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Welcome to our new catalogue of 20th century outliers: the out of step – the Parker Bros. in Funny Bones, Robert Walser everywhere; uncompromising - Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, Bottom’s Dream by Arno Schmidt, Joe Brainard marrying poetry and comics, George Orwell on most everything between 1920 and 1950, Bobby Fischer’s 60 Memorable Games; loners - Delphine’s long summer near its end in Le rayon vert, Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit, two early Raymond Carver collections, both inscribed; mysteries unearthed – Hanging Rock, Redonda, Heather Firbank’s wardrobe, a Southern California flow chart, the Ratcliffe Highway Murders; careers taking shape – A House is Built by M.Barnard Eldershaw, Rebecca Solnit on the history of Walking, Noel Coward’s first full length play; optimistic and inclusive - Mark and Lottie Cheverton in Edinburgh, walking from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople with Patrick Leigh Fermor; the enduring – Cockles, Luna Parks worldwide, Ford Madox Ford’s best novels, Henry’s cricket bat speech from The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard; determined - Alan Davidson and Nigel Slater, separately, on food; all surrounded by books about photography and war; many signed and or inscribed to Brendon Kelson, former director of the Australian War Memorial, by Ken Inglis, Olive Cotton, Max Dupain, Bill Gammage, Sam Haskins, Lewis Morley, Geoffrey Serle, Antony Penrose and Robert Hughes.
Zurich: Edition Oehrli. First Swiss edition, 2000.
The contents of an album found in an antique shop in Rouen in 1999: male and female nudes, ancient ruins, idealised landscapes, another world still humming inside dominant culture at the beginning of the twentieth century; eighty-two reproductions: Guglielmo Pluschow (forty-eight), Wilhelm von Gloeden (twenty-five), and Vincenzo Galdi (nine), reproduced in the same order as the album; essays, chronological biographies of the photographers; parallel German English text.
Printed brown cloth with vignette. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: Australian News and Information Bureau and National Headquarters of the American Legion, c.1942-45.
Wartime propaganda pamphlet promoting similarities, common history and camaraderie between the two countries; potted history of both, illustrations, photographs; 32pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Owner's small stamp, else fine.
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Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. First Australian edition, 1983.
On the air 1 July 1932 and on for the first fifty years; the definitive account; inscribed by the author to Brendon Kelson.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Flamingo. First English edition, 2000.
A closed society in the hills above Cannes, paradise crossing to the dark side; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Imperial War Museum and Jane's. First English edition, 1981.
The War at home, in the Middle East, Burma and India, and China: one hundred and sixty reproductions from the Imperial War Museum's archive of Cecil Beaton's work; foreword by Peter Quennell, introduction by Gail Buckland.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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[New York]: Lorenz and Ellen Gude. First American edition, 1964.
The first separate publication of the poet's major work, 'a fact of modern poetry', according to Frank O'Hara; dedicated to Joe Brainard, edited by Ron Padgett; three hundred copies, this one unnumbered.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled, by Joe Brainard. Blank rear covers, a couple of marks, one corner loose. Very good.
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London: Thames and Hudson. First English edition, 1996.
Portraits, fashion, objects – from Dada to Vogue, 1930s-1960s; two hundred and thirty-five reproductions, forty-seven colour, one hundred and forty-eight duotone.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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[Canberra]: Australian Ministry of Information. First Australian edition, [1945].
'It aims to tell ... of the grim holding war of 1942 and 1943'; inscribed by Arthur Calwell, then Minister for Information, to A.[bner] S. McAlpine on November 26, 1946.
Pictorial wrappers. Edgewear. Very good.
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London: Thames and Hudson. Reprint, 1971.
Two hundred and ten reproductions, chosen by the photographer, introduced by him, 'Photography appears to be a simple matter, but it demands powers of concentration combined with mental enthusiasm and discipline'.
Fine in dustwrapper in slipcase as issued.
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Esher, Surrey: Penmiel Press. First edition thus, 1981.
Three sections: 'How to begin a letter', 'How to go on with a letter' and 'How to end a letter' by a prodigious letter writer, 'The best subject, to begin with, is your friend's last letter. Write with the letter open before you. Answer his questions, and make any remarks his letter suggests. Then go on to what you want to say yourself. This arrangement is more courteous, and pleasanter for the reader, than to fill the letter with your own invaluable remarks ...'; first published in 1890, yet as relevant to electronic communication today. Seventy-five numbered copies, signed by Edward Burrett, the printer, this copy unnumbered and inscribed 'Review Copy'.
