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London: Printed by W. Wilson for Nicholas Bourne. 1651.First edition in English. 8vo. 171x102mm. pp. [xxii, 461 [1bl], [7 index] [i bl], [4 adverts]. Lacking the (often missing) errata leaf. Engraved frontispiece which is also an additional title page and with the printed verse Explication. Contemporary sheep, with some rubbing and scuffing. Flat spine, lettered in gilt. Internally very good but with some browning and foxing. Front pastedown has the Fox Pointe Collection bookplate of Dr and Mrs H.R. Knohl.

n.p. . 1898.Pen and ink portrait of Aubrey Beardsley signed "T.B.B. '98". Image measures 117x77mm, on card (187x142mm), inside a border beneath which is inscribed "Aubrey Beardsley. Artist, died 1898, aged 24". The image is based on a self-portrait done by Beardsley in 1896 and shows him, in profile, in the form of a bust, in white against a black background.

[New York] . 1955.Signed by Eliot in the bottom right corner. Black and white bromide print showing Eliot seated with his right hand on his hip and his left hand holding the handle of his umbrella. With his head slightly at an angle, piercing eyes, round glasses and his mouth ever so slightly open, he is at his most owlish and unknowable. One senses a Delphic apercu about to drop from his lips. Fitting then that this photograph appears on the dustjacket of the Harcourt Brace edition of the Complete Poems and Plays.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co.,. 1851.First edition. 8vo. 218x140mm. pp. vi, [7]-68, [1 adverts, 1bl]. Original blue wrappers, delicate and somewhat soiled and marked, with tears and damage to the spine. An ownership inscription in pencil to upper cover. Internally very good although the hinges are cracked and loose but holding. Rare in commerce, the last copy in the wrappers appearing in 1992.By 1851, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was three years old. Its infancy had been difficult with critics and the public rejecting their use of heightened realism, self-conscious religiosity and mock-mediaevalism.

New York: Harper and Row. 1972.First edition, hardcover. 310 by 310mm. 42 large colour plates taken in Paris. Inscribed to his friend John G. Morris: "16th August '73. For John, Good Luck with your day dreams! Dave". This book is the result of Duncan's experimentation with the use of prisms and other lens effects to achieve "a new camera idiom". The result is a striking set of images. The contents are very good although there are small tears and some discolouration to the dust-jacket. From the library of John G. Morris. This book was a major departure for Duncan.

London: printed for John Morphew. 1712.8vo. 182x118mm. pp. 22 [2pp. advertisements]. Sewn into modern grey wrappers. Final page has small stamp of Yale University Library Jun 18 19[81?]. In very good condition. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735) was highly regarded by contemporaries for his clever, supple mind and sharp pen. He was a member of the Scriblerus Club where he knew Pope and Swift (the latter is often said to have a hand in this work although he denied it) who admired Arbuthnot and felt that he should have taken greater credit for his talents as a writer, doctor and mathematician.

London: The Egoist Ltd. 1917.First edition. pp, [4], 7-40. Lacking half title. Original wrappers, with a new spine. Housed in a new brown buckram covered box. Some slight chipping and wear to extremities and a little soiled and creased and with a black mark on the lower cover. Internally a little toned and with the occasional chip to the edges and corners but overall a very good copy of the collection which started the twentieth-century revolution in English literature.

London: Batsford. 1906.First edition. 4to. xii, 281pp, frontispiece and illustrations and plans throughout text with an old label to the front pastedown. Original red cloth with blind-stamped bands and gilt titles to upper board. gilt bands and titles to spine (An old water stain to the top of the upper board and some light shelfwear). Original dust-jacket (wear to edges with some small closed tears to bottom edge and a shallow missing section to the very top quarter-inch of the rear). In very good condition.

Kempen: teNeues. 2004First edition. Folio. pp. 195. Loosely inserted limited signed print 2/200. Lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white. The text is in French, Spanish, German, Italian and English. Original black cloth, blind-stamped on spine and upper cover. Illustrated dust-jacket, lettered in white, repaired at head of spine. Black cloth slipcase.

London: W. Clark. 1821.8vo. 230x140mm. pp. 182, [2]. First published, albeit pirate, edition, printed by William Clark assisted by the book pirate Thomas Moses whose "T.M." monogram appears below Clark's imprint on the final page of the text. Original drab boards, backed with green cloth, remains of paper label on joints. Corners worn and edges a little rubbed, boards marked in places. Hinges cracked with some loosening. Slightly foxed but otherwise very good internally. Front pastedown has booklabel of Christopher Clark Geest.

Bombay: Padma Publications Ltd.. 1942.Revised and enlarged third edition, third reprint of September 1942. 183x120mm. pp. [12], 84. Original paper wrappers bound into black cloth boards. The fragile wrappers are a little soiled scuffed and with some surface damage. Leaves are browned but overall a very good copy of one of the twentieth century's most influential works of civil disobedience. August 1942 was a critical month for Gandhi and the movement to free India from the British Empire. On 8th August he delivered his "Quit India speech" in which he called upon Indians to "Do or Die".

New York: The Viking Press. 1961.First edition. 8vo. 202x135mm. pp [6], 152. Quarter cream cloth, blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in blue. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight creasing to top edge of jacket and chipping to head of spine and three small closed tears to the jacket but otherwise in excellent condition and near fine internally. A very good copy of Matthiessen's third novel which examines the fragility of goodness in the face of all-encompassing evil.

San Francisco: RE/SEARCH. 1982.Inscribed by Burroughs. 277x215mm. pp. 96. Illustrated wrappers. Some very slight rubbing and a small crease to the top left corner of back cover but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Extensively illustrated. The title page has been inscribed "To Jonathan, William S. Burroughs". Burroughs is very much the main event in this special, double edition of the important counterculture magazine RE/SEARCH.

