Rare books from Wool House Autographic

Title, advertisement leaf, Contents. 232 pages. Original paper covered boards, new endpapers, cream paper spine. A nice, sympathetically restored copy re-using the original boards.. Mild grubbiness, else VG.Gift inscription dated 1821 to front flyleaf. On the title page the name Capt Pococke has been added then scored through in pencil. Above the words 'sedond edition' the name Thomas Howell has been added. Though neither is correct.The Journal is usually attributed to Captain Thomas Pococke or Thomas Howell. Recent research, however has shown that Howell was the editor and not the author. G. Jones in the Bulletin of the Military Historical Society for May 1992 wrote that the Royal Highland Fusiliers owns a copy of the third edition inscribed by Howell, who writes 'the real name of the hero is not Thomas, the Christian name used in the Journal - James Todd is the individual I got the greater part of the journal from.'Most of the memoir concerns the Peninsular Campaign under Wellington ending at… 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