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n.p. . n.d. [1937]. A collection of typescripts of thirteen short stories by Lise Deharme with five signed drawings by Jean Cocteau. Some of the stories are drafts with manuscript or typed amendments and some in fair copy. Each story, with its illustration, is loosely inserted into a card folder. Also present is the original pink file which contained the stories and drawings. On the cover of this is inscribed, in De harme’s hand: “Lise Deharme, 146 rue de Grenelle, Paris VII. Quleque dessins de Cocteau”. All housed in a custom made box with paper label to spine.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1881.First edition. 4to. 278x215mm. pp. 100. Text from p.45-100 following twenty-one monotone Woodburytypes printed from Thomson's original glass plates. Each image is framed with a red line border and the title printed in red. The text (which follows the photographs) consists of a commentary and description of the images. Original green pictorial cloth with gilt title and decoration in blind with two figures in gilt. Floral endpapers (lacking front free endpaper). Hinges cracked but holding, corners a little worn, bumping and slight creasing to head and foot of spine.

Chelmsford: Clachar, Frost, and Gray. 1783 [but 1788].Small 8vo. 153x95mm. pp. xvii [i], 115 [1]; Part X, An endeavour to prove that reason is alone sufficient to the firm establishment of religion [1785]: 31 [1]; An Appendix to the Tenth Part: 64; A Physical Enquiry into the Powers and Properties of Spirit..., 1787, vi, 82; A Postscript to the Physical Enquiry..., 1787; 6, [4], 7-34; Part XI and XII: [141] -178; A Free Enquiry into the Enormous Increase of Attornies..., 1785 iv, 68. Modern half calf, marbled paper covered boards, original red roan label on spine, lettered in gilt.

Monaco: Imprimerie A Chène. 1930.Limited edition, number 92 of 200 printed on velin supérieur signed by the author. 244x157mm. 74 leaves. Quarter green cloth, white paper covered boards, colour illustration to centre of upper cover. Some marking and soiling to covers and scuffing to corners and edges of boards. Some foxing but otherwise a very good copy. Text printed in black, blue, red and green on recto only (verso blank), four illustrations. Daisy Fellowes was an heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine.

Venice: Lucantonio Giunta. 1526.Second edition, edited by Luca Gaurico (first edition, 1495) 4to. [28], 398 leaves. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, small wormholes on covers (one on upper and three on lower) and some waterstaining on lower cover, ties missing. Manuscript lettering to spine (partly covered by label reading "A-b") and on bottom edge of text block. Internally very good, some waterstaining to a few of the early leaves (1i (title page)-2ii and 2vii-3ii), marking to leaf r3. Previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper crossed out. Overall in excellent condition. Introductory text in gothic type.

Milano: Studio Marconi Gennaio. 1970.Oblong 12mo. pp. 10. Five black and white illustrations (rectos only). Original spiral-bound card covers, edges faded.

London: Printed for Thomas Hodgkins at the Juvenile Library.. 1807.First edition, first issue. Two volumes. 12mo. 165x100mm. Vol. I. ix [i.bl], [2], 235, [1 with T. Davison imprint]. 10 engravings. Vol. II. [4], 261, [3pp. adverts with the Hanway Street address]. 10 engravings. Contemporary calf, spines with red morocco labels lettered in gilt and small round black labels numbered in gilt. At head of spine, in gilt, is the Pelican of Mercy and the motto, "Pandite Coelestes Fortae". This is the crest of James Gibson of Ingliston, Writer to the Signet whose armorial bookplate is on the front pastedowns.

Paris: The Black Sun Press. 1929.First edition. Number 38 of 100 copies on Japanese Vellum signed by the author. 4to. 212x168mm. [8], XV, [1], 55, [3]. Original cream paper wrappers lettered in black and red to upper cover and spine and with 'black sun' motif on the lower cover. Original glassine wrapper. Slight chipping to head of spine and there are some tears to the glassine wrapper at the spine and to the front wrapper but overall in very good condition. Internally excellent with only very minor marking in a few places.

New York: Larry Clark. 1987.Second edition. 293x227mm. pp. [148] Unpaginated. Black and white photographs with an autobiographical essay by Clark. Card cover illustrated with a black and white photograph of teenage lust. The cover and contents are in near fine condition. A superb copy of this controversial, explicit and dark collection of images and words. It formed the inspiration for Clark's radical film "Kids".

London: C. Lane. 1851.A 19th century virtual reality experience of the Great Exhibition.Accordion-style paper peepshow of the Great Exhibition in 1851. 160 x 175 mm extending to c650mm. Ten hand-coloured lithographic cardboard panels, eight with die-cut openings and the other two providing the front and back covers. The front panel has a viewing lens. Housed in the original slipcase which is stained and slightly torn in places and there is some soiling to the front and back panels but otherwise in very good condition with the internal prints particularly clean.

Germany Scalo. 1996.8vo paperback. 76pp, illustrated throughout.

Santa Rosa, California Black Sparrow Press. 1994.Limited edition, one of 750 paperback copies published for friends of Black Sparrow Press. 210x146mm. pp. 40. Original decorative wrappers, stapled. Very slight marking to lower cover but otherwise a near fine copy. Lawrence produced this work for the Daily Chronicle while waiting for Lady Chatterley's Lover to start selling. At a time when a bill giving women the vote was passing through Parliament, the British newspapers were very keen on this type of material. It was discovered by Roy Spencer in the files of the Daily Chronicle.

