Literature and Poetry

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Fortune Press, 1936 Collection of short stories.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Star, 1985 Historical novel based on the lives of Victorian explorers Sir Richard Burton and John Speke and their search for the source of the Nile in Africa.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Hart Publishing Company, 1970 First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Bell Publishing Co., 1971. Originally pubished as "The Complete Immortalia" in the 1930s.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Lindi. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Hill & Wang, 1966 In the aftermath of a bloody race riot in London, a young black West Indian awakes to find him self a prisoner of an organization known only as "The Institute," and is brainwashed in preparation for a savage fate.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: M. Evans and Co., 1967 First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Cardiff: The Spectre Press, 1979 Collection of horror stories.. First Edition. Pamphlet. New. Illus. by David Lloyd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Austin: Published for The American Folklore Society By the University of Texas Press, 1974 Includes bibliography and notes.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1965 A discussion of the theme of lovers' meetings (alboradas) and partings (alba) at dawn in love-poetry with essays by many scholars and academics. Includes 500 world poems spanning time and geography, from 13th century Egyptian poems to the folk lyrics of modern Peru.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1977 Edited for the first time from a copy of the unique manuscript, with translation and commentary.London Oriental Series Vol.33. Some wear to d/j.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Creation Books, 1996. In 1666 Captain Misson sailed from Marseilles to Madagascar. These are his bizarre adventures as related by James Havoc, the author of the anti-novel Raism and short story collection Satanskin. With White Skull, Havoc has surpassed the intensity of these works and produced a boiling document of extreme word terror, a worm in the bone of human history. "By far his best.Its one of the most unique pieces of literature i have ever read.It is not for the easily offended.But if your in the mood for something a bit different check it out. When reading the amazing narration you become one of the delirium suffering rum drinking pirates on the rat infested ship.Read it and be shocked and amazed,bravo Havoc."A lepar colony",he said "with worms cross wove in papar skin, black colts of diarrhoea, though some hobbled lightward, gnawing what the rats have left of monkeys and macaws, and in the midst a granite stove where i saw spitted human bones, a gallery where skulls ate skulls and devils took the hindmost. This black Friday pestilence has kissed our sails, death became our helmsman." Amazon.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Creation Books, 1992 First Edition. Pamphlet. New. Illus. by Mike Philbin. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Creation Books, 1999. An alcohol-fuelled mix of novellas, stories, fragments and 37 graphic novel pages, Contains: Raism; Meathook Seed; Satanskin; Gingerworld; Third Eye Butterfly; White Skull; In and Out of Flesh Eat/Drink; I,Catamaniac; Zipper Fox and other uncensored writings. The complete works of James Havoc, literary 'madman', are contained in this bestiary of gratuitous horrors. Butchershop in the Sky also contains his vintage anti-novel Raism: the first ever book published by Creation Books, out-of-print classics such as Satanskin, and brand new millennial ejaculations. "Havoc has singlehandedly brought sadism/cruelty/pornography into the new millennium. Unmissable." Jack Sargeant. 'Havoc's writing reeks of sexual desecration and torment' - Headpress.. First Edition. Paperback. New. Illus. by Mike Philbin. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Luxor Press, 1971 Study of obscene letters and graffiti from toilet walls.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Walter Scott, 1887 Hawthorne's romance was based on Brook Farm, a Transcendentalist community farm near Boston that was based on the theories of French socialist Charles Fourier. The members of Brook Farm believed that they could create a utopian microcosm of society that would eventually serve as a model for society at large. (1804-64) US novelist and short-story writer. Hawthorne's debut novel was Fanshawe (1829). His short-story collections include Twice-Told Tales (1837) and Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). His masterpiece is the psychological novel The Scarlet Letter (1850). Other works include The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and the children's books A Wonder Book (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853). Front hinge split.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Walter Scott, 1886 (1804-64) US novelist and short-story writer. Hawthorne's debut novel was Fanshawe (1829). His short-story collections include Twice-Told Tales (1837) and Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). His masterpiece is the psychological novel The Scarlet Letter (1850). Other works include The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and the children's books A Wonder Book (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853). Rebound in strong library binding.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Walter Scott (1804-64) US novelist and short-story writer. Hawthorne's debut novel was Fanshawe (1829). His short-story collections include Twice-Told Tales (1837) and Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). His masterpiece is the psychological novel The Scarlet Letter (1850). Other works include The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and the children's books A Wonder Book (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853). Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1954 (1804-64) US novelist and short-story writer. Hawthorne's debut novel was Fanshawe (1829). His short-story collections include Twice-Told Tales (1837) and Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). His masterpiece is the psychological novel The Scarlet Letter (1850). Other works include The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and the children's books A Wonder Book (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853). Rebound in strong library binding.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Frederick Warne & Co, 1920 (1804-64) US novelist and short-story writer. Hawthorne's debut novel was Fanshawe (1829). His short-story collections include Twice-Told Tales (1837) and Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). His masterpiece is the psychological novel The Scarlet Letter (1850). Other works include The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and the children's books A Wonder Book (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853). This edition not dated. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Peter Davies, 1942 A full historical survey, with chapters on the technique of the galaxy of detective writers in England, America and France.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954 Some wear to d/j.