Patterned wrappers, printed paper label. Edges lightly creased, else fine.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1981.
Seventeen stories, including 'So Much Water So Close to Home', the author's third collection and first commercial success; inscribed by Raymond Carver, 'with regards and admiration', to Doug Blazek, the San Francisco poet.
Review copy with press release and embargo slip laid in. A little edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1983.
Twelve stories, the author's third commercially published collection; inscribed to Doug Blazek, the San Francisco poet, by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper with publisher's promotional photograph of the author laid in.
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London: Buena Vista International, 1995.
Original English movie poster for Peter Chelsom's second feature, a wonderful mixture of English music hall, family trauma, the nature of humour, loosely plaited together in, where else, Blackpool. The poster design, printed both sides of the sheet, settles for the first of these, the brothers Bruno and Thomas Parker and Jack, Bruno's son.
Poster measures 76 x 102cms. Creases around edges. Rolled. Very good.
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London: John Murray. Reprint, 1966.
The Marchesa and the author's month long, off-map travels in the south of Spain in 1961; maps, photographs; by a 'companionable eccentric, obsessed with horses and Catholicism' or, from this distance, the ingredients for a classic; inscribed by the author in 1981 with the note '(for intestines see pp.68-79)'.
Very good in dustwrapper featuring the two protagonists.
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York: Stone Trough Books. First English edition, 2009.
The lives, ideas and visionary practices of Mark and Lottie Cheverton, a printmaker and painter respectively, the last two through the School of Art that they founded in Edinburgh in 1988, and the story of how the school survived its founders' tragic deaths (aged 39 and 31) in a road accident, told through reminiscences from family and friends; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Phaidon. Second edition, 2015.
The second edition of this monograph, first published in 1986; four sections: the formative years 1887-1922, architectural ideals and social realities 1922-1944, the ancient sense: late works 1945-1965 and principles and transformations; illustrated throughout, 500+pp., indexed.
Original printed boards. Fine in printed transparent dustwrapper.
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London: Ernest Benn. First English edition, 1924.
The author's first full length play, written in 1918, first performed in 1926, and, like much of his later work, concerned with 'the idea that talent is best fulfilled by shedding emotional commitments'; 'Contemporary British Dramatists, Volume XIII'.
Original blue pair covered boards with printed label. A couple of marks to prelims, spine label darkened. Very good.
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Oxford: Oxford University Press. First English edition, 1999.
Begun in 1976, published in 1999, 'there were to be no recipes, and there are none', instead, an egalitarian encyclopedia that stops a moment before genetically modified foods; organised alphabetically: aardvark ('truly one of a kind, it has no relations') to zucchini ('only became prominent in the twentieth century'), and illustrated by Soun Vannithone; 865pp. plus bibliography and index.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: W.W. Norton. First American edition, 2003.
Illustrated autobiography of the photojournalist from freelancing during the late 1930s, all over Europe during World War Two, then everywhere else, including much time with Picasso, after that; 450pp.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Dublin: Irish Academic Press. First Irish edition, 1995.
Constructed from journals, letters, oral histories and published works into a revisionist history to include the men and women from beyond Ulster in the history of Ireland during World War One.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Dublin: Four Courts Press. First Irish edition, 1997.
Unpicking more of the background and circumstances of the 250,000 Irish who fought in World War One; the companion volume to 'Irish Voices from the Great War'.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. First American edition, 1929.
The story of the Hyde family's rise to wealth in mid-1800s Sydney (Hunter's Hill), including the Gold Rush, and first novel written by collaborators Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw under the pseudonym M. Barnard Eldershaw, originally serialised in 'The Bulletin' under the title 'The Quartermaster'.
Very good in dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine and marked on the rear panel.
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Paris: Gerick Distribution. First French edition, 1973.
Original French poster for the director's chamber epic set on the Left Bank of Paris, post May '68; the design features the three protagonists: two joined together in black, the other to one side in white, the title above the three of them, appropriately, in red.
Poster measures 156 x 118cms. Folded. Fine.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1969.
From the New Jersey Open (1957, aged 14) to Stein, Sousse (1967), the last five years before becoming world champion defeating Boris Spassky, in Reykjavík, September 1972; selected and annotated by Bobby Fischer, introduction to the games by Larry Evans.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Harry N. Abrams and Corcoran Gallery. First American edition, 1985.
