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J.M. Dent & Sons ltd., 1937. Very Good. First edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, Ravilious blind stamp design to upper board. Top edge brown. Ravilious repeating endpapers. Faded spine, POI to front pastedown, else, a clean and tidy copy.
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English Religious Verse: An anthology (Everyman's Library)
by LACEY MAY, G. (compiler)
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Metamorphoses of an American A cycle of youth 2003-2008.
by LAGERFELD, Karl (photographer & author); SISCHY, Ingrid and HARLECH, Amanda (authors); [KROENIG, Brad]
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G�ttingen: Steidl, 2008. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Four volumes in original grey slipcase. 8vos, burgeoning with b/w photographs of Kroenig; short essays to the rear of vols. II, III & IV. Navy blue cloth, spines lettered in silver, different b/w paper portrait labels pasted to upper boards. Grey endpapers. Blue ribbon markers. Small mark to upper board of vol. II; fraying to ribbon ends. Slipcase lettered and illustrated in black: a little soiled and scored. Near fine/ very good. A sharp set of Lagerfeld's longitudinal portrait series in celebration of "All American" model, Brad Kroenig. "In a way Lagerfeld's project is like the epic work of the 19th century photographers of the American West, people such as Carleton Watkins or Timothy O'Sullivan who set out to record the American landscape, before industrialization changed it forever" (Ingrid Sischy)
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Prick Up Your Ears: The biograpy of Joe Orton
by LAHR, John
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London: Allen Lane/ Penguin, 1978. Near Fine. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. 8vo, pp. 360 + Patrick Procktor's frontis and b/w plates. Attractively bound in flecked black and white linen, reflective pink lettering to spine. Pushing to spine ends, else, clean, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: edgewear, creasing to top edge, spine sunned. Near fine/ very good
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The Ballad of the Sad Young Men: And other verse
by LANDESMAN, Fran; [SMART, Elizabeth]
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London: Polytantric Press, 1975. Stiff card wrappers. Good+. FIRST UK EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 59, [1]. Original fawn card wrappers, lettered in black, laminated. Well-handled: laminate lifting and a bit grubby at edges, creased, mark to front wrapper. Top edge foxed. Inscribed enthusiastically by Landesman to half title in black felt-tip: 'For Elizabeth, I loved "By Grand Central Station". Yours, Fran,' with Landesman's London address written in blue biro to verso of front cover, toned. Else, clean. Good+ A fabulous association copy, uniting two significant mid-century North American poets, who lived unconventional and creative lives. The "godmother of hip," Fran Landesman (1927�2011) was an American lyricist, poet and performer, who played a pivotal role in bringing Beat music � and the first and only Beat musical � to wider audiences; 'Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most' and 'Ballad of the Sad Young Men', became jazz standards, recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan,…
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Encounter: 25th Anniversary Number (Cover by Henry Moore). October 1978, Vol. LI, No. 4.
by LASKY, Melvin J. (editor); THWAITE, Anthony (editor); MOORE, Henry (front wrapper design)
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1978. Good. 25cm, pp. [144] + b/w illustrations. Illustrated paper wraps. Creasing to spine, 1cm closed tear/flap to spine head. Tanned edges, toned pages, else, clean. Contributors include: William Trevor, Peter Porter, Gunter Grass, Hugh Thomas, Philip Toynbee, David Lodge, D.J. Enright, Tom Paulin, R.S. Thomas, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Lady Chatterley's Friends: A new sequal [sic] to Lady Chatterley's lover and Lady Chatterley's husbands
by [LAWRENCE, D. H.]; Anon [ROTH, Samuel]; [WOOD, Clement]
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New York: William Faro, Inc., 1932. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 216. Black buckram, black-lettered paper title label to spine. Wear to extremities, title label toned and chipped. Toned and gently shaken, front hinge starting, a few nicks to edges and dog-eared pages, off-setting to pp. 90-1 from item now removed. Else, clean. A good copy of an early C20th erotic "sequel". Jisc LSD lists only two holdings in the UK: UoCambridge and UoNottingham (part of the George Lazarus bequest). Roberts and Poplawski Appendix I, A:VI William Faro, Inc. was the short-lived trade imprint of infamous American publisher Samuel Roth (1893-1974), who established the company in 1930 and issued books through 1934, with the firm going bankrupt in 1933. Alongside its Ardent Classics and Modern Amatory Classics reprint series, Faro published sequels to its successful pirated editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover. In their 'Appendix I, A: Parodies of and sequels to Lady Chatterley's Lover,' Roberts and Poplawski describe a…
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Pornography and Obscenity
by LAWRENCE, D.H.
