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A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Issac Bashevis Singer
£2.50Penguin 1980, 18cm by 11cm 303 page paperback reprint. Singer was winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. Condition: Covers worn and there is the remains of water damage to the last five pages.
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A Kumquat for John Keats by Tony Harrison
£15.00Bloodaxe Books, 1981. First edition. 21 cm by 13.5cm orange laminated wraps, 10 pages. Condition: Covers a little creased, edge-worn and sunned towards spine. There’s a 0.5 cm tear to bottom edge of final page.
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Angel Exhaust Number Eight Autumn 1992
£5.00Printed in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire. New poetry from Cambridge and London edited by Adrian Clarke and Andrew Duncan. Red laminated wraps, 23cm by 15.5cm, 120 pages. The spine reads: “The Bloodsoaked Royston Perimeter”. Features Bill Griffiths, Denise Riley, Johan De Wit, Iain Sinclair, Maggie O’Sullivan and others. This copy is…
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Basil Bunting a northern life by Richard Caddell and Anthony Flowers
£8.00Newcastle Libraries & Information Service, 1997. First edition. 25cm by 20.5cm, 64 pages, illustrated wraps. There are some fabulous photos in this book, including Tony Harrison sat next to Bunting in a Newcastle pub with a pint and Allen Ginsberg in a Northumberland field. Buy it to see more! Condition: some shelf wear but overall…
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Begat by David Crystal
£4.00Oxford University Press, 2010. First edition. 22cm by 14cm blue boards in illustrated wrapper, 327 pages. Sub-titled “The King James Bible and the English Language.” Condition: minimal shelf-wear to board edges and wrapper. Appears unread.
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Big League Poets by Mikhail Horovitz
£25.00City Lights Books, San Francisco,1978. 20cm by 14cm, 48 unnumbered pages, stapled pictorial wraps. Quirky item featuring poets including Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, e.e. cummings plus City Lights owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti as baseball stars. We’re assuming the author is Michael Horowitz. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and…
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Blink by Andrea Badenoch 2001
£10.00“It is 1962. The Beatles have released Love Me Do and John Glenn has orbited the Earth. But in this pit village in County Durham, everyone is looking back towards the traditions of the past…” A First Edition by the Tyneside writer who died in 2004. Macmillan, 2001. 20.5cm by 13.5cm, 309 pages. Hardback in…
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Blue Peter lapel badge
£4.00We can’t tell you where or when this was created. Let your imagination go wild and pretend that your favourite Blue Peter presenter stole them from BBC Television Centre before it ceased to be the most significant buiding on Wood Lane, W12. A 2cm in diameter lapel badge. Condition: As new and waiting patiently at…
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Bod’s New Leaf by Alison and Lo Cole
£5.00Contender Entertainment, 2003. 16cm by 16.5cm white illustrated boards. In 2002 and 2003 Contender published Bod’s Way and Bod’s New Leaf , written by Alison Cole and illustrated by Lo Cole. The books revived their parents’ much-loved creation – the book and TV character Bod. The books explore the quirky world of Bod and his…
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Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole
£7.00Methuen and Co, 1982. Reprint paperback. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour images throughout. A Magnet Book. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Features Bod on a snowy Christmas Eve, taking a present to…
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Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole 1975
£10.00Methuen and Co, 1975. First paperback edition. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. This first paperback edition came a decade after the…
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Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole First edition 1965
£18.00Methuen and Co, 1965. First edition. Hardback 16cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Bod on BBC followed the Coles’ classic Fingerbobs and…
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Both by Paul Metcalf
£15.00The Jargon Society, North Carolina, 1982. First Edition. 28cm by 22cm black boards in dustwrapper, 113 printed pages. Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose and was the great-grandson of one of his major literary influences, Herman Melville. This book is about J.W. Booth, who assassinated American President Abraham…
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Calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire
£10.00University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991. First paperback printing. 23cm by 15cm, 513 pages in yellow wraps. Translated by Anne Hyde Greet with an Introduction by S.I. Lockerbie. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Spine is uniformly sunned, there is slight edge-wear to covers…
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Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
£5.00Bloomsbury, 2002. Uncorrected Proof Copy of UK first edition. 23.5cm by 15cm, colour illustrated wraps, 447 pages. Condition: Slight edge-wear and soiling with age. Remains of price sticker in the bottom right hand corner of the rear cover.
