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Henry Miller, il sesso, la censura e il Tropico del Cancro.

Valerio Riva (a cura di) · 1967 · Libreria Bacbuc – Studio bibliografico Coisson di Giova

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Milano, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 1967. Collana “Universale Economica”, 543. Un volume di 220 pagine, brossura editoriale. Dimensioni: 11x18 cm. Ottime condizioni. In appendice “Il mondo del sesso” di Henry Miller. Contiene scritti di: Henry Miller, Donovan Bess, Karl Shapiro, Ge…

Sonambulists of Freedom. The War As Seen by an English Anarchist. First Edition of the Published Broadside

Comfort, Alex (1920-2000) · 1945 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1945. Letterpress. 40.5 x 31cm. 2pp. on yellow paper As published in Portfolio One , edited by Caresse Crosby.. In 1972 Dr. Alex Comfort had a colossal hit with The Joy of Sex, making him suddenly rich and famous. Less famously, in World War …

Blind Men's Flowers are Green

Heppenstall, Rayner · 1940 · Bookbarrow

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Secker & Warburg, London, 1940. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. John Rayner Heppenstall was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer. Coming to London in 1934, he rapidly made initial contacts in the literary worl…

Under Siege. Life in Literary London 1939-1945.

ROBERT HEWISON. · 1977 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 219pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-eight captioned black and white photographs and reproductions. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapp…

Kritischer Kalender 1976. 27 Lithographien von A. Paul Weber. JAHRGANG 18.

1975 · Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

München, Bruckmann, (1975). 31 unpag. S. (Kalendarium). Mit 27 Taf. 23 cm. Illustr. OPp. Vom Künstler verso Frontispiz SIGNIERT. - Schumacher IV, 15. - Mit Texten von Günther Eich, Pablo Picasso, Adalbert v. Chamisso, Erich Fromm, G. Chr. Lichtenberg, George Orwell, F. G. Jüng…

Rotten Rejections: A Literary Companion

BERNARD, ANDRE [ED] · 1990 · Kalamos Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Wainscott, NY, Pushcart Press. 1990, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 091636657X) Hardcover. Book, An entertaining anthology of quotations [Minor masterpieces of the genre] from editors explaining why, in their professional "judgment" a book is not suitable for publication.The roster of u…

The Best Poems Of 1934

Thomas Moult (ed) · 1934 · Dodman Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1st Edition, Excellent collection with much of interest, not least the contribution from Eric Blair (later George Orwell) titled 'On A Ruined Farm Near The His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory'. All in VG internal order with occasional minor spotting, but…

Knowing Your Place. East Anglian Landscapes and Literature.

VARIOUS. (FOREWORD BY RICHARD MABEY). · 2009 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Norwich: Black Dog, 2009. 9780954928674. 1st edition. "This anthology is both a celebratiom of the region's wide skies and watery landscapes and a testament to the many writers who, according to Richard Mabey, 'have sought nourishment in the austere air of East Anglia'." Contain…

Britain in Pictures

Vita Sackille-West; Geoffrey Grigson; Geoffrey Taylor; George M. Taylor · 1941 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Collins, 1941-46. First edition. Cloth. A lovely collection of four books from the 'Britain in Pictures Series', published in the 1940s with works from the likes of Vita Sackville-West. Illustrated with numerous colour plates, with two of the volumes in their o…

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Truss, Lynne · 2003 · Books & Bygones

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Book As New As New Reissue Profile Books London 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 209 pages. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset about it. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to Sir Roger Casement "hanged on a comma"; from George …

Kritischer Kalender 1965. 27 Lithographien von A. Paul Weber. JAHRGANG 7.

1965 · Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

(Schretstaken), Clan Presse Verlag, (1965). 31 unpag. S. (Kalendarium). Mit 27 Taf. OPp. Schumacher IV, 15. - Dorsch, 1400. VORZUGSAUSGABE mit vorgehefteter signierter Original-Lithographie "Konsultation" (Esel als Arzt horcht Fuchs mit Stethoskop ab). Mit Texten von Robert …

The March Of A Nation - My Year Of Spain's Civil War

Cardozo, Harold G · 1937 · Eastleach Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

The Right Book Club 1937 2nd edition. Cloth spned boards, VG. x+316pp, 24pp b/w plates, folding b/w map, 7 b/w maps in the text, edges spotted & endpapers tanned, spine browned. The Spanish Civil War as seen from the standpoint of a pro Franco journalist. George Orwell commente…

Junior

1945 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

London, Children's Digest Publications, First, First issue of 'Junior', with the content of a magazine publication for younger readers, but in book form. Contains article by George Orwell on World Affairs -1945, as well as contributions by Hugh Nicol, Stephen Spurrier, Nicholas …

The Book of Spies and Secret Agents.

JANET PATE. · 1978 · Clearwater Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Gallery Press, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 120pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Extensively illustrated throughout with monochrome movie and TV stills and comic and dust wrapper reproductions. Potted biographies and select bibliographies of th…

Dr. Nikola

Guy Boothby · 0 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London , Ward, Lock and Co. c1918. Cloth. A scarce copy of Guy Boothby's hugely popular Dr. Nikola. The second in a series of five, the book features an occultist criminal mastermind, based in the Victorian era. The series was a success, and was remembered fondly by the lik…

The Evening Colonnade. Essays. (INSCRIBED)

CYRIL CONNOLLY. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

David Bruce & Watson Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author at the head of the front free endpaper and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 519pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of v…

Herinneringen in steen - 300 laatste rustplaatsen van onmiskenbare beroemdheden uit de geschiedenis van de Westerse beschaving met een kort biografisch overzicht

Adelaïde van Reeth & Guido Peeters · 1988 · Arcana Cabana

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Houten - De Haan - 1988 - 1e druk - 360pp - Linnen band met stofomslag - 22,5 x 29 cm., Goed. Chronologische inventarisatie van grafmonumenten van 'celebrities'.Met het voorwoord van Boudewijn Büch Extreme bedevaarten (over het graf van avonturier Robert Falcon Scott). Geïllustr…

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. With a foreword by Brigid Brophy. (INSCRIBED)

ELIZABETH SMART. · 1966 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Panther, London, 2nd Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), The second edition, and first paperback issue. This copy inscribed by the author on the first leaf: "Paul [Potts], with love from Elizabeth 66". 8vo. 128pp. Card wrappers, lightly rubbed, chafed and soiled, and with some toni…

Britain Since 1918 - the strange career of British democracy

David Marquand · 2009 · Book Haven

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Phoenix 2009 Paperback 450 The history of democratic politics in Britain since the coming of universal male suffrage in 1918 is a dramatic one, crowded with events and colourful figures. As well as the great events of war and economic crises, and the quieter drama of constitutio…

Macmillan&Apos;S Magazine 1860-1861 in Four Volumes

David Masson · 1860 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , Macmillan and Co, 1860-1861. Cloth. A uniformly bound collection of Victorian literary periodical's, Macmillan's Magazine's. Ranging from November 1859 to October 1861. Edited by Scottish literary critic and historian, David Masson. Containing works from …