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Faber & Faber Limited, 1929. Good. Criterion Miscellany - No. 5. 8vo, pp. 32. Orange cloth with gilt stamped lettering to upper board. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Boards well-used - grubby and rubbed. Edges spotted, occasionally into top and bottom margins. Endpapers tanned, discrete POI to ffep. Blotching to bottom margin of pp. 9-15. Else, clean. A good reading copy of the rarer cloth first edition of Lawrence's riposte to censors and those who took offense at his fiction.
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Miss Marjoribanks. Chronicles of Carlingford. With an Introduction by Q. D. Leavis.
by LEAVIS, Q. D. (Introduction); OLIPHANT, Margaret; [RUTHERFORD, Andrew]
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London: The Zodiac Press, 1969. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST THUS, INSCRIBED & INITIALLED BY Q. D. LEAVIS. 8vo. Attractive original mauve patterned boards, title panel blocked in blue to spine, lettered and decorated in gilt. Gentle pushing to spine ends. Inscribed in black biro by Leavis to ffep: "To Professor A. Rutherford/ With kindest regards from/ Q. D. L./ November 3, 1969." Else, clean, bright and tight. In Gordon Davey's striking illustrated dust jacket: gently toned, spine faintly sunned, creased at spine ends, small nick to head, mark to rear panel. Near fine/ very good A lovely copy of an attractive edition, uniting two eminent literary scholars at the heights of their careers; unusual inscribed. Queenie Dorothy Leavis (1906-1981) was an English literary scholar, best known for her Fiction and the Reading Public (1932) and her subsequent collaborations with her husband, F R Leavis, including co-editing and contributions to Scrutiny. A brilliant and acerbic critic, especially of the so-called…
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Exhibition of Chinese Pottery, Bronzes, Painting, etc. Kindly lent by Messrs. John Sparks.
by [Leeds Art Gallery and Temple Newsam Mansion Committee]; DAVIS, Frank (Introduction)
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[Leeds]: [Leeds City Art Gallery & Temple Newsam], 1940. Paperback. Good+. Side-stapled pamphlet (21.5 cm), pp. 24. Original buff card wrappers, lettered in black and blue. Shelf-soiled, extensive stain to front wrapper. Some tanning and underscoring in pencil to Davis' 'An Introduction to Chinese Art'. Good+ Programme for Temple Newsam's Chinese Art Exhibition (28 March�11 May 1942).
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Stephen Spender: A life in Modernism
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London: Duckworth, 1999. Hardback. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, incl. b/w plates. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to bottom edge and corners, else, clean, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: a little edgewear. A lovely, fresh copy. Near fine/ near fine
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Dusty Springfield: A life in music
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London: Robson Books, 2001. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. POI to ffep, else, clean, tight and tidy. In the original dust jacket. A pleasing copy.
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The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s
by Leff, Leonard J.; Simmons, Jerold L.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990. Very Good. 8vo. (24cm), pp. xiv, 350 + b/w plates. Grey cloth boards with pink lettering to spine. In very good dust jacket. A pleasing copy.