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Clangers Annual 1971 by Postgate and Firmin
£22.00Odhams, 1970. 31cm x 22.5cm, colour photo boards illustrated throughout with colour and black and white images. Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin gave us Noggin the Nog, Pogles Wood, Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss and The Clangers. This beautiful TV tie-in shows you how to make a felt Clanger toy. A friend of ours was lucky…
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Collected Poems by Frances Horovitz 1985
£8.00First edition Bloodaxe Books in association with Enitharmon Press, 1985. Published two years after her death at the age of 43, this collection was edited by her poet and critic husband, Roger Garfitt. 21.5cm by 14cm, 128 pages. Condition: slight edge-wear to covers plus spine and top edge of rear cover are browned with age….
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Complete Poems by Hart Crane
£5.00Bloodaxe Books, 1984. First revised edition edited by Brom Weber. True first edition was published in 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York. 21.5cm by 14cm, 222 pages in blue wraps. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Spine sunned, page edges slightly soiled with…
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Corvus A Life with Birds by Esther Woolfson
£3.00Granta, 2008. 20cm by 13cm, 337 pages. Illustrated by Helen Macdonald. The back cover describes this as a “beguiling blend of memoir and natural history…” Condition: Minimal shelf-wear and pages a little browned with ages. Appears unread.
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Cosmic Realities Vanilla Tobacco Dawnings by Tristan Tzara
£15.00Arc Publications, Todmorden, Lancs, 1975. Translated by Lee Harwood. Limited edition of 500 copies of which 15 have been numbered and signed by the translator. This copy is NOT one of the 15. Yellow dustwrapper with printing over light yellow paper cover. 20.4 x 14.7 cms, 30 pages. The poems in this volume are reproduced…
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Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton 1976
£2.00Penguin Modern Classics. Penguin, 1976. 18cm by 11cm 239 pages. Condition: 3 cm closed tear to bottom edge of title page, pages uniformly browned with age and covers worn and creaed. A well-read copy.
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Cycling Accessories Price List Ron Kitching Ltd, Harrogate
£10.00Price list for Ron Kitching Ltd, Cycling Centre, Harrogate. Printed by Walker Parker (Keighley) Ltd. Devonshire House, West Lane, Keighley. Undated but presumably printed in the 1960s as the prices are pre-decimal. 22cm by 14cm pink wraps, 48 pages featuring British Hub, Campagnolo, Milremo, Reg, Vittoria and more. Condition: Staples on spine rusted and fading…
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Days of Yore A History of Masham and district compiled by Susan Cuncliffe-Lister
£10.00Published by Susan Cunliffe-Lister, 1978. 23cm x 15cm, 213 pages, b&w photos, illustrations and maps throughout. A history of North Yorkshire’s Masham from Early Britons up to 1970s. There is an unsent, unused postcard of Masham’s Market Place laid in. Condition: clean contents but covers somewhat worn and yellowed with age plus page edges browned.
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Dolls’ Houses by Caroline Goodfellow
£8.50Published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), London, 1976. Victoria & Albert Museum Small Colour Book 10. 15cm by 12.5cm 12 page booklet in colour card covers. Condition: slight soiling to covers but contents clean.
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Don’t Forget the Couscous by Amir Darwish
£5.00Smokestack Books, 2015. First edition paperback. Almost 20cm by 13cm, 83 pages, illustrated wraps. A book about exile and home by a British/Syrian poet of Kurdish origin. Condition: Covers slightly curling but almost as new.
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Dying by John Hinton
£2.50Penguin, 1967. A Pelican Original. 13cm by 11cm, 208 pages. Title page has the following quote: “Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye,” La Rochefoucauld 1613-80. Condition: Covers creased and edge-worn, pages browned with age.
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Elaine of La Signe by Ursula Moray Williams First edition 1937
£12.00Ursula Moray Williams was a Children’s author and this title is one of her earlier books. First edition, lacking dustwrapper, published by Harrap, 1937. 20cm x 14.5cm blue boards. 254 pages. Colour frontispiece and black and white drawings illustrated by the author. Condition: Lacks dustwrapper, there is foxing in the pages and page 33 is…
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Enlightenment by Roy Porter
£3.00Penguin, 2001. Reprint. 20cm by 13cm, 727 pages. Sub-titled: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World and described by one reviewer as “A sparkling compendium of eighteenth-century ideas-in-action….” Condition: Minor edge-wear to corners of wraps and page edges are uniformly browned/yellowed with age. Looks unread.
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Eve Was Framed by Helena Kennedy
£3.00Vintage, 1993. 19.5cm by 13cm colour illustrated wraps, 285 pages. Sub-titled ” Women and British Justice” this is an impassioned exposé of British justice by then barrister and Queen’s Counsel and now Baroness and Labour member of the House of Lords, Helena Kennedy. Condition: Covers slightly edge-worn and pages unifromly browned with age.