London: J&C Brown & Co.. n.d. [1856].8vo. 158x95mm. pp. pp. iv, [2], 9-309 [1bl]. Frontispiece (some offsetting from frontispiece onto the title page opposite). This copy is undated but has the same title and imprint as the dated first edition of 1856 so we have assumed that it is from that year. Russell's works were often republished but with different titles which is not the case here. Bound with (and after) BELL, Robert The Ladder of Gold. An English Story London:G. Routledge & Co. 1858. vi, 7-440.

Baden, Switzerland: Kodoji Press. 2007.Limited edition, number 15 of 20 with an original signed and numbered print: "New Graffiti #2 (CHURCHYARD) 2005". Book: 385x275mm. Unpaginated. Signed by Nanna Hänninen. Bound in grey and black linen over boards, lettering stamped in black to upper cover. Thirteen double-page reproductions of a series of digital c-prints on diasec. Short essay by Urs Stahel in English and German. Biography of Nanna Hänninen. Book is housed in a grey card slipcase with white label printed in black. Book and slipcase are in excellent, fine condition.

New York: Rae D. Henkle. 1934.First edition. 8vo. 200x140mm. pp. 320. Black cloth, decorated and lettered in red. Original illustrated dustjacket with a very striking design. Tear to top edge of the upper cover dustjacket with c25x15mm missing. A repaired tear and one small tear to bottom edge of the dustjacket but otherwise a very good copy and internally excellent. Red Hell is the memoir of the career criminal John Goode (1864-1934). He was encouraged by Rae Henkle, the publisher and a friend, "to put his story into some form of written order".

Sydney: Ure Smith. 1960.First Australian edition, the novel having been banned there for 28 years following its first publication in England in 1930. 8vo. 196x125mm. pp. 318. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original dustjacket. Slight creasing and chipping to edges of jacket and a mark to the foot of the spine but otherwise in excellent condition. Internally very good with a little toning to the edges. This novel of small town, backwoods life in the Australian state of Victoria set in the 1890s portrays a society constrained by snobbery and tightly controlled social norms.

Remarks on some evidence recently communicated to the Photographic Society (1863)Remarks concerning certain photographs supposed to be of early date. (1864) Remarks concerning certain pictures supposed to be photographs of early date. (1865) London: Bradbury & Evans. 1863-65.Eight pamphlets under three titles. Privately printed by M.P.W. Boulton between 1863 and 1865, the three titles concern a dispute about the origins and invention of photography and are a refutation by Boulton of claims made in 1863 by F.P. Smith. Further details of this are given below. Each title has more than one version.

shewing The Danger to those who carry them: together with an explanation of a newly invented Patent Gun-Lock, of which All the present Disadvantages are removed, and Simplicity, Security, and Durability substituted. London: Printed for the author by T. Egerton. 1795.First edition. 8vo in 4s. (208x130mm). pp. [2], xxv, 3-88. K4 blank. Loosely inserted is a letter of 1993 from the Bodleian Library confirming that K4 in their copy is blank and setting out the full collation, this copy conforming to that. Contemporary red full grain morocco in fine condition. Decorative gilt borders to the upper and lower covers.

London: Elkin Mathews at the sign of the Bodley Head. 1891.Limited edition, number six of twenty-five copies printed for sale in England on Japanese Vellum. Signed by Walter Crane. 8vo. 240x180mm. pp. xiii, 162, [5]. Loose gatherings, unbound in a slipcase of blue card with parchment spine gilt stamped with title, author and date. Thirty-nine illustrations by Crane engraved by Arthur Leverett, Emery Walker and W. Boutall. The gatherings are in fine condition. The slip case shows some markings and tears and has been repaired in places. Overall, this is a very good example of a scarce edition.

London: The Studio. 1903.Complete in Eight Volumes. This excellent set is in its original grey paper wrappers. The whole is of a very high quality. Each Part contains an introductory essay on a particular artistic medium. These are paginated consecutively through the series running to 64 (unopened)pages. The subjects covered are: 1. Wood Engraving; 2. Lithography; 3. Oil Painting; 4. Water Colour; 5. Etching and Dry Point; 6. Pastel; 7. Monotyping in Colour; 8. Pencil and Pen. A French translation is loosely inserted in each part. Every issue has six tipped-in plates. These include original etchings and lithographs.

London News Ltd. July 6 1969.The News of the World report of the 5th July 1969 "Stones in the Park" free festival in Hyde Park, headlined by The Rolling Stones. Intended as a return to the stage for the Stones after an absence of two years, and as an introduction of their new guitarist Mick Taylor, the festival was overshadowed by the death, on 3rd July, of Brian Jones. As a result, it became a "Requiem for a Stone".

Rodez: n.p. 1943.First edition predating the trade edition by a year. 165x105mm. pp. 12. Typed and copied on a roneotype. Beige wrappers, stapled. Water-stained and some marking to the wrappers. This "hors commerce" edition was made privately by Artaud when he was a patient at the psychiatric hospital in Rodez, hence its home-made quality. It was followed in 1944 by a trade edition limited to fifty copies.

Marburg: Marburger Tapetenfabrik J.B. Schaefer & Co, 1972. 1972.Roll of wallpaper comprising 14½ identical, repeated coloured screenprint on silver metallic paper, with full margins. Approx. 8220 x 535 mm (323 ½ x 21 in). This image (also known as Right Hand Woman) was designed by Jones in 1970. It was made as a roll of wallpaper in 1972 by one of the oldest wallpaper factories in Germany in the series X Art Wall Collection. Other artists participating in this extraordinary project included Jean Tinguely, Otmar Alt and Eric Stanton.