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WILLIAMS, Helen Maria (trans.); SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de. Paul and Virginia.London : 1795
First edition in English, translated by the celebrated bluestocking Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) "amidst the horrors of Robespierre's tyranny", as she explains colourfully in her Preface; it became "the standard English edition well into the nineteenth century" (Deborah Kennedy, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution, 2002, p. 122). The... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 127769
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BOURDÉ [DE VILLEHUET, Jacques]. Manuel des Marins, ou Explication des Termes de Marine.Lorient : 1773
First edition. Born in St. Malo in 1732, Bourdé spent his entire career in the employ of the Compagnie des Indes based at Lorient. His reputation was made by the publication in 1765 of Le Manoeuvrier, which he had submitted for the approbation of the Academie des Sciences. An English translation was published in 1788 and Bourdé joined... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 42930
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DERRIDA, Jacques. The Work of Mourning.Chicago & London : 2001
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by Derrida to the poet and photographer Ira Cohen on the title page, "Pour Ira, de tout coeur, J.D." The book is a collection of eulogies, essays and condolences on the deaths of 14 writers and thinkers who were Derrida's friends or colleagues: Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 111353
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SAVARY, Jacques. Dictionnaire universel de commerce:Paris : 1723-30
First edition, complete with the supplementary volume, of the first commercial dictionary, produced by the two sons of Jacques Savary, author of Le Parfait Négociant. Savary wrote on commercial topics with considerable authority in that he made a large fortune through commerce. He suffered both politically and financially from the disgrace of Fouquet... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 89895
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PRÉVERT, Jacques. Paroles.Paris : 1945 [i.e. 1946]
First edition, first printing, one of 324 copies on rives paper, Jacques Brunius's copy of one of Prévert's best known collection of poems. They were first published separately in various magazines from around 1930, and were, partially and amateurishly, collected by students from Rheims at the end of the war. The poems were officially gathered in 1945... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 140435
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CASANOVA DI SEINGALT, Jacques. The Memoirs.London and New York : 1928
A very handsome set of the memoirs of the great libertine, one of a stated edition of 330 unnumbered sets (other sets are known with an edition limitation of 660). The text uses the translation of the Welsh mystic and author Arthur Machen, first published in 1894, with an introductory essay by the pioneering sexologist Havelock Ellis, taken from his... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138632
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FUTRELLE, Jacques. The Thinking Machine.London : 1907
First UK edition, first impression of this collection of stories marking the second appearance of Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen after The Chase of the Golden Plate (1906), and the first in which in which the detective "was allowed full scope to perform his feats of mental wizardry" (Quayle). The Thinking Machine was first published in the US earlier the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 104944
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CASANOVA DI SEINGALT, Jacques. The Memoirs.[c.1920]
Limited edition, one of 500 sets, printed on Louvain laid paper. The text consists of Arthur Machen's translation, first published in 1894, to which has been added the chapters discovered by Arthur Symons, alongside a supplement and a bibliography. Casanova's memoirs were not published in their full form until 1960. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 122490
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BARZUN, Jacques. On Writing, Editing, and Publishing.Chicago : 1971
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "For Wendell, fellow-author, editor & publisher. As ever, J. Nov 30/71". The recipient is the French-born American historian Barzun's life-long friend, with whom the author Wendell Hertig Taylor later wrote the critique of crime fiction, A Catalogue of Crime... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 91240
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(LEVITZKY BINDING.) LECONTE DE LISLE, Charles Marie René. Poèmes Antiques; Poèms Barbares; Poèmes Tragiques; Derniers Poèmes.Paris : [c.1900]
An attractively bound set of Leconte de Lisle's poetry, published as part of Lemerre's Petite Bibliotheque Libraire series. It consists of four works: Poèmes Antiques (first published in 1852); Poèms Barbares (1862 as Poésies barbares); Poèmes Tragiques (1884); and Derniers Poemes (1895). Georges Levitsky was a 20th-century Odessa-born binder in... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 123292
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![Proust; [and] Three Dialogues.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/123408comp.jpg)
BECKETT, Samuel, & Georges Duthuit. Proust; [and] Three Dialogues.London : 1965
Signed limited edition, number 28 of 100 copies signed by Beckett and specially bound. Proust, Beckett's epistemological and aesthetic manifesto, was first published in 1930. Three Dialogues, a series of letters between Beckett and Duthuit concerning contemporary art, was first published in the literary journal transition in 1949. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123408
