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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. In addition to the white, the glass is painted red, green, blue, yellow and mauve and pink. The edge of the pointed arch is painted with a thick black line. The edges of the glass are protected by tape. There is a small amount of scratching to the glass at the bottom resulting in a slight loss of paint but overall it is in very good condition. Alan Rose described how he made the panel from two sheets of painted glass to create the depth of image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the Christmas 1974 issue, National Lampoon decided to direct their “take no prisoners” anarchic satire at religion. It was surprisingly ecumenical with articles entitled “Good Friday the Rabbi Ate Pork”, “Catholic Sex Index” and “The Fatima Letter”. 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But is has become one of the most celebrated of all National Lampoon issues and this panel is a superb, unique survival from the mad, creative energy which defined the magazine. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ROSE, Alan [National Lampoon]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31536311238767,"sku":"3386","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/IMG_20200505_202411_432_resized.jpg?v=1588948344"},{"product_id":"new-york-city-subway-map","title":"New York City Subway Map","description":"New York . Undated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpraypaint, 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. 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Ginsberg is sitting next to him quietly watching him perform. The photograph is pasted onto card and placed in a white card mount. On the back of the card is an inscription \"To Peter, love and hugs Anita Corbin\". Below this is written, in Orlovsky's own hand, \"Taken in S.F. A Beatitude Benefit. Sept 18th 79\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn September 1979, the Savoy Tivoli at 1434 Grant Avenue San Francisco hosted a benefit reunion for Beatitude, the magazine founded by Bob Kaufman, John Kelley and William Margolis in 1959. Ginsberg contributed to the first issue and wrote frequently for the journal. This benefit reunion has become a legendary event in the history of Beat performance poetry as it marked the return of Bob Kaufman after a fifteen year self-imposed writing exile. This photograph is a very early work by Anita Corbin who made her name with the 1981 Visible Girls series. It is a rather moving work capturing Orlovsky’s enthusiasm and energy and Ginsberg’s admiration and devotion for his partner. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CORBIN, Anita","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31536311337071,"sku":"3389","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20200506_175617_resized.jpg?v=1588947916"},{"product_id":"death-bed-scenes-and-pastoral-conversations","title":"Death-Bed Scenes, and Pastoral Conversations.","description":"London: Printed for C\u0026amp;J Rivington\/ John Murray. 1826-1828.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. Volume I published by C\u0026amp;J Rivington, the other two volumes by John Murray. 8vo. 212x130mm. pp. Vol. I: xvii, [3], 498 (lacking half-title); Vol. II: [vi], 534, errata leaf; Vol. III: [x], [2], 541. Half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Maroon morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. Some slight rubbing to edges and to small areas one the spines (particularly to the foot of volume II) but overall in very good condition. Internally fine. A very nice set. This first edition of volume I is rare, no copy being recorded at the BL. Warton was, in fact, William Wood, a High Anglican Priest from Fulham. Although the work is presented as advice for a parish priest on how to administer to the dying and support the bereaved, it is written in a such a direct and personal way that it can be read as a sort of novel.","brand":"WARTON, John D.D.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31619238297711,"sku":"3381","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3381_1.jpg?v=1590146903"},{"product_id":"the-plate-glass-book","title":"The Plate-Glass-Book","description":"London: Printed for the Author; and sold by W.Owen et. al. 1764.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourth Edition, Enlarged. Third edition of the Compleat Appraiser. Tall 12mo in 4s. (198x75mm). pp. xxv, [1], 170, [2], iv, 46, 46a-h, 47-74. Twentieth-century quarter brown morocco with small arts and crafts style decorative motifs on the joints, brown cloth covered boards. Slight rubbing to the joints and mild bumping to the corners. Overall in very good condition. Internally very good, some browning to edges of title page and final leaf. Gathering Gg has been repaired affecting the text but not legibility. Modern endpapers and blank preliminaries stamped \"Birmingham Assay Office Library\". 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Internally very good with a little marking in places and a small hole to the title page of volume two, not affecting legibility. Edges sprinkled red. Of the four variants described by ESTC, this is the first, containing the misnumbered preliminary pages, vii and xii instead of viii and xi respectively. Front pastedowns have armorial bookplate of Henry Corbet A.M. and the label of Richard Corbet, Adderley. Sir Henry was the Rector of Adderley and the last of the Corbet Baronets of Adderley and Stoke dying in 1750 without issue. Richard Corbet lived at Adderley Hall. He died in 1872. Rare in commerce and institutionally. ESTC locates five copies of the first volume in the UK and ten in the US and only two copies worldwide for the second volume. A very good copy of this vicious but amusing attack on loose French morals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003ePierre Lambert de Saumery's scabrous satire on the French Catholic Church was first