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. Illus. by Ronald Searle. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Tauris Parke, 2003 The Marquis de Sade continues to linger in our imaginations. After two centuries, this man still has the power both to shock and to inspire feelings of awe, contempt and disquiet. Nevertheless, the intricacies of his character, the work he produced and the nature of the threat he still seems to assert have been shrouded by time and the concept of sadism. Ronald Hayman's searching biography uncovers the man at the heart of the myth and illuminates de Sade against the repression, violence and change of the 18th century.. First Thus. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970 Part of the Profiles in Literature series.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Paris: Almonde, 1975 An important collection of voices from the free love generation.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Casanova Society, 1926. Machine numbered limited edition 225/1380. Some minor foxing of prelims. Top edge uncut.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Pocket Books, 1972. The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one day she idly follows it up. This is her leap through the looking glass.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: William Heinemann, 1922. Selected and edited by John Erskine. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Rebound in strong library binding.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1921. Selected and edited by John Erskine. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George G. Harrap, 1924. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Rebound in strong library binding.. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: William Heinemann, 1925. Two volumes. Collected by Albert Mordell. atrick Lafcadio Hearn (June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Rebound in strong library binding.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: The Macmillan Company, 1905. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), arguably one of the greatest Western writers of Japanese subject matter, died just prior to the publication of this final and perhaps best-known work; he had lived the last 13 years of his life in Japan, immersing himself completely in Japanese culture and, eventually adopting a Japanese name, Yakumo Koizumi. Disillusioned with modern Western society, Hearn adopted the Buddhist religion and became a naturalized Japanese citizen; he learned fluent Japanese in a remarkably short time and became one of the first non-Japanese to be appointed as a lecturer at Tokyo University. Hearn's writings bore witness to a time when Japan was changing rapidly under the influence of the West and for any reader with a keen interest in Japan, Hearn's interpretation is still highly relevant. Rebound in strong library binding.. Seventh Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: William Heinemann, 1923. Edited by John Erskine. Rebound in strong library binding. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1963. Blackwell's German texts series edited by Derrick Barlow.. First Thus. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978 Facsimile of the rare 1922 edition.. First Thus. Paperback. Good. Illus. by Wallace Smith. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1926 Sequel to Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath (1922). ".set in a phantasmagoric private universe in which fragments of Mallare's shattered psyche apper as chracters awaiting the arrival of the god Synthemus, whose advent proves to be not quite what they had anticipated. Deeply felt exercises [taken with Fantazius Mallare] in sarcastic fantasy.." -Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-170. (Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 109. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 535-38. Bleiler (1948), p. 146. Reginald 07024). First Thus. Embossed Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Anthony Angarola. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Fortune Press, 1934 First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Oxford: Mandrake of Oxford, 2002 In an explicit sex magick orgy, History of Fun recounts the origins of a powerful occult phenomenon, the cult of Thelema. Artist and mother Est, can no longer numb the magnetic pull of her destiny with drugs. Newly aroused instinct propels her to a fateful encounter with Stritch, half starved rock god and member of The Beast's secret cult. Est is inevitably attracted towards the hub of their organisation. The Beast 666 and his Scarlet Woman 156, luxuriate in ritual sex magick devised to attract new acolytes, while Mama Shag uses Ridelands, her country estate, for secret gatherings of the cult's inner circle. Here acolytes are tested and newcomers initiated, proving their allegiance in the mysteries which unfold within the underground chamber. "I want to thank you for the feast you provided with further pages of "History of Fun". I am beginning - just beginning, to become conscious of the sheer scope and depth of your vision, to say nothing of the subtleties which lurk in almost every line." - Kenneth Grant.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Delectus Books, 1991. Four libertines take a group of young adults and four old whores to a castle where they indulge in a four month marathon of cruelty, debasement and debauchery. This award winning play also features stills from the London production and a revealing interview with the director. "A bizarre pantomime of depravity that makes the Kama Sutra read like a guide to personal hygiene." What's On. "If you missed the play, you definitely need to get the book." Rouge."Unforgettable.their most talked about publication so far." Risque.. First Edition. Paperback. New. Illus. by Photographs by Stuart Colwill, Jaqueline Wilson and Chris Reid. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Four Square, 1966 Anthology. Spine and covers creased and rubbed.. First U.K. Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: Playboy Press, 1971 Some creasing.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969 Blackwell's German texts series edited by Kathleen Webber.. Third Printing. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: The Foundation for Ephemera Studies, 1986 A paper on the nature of ephemera delivered to The Ephemera Society at the English-Speaking Union in London October 28 1986.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972 First edition, published posthumously, including eight previously unpublished stories. Some wear to d/j.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1964 Writings from Hemingway's time in Paris. Some tears to d/j lower spine.. First U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972 Some fading to lower boards.. Reprint. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970 First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Dorset Press, 1988. Facsimile of the 1972 edition.. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1960 Lists 381 studies from 1887 to 1959. Pages loose in wraps as issued, some minor chipping to wraps. Bookplate inside front cover.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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