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[ed. SANDERS, Ed]
Fuck You
New York: Fuck You Press, 1962
4to, 30 tangerine mimeographed leaves, unpaginated, secured by staples running the length of left edge.
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WILMOT, John, Earl Of Rochester
Sodom Or The Quintessence Of Debauchery.
Paris: The Olympia Press 1957
12mo, pp.123. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black.
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[pseud. MATTHEWS, Ronald] COUSINS, Sheila
To Beg I Am Ashamed
Paris: Obelisk Press, 1938
8vo, pp. 270. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black on front and rear panels and spine. Edges uncut.
Second edition, first Obelisk edition. The publisher's note on [vi] states: 'An attack against the book, in the London press, of unprecedented ferocity and vindictiveness caused its withdrawal before publication [by Routledge]. This, the Obelisk edition, published in May 1938, is therefore the first effective edition.' Despite being withdrawn before publication, a few copies of the Routledge edition have survived.
It is sometimes claimed, usually by bookdealers, that this book was written by Graham Greene. It wasn't. Although Greene helped his friend by chipping in with a telling phrase here and there -- phrases he would later quote approvingly when he contrived to review the book -- To Beg I Am Ashamed is almost entirely the work of Ronald Matthews.
A very nice copy of a fragile, cheaply made book.
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[Olympia Press][pseud. TROCCHI, Alexander] LENGEL, Frances
The Carnal Days Of Helen Seferis
Paris: Atlantic Library, 1954
8vo, pp. 183. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. The pornographic sequel to Trocchi's first book, Helen And... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BARKER, Pat
The Eye In The Door
London: Viking, 1993
8vo, pp. 280. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
The second volume in Barker's... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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KING, Jessie M.
The City Of The West
Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1911
Small 8vo, unpaginated. Original deluxe binding, boards lettered in gilt on spine, and gilt illustration and lettering to front panel. Edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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DUFF, Charles
A Handbook On Hanging
London: Grant Richards and Philip Sainsbury at the Cayme Press, 1928
Small 8vo, pp. 128. Original pictorial boards with a gallows design. Printed paper label to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WILLIAMS, Kit
Masquerade
London: Cape, 1979
4to, unpaginated. Original illustrated boards, no dustwrapper, as issued.
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COOPER, Susan
The Dark Is Rising
London: Chatto & Windus, 1973
8vo, pp. 216. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
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MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Twelve: The Terrible Revenge Of Fred Fu Manchu (announced as Fred Fu Manchu And His Bamboo Saxophone)
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series Six, Number Twelve, first broadcast on 6 December 1955.
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[illus. FINI, Leonor] [intro. PAULHAN, Jean] [pseud. DESCLOS, An
Histoire d'O
Paris: Aux Dépens De La Compagnie Des Bibliophiles, 1962
Folio, 184 pp. in loose signatures. Black velvet slipcase, ivory spine label lettered in gilt.
Copy no. 112 of 350 copies, on Vélin d'Arches. French text.
The Story of O was controversial from the moment it was published in 1954; sixty years on, an
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[EROTICA] [illus. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey] ARISTOPHANES
The Lysistrata Of Aristophanes:
Paris: Privately Printed [?Vendôme Press], 1931
Large 8vo, pp. 61. Loose signatures laid in to stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red on front panel and spine. Unopened. Card... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[HANCOCK, Tony] GALTON, Ray and SIMPSON, Alan
Hancock's Half Hour: Series 1, Episode 14, 'The Sheikh'
N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC], 1955
36 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition.
Episode 14 of the first series of the peerless radio... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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STRUTHER, Jan
Mrs. Miniver
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940
8vo, pp. 288. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
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SYKES, Eric; MILLIGAN, Spike; BISHOP, Michael; PARK, Phil
Cinderella
London: N.p.[Moss Empires Ltd.], 1953
Mimeographed playscript, bound with brown ribbon in outsize red card covers.
First edition. ERIC SYKES' COPY, WITH HIS NAME TO TITLE PAGE.
This version of Cinderella was staged at the London Palladium at Christmas in 1953. It was the making of Julie Andrews, who on the strength of her work in this show was cast in the Broadway production of The Boy Friend, a huge hit which launched her international career. Also among the cast were Max Bygraves, Richard Hearne (Mr. Pastry), and the future Dr. Who Jon Pertwee, who played one of the Ugly Sisters. The reception for the show was generally good, although some critics questioned the its occasional forays into offbeat, off-colour humour. (Step forward, Milligan....).
A unique copy.
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[ed. CHIGNON, Niles]
The Camp Followers' Guide
New York: Avon, 1965
8vo, pp. 124. Original pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Yellow text block edges.
First edition.
'Camp is coming in like King Kong, so... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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PERELMAN, S. J.
The Ill-Tempered Clavichord
London: Max Reinhardt, 1953
8vo, pp. 211. Original green boards, lettered in black on spine.
First UK edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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MACLAREN-ROSS
The Funny Bone
London: Elek Books, 1956
8vo, pp. 184. Original dark green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
A collection of essays, short stories and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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De FORREST, Michael
The Gay Year
New York: Woodford Press, 1949
8vo, pp. 267. Original black cloth, lettered in yellow on spine.
First edition.
While use of the word 'gay' to denote homosexuality can be traced back at least to the 1920s and... [more]
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LOGAN, Anne M.
Wine And Wine Cooking
Richmond: Media General 1972
Large 8vo, pp. 328. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition.
