges. 6 etched plates. A little light toning, some worming at the spine with trails penetrating through the text-block, largely marginal, but minor loss to text and plates, rear hinge cracked but holding, remains very good.
First edition to include the section on underwater navigation, illustrated with a wonderful etching of a submarine propelled by oars, including a cut-away view. Count Gaetano Marchetti Tomassi (1774–1857), a nobleman born in Foligno near Perugia, was an amateur scientist. He devised one of several methods of squaring the circle, which constitutes the first part of the first treatise of the present book, the second part containing a discussion on conical sections. The most interesting part, however, is the second treatise, where the author proposes a new model of submarine, moved by the tides and able to submerge and resurface with the use of a mechanism similar to the swimbladder of fish. Marchetti Tomassi claims to have first described this boat in a publication issued in Ancona in 1800, though in a very imperfect form. Apparently a boat built to those specifications was given a trial at Rouen, under the eye of Napoleon. Thus Marchetti Tomassi anticipated Fulton at least in the concept of a submarine, though he does not appear to have heard of him. Marchetti proposes military applications for his submarine, though he has no conception of a torpedo and only mentions the use of classical artillery kept dry in his submarine.
Cat. Weil 6, 275: “very uncommon … seems to be very rare”.
£1,500      £1,005

POWELL, Michael.
A Waiting Game. BOOK SOLD
London: Michael Joseph, 1975
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt, map endpapers. With the dust jacket. Contents tanned. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with scattered dampstain.
First edition, first impression. A suspense novel by the renowed film director.
£45     £28

(RANK, J. Arthur) WOOD, Alan.
Mr. Rank – BOOK SOLD
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1952
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, brown top-stain. With the dust jacket. Upper board bowed, spotting to edges of contents. An excellent copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket.
First edition, first impression. A biography of the film producer J. Arthur Rank, who was responsible for raising the profile of British cinema in relation to Hollywood and producing some of Britain’s most important films, including Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.
£45     £23

RAWLING, Gerald. Cinderella Operation.
The Battle for Walcheren 1944 – BOOK SOLD
London: Cassell, 1980
Octavo. Original red, textured boards, titled in silver on the spine. With the dust jacket. 8 plates, 5 full-page maps. Very good.
First edition. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, “For Major General Jim Moulton with grateful acknowledgement for help in the research on this book, Gerald Rawling, Chard, June 1980.” The taking of Walcheren was a key part of Operation INFATUATE which aimed to open up Antwerp to shipping. The author served as a gunnery officer in an LCF – landing craft flak – at Walcheren, having previously seen similar service at Sicily, Salerno, and on D-Day. The recipient commanded 48 Royal Marine Commando during the operations, is mentioned twice in the text, and his account Battle for Antwerp (Ian Allan, 1979) is included in the bibliography. An excellent association copy.
£100     £50

RIVERS, Larry.
What Did I Do? The Unauthorized Autobiography – BOOK SOLD
New York: Harper Collins, 1992
Octavo. Original black cloth backed red boards, titles to spine in red and to upper board in blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with only a few tiny spots.
First edition, first printing of the autobiography of the jazz saxophonist and “grandfather” of pop art. A lovely copy.
£35     £18

ROSSER, W. H.
The Law of Storms Considered Practically; Being a Digest of the Circular Theory of Storms and the Modifications of that Theory as Due to the In-Going Spiral Circulation of the Wind in a Cyclone; Together with a Summary of the Results of Recent Investigation. With Numerous Illustrations. Second Edition, with Important Corrections and Additions – BOOK SOLD
London: Norie & Wilson, 1886
Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, design to upper board blocked in black and to lower board in blind. Illustrations within the text. Tips lightly rubbed but cloth otherwise fresh, hinges cracked, residue of library ticket to front pastedown. A very good copy.
Second edition, revised and corrected. An attractive little volume on storm patterns, analysing the accuracy of folk knowledge of storms and providing practical rules for storm behaviour based on scientific measurements.
£50

RUDDOCK, Alwyn A.
Italian Merchants and Shipping in Southampton 1270–1600 – BOOK SOLD
Southampton: University College, 1951
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 2 plates. Pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Bump to lower corner, head of spine slightly faded, spotting to endpapers and occasionally to contents. An excellent copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket with a small chip from the head of the spine panel not affecting text.
First edition, first impression.
£125     £63

SCHREBER, Daniel Paul.
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness. Translated, Edited, with Introduction, Notes and Discussion by Ida MacAlpine and Richard A. Hunter – BOOK SOLD
London: Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd., 1955
Octavo. Original black buckram, title gilt to spine, blind panels to the boards, in dust jacket. Frontispiece. Small inked ownership stamp to the front free endpaper – Richard B. Drooz, onetime Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY College of Medicine – else a really sharp copy, spine of the dust jacket just a little tanned.
First Edition in English. “The classic story of a schizophrenic judge.”
For many years the President of the Supreme Court of Saxony, Schreber suffered several minor lapses of sanity before finally succumbing in 1894. At times he believed that he had been transformed into a woman in order that he could redeem the World, once convincing himself that he had been impregnated by God. On other occasions he was sure that God would turn him over to the asylum attendants to “use as a harlot”. “A book full of queer ideas. Schreber wrote down his thoughts as they came to him – usually mixed up, confused, and incoherent. His writing shows how disorganized the mental processes of a schizophrenic can be.” Freud described it as “this gifted paranoiac’s invaluable book.”
This edition reprints three detailed reports on the case by Dr. Weber the leading medico-legal psychiatrist consulted at the time, together with a discussion of Freud’s analysis and extensive notes.
Alvarez p.344
£175      £88

