Secondhand

New In – February 2024

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ART

Vincent Moleta | Exhibition of Italian Art Books | Aeolian Press | 2010 | No. 69 of an edition of 400. Unlaminated cover is lightly worn & marked. | £50

Toshio Saeki | Reve Eclarte | Cornelius | 2016 | 9782360811069 Light wear to corners of jacket, top corners & lower edge of boards a little bumped. | £200

Susan Weber (ed.) | William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain | Yale | 2013 | 9780300196184 Light external wear. Corners of pictorial cover rubbed. Lower edge of page-block somewhat dust-marked. | £100

CRIME & THRILLERS

G. D. H. & M. Cole | Superintendent Wilson’s Holiday | Collins | n.d. | Undated Collins’ 1/- Fiction Library copy. Some rubbing to boards, endpapers discoloured, inked initials at top of title page. | £50

G. D. H. & M. Cole | The Man from the River | Collins | n.d. | Undated Collins’ 1/- Fiction Library copy. Some rubbing to boards, outer edge of page-block & endpapers foxed, short fingernail tears at outer edge of front pastedown & half-title page.. | £50

E. C. R. Lorac | The Sixteenth Stair | Collins | 1952 | Crime Club reprint in jacket. | £50

John Rowland | Puzzle in Pyrotechnics | Herbert Jenkins | n.d. | First printing in unclipped jacket. Reduced price stamped on front flap. Diagonal crease at top edge of front panel, some loss to edges of jacket, most heavily at top of spine, which has been reinforced with tape on the reverse, small puncture mark about two thirds of the way down the jacket’s spine. Exposed edges of boards sunned, a little offset from boards to lower edge of back panel of jacket. Internally in very good condition. | £50

ESOTERICA

Michael Baigent, Nicholas Campion & Charles Harvey | Mundane Astrology | Aquarian | 1984 | 9780850303025 Some wear to cover & edge, no problem with text pages. | £85

Brian Bates | Wisdom of the Wyrd | Rider | 1996 | 9780712672771 Cover worn, outer edge of page-block foxed, no problem with text pages. | £175

Arthur Bhaduri | The Key to Health | Aquarian | 1952 | Unlaminated card cover is sunned at one edge, lightly marked on the back. | £75

Georges Chevalier | The Sacred Magician | Hart-Davis, MacGibbon | 1976 | First printing in unclipped jacket. Heavy foxing to white flaps of jacket & to opening & closing pages of book. | £100

George Devereux (ed.) | Psychoanalysis and the Occult | Souvenir Press | 1974 | Some wear to cover & edge. Intermittent foxing to outer edge of page-block, with a large blotch on the top edge. Remainder stripe on lower edge of page-block, price blacked out on back cover. Text pages in very good condition. | £100

Lawrence Durdin-Robertson | Juno Covella – INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR | Cesara | 1982 | A very good copy in a tatty jacket. Previous owner’s name & sigil on ffep, some foxing to edge & endpapers. Inscribed by author to an unnamed recipient on the title page. | £50

David Hamblin; Charles Harvey (fwd) | Harmonic Charts | Aquarian | 1987 | 9780850306606 Apparently unread copy with light external wear, light foxing to edges. | £100

Murray Hope | The Psychology of Ritual | Element | 1988 | 9781852300432Moderate wear to cover, outer edge of page-block heavily foxed. | £50

Manfred M. Junius | Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy | Inner Traditions | 1985 | Gift inscription on ffep, owner’s signature inside front cover. Lower corner of front cover creased, corners worn, outer edge of page-block foxed, as are endpapers. Text pages in very good condition. | £50

Billie Potts | Witches Heal | Hecuba’s Daughters | 1981 | White cover is foxed & marked, outer edge of page-block foxed. Text pages in very good condition. | £50

Alan Richardson & David Annwn | Inner Celtia | Capell Bann | 1996 | 9781898307525 Apparently unread copy with very light external wear. | £90

Alex Sanders | Born to be King | Rose Ankh | 2019 | 9781913023003 Top corner of back panel lightly creased, small light mark to lower edge of page-block. The binding is rather slant, with the front cover set back. | £50

Arthur Versluis | The Egyptian Mysteries | Arkana | 1988 | 9781850639876 Some wear to cover. | £50

FICTION

Neil Gaiman; Elise Hurst (illus.) | The Ocean at the End of the Lane – SIGNED COPY | Headline | 2020 | 9781472260222 Independent Bookshop Edition, signed by Neil Himself. The book has been read, with some wear to the edge of the cover & a lightly creased spine. | £50

Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea | World Books | 1967 | World Books edition, published in the year following the Deutsch first printing. Jacket looks impressive, but has a 2cm closed tear to the top edge of the front panel,a little loss around the top of the spine, & creasing at the top of the back panel. Internally very good indeed. | £50

MODERN FIRSTS

Thomas Burke | The London Spy | Thornton Butterworth | 1922 | First printing. Boards are worn, with a label trace on front panel. Some foxing to text pages. | £100

Mary Higgins Clark | Where are the Children? | Simon and Schuster | 1975 | First printing in unclipped jacket, with a 3mm tear at the top of the fold of the front panel/front flap, & a 1mm tear at the corresponding place at the back. | £50

