Literature and Poetry

New York: Books For Libraries Press, Inc., 1967 First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Pyramid, 1963. Pulp erotic novel.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Chatsworth: GX Inc., 1973 Explicit gay pulp novel. c.1970s.Trojan Classics series. An unread copy, but a non-removable label on cover.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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San Diego: Greenleaf, 1969 Explicit gay pulp novel about a political candidate and his drag queen lover.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Wilmington: Eros Publishing Co., 1969 Explicit gay pulp novel. Frenchy's Gay Line series.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1895 Spine top pulled, Some minor foxing.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Sydney P. Hall. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1923 Little Blue Book 379.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. more information

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Kendal: Titus Wlson, 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Avon, 1972 Study of Chinese erotic folklore and literature.. First US Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Hong Kong: CFW Publications Limited, 1982. Study of Chinese erotic folklore and literature.. First Thus. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 Essays on music and literature including Richard Strauss, Verdi, Balzac, Flaubert, Nietzsche etc.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921 Essays on George Moore, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Roosevelt, Cezanne, Chopin etc.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: T. Werner Laurie, 1920. Nd. c.1920. Essays on George Moore, Richard Wagner, Matisse, Picasso, Impressionists, Whistler.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: T. Werner Laurie Nd. c.1930. Essays on travel to Vienna, New York, Prague, Holland, Madrid, Dublin, Marienbad, Atlantic City, Brussels etc.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: T. Werner Laurie, 1930 Nd. c.1930. Essays on Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Tolstoy, Wedekind, Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Lafcadio Hearn, Zola, Puvis de Chevannes, Futurism etc.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924 Collected and edited by Josephine Huneker. Machine numbered limited edition 597/2050. Corners bumped. James Gibbons Huneker (1860-1921) was an American music writer and critic, born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania He studied music in Europe under Alfredo Barili and others. He returned to New York City in 1885 and remained there until his death. His level at the piano was such that Liszt's student, Rafael Joseffy, had Huneker serve as as an assistant teacher to his piano students. Huneker wrote the analysis and commentary on the complete works of Chopin for Schirmer's music publishing company. His analysis of all the piano solo works of Brahms, written shortly after the complete works of Brahms were published after Brahms' death, is highly regarded. Huneker is mostly remembered now for his music criticism. He was a music critic who familiarized Americans with then modern European artistic movements and wrote in a highly subjective style, full of metaphorical descriptions. Huneker was equally proficient in his knowledge of art and literature, and was one of the first to write of Gauguin, Ibsen, Wagner, Nietzsche, France, Faguet, Van Gogh, and George Moore.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Horace Liveright, 1928 Machine numbered limited edition 1157/2300. James Gibbons Huneker (1860-1921) was an American music writer and critic, born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania He studied music in Europe under Alfredo Barili and others. He returned to New York City in 1885 and remained there until his death. His level at the piano was such that Liszt's student, Rafael Joseffy, had Huneker serve as as an assistant teacher to his piano students. Huneker wrote the analysis and commentary on the complete works of Chopin for Schirmer's music publishing company. His analysis of all the piano solo works of Brahms, written shortly after the complete works of Brahms were published after Brahms' death, is highly regarded. Huneker is mostly remembered now for his music criticism. He was a music critic who familiarized Americans with then modern European artistic movements and wrote in a highly subjective style, full of metaphorical descriptions. Huneker was equally proficient in his knowledge of art and literature, and was one of the first to write of Gauguin, Ibsen, Wagner, Nietzsche, France, Faguet, Van Gogh, and George Moore.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: T. Werner Laurie, 1930 James Gibbons Huneker (1860-1921) was an American music writer and critic, born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania He studied music in Europe under Alfredo Barili and others. He returned to New York City in 1885 and remained there until his death. His level at the piano was such that Liszt's student, Rafael Joseffy, had Huneker serve as as an assistant teacher to his piano students. Huneker wrote the analysis and commentary on the complete works of Chopin for Schirmer's music publishing company. His analysis of all the piano solo works of Brahms, written shortly after the complete works of Brahms were published after Brahms' death, is highly regarded. Huneker is mostly remembered now for his music criticism. He was a music critic who familiarized Americans with then modern European artistic movements and wrote in a highly subjective style, full of metaphorical descriptions. Huneker was equally proficient in his knowledge of art and literature, and was one of the first to write of Gauguin, Ibsen, Wagner, Nietzsche, France, Faguet, Van Gogh, and George Moore.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913 Essays on George Moore, Richard Wagner, Matisse, Picasso, Impressionists, Whistler.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: GMP, 1994 Gay novel.. First Thus. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1943 Desperate to avoid 'bubble-dancing', join the 'dromestoners' or eat a nice 'tiddly oggy'? Baffled? Well, pull yourself out of the 'aspargus bed' and dip into Service Slang to find out what these expressions and many more mean. You would be a 'sad apple' to call it a dictionary, it is more a light-hearted survey of expressions prevalent in the Army, Navy and R.A.F. during the Second World War. 