STERN, Henry A.
The Captive Missionary: being an Account of the Country and People of Abyssinia. Embracing a Narrative of King Theodore’s Life and his Treatment of Political and Religious Missions. BOOK SOLD
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin,
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, entwined in shackles, blind panels to the boards, large gilt device of an Abyssinian warrior to the upper board. Steel engraved group portrait frontispiece and 7 other steel-engraved plates. A little rubbed, hinges repaired and spine lined, light toning, but a very good copy.
First edition. One of the key accounts of the events which led to the Abyssinian Expedition. Stern – “an arrogant bigot” (ODNB) – was treated particularly harshly. “The detention of Stern and his companions was widely publicized by Mrs Stern. The imprisonment of Cameron and Rassam was, however, politically more important, for it caused the British government to decide on military intervention. An expedition commanded by Sir Robert Cornelis Napier was dispatched from Bombay in the summer of 1867… The British crossed northern Ethiopia without opposition. The first engagement took place below Maqdala, on 10 April 1868, when Téwodros’s army was overwhelmed by British superiority in weapons. The emperor, wishing to make peace, released Stern and the other Europeans, but Napier decided to storm Maqdala, on 13 April. Téwodros, to escape capture, committed suicide. Maqdala, to Stern’s satisfaction, was burnt to the ground on 17 April, after which the British expedition withdrew from Ethiopia.” His health damaged by his experiences, Stern, who had originally gone to Ethiopia to convert the Falashas, remained in London thereafter and continued his work for the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, dying in 1885.
£650    £436

(STRAYHORN, Billy.) HADJU, David.
Lush Life. A Biography of Billy Strayhorn – BOOK SOLD
New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996
Octavo. Original black cloth backed white boards, title in silver to the spine and silver “autograph” block to the upper board, in dust jacket. 16 plates. Slight mark to the fore-edge, else very good.
First Edition. Elegantly written enquiry into the life of Ellington’s long-time friend and collaborator.
£45      £23

WHITMARK, Isidore, & Isaac Goldberg.
From Ragtime to Swingtime. The Story of the House of Whitmark. BOOK SOLD
New York: Lee Furman, Inc., 1939
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black, top edge dyed ed. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. Library ink stamps to front free endpaper, rear pastedown, and title page. Edges of boards faded and dulled, dampstain to spine and lower board, contents toned, tape residue to pastedown, lower joint cracked. A good copy in the rubbed and chipped jacket with tears at the folds.
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For F. B. Van Man, with compliments of George M. Cohan & best wishes of Isidore Whitmark. May 11/39”. Isidore Whitmark (1869–1941) was a founder and president of the Whitmark & Sons music publishing firm, which so successful that it absorbed ten of its competitors and by 1900 had branches in Chicago, San Francisco, Paris, London, and Melbourne. The firm pioneered the national marketing of sheet music of popular numbers and the brothers “enjoyed a special rapport with other composers and performers” (Isidore Whitmark Papers, Columbia University), including George M. Cohan, “the greatest single figure the American theatre ever produced – as a player, playwright, actor, composer and producer” (NYT obituary, November 6, 1942). Cohan published his first song, “Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home”, with the Whitmarks and remained a good friend and collaborator, making several colourful appearances in the present volume. The recipient of this volume is unknown, but may have been involved with the Veteran’s Administration, as this volume contains library stamps from VA hospitals.
£75     £38

40 WILSON, Horace Hayman (trans.)
Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus Translated from the original Sanskit. BOOK SOLD
London, Trübner & Co. 1871
2 volumes, octavo. Bound in full vellum, two black labels, titles and decoration to spines gilt, rules and centre designs to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, edges dyed yellow. Some light wear to boards with a shall split to the top of volume I spine, otherwise clean copies in very good condition.
Third Edition.

£475

Window Shopping in Fulham Road: Autumn Edition.

Sep 25, 2015 | Uncategorized

Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display  changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.

Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk

AMBLER, Eric.

The Intercom Conspiracy.

New York: Atheneum, 1969

Octavo. Original orange and yellow cloth, titles to spine and front board in gilt and silver, top edge red, red endpapers. With the dust jacket.   Spine slightly cocked, spine ends lightly bumped. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with lightly faded spine.

First US edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page to his friend the historian Mortimer Chambers: “To Mort Chambers, historian and friend, gratefully Eric Ambler Los Angeles 1970.” With loosely inserted letter to the editor written by Ambler and dated 13 September 1973.

£125

AYER, Frederick.

The Man in the Mirror.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1965

Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Spine ends and corners slightly bumped. Otherwise a fine copy in a bright jacket with mildly toned rear panel.

First edition, first impression.

£85

(BAKER, Josephine) ABTEY, Jacques.

La Guerre Secrete de Josephine Baker.Avec une Lettre Autographe du General De Gaulle.

Paris: Editions Siboney, 1948

Octavo. Original light card wraps. 2 plates and 2 facsimiles.  Wraps a little browned, some creasing, cracking and consequent light restoration to the spine, text browned as usual,unopened, overall very good.

First edition. Uncommon account of Baker’s wartime activities with the Resistance. With contemporary gift inscription from La Baker to the front free endpaper; “À Monsieur et Madame Willy avec mes Souvenirs les plus sympathiques, votre Josephine Baker”.

£500

BALLARD, J. G.

The Drought.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965

Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain. With the dust jacket.   Top stain and upper edges of boards a little faded, faint offsetting from spine panel of jacket to spine. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with a small ballpoint pen inscription to the top edge of the front panel.

First edition, first impression. The expanded and re-titled version of The Burning World, which was first published in 1964.

£150

BASKIN, Leonard & Esther.

The Poppy & Other Deadly Plants.By Esther Baskin. Drawings by Leonard Baskin.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1967

Tall quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, orange endpapers. With the dust jacket. 19 illustrations by Leonard Baskin.  Lightly rubbed at ends of spine, a few small spots to upper board. An excellent copy in the jacket that is faded at the spine panel and the edges, with a short closed tear at the head of the spine.

First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the front blank and below that inscribed by the illustrator, “& Leonard Baskin for Marvin with love. Fort Hill, 1967”.

£125

BEATON, Cecil.

An Indian Album.

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1945-46

Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front cover in blue. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and monochrome photographic plates throughout.  Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Spine slightly rolled, edges lightly foxed. An excellent copy in the unclipped jacket.

First edition, first impression.

£100

BUCHNER, Georg.

The Plays.Translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Dunlop.

The Viking Press, New York, 1928

Octavo. Original orange cloth-backed patterned boards, titles to spine in black, top edge stained orange. With the dust jacket. Frontis.  A fine copy in the dust jacket.

First US edition, first printing.