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LUNA, Miguel de. The History of the Conquest of Spain by the Moors.London : 1687
First edition in English of the first part (all published) of Miguel de Luna's Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo (1592-1600), itself purportedly translated from an Arabic source, but in fact an original composition. Luna's account of the Arab conquest of Spain to the year 761 was considered genuine by Southey, dismissed by George Ticknor and other... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 120934
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MORRISON, Toni. The Bluest Eye.New York : 1970
First edition, first printing, of Morrison's highly influential debut novel, in notably attractive condition. The Bluest Eye "cut a new path through the American literary landscape by placing black girls at the center of the story" and its lasting importance was cited when Morrison received the Nobel Prize for her contributions to literature... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 143251
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WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday.Richmond : 1921
First edition, first impression, one of 1,000 copies of this only collection of short stories to be published in Woolf's lifetime, and an early Hogarth Press production. Leonard Woolf stated that the work "was printed by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, Richmond, who used to give him advice on printing problems when he and Mrs. Woolf first started... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 138929
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WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday.Richmond : 1921
First edition, first impression, one of 1,000 copies of this collection of short stories, and an early Hogarth Press production. Leonard Woolf stated that the work "was printed by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, Richmond, who used to give him advice on printing problems when he and Mrs. Woolf first started the Hogarth Press" (Kirkpatrick). Woolf... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 137334
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PERCY, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:London : 1775
First published 1765, this a lovely set of the third edition in which Percy "corrected such Mistakes as he had detected and also inserted such further Illustrations as had either occurred to himself, or been communicated to him" (Advertisement to the Third Edition). The dedication, though signed by Percy, was written by Samuel Johnson. Johnson had... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 75095
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); HOPE, Anthony. The Dolly Dialogues.London : 1894
First edition, first issue, of the first book to be wholly illustrated by Rackham. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 112940
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POUND, Ezra (trans.) Dialogues of Fontenelle.London : 1917
First edition, first impression; 500 copies printed. Very hard to find in tolerable condition. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 116993
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BIRRELL, Francis (trans.); DIDEROT, Denis. Dialogues.London : 1927
First edition, first impression, of this translation. Inscribed by Frankie Birrell to the Bloomsbury Group members Ralph and Frances Partridge on the front free endpaper: "To Ralph & Frances from the translator". Frances Partridge née Marshall worked at Birrell and Bunny Garnett's bookshop in her early 20s, and records in her autobiography her mother's... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 131854
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(DICKENS, Charles.) ECKEL, John C. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values.London : 1913
First edition, signed limited large-paper issue, number 21 of 250 copies signed by the author and the publishers. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 138141
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GRAVES, Robert. Contemporary Techniques of Poetry.London : 1925
First edition, first impression. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 141017
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(DICKENS, Charles.) ECKEL, John C. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens Their Points and Values.New York : 1932
Revised and enlarged edition, number 42 of 750 copies only. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138142
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LE GALLIENNE, Richard. The Quest of the Golden Girl.London : 1896
First edition, in the attractive art nouveau style binding designed by William Henry Bradley. Referred to as the "Dean of American Designers" by the Saturday Evening Post, Bradley's illustrative art nouveau style was heavily influenced by Japanese block printing and the Arts and Crafts Movement (1880-1910). He was the highest paid artist of... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 136753
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WAUGH, Evelyn; WAIFE, Geraldine. Colleagues.London : 1923
First edition, first impression. Scarce in the dust jacket, which was designed by Evelyn Waugh. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 111189
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ROBBINS, Tom. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.Boston : 1976
First edition, first printing. An exceptional copy. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 112110
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GREENE, Graham. Essais catholiques.Paris : 1953
First edition, first impression. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 90992
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(CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY). Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester.Florence : 1526
