Secondhand

New In – November 2023

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ART

William Blake; Meira Perry-Lehmann (ed.) | There was a Man in the Land of Uz | Israel Museum | 1992 | Reproductions of Blake’s engravings, watercolours & studies for the Book of Job. Text in English & Hebrew. White jacket is lightly marked, blue lettering faded on its spine. Some wear to edges of boards. | £30

Mary Anne Aytoun Ellis | Thinking Places | Portland Gallery | 2009 | Some wear to cover. Price list loosely inserted. | £50

David Evans (ed.) | Appropriation | Whitechapel Gallery | 2009 | 9780262550703 A couple of creases to spine. | £75

Gilbert & George; Marco Livingstone (intr.) | The World of Gilbert & George | Enitharmon | 2001 | Minor wear from previous storage/display. | £30

Michael Harrison et al | Rodin: All about Eve | Kettle’s Yard | 2006 | 9781904561200 Light wear to cover. | £15

Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan | Francis Bacon: Revelations | William Collins | 2021 | 9780007298419 First printing in unclipped jacket. | £25

Michael Upton; Jane Hamilton | Michael Upton: Paintings from the Studio Estate | David Messum Fine Art | n.d. | 9781905883387 Minor wear to cover & edge. | £30

ATLAS PRESS

Malcolm Green (ed.) | Black Letters Unleashed | Atlas Press | 1989 | Very light external wear. | £30

ESOTERICA

S. Baring-Gould | The Holy Grail | Gothic Image | n.d. | Stapled pamphlet. | £15

Zsuzsanna Budapest; Carol Clement (illus.) | Selene: the Most Famous Bull-Leaper on Earth | Diana Press | 1976 | Some discoloration to cover, with a light damp mark at the lower corner of the front panel/spine. Thin biro mark on back panel. Text pages & illustrations look very good indeed. | £40

J. Buffery | London Witchcraft | James Pike | 1977 | Stapled pamphlet. | £15

Bill Butler | The Definitive Tarot | Rider | 1980 | A handsome copy with light wear to cover & edge. | £75

Andrew Collins | The Brentford Griffin | Earthquest | 1985 | Stapled pamphlet. |£50

Susan Evasdaughter | A Sacred Island: A Guide to Crete | n.p. | 1984 | Unbound pamphlet in rough condition. Cover is marked, edge foxed & worn. Both upper corners of the book are dampstained. | £15

Susan Evasdaughter | The Home of the Labrys | n.p. | 1985 | Stapled pamphlet. Pale cover is foxed & marked, outer edge of pages foxed & worn. | £15

Henri Gamache | The Magic of Herbs | Sheldon Publications | n.d. | Sixth impression. Stapled pamphlet with a mark on the plain back cover. | £15

Goddess Guide Group | Goddesses of the British Museum | Goddess Guide Group | 1988 | Stapled pamphlet with a couple of small marks on the white area of its back cover. | £15

Robert Graves | The White Goddess | Faber | 1948 | First printing. Boards sunned & marked, bumped at the edge. Bookplate on front pastedown. Text pages unmarked & in very good condition. | £50

Robert Kirk; R. J. Stewart | Robert Kirk: Walker between Worlds (The Secret Commonwealth) | Element | 1990 | 9781852301415 At first glance, a very good copy. But, at the time of cataloguing, the book retains a faint lingering scent of tobacco smoke. | £40

Sybil Leek | The Complete Art of Witchcraft | Leslie Frewin | 1975 | Worn reading copy. | £30

Nick Mann | The Cauldron and the Grail | Annenterprise | 1985 | Stapled pamphlet. 1cm closed tear at upper edge of front cover. Old price marked on ffep. | £15

Louise Morgan; Aldous Huxley (intr.) | Inside Yourself | Hutchinson | 1955 | A very good copy in unclipped jacket. A little loss to edges of jacket at spine & corners. White back panel of jacket has picked up some marks. | £40

James O’Connor | Sheela Na Gig | Fethard Historical Society | 1991 | Stapled pamphlet with original price labels. | £15

Mira Sai | Enstasy: Standing inside Oneself | Mira Sai | 2009 | 9780986107719 Very light external wear from previous storage/display. | £50

Shingo Ohgami | Karate Katas of Wadoryu | Japanska Magasinet | n.d. | Some wear to edges of boards, label traces to front panel & pastedown, pencilled name on ffep, outer edge of page-block rather worn & marked. This book has been used for study & practice, & many pages have annotations. Several page corners have been folded over. A reading copy only. | £25

Philip S. Rawson (intr.) | Tantra | Arts Council of Great Britain | 1971 | Light wear to cover & edge. Spine very slightly sunned, top edge of page-block foxed. | £30

N. M. Scott | The Evil of Chanctonbury Ring | Badger | 1995 | Stapled pamphlet with a couple of small light marks to white cover. A supernatural horror story. | £50

Sinead Sula Grian | Brighde Goddess of Fire | Brighde’s Fire | 1985 | Stapled pamphlet with heavy foxing to cover & pages. Top corner bowed. Original price of first text page, pencil marking. | £50