Exhibition catalogue. 'Photographs of War – 1846 to the Present'; edited by Frances Fralin, essay by Jane Livingston; one hundred and forty-three full-page reproductions, including eight in colour: Roger Fenton in the Crimea to Catherine Leroy in Beirut, regular stops in between, endorsing Tacitus' claim that 'peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.'
Fine in very good dustwrapper rubbed on the front fold.
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Dunedin, New Zealand: The Holloway Press. First New Zealand edition, 2010.
A wonderful assembly of primary sources, beginning, 'A story. Crumbly and of poor grade. You probably won't want it. In that case – please burn it quickly – quickly – or crush into tinier pieces for Rat Darkness to sneak in and snaffle', and continuing with letters between them, passages from Janet Frame's work, as well as her letters to Bill Brown, and pieces from Charles Brasch's journal; #12/150 numbered copies inscribed to Bill Brown by Pamela Gordon.
Original cloth and boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: Oxford University Press. First American edition, 1989.
'This book is about the psychological and emotional culture of Americans and Britons during the Second World War. It is about the rationalisations and euphemisms people needed to deal with the unacceptable actuality from 1939 to 1945.' Or 'Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War'
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: HarperCollins. First English editions, 1997-1999.
The twentieth century in three volumes: '1900-1933', '1933-1951', and 'Challenge to Civilisation 1952-1999'; maps, index, c.3000pp.
Short closed tear to bottom of front panel of dustwrapper of vol. 1, a couple of other nicks, else the three volumes all fine in dustwrappers. The three vols.
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1967-1994.
A small collection of books, scripts, printed ephemera, and secondary material which have grown out of Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel. The collection includes three editions of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' – first Australian edition, Penguin paperback, illustrated edition – as well as the screenplay of Peter Weir's movie, the program for Gail Wiltshire's retelling, two editions of Yvonne Rousseau's musings. Has any other Australian novel produced as many diverse adaptations or interpretations? The collection,
• 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'. Melbourne: F.W.Cheshire, 1967. First Australian edition. Mary Mitchell's copy, Australian 1930s novelist, with her signature on the front endpaper and title page. Two small abrasions on the title page where something has been removed and partially affecting the author's name, else fine in dustwrapper designed by Alison Forbes.
• 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' Ringwood, Vic: Penguin, 1975. Reprint. Signed by Joan Lindsay. Pictorial wrappers, movie tie-in cover, fine.
• 'Picnic at Hanging Rock. Ringwood, Vic: Viking, 1987. First illustrated edition. Review copy with publisher's embargo slip tipped-in, press release, postcards, first day cover stamps (one featuring Picnic) and a postcard from Yvonne Rousseau to John Baxter sending the stamps. A little edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
• Lindsay, Joan. The Secret of Hanging Rock. North Ryde, NSW: Angus and Robertson, 1987. First Australian edition. The final chapter, not included in the published editions: the mystery solved, or deepened? Introduction by John Taylor, commentary by Yvonne Rousseau. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Mark top right corner where price sticker has been removed. Very good.
• Cliff Green, 'Picnic at Hanging Rock – a film'. Melbourne: Cheshire, 1975. First Australian edition. Screenplay of the movie version, illustrated with black and white reproductions from the movie. Signed by Peter Weir on a tipped-in card. Printed wrappers. Owner signature. Very good.
• Yvonne Rousseau, 'The Murders at Hanging Rock'. Fitzroy, Vic: Scribe, 1980. First Australian edition. Inscribed to John Baxter by the author in 1987, short typed note signed from her to John Baxter laid in. Pictorial wrappers. Covers rubbed. Very good.
• Yvonne Rousseau, 'The Murders at Hanging Rock'. South Melbourne, Vic: Sun Books, 1988. Second Australian edition. Inscribed to John Baxter by the author in 1988. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
• Gail Wiltshire, Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock'. Bowen Hills, Qld: Twelfth Night Theatre, 1994. Program for the author's retelling of Joan Lindsay's novel which includes the author as a character. 22pp. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very good.
Each item individually described above. All very good or better. The collection
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London: Michael Joseph, The Imperial War Museum and the Tate Gallery. First English edition, 1983.
The results of the British official war art schemes, from 1916 to the Falkands; assembled from the collections of the Imperial War Museum and the Tate Gallery; one hundred and seventy reproductions, including fifty in colour; maps, index.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Crown Publishers Inc. and Samuel Haskins. First American edition, 1962.