An early edition of this collection of classical geographical texts, including Pomponius Mela and Julius Solinus, and a translation into Latin of the Greek 1st-century world geography of Dinoysius Periegetes. The text is based on the first edition of the collection, printed by the Aldine press in 1518. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 137339
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); HOPE, Anthony. The Dolly Dialogues.London : 1894
First edition, second issue of the wrapper edition, of the first book to be wholly illustrated by Rackham. With the following issue point: the full title running as a headline instead of the shortened version of "Dolly" in the first issue. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 112942
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LESSING, Doris. Martha Quest.London : 1952
First edition, first impression of the first book in the Children of Violence series. Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 100221
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AMIS, Kingsley. What Became of Jane Austen and Other Questions.London : 1970
First edition, first impression, of this collection of essays by Kingsley Amis including "literary criticism, of writers as diverse and Hans Christian Andersen and Dylan Thomas and novels from Sorrell and Son to Portnoy's Complaint; articles on such topics as horror films, the use of language, the National Eisteddfod of Wales and fictional detectives;... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 85374
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JOHNS, W. E. Gimlet's Oriental Quest.Leicester : 1948
First edition, first impression. The fifth book in the author's Gimlet series. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 94618
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WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest.London : 1968
First UK edition, first impression. Preceded by the US edition of 1966. Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 98592
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[WOOLRICH, Cornell; as] IRISH, William. Dead Man Blues.Philadelphia & New York : 1948
First edition, first printing. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 76454
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); HOPE, Anthony. The Dolly Dialogues.London : 1894
First hardback edition, printed one month after the wrapper edition, of the first book to be wholly illustrated by Rackham. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 112939
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SYMONS, A. J. A. The Quest for Corvo. An Experiment in Biography.London : 1934
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Vincent, a tribute to a long a noble friendship, with the sincere and cordial salutations of his colleague in letters and admirer in life. A.J. Feb 3rd, 1934". The recipient, identified by a pencilled note, was Harold Vincent Marrot (1898-1954),... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 109896
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FREEMAN, R. Austin. When Rogues Fall Out.London : 1932
First edition, a rare advance copy in the advance dust jacket lacking text on the lower panel and flaps. The book features Freeman's "medical jurispractitioner" Dr John Thorndyke, one of the first forensic detectives in literary history. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 88638
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KEROUAC, Jack. Mexico City Blues.New York : 1959
First edition, first printing, of Kerouac's "242 Choruses", written between 1954 and 1957, in the correct black and white jacket (the bibliographer Charters incorrectly calls for a jacket "printed in red, green and black", these being the colours of the wrappers issue, and later dust jackets), hard to find in collectable condition. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136575
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SYMONS, A. J. A. The Quest for Corvo. An Experiment in Biography.London : 1934
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the writer Frank Swinnerton (1884-1992) on the front free endpaper, "Frank Swinnerton, in the hope that he will find the book worthy of the theme with the cordial regards of A. J. A. Symons." Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 93972
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets From The Portuguese.London : 1914
First Riccardi Press edition, number 151 of 350 numbered copies specially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, from an edition of 1,000 copies on handmade Riccardi Paper; there were also 12 copies on vellum. This is a very scarce and attractive deluxe issue of an already finely produced book, printing some of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most famous love... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 131514
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ALDINGTON, Richard. Life Quest.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. From the library of Australian painter Albert Tucker (1914-1999), with his signature, dated 1943, to the front free endpaper. Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 104459
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ROBBINS, Tom. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.Boston : 1976
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Steve, let'er buck! Tom Robbins". Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 70634
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DIDEROT, Denis. Œuvres philosophiques et dramatiques.Amsterdam : 1772
First edition of Diderot's collected philosophical and theatrical works. It is rare to find a complete set as each volume has both a collective title page and its own, and could have been sold separately.
