Literature

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.

London: George Allen & Unwin. 1924.A rare suffragette novel.First edition. 8vo. 182x120mm. pp. 378. Green cloth, lettered in red. Fading and slight soiling to spine and bumping to head and foot of spine. Edges toned and slight cracking to hinges. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy of a scarce book, Worldcat recording eleven copies and no copies appearing in the auction records. The Call is regarded as on of the most important suffrage and feminist novels.

London: Secker & Warburg. 1972.Wondering what the hell's going on. First UK edition. 197x125mm. pp. 218. Publisher's blue cloth with slight damage to spine. Original illustrated pop art dustjacket designed by Paul May in the manner of Roy Lichtenstein. Some slight rubbing to the extremities of the jacket, marking to the lower cover and creasing to the spine. Internally in excellent condition throughout. A rare book and an even rarer dustjacket. Crews learnt karate in order to write this book - a typically immersive act. But the book is only partly about karate.

London Putnam. 1955.First edition. 183x122mm. pp.115 [ibl]. Publisher's dark blue cloth. Original dustjacket printed in pink, purple, grey, white. Two small closed tears to top edge of dust jacket; some slight fading and light foxing to top edge. Internally very good; overall in very good condition.The Times Literary Supplement praised this picaresque fragment with "...the comedy is of the same order as, but generally superior to, that of Under Milk Wood".

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1852.Bound with The Proper Lessons to be read at Morning and Evening Prayer and The New Testament. Handsomely bound in maroon morocco decorated in blind with a gothic tracery pattern. Spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. Gilt turn ins and gauffred edges.

London: The Egoist Ltd. 1917.First edition. pp, [4], 7-40. Lacking half title. Original wrappers, with a new spine. Housed in a new brown buckram covered box. Some slight chipping and wear to extremities and a little soiled and creased and with a black mark on the lower cover. Internally a little toned and with the occasional chip to the edges and corners but overall a very good copy of the collection which started the twentieth-century revolution in English literature.

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.

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.

Bombay: Padma Publications Ltd.. 1942.Revised and enlarged third edition, third reprint of September 1942. 183x120mm. pp. [12], 84. Original paper wrappers bound into black cloth boards. The fragile wrappers are a little soiled scuffed and with some surface damage. Leaves are browned but overall a very good copy of one of the twentieth century's most influential works of civil disobedience. August 1942 was a critical month for Gandhi and the movement to free India from the British Empire. On 8th August he delivered his "Quit India speech" in which he called upon Indians to "Do or Die".

Paris: Galerie René Drouin. 1949.First edition. 201x170mm. Unpaginated. pp. [52]. Beige card wrappers with the title printed on the upper cover. Stapled at the spine. Printed on coloured paper and illustrated throughout with fifty two reproductions of the works shown in this celebrated exhibition of Art Brut organised by the Compagnie de l'Art Brut at Galerie Rene Drouin in Paris where Dubuffet had his first exhibition.

Dublin: Luke White. 1791.First edition. Four volumes bound in two. 8vo. 210x125mm. Volume I. The History of my own times. Parts I and II. pp. xxv, [2], 270, [2bl]. And The History of the Seven Years War. Part I. pp. xii, [2], 154. Volume II. The History of the Seven Years War. Part II. [4], 188. Memoirs from the Peace of Hubertsburg, to the Partition of Poland, and of the Bavarian War. pp. xii, [4], 198. Of the four half titles "Posthumous Works of Frederic II. King of Prussia" only two are present.

Oxford: Printed for the author by B.H.Blackwell. 1915.An archive of letters and poems by Edith and Osbert Sitwell to their cousin Veronica Gilliat together with a copy of the limited, first edition of Edith Sitwell's collection of poems The Mother. 192x150mm. pp. 20. Original wrappers, torn at spine and detached. Inscribed on half title "Veronica Gilliat. December 1916". Housed in a custom made drop-backed box. All have been folded and there is some soiling and the occasional tear but the text is not affected. The letters and poems are as follows: 1.