The photographer's first book – to this day a creative reference for generations of fashion, glamour, portrait and figure photographers: one hundred and thirty reproductions, introduction by Aaron Susan, foreword by the photographer; inscribed to Brendon Kelson by Sam Haskins in 2006.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with light wear at edges.
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New York: Rizzoli. Second edition revised, 2006.
'Once upon a time was Kate. She was as ...', first published in 1964; the first photo book to include a purely visual fictional narrative; one hundred and fifty reproductions, introduction by Norman Hall, foreword by Philippe Garner; inscribed to Brendon Kelson by the photographer during his visit to Canberra for his retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: John Murray. First English edition, 2016.
Helping to redress the author's image as wife and mistress to more famous men, her talent sidelined for love: Fifteen novels, including the 'Cazalet Chronicles', 'All I want is for him to love me, she thought. I don't care about anything else. She was not aware that the secret lies are the ones that endure'; inscribed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: British Broadcasting Corporation. First English edition, 1980.
'Art and the Century of Change', illustrated and opinionated, published to coincide with the television series; inscribed to Brendon Kelson by the author in 1981.
Fine in dustwrapper
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London: Cecil Woolf. First English edition, 2004.
Answers to 'Were you for, or against, the American-led military action against Saddam Hussein's regime in March 2003?' and 'Do you believe that the intervention will bring about lasting peace and stability in the region?' See adjacent images for responders; or 'before hindsight'; inscribed to Barry Humphries by Cecil Woolf with the former's bookplate.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Constable. First English edition, 1971.
John Williams, Regency England, the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 – a pair of murders that are at the heart of today's British policing system.
Extremities a little marked, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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London: Hutchinson. First English edition, 1975.
The author's last book, reflecting on his mother's life, the collapse of the British Empire, and, at the time of writing, the first volume of a proposed trilogy; the details set out by Michael Bakewell in his introduction.
Extremities dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Mousehole, Cornwall: Houyhnhnm. First trade edition, 2010.
‘It has been said that there are only two types of Irish male: the hard man and the desperate chancer. In life, Joyce was a desperate chancer. But in his work he was a hard man. Tell a dream and lose a reader, said Henry James. And we all know that the pun is the lowest form of wit. Joyce spent seventeen years punning on dreams. The result, 'Finnegans Wake', reads like a 600-page crossword clue. But it took a hard man to write it.’ Martin Amis.
The author, himself, thought that because it took him seventeen years to write 'Finnegans Wake', his ideal reader would spend the same time reading it. Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon doubled down on the author's claim, spent thirty years in the 'Finnegans Wake universe of documents and texts' and have come back with the 'critically emended edition' here, incorporating some 9,000 minor yet crucial corrections 'to facilitate a smooth reading'.
It brings to an end the interminable problem of establishing a definitive printed text, made difficult by the idiosyncratic English and publication history as 'Work in Progress' by installments in 'Transition', 'Transatlantic Review' and 'Two Worlds'.
An elegant, stand alone volume of that text, a second volume containing preface and afterword by the two ideal readers, foreword by Hans Walter Gabler, introduction by David Greetham, aka an account of their journey, and acknowledgments of those encountered in the universe and production of this edition.
Original blue cloth stamped in gold on the front panel. Printed wrappers. Both fine in the original cardboard slipcase. 800 copies. The two vols.
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St. Paul, Minnesota: The North Central Publishing Company. First American edition, 1979.
Text of the author's talk, the first annual public lecture in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Minnesota Libraries; letters from Nikos Kazantzakis to Kimon Friar; critical comments on 'The Odyssey: a Modern Sequel' by John Ciardi, Arthur Miller, Patrick Leigh Fermor, James Dickey, Mary Renault and many others; inscribed by Kimon Friar in 1985.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Milsons Point, NSW and London: Hutchinson Australia and Hutchinson. First Australian and first English edition, 1989, 1998.
Two volumes: 'The Second World War' published first, leading historically to its predecessor, and the military elements of both picked apart and reassembled.
The two volumes both fine in dustwrappers. The two volumes
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Boston: Little, Brown. First American paperback edition, 2000.
Photographing in Hungary (1912-1925), France (1925-1936), and the United States (1936-1985), one distinctive version of the twentieth century; three hundred and fifty duotone and fifteen colour reproductions; essays by Laszlo Beke, Dominique Baque, Jane Livingston and the author; 367pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Hodder and Stoughton. First English edition, 1996.
