APPLIED PHOTOGRAPHY NO.10

Applied Photography 10: Photography at the Fair

Eastman Kodak Company, New York, October, 1934. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition. Card wrappers showing minor shelf wear. Exquisite black & white photographs. "A magazine of noteworthy examples of photography as applied to the major problems of industrial management and market development". [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]. Very Good.

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Book number: 19732

EX-LEGIONNAIRE 1384.

The Arab Patrol.

Sampson, Low & Marston, London [1935?]. Hardcover. Undated and probably a reprint. 8vo. 310pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With sixteen photographic plates. Boards very lightly marked and the backstrip a little faded. A trace of light browning and spotting to the endpapers. A slightly dusty yet very good copy, lacking a dust wrapper. An uncommon account by 'Ex-Legionnaire 1384' [i.e. David Harvey John Jones, later John Barrington] of his behind-the-scenes activities in Algeria (the author was an Englishman serving with the French Foreign Legion, he deserted in Syria 1926 with several comrades, was captured and eventually released and returned to England). Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: BUL90500

REX WHISTLER. CHRISTABEL ABERCONWAY

The Story of Mr Korah. With illustrations by Rex Whistler.

Michael Joseph, London, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. Quarter-bound paper-covered cloth lettered in gold at spine and with a small gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. With three full-page tipped-in Whistler illustrations in colour and a further sixteen line drawings. Upper extremities of boards fractionally faded, and with the faintest hint of spotting to the upper margins of three leaves. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly tanned at spine panel, edges minimally rubbed and with several tiny nicks but no loss. One of Whistler's final projects, eventually published ten years after his death; the three colour plates were the only drawings he had completed, the line drawings here being his preliminary sketches. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: BC13195

LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE. (HENRY MOORE).

contributes his poem 'Ceremonial Ode' and a holograph facsimile of a hitherto unprinted address to the Leeds University publication Verse Anthology 1924-1948. Complied by the editorial staff of the Gryphon and with a dust wrapper design by Henry Moore. .

Leeds University, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 80pp. Decorated paper-covered boards reproducing the dust wrapper design, lettered in gold at spine. Endpapers browned and lightly spotted, with a touch of further spotting to one or two preliminary and concluding leaves. Former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in the specially commission Henry Moore dust wrapper, price-clipped, and lightly tanned, chafed and soiled. Other contributors include Herbert Read, Vernon Scannell, Robin Skelton, T.R.Hodgson, Storm Jameson, Kenneth Muir &c, and illustrations and decorations are provided by Eric Westbrook, D.P.Henry, Maurice Walker and Robin Skelton. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: ARC91638

LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE

The Sale of Saint Thomas.

Privately published by the author, Dymock, 1911. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 29pp sewn into lettered card wrappers. The wrappers splitting and tender at the natural fold, and a little rubbed and nicked at the yapped edges. Several preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted and with a contemporary date (1912) neatly inked to the head of the title leaf. A good, bright if slightly handled copy of the author's early verse play, the second that he self-published [in an edition of circa 500 copies]. With a printed dedication "To Arthur Ransome. My Friend". [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]. Good.

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Book number: BC15647

MARINE ABRAMOVIC, ART IN RUINS, JAMES CASEBERE, BILL CULBERT, KEN LUM, THOMAS RUFF, KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO &C.

Art Cliché. The catalogue of a 1986-87 exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

Victoria Miro Gallery, London. 1986. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Stapled card wrappers. A brief unaccredited introduction precedes twelve reproductions, in colour where required. Just a trace of discolouration and spotting to wrapper extremities, yet fine internally. Includes reproductions of works by Marine Abramovic & Ulay, Art in Ruins [Hannah Vowles and Glyn Banks], James Casebere, Glegg & Guttmann, Bill Culbert, Thomas Locher, Ken Lum, Thomas Ruff, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Verdi Yahooda. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]. Near Fine.

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Book number: JUL90419

DANNIE ABSE

Ask the Bloody Horse. Poems.