£300

CAPOTE, Truman.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

New York: Random House, 1958

Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black, top edge blue. With the dust jacket.   Occasional spotting to pages mostly noted to endpapers, mild soiling to cloth boards, in the dust jacket with mild toning to rear panel and spine as usual. A very good copy.

First edition, first printing.

£950

CHRISTIE, Agatha.

Five Little Pigs.

London: W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd., 1942

Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in orange.   Spine faded and marked, with a mark to lower board, top edge tanned. An excellent copy.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Carlo, from Agatha. Jan 1943”. From the library of Charlotte (“Carlo”) Fisher (1895–1976), Christie’s secretary and early amanuensis with whom Christie wrote several major early titles. The method was described by Christie in her autobiography: “Charlotte and I sat down opposite each other, she with her notebook and pencil. I stared unhappily at the mantelpiece, and began uttering a few tentative sentences. They sounded dreadful. I could not say more than a word without hesitating and stopping. Nothing I said sounded natural. We persisted for an hour. Long afterwards Carlo told me that she herself had been dreading the moment when literary work should begin.” By this process Christie – or “Missus” as she was known to Fisher – would find her authorial voice. During the difficult period of the breakdown of her first marriage, Fisher was Christie’s only friend and confidante. They remained close throughout their lives.

£4,750

CHURCHILL, Winston S.

My African Journey.With Sixty-One Illustrations from Photographs by the Author and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Wilson, and Three Maps.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908

Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, titles and pictorial decoration to front board in black, blue, and grey. 16 pages of advertisements. Photographic frontispiece, 48 photographic plates, and 3 maps of which one is folding.  Bookseller’s ticket and bookplate to front pastedown. Spine faded and slightly rolled, contents foxed. A very good copy.

First edition. My African Journey was the first book to derive purely from Churchill’s journalism, as distinct from his work as a war correspondent. Before embarking he signed an extremely lucrative contract for the publication of a series of articles in The Strand, and for further publication in book form. What Churchill was offered is impressive testimony to his perceived drawing power, at £750 for five contributions he was receiving “more than Kipling, whom The Strand were paying £90 for his short stories; more than W. W. Jacobs, whose rate at the time was £110 for a story” (Pound, The Strand Magazine).

£875

DAHL, Roald.

Danny the Champion of the World.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1975

Octavo. Original brown cloth-backed orange boards, spine lettered in gilt, pheasant vignette blocked to the front board in blind, blue-green endpapers, top edge purple. With the dust jacket.  Illustrations by Jill Bennett throughout the text.  Spine gently rolled, internally fine. An excellent copy in the bright jacket that has a slightly faded spine.

First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “Willa, love Roald Dahl.”

£3,500

DAHL, Roald.

Matilda.Illustrations by Quentin Blake.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988

Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Spine rolled, edges of text block lightly foxed. An excellent copy in the jacket with lightly rubbed spine ends and some creasing to extremities.

First edition, first impression of the ever-popular Dahl story, the basis for both the film and popular musical.

£375

(DETMOLD, Edward J.) AESOP.

The Fables of Aesop.

New York: Hodder and Stoughton,

Quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, front board elaborately decorated gilt, buff illustrated endpapers.  Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 22 plates with captioned tissue guards.  A little wear to foot of spine; an excellent copy with bright plates.

First US Detmold edition, first printing.

£400

(DULAC, Edmund.) HOUSMAN, Laurence.

Stories from The Arabian Nights.With Drawings by Edmund Dulac.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907

Quarto (240 × 181 mm). Recent orange morocco, titles to spine gilt with gilt raised bands, single rule to covers, marbled endpapers. 50 tipped-in plates with captioned tissue guards by Dulac.  Contents slightly foxed, small closed tears repaired to head of pp. 116-118; an excellent copy.

Second and best edition (the same year as the first), with the plates bound in to the context of the story. Amongst the popular stories included in this edition is Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

£475

(DULAC, Edmund) OMAR KHAYYÁM; Edward Fitzgerald (trans.)

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald.

London:  Hodder and Stoughton,

Quarto (280 x 220 mm). Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 20 tipped in colour plates, tissue guards.  Some occasional light foxing, an excellent copy handsomely bound.

First Dulac edition. Handsomely bound.

£475

FARJEON, Eleanor, & Herbert.

The Two Bouquets A Victorian Operetta   The Two Bouquets, A Novelette.

London, Samuel French Limited & London, Michael Joseph, 1938 & 1948

2 volumes, printed pamphlet and octavo. Original pink cloth, titles to spine in silver and pictorial decoration to front board in silver. With the price-clipped dust jacket.   A very good copy with a couple of minor nicks to the dust jacket.

First Editions, First Impressions.

£45

FAULKNER, William.

New Orleans Sketches.With an introduction by Carvel Collins.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1959

Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Ownership stamp in blind to front free endpaper. Spine ends rubbed, faint foxing to edges. An excellent copy in the bright jacket with slightly rubbed extremities.

First UK edition, first impression of this collection of short stories, originally published in the US the preceding year.

£150

FAULKNER, William.

The Hamlet; The Town; The Mansion.

New York: Random House,  1940–57–59

3 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front board lettered in yellow and red, top edge red; original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt and blue, pale grey flecked endpapers, top edge grey; original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt and blue, pale blue endpapers, top edge yellow. With the pictorial dust jackets.   An exceptional set in the bright jackets that have lightly toned spines and some nicks to extremities.

First editions, first printings, trade issues.

£1,250

GREENE, Graham.

Carving a Statue. A Play.

London:  The Bodley Head, 1964

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, orange endpapers, red top-stain. With the dust jacket.   Bookstore label to front pastedown in the price clipped dust jacket. An excellent copy.

First edition, first impression.

£85

GREENE, Graham.

The Lawless Roads.A Mexican Journey.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge yellow, map endpapers. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 plates, two of which are double plates.  Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A few dark stains to boards, light spotting to edges, top edge faded, slight foxing to prelims and endmatter. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with some minor toning along the slightly rubbed extremities, some minor chipping and a few short splits along spine ends and corners.

First edition, first impression.

£1,500

HEANEY, Seamus.

Electric Light.