published, in two volumes, in Amsterdam in 1741 as \u003cem\u003eLe diable hermite\u003c\/em\u003e. It was clearly an immediate success being translated into English that same year, with the second English volume appearing the following year. de Saumery seems to have been an extraordinary figure. He was born in France to Calvinist parents who moved to England when Pierre was a child. He was brought up and educated in England and, at 29, became a Calvinist minister. He then travelled around the continent as a preacher ending up in Liège where he converted to Roman Catholicism. It has been suggested that his conversion was inspired less by theological conviction than by the hope of gaining access to the courts of ecclesiastical grandees. If that was so, then he was clearly successful as after a few years he published this \"Satirical Romance\" of life at the court of a Prince-Bishop. The conceit is that Astaroth has left hell to wander Europe where, despite having \"seen in hell a great many devilish tricks\" he discovers, among the French aristocracy (both secular and ecclesiastical) a venality, immorality and corruption that shock even him. \"The natural order of things is all reversed in this region. They sleep in the day, riot in the night, and shorten life by unheard-of excesses. The soul is a stranger to all sincerity, and all compassion. Double-dealing, imposture, scandal, and ostentation are the only virtues known to courtiers\". 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This first issue is a standard child's scrapbook with bright yellow card wrappers and coloured pages stapled at the spine. The front cover has the title stencilled in black. Below it is a five pointed star cut out from a pizza takeaway leaflet. The lower cover is pasted with similar pizza leaflets out of which a five pointed star has been cut to show the yellow card underneath. It is protected by a plastic wrapper and is in very good condition throughout. \u003cbr\u003eEach page (or in some cases double page) is devoted to the work of an artist (there are seventeen credited) who is invited to create their own personal scrapbook out of that page. The ideas, proposals and concepts of the artists are then edited and curated by Reza Amaresh to create the book that we see. Among the artists shown here are Ellen Cantor, Francis Upritchard, who represented New Zealand at the 2009 Venice Biennale, and the 2008 Turner Prize nominee Goshka Macuga. Centrefold sits firmly in the tradition of collage, montage and papier collé and Issue One features photographs, magazine cut-outs, maps, delivery receipts, a drying-up towel and a 45rpm record (John Lennon's Woman with Yoko Ono's Beautiful Boys on the B side - some splitting to the edges of the record sleeve). The centrefold is a collection of pieces of paper on which are written responses to the question \"What is success to you?\" (answer include \"warmth\" and \"a Ducati nine one six cylinder...one hundred and fourteen break horse power for hundred and sixty miles per hour - sublime\"). Centrefold is an artist's book expressing the low key, low tech, random, aleatoric heterogeneity of post-post Modernism. We might struggle to discern links between the works but, as with a collage novel, themes and connections emerge when we absorb the individual elements through associative proximity. Ten Centrefold Scrapbooks have been created but this first issue set the project on its distinctive and radical path. \"Scrapbook takes its cue from the childhood fascination for collecting and collating, the improvised cutting and pasting through which a constellation of interests and desires are brought together. A group show in its own right\". (JJ Charlesworth)","brand":"ARAMESH, Reza and Tina Spear","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37584715677887,"sku":"3245","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3245_2.jpg?v=1606478541"},{"product_id":"the-whole-duty-of-woman-by-a-lady","title":"The Whole Duty of Woman. By a lady.","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row. 1753.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo, 170x105mm. pp. xiv, [2], 88. Quarter calf, original paper covered boards, rubbing and wear to edges and corners with much of the paper covering worn. Rebacked, red morocco label, lettered in gilt. Foxing and browning and some ink marks, small tear to corner of E4 with no loss of text. Front pastedown has the ownership inscription of \"Mrs Anne Cave, Barking Alley, 1761\" and, opposite, on the recto of the front endpaper is inscribed \"Elisbeath (sic) Castell, I.D\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Kenrick was a literary chancer. In 1751, Robert Dodsley had published, with great success, The Oeconomy of Human Life, a collection of short essays on correct moral and social behaviour, purportedly written by a Chinese philosopher. Kenrick, spotting an appetite for moral guidance, wrote his own work, following Dodsley’s model of brief pieces with single word titles such as “Modesty”, “Reputation”, “Frugality” and “Education”. The title of Kenrick’s book is taken from a seventeenth-century work and he published The whole duty anonymously, pretending that it had been written by a woman. The central idea, that correct behaviour in a woman is more likely to arise when encouraged by another woman, allows Kenrick to hide behind a feminine mask while, all the time, praising the sort of characteristics that men expect women to display. This results in his treading a very fine line between irony and offensiveness. Consider the essay on “Curiosity”: “Seek not to know what is improper for thee; for happier is she who but knoweth a little, than she who is acquainted with too much”. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Whole Duty of Woman was a great success, running to five editions during Kenrick’s life and remaining popular through the nineteenth century. However, it is hard to imagine a writer less appropriate than Kenrick to offer moral guidance. He has been described as “the black sheep of Grub Street” and he does seem to have been an entertainingly ghastly man. He published his New Dictionary of the English Language, heavily plagiarising Samuel Johnson’s. He libelled Oliver Goldsmith, he spread rumours about David Garrick’s homosexuality, he spent time in debtors’ prison, and he picked fights with almost everyone he came into contact with: “he was rarely without a public enemy” (ODNB). Indeed, Kenrick so thrived on disagreement that, if no-one rose to his provocations, he would, pseudonymously, write an intemperate response to his own argument in order to generate a controversy. 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Some very minor rubbing to spine but otherwise a near fine set. Internally fine. \u003cem\u003eLes Jeunes Filles \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ePitié pour les femmes \u003c\/em\u003eare exemplaires de presse (review copies).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyril Connolly in The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books from England, France and America 1880-1950 writes that “these four brilliant novels in which the narrator is a typical cad-artist of the between-war vintage, are written in Montherlant’s pellucid and crisp style”. The cycle records the attempt of the free-spirited protagonist Costals (a writer) to avoid the advances of two women keen on marriage. Widely regarded as a work of startling misogyny there is actually more nuance at work here than we might at first think. Simone de Beauvoir, although highly critical of Montherlant, did concede that there were elements of his misogyny that might be of use to women: “We should congratulate Montherlant for demystifying the eternal woman, because it is by rejecting the idea of womanhood that women can finally assert themselves as human beings.” Montherlant was a more subtle writer than many have been prepared to admit. He was, though, undoubtedly a misogynist but that was because he was a misanthrope - he made little distinction between the sexes. Costals emerges from Les Jeunes Filles as a venal bully (an egotistical erotomane is one description) before whom many people, not just young women, would become simpering wrecks. Costals is a modernist anti-hero in a novel written with modernist élan. Stefan Zweig regarded Les Jeunes Filles as one of most important novels of its time. We might describe it now as “problematic” which, of course, makes it interesting and worthwhile. 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Beneath the image is printed a brief biography of \"this remarkable person\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMargaret Finch was born at Sutton, south London in about 1640 and spent a life “Traveling ye Kingdom, as Queen of ye Gypsie Tribe”. Towards the end of her life she settled in Norwood, then wild, rural and a major gathering point for gypsies (hence Gypsy Hill). She lived in a  hut built of branches at the base of a large tree. She was 108 when she died and had spent so much time sitting in the crouching position shown in this portrait that a special coffin had to be made as her body could not be straightened out. The cost of her lavish funeral was met by local publicans grateful to her for having attracted a stream of visitors to the area. “The Oddness of her Figure and ye Fame of her Fortune Telling, drew a vast Concourse of Spectators from ye highest Rank of Quality, even to those of ye lower Class of Life”. A celebrity gypsy. 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Unopened, new and in immaculate condition. The giclée prints, measuring 270x210mm are titled \"A Certain Darkness Is Needed To See The Stars\". They feature the actress Jodie Turner-Smith. The images are all by the photographer Gerald Jenkins and the text includes work from Sun Ra, Darius James (the author of Negrophobia), Little Annie Bandez (Annie Anxiety), the poet Norman Douglas and the handwritten lyrics by Kain The Poet (Gylan Kain) to his seminal work Black Satin Amazon Fire Engine Cry Baby. Described as a picture novel study of the human spirit in the fantastic \/ magical and the human soul in the metaphorical and physical in Five Chapters – being Oppression, Rainbows, Mythology, Cosmology, Salvation, this is a stunning book. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's After The End Of The World takes its title from the 1970 song and album by Sun Ra, the great African American musician, mystic and pioneer of Afrofuturism. Sun Ra died in 1993 and Gerald Jenkins continues to photograph members of The Sun Ra Arkestra, the musician's ever-changing band who perform his work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is Sun Ra's Afrofuturism (what has been described as \"a musical tradition of performing blackness\") that lies behind Jenkins's book. Long interested in Australian Indigenous peoples and the treatment of women of colour, Jenkins turns his attention here to broader questions of race, gender, spirituality, oppression and liberation. For Jenkins, \"untainted indigenous relationships with the Universe are so intimate and direct\" and it is these that he is exploring here. As Michael Gonzales (a contributor to It's After The End Of The World) said in an interview with Gerald Jenkins in Afropunk, \"Jenkins' images shook me, because they were so Afro-Everything — haunting, scary, fly and, most of all, inspiring\".","brand":"JENKINS, Gerald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37584720494783,"sku":"3447","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/ThinkAboutIthighres.jpg?v=1608735181"},{"product_id":"nude","title":"Nude","description":"Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo. 1971.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. Portfolio of ten gravure prints, eight in black and white and two in colour. 