Martin Willson | In Praise of Tara | Wisdom | 1986 | Light wear to cover. | £40

FICTION

Giambattista Basile; E. F. Strange (ed.); Warwick Goble (illus.) | Stories from the Pentamerone | Macmillan | 1911 | Small splash marks to both front & back panel. The spine is worn & faded with a 1cm split to the cloth about three-quarters of the way down. 1919 gift inscription on ffep. Text pages are foxed. All plates are present: there is a small mark at the outer edge of the margin of the illustration facing p.42, & the tissue guard protecting the illustration facing p.86 has come loose & is worn & sunned at its edge, but there is no problem with the plate itself. Still quite lovely, but very evidently secondhand. | £50

Wyndham Lewis; Michael Ayrton (illus.) | The Human Age Book One: Childermass | Methuen | 1956 | Unclipped jacket is missing top 2-3cm of spine, some loss to edges. Some wear to boards, foxing to endpapers & outer edge of page-block. | £75

Edgar Allen Poe | Essays and Stories | G. Bell | 1914 | Bright, fresh copy still in its original jacket. Pencilling on front panel of jacket, back panel lightly marked, some loss to extremities of spine, top of spine reinforced on reverse. Book in very good condition indeed. | £30

William Trevor | The Collected Stories – SIGNED COPY | Penguin | 1993 | 9780140232455 Rather worn paperback, with faded spine & creased lower corner of back cover, signed by author on title page. | £30

C. L. Warr | The Unseen Host | Robert Grant & Son | 1928 | Tenth impression. Boards are sunned around the spine, lightly marked on front panel. Gift inscription & small name & address label on ffep. Internally in very good condition indeed. | £30

Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited | Leisure Circle | 1978 | Jacket a little sunned at edge. Outer edge of page-block foxed. | £30

Tim Winton | Land’s Edge – SIGNED BY AUTHOR | Picador | 2014 | 9781447203094 Signed by author on title page. | £15

FILM

S. M. Eisenstein | Selected Works Volume II: Towards a Theory of Montage | BFI | 1991 | 9780851702117 Ex-BFI copy, with their stamp on ffep. Spine of unclipped jacket a little sunned. Blotchy foxing to outer edge of page-block. The outer margin of the long foldout section between pp.396-7 has become folded over: this does not intrude upon the film stills or graphics. | £25

FOLKLORE & FOLKSONG

Ian Russell (ed.) | Singer, Song and Scholar | Sheffield Academic Press | 1986 | At first glance, a very good copy with a slightly sunned spine & lamination just starting to peel at the top corner of the front panel BUT the book has a lingering smell of tobacco smoke. | £20

Enid Welsford | The Fool | Faber | 1968 | Reissue in jacket. Original price has been snipped off front flap & a decimal price added. A few closed tears to edge of jacket, a little loss around extremities of spine. Book itself in excellent condition. | £100

Blanche Winder; Harry G. Theaker (illus.) | Stories of King Arthur | Ward Lock | n.d. | An attractive copy, with some wear & discoloration to its cloth cover. The book is undated, but there is an ownership inscription dated 1949 on the reverse of the ffep. All plates are present, & look very good indeed, but there is a light crease in the blank area of the page featuring an illustration of the Questing Beast on p.172, & the lower outer tip of p.319 has become folded over, well outside the area occupied by the illustration. | £30

GRAPHIC NOVELS

GG | I’m Not Here | Koyama | 2017 | 9781927668498 Top of spine bumped, small mark to lower edge. | £25

Alan Moore et al | Tom Strong Book Three | America’s Best Comics | 2004 | First printing in jacket. Top edge of jacket lightly sunned. | £20

Alan Moore et al | Tom Strong Book Four | America’s Best Comics | 2004 | First printing in jacket. Some wear to jacket at extremities of spine, a couple of thin pressure marks to back panel. | £20

HISTORY

T. E. Lawrence | Seven Pillars of Wisdom – 2-volume set | World Books, Reprint Society | 1939 | Two-volume set in jackets. Some sunning & miscellaneous marks to pale jackets. Coloured lettering on spines of jackets is rather faded, most evidently in the case of the red lettering on vol. I. Bookplates on front pastedown of each volume, signature of same owner on ffep. Outer edge of page-blocks foxed, lower edges a little dust-marked. Still a handsome set. | £50

John Taylor | From Self-Help to Glamour | History Workshop | 1972 | Large format side-stapled booklet. Outer edge of page-block foxed, plain back cover marked. | £60

JOURNALS & MAGAZINES

Liz Mackie, Jo Nesbitt, Christine Roche, Lesley Ruda | Sourcream | Sour Cream | 1979 | Stapled booklet. Cover is worn, with a coffee mark on front panel & a damp mark at the lower corner of the back panel. Edge of page-block foxed. | £15

