All Books

New York . Undated.Spraypaint, acrylic and marker pen and stencil on an original New York subway map. Signed by Seen in black felt pen and numbered 142/500. Although numbered as a print, these NYC Subway Maps with added graffiti are original works as each has a different graffiti style. Image measures 810x570mm and the frame is 890x640mm.The map is a folding plan showing all the subways, buses, railroad and ferry links in NYC. It has been unfolded and is laid flat on a white card and framed. In excellent condition.

1974.A original painted glass panel depicting Onan designed by Alan Rose for National Lampoon's December 1974 Issue, Vol. 1, No. 57, entitled "The Judeo-Christian Tradition. The Joy of Sects". 483x358mm. The panel, which is painted to look like traditional church stained glass, shows the figure of a man surrounded by a gothic niche which itself is placed inside a pointed arch. Beneath the human figure is the word "Onan" which identifies the man and explains the leery grimace on his face and the white splashes that surround him.

La Habana: Editorial en Marcha. 1962.First edition. 8vo. pp. 51. Address by Prime Minister Fidel Castro at the Fifteenth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, September 26, 1960.

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.

North Hollywood, California Essex House. 1968.First edition. 170x108mm. pp. 255. Original paperback, pictorial card cover with postscript by Theodore Sturgeon. Very good condition with a little light rubbing to covers. Internally fine.

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1954.First edition. 210x140mm. pp. xvi, 358. Purple cloth backed, maroon cloth covered boards, lettered in white to the spine. Original dust jacket in very good condition with only slight creasing to corners and to head and foot of spine. The front pastedown and two of the preliminary pages have the name and address of John Farquharson, 8 Halsey House, Red Lion Square stamped in purple ink. Farquharson was a well known literary agent and was Wright's agent in the negotiations for the first UK publication of Black Power.

Paris: Librairie Gallimard.. 1928.First edition. Number 928 of 1000 copies printed on velin pur fil Lafuma Navarre. 8vo. 202x155mm. pp. 141 [1]. Brown quarter morocco, marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some shelfwear and rubbing but overall very good. Internally slightly soiled in places but very good.

Le Club Francais du Livre. 1960.210x137mm. pp. [iv], xxxvi, 780, [2]. Number 2470 of 9000. Frontispiece portrait of Poe. Text printed in double columns. Collection Les Portiques 65. Full dark green morocco, lettered in gilt to covers and spine. Bumping and chipping to head of spine but otherwise the binding is in very good condition. Internally very good although the front pastedown and the rear free end paper have some damage where labels have been removed and the final leaf has a small hole, not affecting the text.

Paris: Editions Jardin du Luxembourg.. 1948.Limited edition, number 468 of 640First edition thus with the woodcuts by Rene Ben Sussan hand coloured "au pochoir" by Edmond Vairel. Typography by A. Tallone. Printed on BFK Rives paper. 4to. 305x205mm. pp. xx, 21-312, [4]. Fifteen full page coloured woodcuts at the beginning of each chapter, specially made for this edition. These are in immaculate condition and internally the whole book is in fine condition. Bound by Giulio Giannini in red calf.

London: London: Printed for J. Dodsley.. 1774.Two volumes. First edition, second printing ("qui auroit" correctly printed on p55 of volume 1). 4to. 295x235mm. pp. Vol.1: [4], vii [1], 568; Vol.2: [4], 606,[2]. Contemporary calf: volume 1 joint with upper cover recently repaired, wear to joint with lower cover. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities of both volumes and slight scuffing to boards. Chipping to head and foot of spine of volume 2. Spine has five raised bands, contrasting morocco labels, lettered in gilt. The text block of both volumes is very good, in clean, crisp condition.

London and New York: The Studio Ltd. and William Edwin Rudge (New York). 1932.First edition. 252x321mm. pp12 with twelve plates on card protected by tissue paper on which the details of the etching are printed. Original blue papered boards with label in centre of upper cover. Original and rare cream coloured illustrated dust jacket lettered in red. Very slight chipping to the dust jacket but overall in very good condition. The book itself is in fine condition throughout and the plates are superb.

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.

