Recent Acquisitions

  1. [WALLPAPER.]

    A substantial album of printed wallpaper...

    France, 1923–24.

    A delightful sample album of French wallpapers...

    £4750

  2. MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.

    Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...

    chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].

    Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...

    £150

  3. PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.

    Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1928.

    First edition of Richmond’s controversial...

    £400

  4. TREVLYN, Valda.

    High Death.

    Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.

    One of 100 copies of this poem on death...

    £75

  5. MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

    Beyond this Limit …

    [London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

    First edition. This was Lewis’s only...

    £75

  6. AIKEN, Conrad.

    Thee.

    New York, George Braziller, 1967.

    First trade edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey...

    £250

  7. WATSON, Sheila.

    ‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the...

    The recordings included are three sections...

    £50

  8. POUND, Ezra.

    Cantos 110–116 …

    printed & published by the Fuck You /...

    Unauthorised edition (unsurprisingly),...

    £150

  9. REXROTH, Kenneth.

    An Autobiographical Novel …

    Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company,...

    First edition, inscribed ‘In friendship...

    £300

  10. AUDEN, Wystan Hugh.

    Louis MacNeice, a memorial Address, delivered...

    Privately printed for Faber & Faber, [1963].

    First edition, one of 250 copies, of Auden’s...

    £150

  11. LEE, Laurie.

    Cider with Rosie … with drawings by John Ward.

    London, Hogarth Press, 1959.

    First edition, second impression, the author’s...

    £1000

  12. [SASSOON, Siegfried.] SURTEES, [Robert Smith]; Lionel GOUGH, editor.

    Hunting Scenes from Surtees.

    London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.

    Sassoon’s proof copy of Hunting Scenes...

    £850

  13. MURDOCH, Iris.

    Sartre. Romantic Rationalist.

    Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1953.

    First edition, the first published book...

    £200

  14. AIKEN, Conrad.

    Ushant, an Essay.

    New York & Boston, Duell, Sloan and Pearce...

    First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey...

    £300

  15. LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

    Le Père Noël supplicié.

    [Paris, Chantenay, 1952.]

    Rare first separate appearance, a presentation...

    £250

  16. REYES, Alfonso.

    Corrected carbon typescript, signed, of...

    [Buenos Aires?, c. 1952–3.]

    Corrected carbon typescript of Alfonso...

    £1000

  17. ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD

    The Authoritarian Personality.

    New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.

    First edition of this groundbreaking work...

    £225

  18. KAVAN, Anna; Karl Theodor BLUTH.

    The Horse’s Tale.

    London, Gaberbocchus Press, [1949].

    Uncommon first edition of this novel authored...

    £850

  19. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    America and Cosmic Man.

    London and Brussels, Nicholas and Watson...

    First edition, second state binding as...

    £200

  20. WILLIAMS, William Carlos.

    Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].

    Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]

    First collected edition of Books One...

    £1250