Caroline and Amanda, Fionna Murray, Taurus Pete | Talking Stick Issue 1, Summer 90 | Talking Stick Krayzee Klub | 1990 | Stapled magazine with a small light mark on cover. | £100

KULCHUR

Rayner Banham | Theory and Design in the First Machine Age | Architectural Press | 1967 | Unclipped jacket is rather worn, with some loss around corners & at top of spine. Outer edge of page-block foxed. Intermittent pencil underlining & marginal marking. A sturdy reading copy. | £15

Ford Madox Ford | England and the English | Carcanet | 2003 | 9781857545838 Light external wear from previous storage/display. | £15

Maria Fusco, Ian Hunt (eds.) | Put About: A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing | Book Works | 2004 | Front cover set a little forward, top corner very slightly bowed. | £50

Hermann Hesse | My Belief | Triad Panther | 1978 | A good reading copy. Book is a little slant from storage, with the lower corner of its front cover bumped. One crease to the spine. Name on ffep. No problem with text pages apart from the inevitable darkening of the paper with age. | £30

Vernon Lee; Irene Cooper Willis | A Vernon Lee Anthology | John Lane, Bodley Head | 1929 | Spine lightly faded & marked, otherwise a lovely copy. | £30 |

LITERARY CRITICISM

William Empson | Argufying | Hogarth Press | 1988 | 9780701208530 Minor wear to cover & edge, endpapers foxed, paper tanned with age. Pencilled name on ffep. | £12.50

Wolfgang Gortschacher | Little Magazine Profiles | University of Salzburg | 1993 | Lower corner of the front panel/spine bumped. Outer edge of page-block rather worn & marked. Lower corner of back panel & closing pages creased, well outside the text area. | £25

MODERN FIRSTS

Claire-Louise Bennett | Pond | Fitzcarraldo | 2015 | 9781910695098 First UK printing. Light wear to edges of cover. |£30

William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac | And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks | Penguin | 2008 | 9781846141645 First printing. Minor wear to unclipped jacket. A couple of small marks to outer edge of page-block. Front cover set a little forward. | £35

Raymond Carver | No Heroics, Please | Harvill | 1991 | 9780002712163 First printing in unclipped jacket. Reduced price label over printed price on front flap. A couple of short tears (approx 5mm & 2mm) to top of spine. Small light mark to spine. Top edge of page-block lightly foxed. Book appears to be in unread condition. | £40

Peter Handke | Across | Methuen | 1986 | First UK edition in unclipped jacket. A little offset from black cloth spine onto reverse of jacket. | £75

Peter Handke | Till Day You Do Part or A Question of Light | Seagull | 2010 | 9781906497736 First English printing in unclipped jacket. Text in English, German & French. Outer edge of page-block foxed, rear endpaper lightly creased. | £15

Nikolai Leskov; David Magarshack (tr.); V. S. Pritchett (intr.) | Selected Tales | Secker and Warburg | 1962 | First printing. Endpapers & outer edge of page-block foxed, very top of spine sunned. The jacket is in less good condition than the book itself, being marked, with some loss to the edges, & with a sunned spine upon which the title is no longer legible: I would have jettisoned it if not for the rather pleasing design. | £15

Cormac McCarthy | The Stonemason | Picador | 1997 | 9780330350334 First UK printing. | £30

Cormac McCarthy | The Sunset Limited | Picador | 2010 | 9780330518079 First UK printing in unclipped jacket. Jacket is good only, being scuffed & worn at the top of the spine. Outer edge of page-block foxed. | £100

V. S. Naipaul | In a Free State | Andre Deutsch | 1971 | 233958320 First printing in unclipped jacket. Fore-edge foxed. | £20

V. S. Pritchett | The Complete Short Stories | Chatto & Windus | 1990 | First printing in unclipped jacket with a very slightly faded spine. At first glance, a very good copy, but the lower corner of the back panel has been exposed to damp at some time, & some of the colour from the boards has offset onto the reverse of the jacket. | £30

Ali Smith | Autumn | Hamish Hamilton | 2016 | 9780241207000 First printing with wraparound. | £40

Ali Smith | Winter | Hamish Hamilton | 2017 | 9780241207024 First printing with wraparound. Front flap of wraparound is creased. Small light mark to back cover. | £25

Mary Stewart | The Hollow Hills – SIGNED BY AUTHOR | Hodder and Stoughton | 1973 | First printing, signed by author on title page. The book itself is in very good condition, but the jacket is faded on the front panel & spine, & price-clipped at the top of the front flap. | £400

Raynor Winn | The Salt Path | Michael Joseph | 2018 | 9780241506608 First printing in unclipped jacket. Top of spine lightly bumped, back panel of jacket has picked up a few light marks. | £100

MUSIC

Roxy Robinson | Music Festivals and the Politics of Participation | Ashgate | 2015 | 9781409457763 Very light external wear from previous storage/display. | £100

Julie Burchill & Tony Parsons | The Boy Looked at Johnny – SIGNED BY AUTHORS | Pluto | 1978 | First printing, signed by both authors on half-title page. Light pressure marks to cover. Fore-edge is marked with a drink stain. Otherwise in very good condition. | £40

