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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.

Bedford: The Pyghtle Works. [c1915]. 310x250mm. pp. 240. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and there are three full plate colour illustrations. Beige quarter cloth. Grey paper covered boards, with colour illustration pasted onto upper cover. Some marking and rubbing to boards and to head and foot of spine. Internally very good although with some foxing and staining to edges in places. A very nice copy of a rare and very full catalogue of garden furniture and ornament produced by John P. Whyte at the Pyghtle Works in Bedford.

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.

Original artwork by Allen Atwell and Michael Green New York: The World Publishing Company 1968 Take a trip with the highest priest First edition. 235x160mm. pp.[8] 353 [3bl]. Quarter bound in publisher’s original striped yellow and blue cloth on a pale grey ground. Title, author and publisher’s mark lettered in gold on spine. Original dust jacket in protective mylar covering. Very slight fading to head of spine. Dust jacket has a repaired tear on front towards foot and one small chip (0.5cm) on head of back cover. In excellent condition internally; altogether in excellent condition.

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: Granada Publishing. 1980. Signed by Sammy Davis Junior. First UK edition. pp. 215 [1bl]. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Original illustrated dustjacket protected by a plastic wrapper. Some light shelfwear and wear to head and foot of spine of jacket but otherwise in very good condition. Verso of half title is inscribed "All my best. Sammy Davis Junior. P.S. SO. DO.

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.

Munchen: Albrecht Kraus. 1987.First German Edition. 365 x 260mm. pp. 47. 20 photographs by Michael Montford. Dark brown cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Original dustjacket illustrated with a photograph of Bukowski. Signed on title page by both author and photographer. First German edition.

London: Frederick Muller Ltd.. 1956.First edition, first impression. 196x126mm. pp. 240. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original illustrated dustjacket. Some creasing to edges of jacket and slight chipping to foot of spine but otherwise in excellent condition and internally near fine. House of Dolls ran to several printings in year of publication but this first impression, particularly in the dustjacket, is rare in commmerce.Ka-Tsetnik 135633 is the pseudonym of Yehiel De-Nur who survived two years in Auschwitz. Ka-Tsetnik is Yiddish concentration camp slang for a prisoner and 135633 was his camp number.

Cambridge (vol. 1) and London (vol.2): Printed by J. Bentham (vol. 1) and J.Bettenham (vol. 2). 1744.Two volumes. First Zachary Grey edition. 8vo. 220x135mm. pp. Vol. 1: [2], xiv, xxxvi, [42, list of subscribers], 424, [16, index]. Vol. 2: [2], 446, [24, index]. With frontispiece engraved portrait of Butler and sixteen plates engraved by Mynde after William Hogarth. Contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards. Pages uncut. Rubbing and wear to boards and slight scuffing to spine. Internally very good. A very nice copy of the edition regarded as the best and the most scholarly.

n.p. 1794.Unpublished manuscript translation into English of Huetiana ou Pensees Diverses de M. Huet, Evesque d'Avranches. 257x190mm. pp. [1], lxviii, 376, [8, Table of the Articles], [1, Approbation]. Contents: An Historical Eulogium on the Author by the Abbé Olivet; Life of Huet from Bayle; Huet's Life from the New and General Biographical Dictionary 1761; A Tour to Stockholm translated from the Latin of M. Huet by J. Duncombe; Anecdotes from the Latin of M. Huet. The Historical Eulogium and the Huetiana themselves are translations from the French published in 1722 as Huetiana ou Pensees Diverses de M.

New York Alfred A Knopf. 1982.Description:First Edition of Leithauser's first collection of poems, described by James Merrill as "something very like perfection. No one should overlook them". Dark blue cloth with dustjacket decorated with motifs of fireflies.

London: William Heinemann Ltd.. 1949."sitting in the kitchen sink"First edition. 182x120mm. pp. [4], 338. Illustrated with engravings by Ruth Steed from drawings by Dodie Smith herself. Blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Fading to spine and to edges of boards. Illustrated dustjacket (supplied from another copy) with some creasing, chipping and closed tears.

with an introduction by Boris Vian.Paris: The Vendôme Press. 1948.A fusion of prime US pulp and French sado-eroticism.First edition in English. 193x140mm. pp.201 [1]. Original wrappers. Slight creasing to upper cover and spine, a small tear and some marking and soiling to lower cover and a short tear at foot of spine at joint with lower cover. Some ink underlining in a few places. Internally very good. A nice copy of a rare and scandalous book. I shall spit on your graves first appeared in French in 1946.

Paris: Librairie Archeologique de Victor Didron.. 1857.First edition. 4to. 272x225mm. pp. 58 [2, advertisements]. Three leaves of engraved plates and a plan of the layout of the capitals of the Doge's Palace. Original brown paper wrappers, worn and chipped at extremities, tears to spine with some loss, staining to covers. Internally, there is foxing and spotting but overall it is in very good condition. Some pages unopened. This is the first published book by William Burges, one of the most inventive architects and designers of the nineteenth century.