592x420mm. The prints are in a large white envelope together with a separate title page on the verso of which are notes and details about the photographs (text in Japanese). They are protected inside the envelope by a heavy sheet of cardboard. This is all placed in a black card folder with an illustrated label covering part of the upper cover, spine and lower cover. The photographs are in excellent condition although there are some marks on the rear of the prints but these do not affect the images in any way. The white envelope has some fading and sunning and there is a little marking and spotting to the black portfolio case. Overall this is in very good condition - an excellent example of the complete set of these striking images many of which are from Shinoyama's 1970 book \"Nudes\". These place the nude human form in the expansive landscape of Death Valley to create a challenging surrealism. Always beautiful, Shinoyama's work, in common with much postwar Japanese photography, frequently hints at the dark and threatening.","brand":"Kishin Shinoyama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38182752846015,"sku":"3467","price":575.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20210203_111141_resized_1.jpg?v=1615216432"},{"product_id":"etchings-of-remarkable-beggars-itinerant-traders-and-other-persons-of-notoriety-in-london-and-its-environs","title":"Etchings of Remarkable Beggars, Itinerant Traders and other Persons of Notoriety in London and its Environs","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: John Thomas Smith. 1815.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecond edition. Folio. Title page and forty etchings (of forty eight) sold as a collection of plates. Brown full morocco, raised bands with simple double fillet and fleur de lys design in blind, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers with Van Gelder watermark. One very small mark on the upper cover and slight rubbing to corners and two small areas of rubbing to the front turn-ins but overall in excellent condition. Internally fine with the plates in superb condition and only slight foxing to the margins. \u003cbr\u003eThe first edition of John Thomas Smith's Etchings of Remarkable Beggars was published in early 1816 (although the engraved hand-coloured title page is dated 1815) with twenty three plates. It was later reissued with forty eight plates (of which forty are present in this copy). Remarkable Beggars is an important work not just because it is a fine example of Smith's skill as a draughtsman but also due to its highlighting of the serious poverty and vagrancy that characterised London in the years following the end of the Napoleonic Wars when many destitute and badly injured young soldiers returned to an England suffering an economic slump. Smith captures with genuine humanity the pity and desperation of the London poor existing on the margins by begging or wandering the streets selling small quantities of food, toys and household goods. The question of spiralling poverty was debated extensively in Parliament and by 1817 Smith noted in his introduction to Vagabondia that matters on the streets of London had improved since the dire situation recorded only a year or two earlier in Remarkable Beggars. Smith's moving and affecting work no doubt contributed to this welcome change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Thomas Smith trained initially with the great sculptor Nollekens (for whom Smith’s father, a printmaker and sculptor had worked) who introduced him to many of the leading artists and public figures of the day. However, Smith showed little aptitude for sculpture but he could draw and so he was taken on by the engraver John Keyse Sherwin to learn the art of printmaking. Smith rode the wave of the late eighteenth century fashion for collecting prints, producing etchings and aquatints of scenes of London. Although most of his work reflected life in the city, he did produce a set of rural scenes in 1797 which had an influence on the young John Constable. By the time of Remarkable Beggars, Smith had fallen on comparatively hard times having lost a large amount of stock in a fire, although he secured a regular income as the keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum. On Smith’s death in 1833, Constable (who had remained a friend) organised a subscription for his impoverished widow, suggesting that Smith was held in affection and respect by his fellow artists. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SMITH, John Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40079683715263,"sku":"3489","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20210519_150743.jpg?v=1624467272"},{"product_id":"an-account-of-the-different-charities-belonging-to-the-poor-of-county-of-norfolk","title":"An Account of the Different Charities belonging to the Poor of County of Norfolk.","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbridged from the Returns under Gilbert’s Act, to the House of Commons in 1786; and from the Terriers in the office of the Lord Bishop of Norwich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBury St Edmunds\/London Printed by Gedge and Barker; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1811.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 220x130mm. pp. xvi, 296. Contemporary diced russia, double fillet gilt border with gilt roll border inside. A further gilt roll border to the central panel. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Some wear to head and foot of spine but otherwise a handsome binding in a very good condition. Internally very good, some foxing and the front free endpaper is loose. Overall an excellent copy of a fascinating book which lists and describes all the charitable activity in Norfolk from large donations in Norwich to very modest charitable work in tiny villages (such as teaching young people how to knit). Zachary Clark was a Quaker from Downham. The preface (written by Thomas Clarkson, the abolitionist and a friend of Clark's) describes how Clark was concerned at the extent to which charities failed to carry out their purposes. It seems that in some cases, the abuses were quite basic and blatant, such as failing to hand over money intended for the poor. 