PAPERBACKS & PULPS

William Burroughs jr | Kentucky Ham | Picador | 1975 | First UK printing. Minor wear to cover & edge. White background of cover & page-block darkened with age. Top edge of page-block foxed. Still a handsome copy. | £25

Harry Crews | Car | Quill | 1983 | Book is lightly bowed. Lower front corner bumped. Outer edge of page-block foxed. A good reading copy of a hard to obtain book. | £30

Kay Dick | An Affair of Love | Panther | 1968 | Thin pen mark to cover, spine slightly sunned, paper tanned with age, name on ffep. | £50

Harlan Ellison | The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World | Pan | 1979 | Top corner lightly bowed. Paper tanned with age. Still a handsome copy. | £25

C. Day Lewis; Edward Ardizzone (illus.) | The Otterbury Incident | Puffin | 1961 | First Puffin printing. A handsome copy with a very light crease to the lower corner of the front cover, name & address in a child’s careful handwriting on the reverse of the front cover. | £30

Andre Norton, Sylvia Engdahl, Arthur C. Clarke | The Puffin Science Fiction Galaxy: Catseye, Heritage of the Star, Islands in the Sky, Of Time and Stars | Puffin | n.d. | Four science fiction novels in a slipcase. All books were printed in 1975-76. The upper corner of the slipcase’s front panel/spine is bumped, & the case is rather scuffed around the outer edges & on its lower edge. The spine of the case lists a fifth novel, but there is absolutely no space available to include any more than the four contained here. OF TIME & STARS has a light crease to its spine, & some wear around its edges. There are light pressure marks to the back cover of CATSEYE, & the lower outer corner of its back cover is creased. Despite these faults, this remains a good-looking set. | £20

Ross Russell | The Sound | Macfadden | 1962 | Book still looks impressive, but is noticeably cocked, with front cover set forward. Page 99 projects very slightly from the page block. Although the binding still holds firm at the time of cataloguing, it is entirely possible that it might come adrift in the course of reading. | £30

Nicholas Saunders | Alternative London | Nicholas Saunders | 1970 | Light crease at outer tip of front panel, horizontal split about 3 cm down the spine, some wear to corners, paper tanned with age. Still a good-looking copy. | £30

Georges Simenon | The Negro | Ace, New English Library | 1962 | First Ace Books edition. Cover is worn & creased, front cover set forward. | £20

Jim Thompson | Omnibus 2: After Dark My Sweet; A Hell of a Woman; Savage Night; A Swell Looking Babe; Nothing More than Murder | Picador | 1997 | 9780330344517 Cover is worn, with pressure marks to the front panel, bumped upper corner of the front panel/spine, & a fingernail impression to the top edge of the back panel. Outer upper corner a little bowed. Text pages in very good condition. | £40

PHILOSOPHY

Gaston Bachelard | The Psychoanalysis of Fire | Routledge & Kegan Paul | 1964 | First UK printing in unclipped jacket. Some wear to edges of jacket. Red lettering faded on spine, lightly faded on front panel. Publisher’s revised price sticker on front flap. Top of spine lightly bumped. Some foxing. Name on ffep. | £50

Michel Foucault | The Birth of the Clinic | Tavistock | 1973 | First UK printing in unclipped jacket. Spine of jacket is very slightly sunned; there is a short closed tear at the top of the front panel. Internally, the book is very good indeed. | £30

Michel Foucault | The Care of the Self: The History of Sexuality Volume Three | Pantheon | 1986 | First American edition in unclipped jacket. Spine of jacket & adjoining edge of back panel are very lightly sunned. A little foxing to fore-edge. | £30

PHOTOGRAPHY

John Deakin; Robin Muir | Gods and Monsters | Pallant House Gallery | 2010 | 9781869827090 Minor wear to cover & edge (visible creases on the image are on Deakin’s print, not the book cover itself). | £20

Mirella Ricciardi | Vanishing Africa | Collins | 1978 | Revised edition in jacket. Jacket is lightly faded, with loss at the top of the back panel & the corner of the back panel/spine. A couple of separate gift inscriptions to ffep. Outer edge of page-block foxed, with a couple of darker marks about half way down the fore-edge. Foxing extends very slightly onto the main page area: otherwise text pages & plates remain in very good condition indeed. | £30 |

Joel-Peter Witkin; Eugenia Parry (intr.) | Joel-Peter Witkin | Thames & Hudson | 2008 | 9780500410950 Photofile volume with light wear to cover & a gift inscription on the ffep. | £20

POETRY

Samuel Beckett (tr.), Octavio Paz (ed.), C. M. Bowra (pref.) | Anthology of Mexican Poetry | Calder & Boyars | 1970 | Light wear to cover & edge. | £20

Gottfried Benn; Michael Hofmann (trans.) | Impromptus | Faber | 2014 | 9780571289264 First UK printing in unclipped jacket. | £20