London: Faber and Faber, 2001

Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in white, yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket.   A fine copy in an excellent jacket with some tape residue to verso.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Heaney on the title page: “To Yvonne. Seamus Heaney 31.1.02”

£225

JOYCE, James.

Two Tales of Shem and Shaun.Fragments from Work in Progress.

London: Faber and Faber, 1932

Octavo. Original pale green boards, titles to spine blue. In the dust jacket.   Light bumping to top of spine, stitching just a touch strained in places but nonetheless an excellent copy in the bright dust jacket with some minor rubbing to extremities.

First UK edition, first impression.

£275

KHADDURI, Majid & Herbert J. Liebesny (eds.)

Law in the Middle East.Vol. I. Origin and Development of Islamic law.

Washington, DC: The Middle East Institute, 1955

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Extremities lightly rubbed. A very good copy in the dust jacked slightly sunned and chipped on the spine.

First edition, first printing of a work including articles by a number of leading scholars, among them Joseph Schacht, who contributes two chapters on the pre-Islamic origins of Islamic law and the emergence of the classical schools; this copy from the collection of noted American Islamicist Nicholas Heer, with his ownership inscription dated “Stanford 1961” to the front free endpaper.

Born to a Greek Orthodox family in Mosul, Iraq, Majid Khadduri emigrated after the Second World War and became “One of the pioneers of Middle East and Islamic studies in the United States … a number of contributions to the study of the Arab world, particularly Islamic law and jurisprudence, the politics and history of Iraq, and the role of personalities in the Middle East” (obituary, Washington Post, 3 February 2007). It was “hoped and planned, that circumstances permitting, a second volume on the modern legal systems of the Middle East” would follow, but it never did and the present volume therefore stands alone (p. xiii).

£95

LANG, Andrew (ed.)

The Brown Fairy Book.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1904

Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt, elaborate pictorial decorations to spine and front board gilt, all edges gilt, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece, 7 similar plates, 22 black and white plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. With the spine and front panel of the pictorial dust jacket tipped in at the front.  With a small catalogue description tipped in. Spine ends and corners very lightly rubbed and bumped, mild foxing to prelims and endmatter. An excellent copy.

First edition, first impression, of the ninth instalment in Lang’s Fairy Books series, gathering exotic tales from North America, Brazil, Australia, Africa, Persia, India, Lappland and the Pacific Islands.

£800

LANG, Andrew (ed.)

The Green Fairy Book.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1892

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, elaborate pictorial decorations to spine and front board gilt, all edges gilt, black endpapers. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford in text. With front and spine panels of the dust jacket tipped in at the start.   Spine ends gently bumped, minor mottling to rear board, light foxing throughout. An excellent copy.

First edition. Andrew Lang (1844–1912), Scottish poet, scholar and journalist, devoted most of his life to folklore and the compilation of traditional fairy stories from around the world. Begun in 1889, “his ‘coloured’ fairy books have been popular with boys and girls since their first appearance.” (Osborne Collection I, pp. 34-36, and II, p. 604).

£825

LAVER, James (intro.)

Art for All: London Transport Posters 1908–1949.

London: Art and Technics Ltd, 1949

Octavo. Original beige cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, map endpapers, device to title page in pink. With the dust jacket. 68 colour and black and white plates, and black and white illustrations in the text.  Light offsetting from jacket to front board, one hinge starting. An excellent copy in the rubbed, toned and lightly chipped jacket with a closed tear to the front panel.

First edition, first impression, featuring some of the classics from the 1920s and 30s, the golden age of London Transport poster design.

This item is now sold.

(LAWRENCE, T. E.) THOMAS, Lowell.

With Lawrence in Arabia.

London: Hutchinson & Co,

Octavo. Original red cloth, title to spine gilt, top edge grey. Frontispiece and 64 plates.  Spine slightly rolled, boards a little stained, edges lightly foxed, tips slightly rubbed. A very good copy.

First UK edition, first impression, originally published in the US the previous year.

£450

LEDER, Jan. 

Women in Jazz. A Discography of Instrumentalists, 1913-1968.

Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press,  1985

Octavo, original red cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board. Issued without dust jacket.    Very good.

First edition. Indispensable reference, by highly-rated jazz flautist and composer. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper to jazz collector and researcher Arthur Newman;  “To Arthur, Best wishes and good luck, Jan Leder.”

£185

LESSING, Doris.

The Golden Notebook.

London: Michael Joseph, 1962

Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Free endpapers partially tanned, top edge a little spotted, one faint finger mark to front pastedown, contents just a little toned as always. An excellent copy in a slightly chipped and toned jacket with a few short closed tears.

First edition, first impression, of the Nobel laureate’s masterpiece.

£875

MCKAY, Claude.

Banjo.A Story Without a Plot.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1929

Octavo. Original dark blue and orange wave patterned boards, black cloth backstrip, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain. With the dust jacket.   Very lightly rubbed at extremities, else bright and fresh. A superb copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some nicks and shot splits, and a closed tear along the fold of the toned spine panel.

First edition, first impression of this Harlem Renaissance novel exploring the lives of black jazz musicians in 1920s Paris. A beautiful copy.

£975

MARINETTI, Filippo Tommaso.

Mafarka il futurista.Romanzo. Traduzione dal Francese di Decio Cinti.

Milan: Edizioni Futuriste di “Poesia”, 1910

Octavo. Original orange printed wrappers.    Spine lightly toned, slightly rolled and a little creased. An excellent copy of this fragile publication.

First Italian edition of Marinetti’s uncommon first novel, translated by his personal secretary. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed flamboyantly on the front free endpaper: “al caro e intelligentissimo amico dei futuristi, Koltonski” (”to the dear and intelligent friend of the Futurists, Koltonski”), and accompanied by a Futuristic lightning sketch of “Futuris Marinetti” pricking the sagging bubble of “Passatismo” (Traditionalism). A significant association: “Aleksander Koltonski , who was a resident in Italy and can be considered a protagonist in popularizing Futurism in Poland, issued a summary of the manifestos on Futurist music by Francesco Balilla Pratella and Luigi Russolo. Koltonski was clearly familiar with the collection I manifesti del futurismo. Prima serie (1914) and demonstrated his extensive knowledge in a groundbreaking article, entitled On Futurism as a Cultural and Artistic Movement, which also included an excerpt from Mariinetti’s Zang Tumb Tumb… Koltonski emphasized the importance of Futurism for the political-cultural development of Italy, the innovatory character of its aesthetics, and the movement’s fertilizing effect on life and art” (Przemyslaw Strozek, “Marinetti is foreign to us”: Polish Responses to Italian Futurism in International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, 2011, volume I p. 89).