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Film Theory Goes To The Movies ed. Collins, Radner, Collins Routledge 1993
£8.00Routledge, 1993. First UK edition edited by Jim Collins, Hilary Radner and Ava Preacher Collins. 23cm by 15.5cm, 295 pages. Includes “provocative analyses of such popular films as The Silence of the Lambs, Dances with Wolves, Terminator II, Pretty Woman…” and more. Condition: Very Good indeed clean copy with minimal wear to edges.
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Five Stories About Michael Portillo Remembered by James Johnston
£10.0014.5cm by 10.5cm black and white stapled booklet, 12 pages. Privately printed. Illustrated by Emily Ross. I picked up this booklet in The Left Luggage Room, a bar on Monkseaton Metro Station in North East England in 2018 or 2019. Condition: one tiny beer stain on front cover.
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Full House by M.J. Farrell (Molly Keane)
£4.00Virago Press, 1988. Reprint. Virago Modern Classic Number 232. 20cm by 13cm 320 pages. Irish writer. Virago Modern Classics. Condition: page edges uniformly browned plus distinctive lush green cover edges a little worn with creasing towards spine on front cover. Very Good.
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Genoa by Paul Metcalf
£20.00Jonathan Williams Publisher, 1965. First Edition. Jargon 43. 26cm by 17.5cm yellow boards in dustwrapper, 190 pages. Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose and was the great-grandson of one of his major literary influences, Herman Melville. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and…
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Giant Night by Anne Waldman. INSCRIBED.
£10.00Corinth Books, New York, 1970. First edition. 20cm by 14.5cm, 94 pages, purple decorated covers. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and is INSCRIBED to him by the author. On the title page it reads: “for Richard Caddell in Durham with thanks Anne Waldman.” Condition:…
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Gilbert and Sullian The Savoy Operas
£3.00Macmillan, 1967. A Macmillan Papermac. Sub-titled: “The Complete Text of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Originally Produced in the Years 1875-1896 by Sir W.S. Gilbert.” Lyrics only. This is not a music score. 18cm by 11cm, coloured illustrated covers, 660 pages. Condition: edge-wear to covers and page edges, fly-leaf/possibly half-title page torn out.
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Glastonbury or The English Jerusalem by Rev C Marson 1925
£8.00Glastonbury or The English Jerusalem by Rev C.L. Marson.Third edition, 1925 published by The George Gregory Bookstore, Bath. Subtitled The Historic Guide to the English Jerusalem with sketches by H.S. Stewart and other illustrations. Bluecloth hardback 18.5cm by 12.5cm, 106 pages.The author’s Preface begins “In presenting a short outline of a splendid subject, the writer…
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Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves by Sarah B. Pomeroy
£4.00Pimlico, 1994. UK paperback. 21.5cm by 13.5cm, 265 pages. Sub-titled “Women in Classical Antiquity,” Mary Beard describes this as “The classic, groundbreaking account of women’s lives in Greece and Rome…” Condition: Crease to front cover plus slight edge-wear to covers and browning with age to pages.
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Granny Scarecrow by Anne Stevenson
£8.00Bloodaxe Books, 2000. First edition. 21.5cm by 13.5cm. 80 pages. The “terse brilliance” [Peter Levi] of Stevenson’s style is on display. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Covers slightly sunnned with a little edge-wear.
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Granta 101, Spring 2008
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Jason Cowley and featuring Hilary Mantel, Annie Proulx, Douglas Coupland and more.21cm by 14.5cm 286 pages. Condition: Miniscule shelf-wear. Appears unread. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
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Granta 53, Spring 1996
£3.00A paperback magazine of new writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue’s theme is News and features Zoe Heller, Gordon Burn, Fintan O’Toole and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Crease down front cover and covers slightly yellowed with age. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask…
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Granta 54, Summer 1996
£3.00A Paperback magazine of new writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled The Best of Young American Novelists and features Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Fae Myenne Ng, Mona Simpson and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 320 pages. Condition: A few pages to the rear of the book have creasing to the bottom corner plus…
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Granta 56, Winter 1996
£3.00A Paperback Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled: What Happened to Us? Britain’s Valedictory Realism and features John Banville on Anthony Blunt plus Hilary Mantel, Hanif Kureishi, Philip Hensher, Fintan O’Toole and more.21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: A Very Good clean copy. N.B. We have more copies of…
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Granta 72, Winter 2000
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack and featuring Richard Ford, Olga Tokarczuk, Nik Cohn, A.L. Kennedy and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: Clean contents but crease the spine of front cover. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
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Granta 73, Spring 2001
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Necessary Journeys and features Ian McEwan on Dunkirk plus Decca Aitkenhead, Dayanita Singh, Isabel Hilton plus the untold story of how the FBI pursued James Baldwin. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: edge-wear to covers and page edges. N.B. We have more…
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Granta 80 Winter 2002