[Paris]. 1890.A beautiful late nineteenth-century illuminated manuscript with the text of the Ordinary of the Mass. 178x125mm. Title page and thirty-two pages. Signed at foot of final page "Germaine Mimey 1890" with the initials "G.M." at the foot of each page. Bound by Emile Rousselle (signed at foot of front doublure) in tan morocco with a single fillet border framing a wide, gilt tooled border inside which is a smaller gilt tooled border which frames a shield with three fleur de lys surmounted by a crown. Below the shield is a dragon.

London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy.. 1823.Second edition. 8vo in 4s. 220x140mm. pp. viii, 152. Bound in paper ( refashioned from newspaper) covered boards, backed in black cloth. Rubbing and wear to covers with some loss of paper and cloth to corners and head and foot of spine. Repaired closed tear across the centre of leaf B3 but no loss of text. Otherwise in very good condition internally and overall a nice copy. Joseph Frey (1771-1850) was the father of modern Messianic Judaism. He was born into a Jewish family but converted to Lutheranism in 1798.

London: T. Dolby. 1821.First edition. 225x145mm. pp. viii, 7 [1bl], 8, 271, [3]. Frontispiece portrait and five further etched portrait plates. Uncut in the original boards. Tan morocco spine. Rubbing and wear to spine, edges and corners with some loss to head and foot of spine. Upper joint is split but holding. Leaf 2L has a closed tear without loss. Although a little delicate, it is in very good condition overall and is a rare book institutionally, Library Hub recording only six copies in the UK and comparatively scarce commercially.

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".

London: Seeley and Co. Limited.. 1911.First edition. 8vo. 192x130mm. pp. xxiii [ibl], 25-328 [1]; adverts[8], 16. Sixteen plates and maps. Original navy blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Head and foot of spine bumped and some rubbing to extremities and marking to the boards. Leaves N6 and 7 have a small tear to upper right corner with loss but this does not affect the text.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1928 & 1929.First editions. Two volumes published separately but sold together as usual. 8vo. 237x152mm. pp. xv [ibl], 356; xii, 330. Both with eight illustrations. Both bound in publisher's brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Front pastedowns have book plates of D.A.King formerly ("Olim Civis") of the Colleges of St Salvator and St Leonard in St Andrews. Without the (scarce) dust-jackets. Fading to spines (more marked in the first volume) and bumping to head and foot of spines. Rubbing to extremities. Some marking to boards.

[London]: Printed for private circulation by Parkins & Son.. n.d. [c1909].Presentation copy. First edition. 214x136mm. pp. 53 [3]. Dark grey buckram, paper label to upper cover, lettered in dark blue. In a grey paper wrapper with an address label to "Gunner Stanley Collins" at an army address in France. On the front free endpaper is the inscription: "October 8th 1918. To Stanley Collins - A much greater Artist than I can ever hope to be, but who may, nevertheless like to read these Poems, sent by his old friend. The Author". Some foxing and hinges cracked but holding.

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.

Rodez: n.p. 1943.First edition predating the trade edition by a year. 165x105mm. pp. 12. Typed and copied on a roneotype. Beige wrappers, stapled. Water-stained and some marking to the wrappers. This "hors commerce" edition was made privately by Artaud when he was a patient at the psychiatric hospital in Rodez, hence its home-made quality. It was followed in 1944 by a trade edition limited to fifty copies.

London: William Tweedie.. 1853.Bound with The Poetry of Childhood. London: William Tweedie. 1852. Presentation copy, inscribed "A.S. from GB. Orate pro pittore". First edition of both titles. Small 8vo. 150x100mm. pp. 52. Poetry of Childhood. Pp. 28. Bound in at the end are four pages of publisher's advertisements which were issued with The Poetry of Home. There are three charming pencil drawings pasted onto blank leaves bound in between the text and two further drawings on blank leaves and one on a text leaf. On a blank preliminary leaf, a photograph of Barmby has been pasted in.