Dan Burt | We Look like This – CD INCLUDED | Carcanet | 2012 | 9781847771971 First printing. CD in unopened pocket at back of book. Light general wear, bookshop label on back panel of jacket. | £30

George Chapman | The Odysseys of Homer | George Newnes | n.d. | Pocket edition on India paper in lovely bright condition. The top edge of the rear endpaper is lightly crumpled, the topmost corner of the last page is very lightly creased. | £50

Ray di Palma | The Jukebox of Memnon | Potes & Poets Press | 1988 | Minor wear to cover & edge, most evident at corners. | £20

Gunnar Ekelof; W. H. Auden, Leif Sjoberg (fwd, trs.) | Selected Poems | Penguin | 1971 | A handsome copy with light external wear & an ink dedication on the ffep. | £15

Jack Gilbert, Jane Hirshfield, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin; Neil Astley (ed.) | Bloodaxe Poetry Introductions 3: Jack Gilbert, Jane Hirshfield, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin | Carcanet | 2007 | 9781852247676 Very light external wear. | £35

Thom Gunn; Clive Wilmer (ed.) | Selected Poems | Faber | 2017 | 9780571327690 First printing in unclipped jacket. | £20

Donald Hall | White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 – CD INCLUDED | Houghton Mifflin | 2006 | 9780618537211 Second impression in unclipped jacket. CD in unopened pocket at back of book. | £25

Michael Hamburger & Christopher Middleton (eds) | Modern German Poetry 1910-1960 | MacGibbon & Kee | 1966 | Spine slightly sunned, outer edge foxed. Text pages in very good condition. | £20

Andrew Jordan | St. Catherine’s Buried Chapel | Taxvs | 1987 | Stapled pamphlet. Original price has been crossed out on back cover & a reduced price pencilled on. | £50

Hugh MacDiarmid; Michael Grieve & W. R. Aitken (eds) | The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid – 2 VOLUME SET | Penguin | 1985 | A good reading set. Cover of vol. I is scuffed & creased, outer tips of pp.1261-1266 of vol. II are folded over. | £30

Helen Macdonald | Shaler’s Fish | Etruscan Books | 2001 | One of an edition of 500. Some wear to cover & edge. Lower corner of back cover creased. Outer edge of page-block foxed. Pencilled crosses in the upper corners of quite a few pages. | £100

Sorley Maclean; Iain Crichton Smith (trans.) | Poems to Eimhir | Gollancz | 1971 | First printing in unclipped jacket. A couple of 1 cm closed tears to the upper edge of the front panel, spine lightly sunned. The original price has been struck through & not one, but two, discounted prices marked on the front flap. |£30

Peter Manson | Adjunct: an Undigest | Edinburgh Review | 2004 | Lower corner of front panel creased, top corner lightly bowed. | £50

Frank O’Hara; Donald Allen (ed.) | Selected Poems | Carcanet | 1991 | 9780856359392 First UK edition in unclipped foxed jacket, with some loss around the fold of the spine/back panel. | £30

Douglas Oliver; Alice Notley (ed.) | Arrondissements | Salt | 2003 | 9781844710195 Minor wear to cover & edge, top corners of pp.95-98 have been folded over (does not intrude upon text area). Lower edge of page-block dust-marked. | £100

Pier Paolo Pasolini | Selected Poems | John Calder | 1984 | Apparently unread copy with very light external wear. | £15

Pedro Salinas; Willis Barnstone (tr.,intr.) | My Voice because of You & Letter Poems to Katherine | Chicago | 2010 | 9780226734262 First printing of this translation in unclipped jacket. Jacket is a little scuffed near the bottom of the fold of front panel/spine, light wear to back panel. Fore-edge is a little worn & marked. | £200

Umberto Sava; George Hochfield & Leonard Nathan (trs) | Songbook | Yale | 2008 | 9780300136036 First printing of this translation in unclipped jacket. | £25

George Seferis; Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard (tr., ed., intr.) | Complete Poems | Anvil | 1995 | 9780856462139 First printing of this translation in unclipped jacket. Jacket is lightly worn & marked, with a diagonal crease to the edge of the front flap. | £30

Gary Snyder | Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End | Fulcrum | n.d. | A reading copy. Pale cover is worn & marked, extremities of spine are bumped, top corner is creased, text pages are foxed/marked. | £40

Alan Spence; Elizabeth Blackadder | Morning Glory – SIGNED BY ELIZABETH BLACKADDER | Renaissance Press | 2010 | 9780954396121 Signed by Elizabeth Blackadder on title page. | £50

Yamamoto Kenkichi (ed.) ; William I. Elliot & Nishihara Katsumasa (trs) | The Singing Heart | Hon-no-Shiro | 2018 | 9784901901383 Signed by translator on first page. | £40

POLITICS

Alan Burns | The Angry Brigade | Quartet | 1973 | At first glance, a very good copy. But there is a light crease down the front cover & opening pages (up to p.6) & a reading crease on the back cover near the spine. | £30

