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London: Printed in the Year, 1712.. [6],46pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Loose, somewhat tanned at edges and modestly used, very faint offset from ms. note on a formerly adjacent item to terminal page. About good. A reissue of the first edition of the poem originally published as THE IMPEACHMENT: OR, THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT, with a new half-title, title, Preface and pp. [1]-2 of the text. Madan comments about the original issue: "This poem of some 750 lines narrates events from the St. Paul's sermon to the attempted assassination of Harley in March 1711 and his subsequent elevation to the peerage as Lord Oxford. Its theme is that Sacheverell rescued Church and State from the danger threatened by the Whigs." On occasion, the attribution is to "David" Russell, but Foxon and ESTC revise the attribution to "Richard." MADAN/SPECK 1055. ESTC T94037. FOXON R334.5.

Ditchling Common, Sussex, 1934.. Small quarto. Stiff dark brown wrapper with wraparound printed label, fore and bottom edges wholly untrimmed. Illustrated with two wood-engravings by David Jones and other facsimiles and illustrations. Modest tanning and a trace of foxing to the label, otherwise a very good to near fine, unopened copy. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies printed by hand in Caslon Old Face on Batchelor handmade paper, signed by the author. An excellent presentation of the text of this lecture, itself a beautiful manifestation of the hand-wrought virtues it discusses. CLEVERDON 28. TAYLOR & SEWELL A233.

New York: Anderson Auction Co., April 1911 through November 1912.. Parts one through four, in eight volumes (of five parts in nine volumes). Original printed wrappers. Plates. Light use, moderate shallow chipping along extended overlap edges and spine ends, but very good. The massive auction catalogue of the four main parts of the dispersal of one of the great American libraries of its time, particularly notable for its continental books, manuscripts and bindings. The four main parts amounted to eighty sessions, and included almost 12,000 lots. A fifth part (ninth volume) was less opulent and occupied itself with the "Miscellaneous Books." Accompanied by the prices realized list for the third part.

Washington, DC:: Library of Congress, 1984.. [6],9,[1]pp. Stiff printed wrapper. A fine copy. First edition. Preface by John Cole. Signed and dated by Salisbury in 1992, and with a brief t.l.s. laid in.

[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1995].. 160pp. Quarto (31.5 x 26 cm). Cloth. Photographs. Fine very lightly worn dust jacket with small nick at crown of spine. First edition of this superb collection of literary portraits by the photographer long associated with the SUNDAY TIMES of London. Preface by Norman Mailer. Each portrait is accompanied by text selected by its subject from their own work or that of others. This copy bears the photographer's very gracious May 1995 presentation inscription, signed "Sally," to a party to whom she extends warm thanks for his help.

Oswestry, [Shropshire]: Printed and sold by J. Salter ... [et al], 1788.. 24pp. Quarto (22 x 18 cm, signed as folio). Disbound, with original stabholes visible. A dim but unrepentant copy, with three stamps from a defunct American mercantile library, moderate tanning and soiling, an old tidemark in the lower fore-corners, pencil highlights and general soiling, and a closed tear at the gutter of the terminal leaf. First edition thus. A ten-line preliminary Advertisement indicates the poem was written in 1762 and was never intended for publication. It further claims that it is here printed from a faulty transcription of the original manuscript ("supposed to be destroyed"). The imprint includes co-publishers in London (J. and J. Robinson), Birmingham (Mr. Swinney) and Shrewsbury (Mr. Wood). Salter is credited with 9 publications in ESTC, three of them in Welsh, but this title is not recorded there. However, OCLC locates a single copy, at Cardiff University. OCLC: 896022867.

Calaone-Baone, Italy: Edizioni Factotum-Art, [1978].. [16]pp. Quarto (27 x 21 cm). Stiff pictorial wrapper. Illustrations and facsimiles. About fine. Whole number 2, of seven published. Intended as a quarterly. A multi-lingual periodical devoted to visual and conceptual arts and poetry. Henri Chopin contributes to this number, in company with the editors.

[Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960].. Quarto broadside (26.5 x 19.5 cm), printed in blue on WSH handmade paper and tipped into light tan paper folder. With accompaniments as below. Near fine. An overprinting of this leaf (from THE PATH TO PEACE) in part for the author's use, as four copies turned up when his library was dispersed). As it appears in the book, it is printed in a fashion out of character with the rest of the text. In the corner of the back panel of the folder appears the following manuscript notation, in ink: "© From: the Path to Peace [/] Siegfried Sassoon [/] SAP" followed in a different color ink by "And given by Dame [/] Hildelith." Accompanied by the quarto [4]pp. leaflet prospectus for PATH ... (printing two poems), accompanied. by three lightly used quarto proof leaves, printing six poems: "The Contention," "The Need," "Unfoldment," "Arbor Vitae," "Rogation," and "Sight Sufficient." And finally, accompanied by two proof printings of poems ("Before a Crucifix," and "A… Read More

[London]: Faber and Faber, [1983].. Three volumes. Large octavos. Uniform gilt lettered cloth textured boards. Portraits. Bookseller inventory sticker on free endsheet of 3rd volume, otherwise in fine to near fine dust jackets, two of which exhibit the characteristic sunning. First edition, first printings of the second and third volumes, second impression of the first. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Rupert Hart-Davis. The second volume bears the editor's affectionate publication day presentation inscription, signed "Rupert."

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1936.. Tan cloth, pictorially stamped in dark brown. Bookplate of Walter Chrysler on pastedown, faint tanning to endsheet gutters, otherwise about fine in near fine example of the pictorial dust jacket with a few minor nicks, shallow loss at the crown of the spine and a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel. First U.S. edition, with the binding and dust jacket designs after Barnett Freedman. Somewhat less common in jacket than its British counterpart. Keynes notes only the 1937 American printing. KEYNES A40a(n).

[ New York?], 1966.. [2] leaves plus ten etchings. Quarto (36 x 25.5 cm; 14 x 10"). Loose sheets, laid into folding cloth portfolio. A few smudges to portfolio, otherwise fine. One of a total edition of 110 copies (including 10 artist's proofs), consisting of ten original etchings (plate size 12.5 x 9.5 cm) by Schwartz, printed on handmade Italia paper by Emiliano Sorini, with each etching signed and numbered in the margin by the artist. A beautiful suite by this notable master of several media, whose other works have illustrated or been accompanied by texts by, among others, Anthony Hecht (PREDATORY BIRDS, Gehenna Press 1958), and Czeslaw Milosz (CATS, Privately Printed 1994).

[Niagara Falls: The Artist, 1993].. Oblong 12mo (11.5 x 12 cm). Limp decorated Japanese fabric. Fine in lidded plastic box. First edition. Copy #5 of fifty numbered copies, signed by the artist, who designed and handbound this work "utilizing traditional Japanese patterns," papers and fabrics. Schwartzott's work now appears under the imprint of her Lilliput Press.

Waynesboro, VA, July 1927.. 20pp. Large octavo. Pictorial stiff wrapper. Illustrations. A very good copy. Volume one, number 5, A.L.S.A.P. No 7, edited and produced by Russell Paxton. A sole issue of THE PIONEER SCOUT (March 1926) preceded the debut in March 1927 of the first number of the AMERICAN LEADER. A year of 12 issues under this title appeared before it donned a revised title, AMERICAN SCOUT. Paxton's work was most closely associated with the LSA, a scouting organization founded in 1915 and then absorbed by the BSA in 1924. The Lone Scout programs continued under the BSA umbrella for another decade. While THE LONE SCOUT was the primary periodical of the organization, amateur zines such as this were an integral part of the program. The front wrapper proclaims that 500 copies of this issue were printed, and content includes prose and poetry by Lone Scouts, patriotic essays and scouting news. Issues of this iteration and the next are either scarce or overlooked; OCLC finds only one location, in… Read More

[New York: Allied Filmmakers, 1989].. Ten original (9.5 x 7"; 25 x 17.5 cm) borderless glossy b&w still photographs, plus one duplicate. Title i.d.s and another annotation on each verso, otherwise fine. A fine set of representative stills promoting director Uli Edel's powerful award-winning film adaptation of Selby's controversial 1964 collection of interrelated prose pieces, based on a script by Selby and Desmond Nakano. The film starred Jennifer Jason Leigh )in an unforgettable role as Tralala), Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Jerry Orbach, et al. One of the stills is of Selby on set, and another is of Uli Edel behind the camera.

[Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts, June 1932.. Folio (41.5 x 30cm). Typographic wrappers. Heavily illustrated with photographs. Corners a bit bumped, some wear along spine, with split below lower staple, otherwise very good. Founded by Maxim Gorky and published in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1941 (and 1949), under the general editorship of G. Piatakov. An issue of this innovative periodical devoted to Soviet Civil Aviation. This is the French language edition, translator not identified. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks, designed by Lissitsky, Rodchenko and others were developed in USSR in Construction, one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" - Parr-Badger. Versions were also published in Russian, German and English. PARR-BADGER I:148.

New York: Abbevillle Press, 1983.. Small folio (35 x 24 cm). Black cloth, lettered in gilt and black. Heavily illustrated in color, with the text in facsimile of the fanciful manuscript. Fine in dust jacket. First US edition of this whimsical enigma by the Italian architect / designer, first published in 1981 in a limited, two volume edition by Franco Maria Ricci. Presented as an encyclopedia of imaginary things, the Codex and its illustrations appear here in company with extensive text in an invented asemic language and orthography. In spite of the author/artist's categorical assertion that it is a wholly fanciful work, there have been a number of attempts to translate it and reveal its hidden meanings, a semblance of a Voynich manuscript for the 20thth century.

London, 13 April 1951.. Typescript; 8 leaves, quarto. A.l.s.: 1 1/4pp. on single octavo sheet. Typescript rather creased, with short tears at corners, first two leaves dust-soiled at margins, letter modestly dust-spotted; good. An early work by the critic/poet/novelist, here forwarded to "Dear Miss [Erica] Marx," of the Hand & Flower Press: "...I'm sending along with this the long poem for you to see. I quite understand about the keeping up the length of the booklets. This will lead to a very mixed bag in my case ... you can see and decide on the rest later...." The typescript bears a few small manuscript tinkerings. The referenced pamphlet series is Marx's "Poems in Pamphlet," and it appears that Sewell was not published in the series. However, 1951 was an otherwise productive year: THE STRUCTURE OF POETRY appeared under Rutledge & Kegan Paul's imprint, and her first novel was published by Chatto & Windus. She became a US citizen in 1973 and in 1981, she won poetry, fiction, and nonfiction awards… Read More

Washington, DC: GPO / Office of War Information, 1942.. Folio broadside (38 x 28 inches; 97 x 72 cm scant). Printed by offset lithography in colors, with OWI/GPO imprint and date in extreme lower margin. Professionally linen mounted, lower margin with imprint retained, top and side margins trimmed. With signs of minor color fill at apexes of top folds, but otherwise a very good to fine, bright example. Rolled. An exceptionally powerful image, prepared by Shahn in response to the massacre at Lidice, depicting a shackled and hooded man against a brick wall, with the dated newswire report of the Lidice massacre superimposed over the figure, and the brilliant red caption: "This is Nazi Brutality." Shahn worked for the OWI from the Autumn of 1942 until the Summer of the following year, and although he produced a number of images for the agency, only two were actually utilized - the others were dismissed as too violent, or as not sufficiently appropriate to the topic of the home front. Shortly thereafter,… Read More

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1954.. Folio. Half morocco and decorated boards. Illustrated by Mary Grabhorn. Small book label removal mark on pastedown, spine very slightly sunned, but a very good copy. One of 180 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Illustrated prospectus laid in. GRABHORN 550.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson .., 1725 - "1723"[sic].. Six volumes. xli,[13],[4],563, plus portrait and plate; 656; 499; 547,[1]; 599; 591,[1],36pp. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf, spines gilt extra. Rebacked at a relatively early date, with the original backstrips laid down, new labels. Most joints cracking (but cords sound), chipping to joints and spine extremities (costing part of the top section of the spine of Vol. I), corner of one blank rear free endsheet torn away, fore-corners bumped and scraped, some occasional dusting, finger-smudges or minor foxing, otherwise internally very good or somewhat better, externally moderately sound. The first edition of Pope's edited texts of Shakespeare's plays, printed by subscription in an edition of 750 sets (of which 140 sets remained unsold), and the first collected edition in quarto. The first volume includes a list of Subscribers. While the general title in the first volume is appropriately dated 1725, the titlepages of the separate volumes are… Read More