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled The Group: Pictures from Previous Lives and features Geoff Dyer, Luke Harding, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: Minimal edge-wear and slight curling to the front cover. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in…
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Granta 82, Summer 2003
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Life’s Like That and features Simon Gray, Lynn Barber and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: some shelf-wear. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
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Granta 84, Winter 2003
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Over There How America Sees The World and features Edmund White, James Kelman, Paul Theroux, Studs Terkel, Gary Shteyngart and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Minimal edge-wear with a couple of Granta leaflets laid in. N.B. We have more copies…
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Granta 89, Spring 2005 The Factory
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack and featuring Isabel Hilton, Luc Sante, Tessa Hadley plus a rare interview with James Joyce. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: very clean and tight. Appears unread. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
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Granta 94, Summer 2006
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. Travel writing special featuring John Burnside, Michel Faber, Tessa Hadley and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Clean contents but slight wear and creasing to covers. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
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Hatching Game Birds’ Eggs in Incubators 1966
£10.00Hatching Game Birds’ Eggs in Incubators booklet 11b, produced by Eley Game Advisory Station, 1966. First published in 1961, this is a revised edition from Autumn 1966. It is book 11b in the Game Management Booklets produced by Eley Games Advisory Station of Fordingbridge, Hampshire for Eley Ammunition Division.. This 21cm by 15cm booklet comprises…
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Have the Men Had Enough? by Margaret Forster
£3.00Penguin, 1990. Reprint paperback. 20cm by 13cm coloured illustrated wraps, 251 pages. Described by Anita Brookner as “An extremely skilful and angry novel…” Condition: Minimal edge-wear to covers and page edges uniformly browned with age. Appears unread.
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Hemy by Theresa Easton and Ian Horn
£20.00Limited edition 4/12 signed by the artist and printmaker Theresa Easton. Created [2011?] as part of The Sunderland Book Project. 18.5cm by 18cm blue illustrated boards, concertina book.Thomas MM Hemy (1852-1931), a local Sunderland based artist, was commissioned in 1895 by Sunderland AFC to paint a picture of the team in action. The painting of…
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Hermetic Definition by H.D.
£8.00Carcanet Press, 1972. First paperback edition. Blue card wraps 20cm by 14cm, 117 pages. This previously unpublished poem is contemporary with her Trilogy. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: wraps slightly edge-worn and curled to edges, pages minimally browned and page edges a little…
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Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg SIGNED
£40.00City Lights Books, May 1971, 24th printing. City Lights Pocket Poets Number Four. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. 16cm by 12.5cm, 44 pages in black and white wraps.This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and signed with an ink pen, “allen ginsberg” on the Dedication page….
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Images of a Nightingale by Susan Coventry 1990
£5.00First paperback edition published by Beauclerk Publishing in 1990. The author’s memoir of training at Florence Nightingale’s training school for nurses at St Thomas’s Hospital in Lambeth, London in the 1950s. The nurses were known as Nightingales. A paperback measuring 20.5cm by 14cm with 182 pages. Condition: There is some wear and soiling to page…
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Imagist Poetry edited by Peter Jones
£4.00Penguin, 1972. 18cm by 11cm, 187 pages. Anthology featuring Richard Aldington, H.D., Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and more. Fabulous cover: detail from William Roberts’ The Vorticists in the Eiffel Tower. From the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Covers slightly soiled and edge-worn with…
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Inventing Leonardo by A. Richard Turner 1995
£10.00Subtitled “The Anatomy of a Legend,” this is a stimulating book on the life, art and legacy of Leonardo Da Vinci by a Professor of Fine Arts. First UK edition published by Papermac in 1995. 23.5cm x 17.5cm, 268 pages, with black and white illustrations. Condition: Some wear and soiling with age to covers and…
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James Hawker’s Journal: A Victorian Poacher
£3.00Oxford University Press, First paperback issue, 1978. Edited and Introduced by Garth Christian. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb. 19.5 cm by 13cm colour illustrated wraps, 113 pages. Condition: Sunning to cover edges and some spotting to page edges.
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Jung by Anthony Storr
£3.00Fontana, 1986. Reprint paperback, 19.5cm by 13cm, 124 pages. Fontana Modern Masters series. Editor: Frank Kermode. Condition: Some wear and creasing with use to covers, pages uniformly browned with age, previous owner has turned over a few page corners and left a neat ink signature on the fly-leaf.
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Komorni hudba by James Joyce [Czech version of Chamber Music]
£10.00Dauphin, 2000. 19cm by 11cm cream wraps. This version of Joyce’s Chamber Music was translated by Petr Mikes with an Epilogue by Matthew Sweney, writer, editor, translator, and Assistant Professor of English at Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and is…