Originally published in French (Paris: Sansot, 1909) as Mafarka le futuriste: roman africain. There would appear to be a number of issues of this first Italian edition: our copy (and others noted in OCLC) have “10o migliaio” (or “10th thousand”) printed on the front cover; Copac notes a copy (Leeds University) with “11th thousand” and we know of a copy calling itself “6th thousand”. These are all generally regarded as fictional. Mafarka, set in an imaginary African country, brought Marinetti to trial for obscenity. He was acquitted and the furore helped to put Futurism on the cultural map. Koltonski has made two neat inscriptions in Polish that appear to touch on the trial, saying that the book was “confiscated on moral grounds”

£1,500

MILNE, A. A.

Winnie The Pooh.

London: Methuen Children’s Books, 1976

Octavo. Original red morocco, titles and decorations to spine gilt, pictorial design to front boards gilt, all edges gilt, pictorial endpapers. Housed red morocco slipcase.  Illustrated throughout the text by Ernest H. Shepard. 

The Golden Anniversary Edition, signed limited edition, this is number 111 of 300 copies signed by Christopher Milne.

£1,075

NABOKOV, Vladimir.

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973

Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge pink. With the dust jacket.   An excellent copy in a lightly toned jacket with one tiny closed tear to tail of spine panel.

First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in the same year.

£65

NAIPAUL, V. S.

An Area of Darkness.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1964

Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge black. With the dust jacket.   Contemporary bookseller’s ticket to front flap of jacket. Top edge faded. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed and toned jacket with one tiny closed tear and tape repair to the verso.

First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the half-title. From the library of historian and book collector Anthony Hobson.

£750

NEWBY, P. H.

Something to Answer For.

London: Faber and Faber, 1968

Octavo. Original orange boards, titles to spine dark blue. With the dust jacket.   Boards slightly bowed, tips rubbed. An excellent copy in the unclipped and slightly soiled jacket.

First edition, first impression of the winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1968.

£475

(NONESUCH PRESS.) DANTE ALIGHIERI.

La Divina Commedia.Or, The Divine Vision. In Italian and English. The Italian text edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence with the English version of H. F. Cary and 42 illustrations after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928

Folio. Original orange vellum, titles to spine, roundels and ruling to boards gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, partially unopened. Housed in a modern brown cloth slipcase (with a few light scratches). 34 double and 8 single-page plates after Botticelli.  Spine lightly faded, extremities faintly rubbed, free endpapers a touch tanned. An exceptionally bright copy in excellent condition.

First Nonesuch edition. Number 1,423 from a limited edition of 1,475 copies on Dutch paper. A beautifully presented and bound edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy, with Dante’s Italian printed in parallel with Rev. Henry F. Cary’s English translation (1814, the first complete English translation, much loved by Coleridge), and with Sandro Botticelli’s illustrations, reproduced from the first Florentine edition of the Divine Comedy (1481).

£1,250

PYNCHON, Thomas.

Gravity’s Rainbow.

New York: The Viking Press, 1973

Octavo. Original orange boards, titles to spine in red, orange top-stain. With the dust jacket.   Small note in ink to free free endpaper. Top stain a little faded, edges slightly rubbed and dulled. An excellent copy in the rubbed and creased jacket with a darkened area to the corner of the upper panel and a small spot to the lower panel.

First edition, first printing.

£975

READ, Forrest. 

Pound / Joyce. The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, with Pound’s Critical Essays and Articles About Joyce.

New York: New Directions,  1967

Octavo. Original orange cloth boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.    Ends of spine lightly bumped, in the dust jacket with spine toned, mild soiling to panels. A very good copy.

First edition, first printing.

£125

ROWLING, J. K.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

London: Bloomsbury, 1999

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board and all edges gilt, green endpapers, colour illustration pasted to upper board.   Spine bumped and slightly rubbed.

First Deluxe edition, first impression. Inscribed on the dedication page by the author “To Mark, Happy 8th Birthday! With love from, Jo, (J. K. Rowling) (but really from Thomas, Daragh, Catriona, Deidre & Gerry!)”. This was the first of the deluxe editions to be published was issued at the same time as the first trade edition of Azkaban.

£4,500

SALTEN, Felix.

Bambi.A Life in the Woods. Translated from the German by Whittaker Chambers. With a Foreword by John Galsworthy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928

Octavo (187 × 125 mm). Finely bound in recent green morocco by the Cottage Bindery, titles to spine gilt with gilt decoration and raised bands, boards ruled gilt, gilt vignette to front board, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. With a green cloth slipcase.   Spine a little sunned; an excellent copy, attractively bound.

First UK edition, first impression. It was first published in the US earlier the same year, and was originally published in Germany in 1923.

£475

SEARLE, Ronald, & Alex Atkinson.

Escape from the Amazon!

London: Perpetua Books, 1964

Quarto. Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine. With the dust jacket.  Illustrated throughout.  Spine lightly toned. An excellent copy.

First edition, first impression. Presentation copy from Ronald Searle, inscribed in his distinctive hand on the front free endpaper: “For Wendy with love from Ronnie, Christmas 1964”; also tipped-in is an inscribed Christmas card (1965) from Searle (with integral envelope addressed in his hand). “Wendy” is the actress, dancer, and theatre and film director, Wendy Toye (1917-2010) who had collaborated with Searle on a number of theatre projects.

£375

SEUSS, Dr.

The Shape of Me and Other Stuff.

New York:  Random House, 1973

Octavo. Original laminated pictorial boards, titles to spine and front board in white and yellow, illustrated endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Dr. Seuss.  Extremities a little rubbed, short closed tear to top edge of front free endpaper. A bright copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with one tiny closed tear to rear panel. Very good.

First edition, first printing, with $2.50 price to front flap of dust jacket and correct list of titles to rear panel.