London: Printed for John Wyat. 1718 and 1719.A Volume of six tracts relating to the Bangorian Controversy. 8vo, 192x120mm. pp. [i], 56; 80; xxxii, 1-40, 41-96; 54, [i]; 46. Contemporary vellum, handwritten on the spine is "Pyle". Half title to the whole volume: "Mr Pyle's Answer to Mr. Law". From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, the front pastedown has the bookplate from the South Library. An attractive volume bringing together a series of letters by Thomas Pyle in support of Benjamin Hoadly's (Bishop of Bangor) Whiggish Low Church supinity. The final letter is a reply to Pyle.

New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc.; Paris: Pierre Horay. 1973.First edition. Presentation copy: Inscribed with a sketch by Arman to Brynolf Eng, the Swedish ambassador to Italy. 'ARMAN [printed] FOR BRYNOLF ENG, Arman'. A large tube of paint labelled 'ARMAN [printed] FOR' is sketched squeezing out the letters 'ENG'. 4to. pp. 200. Tipped-in coloured frontispiece. 178 illustrations including 48 tipped-in coloured plates. Loosely inserted 16 pp. pamphlet biography of Arman by Pierre Restnay dated 1973 and in French. Arman (1928-2005),was a French artist who moved from using the objects as paintbrushes to using them as the painting itself.

Göttingen: Steidl. 2004.First edition. 300x295mm. pp.256. Original grey paper covered boards, title stamped in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Very slight bumping to the bottom corners. Otherwise, near fine; an excellent copy of a beautifully produced book. pp7-17: essays by Eugen Blume ("Conversation on the Beach too long") and Manfred Leve ("Photographing Block Beuys"), text in German and English. pp20-256, black and white photographs of Beuys's work.There are two short collections of photographs from exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach which form part of the "Ur-history" of the Block Beuys installation.

Leigh-on-Sea, Essex: F.Lewis (Publishers) Limited. 1937.First edition. 325x265mm. pp. viii, 102 pages of text interspersed with 139 plates, some photographs on glossy papers, others drawings. Each plate has several examples of metalwork so this book is profusely illustrated and is a valuable reference tool. Original cream cloth letter in gilt with publisher's device stamped in gilt to upper cover. Original dust jacket with staining to spine and small chipping to head and foot of spine. Rare in the dustjacket particularly in this very good condition. Internally in excellent condition.

London: Printed for the Author, and are to be sold by Walter Davis in Amen Corner. 1682.First edition. 8vo (175x114mm). pp. 128 (including initial blank A1). Contemporary black morocco, covers panelled in gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt. The Heber (?) - Britwell - Hayward - Bradley Martin - Edwards copy, with modern bookplates of H. Bradley Martin and J.O. Edwards. Lightly rubbed with some wear to corners, a little marginal browning, still a fine copy.

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: 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] 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.

[Prague] Galerie Dila Usti nad Labem. 1972.First edition. Exhibition catalogue for a show of sculptures by Stanislav Hanzik in Prague in 1972. 230x165mm. pp. 28. 14 pp of text and 16 (unpaginated) pp of photographs and 1 page of list of sculptures at the exhibition, final page blank. Text in Czech. Original brown card wrappers with Hanzik's signature printed in red on upper cover, all in excellent condition. Sudek began life as a bookbinder but after losing an arm in WWI, became a photographer and was the great 20th century chronicler of Prague.

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.

Paris: Éditions arts et métiers graphiques. 1933.Twenty loose leaves (title page and nineteen black and white photographs) in a cream coloured board folder, spine in cream linen with a black and white photograph of a woman on the upper cover. Housed in a blue purpose made box lettered in gilt on the spine. There is some rubbing and wear to the folder itself and to the photograph on the cover.

London: Printed for J Jenkins by L Harrison. n.d. [1827?]First edition. 387x290mm. viii, [2bl]. Unpaginated, signatures erratic as usual. Dedication to the Earl of St Vincent. Fifty-five hand coloured aquatint plates and one uncoloured plate containing two etchings showing battle plans for the Bombardment of Algiers an the Battle of Trafalgar. The original paintings were done by Thomas Whitcombe (c1760-1824) who was one of the finest marine painters of the time. The hand-coloured plates were done by Sutherland, Bailey and Jeakes and are of the highest quality and are in superb condition in this copy.