Secondhand | Invisible Books

New In – March 2025

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ARCHITECTURE

ART

Joe Coleman, Adam Parfrey (intr.) | Cosmic Retribution | Fantagraphics | 1992 | A serviceable copy. Some wear to cover & edge, with a closed tear at the bottom of the crease adjacent to the spine on the front panel & first couple of pages of prelims. Offset from reverse of front panel on ffep. No problems with illustrations pages. | £50

DRAMA

Patrick Hamilton | Gas Light | Constable | 1947 | A good-looking copy with some wear to unlaminated cover, most evident on spine. Short horizontal split about 2cm from bottom of spine, a little loss to extremities of spine, small skinned patch on back panel where a label has been removed at some time | £50

ESOTERICA

Jacob Behmen (Jakob Böhme) | The Three Principles of the Divine Essence | Yogi Publication Society | n.d. | A sturdy reading copy, with light tea splash on top edge of the page-block. This is also visible at the very top of the upper margin of the opening pages. Otherwise in very good condition. |£15

John Michell, Joscelyn Godwin (sel., intr.) | Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist | Dominion | 2005 | First printing in jacket. A sturdy, but evidently second-hand copy with a short closed tear & diagonal crease to back panel of jacket, page-block a little cocked, general moderate wear. Still a nice copy to handle & read. | £30

A. R. Naylor, Austin Osman Spare et al | Existence: Austin Spare 1886-1956 | I-H-O | 2006 | Presentation copy in rather worn glassene wrap. Top corner of card cover creased, spine sunned, top edge of page-block marked. | £300

Austin Osman Spare, Christopher Bray (ed.), Lionel B. Snell (intr. To Book of Pleasure) | The Collected Works of Austin Osman Spare: Earth Inferno, Book of Pleasure, Automatic Drawing, Focus of Life, Anathema of Zos | Sorcerer’s Apprentice | 1986 | Second revised edition of 500 copies. Some wear to boards, top edge of page-block foxed, faint lingering scent of tobacco smoke. Old pencilled price on ffep. | £250

FILM

FOLKLORE & FOLKSONG

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Jose-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental, Stanislas Barthelemy | The Adventures of Herge | Drawn & Quarterly | 2011 | Some wear to boards: little split at top of join of spine/back panel, corners bumped. The lower corners of a few pages have been turned over, afffecting the margins only. | £25

C. Burns (Charles Burns) | Big Baby: Curse of the Molemen | Raw | 1986 | First printing. An evidently second-hand copy with faded spine. Boards are rubbed, with a faint label trace on the front panel. Internally in very good condition. | £30

LITERATURE

David Lindsay, E. H. Visiak (fwd) | A Voyage to Arcturus | Gollancz | 1978 | Lettering faded on spine, design faded at outer edge of cover, endpapers & edge of page-block foxed, paper tanned with age. Still a handsome copy of this great novel, but one which shows its age. | £50

LITERARY BIOGRAPHY & CRITICISM

MODERN FIRSTS

Hermann Broch | The Sleepwalkers | Martin Secker | 1932 | First printing. Boards are worn, with a couple of small bumps, & a little split at the top of the spine. Outer edge of page-block is dust-marked. Text pages are clean & in very good condition. | £75

William Burroughs (William S. Burroughs) | White Subway | Aloes | n.d. | First print. One of a thousand copies. Perfect bound paperback. A nice crisp copy, very good in all respects but for a faint lingering smell of tobacco smoke, hence grading. | £100

Maryse Conde | Windward Heights | Faber | 1998 | First printing. Some wear to cover, including a fingernail impression to top edge of front panel. Spine lightly sunned, lightly creased. Paper tanned with age. Still a good-looking copy, but evidently second-hand. | £40

John Cowper Powys | Weymouth Sands | Macdonald | 1963 | First UK printing of the full text of this major novel. The book itself is in very good condition, with a little fading to edges of boards, a little bumping to lower edge of spine. There is light ink offset & smudging to a few pages around p.70: this is a production fault, not later damage, & the text remains entirely readable. The jacket is in good condition only, with tears & some loss to the edge. | £60