''Casablanca' without heroes', according to its author; and signed by him.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Hodder and Stoughton. First English edition, 1999.
Around the time of the collapse of Communism; signed by the author.
Top edge dusty, a couple of spots of foxing to foredge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Privately printed, 1993.
A passage from the author's 1973 story – more unpicking of the infrastructures needed to maintain utopias; printed to commemorate a wedding on 1 May 1993, 'At times, one of the adolescent girls or boys who go to see the child does not go home to weep or rage, does not, in fact, go home at all. They keep walking across ...'
Broadsheet measuring 35 x 21cms. Printed in two colours. Rolled. Fine.
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Berkeley, CA: Black Oak Books, [1989].
Broadside on the occasion of a reading by the author promoting 'Get Shorty'. A droll passage from HR introducing Chili to the nature of his work, the character of the clientele he'll encounter, the required customer service, and ending with the now discredited, 'In other words, don't talk when you don't have to. What's the point?'
Cream card, measuring 33 x 24cms., printed in two colours. Fine.
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London: Thames and Hudson. First English edition, 1989.
Exhibition catalogue. Combination monograph biography following some spectacular career moves between the world wars and into the early half of the twentieth century; 120+ reproductions, chronology; inscribed by Antony Penrose, the photographer's son.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Ringwood, Vic: McPhee Gribble. First Australian edition, 1992.
Australia Day, 1838, a little south of Moree; inscribed by the author to Evan Williams, 'In gratitude for your assistance and support. 30 January 1992'
A little edgewear, top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Nobrow Press. First English edition, 2014.
A multi-directional flow chart of aspects of modernism in Southern California featuring, among many, Frank Sinatra, Dennis Hopper, Rudi Gernreich, Mary Blair, Richard Neutra ...
Pictorial boards housing four metre concertina frieze, laid in the folded dot map to guide you through the frieze. All fine.
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Neutral Bay, NSW: WriteLight. First Australian edition, 1988.
From street photographer in the late 1950s and onwards through London during the 1960s, on to Australia, stops along the way: ninety-two reproductions, chronology of the photographer; inscribed by Lewis Morley to Brendon Kelson.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Secker and Warburg. First English editions, 1968.
Four volumes: Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. 500+ pieces, written between 1920 and 1950: an account of a hanging, 'The Road to Wigan Pier Diary', review of 'Tropic of Cancer', bookshop memories, 'Not Counting Niggers', 'Tolstoy and Shakespeare', wartime diary May 1940-November 1942, 'Poetry and the Microphone', 'As I Please' columns from The Tribune; correspondents include: Cyril Connolly, T.S. Eliot, Victor Gollancz, Rayner Heppenstall, Arthur Koestler, James Laughlin, John Lehmann, Anthony Powell, Stephen Spender, Julian Symons; 2,100 pp+., indexed; all over the first half of the twentieth century.
Extremities dusty and spots of foxing, very good in near fine dustwrappers a little darkened on the spine. The four vols.
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London: Thames and Hudson. First English edition, 1985.
Magnum Agency, founded 1947, one of the first photographic cooperatives, owned and administered entirely by members, photojournalists at work in Europe after World War Two, covering many historical events of the twentieth century; one hundred and sixty-eight full page reproductions; photographers – see adjacent image, introduction by Mary Blume.
Fine in dustwrapper
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New York: The Penguin Press. First American edition, 2013.
New York: post dotcom, pre 9/11: fraud investigator, Maxine Tarnow goes after tech companies, discovers the Deep Web, and on to 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Very fine in dustwrapper.
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Wirral, Cheshire: The Aylesford Press. First English edition, 1991.
'A Celebration' of the fabled kingdom with contributions by Lawrence Durrell, Julie Speedie, Count Potocki of Montalk, Christopher Martin and the editor; foreword by His Majesty King Cedric and signed by him; deluxe edition of fifty copies (thirty-three for sale, total edition four hundred and fifty copies), this one unnumbered.
Leatherette spine and marbled boards. Production flaw of glue shadow along gutters, else fine. Redondan Cultural Foundation ephemera along with a clipping re the circumstances of the editor's death laid in.
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Quenington, Gloucestershire: Reading Room Press. First English edition, 2016.