Sheila Jeffreys | Beauty and Misogyny | Routledge | 2015 | 9781848724488 Second edition. | £22.50

PSYCHOLOGY

Stephen Hartman (ed.) | Reading with Muriel Dimen / Writing with Muriel Dimen | Routledge | 2023 | 9781032370866 Light wear from previous storage/display. | £90

Gaie Houston | The Red Book of Gestalt | Rochester Foundation | 1987 | Some wear to cover, most evident at corners. Top edge of page-block & very top of fore-edge are heavily foxed. A good reading copy, no problems with text pages. | £15

Wilhelm Reich | The Cancer Biopathy | Farrar Strauss Giroux | 1973 | First printing. A reading copy. Boards are worn & marked, outer edge of page-block is foxed & marked. Writing on the rear pastedown, partly torn away at the outer corner. No problem with text pages or plates. | £40

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ART

William Blake | Illustrations of the Book of Job | Methuen | 1904 | Boards are worn & marked, with loss to extremities of spine. Label on spine is worn & rubbed. Name on ffep. A previous owner has numbered each plate in pencil in the upper right hand corner of the page, well away from the illustration itself. | £100

Deborah Cherry (ed.) | Art : History : Visual : Culture | Blackwell | 2005 | 9781405119658 Minor wear to cover & edge. | £15

David Hockney | Hand Eye Heart | LA Louver | 2005 | 976558505 Pictorial boards intermittently bumped at edges & at bottom of spine. | £40

Simeon Solomon; Rickie Burman (ed.) | From Prodigy to Outcast | Jewish Museum | 2001 | 1871447119 Minor wear to cover & edge. | £35

John C. Welchman (ed.) | Sculpture and the Vitrine | Ashgate | 2013 | 9781409435273 In lightly worn jacket. | £40

Christopher Wood; Anne Goodchild (ed.) | Dear Winifred | Sansom | 2013 | 9781906593995 Name on ffep. At first glance, a very good copy but there are light marks on at least three pages, making this really a good reading copy. | £30

COMIC & CURIOUS

P. G. Wodehouse | Jeeves Omnibus | Herbert Jenkins | 1931 | First printing. No jacket. Cloth cover is worn, threadbare at edges, & has a surface split at the edge of the spine. Name on ffep. | £50

CRIME

Howard Browne | Halo for Satan | No Exit | 1988 | 9780948353192 In unclipped jacket. Paper tanned with age. | £25

Patricia Highsmith | The Talented Mr Ripley | Heinemann | 1966 | Edition of 1966. No jacket. Some wear to boards & upper edge of page-block. Book is a little bowed from storage. A couple of blue pencil ticks against the list of other Highsmith titles at the front of the book. | £50

Jonathan Latimer | Murder in the Madhouse | No Exit | 1988 | 9780948353284 First UK printing in unclipped jacket. Paper tanned with age. | £25

Derek Raymond (Robin Cook) | Nightmare in the Street | Serpent’s Tail | 1988 | 9781852429089 First Serpent’s Tail printing. Cover lightly creased at corners, scuffed on back panel. Short fingernail tears in margin of p.13. | £30

DRAMA

Alexander Shurbanov, Boika Sokolova | Painting Shakespeare Red | Delaware | 2001 | 9780874137262 In unclipped jacket. Red lettering on spine slightly faded. Inscribed by Sokolova. | £30

ESOTERICA

St Thomas Aquinas; Timothy McDermott (ed.) | Summa Theologiae: a Concise Translation | Eyre & Spottiswoode | 1989 | 9780413356307 Minor wear to jacket & outer edge of page-block. | £40

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki | Building a Temple | Servants of the Light; Pallas-Aquariana | 1981 | Second edition. Stapled pamphlet. Pale cover is lightly marked. Very light reading crease to back cover. | £100

Sheila Broun | Listen to the Earth | n.p. | 1990 | Stapled pamphlet. White cover is sunned & lightly marked. A couple of the pages have an uneven dark-toned background (I’m not sure whether this was a mishap with the photocopier or a design choice) but remain readable. | £50

Tara Buckland | Beauty Secrets of the Ancient Egyptians | Taray Publications | 1982 | Stapled pamphlet. Cover foxed. Faint impression of original pencilled price in top corner of cover. | £50

Aleister Crowley | Eight Lectures on Yoga | New Falcon | 1991 | 1561840076 Light wear to cover & edge, name on ffep. | £100

Lawrence Durdin-Robertson | Life in the Next World | Cesara | 1989 | Stapled pamphlet. Cover foxed. Label trace on lower corner of front cover, price label on reverse. | £50

Sinead Sula Grian | The Sun Goddess Vol. I: Sun Goddesses of Europe: Celtic, Baltic, Etc. | Priestess Magazine | 1986 | Stapled pamphlet.Lower corner of front panel creased, first page & outer edge of page-block foxed. | £50