Louis Zukofsky, Celia Zukofsky | Bottom: on Shakespeare | Ark Press | 1963 | Two volumes in slip-case. Slip-case is rather worn, & missing its spine label. A loose printed slip is inserted in vol 2. Spines are a little dulled, & there are a few small light marks on the cover of vol 2. Still a gorgeous set, one of a run of 1040. | £50

Celia and Louis Zukofsky | Catullus | Cape Goliard | 1969 | First edition. A good reading copy. Text pages are in very good condition but cover & edge are worn, most evidently at corners, spine is creased & rather tatty at the top, back panel is rather buckled from careless shelving, endpapers & outer edge of page-block are foxed. Still a very good way to read this complex text, presented in parallel with the Latin on large well laid-out pages. | £50

Louis Zukofsky | “A” 13-21 | Jonathan Cape | 1969 | First printing. Jacket is worn & marked, with a little loss around the edge. Outer edge of page-block is lightly foxed/marked. Pencilled notes & sketch on endpapers. Text pages are clean & in very good condition. | £30

MUSIC

Christopher Dawes | Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail | Thunder’s Mouth | 2005 | Rather worn paperback with top corner of p.75 folded over, & a Goodwill sticker on the front panel (which might be easily removable but, I feel, rather adds to the overall effect …) | £50

The Hafler Trio, Andrew M. McKenzie | The Hafler Trio: Plucking Feathers from a Bald Frog | Psychick Release Production Cerebrum & Press | 1991 | One of an edition of 500. Pale unlaminated cover is marked & foxed, sunned on spine. Top edge of page-block is sunned & foxed, lower edge of last couple of pages & back cover is a little roughly trimmed. | £100

Charles Neal | Tape Delay | SAF | 2001 | Very light external wear. | £200

The Lives & Times of Frank Zappa & the Mothers | Babylon Books | n.d. | Worn stapled booklet. White paper cover is marked. | £20

PAPERBACKS & PULPS

Charles Baudelaire, Geoffrey Wagner (tr.), Enid Starkie (intr.) | Selected Poems of Charles Baudelaire | Panther | 1971 | Clear lamination has been added to cover. Spine creased, fore-edge quite roughly trimmed (from original production, not later usage), paper tanned with age, name on ffep. | £50

Angela Carter | Several Perceptions | Pan | 1970 | Book is cocked, with a crease to top corner of front panel, little split at top of fold of front panel/spine, book exchange stamp on reverse of front panel, paper tanned with age. Despite these faults, it still looks good & is pleasant to handle & read. |£30

Ted Lewis | Carter (Jack’s Return Home) | Pan | 1971 | First paperback printing with movie tie-in title & cover. A worn, cocked copy. |£30

Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson | Illuminatus! Part I: The Eye in the Pyramid, Part II: The Golden Apple, Part III: Leviathan | Dell | 1975-1976 | Parts I & II are first printings from 1975, Part III is a second print from the following year. Part I is rather worn, with the red lettering on the spine faded but still legible, & a little split at the bottom of the fold of the front panel/spine. | £100

PHILOSOPHY

PHOTOGRAPHY

Martin Parr (photographs), Nicholas Barker (text) | From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring | BBC | 1994 | Minor wear to cover, very faint trace of erased old price at top corner of ffep. | £100

John Taylor (ed), Beatrix Campbell et al | Ten.8 Quarterly Photographic Journal No. 15: Orwell Revisited | Ten.8 | 1984 | Stapled magazine with light external wear, lightly bowed lower outer corner. | £20

POETRY

POLITICS

PSYCHIATRY / PSYCHOLOGY

Sigmund Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome, Ernst Pfeiffer (ed.) | Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salome Letters | Hogarth Press, Institute of Psycho-Analysis | 1972 | First UK printing in unclipped jacket. Some loss to jacket. Very outer tip of p.67 has become creased at some time. | £50

SIGNED COPIES

James Herriot | If Only They Could Talk | Michael Joseph | 1974 | Reprint in unclipped jacket, signed by author on title page. Minor wear to jacket, with a 1cm tear to top edge of fold of back panel/spine. Crossed-out biro price on front pastedown, top corner of ffep slightly rubbed where a price has been erased at some time. Otherwise in very good condition. | £100

