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The Painful Birth of the Art Book

The Painful Birth of the Art Book

by HASKELL, Frances

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London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. Cloth. Fine. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of the 1987 Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture. 8vo, pp. 64, amply illustrated in b/w. Original rust cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. White paper plate to front pastedown: "This presentation copy of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture is sent with the compliments of the Directors of Thames and Hudson". Clean, tight and bright. In the original matching rust cloth slip case, gilt stamped Thames and Hudson device to front: a few loose threads to cloth edge at rear. Still, a smart, square copy of the words and images of Haskell's 19th Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, given annually on subjects reflecting the interests of the founder of Thames and Hudson. Fine/ Fine The Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures are given annually each spring on subjects reflecting the interests of the founder of Thames and Hudson.
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The Painted King
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The Painted King

by DAVIES, Rhys; BIRO, Val (dust jacket illustrator)

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London: Heinemann, 1954. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST British EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp.250. Original red cloth, spine lettered in slightly dulled gilt. Lean to spine, pushing to spine ends, edges a little dusty. Inscribed in blue pen to title page: "To George/ from Rhys". Bookseller's invoice laid in (for PK and two David Garnett titles). Else, clean and tight. In Biro's theatrical dust jacket: spine ends chipped, rubbed at joints, corners worn, rear panel grubby. Very good/ good Dubbed 'the Welsh Chekhov', Rhys Davies (1901-1978; OBE) was a prolific and prize-winning author, who chronicled working class life, especially of industrial Wales, as well as featuring lesbian relationships, moving into crime writing later in his career, with an "emphasis on punitive surveillance and policing of homosexuality." As Biro's dust jacket suggests, The Painted King is set in the world of mid-century British musical comedy; indeed, Davies' play No Escape, which starred Dame Flora Robson, was being… Read More
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The Painted King
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The Painted King

by DAVIES, Rhys; [TAYLOR, Louise & Redvers]; SCHWARTZ, Daniel (DJ illustrator)

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New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1954. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST US EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 250, [2]. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green and orange. Top edge orange (? faded). Pushing and gentle wear to spine ends, corners bumped. edges toned. Inscribed in slightly fuzzy blue pen to ffep: "Red and Louise/ affectionately/ from Rhys/ June 11th 1955". In the wonderful wraparound, mirror-image dust jacket by Daniel Schwartz: spine sunned, creasing and chipping to spine ends, edgewear. An important presentation copy to two key figures in the mid-period of Davies' life, as well as a material trace of the dispersed web of twentieth century queer relations and wealth transmission, with Davies, ultimately, the unofficial heir (at one remove) of Toklas. Dubbed 'the Welsh Chekhov', Rhys Davies (1901-1978; OBE) was a prolific and prize-winning author, over whose long career chronicled working class life, especially of industrial Wales, as well as featuring lesbian relationships,… Read More
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard: And his dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard: And his dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town

by TUTUOLA, Amos; [NEWLYN, Walter & Doreen]

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [126]. Original red cloth, spine lettered in green. Spine and boards sunned (latter, unevenly), gentle bruising and wear to spine ends and top corners, rear board a little soiled. Shallow denting to fore-edges of text block, POI in blue ink to POI: "Doreen & Walter Newlyn/ Ibadan. 23.12.53," offsetting to endpapers. Else, clean and tight. A continent-hopping copy of Tutuola's first novel with an interesting academic provenance. Good+ Amos Tutuola's first novel � a ludic, irreverent tall tale of weird encounters inspired by Yoruba folklore � immediately brought him to (divergent) critical attention, and rapidly achieved cult status, "creating its own genre, setting its own rules, and enthralling its expanding coterie" (Soyinka, 2014). Occupying a contentious position in the canon of African literature(s), The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been subject to various interpretations, from "an extended folktale in search of syntax" to a forerunner of magical realism, a linguistic… Read More
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem. In four books. To which is added Samson Agonistes; and Poems upon...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem. In four books. To which is added Samson Agonistes; and Poems upon several occasions. With a tractate of education

by MILTON, John

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London: Printed for J. Tonson, at Shakespear's Head, over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand; and for Richard, James, and Bethel Wellington, 1730. Good. The seventh edition, corrected. Single volume. 12mo (17 x 10.5cm), [vi], 352 + etched frontis and illustrated with various head- and tail-pieces throughout. Bound in new half brown leatherette, single blind ruled, with original red morocco label re-pasted to spine, marbled paper boards. New head- and tailbands and marbled endpapers. Edges stained red (uneven fading). Original ffep � with POI in sepia ink � pasted to frontis, forming its recto, frontis cropped, with POI note in sepia ink pasted to leading edge, POI repeated on title page, which similarly appears to have been pasted to another (free) leaf, occasional clarifications to section titles in the same hand. Creasing to prelims, some browning, staining (water and ink) and grubbiness, a little bleeding from edge stain. A robust, sophisticated copy of a later Tolson edition, featuring a… Read More
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Paradox Lost
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Paradox Lost

by SINCLAIR, Marianne; MOZELY, Charles (DJ design)