£500

SMITH, Edward E.

The Vortex Blaster.

Hicksville, NY: Gnome Press, Inc., 1960

Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in yellow. With the dust jacket.   Very lightly rubbed at extremities, contents tanned as often. An excellent copy in the bright and fresh jacket.

First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to the publisher on the front free endpaper, “To my friend Marty Greenberg – with the hope that this new relationship of publisher and writer will make even deeper the friendship that has lasted so long, Edward E. Smith, PhD”. Smith originally worked as a food scientist, and became a science fiction author in 1915 when friends recommended that he novelize his ideas about space travel. His first work was the Skylark of Space trilogy, which was rejected by a number of publishers before being sold to Amazing Stories in 1927. Smith continued writing, producing the popular Lensman series, of which this volume is a continuation, and is today revered as the “father of the space opera”. The recipient, Marty Greenberg, founded the Gnome press with author David Kyle in 1948. They became one of the most important science fiction presses of the 20th century, publishing Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy and other classics for the first time.

£875

(SMITH, Jessie Willcox.) CHAPIN, Anna Alice.  

The Now-A-Day Fairy Book.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1911

Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine in white, illustration to front board pasted down.  6 colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith  Lettering to spine lightly rubbed, chip to front board at top edge resulting in loss of the corner, light wear to corners and ends of spine, inscription to front free endpaper. A very good copy.

First edition, first printing. A beautifully illustrated fairy tale collection which includes, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Three Little Bear, Sleeping Beauty and many others.

£500

STEIN, Sir (Marc) Aurel.

Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative of a Journey of Archaeological and Geographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan.

London: Fisher Unwin, 1904

Octavo. Original ochre cloth, title gilt to the spine, and to the front board in yellow with pictorial design in black and yellow. Photogravure frontispiece and numerous illustrations to the text, folding coloured map at the rear.  A little rubbed and slightly spotted, free endpapers lightly browned, light foxing to the fore-edge and to first few leaves, but overall very good.

“Cheaper Edition”, one year after the first, and comprising first edition sheets with a cancel title. “A general narrative of his first exploration to Central Asia of 1900-1901.Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs he entered Chinese Turkestan, and explored archaeologically the sand-buried ruins of Khotan and its neighbourings ” (Yakushi)

£1,250

TWAIN, Mark.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade.)Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to Fifty Years Ago. With 174 illustrations.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1884

Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, designs blocked in black to both covers and spine, ochre leaf-pattern endpapers; publisher’s catalogue dated October 1884 at end. Frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrations throughout by F. W. Kemble.  Spine rolled and faded, cloth a little dulled with a few faint spots.

First edition, preceding both the American and Canadian editions.

£1,500

Window Shopping at Fulham Road

Sep 14, 2015 | Uncategorized

Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display  changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.

Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk

(ATELIER POPULAIRE).

Texts and Posters by Atelier Populaire.Posters from the Revolution. Paris, May 1968.

London: Dobson Books Ltd, 1969

Folio. Original cream card wrappers printed in black and red. With 98 full-page monochrome illustrations in a variety.  Small gift inscription to verso of first leaf. Wrappers with a few minor stains, short split to head of spine, faint dampstaining to top edge of a few leaves but overall contents bright. An excellent copy.

first edition, first printing, of this comprehensive catalogue of posters produced in staggering numbers by the Atelier Populaire between May and July 1968. This publication was published shortly after the events in Paris and in collaboration with the Atelier Populaire, who saw it as a means to propagate their message.

£325

(AUERBACH, Frank.) FEAVER, William.

Frank Auerbach.

New York:  Rizzoli, 2009

Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to front cover and spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Housed in the original publisher’s slipcase. Illustrated with over 200 colour plates together with a separate reference section comprising around 900 images.  Fine in fine slipcase.

First edition, first impression. Signed on the title page by Auerbach.

£300

BACON, Francis.

Caged. Uncaged.Translated by Sofia Gomes and Maria Ramos.

Porto: Fundaçào de Serralves, 2003

Original padded cloth boards, titles to spine blind stamped, front cover blind stamped and half printed with grey. With the printed acetate dust jacket. Includes the large white envelope titled Items from Francis Bacon’s Studio containing 10 pages with 22 numbered illustrations. Illustrated throughout including four fold-out plates.   Fine in fine dust jacket.

First edition, first printing. Published to coincide with Bacon’s exhibition at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, January 24 – April 20, 2003.

£180

BETJEMAN, John.

London’s Historic Railway Stations.Photographed by John Gay.

London: John Murray,  1972

Quarto. Original purple cloth, titles to spine silver. With the photographic dust jacket. Black and white photographs by John Gay throughout.  Spine slightly rolled, internally fine; an excellent copy in the jacket with rubbed spine ends and a few minor nicks to extremities.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Signed for John H, the railway barn owl (GNR of I) by John Betjeman, 1972. GWR, NLR, & LSWR.”

£375

CHRISTO.

The Gates Project for Central Park, New York City.This is a supplement to the application for a Permit to create a work of art in Central Park, filed with Gordon J. Davis, Commissioner of Parks and Recreation, on April 9, 1980.

New York: Christo and C. V. J. Corporation, 1981

Quarto. Original laminated pictorial boards, titles to front board in black. Illustrated throughout with preparatory drawings, plans, and photographs by the artist.  Spine gently cocked, small, light stain to title page. An excellent copy.

First edition. Signed by Christo on the title page. The concept of The Gates was first developed in 1979, though Christo and Jeanne-Claude would have to wait until 2003 to begin to realise the art work as permission for the work was granted by New York City in 2003. With gallery exhibition guide and a colour photograph for Christo’s installation Surrounded Islands loosely inserted.

£175

(DUCHAMP, Marcel.) TAKIGUCHI, Shuzo.

To and From Rrose Sélavy.Selected Words of Marcel Duchamp. Japanese Version. With Special Contribution: a Self-Portrait in Profile by Marcel Duchamp; Works by Shusaku Arakawa, Jasper Johns and Jean Tinguely.

Tokyo:  1968

Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine green. With the original dark purple slipcase. 4 tipped-in plates, black and white illustrations throughout.  One corner slightly bumped, slipcase a touch rubbed. An excellent copy.

