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The Sixties Press, Madison, Minnesota., 1962. First U.S. edition. Wrappers issue - simultaneous with the hardback. Octavo. 63 pages. Frontispiece from a drawing of the author by Zamorano. Two-page introduction, "Thoughts on Cesar Vallejo", by John Knoepfle, and three-page introduction, "A Note on Cesar Vallejo", by James Wright. Parallel Spanish and English texts.Presentation copy from one of the translators, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''For Miss Winifred Ray, with love, from a devoted friend of her father's - James Wright - Ithaca, N.Y. May 17, 1963''.Very good in very good dustwrapper chipped and tanned at the edges and with a small ink mark to front panel.

Schwarz, Paris. 1er Mars,, 1902. First edition. Quarto. Cover and 22 full-page colour lithographs by Félix Vallotton, printed on rectos only, this being the only issue of the periodical to be lithographically printed. Wrappers. One of Vallotton's most celebrated works, the theme being authoritarian brutality from the classroom to the police station. Swiss-born Vallotton (1865 - 1925) was a member of the Post-Impressionist group Les Nabis which was particularly noted for its graphic work. Covers chipped and soiled at the edges. Spine splitting. Marginal chips and tears (not affecting the images). Very good copy of a scarce and very fragile item.

Art Printing Works, Kuala Lumpur., 1962. First edition. Precedes the first U.K. edition by two years. Small octavo. pp [viii], 185. With ten illustrations drawn by the author in the Chinese style. Original pictorial wrappers.Spine faded. Lower cover superficially rubbed with some loss to the lettering of the blurb. Spine faded. Very good. Rare.

C.W. Beaumont, London., 1918. First edition. Royal octavo. pp [xii], 164. Decorations by Anne Estelle Rice. Boards. One of 100 numbered copies on ''finest cartridge'' paper and with the decorations hand-coloured. Contributors include Richard Aldington, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, F.S. Flint, D.H. Lawrence, M.T.H. Sadler, Max Plowman, Rose Macaulay, Harold Monro, Aldous Huxley, Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, et al.; reproductions of drawings etc by Augustus John, Walter Sickert, H. Gaudier Brzeska, Nina Hamnett, Mark Gertler, Anne Estelle Rice, Jacob Kramer, John Nash, Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson, Bernard Meninsky et al. On the front pastedown is the bookplate of John Johnson.Endpapers lightly spotted. Backstrip defective at head and tail and with some repair work. Very good.

Alfred van der Marck Editions, New York., 1986. First edition. Quarto. 144 pages. Very short Prologue by Gary Snyder. Short Foreword by Robert Creeley. Lengthy Afterword (five pages) by William E. Parker. Short Epilogue by the photographer. Black-and-white photographs, many full-page, of 101 poets, including: Lawrence Durrell, Allen Ginsberg, C.K. Williams, Kenneth Koch, Philip Lamantia, Christopher Isherwood, Gary Snyder, Anselm Hollo, Robert Duncan, Ed Dorn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Burroughs, Richard Brautigan, John Ashbery, Gregory Corso, Ed Sanders, James Schuyler, Aram Saroyan etc etc etc. Together with each photograph there is a reproduction of a short holograph manuscript by the relevant poet. There is no photograph of Bukowski, only the words: ''NO VISITORS. BUKOWSKI''. It is interesting to note how untidy is the handwriting of almost all the contributors, that of Gary Snyder being one of the few exceptions.Fine in very good dustwrapper nicked and creased at top edge.

Latimer, London., 1971. First edition. Square octavo. pp xvii, 123. Numerous black and white illustrations and photographs. A football poem - "Association football represents ... the available universe in Britain" - with numerous illustrations.Number 80 of 100 copies signed by the author and the contributing artists and photographers who include Peter Blake, Michael Foreman, John Furnival, Richard Hamilton, Adrian Henri, David Hockney, Paul Kaplan, Pete Morgan, Jeff Nuttall, David Oxtoby, Tom Phillips, Ron Sandford, Feliks Topolski, Michael Tyzack etc. Fine in very good dustwrapper, by Peter Blake, somewhat tanned at edges due to the horrible laminate used by publishers at that time.

Idler Office, London., 1899. First edition, first issue with ''Idler Office'' imprint at tail of spine. Octavo. pp iv, 278. The first year of the periodical in the publisher's binding of cream buckram decorated in gilt. Contributors include Frederick Rolfe, Laurence Housman, Barry Pain, et al. Illustrators include Max Beerbohm, S.H. Sime, Joseph Pennell, Edgar Wilson et al.Free endpapers tanned. Covers slightly dusty. Corners a bit bumped. Very good indeed.

