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London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.. 1931.First edition. 8vo. pp.xx.243. Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in silver. Beige dustjacket lettered in turquoise. Illustrated with photographs, maps and reproductions of artworks. An account of the people, history, culture and customs of Finland.

Leipzig: Parthenon Verlag -31. 1929.4to, 12 issues bound in 2 volumes. 225, 256pp, illustrated throughout text and with separate colour plates. Fine in blue quarter morocco with 4 raised bands with gilt rules and gilt titles to spine, speckled boards and endpapers with only the lightest of shelfwear. 'Der Flagellantismus Als Literarisches Motiv' was published between 1929 and 1932 by pioneering German sexologist Ernst Schertel by his own Parthenon Verlag publishing company.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1926.Third edition. 8vo. 217x175mm. pp.xvi, 102, [2bl]. Original wrappers, some slight wear to extremities but otherwise in very good condition throughout and internally excellent. Protected by a transparent plastic cover. The first two editions of Flatland appeared in quick succession in 1884 but the book then fell out of print. Blackwell issued this third edition forty two years later. Textually it is has a few revisions from the second edition but its appearance is almost exactly the same as the earlier ones.

London: Seeley & Co.. 1884.Second edition. 8vo. 217x185mm. pp.xvi, 102, [2bl]. With illustrations by the author. Original illustrated limp vellum covered card. Vellum worn, particularly at the spine where there is some loss, corners rubbed. Hinge with upper cover is cracked but holding. Otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book. Upper cover has an ownership inscription. This second edition, issued in the same year as the first, included a six page preface in which a fictional interlocutor addressed, on behalf of Abbott/A Square two of the criticisms aimed at this strange book.

With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE (EDWIN A. ABBOTT)Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1926.Third edition. 8vo. 217x175mm. pp.xvi, 102, [2bl]. Original wrappers, some slight wear to extremities but otherwise in very good condition throughout and internally excellent. Protected by a transparent plastic cover. The first two editions of Flatland appeared in quick succession in 1884 but the book then fell out of print. Blackwell issued this third edition forty two years later. Textually it is has a few revisions from the second edition but its appearance is almost exactly the same as the earlier ones.

Bedford: Printed and Sold by W.Smith. 1798.First edition. 8vo in 4s. 223x130mm. pp. xii, 351, [9]. Six contemporary hand-coloured engravings. Green buckram, maroon morocco label, lettered in gilt. Some marking and rubbing and a split to the cloth (c45mm) at joint with lower board. Some slight foxing in places but otherwise very good internally with the charming plates in particularly good condition. It is rare to find these coloured. One of the front preliminary leaves has two pages of neat manuscript notes listing plants from Abbot's book that are found in the "best natural pastures".

Kjobenhav [Copenhagen]: J.Jorgensen & Co.. 1893.A catalogue of the first exhibition of paintings by Van Gogh in Denmark. 170x135mm. Text block 155x125mm. Unpaginated. 36pp. In original grey paper wrappers, with title, date and floral decoration on the front cover. Bound into blue half cloth and decorated paper covered boards. Some slight rubbing to the boards but the catalogue itself and its delicate wrappers are in excellent condition. Rare, Worldcat locating only two copies, one in Denmark and the other in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

London: William Heinemann. 1935.Presentation copy: 'For Juliet Foyle with the compliments of Horace Brodzky London Nov 4/35'. First edition. 4to. pp. [iv], 17, 40, recto only. Portrait frontispiece and 40 illustrations, chiefly nudes. Horace Brodzky, 1885-1969, was a student at the School of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, but spent most of his creative life in London. He was one of the earliest Australian artists to embrace the modern style of the twentieth century. Original buff cloth with initials on upper cover and spine lettered in brown.

n.p. [Ireland] n.p. 19th century.Four cartoons showing the life of the poor in Ireland. The only real clue that they are Irish is that one of them shows two old women begging under a banner advertising a sermon from the Protestant Orphan Society. Two other cartoons comment on the divide between rich and poor while the fourth simply shows an old woman knitting outside what looks like a workhouse. The pictures are signed "JHL". Prints measure 180x115mm and are mounted on cream paper and framed in a wooden frame.

New York and London General Music Publishing Company Inc and Novello and Company Limited. n.d. [1964].First edition. 307x240mm. pp. 12. Illustrated paper covers. In fine condition. Inside rear cover has the label "From The Library of John K. Martin". The four Lawrence poems are Aware, Thomas Earp, December Night and Quite Forsaken. Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994) began his studies in his native Italy. He had links with Berg and Schoenberg and his early work was influenced by their atonal experimentation.

London and Roma: Anthony d'Offay and Gianenzo Sperone. 1981.Limited edition of 500. Inscribed by Clemente: "For Monty". 335x265mm. Illustrated paper over gatefold boards with 4 colour and 4 monochrome reproductions of Clemente's work. Red cloth spine. Printed in India on hand-made paper. Unpaginated, with 6 handpainted illustrations, and 8 tipped in colour plates. Includes loose typed insert at front from the publisher First Edition. A little rubbing to the edges and slight marking to the covers. The contents are in excellent condition.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. 1831. Third edition published with the first illustration of Dr Frankenstein's monster Third edition, published as volume IX of Standard Novels series issued with the first part of The Ghost-Seer. 162x100mm. pp. xii, 202; [2], 163 [5]. Frontispiece and illustrated additional title page. Black half calf, marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Housed in a green cloth covered dropback box. Rubbing to boards and scuffing to head and foot of spine. Corners bumped. Internally very good but with some foxing and slight soiling.

London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday. 1873.First edition. Small 4to. 208x160mm. pp. [8], i-v, [6], 7-86, [2 adverts]. Fourteen autotypes protected by a blank leaf. Original publishers binding of brown morocco with borders in gilt and blind to upper and lower covers and, in the centre of the upper cover, a panel heavily decorated with Egyptian motifs in gilt and blind. Spine with four raised bands and a simple floral motif in the compartments. Some rubbing to corners and soiling to covers. Internally the hinges are cracked and the first gathering is loose but holding.

Various. 1980s.An archive of material relating to an unreleased film about Brian Jones, the founder of The Rolling Stones. The project was led by Genesis P-Orridge, the artist, musician and co-founder of industrial music pioneers, Throbbing Gristle. P-Orridges worked on the proposals for the film with the writer Jon Savage who wrote the seminal work, England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond. The archive consists of: 1. A copy of the seven inch vinyl single Godstar by Psychic TV and published by Temple Records.

Grant of Probate of the will of John Bennett of Hawkhurst in the County of Kent to Anne Bennett his relict and executor named in the will. Single sheet, 152x131mm. The grant of probate is signed by the officers of the Court, a Court which, as the first words of the document remind us, was under the authority of "Oliver, Lord Protector of ye Commonwealth of England, Scotland, Ireland ye Dominions Territories thereto belonging".

New York: Aperture. 1975. 4to, unpaginated, illustrated throughout. Near-fine in chocolate-brown cloth with both blind and silver stamping.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press. 1982.SIGNED WITH AN ORIGINAL PAINTINGLimited edition number of 67/100, signed by Bukowski and with an original oil painting by Bukowski on a blank preliminary. 228x150mm. pp. 283 [5]. Half blue cloth, illustrated paper covered boards, protected by original acetate wrapper. In very good condition throughout. The painting is of a human head in profile. Owing something to cubism (in its structure), Mondrian (in its colour) and Gaudier-Brzeska (in its monumentality), this is a striking work in thickly applied oils. Ham on Rye is widely regarded as among Bukowski's finest works.

Dusseldorf: Selbstverlag (self-published). 1917.226 x 150 mm. pp. [viii], 124. Illustrated with 130 (in fact 131) images mostly showing tatting patterns. Text in German. Original grey/brown paper over boards, spine in brown leather. Upper cover lettered in black and white with tatting illustration attached. Some slight scuffing to lower cover and bumping to foot of spine but overall a very good copy, internally near fine. Tatting seems to involve knotting together pieces of thread to make allegedly eye-like patterns which, together produce moderately pretty but completely useless items of decoration.

Fontainebleau: L'imprimerie Gosswiller. 1961.Limited edition, exemplaire numéro 11 of 100. Eight folded sheets of Rives paper (250x400mm), the engravings on separate sheets (250x200mm). One further folded sheet which is a prospectus for Heroics. All housed in a folder with the title on the upper cover. The folder is a little soiled and there is slight foxing elsewhere but overall this is a very good copy of a scarce work. In addition, there are twelve loose typescript sheets (270x210mm) with poems by Hine.

Zurich: Chez Heidegger & Compagnie. 1766.Edward Gibbon's copy. Two volumes. First edition. 12mo. 165x95mm. pp. x, 338; [4], 330. Contemporary calf, spines with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, second and third compartments with red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners a little bumped and joints rubbed and the joint with the upper cover of volume one is cracked but still strong. Front pastedowns of both volumes have the armorial bookplate of Edward Gibbon and volume one has his label.

Oxford: H.Hall. Impensis Ric: Davis. 1663.First edition thus in the Arabic edition and Latin translation by Edward Pococke. 4to. 203x155mm. pp. [12], 368, [90], 66, [5bl], 565, [2]. The final part (565, [2]) in Arabic paginates from the rear of the book. The two blanks are present. Three parts in one volume (i.e. the Latin translation, the Supplementum and the Arabic edition), each with its own title page. Bound in twentieth century brown full calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, lettered in gilt to spine. Contemporary manuscript title to fore-edge.

London: Treuttel and Wurtz, Treutell, Jun. and Richter. 1829.First edition in English published in the same year as the first edition in France. 221x141mm. 8vo. pp. xxxix, (i bl), 448. Original blue paper covered boards, spine covered with beige linen. Pasted onto the upper cover is the label (160x100mm) of "Bigg's New Westminster Subscription Library". Corners bumped and edges worn with a small tear (5mm) to front edge of upper cover, joint with upper cover split and a short split at top of the joint with lower cover, small tear (10mm) to linen towards foot of spine.

London: The Fleuron Ltd. 1929.Signed limited edition, 257 of 300. 248x184mm. pp, (8), 64. With drawings by Albert Rutherston. Printed and stencilled at the Curwen Press. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Juliette with love Aldous". Juliette was a Swiss-French sculptor and the wife of Julian, Aldous's brother. Original brown cloth, gilt design on upper cover and gilt lettering to spine. Some marking to covers and darkening to spine but overall in very good condition. Internally fine.

Amsterdam: n.p.. [1964].Paper scroll (2760x430mm) with a facsimile (translated into English) of Huges's manifesto, written while in prison, for an expanded consciousness achieved through the control of blood to the brain. which gives the work its alternative name: The Mechanism of BrainBloodVolume (BBV). The original manuscript of Homo Sapiens Correctus was written in Dutch in 1962. In 1964, a facsimile was issued in both Dutch and in an English translation.