New Arrivals

The Third Volume of the Life and Adventures of Timothy Ginnadrake, containing a concise account of the City of Bath, From the Year 1670 to the Present Time. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the author.. n.d. but volume 3 is dated 1771.18th century Bath. History and SatireFirst edition. Three volumes. 12mo in 6s (166x90mm). pp. [xvi], iii-xviii, 168; 204; xiv, 15-240, [12, list of subscribers]. Engraved frontispiece portraits to volumes one and two. List of subscribers at beginning of volume one and at the end of volume three. Armorial bookplate of William John Mercer to front pastedowns.

London: Robert Barker. 1611.Editio princeps of the King James Bible. Folio. 425 x 270mm. The Great "He" Bible, with the erroneous reading "and he went into the citie" in Ruth 3:15, corrected to "...she went..." in all subsequent printings of the Bible. General title page supplied in high quality facsimile on contemporary paper. Map and alphabetical table of the Land of Canaan supplied from another copy from slightly smaller paper stock. Expert recent restoration to some of the early leaves and a few earlier repairs to the edges of some leaves. Unpaginated.

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.

London: Published by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars. 1856.First edition. 278x215mm. pp. [6], 30. Three engraved plates of specimen bank notes for a ten pound and a hundred pound banknotes. Publisher's printed wrappers with a new lower cover and spine. Tear to top right corner of upper cover with minor loss, chipping to fore-edge and some small marginal holes in the final leaf (not affecting the text) but overall a very good copy of a commercially rare work, only two copies appearing in the auction records.

London: George Allen and Unwin. 1937.First edition, first impression. 8vo. 173x118mm. pp, 315 [1]. Publisher's green cloth lettered and decorated with the mountain design and a dragon stamped in dark blue. Lacking the scarce dustjacket. Chipping and some wear to head and foot of spine and slight staining to covers.

Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press.. 1992.Ronald Firbank meets Led ZeppelinFirst edition. 228x150mm. pp. [6], 7-226. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original illustrated dustjacket. Front free endpaper has the embossed library stamp of Mel. R. Runner. Some very slight bumping to head and foot of spine with slight creasing at head and foot of spine of dustjacket but otherwise in near fine condition throughout. A lovely copy of a strange book. "Alembic is an unsettling novel about madness and alchemy, epistemology, and rock and roll, magic and perversion".

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.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1914.the first appearance of a new Dracula storyFirst edition. 8vo. 182x120mm. pp. [8], 200. Red cloth, decorated and lettered in blind on upper cover. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Illustrated dustjacket in a later state with the price of 1/3net replaced with 2/- but in all other regards the jacket is the same as that of the first impression with its chilling illustration by Handforth. There is a split to the cloth at the joint with the lower cover and some fading to spine.

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.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd.. 1962.First UK edition, published the same year as the first printing in America. 200x130mm. pp. [6], 250. Blue cloth, illustrated and lettered on spine. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight creasing to edges of jacket and light soiling to lower cover but overall very good and internally fine.

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: Hutchinson and Co.. 1942.Rare supernatural crimeFirst edition. 184x130mm. pp. 184. Pale blue cloth, lettered in red. Original illustrated dustjacket. Top and bottom edges of jacket a little chipped and two small closed tears to foot of jacket. Internally very good but with some toning to the edges. Overall a very good copy. Rare (Worldcat recording ten copies) and especially so in the dustjacket.Margaret Long wrote under seven pseudonyms, principally as Marjorie Bowen. As Joseph Shearing she wrote crime mysteries, based on true stories overlaid with the supernatural.

London: New Literature (Publishing) Ltd.. 1961.an inverted parable of the cruelty of colour prejudiceFirst edition. 209x135mm. pp. 196. Orange cloth, lettered in black. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight bowing to the boards and some creases and closed tears to the edges of the jacket and chipping to head and foot of spine of jacket. Overall a very good copy an extraordinary novel set among the Jamaican Maroons - a community of indigenous Caribbean Arawakan people who mixed with enslaved Africans who had broken free.