London: Printed for J. Scatcherd. 1797.First edition. 8vo. 175x100mm. pp. xvi, 274. Folding frontispiece and twelve plates each with a monthly "Bill of Fare". Contemporary calf, recently and expertly repaired, red morocco label to spine lettered in gilt. Closed tear to E6 with no loss, some foxing but otherwise very good. An excellent copy of a rare book, ESTC recording only six copies. The Accomplished Housekeeper is an abridged version of Francis Collingwood's The Universal Cook and City and Country Housekeeper, itself a rare book, first published in 1792 with a second edition in 1797.

n.p. . n.d. [c1970].Two volumes. 254x202mm. pp. 7 [1bl], 42. 6 illustrations; 47 [1bl], 9 illustrations. Typed pages stapled at left edge with green card covers on the first volume and orange on the second. Some marks and toning on the covers and four of the leaves have been repaired with coloured tape at the edges. An utterly bizarre (and unrecorded) home-made production of which we have been unable to find another copy. At first sight, on encountering the photocopied illustrations, this would appear to be a fantasy work for rubber fetishists.

New York: Ben Abramson. 1946. An irregular quarterly of Sherlockiana 2 volumes, 4 issues in each. 230x150mm. pp. [vol. 1] 516. [vol. 2] 507 [1]. Vol. 1, No.1 has some blue staining on front of paper wrap and Vol. 1, No.4 has a slight dent to front of paper wrap but otherwise each individual issue is in excellent condition. Internally each issue is fine. A very nice, well looked-after set. The Baker Street Journal is the leading publication for essays and stories about Sherlock Holmes.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. 1871.First separate edition following its publication in Blackwood's Magazine. 8vo. 171x114mm. pp. 64, 8pp adverts. Original publisher's purple wrappers, somewhat faded and with tears to spine and the bottom outer corner torn from the lower cover. Some foxing but otherwise very good internally. Although not the first example of imaginary invasion literature (see previous item for that), The Battle of Dorking is the best known and was the most successful.

London: William Heinemann Limited. [1938].Three volumes. 230x152mm. pp. xxxi, [ibl], 1237 [1]. Paginates continuously. The maps that form the endpapers are bound in at the end of volumes two and three. Bound by Bayntun in red half morocco, cloth covered boards. Each volume housed in its own red cloth covered slipcase. In excellent condition throughout.

London: H.F. & G. Witherby. [1953].First edition. Two volumes. Signed by the author to the half title of volume II. Demy 4to. (285x220mm). pp.xvi, 510; vii, 314, [2]. Volume I in navy buckram, volume II in navy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. Cream dust jacket lettered and decorated in black and red, price clipped. Plastic protective wrapper. Binding and jackets are in very good condition with only the slightest shelfwear. Internally both volumes are in excellent condition.

London: Published for John Reeves. 1801.12mo. 157x97mm. Unpaginated. Contemporary red morocco, wide gilt and blind roll-tooled borders to the covers, spine lavishly decorated in gilt. Very smart green silk doublures. All edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Terry. With a New Version of the Psalms by Brady and Tate.

Cambridge: Printed by C.J.Clay and Son at the University Press for the SPCK.. n.d. [c1890]. Bound with Hymns Ancient and Modern. London: William Clowes. 178x140mm. The Prayer Book is unpaginated but collates pi1; A16-O16. Hymnal, pp. xv [ibl], 681, [1]. Bound by "Watson, Binder, Marylebone" (signed at foot of front pastedown) in beige cloth decorated with inlaid silver quatrefoil and flower motifs. Calf turn-ins tooled in gilt. Silk endpapers. Gauffred edges. Two silver pillar and heart-shaped silver clasps, one engraved with the letters "I.J" and the other with the date "1760". Both have the silver mark "IL".

Bombay: Published for the Church Missionary Society. Printed at the American Mission Press. 1835.First edition. 8vo in 4s. 213x130mm. pp 711 [1bl]. Text in Mara'thi'. Contemporary purple full calf, spine decorated in gilt and blind. Maroon morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. Some rubbing and scuffing and corners bumped and worn. Internally very good. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the SPCK. A nice copy of a rare book, Worldcat locating only two copies (BL and Yale).Mara'thi' is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in India and is the official language of the state of Maharashtra.

London: Printed by S.R., and are to be sold by Edward Gough. 1682.First edition. 8vo. 173x110mm. pp.[16], 78, [2]. With a separate title page for "A remembrance of the worthy show and shooting by he Duke of Shoreditch, and his associaties ... By W.M." (p. [33]-71). Contains the scarce Postscript which was missing from three of the six copies appearing in the auction records since 1975. Contemporary brick red morocco with double fillet border and gilt panel of double fillet and roll-tool decoration with inner and outer corner pieces to upper and lower covers.

London Thames & Hudson. 2003. The Female Gaze First edition. 290x225mm. pp. [6] 256 [2]. Publisher's original grey cloth.Author and title in silver gilt lettering on spine. A fine copy.Germaine Greer's controversial 2003 book examines the representation of male youthfulness and by centring the female gaze sought "to advance women's reclamation of their capacity for and right to visual pleasure." Containing some 200 photographs and pictures of boys from classical mythology to Kurt Cobain, Greer views the aesthetics of youthful masculinity through a radically feminist lens.[ref.

London Andre Deutsch Limited. 1955. First edition. Signed. 222x143mm. pp.(iibl) x,126, (iibl). Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Original dust jacket. Illustrated throughout; illustrations on front and back pastedown and free endpapers. One minor tear and chip to head of dust jacket. Internally excellent; overall in excellent condition. Sandy Wilson's signature in blue ink on front half-title. Beautiful, signed copy of the script for Sandy Wilson's smash hit musical, with Wilson's own charming illustrations.