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London: Askin Publishers, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Askin Publishers, 1976/ 1921. Quarto, [xii], 44 pages plus 11 plates. Papered boards; a minor production flaw affects two early leaves, resulting in a small hole in one blank margin and a similar surface abrasion on the next one; edges and rear endpaper very slightly foxed; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly bumped and rubbed, with a short tear to the head of the rear hinge. Number 407 of 500 copies.

Thame, Oxfordshire, Mandrake Press Ltd., 1990.. Folio. 78 p., with frontispiece, half-title, illustrated title-page, and 12 other illustrations.Original boards, gilt title to spine in illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy.. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Signed presentation inscription by Keith Richmond.

UK: Fulgur Limited, 2012. Limited to 600 copies only, hand-numbered. A FINE COPY, uncirculated, in custom cloth with flourishes, illustrated end papers, and a fine dust jacket. This work is the most biographically significant of all Spare's published works. Often obscure, magical and fragmentary, it invites exploration through what Spare termed 'the labyrinth of the alphabet'. The recent discovery of Austin Spare's original "Conceptual Folio", or Prospectus, once owned by the respected writer, E.M. Forster, reveals an unseen series of extreme magico-erotic drawings, termed by Spare as 'blasphemous Ideographs', which provide an important key to understanding his 'secret ritual of Self-Love'. For the first time, readers are provided with an excellent issue of the 1921 first edition, together with, a full color facsimile of the "Conceptual Folio", which embodies such explicit drawings that publication was rejected by the Morland Press in 1921. With… Read More

London: Fulgur Limited, 2012. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Tall quarto. Limited to 600- standard copies bound in brown cloth, with original dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w and color. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The recent discovery of Spare's original Conceptual Folio for the book, once owned by the respected writer E.M. Forster, has revealed an unseen series of powerful magico-erotic drawings - termed by Spare 'blasphemous Ideographs' - that provide an important key to understanding the 'secret ritual of Self-Love' that underlies this evocative and deeply personal work. This new edition features a high quality facsimile of the first edition from 1921 plus a full color facsimile of the Conceptual Folio. Designed, edited and compiled by Robert Ansell.

UK: Fulgur Limited, 2012. Limited to 88 hand-numbered copies only. A FINE COPY, quarter bound in true vellum and custom cloth, with flourishes, and slipcased. The "Focus" is arguably the most biographically significant of all Spare's published works. Often obscure, magical and fragmentary, it invites exploration of a strange Nietzschean landscape through what Spare termed 'the labyrinth of the alphabet.' But the recent discovery of Spare's original Conceptual Folio for the book, once owned by the respected writer E.M. Forster, has revealed an unseen series of powerful magico-erotic drawings - termed by Spare 'blasphemous Ideographs' - that provide an important key to understanding the 'secret ritual of Self-Love' that underlies this evocative and deeply personal work. This new issue of The Focus of Life provides readers with a high quality facsimile of the 1921 first edition, together with a full color facsimile of the newly discovered Conceptual Folio for… Read More