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London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1963. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original rust cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine cocked, top and leading edges foxed. Inscribed by Sinclair in blue biro to ffep, reflecting wittily on her novel's remaindering: "pleasant because it really makes you feel you have a book behind you" and signed off "The author� remaindered but not yet pulped," gently handled. In Mozely's knowing & sharply observed dust jacket: chipping and wear to extremities, joints rubbed. Still, a nice copy of Sinclair's first novel, whose theme is "the paradox of innocence" and "that only remembered experience counts". Very good/ very good Marianne Sinclair (n�e Alexandre; b. 1940) "is French," a translator of Diderot and Marcel Aym� and a cultural critic (back flap). Her husband was the British novelist, historian and filmmaker, Andrew Sinclair. Paradox Lost was published in paperback as The Corruption of Innocence by Panther in 1965.
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Paris 1900: Traduction par Sylvia Beach et Adrienne Monnier

by BRYHER; BEACH, Sylvia & MONNIER, Adrienne (translators)

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Paris: La Maison des Amis des Livres, 1938. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. 8vo, pp. 62, [2]. Original buff wrappers, front wrapper lettered in black. Edges untrimmed. A trifle soiled, creasing to spine, pushing to spine ends, shaken, else, clean and bright. Housed in a custom-made white cardboard folder, spine label lettered in black, paper label, reproducing the front wrapper, to front flap. Very good. Jisc LHD lists three copies (BL, Bodleian & UoCambridge). A lovely copy of Bryher's fragile child's-eye memoir of Paris. Paris 1900 was first issued in English in 1937 in Bryher's literary magazine, Life and Letters Today. The short memoir opens with the first use of her concept "geographical emotions" and offers a rather Benjaminian account of the Great Exhibition in Paris. Walter Benjamin and Bryher corresponded and met during the late 1930s, and through Monnier, the British author later funnelled money to the German Jewish philosopher in a bid to help him flee Paris and escape the advancing German army.… Read More
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A Passion for Friends: Toward a philosophy of female affection

by RAYMOND, Janice G.

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The Women's Press Ltd, 1986. Good. Trade paperback, pp. 275 (1). Light wear and blemishing to wrappers, light spotting to edges and prelims. Else, clean.
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The Passionate Friends: A novel
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The Passionate Friends: A novel

by WELLS, H.G.

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London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1913. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 356, [12 adverts]. Vertically ribbed sage green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, decoratively blind-stamped. Top edge gilt. Spine gently sunned, wear and bruising to extremities, joints rubbed. Endpapers toned and foxed, pencil POI to ffep, occasional pencil scoring to margins, a few marks, gently shaken. Else, clean. A robust copy. Dedicated, mysteriously, to "L. E. N. S.": possibly, it has been suggested, Elizabeth von Arnim, who had become Wells' lover in 1910. The novel had been serialised in The Grand Magazine (March-Nov. 1913). Despite Wells later referring to it as "gawky," the novel went on to be adapted twice for the British screen, first, in 1922 by the Stoll Film Company and again in 1949 by David Lean. It is also notable as the first example of Wells' notion of an "open conspiracy": his "scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it… Read More
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The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe (The Windmill Library)

The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe (The Windmill Library)

by MOORE, George (translator); LONGUS

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William Heineman Ltd, 1930. Very Good. Second edition, second impression. Translated from the Greek. Small 8vo, pp. 161, (1). Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and Pan/satyr motif to upper board; blind-stamped windmill device to lower board. Brown top edge. Light bruising to head of spine and bottom corners. Ffep excised, band of tanning to half-title, else, pleasingly clean and tight for its age. In VG original DJ (in clear protective cover) - light soiling, small closed tears to top edge of back cover. The back wrapper lists 13 titles in Heinemann's reprint series.
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The Paying Guests
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The Paying Guests

by WATERS, Sarah

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London: Virago, 2014. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Black paper boards, spine lettered and decorated in cream, blind-stamped title to upper board. Vibrant yellow patterned endpapers. Spine ends and edges rubbed, edges a little grubby and scuffed. Dated, by POI in blue pen, to half-title, signed by Waters in black pen to title page. In the original dust jacket: creased, with 'Signed by the author' sticker to front panel and short closed tear, rear panel marked. Good+/good+
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Peg Woffington

Peg Woffington

by READE, Charles; THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator); DOBSON, Austin (introduction)