Rachel Lichtenstein | On Brick Lane | Hamish Hamilton | 2007 | First printing, signed by author on title page. An evidently second-hand copy, with minor external wear, dust-marked upper edge. The paper of the book’s final signature is rather crinkled: this is caused by the binding process, rather than later handling. | £30

SMALL PRESS

December 2024

ESOTERICA

Bruce Copen | Healing by Bio-Magnetism | Covers rather rubbed, fingernail indentation on outer edge, previous owner’s name & address sticker has been attached to back cover & doubly secured with a couple of strips of sellotape. | Academic Publications | 1982 | £50

FICTION

KULCHUR

MODERN FIRSTS

Sally Rooney | Beautiful World, Where are You (UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY) | Faber | 2021 | A rather worn proof copy, with creased cover & scuffed spine, light diagonal crease to lower corner of ffep, some wear to outer edge of page-block, most evident at corners. | £100

MUSIC

PAPERBACKS & PULPS

Richard Allen (James Moffat) | Trouble for Skinhead | New English Library | 1973 | First printing. A rough reading copy with scuffed cover, heavily creased spine, worn outer edge, front cover set forward. NEL order form has been cut off the last page. | £50

Patricia Highsmith | Those who Walk Away | Pan | 1970 | First Pan printing. A worn copy, with a little damp-staining at the top of the front panel, name on ffep. Front cover set forward. | £20

PHOTOGRAPHY

POETRY

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) | Collected Poems 1912-1944 (INSCRIBED BY PERDITA MACPHERSON SCHAFFNER) | New Directions | 1983 | An interesting association copy of H.D., inscribed on the half-title page by her daughter Perdita. Light wear to cover & edge, some scattered foxing, lower edge of page-block shelf-marked. | £50

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ART

Leonora Carrington; Andrea Schlieker (ed.) | Leonora Carrington: Paintings, drawings and sculptures 1940-1990 | Serpentine Gallery | 1991 | A serviceable copy, which has been water-damaged at its upper corner. The main area of the coloured prints is undamaged, although there is some staining in the margins of a couple of pages. The text pages are all readable although there is, again, some marginal staining which obtrudes onto the outer edge of the text on a couple of pages. The top outer corner of the front panel is rather crinkled, & there is a waterstain about an eighth of the way down the fore-edge. The ffep has adhered to the reverse of the front cover. The book is rather cocked, with the front cover set forward. A magazine article on Leonora Carrington has been loosely inserted. I am offering this book as a reading copy only, with faults as noted. | £30

Janet A. Kaplan | Unexpected Journeys | Virago | 1988 | At first glance, a very good copy in unclipped jacket, but the lower edge of the boards is damp-stained, as is the reverse of the jacket, with a little damp-staining visible on the lower edge of the back panel. The page-block itself is unaffected, & the text pages & plates are in very good condition. | £60

Bruce Lacey | Bruce Lacey: 40 Years of Assemblages Environments & Robots | Whitechapel Gallery | 1975 | Fragile stapled pamphlet, with a long split down the upper third of the fold of the cover’s spine. The lower corner has been exposed to damp at some time – there is some offset obscuring text at the lower corner of the back cover, & some of the text has lifted from the very bottom corner of the internal pages. | £100

Peg Weiss | Kandinsky and Old Russia | Yale | 1995 | 9780300056471 At first glance, a very good copy in unclipped jacket, but there is a light ink smear in the lower margin of p.67, & inky fingerprints on blank areas of pp.71 & 75. There is a short tear to the jacket, with a little loss, at the top of the fold of the back panel/spine. | £100

COMIC & CURIOUS

John Glashan | The Penguin John Glashan SIGNED COPY | Penguin | 1967 | Signed by Glashan at top of publishing information page. Comments in a different handwriting on reverse of front panel & at bottom of publishing information page. Some external wear to book. | £100

ESOTERICA

JAH | Jeremiah’s Tomb (Ollamh Fodhla) | n.p. | n.d. | Stapled pamphlet. Top corner of first page has been snipped off, presumably to remove a price or name, & the page itself is lightly creased. | £50