First edition, first impression. Number 367 of 560 copies of the first monograph on Marcel Duchamp by the Japanese poet and art critic Takiguchi (1903–1979), an early proponent of Surrealism in Japan who was keen to share Duchamp with Japanese audiences. The monograph, which consists of artworks by Duchamp as well as Japanese translations of his writings, also includes four tipped-in prints by artists with strong ties to Duchamp: Takiguchi, Jasper Johns, Shusaku Arakawa, and Jean Tinguely. With the promotional leaflets and envelope, as well as a four-page English translation of the author’s introduction loosely inserted.

£1,500

FREUD, Lucian.

Works on Paper.

London: South Bank Board in association with Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1988

Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, roundel to front board gilt, grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with 96 full page illustrations.  Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Minor foxing to top edge, front board slightly bowed; an excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket that with a few nicks to extremities and tape repair to head of spine on verso.

First edition, first impression. A catalogue to coincide with Freud’s first exhibition devoted to his works on paper including all of his prints up to 1987 and sixty-four drawings.

£75

GABO, Naum.

Gabo.Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings. With introductory essays by Herbert Read and Leslie Martin.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957

Quarto. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Original stereoscopic glasses inserted in rear board. Illustrated throughout.  An excellent copy in the nicks and short closed tears along the edges.

First edition, first impression.

£175

GILBERT & GEORGE.

Worlds and Windows. Introduction by Robert Rosenblum.

London & New York:  Robert Miller Gallery & Anthony d’Offay Gallery,

Quarto. Original dark blue cloth, titles to front cover and spine gilt.  Illustrated with 130 colour plates of Gilbert & George’s Postcard Art, a photographic portrait by Liam Woon, and 3 monochrome plates.  Gilt lightly rubbed, an excellent copy.

First printing, first impression. Inscribed by the artists on the front free endpaper,   “Lots of love, Gilbert & George”. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London and Robert Miller Gallery, New York,

£175

HEPWORTH, Barbara.

Drawings from a Sculptor’s Landscape.With an introduction to the drawings by Alan Bowness.

London: Cory Adams & Mackay, 1966

Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and design to upper board in black, brown endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout from photographs.  Dampstain to lower edges and bottom quarter of spine. A very good copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket with a number of short closed tears and dampstain along the lower edges.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, “for Thomas C. Mendenhall with every good wish for 1967, Barbara Hepworth”.

£250

HIRST, Damien.

The Death of God. Towards a Better Understanding of a Life Without God Aboard the Ship of Fools.

London: Other Criteria/Galeria Hilario Galguera, 2006

Small quarto. Original black wrappers, titles and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, red and silver foil, red ednpapers. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour.  A fine copy.

First edition, first impression. Signed by Hirst on the front free endpaper. The catalogue was published to accompany Hirst’s first show in Mexico; it includes an interview with the gallery owner, Hilario Galguera, exploring the relationship of religion to Hirst’s work. as a continuing theme. With text in both English and Spanish.

£250

(HOCKNEY, David.) FRIEDMAN, Martin.

Hockney Paints the Stage.With contributions by John Cox, John Dexter, David Hockney and Stephen Spender.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1983

2 volumes, quarto. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in grey, publisher’s device to front cover in grey. With the pictorial dust jacket. Supplement in original pictorial wrappers. With 288 illustrations, 187 in colour.  A fine copy.

First edition, first impression. Together with the 36-page supplement, which contains illustrations and descriptions of seven large environmental works Hockney created especially for the Hockney Paints the Stage exhibition at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

This item is now sold.

£90

LUCAS, Sarah.

Exhibitions and Catalogue Raisonné 1989-2005. Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Tate Liverpool.

Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005

Quarto. Original grey boards, titles to front board in blind, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. 545 illustrations, 76 in colour.  Spine lightly bumped, a near fine copy.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist “For Aaron ‘long live the Caper !’ love Sarah Lucas.”

£250

(SCHIELE, Egon.) LEOPOLD, Rudolf.

Egon Schiele: Paintings, Watercolour, Drawings.Translated by Alexander Lieven.

London: Phaidon, 1973

Quarto. Original black full calf, titles to spine and front board in red. Housed in the publisher’s black card slipcase. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.  Spine ends a touch rubbed, a few minor scuff marks to spine. Otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed slipcase.

First deluxe edition in English. One of 50 numbered copies with two original rubber stamps by Schiele printed on handmade Bütten paper. The stamps are titled Head I and Mother and Child. There are no impressions of Head I pulled during the artist’s lifetime being documented and only 10 impressions of Mother and Child collected on 3 different postcards. This Schiele monograph by the noted Austrian art collector Rudolf Leopold (1925–2010) was originally published the previous year in German by Residenz Verlag, Salzburg, in an edition of 200 numbered copies.

£3,500

STEADMAN, Ralph, & Kurt Vonnegut.

Modern Fiction and Art. Prints by Contemporary Authors.

Lexington: University of Kentucky Art Museum and Petro III Graphics, 1999 – 2000

Slim quarto, original wrappers, titles and illustration to front cover in black, green and blue. Two screenprints, Red Shark by Steadman and Messenger by Vonnegut on Coventry cotton paper, each 42.5 x 30.5 cm. Statement of limitation on glassine. All housed in a black cloth portfolio, titles to front cover in silver.   

An artist’s proof aside from an edition of 50. First edition, first printing. Catalogue numbered and signed by the curator Rachel Sadinsky, the publisher Joe Petro III, and the artists Ralph Steadman and Kurt Vennegut. Each screenprint signed by the respective artists.

£1,800

TWOMBLY, Cy.

Souvenirs of D’Arros and Gaeta.

Zurich: Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, 1992

Folio. Original white paper boards, facsimile of the artist’s signature to front board in grey and to spine in red. With the pictorial dust jacket. With 28 colour plates from acrylic, crayon and pencil drawings on paper, one colour photograph by Tatia Franchetti Twombly.  Top corner of front board lightly bumped, spine tips a little rubbed. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with two tiny brown speck to rear panel.