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They are undated but the clothes are clearly of the Regency period and much is made of the newly fashionable top hat which was the headwear of choice for the sporting gentleman for most of the nineteenth century. In part they are instructional, showing how to signal when a dog is required or when you want someone to \"bring the powder and shot\" but there is a gently humorous element as well particularly in the last card showing our hero holding his gun aloft. Balancing on the end of the barrels is his top hat. This elaborate manoeuvre means, we are told, \"luncheon\". Charming, and the best part of the day. 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Scuffing to four of the images with a little loss but otherwise a nice copy of a rare volume. \u003cbr\u003eAdolf Koch was one of the leading proponents of the Freikörperkultur and developed his own method of nude gymnastics. This issue of Körperbildung-Nacktkultur translates as \"Pleasure in the Body\" and contains, in addition to numerous photographs showing people taking pleasure in their bodies, articles on the Korperkultur movement in England and America, the practical work of Koch's gymnastics school and \"Sex-Appeal und Nacktkultur\".","brand":"KOCH, Adolf un Dr Hans Graaz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41774443724991,"sku":"3672","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20220628_205305.jpg?v=1656952540"},{"product_id":"a-collection-of-eight-telegrams-to-john-lennon","title":"A Collection of Eight Telegrams to John Lennon","description":"\u003cp\u003e1971.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEight telegrams from Curt Claudio in America to John Lennon at Tittenhurst Park, Ascot. The telegrams are pasted as a group onto red card and framed. Most are in good condition although two are water stained and two others have some staining to the edges but all eight are clear and legible. They are part of a strange and fascinating story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn May 1971, a young man from California was found in the grounds of John Lennon’s house, Tittenhurst Park, Ascot. His name was Curt Claudio and he had been sleeping in the garden for a few days. Before flying to England, he had sent numerous letters and telegrams to Lennon. He felt that he had a special connection to Lennon and the Beatles and that Lennon’s songs were intentionally directed at him. He was obsessed with Lennon. \u003cbr\u003eThese telegrams sent in the weeks and months before Claudio’s appearance in Ascot are addressed variously to Tittenhurst, Tippenhurst and Pittenhurst and Claudio’s address is given as 300 Coelho St, Milpitas, California. We have been unable to find any others and it seems that these are the only surviving telegrams from this episode. \u003cbr\u003eThey are a strange and disturbing mixture of fantasy and desperation. One reads “Mess with you, fight with you, but can’t leave you” [signed], “William Bungalo Claudio”. This is reference to the Beatles song “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill” and confirms Claudio’s feeling that Lennon’s songs were somehow addressed to him. \u003cbr\u003eOne telegram references drug slang: “Help me get there before May 20th 1.65 an hour = Brown Sugar Curt”.\u003cbr\u003e“You say you want to help and you know I need help but I won’t come there until you back”. He seems to regard Lennon as a kind of saviour. \u003cbr\u003eEventually, Claudio makes the decision to come to England: “Somebody tell John I’ll be at Gatwick the 18th wearing ¾ length brown sheepskin coat”. \u003cbr\u003eThere is a piece of film from 1971 showing a young man wearing a ¾ length brown sheepskin coat talking to Lennon and Yoko Ono outside Tittenhurst. He had been found in the garden and Lennon explains how he writes about his own life and experiences and does not address his songs to particular people (unless it is a love song to Yoko). We see him treating the fragile and damaged Claudio with kindness, gently explaining that he is not writing his songs to him. Eventually, he invites the hungry Claudio into his kitchen where they eat together. \u003cbr\u003eThis episode is shown and given some additional context in a 2018 film John and Yoko: Above us only Sky telling the story of Lennon’s album Imagine (he was working on it when Claudio visited him). It was originally thought that Claudio was a Vietnam vet suffering shellshock although that is now discounted. It seems that he was from an educated family of musicians but that he had dropped out of college. Lennon mentions in the film that they had received a large number of telegrams from someone in California desperate to meet him. Yoko Ono said of Claudio: “He was no dummy. He was a spiritual person. Claudio was communicating to John on a high level. We know he was a spirit and that’s why John invited him in to have lunch with us. The food did it, though. It calmed him down. I don’t think we heard from him again after that”. \u003cbr\u003eA November 2021 film called What Happened to Claudio tells the story in more detail and traces what happened to Claudio since that meeting with Lennon. 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The inscription reads: \"For years I held this copy and showed it until the dust jacket disintegrated - I'm sorry - I had to put this xerox copy on the cover but it's a good book, no? This [the photograph on the title page] is in my apartment on Mott many years ago. LA 2009\". In addition to the inscription, Schles has signed the title page \"K.S.\" Tiny closed tear to the top edge of the upper cover of the dustjacket but otherwise in fine condition throughout. The photographs are printed in five inks using a special screen to reproduce the look of the original photogravure. Three pages of \"Notes\" which are excerpts from Lewis Mumford, Borges, Kafka, Orwell and Baudrillard. These texts are on the theme of urban decay and alienation and echo the bleakness of Schles's powerful images of the \"naked netherworld\" of a New York in decline, a city of gang war, underworlds, damaged people and burnt out buildings. 