Peter Redgrove | The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense | Bloomsbury | 1987 | 9780747500513 A good reading copy, with foxed paper & some wear to outer corners of pages. The back panel & back flap of the jacket are water-stained, & there is very light staining to the boards underneath. | £50

Ena Twigg, Ruth Hady Brod; Mervyn Stockwood (intr.) | Ena Twigg: Medium | W. H. Allen | 1973 | A good reading copy in tatty, damaged jacket. Jacket is crudely repaired on reverse with sellotape, stained on reverse at top of front panel/front flap. Price blacked out on front flap. Boards lightly marked. Foxing to outer edge of page-block & margins. | £20

FICTION

Moyra Caldecott | Child of the Dark Star | Bran’s Head | 1984 | At first glance, a very good copy, with a price label on the front cover, but the book has been exposed to damp at some time, leaving the cover very lightly stained & the outer edge of the page-block lightly marked. The text pages themselves remain in very good condition. | £100

Jean Rhys | After Leaving Mr Mackenzie | Andre Deutsch | 1969 | First printing of this edition (book was originally published in 1930). A handsome copy in unclipped jacket. Heavy foxing to top edge of page-block, some foxing to flaps & endpapers. There’s a slight bump to the lower edge of the back cover. | £50

Oscar Wilde | Fairy Tales | Progress | 1979 | Attractive Soviet-era edition. Text in the original English, introduction & notes in Russian. Name at top of title page. Jacket still looks good, but is rather worn & marked, with a diagonal closed tear at the lower corner of the back panel. | £25

FOLKLORE & FOLKSONG

JOURNALS & MAGAZINES

Kevin Opstedal, Tom Clark (eds) | Gas: High Octane Poetry Number Six – Winter 1994-95 | Gas | 1995 | Pale unlaminated cover foxed. | £20

Nick Piombino; Alan Davies (ed.) | A Hundred Posters #36 Dec 1978: Nick Piombino | Segue Foundation | 1978 | Sheets attached by a staple in the top corner. Faint impression of staples on paper, horizontal creases from paper having been folded to post. | £25

Richard Tabor (ed.) | Lobby Press Newsletter 17 | Lobby Press | 1981 | Rather worn side-stapled publication. Contributors include Bill Griffiths, Paul Buck & Ken Edwards, & there is an interview with, & text by, Glenda George. A note from the editor, handwritten on the reverse of a duplicate sheet of p.40, is loosely inserted. | £25

John Welch (ed.) | Vanessa Poetry Magazine Number One | Vanessa | n.d. | Side-stapled magazine with worn, foxed cover & edge. Light diagonal crease to back cover & last few pages. Contributors include Anthony Barnett, Anthony Howell & Tom Lowenstein. A couple of copies of a folded promotional sheet for Vanessa pamphlets are loosely inserted. | £15

Mike Zizis (ed.) | Intrinsic! 7 & 8 Spring 1979 | AOK | 1979 | Cover & edge worn & marked. A reading copy. | £15

MODERN FIRSTS

Simone de Beauvoir | The Long March | Andre Deutsch / Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 1958 | First UK printing in jacket. Jacket is price-clipped & fragile, with extensive loss to upper corners & extremities of spine, much sellotape reinforcement on the reverse, where the spine has almost totally come away from the panels. Spine of jacket is faded. Book is internally in very good condition, but there is a light stain to the fore-edge. | £50

Alan Burns | Europe after the Rain | John Day | 1970 | US first printing in clipped jacket. Jacket is in tatty condition, with some loss, a sellotape mend, pressure marks, & staining on the reverse & the back panel. Some wear to embossed boards. Name & blacked-out price on ffep. Light stain on fore-edge, top edge foxed. | £100

Humphrey Jennings | Pandaemonium | Andre Deutsch | 1985 | 9780233978086 First edition in unclipped jacket. Jacket is worn, with a little loss, at corners & top of spine. Lower corner of front board is worn. Some foxing to flaps, endpapers & top edge of page-block. Still a handsome copy in just under very good condition. | £150

MUSIC

PHOTOGRAPHY

POETRY

C. P. Cavafy; Rae Dalven (tr.); W. H. Auden (intr.) | The Complete Poems of Cavafy | Hogarth Press | 1961 | First printing. A reading copy. No problem with text pages, but boards are worn & bowed at corners, spine is faded & foxed/marked, outer edge of page-block is worn. | £15