First publication of this unperformed libretto, begun c.1912, and discussed by the author in 'Private Road', his second volume of autobiography; wood engravings by Jane Lydbury, introduction by Colin Cruise; one hundred numbered copies, set in Koch-Kursiv, the '... type first used by the Curwen Press in 1926 and rescued by Ian Mortimer on its closure in 1983.'
Cloth and patterned boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Iowa City: Empyrean Press. First American edition, 2016.
An extract from 'Housekeeping' published to celebrate the author's twenty-five years' teaching and service at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. #171/225 numbered copies signed by Marilynne Robinson; illustration 'Lake Coeur d'Alene' by Viza Arlington; printed from Rialto types on Rives paper by Shari DeGraw.
Single sheet, measures 24 x 34cms. Fine.
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Paris: Les Films du losange, 1986.
Original grande French poster for 'Comedies and Proverbs' #5. The centre of the design is the waiting at the climax of the movie, waiting mixed with some of Delphine's by now trademark anxiety, and immediately before the least likely of directors employs a modest special effect.
Poster measures 160 x 120cms. Folded. Fine.
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London: Phaidon. First English edition, 1999.
'The Photographic Journey of George Rodger': from 'The Listener' to founding member of Magnum via photographing World War Two, the opening of Belsen, through Africa, the Caribbean, the previously invisible world ... 260+ reproductions, chronology, bibliography; foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Boston, MA: Simon and Schuster. First American edition, 1993.
'I learned about the other Philip Roth in January 1988, a few days after the New Year ...'; the doppelgänger concept: Who is real and who isn't? Roth in New York or Roth in Israel?
'Look, I've got more personalities than I can use already. All you are is one too many.'
Fine in dustwrapper a little creased at the crown of the spine.
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. First American edition, 1995.
Mickey Sabbath, his libido and mortality, and the idea that 'the unknown about any excess is how excessive it's been'; reputedly based on R.B. Kitaj.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Thames and Hudson. First English edition, 1973.
'People of the Twentieth Century', well, 'German People of the Twentieth Century', or from 1890; foreword by Golo Mann; two hundred and seventy-five photographs, four line drawings: a visual census.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1975.
Minamata, on the island of Kyushu; a not unfamiliar twentieth century story brilliantly told, beginning, 'This is not an objective book. The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective'; text, medical reports, chronology, and photographs by the veteran photojournalist, who was savagely beaten and almost killed in the process of recording the struggle of the people of Minamata.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Aperture. First American trade edition, 1981.
The photographer as essayist and narrator: 10,000+ prints in the photographer's archive in Tucson, 1,800+ selected for publication here, all 4.5 x 7.5cms., organised chronologically and by subject; commentary by William S. Johnson, foreword by James L. Enyeart.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Aperture. First American edition, 1985.
'The Wounded Angel – an illustrated biography' by Ben Maddow; followed by sections on World War Two, Post-war America, Abroad, After Life, and Japan: one hundred and eighty-five reproductions; afterword by John G. Morris; bibliography.
Fine in dustwrapper with a couple of nicks at the crown of the spine.
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London: Thames and Hudson. First English edition, 1998.
A career length survey: 'Early Years 1934-1943' to 'Minamata 1971-1975, Spain, country doctors, Pittsburgh, Haiti, New York from his window loft ... in between; five essays; three hundred and fifty reproductions of famous and never-before-published images.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Harry N. Abrams. First American edition, 1998.
Essays by Serge Tisseron, Alan Trachtenberg, Gabriel Bauret and John T.Hill; chronology, bibliography; three hundred and fifty-one duotone reproductions at the overlap of photojournalism and poetry.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 2017.
Unravelling the threads of the photographer's life – Theolonius Monk, Stan Brakhage, Mary Frank, Japan, the Pacific, twenty-nine states – through the 20,000 kilos of archives left behind in his apartment.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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San Francisco: City Lights Books. First American edition, 1990.
Exhibition catalogue. 'Six California Artists of the Cold War Era'; alternative history of the Bay Area and Southern California from 1947 onwards via the work of Wallace Berman, Jess, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick and George Herms; illustrated; the author's first book.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: William Heinemann. First English edition, 1971.
American frontier historical fiction, a portrait of four generations in the life of an American family, and suggested by the true story of Mary Hallock Foote, daughter of a wealthy New York Quaker family, born in 1847, who left her life of comfort and culture to live in shacks in western towns where she was often the only educated woman.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else very good in dustwrapper.
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after 1983.