Lawrence Durrell | The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur; Livia; Constance; Sebastian; Quinx | Faber | 1974 – 1985 | First printings in unclipped jackets. Spines are lightly faded. Top edges of back boards of the first two volumes are bumped. Still a handsome set. | £100

Christopher de Hamel | The Book – SIGNED COPY | Phaidon | 2001 | 9780714837741 First printing in jacket, inscribed by author on half-title page. Outer edge of page-block is foxed/marked. | £50

Giuseppe di Lampedusa | The Leopard | Steimatzky’s Agency | 1960 | First Israeli edition in unclipped jacket with faded spine. A couple of closed tears to edges of cover, a little loss to corners & bottom of spine, more loss to top of spine. Name on ffep. | £100

Cormac McCarthy | The Road | Picador | 2006 | UK first printing, in unclipped jacket. Top of spine bumped, hence grading. Otherwise in very good condition indeed. | £50

Derek Raymond (Robin Cook) | The Hidden Files | Little, Brown | 1992 | 9780356206547 First printing in unclipped jacket, in apparently unread condition. Top edge of page-block foxed. | £60

Ernest Tidyman | Shaft | Michael Joseph | 1971 | First British printing in unclipped jacket. Very light wear to jacket, some foxing & discoloration to white rear panel & flaps. | £100

Ernest Tidyman | Shaft among the Jews | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 1973 | First UK printing in unclipped jacket. Faint trace of a removed label over the printed price on the front flap. Outer edge of page-block foxed, most heavily at top. | £50

PAPERBACKS & PULPS

John Creasey | Introducing the Toff | Arrow | 1961 | Light wear to cover, 1.5 cm split at bottom of fold of front panel/spine, front cover set a little forward, damp mark at inner corner of top edge of page-block, extending into the upper margin of main page area. Still a handsome copy. | £50

Norman Deane (John Creasey) | Intent to Murder | Jay Books | 1959 | Cover worn & marked, with a light crease down back panel. Top edge of page-block lightly marked. Still looks good. | £50

Norman Deane (John Creasey) | The Silent House | Jay Books | 1958 | A handsome copy, with minor wear to cover & edge. Front cover set a little forward. Some foxing, most evident on publishing information page. | £50

Patricia Highsmith | Those who Walk Away | Macfadden-Bartell | 1968 | First paperback printing. A handsome, apparently unread, copy, its top outer corner very slightly bowed. | £50

George Hirst | The Golden Mile / Back to the Golden Mile | Sphere | 1974, 1975 | THE GOLDEN MILE appears to be in unread condition, with minor wear to its outer edge, most evident at the lower corner. Its sequel is in good condition, with some creasing to the cover & a foxed/marked outer edge. | £50

Peter Manton (John Creasey) | The Crooked Killer | Jay Books | 1959 | Bright paperback copy with number in ink on front cover, lightly creased spine, front cover set forward. | £50

PHOTOGRAPHY

Lise Patt (ed.) | Searching for Sebald | Institute of Cultural Inquiry | 2007 | 9781889917115 Light external wear, spine lightly creased. | £90

POETRY

Bertolt Brecht; John Willett, Ralph Manheim et al | Poems 1913-1956 | Eyre Methuen | 1979 | Second edition in price-clipped jacket. Red lettering on spine very slightly faded, fore-edge foxed. Still a handsome copy. | £125

Anne Carson; Bianca Stone (illus.) | Antigonick | Bloodaxe | 2012 | 9781852249397 First printing. Small marks in margin of pp.8-9, otherwise in very good condition. | £60

Charles Simic | Selected Poems 1963-2003 | Faber | 2004 | 9780571222728 First printing. Apparently unread copy with external wear from previous storage / display, most evidently a 3cm pressure mark on the back panel. | £50

Iain Sinclair | Suicide Bridge | Albion Village Press | 1979 | First edition, printed in a run of 400. Spine lightly faded & marked, some reading wear to the outer edge of the front panel, endpapers foxed. | £50

POLITICS

Heinrich Eppe, Wolfgang Uellenberg | 70 ans d’existence de l’Internationale Socialiste de la Jeunesse | La Jeunesse Socialiste de l’Allemagne | 1977 | Text in French. Cover worn & scuffed, glued binding is intact but feels potentially fragile. | £50

Executive Secretariat of the Tricontinental | Bulletin Tricontinental 2, May ’66 | Executive Secretariat of the Tricontinental | 1966 | Fragile stapled pamphlet, printed on very thin paper. Edges are worn, cover lightly foxed. | £50

Charles Reeve, Sylvie Deneuve, Marc Geoffroy | Beyond the Balaclavas of South East Mexico | Elephant Editions | 2003 | Stapled pamphlet. Original selling price indicated both by sticker on back cover & faintly visible pencilling on ffep. | £50

Backlist

The lists below give a snapshot of our older stock. We have more books available online and in our stall, but this gives a reasonable impression of our range and interests. Please contact us if you are interested in any of these titles, and we will then confirm their availability, and send you a PayPal invoice.

Art
Atlas Press
Comic & Curious
Drama
Esoterica
Fiction
Film
History
Journals & Magazines
Kulchur
Paperbacks & Pulps
Philosophy
Poetry
Politics
Psychology