Marian Green | Magic for the Aquarian Age | n.p. | n.d. | An early (I assume the first) edition of Marian Green’s classic work. Stapled 36 page pamphlet with light foxing to the cover & a mark on the outer edge. | £100

J. A. Johnston | Esoteric Irish Folk Tales (Nine Volume set) | Keltia | 1984 | Set of 9 stapled pamphlets. Each contains two generic introductions, one to the tales themselves, the other to the qabalah, followed by the text of a tale drawn from Jeremiah Curtin’s collection, accompanied by Johnston’s commentary. Volumes are as follows: 1. Gold Apple, Son of the King of Erin; 2. Sgiathan Dearg and the Daughter of the King of the Western World (small light mark on back cover); 3 The Bird of the Golden Land (lower edge marked); 4. The Son of the King of Erin and the Queen of Moving Wheel (pale cover rather worn & marked); 5. The Three Sons of the King of Antua (minor wear to cover, outer edge of pages foxed); 6. Baranoir, Son of a King in Erin, and the Daughter of King under the Wave (pale cover is foxed/marked, minor wear to edge); 7. The King’s Son in Erin and the King of Green Island; 8. Fainne Oir, Daughter of the King of Erin, and the Son of the King of Three Seas (fore-edge marked); 9. Sal Fhada, the King’s Son and Finn Mac Cumhaill | £200

Paul R. Lonigan | The Druids | Greenwood | 1996 | Edge of page-block foxed. | £50

Lutren | Pictish Military History | Keltia | 1988 | 906590795 Stapled pamphlet with lightly foxed cover. | £50

Nicholas R. Mann | The Keltic Power Symbols | Triskele | 1987 | 951068229 Photocopied stapled pamphlet with minor external wear. | £50

Kaledon Naddair | Druidism: An Assessment | n.p. | 1987 | 906590841 Stapled pamphlet with lightly foxed/marked cover. The following items are loosely inserted: College of Druidism Newsletter No. 3; Reading List for C.O.D. students; individual sheets of Terms & Kennings, Regions Suitable for Shamanistic Attunement, & Requirements Need to “Journey” through One of the Four Elements; a couple of handwritten pages of notes. | £50

Kaledon Naddair | Keltic Animal Lore and Shamanism (2-volume set) | Keltia | 1987 | 906590760 Two stapled pamphlets. Lower corner of cover & first few pages of vol. I is creased, | £100

Kaledon Naddair | Keltic Bird Lore and Shamanism | n.p. | n.d. | 906590833 Stapled pamphlet with heavily foxed/marked back cover. Internally in very good condition. | £50

Nigel Pennick | Labyrinths: their Geomancy and Symbolism | Runestaff | 1984 | Stapled pamphlet. A labyrinth sticker is bound in at the front of the pamphlet. The first page is marked. | £50

Billie Potts | A New Women’s Tarot | Elf & Dragons Press | 1978 | Second edition. Stapled pamphlet. Cover is sunned around spine & outer edge. Top corner lightly bowed. | £100

Olivia Robertson | Gaea: Initiations of the Earth | Cesara | 1991 | Stapled pamphlet. Inscribed by author on front page, along with a pen drawing. Typed letter from author enclosed. | £50

Olivia Robertson | Dea: Rites and Mysteries of the Goddess | Cesara | 1988 | Stapled pamphlet. Inscribed by author on front page, along with a pen drawing. Diagonal crease across all pages & back cover. | £25

Maria Thun | Work on the Land and the Constellations | Lanthorn Press | 1979 | 90615510X Stapled pamphlet. Cover lightly sunned. | £50

Alawn Tickhill; Rich Westwood | Riding the Horse | Moonshine | n.d. | Stapled pamphlet. Cover sunned around the spine. Some wear to edge of page-block. | £50

Alawn Tickhill; Rich Westwood | Weaving the Web | Moonshine | n.d. | Stapled pamphlet. | £50

FICTION

Isaac Babel; Walter Morison (ed., tr.); Lionel Trilling (intr.) | The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel | Methuen | 1957 | First printing in unclipped jacket. Spine of jacket is somewhat faded. Top 3cm or so of the jacket’s spine is missing, the exposed area of the book’s spine is faded. | £25

Samuel Beckett | First Love | Calder & Boyars | 1973 | First printing in unclipped jacket. Title has faded on spine of jacket. Spine is cocked, with back cover set forward. Otherwise in very good condition. | £35

Albert Camus | The Myth of Sisyphus | Hamish Hamilton | 1979 | 024190465X Reprint in jacket. Front flap has been priceclipped, & updated with a revised publisher’s price label. Name & address on ffep. Paper tanned with age. Fingernail nick to the very top edge of pp.145-150. | £100

Colette; Antonia White (tr.) | The Stories of Colette | Secker & Warburg | 1958 | First printing. No jacket. Some wear to boards & edge of page-block, but still a nice copy to handle & read. | £20

Federico de Roberto | The Viceroys | MacGibbon & Kee | 1962 | First British edition in rather tatty price-clipped jacket. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown, newspaper review pasted onto rear endpaper. | £30