The cricket bat speech, 'the most famous moment in 'The Real Thing'. 'The cricket bat speech had been gestating for a long time. It came out of his 1970s journal entries, where he had noted down: 'Good prose is sprung like a cricket bat''. Within the play it is Henry's repudiation of Annie's criticism of him and her promotion of Brodie, her cause, and comes after, 'You're jealous of the idea of a writer. You want to keep it sacred, special, not something anybody can do ... Then somebody who isn't in on the game comes along, like Brodie, who really has something to write about, something real, and you can't get through it.'
Broadside measuring 30 x 21cms. Fine.
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London: John Murray. First English edition, 1990.
Biographical profile, beginning with the devastation of World War One, in which the photographer lost an arm, through to becoming a central figure in Prague's artistic life; afterword by Anna Farova, in between 100+ reproductions, including St. Vitus Cathedral, poetic images created between black and white and the shades of grey in between ("all mystery lies in the shadow areas" – Sudek).
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Munich: Kehayoff. First German edition, 1999.
Through the twentieth century with the incomparable Czech photographer; illustrated biography (157pp.) followed by c.150 full page reproductions of the 'life is in colour but black and white is more real' school; translated by Michael Knight.
Gold papered boards with vignette. Fine as issued in transparent dustwrapper.
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London: William Heinemann. First English edition, 1983.
Chess as protagonist, Beth Harmon its agent.
Spots of foxing to extremities and offsetting to prelims, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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London: Sarema Press. First English edition, 1989.
The life and career of the nineteenth and early twentieth century popular English artist, career swamped by Art movements and world events, and rediscovered as a gay artist; 130+ reproductions.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Peter Owen. First English edition, 1967.
Two questions: 'Are you for, or against, the intervention of the United States in Vietnam?'; and 'How, in your opinion, should the conflict in Vietnam be resolved?' Two hundred and fifty-nine replies, including: Martin Boyd, Alan Moorehead, Geoffrey Fairbairn, Christina Stead and, a wider net, Uwe Johnson, Doris Lessing, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anita Desai and Daphne du Maurier; two appendixes of excerpts from 'Authors Take Sides on the Spanish Civil War'; Barry Humphries' copy with his bookplate.
Contributors' buckram binding. Fine in chipped, original glassine dustwrapper.
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Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press. First American edition, 1986.
Eighty-seven sepia full-page reproductions of 'the most 'classical' culture and the most obvious eroticism'; introduction by Roland Barthes, translated by Angus Whyte.
Fine in dustwrapper. 5000 copies.
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Manchester: Carcanet. First English edition, 1982.
'Once there was a man and on his shoulders he had, instead of a head, a hollow pumpkin. This was no great help to him. Yet he still wanted to be Number One.' Forty-two pieces, translated by, mostly, Christopher Middleton; foreword by Susan Sontag.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: NYRB. First American edition, 2021.
Sixty-nine pieces by an author deeply admired by Kafka: essays, fables, idylls, tales of comedy and horror, travelogues, prose pieces realistic and otherworldly, written between 1905 and 1933; translated and introduced by Tom Whalen.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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No place: Parley Vale Press. First edition in this format, 1989.
The Zambezi boys arrive, mistakenly, in East Bradley, Somerset; #36/39 numbered copies (total edition 60) sewn into Kakali Handmade paper formed by Sharyn Yuen.
Sewn handmade paper wrappers. Tinted title vignette (see image), stencil decorations and preliminaries. Hand-set in Walbaum and Homewood typefaces and ptinted on Frankfurt Cream Paper by Jean Buescher. All fine.
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New York: Aperture. Second American edition revised, 1979.
Illustrated biography, 120pp., wrapped around 150 full page reproductions, taken 1920-1946, from Mexico to MGM; signed by Ben Maddow on a vellum sheet bound in at the half-title; afterword by Cole Weston.
Fine in very good dustwrapper faded around the spine and with a small abrasion on the rear panel.
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New York: St. Martin's Press. First American editions, 1984-1985.
Two volumes: Hoke Moseley #1 and #2, beginning with Frederick J. Frenger, Jr., 'a blithe psychopath from California' arriving in Miami ... in a tight field, the prolific hardboiled author's best.
Review copies with promotional material laid in. Both fine in dustwrappers. The two vols.
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Cambridge and Oxford: Polity Press and Basil Blackwell. First English edition, 1986.
'Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918': origins, experience of, social impact, running of the First World War, woven together with extracts and quotations from contemporary sources; 800+pp., illustrated, indexed, and signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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