Literature and Poetry

London: Luxor Press, 1969 A superb autobiography of Amsterdam bookseller W.N. Schors packed with bizarre and amusing anecdotes about his customers and full with bibliographical information about the rare books he sold. The first (and only) volume of one of the most astonishing compilations of reminiscences ever written. The catalogue of amazing but deeply convincing characters include the gynaecologist, Berger, who has the alarming task of deciding whether toy-elephants and teddy bears will fit into his personal sexual pattern; the German lavatory-attendants who act as masturbation guards; the bumper-car merchant, Butin, who has an overwhelming passion for lesbian nurses and who commissioned for publication every fortnight a novel dealing with yet another sexual variation; the young man who, with a fixation about death, makes love to his girlfriends in the handsomely appointed coffin he has already had prepared for himself. These and a host of other characters, diplomats, artists and authors have had an interest over the years in forbidden literature, figure in Coppens' wide-ranging, witty and scholarly memoirs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Blandford: Harwood-Smart Publishing, 1976 Classic modern horror novel in the Victorian gothic style.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Blandford: Harwood-Smart Publishing, 1976 Classic modern horror novel in the Victorian gothic style.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Liverpool: Dark Dreams, 1984 Important fantasy publication.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Liverpool: Dark Dreams, 1985 Important fantasy publication.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Liverpool: Dark Dreams, 1985 Important fantasy publication.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Liverpool: Dark Dreams, 1987 Important fantasy publication.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Liverpool: Dark Dreams, 1985 Important fantasy publication.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Liverpool: Dark Dreams, 1989 Important fantasy publication.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Charles Bosse, 1912 1/50 copies on papier Hollande. Preface by Huysmans, includes bibliography. French text.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Charles Bosse, 1912 Preface by Huysmans, includes bibliography. Wraps replaced with title pasted onto front page. French text. Some foxing to prelims.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the 19th century analysing novels by Edgeworth, Owenson, Gaskell, Kingsley and Trollope and writings by Burke, Carlyle, Engels, Arnold and Mill.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Fortune Press, 1971 Corby was an associate of Jean Overton Fuller, Victor Neuberg, Dylan Thomas and others. This collection reflects the prejudices and beliefs of English expatriates in Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1966 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Greenberg, 1953. Anthology of gay fiction. The twenty-one contributors include Sherwood Anderson, Paul Bowles, John Horne Burns, Henry James, Christopher Isherwood, D.H. Lawrence, Charles Jackson, Denton Welch, William Carlos Williams. Two stories, by Guy de Maupassant and Paul Verlaine, were newly translated by the editor himself, with Verlaine's "Charles Husson" not having previously been published in English.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: The Julian Press, 1963. Anthology of fiction with an incest theme. Some wear to d/j.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1982 Originally published under the pseudonym Ofella' in periodicals in the late 1880s. Hand numbered limited edition 85/115 copies. Some rubbing to spine.. First Edition. Paperback in Wraps. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press. more information

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London: Calder & Boyars, 1974 Translated by Anita Barrows.. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960 Fiction set in Tahiti by an Australian author.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Berkhampsted: John Cotton, 1966. The contributors include B.S. Johnson, D.M. Thomas, Edward Lucie-Smith, George MacBeth, Elizabeth Jennings, Leslie Norris, Elizabeth Jennings, Adrian Mitchell, Martin Seymour-Smith, Oscar Mellor. Includes a checklist of "The Fantasy Poets" series. Stapled duplicated typescript.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Editions du Trianon, 1932 A history of priapic literature covering folklore, poetry, Priapus, mythology, homosexuality in the ancient world. Includes woodcuts and drawings. Machine numbered limited edition 441/750 copies. French text.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Dubreuil, P. and Le Campion, V.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Jonathon Cape, 1958. Novel based on the life French novelist of Guy de Maupassant.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938. The supposed Authentic Autobiography of a London Prostitute by Sheila Cousins is believed to be a pseudonym of Graham Greene and Ronald Matthews. This is the true first edition, however "The Public Morality Council" alerted by reviews notified the Home Secretary who pressured Routledge to withdraw the book. It was then published in Paris June, 1938 by Jack Kahane, father of Maurice Girodias. Another edition was published in London in 1954 without incident. This is the very rare withdrawn edition.