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London: George Allen, 1899. Very Good. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo, pp. [lii], [298] + numerous b/w vignettes and full-page illustrations by Thomson (title without tissue guard). Green cloth lettered and ornately (and theatrically) decorated in gilt to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. Slight lean and sunning to spine, bruising and gentle wear to extremities, a little scuffed, bump to bottom board. Front and rear foxed, pencil POI to half-title, else, clean, tight and bright. A very good copy of the attractive Thomson-illustrated edition of Reade's popular novel. During her short life, Margaret Woffington (1720-1760) dominated the Georgian Dublin and London stages in comic and cross-dressed roles, with her breeches part as Sir Henry Wilder causing a storm at the Theatre Royal, Dury Lane. Known professionally as Peg, the Irish actor (initially apprenticed to Madame Sovre, a tightrope artist) was professionally, socially and financially canny. She successfully… Read More
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Pegasus: And other poems

Pegasus: And other poems

by DAY LEWIS, C.; FARNHILL, Kenneth (DJ design)

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo. Cream paper spine, blue cloth boards. Fine bands of sunning to top and bottom edges, offsetting to half-title and final page, a few spots, else, clean and tight. In the original olive green typographical dust jacket: spine gently sunned, wear to spine and extremities, a few chips to head of spine, rear panel shelf-soiled. A very good copy
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The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories

by Hill, Susan (ed.)

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Penguin Books, 1991. Good. Trade paperback, pp. xii, 371. Light reading wear, tanned edges, else a clean, tight copy. Includes stories by Elizabeth Taylor, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Helen Harris and others.
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The Perez Family

The Perez Family

by BELL, Christine

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Virago Press Limited, 1995. Good. The 1995 Virago reprint. Trade paperback. Edgewear, rubbed. Tanned edges, else clean and tight. With the film tie-in cover.
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Perseus in the Wind

Perseus in the Wind

by STARK, Freya

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London: John Murray, 1948. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. With wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Green cloth, gilt stamped lettering to spine and facsimile signature to upper board. Sunned, a few stains. POI in blue pen to ffep, else, clean and bright. Unrelated news article laid-in.
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A Persian Quarter Century
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A Persian Quarter Century

by SMITH, Anthony

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, WITH AUTHORIAL INSCRIPTION. 8vo. With b/w plates. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Map endpapers. Pushing to spine ends, bruising to top corners. SMITH's dedication in black pen to title page: "From Anthony/ with fondest/ memories of a Nigerian/ quarter century./ Stratford upon Avon February 1982". Else, clean, tight and bright. Very good. Anthony Smith (1926-2014) was a natural history TV presenter, travel writer and explorer. From the library of Walter and Doreen Newlyn. The British economist and educator, Walter Newlyn, was known for his work on monetary theory and with African nations. From 1967 (until his retirement in 1978) he was Professor of Developmental Economics at the University of Leeds and in 1964 founded its African Studies Unit, now LUCAS. Both Doreen and Walter were passionate about theatre; in the late 1950s they set up the Uganda Pilgrim Players, the country's first multi-racial theatre group. Back in the UK,… Read More
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Personality Structure and Human Interaction: The Developing Synthesis of Psychodynamic Theory

Personality Structure and Human Interaction: The Developing Synthesis of Psychodynamic Theory

by GUNTRIP, Harry, Ph.D.

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London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-analysis, 1977. Hardback. Very Good. 8vo.. Fourth impression. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light spotting to top edge, else, clean and bright. In VG pistachio dust jacket � spine sunned, faint stain. A smart, square copy. No. 56 in The International Psycho-analytical Library.
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Phases of my Life

Phases of my Life

by PIGOU, D.D., Francis

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London: Edward Arnold, 1900. Reprint of popular edition, WITH AUTHORIAL INSCRIPTION. 8vo, pp. [x], 358. Olive cloth, spine lettered in gilt, double blind ruling to boards. Shabby and mottled: worn, bumped, splits to joints and spine ends. Hinges and spine cracked, shaken, but text block holding, excepting Contents page loose and final gathering ('23', comprising 3 leaves) detached. Pigou's warm dedication in sepia ink to ffep: "John Stonehouse/ from/ a grateful Patient/ the Author/ Francis Pigou�/ Whitby. Dec. 1. 1900", endpapers foxed and browned. Two newspaper clippings featuring Queen Mary laid-in, offsetting to associated pages. Musty, but clean. A poor copy, nevertheless unusual with Pigou's dedication. By 1900, Francis Pigou (1832-1916) � who described himself as a "high-church evangelical" � was Dean of Bristol Cathedral, having served in Chichester, as well as chaplain-in-ordinary to the Queen (1871-89), and across Yorkshire, as Vicar of Doncaster (1869-1875) and Halifax (1875-1888),… Read More
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Philosophy of the Film: Epistemology, ontology, aesthetics
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Philosophy of the Film: Epistemology, ontology, aesthetics

by JARVIE, Ian

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New York & London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. First edition, with author's dedication. 8vo. Grey cloth, silver lettering. Spine ends bruised. Author's dedication in blue pen to ffep: 'To Phil Taylor/ 2/8/89/ Ian Jarvie'. Else, clean and bright. In original dust jacket: edgewear and light creasing. Very good/ very good. Ian Jarvie studied under Karl Hopper and is Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto. Philip M. Taylor was Professor of International Communications, University of Leeds.
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