POLITICS

Theodor W. Adorno | Against Epistemology | Blackwell | 1982 | First English language printing. A sturdy reading copy in jacket. Small paint splash on top edge of page-block (does not extend onto main page area), biro mark on fore-edge, some foxing. No problems with text pages. | £40

Theodor W. Adorno | Introduction to the Sociology of Music | Seabury | 1976 | First English language printing. A sturdy reading copy in tatty jacket, with some marking to boards & top edge of page-block. Name & ink note on ffep, no problems with text pages. | £100

E. Frow (ed.) | Tom Mann 1856-1941: Tom Mann Collection in the Working Class Movement Library | n.p. | 1983 | Typewritten side-stapled booklet with paper covers. Some liquid paper corrections. Back cover & top edge of front cover sunned. A brief introduction, some recollections of Mann from printed sources, a chronology of his life, & a list of the collection (including some correspondence) | £50

Kate Millett | Sexual Politics | Doubleday | 1970 | First printing in unclipped jacket. Book is in very good condition, jacket has a few pale splashmarks, some sunning to spine & edge, the faint trace of a removed label, & a little loss to corners & extremities of spine. Still an impressive-looking copy | £75

June 2024

ESOTERICA

AE (George William Russell); Leslie Shepard (intr.) | The Candle of Vision | University Books | 1965 | A little loss to edges of jacket. Previous owner’s signature, bookshop sticker & pencilled pre-decimal sterling price on ffep. Outer edge of page-block foxed. | £60

Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) | S.S.O.T.B.M.E. An Essay on Magic | The Mouse that Spins | 1975 | First printing, with creased list of errata attached to reverse of front cover. The book is in worn, tatty condition but remains a nice item to have in any chaos magic collection. | £50

Philip Kapleau | The Three Pillars of Zen | Harper & Row | 1966 | First US printing in price-clipped jacket. 2cm tear, with some loss, at top of fold of front panel/spine, some loss around corners.Spine & edge of jacket sunned. The painted top edge has been exposed to damp at some time & the colour has run a little. Marginal marking & underlining. A pencilled note at the back of the book states that it came from the library of P. L. Travers. | £50

Sibyl Leek | Moon Signs | W. H. Allen | 1977 | First printing in unclipped jacket. Jacket is a little worn & marked, with a short closed tear to the top edge of the front flap, & a couple of small splash marks to the rear flap. Paper tanned with age. | £100

FICTION

FILM

HISTORY

KULCHUR

MODERN FIRSTS

Alan Garner | The Stone Book | Collins | 1976 | First printing in price-clipped jacket. The jacket is worn, with loss to the edges, a couple of closed tears to the top edge, & a little u-shaped tear to the spine. No problems with the book itself, except for a little bumping to the front top corner & some foxing to the top of the page-block. | £50

Rebecca West | The Modern Rake’s Progress | Hutchinson | 1934 | First printing in unclipped jacket. The front panel of the jacket still looks impressive, despite some scuffing, a 3cm closed tear at the top edge, & some sellotape reinforcement to the lower edge. There is some loss to the edges, most notably at the top of the spine, which has been reinforced with sellotape. There is a long diagonal tear down the back panel, which has been mended with tape, with more tape reinforcement at the top & edge.There is a 7cm tear, with some loss, down the top of the fold of the back panel/back flap. Edges of boards rubbed. Plates & text pages in very good condition, with some foxing. | £75

POETRY

POLITICS

Isaac Deutscher | The Prophet: The Prophet Armed; The Prophet Unarmed; The Prophet Outcast | Verso | 2015 | Omnibus volume. Unread book with external wear from previous storage/display, most evident on shelf-marked outer edge of page-block. Lower corner of closing pages lightly creased. A reading copy. | £50

Samora Machel; Barry Munslow (ed.) | Samora Machel: an African Revolutionary | Zed | 1985 | Ex-library store copy, with expected stamps & markings. The book itself shows absolutely no sign of having been read. | £100

SIGNED COPIES

Backlist

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