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Tokyo: Hakua Kan. 1977. First edition. 210 by 235mm. Unpaginated. 64 black and white plates. Black cloth with title and author stamped in white on the spine. White dust jacket with black and white photograph on the front. Title and author printed in black on front and spine. Protected by plastic covers. Dust jacket has some modest sunning and a small repaired tear to the head of its spine. Contents fine, dust jacket very good but it is extraordinarily rare to find this highly sought-after and important collection in its original jacket. ffep has a non-authorial gift inscription.

New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1969.First Edition. Cloth with gilt decorated elephant and donkey emblems of the Republican and Democratic Parties. Dust jacket with some wear and small tears on spine and upper edges. Contents near fine, jacket very good. Inscribed by Duncan to his friend the photo-editor John G Morris. "November 1969. For John - Happy Thanksgiving and Super Saludos - Dave". This is a superb photographic record of the 1968 Conventions. From the Library of John G Morris. John G. Morris (1916-2017) was probably the most celebrated photo-editor of the 20th century.

1972.Photo silkscreen on graph paper (900x735mm). Inscribed in pencil in the bottom margin “For Francesco - [Signed] Robert Mapplethorpe ‘73”. An early work from an important stage in the development of Mapplethorpe’s career. When he graduated from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn in 1969, Mapplethorpe was making mixed-media collages using images torn from magazines. In 1971, he befriended John McKendry, curator of photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. McKendry allowed Mapplethorpe access to the Museum’s photography archives and later that year gave him his first Polaroid camera.

London: Printed for G. & W.B.Whittaker. 1823.12mo. 180x105mm. pp. xv, [3], 144, [121]-142. This eccentric pagination is noted in the errata. Original grey paper covered boards, original label to spine. Tear to head of spine, rubbing to joints and corners of boards. Internally very good, a few pencil underlinings and marginal annotations and some pages unopened and overall a nice copy of a rare work located by Worldcat in seven UK libraries and none in the US.

London: George Routledge and Sons. 1873.First edition. 8vo. 160x100mm. pp. [2 adverts], viii, 184, [2, adverts]. Pastedowns are publisher's adverts. Original illustrated paper covered board with an image of the Union Flag and the Stars and Stripes. Edges and corners worn, paper on spine is torn with loss. Hinges cracked but holding and would benefit from a little repair. Rare, JISC Library Hub locating four copies in UK institutions (BL, NLS, Oxford and Cambridge) with Worldcat adding two more (NYPL and Australian National University) and no copies in the auction records.

n.p. n.p.. 1880-1934.An archive collection of seven sketchbooks extensively illustrated with, in total, over 500 drawings, sketches and studies by the Arts and Craft architect William Bidlake (1861-1938). The drawings are in pen and ink or pencil. Most are highly worked, detailed drawings of buildings (particularly churches) either standing alone or in the context of more developed street scenes but there are numerous studies of architectural details such as gothic window tracery and column capitals. Landscape scenes also feature and there is a small number of sketches of the human form.

London: Printed by The Aquarium, Woburn Walk. 2004.First edition. 232x155mm. pp. [viii], ii, [2], 235. Green cloth with illustration (by Childish) stamped in black to upper cover. Pictorial dustjacket with same portrait illustration in white, black and brown on upper cover. Endpapers decorated with a repeated sea-horse design. Some marking to dustjacket and a small stain to foot of spine but overall in very good condition and internally it is immaculate. Billy Childish is a genuinely counter-cultural figure.

New Hampshire: Addison House. 1977.First edition. 275x188mm. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout. Photographic card wrappers, protected by a transparent plastic cover. In excellent condition with only a little light shelfwear to the extremities Internally very good. Signed by Kroll on the frontispiece. A nice copy of an important sociological study. Offered with an original vintage print signed by Eric Kroll on the back and from his own collection. Part of the mount is cut out to show the signature. In very good condition.

1970Photograph (187x254mm) of the cast of the 1970 film MASH signed by Robert Altman, Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Sally Kellerman, Ring Lardner Jr, Michael Murphy, Tom Skerritt, Rene Auberjunois, John Schuck. On the verso is the label of Jerry Ohlinger's Movie Material Store. In very good condition.

[London] n.p.. 1957 and 1954-56.Black and white bromide print (212x163mm), mounted on cream card (296x210mm). Signed in pencil by Angus McBean and inscribed by Eliot "for Charles Reilly with affection from Tom and Valerie". Valerie has signed in her hand. A small mark to the lower right corner of the mount and a crease to the top right corner but otherwise in very good condition. On the verso is McBean's copyright stamp. Tom and Valerie are gazing at each other with complete affection.

New York: Clover Hill Editions and Chilmark Press. 1971.Limited edition. XXI of 135 copies numbered I-CXXXV, signed by Anthony Gross and containing a set of signed prints in final state. 330x240mm. pp. xv, [3], 54, [2]. Illustrated with eight etchings by Anthony Gross. Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lion's Press, Cambridge. Brown quarter morocco, beige cloth. Line drawing of a bull's head in gilt to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Issued loose in a separate box is another, signed set of these etchings.

the Man in Miniature known as General Tom Thumb and his wife Lavinia Warren Stratton: including the history of their courtship and marriage; Com. Nutt & Miss Minnie Warren, with some account of remarkable dwarfs, giants, and other human phenomena, of ancient and modern times, and, also, Songs given at their public levees. London: Brickhill and Bateman. 1865. Slightly expanded English edition following the American edition of 1863. 179x118mm. pp. 50, [i]. Lacking the original wrappers so the title page is the cover page. Tear with loss (but not to text) to the top of the front page.