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Bound in red morocco illustrated on the upper cover and lettered in gold to upper and lower cover. Near fine. Printed by Kleweta on his own press, this is an attractive example of his distinctive dream-like style and left-field choice of subject mixing erotic prints with alchemical symbols. Basilius Valentinus was, supposedly, a fifteenth-century alchemist and monk although it seems that no such person ever existed. Instead, he is now thought to have been Johann Thölde, a German salt manufacturer and Kleweta gives us \"Valentinus's\" recipe's for the production of salt. A curious and beautiful artist's book.","brand":"Basilius Valentianus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42083852189887,"sku":"3783","price":175.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3783.Kleweta_2.jpg?v=1668527538"},{"product_id":"some-limericks2","title":"Some Limericks.","description":"\u003cp\u003e[Florence]: Privately Printed [Orioli]. 1928.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition issued to subscribers only. Limited to 110 copies of which this is number 110. Royal 8vo. 250x165mm. pp.97, [1bl]. Original yellow\/gold rough canvas with title stamped in red on upper cover. Corners slightly bumped and light soiling on the covers. Internally very good with some slight marking in places. Overall a very nice copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome Limericks has long been a popular work, famous for its obscene verse and clever, amusing mock-scholarly apparatus. It has appeared in a number of pirated editions. The publisher, Pino Orioli, was a bookseller in Florence where Douglas lived for a number of years. It was a brave decision of Douglas to have it published in 1928 although, of course, Douglas was not averse to taking risks and lived much of his life on a precarious knife-edge. Even today, some of these limericks are strong stuff. Utter filth in many cases. 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All edges speckled. Internally near fine. A very nice copy of the first book published by Ireland following his exposure as a forger. Rare in commerce, only two copies appearing at auction in the last fifty years. \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Henry Ireland was a type familiar in the world of letters and books - the clever but rackety fantasist. He absorbed from his father, a publisher, a fascination with Shakespeare and, perhaps more significantly, the forgers Chatterton and Macpherson. A spell working for a lawyer gave him access to old documents which he studied and copied before taking the plunge and forging a deed containing Shakespeare's signature. His father, thinking it real, was thrilled. Ireland began to produce more \"Shakespearian\" documents claiming that they were from an anonymous collector. When even a letter from Shakespeare to Elizabeth I was authenticated by contemporary experts, Ireland overreached himself and brought forth a \"new\" play, Vortigern and Rowena. Ireland's doubters, led by the Shakespearean scholar Edmond Malone, began to circle and the first (and only) performance of the play was disrupted, in part by its leading actor John Philip Kemble who repeated a line including the words \"solemn mockery\". Although the young Ireland immediately confessed, both he and his father were disgraced, the latter dying in 1800 and William being forced to eke out a thin living as a poet, historian and satirist. \u003cbr\u003eBallads in Imitation of the Antient was a clever attempt at redemption. It was published in Ireland's name so no-one could accuse him of forgery or fakery but the book played into the contemporary taste for bogus antiquarianism which floated somewhere between historical truth and historically inspired fiction. 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Light spotting to maps and slight offsetting from plates, otherwise very clean and fresh. A handsome copy in excellent condition throughout. \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Borlase was a Cornishman by birth and devoted his life to the recording of Cornish antiquities and natural history. He was in many ways an archetypal eighteenth-century antiquary with a fascination for the physical remains of his region (which contained some of the most impressive English megalithic monuments after Wessex) and a taste for the recovery of the historical origins of his culture. 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Chromolithography frontispiece and twelve engraved plates. Beautifully bound by Charles Francois Capé in blue morocco, lavishly decorated in gilt with the monogram \"A.M.\" at each corner of the covers, spine with five raised bands, compartments richly decorated and second compartment lettered in gilt, cream silk endpapers, all edges gilt. On front free endpaper is stamped in gilt \"M.J.F. 27 Juin 1861\". The following leaf has the inscription \"A Madlle (i.e. mademoiselle). Marie Fontaine, Souvenir de relieur, Capé 31 December 1859\". Bound in before the title page is an exquisite Gothic Revival illuminated manuscript on vellum recording the marriage of Marie Rose Jean-Fontaine to Ludovic Haverna on 11 May 1869. This is written in red and black with decoration drawn in blue and red highlights in thickly applied gold leaf. 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It was presented to Parliament where it made an impact on Robert Peel who, as Home Secretary between 1822 and 1827, introduced the Gaols Act which led to payment for prison officers, education for prisoners, putting female warders in charge of female prisoners and the prohibition of the use of irons and manacles.","brand":"GURNEY, Joseph John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264368831,"sku":"3961","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3961.Gurney_1__inPixio.jpg?v=1690306224"},{"product_id":"grant-of-probate-of-the-will-of-john-bennett-dated-19th-november-1657","title":"Grant of Probate of the will of John Bennett dated 19th November 1657.","description":"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. 