Cape Town: David Philip. 1981.Signed by Rive.First edition. 210x145mm. pp. [8], [8 photographs], [2], 221 [1bl]. Signed by Richard Rive on the title page. Red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Original dustjacket with photograph of Rive on upper cover. Slight soiling and light shelfwear to dustjacket but otherwise a near fine copy of Rive's "rumbustious, always perceptive autobiography" which was developed and expanded from his ground-breaking key-note speech at the University of Indiana's African Literature Association conference in 1979.

London: Chapman & Hall.. 1882.First edition. Two volumes. Small 8vo. 178x115mm. pp. vi, 199 [1bl]; vi, 208. Collates complete although the pagination in signature H of volume is somewhat awry, the printer having mixed up some pages - but the text is all present. Green cloth, brown morocco label on spine, lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Decorated, floral endpapers. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden Bart whose ownership inscription is in both volumes. Slight rubbing to corners but otherwise in fine condition throughout.

New York: Simon and Schuster. 1968.First edition, first printing. 195x125mm. pp. 215 [1bl]. Blue cloth. Original illustrated dustjacket. Spine of jacket has some fading and a repaired closed tear and there is some light foxing to lower cover.

Lovedale, South Africa: Lovedale Press.. [1930].The first novel in English by a black South African. In the rare dust jacket.First edition. 8vo. 185x120mm. pp. [12], 225 [1bl]. Green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine. Original illustrated dustjacked, chipped and a little torn along top and bottom edges but overall very good and rare in any condition. Internally there is some foxing.

London: The Bodley Head.. 1974.First UK edition, first printing. 215x15mm. pp. [10], 11-412. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original illustrated dust jacket. Front free endpaper has gift inscription.

A Romance of the "Golden" Age.London: H.J.Gibbs.. 1850."Soul exchange"First edition. 199x120mm. pp. xii, 250 [2bl, 5 publisher's adverts, 1bl]. Frontispiece and three etchings by F.H.T.Bellew. Modern brown cloth, slight rubbing to extremities. Frontispiece is a little chipped along fore-edge and all plates are a little foxed and there is offsetting from them.

[London]: Macgibbon & Kee.. 1966.Inscribed by Naughton to the critic John Russell Taylor.First edition of the novel taken from the 1963 stage play, itself adapted from a radio play. 196x127mm. pp. [8], 9-208. Brown cloth, original illustrated dustjacket. Some rubbing to extremities of jacket and a small mark on upper cover but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Front free endpaper is inscribed "To John Russell Taylor with good wishes from Bill Naughton. 13th Feb 66".

London: Burke Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1961.First edition. 183x120mm. pp. 158. Green cloth, lettered in black to the spine. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight creasing and two closed tears to head of jacket and rubbing to foot of spine of jacket but otherwise a very good copy of the sixth of MacVicar's Lost Planet series.

London: Hamish Hamilton.. 1951.Presentation copy with inscription to Alvilde Lees-Milne.First edition. Presentation copy with inscription to Alvilde Lees-Milne. 183x120mm. pp. 270. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated dustjacket (supplied from another copy). Extremities bumped and lower board a little stained and cockled. Tears, with some loss, to head and foot of spine of jacket and slight chipping to edges at the flaps. Internally, there is some foxing, heavier to the half title and title page. Dedication page is inscribed "Alvilde with love from Nancy" and there is the ownership inscription of Alvilde on the front free endpaper.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1951.Who is Lovecraft? H.P.Lovecraft's first appearance in the UK.First UK edition. 8vo. 183x120mm. pp. [4], 5-303 [1bl]. Orange cloth, original yellow Gollancz jacket. Some fading to edges of boards. Chipping to edges of jacket and at head of spine and some soiling to spine and lower cover of jacket. Internally very good. A nice copy of the first collection of Lovecraft's work published outside America.

Manchester and London: Abel, Heywood and Simpkin Marshall. 1882.A Dour Weird. A rare collection of Victorian supernatural talesFirst edition. 8vo. 183x120mm. pp. [8], 303 [1bl], 20 adverts dated February 1883. Publishers red cloth, block in black. Very light bumping to head and foot of spine. Some foxing but overall a very good copy. Worldcat locates only ten copies and none appear in the auction records.Mrs G.