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[Riverside Studios]
A Fabulous Collection of Material Relating to the Appearances of Elisabeth Welch, Adelaide Hall and the Harlem Renaissance at the Riverside Studios, London.
Various dates, mostly 1980s.
1: PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL:
i) 35 original photographic negatives of ELISABETH WELCH performing at Riverside in April 1982.
ii) 67 original photographic negatives of ADELAIDE HALL... [more]
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GREENE, Graham
1 pp. TLS to David Gothard, co-founder of the Riverside Studios, London
18th August 1988.
1 pp. TLS, 200 x 150 mm, on Greene's headed notepaper bearing his Antibes address. Original envelope not present.
Greene notes in his letter Gothard's recent move from the Riverside Studios to... [more]
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GRAY, Spalding
2 pp. ALS TO DAVID GOTHARD, CO-FOUNDER OF THE RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON
7 June 1985.
2 pp. ALS, 280 x 215 mm, in the original envelope, written on the stationery of the Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis.
Wooster Group co-founder and monologist Spalding Gray had met David Gothard at the... [more]
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CUSK, Rachel
Arlington Park
London: Faber, 2006
8vo., pp. 240. Original grey boards, lettered in black on spine.
First edition. Shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize.
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O'CASEY, Eileen
Cheerio, Titan
London: Papermac, 1991
8vo, pp. 148. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Fine.
First UK edition, first published in the US in 1989. The book isan account of the friendship between George Bernard Shaw and Sean ... [more]
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SARRAUTE, Nathalie
Tropisms And The Age Of Suspicion
London: John Calder, 1963
8vo, pp. 136. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition, inscribed by Sarraute on the half-title: 'A David Gothard, en souvenir très amical. Nathalie Sarraute.'... [more]
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Meredith, George
One Of Our Conquerors
London: Chapman and Hall, 1891
3 vols. 8vos., pp. 302, 320 and 307. Original blue coarse cloth boards, tooling in black to front panels, lettered in gilt on spines, blindstamped publisher's device to rear panels. Edges uncut.... [more]
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COCTEAU, Jean
Le Mystère Laïc
Paris: Editions des Quatres Chemins 1928
Small 8vo, pp. 81. Original stiff paper wrappers and glassine jacket.
First edition. Copy no. 650 of a not especially limited edition of 3000 copies, but a superior example.
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[Obelisk Press] PRESTON, William
Journal In Mexico
Paris: N.p. [Obelisk Press], N.d. [?1931]
Large 8vo., pp. 40. 2 pp. note on the career of William Preston bound in to preliminaries (present in all copies examined). Rebound in leather, original pale blue paper wrappers bound... [more]
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NESS, Patrick
The Knife Of Never Letting Go
London: Walker Books, 2008
8vo., pp. 479. Original illustrated boards, covered by the original transparent dustwrapper lettered in red.
First edition of the first book in the Chaos Walking trilogy, the... [more]
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PETERS, Adam
Business As Usual
Paris: Week End Books, 1958
Small octavo, pp. 192. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, published simultaneously by the Ophelia Press (an Olympia imprint) with the authorship creditied to 'Soliman Peters'.... [more]
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AMIS, Kingsley
The King's English
London: Harper Collins, 1997
Large 8vo., pp. 270. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
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MAD JACK
Emilienne
Paris: Edition de L'Etoile, 1954
Octavo, pp. 137. Original grey stiff paper wrappers, lettered in blue on front panel and spine.
First edition.
A second edition of this title, published later in the 1950s and... [more]
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DEXTER, Erle
Mabel's Torments
Paris: Oceanic Press, 1958
Small octavo, pp. 188. Original grey stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black.
First edition.
Oceanic Press was established in 1958 as a rival to Maurice Girodias's Olympia... [more]
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[MARIEL, Pierre] ANONYMOUS
L'Amour Et La Magie
Paris: Editions Prima, 1936
Large octavo, pp. 447. French text. Original pictorial paper wrappers.
Second edition, the first published by Les Editions Georges-Anquetil in 1926 in an edition of just one hundred... [more]
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CRANE, Harold
Pursuit Of Happiness
Paris: Oceanic Press, 1959
Small octavo, pp. 199. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Two books bound in one : the title story, and Success Story. Both are rubbish, and of quite outstanding... [more]
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WILSON, Mary
The Voluptuous Night
Paris: Mediterranean Press, 1957
Small octavo, pp. 167. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition.
The title story is a pornographic translation of the Vivant Demon's story Point de Lendemain,... [more]
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[ANONYMOUS]
Histoire de Mary et d'Arabella ou Les Voluptes Secretes d'Un Debauche
Paris: Le Serail Royal, 1952
Octavo, pp. 129. Original grey paper wrappers, lettered in red and black on front panel.
Third edition, the first two having been published in the 1890s.
This edition was... [more]
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CLEAVER, Eldridge
Post-Prison Writings And Speeches
London: Cape, 1969
Octavo, pp. 211. Original blue boards, lettered in gold on spine.
First U.K. edition, preceded by the Random House (U.S.) edition of the same year.
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MILLER, Henry
Plexus
Paris: Olympia Press 1953
2 vols. 8vos, pp. 342 and 348. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First English-language edition, preceded only by the French translation published by Corrêa a year before in an edition of just ... [more]
