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San Francisco. 1979.Black and white photograph by Anita Corbin. Photograph measures 370x263mm in the mount which is 470x365mm. A small crease to the top right corner but otherwise in excellent condition. It shows Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg during a poetry recital. Orlovsky is centre stage, mid-declamation and with his arms stretched out. Ginsberg is sitting next to him quietly watching him perform. The photograph is pasted onto card and placed in a white card mount. On the back of the card is an inscription "To Peter, love and hugs Anita Corbin".

London Francis Frith and Co.. 1897.Photograph of Queen Victoria in her carriage outside St Paul's Cathedral during the celebrations for her Diamond Jubilee. Photograph measures 560x450mm (to top edge, top corners are rounded) in a cream mount and contemporary carved wooden frame (835x715mm). The photographs of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee were printed and published by Francis Frith and Co, the firm founded by the great travel photographer in 1859 and which quickly became one of the largest photographic companies in the world employing numerous photographers. Frith himself died in 1898.

London: Published for the Proprietor and sold by John Major et al. Printed by John Johnson. 1821-23.First issue Subscriber's (sic) Copy. Proofs No 99. In ten parts as originally issued. Printed on India paper. On the verso of the front free endpaper is the statement "Impressions of the Physiognomical Portraits cannot be considered as Proofs, unless they be worked upon paper having a Water-mark corresponding with the following figure: EW1821 (with a shield between the two letters)". Which these have. 305x230mm. Unpaginated.

London: Harrison & Co.. [1786].First edition. 205x260mm. One hundred engravings of country houses in England and Wales with, on the opposite page a brief description of the house. Bleinheim Palace gets four engravings and four pages of description. Tissue guards. Copper engravings by Birrell, Walker, Ellis, Fittler and others after Burney, Courbould, Dayes, Robert Nixon, Malton and others. Handsomely bound in red morocco. Upper and lower covers with a green morocco border on which is tooled, in gilt, a greek key design. Inside this is a further border of acanthus leaves.

London. Frederick Muller: 1945.8vo, 112pp, illustrated throughout with 4 colour lithographs by Michael Ayrton. Near-fine text block in very good condition. Illustrated cloth with some light shelf-wear and discolouration to extremeties.  A selection of memento-mori verse selected by Phoebe Pool and issued as part of the 'New Excursions into English Poetry' series. With the pen inscription of F.

Monmouth (N.J.): Printed at the press of the author, at Mount-Pleasant, near Middletown-Point. 1795.Third edition. 8vo. 205x120mm. pp. xv, [1], 455 [1, errata]. Bound without final two blank leaves. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, red morocco label lettered in gilt. Slight rubbing to edges and wear to corners. Foxing and browning (as usual for this edition of Freneau's work) but overall a nice copy of the expanded edition of the poems of "The Poet of the American Revolution". Front pastedown has the label of Christopher Clark Geest and the front free endpaper the library stamp of J.H.Hunt M.D.

Netherlands: Baa Books. 2023.Limited edition 19 of 250. 240x170mm. Unpaginated. 64 polaroids of flowers, one of the moon and one of a ginger cat and nine double page photographs of flowers. With a single page introductory essay. A new book in immaculate condition. Using a Polaroid 680 SLR found in a charity shop these images, "small meditations on colour, beauty and time" capture the fragile, fleeting beauty of flowers.

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.

New York Random House in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art 1979First edition. Presentation copy with inscription to Ray Connolly. 228x215mm. pp.141 (iiibl). Original pictorial wrappers. Corners slightly bumped but an excellent copy. Andy Warhol’s inscription on half-title and signature on top right margin of p.121. Inscriptions read “To Ray love Andy” and “Andy”. Prolific British writer Ray Connolly (b.1940) is notable for co-authoring music films ‘That’ll be the Day’ and ‘Stardust’. During the 1960s he wrote extensively on the British music scene.

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.

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.

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.