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Along the Years: Poems, 1911-1937
by LEFTWICH, Joseph; [FRANKEL, Ruth]
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London: Robert Anscombe & Company, Ltd, 1937. Cloth. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, no. 215 of 750. 8vo, incl. b/w frontis portrait of Leftwich. Original blue cloth, paper title label to spine, lettered in blue (loss, incl. to printed letters). Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Edgewear, bruising to extremities. PO pencil notes to ffep, marks to rear endpaper, beneath signed and numbered details on the limitation page, Leftwich has written in blue ink: "For Ruth Frankel/ April 4th. 1953." Very occasional underlining. Else, clean. Very good One of the founding 'Whitechapel Boys' (and its key chronicler), Joseph Leftwich (1892�1983; born Joseph Lefkowitz) was a Jewish critic, poet, translator and expert on Jewish and Yiddish literature. He translated works by Sholem Asch, Max Brod, I. L. Peretz, Zalman Schneour, Zalman Shazar and Stefan Zweig. In response to the rise of the Nazis Leftwich wrote What Will Happen to the Jews? (1936) and, in collaboration with A. K.…
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The London Magazine: A monthly review of literature (January) 7:1
by LEHMANN, John (editor); PLOMMER, William; READ, Herbert; RHYS, Jean (contributors)
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London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1960. Very Good. 8vo. Green paper wrappers. Spine gently sunned, faintly soiled, PO name in pencil to rear wrapper. Edges foxed. Else, clean and tight. Very good.
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The Swan In The Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life
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Virago, 1985. Good. The 1985 Virago reprint, revised and with a new epilogue by the author. Trade paperback. With b/w illustrations. Edgewear, rubbing to spine. Tanned edges. Else, clean and tight.
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A Sea-Grape Tree (VMC)
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London: Virago Press Limited, 1985. Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. Edgewear and creasing, tanned. Else, internally clean and tidy. Good+. VMC no. 95
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The Echoing Grove
by LEHMANN, Rosamond; WILKINSON, Gerald (jacket design)
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London: Collins, 1953. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Bottom edge untrimmed. Slight lean to spine, pushing to spine ends, light wear to extremities, edges toned. Faint offsetting to endpapers, else, clean and tight. In Gerald Wilkinson's charming original dust jacket: spine and rear panel toned with marks, rubbed at joints and edges, a little creased, chipping to spine ends. Very good/ very good A nice copy of Lehmann's sixth novel.
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Rays of Truth: A series of essays and articles chiefly relating to the religious aspect of astrology. (Reprinted from Modern Astrology)
by LEO, Bessie; [The Women's Printing Society]
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London: L.N. Fowler & Co. or Modern Astrology Office/ Women's Printing Society, Limited., 1909. Good. Second Edition. 8vo, pp. viii, [306], [4 adverts]. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, spine a little sunned. Bump to top edge of bottom board. Edges and front foxed. POIs to ffep, half-title toned. Closed tear to margin of final page. Else, clean and tidy. A tight copy. Good+ In 1915, along with husband, Alan � "the first modern astrologer" � Bessie Leo (1858�1931) founded the Astrological Lodge of London. Like her husband, who was also a prominent Theosophist, she published widely on astrology and was key to its promotion in the West. Bessio Leo was President of the Astrological Institute, as well as the resurrected Astrological Society (see Kim Farnell). Based in Brick Street, Piccadily, The Women's Printing Society was founded by Emma Paterson and Emily Faithful; it was incorporated as a co-operative in 1878. The WPS was significant for the British suffrage…
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The Oppidan
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 365, [1]. Original black cloth, lettered in blue. Top edge blue (faded). Rubbed, edgewear, bruising to extremities. Front hinge starting and spine baggy, offsetting to feps, light spotting to edges, occasionally to text block, else, clean. A robust copy of Leslie' 100-year-old roman � clef about Eton. Unusual Good+ Sir Shane Leslie (1885�1971; also, Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet/ Sir Seagh�n Leslaigh) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat and writer. While at Cambridge University he converted to Roman Catholicism and became a supporter of Irish Home Rule. He wrote prolifically and across different forms and styles, and from 1916 to 1926 worked as editor of the Dublin Review.
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Fourteen Poems
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Northwood: The Scorpian Press, 1959. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION: 102/ 500 (the first 50 were signed). Side-stapled pamphlet (19.5 x 13.2cm), pp. 23, [1]. White card wrappers. Extremities a little creased, scantest spotting to wrappers, top edge spotted, occasionally to text block, POI � "J. R. Sutton" � in black ink to half-title. Else, clean and bright. In the original dust jacket, lettered in red: light edgewear, a little shelf-soiled, small mark to spine-edge of front panel, uneven fading to both panels. Still, a bright copy of Lessing's first poetry collection. Very good/ very good
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