Yasunari Kawabata; Yukio Mishima (intr.); Edward G. Seidensticker (tr.) | House of the Sleeping Beauties | Quadriga | 1969 | 9000608001 First British edition in unclipped jacket. Boards are very slightly bowed. Pale jacket is rather worn & marked. A couple of small marks on outer edge of page-block. | £35

Sheridan le Fanu; V. S. Pritchett (intr.) | In a Glass Darkly | John Lehmann | 1947 | First printing of this Chiltern Library edition. Jacket is unclipped, with some loss to edges & at extremities of spine. Fore-edge foxed. | £40

Nikolai Leskov | The Priest who was never Baptized | Bramcote | 2004 | 9781900405126 Spine is faded, with a small scrape mark near the top. Book is otherwise in very good condition. | £15

Nikolai Leskov; James Muckle (tr.) | Vale of Tears | Bramcote | 1991 | 951785303 Some wear to cover & edge, no problem with text pages. | £20

Wyndham Lewis | Snooty Baronet | Cassell | 1932 | First printing. Very worn copy. Cover is marked, & threadbare at edges, with short splits at extremities of spine. Times Book Club label on rear pastedown, pencilling on both pastedowns. Some foxing to text pages. Still a perfectly good reading copy, & quite a nice trophy. | £15

Henry Miller | Tropic of Capricorn | Obelisk | 1960 | 1960 reprint rebound in plain off-white boards. These are now a little marked, with a light pressure mark to the front panel. Internally, the book is in excellent condition. | £30

Vladimir Nabokov | The Real Life of Sebastian Knight | Editions Poetry London | 1945 | First printing, issue b, in variant jacket. Information on the copyright page is the same as the issue in the more familiar red jacket. Jacket is unclipped, but worn at edges, with some loss at corners & extremities of spine. Boards are lightly marked, bumped & faded at extremities of spine. | £50

Flann O’Brien | At Swim-Two-Birds | MacGibbon & Kee | 1961 | Reprint in unclipped jacket. Some loss to edges of jacket around corners & extremities of spine. Book is a little slant, with the front cover set forward. | £65

Jan Potocki | The Manuscript found in Saragossa | Viking | 1995 | 9780670834280 First printing of the full text in English, in unclipped jacket. Some wear to top edge of jacket. | £30

Joseph Roth; John Hoare (tr.) | The Emperor’s Tomb | Chatto & Windus, the Hogarth Press | 1984 | 701128267 First British printing in unclipped jacket. Spine of jacket is faded but still legible, label trace on back panel. Paper tanned with age, lower corner of title page very lightly creased. | £30

Elizabeth Smart; Brigid Brophy (fwd) | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | Polytantric Press | 1977 | 90510031 In unclipped jacket. Spine is slightly cocked. | £60

Philip Toynbee | Tea with Mrs Goodman | Horizon | 1947 | First printing in tatty jacket. Light pencil marginal marking & underlining. Bookplate on ffep. | £15

Denton Welch | In Youth is Pleasure | Routledge | 1944 | First printing. The boards are very worn indeed, the spine faded to near illegibility. Bookshop stamp of Higginbotham’s of Madras on ffep, along with a price in rupees marked in ink. Text pages still look very good. The sewn binding has loosened a little, but all pages remain firmly attached. | £30

H. G. Wells; V. S. Pritchett (intr.) | The First Men in the Moon | Eyre & Spottiswoode | 1948 | Century Library edition. Jacket is price-clipped, with loss around corners & edges. | £30

Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway’s Party | Hogarth Press | 1973 | 701203781 First printing in unclipped jacket. Spimne of jacket & exposed edges of boards lightly sunned. | £25

Stefan Zweig | Beware of Pity | Cassell | 1956 | Hallam Edition copy in unclipped jacket, very lightly sunned at spine. Inscription on ffep. Book appears to be in unread condition, & looks very good indeed, but has a rather fusty, old bookish smell, hence grading. | £30

Stefan Zweig | Stories and Legends | Cassell | 1955 | Hallam Edition copy in unclipped jacket with publisher’s price sticker on front flap. Edges of jacket are worn, with a little loss, spine is faded, rear flap creased. Book itself in very good condition. | £30

KULCHUR

Thomas Guzman-Sanchez | Underground Dance Masters | Praeger | 2012 | 9780313386923 Outer edge of page-block lightly foxed/marked. | £20

Peter Mason | The Lives of Images | Reaktion | 2001 | 9781861891143 Unread copy in close to new condition. | £15

Luc Pauwels | Reframing Visual Social Science | Cambridge | 2015 | 9781107008076 Unread copy in close to new condition. | £25

Griselda Pollock, Joyce Zemans (eds) | Museums after Modernism | Blackwell | 2007 | 9781405136280 Spine lightly sunned. A little external wear. | £20

Moira G. Simpson | Making Representations | Routledge | 2001 | 9780415067897 Revised edition. Apparently unread copy with light external wear. | £15

Backlist

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