Search Results: Titles starting with S from Wool House Autographic

Octavo, 373 pp. plus 6pp publisher's catalogue. Straight-grained, red Morocco, ruled in gilt with gilt corner decorations. Slight wear to the corners, a few small marks, and some rubbing to the edges. Spine with a slight fade. Black label with title in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. No inscriptions. The front free endpaper is slightly loose, attached to the gutter by abraded paper. A handsome little copy of this first edition of the first war novel to come out of the Peninsular Campaign and based on the author's experiences in the Peninsula. It is not clear how much Gleig 'fictionalised' his experiences but whether it be closer to memoir than fiction or not it is a lively read even today full of arresting observations and interest in the local inhabitants he encounters either as villagers, paisonos or soldiers. He is wise enough to admit that it is impossible to come to any understanding of a foreign nation while on the march with a foreign army. George Robert Gleig [1796-1888] Scottish… Read More

YOKO AT INDICA: UNFINISHED PAINTINGS AND OBJECTS BY YOKO ONO November 1966London, Indica Gallery, 1966. Stapled, thin card covers, 28 x 14 cm, 24 pp. with photo plates by Iain Macmillan. The photographs are printed on gummed paper and were intended to be taken out and pasted to their respective places on the catalogue's pages, but here, astonishingly, are as originally issued still on the summed sheets and uncut making this a true rarity as catalogues often appear incomplete or wit the images already pasted to the pages. The text pages are split horizontally; the top half being where the photos were supposed to be gummed down, and the bottom half carrying the catalogue notes by Yoko Ono. Yoko Ono first met John Lennon at this exhibition. During the installation of the show he mistakenly ate an apple that had been one of the exhibits (titled '04 Apple' in the catalogue).Very minor areas of abrasion where the gummed pages have over the years lightly adhered to their neighbours but without doing very… Read More