There were two editions of published in Amsterdam that year, the other being the octavo-format edition of Marc Michel Rey, though the present... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 141232
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(ROBINSON, W. Heath.) RABELAIS, François. The Works.London : [1921]
Third Heath Robinson edition. The works of Rabelais illustrated by William Heath Robinson were commissioned by Grant Richards and first published as two large quarto volumes in 1904. Heath Robinson "chose a grotesque style which emphasized the earthiness of the epic while overlooking the bawdy" (ODNB). The resulting book became one of the illustrator's... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 102201
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WISE, Thomas James (forger); DICKENS, Charles. To Be Read at Dusk.London : 1852 [i.e. 1891]
The Estelle Doheny copy of this Thomas James Wise forgery. Wise (1859-1937), the most prominent bibliographer of his day, funded his bibliophilia and fuelled his vanity by forging 19th-century literary publications, taking a known text, and producing non-existent "privately printed" editions in pamphlet form, which he sold to wealthy book collectors... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138197
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TROUBETZKOY, Princess Paul. Half O'Clock in Mayfair.Paris : [1938]
First edition, sole impression, a truly rare production of the Obelisk Press, with only three copies showing in institutional holdings worldwide (all in America). The author was British novelist Rhoda Muriel Boddam (b. 1898), second wife of the Russian sculptor Prince Paul Troubezkoy (1866-1938). He was a prominent figure of the Belle Epoque, acquainted... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 143574
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[GOOLD-ADAMS, Evelyn St. Bride.] G.-ADAMS, B. M. England.Paris : 1923
First and limited edition, number 9 of 150 copies only. B. M. G-Adams was the pen name of Evelyn St. Bride Scratton (née Goold-Adams) a friend and sometime lover of Ezra Pound. This work is a collection of three sketches of English country life. Pound encouraged St. Bride's writing and promoted her work, influencing the appearance of her writing in... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 126829
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[IRVING, Washington.] CRAYON, Geoffrey. Tales of a Traveller.Philadelphia : 1824
First edition of Irving's collection of short stories, published under his pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, all of which are here printed for the first time. Irving wrote to his sister Catharine that "for my own part, I think there are in it some of the best things I have ever written" (cited in Jones, Washington Irving: The Definitive Biography, 2011). The... Learn More£11,500.00Stock Code: 130818
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ADDISON, Joseph; Richard Steele; & others. The Spectator.London : 1744
Appealing set of the great Augustan periodical, presented here in an unadulterated contemporary trade binding and "improved" at an early date by the addition of the delightful frontispieces from the 1747 edition, the designs of which are by Francis Hayman, "the most proficient English illustrator of his time" (Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 136182
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JAMESON, Storm. Farewell to Youth.London : 1928
First edition, first impression, this the author's own copy, with her bookplate to the front pastedown, of her semi-autobiographical novel. Jameson (18911986) was the first woman to read English at the University of Leeds. As well as being a prolific writer, she was, like Winifred Holtby, "much in demand both as a literary critic and a commentator on... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 134427
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(DICKENS, CHARLES, attributed). [MOGGRIDGE, GEORGE.] Sergeant Bell, and his Raree-Show.London : 1839
First edition. The book was once often accepted to be by Dickens, and indeed the binding here states Dickens as the author. However this is a fallacy - Dickens had originally agreed to write this book at the request of the publisher, but negotiations were cancelled. As Eckel notes "This is the third of the books illustrated by George Cruikshank with... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 138172
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![[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas] Rolling Stone No. 95 [&] No. 96.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/4/143427.jpg)
THOMPSON, Hunter S., as Raoul Duke. [Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas] Rolling Stone No. 95 [&] No. 96.San Francisco : 11 and 25 Nov. 1971
First appearance in print of Hunter S Thompson's great work, complete as issued. The importance of its appearance at this time and in this context cannot be stressed strongly enough; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas both heralded and defined the decade of decadence that filled the vacuum left by the passing of the preceding decade of idealism, and Rolling... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 143427
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H.D. [i.e. Hilda Doolittle.] Hedylus.Stratford-upon-Avon : 1928 [but 1929]
First edition, first impression, UK issue. In all 775 copies were printed, of which 750 were for sale in the UK and US; 520 copies were sent to Houghton Mifflin (who published on 19 October 1928), making this one of the 225 copies sent to Basil Blackwell (published 26 January 1929). H.D. (1886-1961) was "a key figure in the international Imagist movement... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 135643
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[CLELAND, John.] Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.London : 1781
Extremely rare early edition of Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, "the first original English prose pornography, and the first to break away from the dialogue form into the style of the novel" (Foxon, Libertine Literature in England, 1660-1745).