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Obelisk Press, 1955. The supposed Authentic Autobiography of a London Prostitute by Sheila Cousins is believed to be a pseudonym of Graham Greene and Ronald Matthews. This is the true first edition, however "The Public Morality Council" alerted by reviews notified the Home Secretary who pressured Routledge to withdraw the book. It was then published in Paris June, 1938 by Jack Kahane, father of Maurice Girodias. Another edition was published in London in 1954 without incident.. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Popular Library, 1968. André Couteaux (born in 1933 in Ankara) was a French writer and a scenarist married to Beatrice de Cambronne with whom he had a son, Stanislas Couteaux. He is also the father of Paul-Marie Couteaux. Translated by Barbara Wirght.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Nashville: Aurora Publishers Incorporated, 1970 Collection of amusing quotes from various women throughout history on subjects such as men, mistresses, courtesans, beauty etc.. First US Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Leslie Frewin, 1969 Collection of amusing quotes from various women throughout history on subjects such as men, mistresses, courtesans, beauty etc.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975 First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966 Some scuffing and rubbing to covers.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1960 Includes poems by Ted Hughes along with criticism, correspondence and reviews. First page loose.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1964 Includes Poems from Ted Hughes, criticism on Thomas Hardy, Roethke, and German literature with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1961 Contains the first appearance of Parliament Hill Fields by Sylvia Plath [Tabor B18], and two poems by Ted Hughes [Sagar & Tabor B17]; other contributors include Thom Gunn, Philip Larkin, Thomas Kinsella, Jon Stallworthy, Edward Lucie-Smith, R S Thomas, Elizabeth Jennings et al.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1964 Critical Quarterly Society. Contributors include Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Jon Stallworthy. Some minor soiling to rear cover, all coupons intact.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: University of Manchester, 1964 Includes William Burroughs, Proust, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann, John Donne, Poetry correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: University of Manchester, 1977 Includes Poems from Jane McLaughlin criticism on John Donne, B.S. Johnson, Iris Murdoch, William Wordsworth, Kingsley Amis, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Samuel Coleridge with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1962 Includes poems, criticism, correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1963 Includes poems from Sylvia Plath, criticism on Albert Camus, Sartre, G.B. Shaw and Saul Bellow, correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1960 Includes poems by Christopher Levenson and Elizabeth Jennings. along with criticism from Malcolm Bradbury, correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: University of Manchester, 1974 Includes Poems from Fleur Adcock criticism on Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: University of Manchester, 1968 Includes Poems from Sylvia Plath, criticism on Thomas Hardy, Shakespeare. with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: University of Manchester, 1970 Includes Poems from Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes criticism on Norman Mailer, Edward Braithwaite with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1963 Includes poems from Edward Lucie-Smith, criticism on Kingsley Amis, Ford Maddox Ford, Science Fiction, Samuel Beckett and Shakespeare along with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1964 Includes Poems from D.J. Enright, criticism on Jean Genet and Charles Dickens along with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1964 Includes Ted Hughes with a poem titled `Dice' [poem in 8 parts: `Torture Chamber', `Eclipse of Moon-Man', `Fiesta', `Statue of Atalanta', `Porpoises at Brighton', `Guinness', `Durst', `Upper Code'] criticism on Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin and James Baldwin along with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Hull: University of Hull, 1963 Includes poems from William Stafford, criticism on Graham Greene, Harold Pinter, Synge and Shakespeare along with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: University of Manchester, 1972 Includes Poems from John Welch, Brian Jones criticism on John Donne, Shakespeare, with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: University of Manchester, 1975 Includes Poems from Edward Braithwaite criticism on Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: University of Manchester, 1971 Includes Poems from Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes criticism on Proust, Albert Camus, Thomas Hardy and West Indian Literature with correspondence and reviews.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1887. Old folk tales of India. The author served as Inspector-General of Police in Bombay. Inscribed by the author on fep. Rare.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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San Bernardino: The Borgo Press, 1993 Superb guide to vampire fiction. Some creasing to covers.. First Thus. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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