Rare books from The Typographeum Bookshop

London: Spink, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 4to. Quarter niger with Cockerell marbled boards. T.e.g. Pp. xviii, 214. Illustrated:frontispiece, xxviii plates. Index. Foreword by Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms and Genealogist of the Order of the Bath. Number 127 of 150 de-luxe copies. Laid in: two photocopies of letters dated in 1972: (1) from Conrad Swan of the College of Arms, and (2) from a secretary to The Queen at Balmoral Castle thanking the author for his gift of the book.

As issued, but generally poor to good. This collection was gathered by Terry Risk who visited Count Potocki in the early 1970s at his home, the Villa Vigoni, near Draguignan in the south of France. It includes a number of his printed works, all the letters back and forth, letters (some in photocopy) to other people, magazine articles by or about him, four typed unpublished manuscripts, a block of linotype for one of his cards, a collection of photographs, copies of a number of legal documents, and one broadside which he always regarded as one of the most significant gestures of his life. A partial list of the items includes: The Blood Royal of England (1966), Dog\\\'s Eggs (1971), The Fifth Columnist (1960), Lordly Lovesongs (1931), Meillerie (1972), Prison Poems (1933), Snobbery With Violence (1932), Whited Sepulchres (1936), and Wild Oats (1927). Many of these are in severely limited editions and/or are signed by him. The manuscripts are essentially autobiographical. The letters include those to… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1915. First edition. Wraps. Wrappers frayed, worn and faded. A few pencilled notes on the prefatory pages. Else a sound copy.. 4to. Wrappers over card covers. This is the first of three Imagist anthologies edited by Amy Lowell and published yearly. It includes the work of Richard Aldington, H. D., John Gould Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence, Amy Lowell and others.

London: Faber and Faber, 1993. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xvi, 496. Number 80 of 150 copies signed by the poet.

London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1985. Limited edition. First edition. Hardcover. As new copy. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 512. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Larry Rivers. Index. Preserved in a cloth-covered slip-case. This is number 42 of 150 copies signed by the author. Edited by John Goldsmith.

London: Boriswood, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Back-strip faded and a bit worn. 8vo. Cloth. 64pp. This is a long, and pointedly satirical, poem on many of the English literary notables of the time. As such it did not do his reputation a lot of good. The book is inscribed by the author for Issac Rousseau who became Professor of History at Rhodes University, South Africa. The inscription is dated Cape Town, Feb. 1932. The two men met, however, in 1918 where they were both at Oxford. Campbell, however, never matriculated.

Heilbronn. Hardcover. Very good . Cloth binding with string (broken). About 11 x 8 5/8 inches. 18 leaves, many with glassine interleaves. Some photographs are loose. The subject of this old family photograph album is not identified, but from internal evidence--inscriptions on the backs of the photographs--he appears to have been Karl Rieger who was born about 1905 in the German city of Heilbronn. The photographs show him as a young man with friends as he and they take walking and youth hostelling trips together. Later in preparation for joining the Luftwaffe he learns to fly gliders. Then he is seen in uniform and at his base, including in the dormitory with his fellow airmen. The base may have been near Munich because there are pictures of that city too. Finally, there are very poignant scenes of a funeral, for apparently he has been killed in action. One poignant last picture shows him as a young boy with his school class.-This album was clearly put together by a loved one. It has photographs of… Read More

Pinner: The Private Libraries Association, 1959-2000. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. 8vo. Wrappers. Illustrated. Checklists. Altogether there are 151 issues of this magazine, including 1 from 1959, 30 from the 1960s, 40 from the 1970s (complete), 39 from the 1980s (the Potocki issue missing), 39 from the 1990s (the Potocki issue also missing), and 2 from the year 2000. Also included are five issues of the Index, separately printed. This premier magazine on issues relating to books, book collecting and the private press has articles by Roderick Cave, Frank Broomhead, Ruari McLean and many others. The subjects covered include: The Limited Editions Club, printing Blake's engravings, the Cuala Press, Viscount Carlow and T E Lawrence, and a host of other interesting topics.