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Arbuthnot's thoughts on the art of political lying (which were never - and never meant - to progress beyond this short, entertaining, Proposal) are developed out of the simple idea of \"convincing the People of Salutary Falshoods, for some good ends\" and the alarmingly cynical view that \"the People…have no Right at all to Political Truth\". Of course, this is meant to be satire...but only just.","brand":"[ARBUTHNOT, John]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264565439,"sku":"3974","price":325.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3974.Arbuthnot.jpg?v=1690305827"},{"product_id":"the-testimonies-of-several-citizens-of-fickleborough-in-the-kingdom-of-fairy-land","title":"The testimonies of several citizens of Fickleborough, in the Kingdom of Fairy-Land,","description":"London: Printed for John Morphew. 1713.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst and only edition. 8vo in 4s. 180x115mm. pp. 23, [1]. In modern pink wrappers. Some slight foxing and staining to head of first gathering but overall a very good copy. Although published anonymously, this Tory response to Robert Hush's (i.e. Robert Walpole's) pamphlet \u003cem\u003eThe present state of fairy-land\u003c\/em\u003e is recognised as the work of the doctor and satirist William Wagstaffe who moved in the same political and literary circles as Swift and John Arbuthnot. This 1713 exchange of pamphlets was a skirmish in the propaganda battle between Whigs and Tories over British involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession. Walpole had criticised the Tory attempt to secure a peace settlement with France (which he called Slave-onia). This reply is a splendidly eighteenth century mix of obscure circumlocution and low insult.","brand":"ANONYMOUS [William Wagstaffe]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264598207,"sku":"3975","price":375.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3975.Wagstaffe.jpg?v=1690305762"},{"product_id":"summary-and-free-reflections-in-which-the-great-outline-only-and-principal-features-of-the-following-subjects-are-impartially-traced-and-candidly-examined","title":"Summary and free reflections, in which the great outline only, and principal features, of the following subjects are impartially traced, and candidly examined","description":"Chelmsford: Clachar, Frost, and Gray. 1783 [but 1788].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmall 8vo. 153x95mm. pp. xvii [i], 115 [1]; Part X, \u003cem\u003eAn endeavour to prove that reason is alone sufficient to the firm establishment of religion [1785]\u003c\/em\u003e: 31 [1]; \u003cem\u003eAn Appendix to the Tenth Part:\u003c\/em\u003e 64;\u003cem\u003e A Physical Enquiry into the Powers and Properties of Spirit..., 1787,\u003c\/em\u003e vi, 82; \u003cem\u003eA Postscript to the Physical Enquiry..., 1787\u003c\/em\u003e; 6, [4], 7-34; Part XI and XII: [141] -178; \u003cem\u003eA Free Enquiry into the Enormous Increase of Attornies...\u003c\/em\u003e, 1785 iv, 68. Modern half calf, marbled paper covered boards, original red roan label on spine, lettered in gilt. Ex-library (Leyton Public Library) with a few old ink stamps and some underlinings in blue pencil. Some slight foxing and browning in places but overall a very good copy of a eccentric and eclectic set of essays by an even more eccentric figure. \u003cbr\u003eGiven the confusing pagination, some bibliographical help might be required. The book is in the twelve parts set out in the table of contents. The first 115 pages are parts I-IX. There then follows Part X with a separate title page dated 1785 which has replaced the original part X from the 1783 edition (thus explaining the absence of pp 117-140) and which is given a separate number in ESTC (T110738). The appendix to part X follows although the addition four page \u003cem\u003eA form of daily prayer for the professors of rational theism\u003c\/em\u003e dated 1788 is not present. Parts XI and XII of the main work are then bound in after two additional works not mentioned in the contents but which, according to ESTC (T110739 and T110740), were possibly intended to be published with the \"Summary\". The final work also has a separate ESTC number (T110742). Trust that is clear. \u003cbr\u003eHenry Jennings was what might, charitably, be called a \"character\". He is best known now as a collector although, despite a few wise purchases not least a marble dog judged by Horace Walpole to be the one of the best animal statues in classical art, he might, he seems to have been more of a hoarder. He was often in and out of the debtors' prison, lived in squalor and ate modestly, regarding \"a feast [as] the conversion of gold into excrement\", and alone, accompanied only by a bronze bust of a Roman goddess. Unsurprisingly, his mind was well-stocked and full of opinions, as is clear from this wide ranging and somewhat bizarre collection, all parts of which are rare, none showing more than eight copies on ESTC.","brand":"[JENNINGS, Henry Constantine]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264630975,"sku":"3980","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3980.Jennings_2.jpg?v=1690305644"},{"product_id":"sequel-to-an-unfinished-manuscript-of-henry-kirke-whites","title":"Sequel to an unfinished manuscript of Henry Kirke White's:","description":"London: Printed for G. \u0026amp; W.B.Whittaker. 1823.