Hutchinson, London, 1986. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition (first printing). Card wrappers (never issued in casebound format). Slim 8vo. 56pp. In fine state. Fine.

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Book number: KP90483

DANNIE ABSE

Collected Poems 1948-1976. (SIGNED)

Hutchinson, London, 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First edition - the card wrapper issue. This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. A virtually fine copy. Over one hundred poems selected from the following collections: 'Walking Under Water' (1952), 'Tenants of the House' (1957), 'Poems, Golders Green' (1962), 'A Small Desperation' (1968) and 'Funland and Other Poems' (1973), plus thirteen new poems here making their first bookform appearance. Near Fine.

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Book number: BC14011

DANNIE ABSE

edits and introduces the first (and only) issue of the periodical 'Verse'. No. 1.

Deacon Press, London winter, 1947. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition. Small 8vo. 39pp. Card wrappers, somewhat tanned, dust soiled and just a little tender. Former owner gift inscription inked to the head of the title leaf. A good copy of the only issue of Abse's short-lived poetry periodical (issued a year before his first book), which includes a brief editorial comment and contributions from John Heath-Stubbs (writing about Hart Crane), Kenneth Patchen, Wrey Gardiner, Fred Marnau, James Kirkup and others. Uncommon. Miller & Price B139. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]. Good.

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DANNIE ABSE

Funland and Other Poems.

Hutchinson, London, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 71pp. Maroon boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge spotted else a fine copy in very lightly edge worn non-price-clipped dust wrapper, publisher's red colouring a little faded at spine panel. The author's sixth collection of verse. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: KP90481

EDWARD THOMAS. DANNIE ABSE.

Modern Poets in Focus: 1. Edited by Dannie Abse.

The Woburn Press, London, 1973. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. The second edition, and first casebound issue (originally issued in 1971 as a paperback only). 8vo. 145pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Upper board lifting a fraction. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just fractionally faded at the spine panel. Verse selections from six poets, each preceded with a five to seven page critical essay by Abse, occasionally augmented with prose by the subject. The poets featured are Edward Thomas (twelve poems), Ted Hughes (ten poems), David Wright (ten poems), Sidney Keyes (ten poems), Douglas Dunn (ten poems) and Herbert Williams (ten poems). Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: ARC92790

DANNIE ABSE

The Poetry of Dannie Abse. Critical Essays and Reminiscences. Edited and with an introduction by Joseph Cohen. (SIGNED)

Robson Books Ltd, London, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by Dannie Abse at the head of the title page. 8vo. 187pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A light but stubborn crease to the fore edge of ten adjacent text leaves, resulting in a little lifting to the upper board. A very good copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, with a new price sticker affixed over the original price printed at the base of the wrapper flap. Includes contributions by Donald Davie, Alan Brownjohn, Vernon Scannell, Jeremy Hooker, Peter Porter, John Cassidy, D.J.Enright, Barbara Hardy, John Ormond and others. Very Good/Near Fine.

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Book number: SPE90242

DANNIE ABSE

Remembrance of Crimes Past. Poems 1986-1989.

Hutchinson, London, 1990. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition (first printing). Card wrappers (never issued in casebound format). Slim 8vo. 56pp. In fine state. Fine.

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Book number: KP90484

DANNIE ABSE

A Strong Does of Myself. (INSCRIBED)

Hutchinson, London, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 220pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at spine. A single tiny area of blemishing to the head of the rear board, else in fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A mosaic of autobiographical essays, some reprinted from periodicals but a third written specially for this appearance. Near Fine/Fine.

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Book number: BC13877

DANNIE ABSE

Three Questor Plays. (SIGNED)

Scorpion Press, Lowestoft, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author. 8vo. 135pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at spine. Covers a little spotted and flecked in places and very slightly bumped at some extremities. Quite a good, bright copy in dust-marked and slightly frayed dust wrapper. Name of former owner. Comprises 'House of Cowards', 'Gone' and 'In The Cage'. Good/Good.

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Book number: 16570