Signed limited edition. Number 87 of 100 copies signed by Cy Twombly, from a complete edition of 1,000 copies. The drawings were all done by Twombly on the Island D’Arros (Seychelles) and in Gaeta (Italy) in 1990.

£2,250

VALENTINO, Clemente Ludovico Garavani.

Valentino: Themes and Variations.Together with a signed original sketch.

New York: Rozzoli, 2008

Quarto. Original red boards, titles to spine white and front board blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket.   A fine copy in the bright, unclipped jacket.

First edition, first printing. With an original sketch laid-in, signed by Valentino.

£1,250

WILLIAMS, Kyffin.

Drawings.

Llandysul: Gomer Press, 2001

Quarto. Original dark grey cloth, titles to spine in silver, light grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the artist.  A fine copy.

First edition, first impression. Signed by the artist on the front free endpaper.

£175

The Lonely Villein: Unpublished Notebook and 2003 Prison Journal of Pete Doherty.

Sep 11, 2015 | Uncategorized

MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK WITH LYRICS, LONDON AND PARIS, 2002-03

“Do you see a glorious and illustrious career ahead?”
Pete replied “Personally I think we’ll both be dead by Christmas”
NME interview, late 2002.

Pete Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician best known for being co-front man of early noughties rock band The Libertines, alongside Carl Barat.

Many of Doherty’s journals, detailing the rise of the Libertines and later their rapid descent, are collected into The Books of Albion, published in 2007 by Orion Publishing Co.

Peter Harrington however has one previously unpublished journal, dated over 2002-3, just as Doherty, Barat, bass player John Hassall and drummer Gary Powell, were hailed as “the best new band in Britain”.

The Libertines were the first band ever to feature on the cover on the NME before their first album was released. Tucked into the back of the journal, a single sheet of paper details Doherty’s musings on their first interview, 1 May 2002, which would propel them to national stardom.

All this pompous description – and yet it is so natural. All the slut & dirty, dirty rough old ground crawled along – its all there. Saying ‘one’ is saying ‘all’ and the moment is all that matters. If we do receive a good write up in the NME next week my world will alter slightly. I should not be able to care much less, and yet. And yet Roger Morten strikes strikes such a charming chord in my consciousness. This presence, knowing eyes behind sunglasses, Little in the way of revelation. What will he right ? Will there be a photograph? Will be famous by Thursday? A question on the point of fame…

Johnny’s dark & chaotic friend – Dave – spoke ill of fame’s touch. Do I want it? The crassness of hype & everyday confusion & duties to those who tug in your arm in the queue? Yes! Yes! And Thrice Yes!

One of the first acts to self-release music on the internet, it was through an intricate network of email, texts and web forums they were able to invite scores of fans to ‘guerrilla gigs’ in their east London flat. This was a particularly busy period for the so called “Albion Rooms” with fans packing themselves in as the police vans rolled up outside.

This journal opens with a brief discussion on Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia, war, social hierarchy, and the breakdown of the state.

Though Doherty is famed for his songwriting partnership with Barat, he has long written poetry, often reciting Burns, Browning and Dickinson in interviews. At the age of 16, he won a poetry competition and embarked on a tour of Russia organised by the British Council.

There are many stream-of-consciousness drafts in the journal, including:

IN A SMALL TOWN JUST ABOUT A MILE FROM ANYWHERE

The chimneys sang – silent suicide
The local graveyard, familiar
to village underlings enslaved
in paper handchains,
Green trees and grass knew nothing,
They swing still grotesque
and poison.
And upon the harrowing landscape, bounding, a
molten submarine,
Up peri-como-scopes.
Can anything in life be more horrible!
The inquest of existence pleads, Guilty.
He stands like a savage
indecision of his own

The journal contains many early versions of lyrics for songs that would later be released by The Libertines, or Pete’s second project, Babyshambles.

“The Ha Ha Wall” (or simply “Haha Wall”) is a track #7 on The Libertines’ 2nd album The Libertines (2004). The track is credited to Doherty and Barat. There also exist a couple of rough versions including one by Babyshambles for the Sailor sessions.

Doherty has said of the song, “‘The Ha Ha Wall’ dates back to the very first night Carl and I … actually sat down as friends with guitars in about 1998 … He was really proud of his Union Jack tea towel and this old guitar he had, and the first song we wrote together became ‘The Ha Ha Wall'” (Kids in the Riot pp.185-186). Written approximately two years before the official album version was released, the notebook shows a still incomplete version of the lyrics in verse two.

A version of Through the Looking Glass appears, with chords, in the notebook. It is not the first incarnation – a previous diary (circa 2001) holds frantic paragraphed notes of what would later become the lyrics. This version, though written in song format, is far from complete.

Among the photographs of Doherty are reviews of The Libertines, king skin packets glued under scribbles, postcards and polaroid strips. An address for a Parisian antique dealer is pasted below a stream of consciousness entitled “Arbeit Macht Frei” – another well-known song title, that would later feature on the sound track of film Children of Men.

Newspaper clippings “Hiroshima’s Children pause for peace”, and a set of pictures showing Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Tony Blair are also included without explanation.

MANUSCRIPT PRISON JOURNAL WANDSWORTH: AUTUMN 2003            

“Afternoon… Window crusted with dry summers flake & a lonely fly, all a screen ignored by the viewer who though facing it, stares and stares straight throughout his silence.”
                  -The first line of Doherty’s prison journal.

On 7 September 2003, Peter Doherty was sentenced to six months in prison after breaking into Carl Barat’s flat. He was released on 8 October 2003.

This prison journal contains excerpts and drafts of Lonely Villein, Doherty’s projected semi-autobiographical novel. Drawings include a figure (repeated three times) modelled on Henry Wallis’s painting The Death of Chatterton, and a crude sketch of two prisoners sharing a cell with the caption “I love Heroin”

The Villein passages are not confined to basic prose, the narrative extends to long form poetry, a snippet of which reads:

An illusion:
the window appears clean now, and the sky a
rich definite biro purple. The light in the
room is deceptively dull, as Villein has
hung a pale green linen sheet from crooked screws,
soothing the harsh electric white that blares
from the plastical case.

Doherty has also transcribed poems an impassioned speech from Oscar Wilde’s The Duchess of Padua on the back cover of the prison diary.