SINCLAIR Upton

The Metropolis

Toronto, McLean and Allen 1908 376pp. 20x14, green cloth, pictoral front and spine. Cloth somewhat rubbed, front hinge somewhat cracked as is often the case with this edition, generally a good copy. First Canadian edition of Sinclair's classic muckraking novel.

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Book number: 35044

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SPENDER Stephen

Poems of Dedication

London, Faber and Faber, 1946. 58pp. Top edge gilt. Hand-made Christmas painting from Humphrey Spender to Gayer neatly taped to half title. INSCRIBED from Humphrey to Gayer. Cloth, 23x16. Good copy in slightly sunned and chipped dust wrapper. Delightful surrealist style picture with a decalcomania image. Humphrey was the brother of Stephen and one of the founders of Mass Observation.

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Book number: 32694

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STAPLEDON Olaf

Star Maker

London, Methuen, 1937. xi preface by Stapledon, 339pp. Wraps with design by Bip Pares, 19x13. Faint edgewear to covers, very light foxing on half title, spine a little darkened, rest of contents nice and bright and binding tight. Wraps edition with the Bip Pares design on the front.

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Book number: 33102

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STEWART Carol (chosen by) and COLQUHOUN Robert (original lithographs)

Poems of Sleep and Dream.

London, Frederick Muller, 1947. vii, 127pp plus 16 lithos. 21x15, yellow and black pictoral cloth, illustrated dw. Some offsetting to front end papers from dust wrapper else very good copy in good unclipped dust wrapper.

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Book number: 35002

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STUART Vincent (ed)

Harvest: Travel (vol 1)

London, Castle Press 1948 67pp, 23 bw illustrations. 25x19, black cloth, illustrated dw. Good, in slightly tatty wrapper, now protected. Some marks to cloth, contents clean. Collection of writings and art, linked by theme. Contributors to this first volume include Campbell, Peake, Ravilious, Sackville-West et al.

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Book number: 34417

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STUART Vincent (ed)

Harvest: Household (vol 2)

London, Castle Press 1950 82pp, 24 bw illustrations. 25x19, grey cloth, illustrated dw. Good, in slightly tatty wrapper. Collection of writings and art, linked by theme. Contributors to this second volume include Day Lewis, Ardizzone et al.

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Book number: 34418

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TAMBIMUTTU (ed)

Poetry: London - New York (vol 1, no. 1)

New York, Ariel Press 1956 48pp 25x19, stapled, illustrated wraps. Slightly browned covers near the spine, otherwise very good for slightly fragile item. First issue of the second of Tambimuttu's influential periodicals (the other was Poetry London); this issue has works by Campbell, Read, Auden among others. The cover illustration by Alexander Calder is striking; Tambimuttu used the Lyrebird as the name of a later publishing venture.

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Book number: 34419

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TANDRUP Harald (translated by AG Chater)

Jonah and the Voice

London, Peter Davis 1937 (orginally published as Profeten Jonas Privat) 336pp 21x14, blue cloth. Cloth a little sunned and marked, very good thus. Originally published in the author's native Danish, this story based on Jonah and the Whale was published in its American edition as "The Reluctant Prophet". Tandrup working for the Nazi-sympathising newspaper Fædrelandet during the occupation of Denmark, and at the end of WWII was sentenced to three years in prison for his activities. Somewhat ironically one key accusation against him was that he had written articles blaming the Soviet Union rather than the Nazis for the Katyn Massacre, something that was eventually confirmed to be true.

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Book number: 36799

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THOMAS D M

Lilith-prints

Second Aeon Publications, 1974. 18pp inc illustrations. Stapled card covers, 21x15. Good copy. Slight creasing to top rh corner, three lines crossed out on last page where duplicate verse repeat printed in error.

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Book number: 32649

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THOMAS D M

The Shaft

Gillingham, Arc, 1973. c18pp inc illustrations by Alan Davis. Card covers, 22x15. Very good copy in matching dust wrapper. Limited edition of 400 copies.

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Book number: 32822

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TREECE Henry

The Exiles

London, Faber, 1952. 78pp. Boards, 22x14. End papers browned,very good copy in dust wrapper which is sunned on spine and with a few minor chips.

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Book number: 32713

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TREECE Henry

Hunter Hunted

London, Faber, 1957. 229pp inc illustrations by Richard Kennedy. Cloth, 21x15. Slight spotting on top edge else very good copy in clipped and faintly browned dust wrapper.

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Book number: 32711

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WEBB Jon (ed), WEBB Louise (Assoc Ed)

The Outsider, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Spring, 1963)

New Orleans, Loujon Press 1963 138pp, photographs, illustrations, tissue guards etc. 24x16, illustrated wraps. Slight rubbing and some small creases to the wraps, tape (original?) to end papers, contents very good for fragile item. Third issue of the seminal journal from the great Loujon Press; the contents list is a who's who of radical writing of the time - Miller, Burroughs, Creeley et al. Bukowski - crowned 'Outsider of the Year' - is featured on the cover and inside.

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Book number: 35004

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WEBB Jon (ed), WEBB Louise (Assoc Ed)

The Outsider, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer, 1962)

New Orleans, Loujon Press 1962 112pp, photographs, illustrations, tissue guards etc. 24x16, stapled illustrated card wraps, now protected. First tissue guard slightly loose at staples, some holes (acid damage? possibly intentional in this hand made production) to this and first page, slight browning to page edges, otherwise good for decidedly fragile item. Second issue of the counter-culture journal, featuring work by Kerouac, Frumkin, Burroughs et al.

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Book number: 35005

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WEBB Jon (ed), WEBB Louise (Assoc Ed)

The Outsider, Vol. 2, No. 4/5 (Winter 1968/69)

Tucson, Loujon Press 1962 192pp, photographs, illustrations, tissue guards etc. Portrait by F McBride bound in. Loosely inserted is 'sealed in' still life of flora picked near Geronimo's grave by Gypsy Lou Webb, flowers sealed in brittle plastic. 26x18, illustrated boards. Substantial foxing to boards, bumping to top and bottom of spine, contents including the insert very good. Final issue of this famous periodical, a tribute to Kenneth Patchen with work by Miller, Ginsberg, Bukowski et al. One of only 500 of the special hardcover issue made.

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Book number: 35006

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