[Pinner]: Society of Private Printers (Private Libraries Association), 1980. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 31 pamphlets. 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Preserved in a mahogany box with a sliding front and the engraving by Pam Reuter on the front. Limited to 70 sets. Engraving by Pam Reuter. A printers' exchange organized by the Private Libraries Association, comprising 30 booklets printed between 1975 and 1980 by various private press printers, chiefly in England and the U.S. An introductory booklet is included. The presses include Cherub Press, Keepsake Press, Perdix Press, Pump Press, Peter Stockham, and Typographeum.

New York: New York Public Library & Readex Books, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Large 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xvi, 362. Index and biographical index. Edited by Miriam J Benkovitz This is a remarkable feat of scholarship, with notes and biographical detail which are lively and thorough. Aldington wrote these letters to his collaborator at Oxford, Alan Bird, when he was researching the life of T. E. Lawrence. The book he wrote eventually, Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Enquiry, created a storm when it was published because it disputed the heroic stories which had been in large part invented, or at least mythologized, by Lawrence himself. Aldington's letters here have been scrupulously edited by Miriam J. Benkovitz who has included detailed notes which thoroughly identify the people and events involved.

[Pinner]: Society of Private Printers (Private Libraries Association), 1982-1986. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 28 booklets, plus an Index booklet. 6 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches. Preserved in a cloth slip-case with a printed label. This is the fifth printers' exchange organized by The Society of Private Printers. The 28 contributors from England, U.S.A., Australia and Italy include Bullnettle Press, Plough Press, Rocket Press, Septentrio Press, and Typographeum.

Pawlet (Vermont): Claude Fredericks, 1957. First edition. Wrappers. Wrappers rather faded and rubbed. Two leaves laid into wrappers with a printed label on the front. 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Text of poem in Italian on one leaf; translation into English on second. The initial letter on the Italian leaf has been hand applied. An exceptional item, and despite its less than ideal condition--it is very fragile--this is a most unusual keepsake from an interesting private press

London: Chatto & Windus, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Back-strip faded; edges foxed; else very good copy. 8vo. Red cloth. Pp. (x), 330. Frontispiece portrait by Dame Laura Knight. Includes 8 pp. of photocopied expurgations in the author's hand. Also laid in is a 12-page Davis & Orioli booksellers' catalogue of first editions, undated but probably from the late 1930s. Pino Orioli (1884-1942) was a friend of Norman Douglas, Richard Aldington, and D. H. Lawrence. In 1928 he undertook to publish in Italy the first edition ofLady Chatterley's Lover, in an unexpurgated edition of 1000 copies. Later, he had a bookshop at 30 Museum Street, London. This memoir had included various imprudent comments about his experiences as a gay man. But because such activities were illegal in Britain in the 1930s, discretion forbade them to be published and so they were excised. However the manuscript still exists, and these photocopies show what was expurgated: "Mr. Bartlett … offered me a drink, asked what… Read More

Sussex: Hove Camera Company, n.d.. Reprinted. Paperback. Very good copy. Small 4to. Paper-bound. Pp. 64. Also included is a genuine Leica IIIA rangefinder camera, made by Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar, Germany, in 1938. The serial number is 278201 and was one of 19,850 made that year. The model IIIA began to be produced in 1935 but was suspended during the War, then resumed until 1948. In design it was identical to the III which had introduced slower shutter speeds, lugs for carrying the camera, and an increased rangefinder magnification to 1.5x. The main addition to the IIIA was the shutter speed of 1/1000th. The lens on this camera, which is collapsible and has a bayonet mount, is the Summar 50 mm, 1:2. It was manufactured between 1933 and 1940, and it has the serial number of 422174. A lens cap is present. The camera is in very good condition, except for the black leather which is split and partially separated from the body. Also, some of the leather around one lug is missing. The shutter works on all… Read More

Francestown: Typographeum, 2004. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 92. Illustrated: frontispiece and 19 plates tipped in. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R. T. Risk. The main edition was of 150 copies hand-bound by the printer, but there was an additional 13 copies, of which this is number 3 of 10 signed by the poet, with one original etching, specially bound and preserved in a slip-case. The slip-case is about 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches.