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New York: Burt Franklin., 1970. Reprint.. Reprint of the 1923 Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 351 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Burton. Index at rear. Upper rear foredge of cloth bumped, otherwise a fine clean copy. ¶ Includes a brief biography of Burton, a British soldier, diplomat, explorer, linguist, and expert on the Middle East. Facsimile of the original 1923 London edition.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original burgundy cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 179 pp, Frontispiece (Virginia Woolf, 1938, from a photography by Gisele Freund), 3 additional plates and two illustrations in the text. Issued as 'The Soho Bibliographies', Volume IX. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. An excellent copy.

Oxford: Oxford: At The Clarendon Press., 1983.. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 712 pp., photographic frontispiece of Doyle. Issued as The Soho Bibliographies XXIII. A fine copy in a very slightly used dust jacket, small closed tear on rear panel. ¶ The standard bibliography for Doyle, including his Works of Fiction, Miscellaneous Works, Minor Contributions, Periodical and Newspaper Contributions, Biographical Sources, Appendices and Index.

Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1961.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. Octavo, original blue paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, the boards stamped in black, the spine in gilt. 107 pp. Illustrated. 500 copies printed, published by the Zamorano Club and printed as a joint venture by Saul Marks at the Plantin Press; Gordon Holmquist at the Cole-Holmquist Press; Ward Ritchie at the Ward Ritchie Press; & Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Bound at the Silverlake Bindery, April, 1961.

New York: Ben Franklin., 1969.. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint, first issued in 1897. Octavo, original cloth, 224 pp., Illustrated with frontispiece portrait, numerous illustrations and facsimiles. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ With engraved frontis portrait, numerous illustrations and facsimiles. Buxton Forman, (1842-1917), a noted editor and bibliographer, was exposed in 1934 for his complicit role in forgeries of the works of Morris, Shelley, Keats and other Victorian authors. Includes an Appendix with Morris's contributions to Periodicals, Lectures, Addresses and Kelmscott Publications. This bibliography is more than comprehensive but note that some items included in this bibliography are forgeries.

Oxford & New York: Oxford Univerisity Press., 1997.. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original blue boards titled and with the Oxford seal in gilt on spine panel. 431 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶An encyclopedic guide to Edwardian Fiction, with over 800 author entries as well as articles on individual books, literary periodicals, and general topics.

Tucson: Press of the Gigantic Hound., 1990.. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original rust-brown cloth titled in black on spine panel. 88 pp. 1,000 copies issued, this copy signed by the author [Hieb] on the limitation leaf. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ The first published bibliography of the works of Hillerman, who specialized in mystery fiction concerning the Navajo people.

[No Place]: Xoanon, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Dust Jacket. Octavo, original colour printed wrappers. 24 pp. Issued in a limited edition of 250 hand-numbered copies. Illustrated in full colour. A catalogue of 96 items displayed at the special Xoanon Exhibition at the 2012 Esoteric Book Conference. A stunning exhibition catalogue, the display included original manuscripts, talismans, initiatic editions and original monadic transmissions. ¶ The face of the magical order Cultus Sabbati, a body of English traditional witchcraft initiates, first manifest in 1992 with the publication of Azoëtia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft by Andrew D. Chumbley. The book presented a sharply different view of the historical practice of witchcraft at the close of the twentieth century, at once drawing resonance with the phantasmagoric Sabbath of the Witches, cults of Sumerian and Graeco-Roman witch-deities, and the high magical operations of medieval necromancy. The most important and… Read More