Corinth Books, New York., 1963. First edition. Octavo.95 pages. The scarcer hardback issue. Interviews with Kenneth Rexroth, Paul Blackburn, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Bly, John Logan, Robert Creeley, W.S. Merwin, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Dorn, LeRoi Jones et al.Cheap paper a bit tanned as usual. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges.

Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska at Omaha., 1977. First edition. Octavo. 16 pages. Wrappers. A poem about the gradual loss to the Sea of the town of Dunwich. 250 copies printed.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the half-title page: ''For Audrey Nicholson with best wishes from Robert Vas Dias - London, 25th Nov. 1977''. The recipient was a great friend and supporter of many of the London poets.Covers slightly creased at the edges. Very good indeed.

Sidgwick & Jackson, London., 1975. First edition. Octavo. 200 pages. Photographs. Vassall passed naval intelligence to the Soviet Union over a period of eight years. His account of how he was recruited by the use of blackmail has been disputed. The Vassall Case was a huge news story at the time but was soon eclipsed by the Profumo Affair. Ah, those heady days of espionage and treason.A bit of teastaining to the margins of pages 127/8, not affecting the text. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Bump to bottom corner of front cove. Very good in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly creased at the edges. Uncommon.

Paul Elek, London., 1947. First edition thus. Octavo. 232 pages. Illustrated with numerous drawings, some full-page, by Keith Vaughan. Eight page Introduction by Graham Hutton. A title in the Camden Classics series.Small ownership signature on front free endpaper. Free endpapers partially tanned. Cheap paper tanning as always, but less so than usual. Head and tail of spine a bit bumped. Very good in very good dustwrapper rubbed and slightly nicked at the edges.

Alan Ross, London., 1966. First edition. Quarto. 221 pages. Numerous drawings and photographs, many of them full-page. Black buckram covers.Fine in near-fine dustwrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges.

Fine Art & Antiques Fair, London., 2002. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Numerous illustrations. Spiral-bound colour pictorial card wrappers. The catalogue of the exhibition.Fine. Scarce.

Harper & Row, New York., 1972. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Forty-four full-page colour photographs by the author. ''This book celebrates, in words and full-color photographs, the adventure of living in the world's most astonishing city..'' (from the blurb).Signed by the author on the front free endpaper [one of his own file copies].Fine in near-fine, very slightly marked dustwrapper.

Macmillan, London., 1898. Extra Illustrated Edition of a book originally published in 1887. Octavo. pp xvi, 410. Plates and illustrations in the text. Period binding of full polished tan calf with raised bands, gilt decoration and rules, marbled edges and endpapers.Spine slightly faded. Two corners slightly bumped. Very good indeed.

Léon Vanier, Paris., 1886. First edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Recent binding of quarter vellum with marbled boards, leather spine label; front and rear original wrappers bound in. Prose musings, often autobiographical in character. The book was published at the time of Verlaine's lowest ebb when he was living in utter poverty. Its title, with the required Symbolist obliquity, carries echoes of the death of the poet's mother and the remarriage of his wife Mathilde, both of which took place in 1886. Rimbaud, of course, had been out of the picture for at least ten years.Some light foxing. Very good indeed.

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London., 1876. Author's Edition, with illustrations." Small octavo. Two volumes in one, but with continuous pagination. 302 pages. Nine full-page engravings, two half-page. Period binding of quarter red calf with raised bands, gilt decorated spine. Marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Covers edges rubbed and some light and occasional spotting. Very good.

Grant Richards, London., 1909. First U.K. edition. There was no American edition, even though the novel is set in the States. Translated by Frederick Lawton. pp viii, 292. Twenty-four black and white plates by George Roux, on of which is reproduced in colour on the cover.Edges spotted. Faint spotting to prelims. Tail of spine very slightly bumped. Near fine. A brilliant copy.

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London., 1882. Third U.K. edition. [Translated by Mary Marston.] Octavo. pp iv, 286. 42 black and white plates. Period binding of half tan calf with raised bands, intricate gilt decoration to spine, morocco title-label, marbled boards, edges and endpapers.On the title-page someone has written the name of the translator. Two newspaper cuttings are affixed to the front endpapers. A bit of foxing here and there. Very good indeed.

Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, London., 1896. First U.K. edition and first edition in English. No translator given. Octavo. pp viii, 382. Seventy-nine illustrations. All edges gilt. Green pictorial buckram blocked in gilt, black, blue and white, bevelled edges.Short tear to fore-edge of front free endpaper. Front hinge cracking. Spine and edges rubbed. Good.