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12mo. 180x105mm. pp. xv, [3], 144, [121]-142. This eccentric pagination is noted in the errata. Original grey paper covered boards, original label to spine. Tear to head of spine, rubbing to joints and corners of boards. Internally very good, a few pencil underlinings and marginal annotations and some pages unopened and overall a nice copy of a rare work located by Worldcat in seven UK libraries and none in the US. \u003cbr\u003eHenry Kirke White had ambitions to enter the sacred ministry and spent a year studying with a priest in Lincolnshire before entering Cambridge. Southey said of him that never was there a \"devouter christian\" and that \"of his fervent piety, his letters, his prayers, and his hymns, will afford ample and interesting proofs\". As will this curious little collection of pen portraits of historical figures and their differing attitudes to death. Kirke White divides the world into \"Infidels\" and \"Christians\". An infidel such as Hobbes was terrified of death, lived to the age of ninety and wanted \"to find a hole to creep out of the world at\". By contrast the Christian Locke regarded life as \"mere vanity\" and \"his death was truly pious, yet natural, easy, and unaffected\". Plagued by ill health, it is unsurprising that Kirke White should have been so exercised by thoughts of how to die well.","brand":"ANONYMOUS [Mary Roberts]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42540938985663,"sku":"4028","price":375.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/20230825_175706.jpg?v=1697126478"},{"product_id":"le-con-direne","title":"Le Con d'Irene","description":"Paris: Au Cercle du Livre Précieux. 1962.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLimited edition. 645 of 700 on Vélin d'Arches, with original engraving by Hans Bellmer. 242x160mm. pp. xx, [2bl], 110, [1], [1bl], [4]. Bound in moiré cloth. Title in blind at centre of upper cover and stamped in gilt to spine. Very slight marking to upper cover but otherwise in excellent condition and internally near fine. The slip case is covered in the same material and has some soiling and a red mark on one side. A beautiful copy of this limited edition of a notorious work of lascivious eroticism.","brand":"[ARAGON, Louis], [BELLMER, Hans]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42621405659327,"sku":"4013","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/20231005_174853_inPixio.jpg?v=1700054696"},{"product_id":"socialism-its-growth-outcome","title":"Socialism. Its growth \u0026 outcome","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Swan Sonnenschein \u0026amp; Co.. 1893.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 190x125mm. pp. viii, 335. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Bumping to corners and to head and foot of spine. Marks to spine. Internally very good with some pencil annotations. Front free endpaper has the ownership inscription \"James Morton, Gowanbank, Darvel, Jan. 1896\" and the front pastedown has the bookplate of Beatrice Emily and James Morton designed by C.F.A.Voysey. James was the son of Alexander Morton, the founder of the eponymous textile and weaving firm. James trained with the family firm, becoming a partner in 1895. Through his friendship and professional relationship with Voysey expanded the firm's use of Arts and Crafts designs, selling the fabrics at Liberty and Morris and Co. The bookplate was commissioned from Voysey for James's marriage to Beatrice Fagan on 21 March 1901. The entwined thistle and shamrock are a symbol their Scottish and Irish heritage. The two hearts, while obviously a reference to Beatrice and James, are a common motif in Voysey's work. As this charming bookplate on a copy of Morris's \u003cem\u003eSocialism\u003c\/em\u003e make clear, the Mortons were plugged into the avant-garde artistic and political currents of the day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MORRIS, William and E. 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She says that if he can agree to this, then it will make two people happy as a job will assist Gaulthier in his marriage to the daughter of a woman in service to Josephine and whose father is \"valet de chambre\" of the Viceroi. We have been unable to discover if M. Gaulthier was given a job but he had an in with the right person. Josephine, who by this point was no longer married to Napoleon although he had made her the Duchess of Navarre, was the aunt of the wife of the Directeur Général des Postes, Antoine-Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette so perfectly placed. Sadly, Josephine died of pneumonia the following year so this might have been one of her last acts of high-level string pulling. \u003cbr\u003eProvenance: Christie's, 8 March 1978, lot 34.","brand":"JOSEPHINE (Empress of France and Duchess of Navarre, 1763-1814)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42886945276095,"sku":"4155","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/20240229_115550.jpg?v=1709219843"},{"product_id":"photograph-of-charlie-chaplin-and-harry-lauder-and-an-archive-of-letters","title":"Photograph of Charlie Chaplin and Harry Lauder and an archive of letters","description":"c1918.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack and white photograph (238x189mm) of Charlie Chaplin and Harry Lauder signed by both of them. Light creasing and some rubbing. Chaplin and Lauder were the leading comic performers of their day. 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There are also two letters and a legal settlement between Lauder and a Mabel Jarman (from whom this photograph and accompanying documents came) in which she agreed to hand over a number of letters for £780.","brand":"ANONYMOUS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42886945571007,"sku":"4190","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4190.Chaplin_1.jpg?v=1709217864"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/collections\/the-other_2abe88e8-8b99-4d12-af40-1bb071a33bc9.jpg?v=1776278230","url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/collections\/the-other.oembed?page=2","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}