New York Congreve. 1978.First edition, large 8vo, pp; 150, illustrated throughout. Fine in black cloth boards with white-stamped titles to spine. In a Near-fine photographic DJ.

London: Crosby Lockwood & Son. 1924.First edition, 4to. xi, 32pp text, 140 plates & plans, 6 fold-out plans, with a 52pp appendix. Chocolate brown and cafe-au-lait cloth in the original near fine dust-wrapper. Some light creasing to rear. In mylar wraps. Cracking to joints just before the appendix. A crucial work for anyone interested in the development of suburbia or metro-land. The book gives full details of the types of houses then springing up around all of England's major cites in the post-WWI effort to create 'homes fit for heroes'.

London and Cambridge Richard Harraden. 1798-1800.First edition. 277x385mm. Frontispiece and eighteen engravings showing scenes of Cambridge Colleges. Platemarks measure approximately 170x250mm. The Small Views are bound with the frontispiece to "Views of Cambridge Drawn by Rd. Harraden" which has been trimmed resulting in the loss of the first three words. Also bound in are six engravings of country house views by William Poole, published by R&J Snare, Reading in 1798. The leaf following each country house view is a handsome descriptive letterpress with a brief history of the house.

London: T. Cautley Newby. 1868..8vo. (182x120mm) pp. [6], 144. Original blue cloth with gilt borders, decoration and lettering to upper cover and borders in blind to lower cover. Slight wear to corners and to head and foot of spine. All edges gilt. Internally very good with a little foxing in places.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.. 1893.First edition. 8vo. 190x125mm. pp. viii, 335. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Bumping to corners and to head and foot of spine. Marks to spine. Internally very good with some pencil annotations. Front free endpaper has the ownership inscription "James Morton, Gowanbank, Darvel, Jan. 1896" and the front pastedown has the bookplate of Beatrice Emily and James Morton designed by C.F.A.Voysey. James was the son of Alexander Morton, the founder of the eponymous textile and weaving firm. James trained with the family firm, becoming a partner in 1895.

[Florence]: Privately Printed [Orioli]. 1928.First edition issued to subscribers only. Limited to 110 copies of which this is number 110. Royal 8vo. 250x165mm. pp.97, [1bl]. Original yellow/gold rough canvas with title stamped in red on upper cover. Corners slightly bumped and light soiling on the covers. Internally very good with some slight marking in places. Overall a very nice copy. Some Limericks has long been a popular work, famous for its obscene verse and clever, amusing mock-scholarly apparatus. It has appeared in a number of pirated editions.

London: Basil Montagu Pickering. 1866.First edition thus. 8vo in 4s. 172x105mm. pp. xii, 108. Original brown cloth, paper label to spine. Joint with upper cover split, corners and label worn. Internally very good. Front free endpaper is inscribed "Frances Marten 1867, from H.C.R." On the front pastedown opposite is pasted a photograph of "H.C.R." who is Henry Crabb Robinson. The front free endpaper also has the book label of Priscilla and Samuel Meek. This reprint of Songs of Innocence and Experience contains two previously unpublished Blake poems.

[London] Printed for Walter Runciman at the Temple Sheen Press. 1922.First, limited edition, one of 150 copies. 4to. pp43. Original beige cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine. Partially unopened. Slight rubbing to bottom corners and bumping to head and foot of spine but otherwise a very good binding. Contents in excellent, near fine condition. Thomas Runicman was a pupil of the artist William Bell Scott who was on the fringe of the pre-Raphaelite circle. His poems were written for his own pleasure and only appeared posthumously. With an introductory note by Walter Runicman.

n.p. [Germany] . 1840s.A pretty and touching little friendship box (87x140x18mm) containing fifteen cards, leaves of papers and embroidered silk stuck to card. They are all from different people and contain a mixture of poems, drawings, paintings, or just the initials of the giver. The theme is "friendship" and the first and the last leaves contain the word "Amitié". The box is made from card, covered with pale green vellum. Top is decorated with a rococo gilt frame and the word "Souvenir" stamped in gilt. Gilded metal clasp. Housed in a green card slipcase.

London: Burgess William & Co. early 20th century.Souvenir Japanese crêpe paper handkerchief with an outer border of purple pansy-type flowers and green foliage. In the centre is a picture (signed W. B [?] 84) of a poor mother with two young children. Above this is printed "Souvenir Programme of The Provincial Unemployed Demonstration" and either side of the picture are the texts "The profit of the earth is for all Eccles v.9" and "Labour is the source of all wealth". Below the picture are the details of the demonstration.

London: Burke Publishing Co. Ltd. 1961. First edition. 183x120mm. pp. 158. Green cloth, lettered in black to the spine. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight creasing and two closed tears to head of jacket and rubbing to foot of spine of jacket but otherwise a very good copy of the sixth of MacVicar's Lost Planet series.

Amsterdami: Henr. Wetstenium.. 1697.8vo. 162x97mm. pp. [48], 192. Prettily bound in contemporary red morocco, both covers delicately tooled in gilt with a floral border framing an inner border of drawer-handle and flower motifs and small gilt dots, with arabesque cornerpieces. A central panel is decorated with drawer-handles, arabesque cornerpieces, leafy sprays and rococo patterns constructed with tiny dotted lines. All edges gilt, turn-ins tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers. Slight bumping and rubbing to corners and joints but otherwise a beautiful little binding in excellent condition.