First published under the same imprint in an edition dated 1749, the imprint... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 86257
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DICK, Philip K. Galactic Pot-Healer.London : 1971
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in 1969. The novel deals with a number of philosophical and political issues such as repressive societies, fatalism, and the search for meaning in life. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 107067
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DESCLOS, Anne, as Pauline Réage. Story of O.London : [1970]
First UK edition, first impression, of perhaps the most infamous erotic novel of the 20th century, originally published in French under the title Histoire d'O by Parisian publisher Jean-Jacques Pauvert in 1954.
Its sadomasochistic content caused a scandal on publication and both Pauvert and Jean Paulhan (who was Desclos's lover and widely suspected... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 142800
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TROUBETZKOY, Princess Paul. Gallows' Seed.New York : 1935
First US edition, sole printing, of this thriller by Princess Paul Troubetzkoy. The first edition was published in London in the preceding year - both US and UK versions are rare, with only 3 copies of each recorded in institutional holdings worldwide. The sensational jacket must, of course, be rarer still.
The author was British novelist Rhoda... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 143676
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[MORGANN, Maurice.] An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff.London : 1777
First edition. Morgann "took issue with Dr Johnson as to whether the knight was a fat, drunken coward or a figure worthy of admiration. In a close analysis of Shakespeare's technique as a dramatist, Morgann argued that Shakespeare's intent was to gain sympathy from the audience for Falstaff at the expense of the virtuous young king and, in doing so,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 119784
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MCGONAGALL, Sir William Topaz, Poet, Knight of the White Elephant, Burmah. Beautiful Oban.Edinburgh, No. 21 Lothian Street : [1894-1902]
Very scarce broadside poem by the "World's Worst Poet", William McGonagall (1825-1902), signed at the head, "Sir. Wm. Topaz. McGonagall. Poet". Gord Bambrick in "The Real McGonagall" acknowledges that "William McGonagall is best known as the world's worst poet. His unique style of versification breaks the laws of rhythm, rhyme and common sense in a... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 117956
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FOTHERGILL, George A. The Prospectus of An Artist's Thoughts in Verse & Design.Edinburgh : 1916
First edition, first impression, 750 copies were printed; rare: according to Library Hub there are no copies located in British and Irish institutional libraries, nor does it appear in WorldCat. With a note, possibly in Fothergill's hand (dated 1916): "The whole of the Manuscripts & Drawings were destroyed by fire which occurred in Messrs Neill & Co's... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 106927
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BECKFORD, William. Vathek.A Londres : 1815
First French-language edition to be published in England, first issue (later issues have a Mount Street address for Clarke); third edition in French overall. Beckford's oriental novel, Vathek, was written in French between January and May 1782, and published in Lausanne in December 1786 (though postdated 1787). It was beaten to the press by the English... Learn More£625.00Stock Code: 132255