'Chocks away' and 'draw your pint'. Foreword by T. L. Leigh-Mallory. Virtually mint copy with one small grease spot on the front board. A fine example of slang and of 1940s typography.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by C. Morgan. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Atlanta: Pendulum Books, 1969 Explicit erotic novel.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1960. A brilliant panorama of the ways men and women have loved and felt about love from the early Greeks to the present day.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959 A brilliant panorama of the ways men and women have loved and felt about love from the early Greeks to the present day. Proof copy in wraps hand corrected by the editor.. Proof. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959 A brilliant panorama of the ways men and women have loved and felt about love from the early Greeks to the present day.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Creation Books, 1995 "The crucifixion of modern literature. The resurrection of the imagination." With this manifesto, Creation Books was launched. Here is a selection from its pages past, present and future. Hallucinated or anatomical texts by writers estranged from the bind of linear narrative and "literary" values, and the establishment which seeks to perpetuate it. Contributors: Kathy Acker, Alan Moore, Jeremy Reed, Pierre Guyotat, Clint Hutzulak, Adele Olivia Gladwell, Stewart Home, James Havoc, Geraldine Monk, Aaron Williamson, Simon Whitechapel. . First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Creation Books, 1992. This contains: Inspiration by Steve Clark; Passion by John Smith; Again by Ramsey Campbell; The Fingers by Stephen Sennitt; Catalepsy #1 by Aaron Williamson; Monsters by Tony Reed; Eloise by David Conway; The Nostalgia for Desire by Clint Hutzulak; Love Comes in Fragments by James Havoc; Tourniquet by Terence Sellers; Research by Paul Buck; A Change Came O'er the Spirit of My Dream by Adele Olivia Gladwell; Hotel de Filles by D. F. Lewis; When the Whip Comes Down by Jeremy Reed; And the Sun Shone by Night by Paul Marks; and Vixen Naked Ultra Luncheon by Michael Paul Peter Philbin.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1967 Translated Brian W. Alderson.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928 Spine worn.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965 Study of erotica during the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes extracts, index and bibliographies. Paperback edition also available.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Tandem, 1968. A superb study of erotica during the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes extracts, index and bibliographies.. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Everest House, 1980 Fictional autobiography of Edgar Allan Poe.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Pinnacle Books, 1975 First Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Charles Skilton, 1963 First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Pyramid, 1962 Pulp erotic novel. Rare in this condition.. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Pocket Books, 1965 Erotic pulp novel.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Pyramid, 1960 Pulp erotic novel.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Velvet Publications, 1998. An explicit erotic novel about a young girl who, within hours of arriving on vacation at her uncle's beachside villa, is first seduced by Lola, the mistress of the house, and then thoroughly deflowered by her cousin Robert. During the next few days Linda is corrupted further and further, being introduced to increasingly bizarre and perverse incestuous delights by her uncle, various relatives and their guests and pets, until her strange week climaxes in an orgy of staggering polymorphous diversity. First published clandestinely in Paris by The Oceanic Press, Linda's Strange Vacation is a long-lost classic of explicit forbidden erotica, here restored to its true glory and place of pre-eminence amongst the most exceptional examples of the genre.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Velvet Publications, 1998. An explicit erotic novel about a young girl who, within hours of arriving on vacation at her uncle's beachside villa, is first seduced by Lola, the mistress of the house, and then thoroughly deflowered by her cousin Robert. During the next few days Linda is corrupted further and further, being introduced to increasingly bizarre and perverse incestuous delights by her uncle, various relatives and their guests and pets, until her strange week climaxes in an orgy of staggering polymorphous diversity. First published clandestinely in Paris by The Oceanic Press, Linda's Strange Vacation is a long-lost classic of explicit forbidden erotica, here restored to its true glory and place of pre-eminence amongst the most exceptional examples of the genre.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Ace Press, 1950 Erika is a nymphomaniac and under the Doctor in more ways than one! Explicit erotic novel. German text.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968 Reprint. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1952 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: Chatto & Windus, 1940 Rebound in strong library binding.. Fifth Impression. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Fortune Press, 1962. This series of sketches represents a Huysmans who still held within him love/hate fascination with Parisian life, before he would turn his back on Paris, and Zola's realist movement, in A Rebours and the guidebook like novels charting the adventures of Durtal, his alter ego. If these Parisian Sketches are Baudelairean in one sense, where beauty and pleasure are drawn from deviance and repugnance, and the city dweller's manipulation of nature in order to match his bloated requirements evokes his own beautiful downfall, they just as easily evoke the colourful world of Renoir and Monet. They are impressions that precede the delight of Jean Renoir's "French Can-Can" as much as the bourgeois hypocrisies of Bunuel's "Belle de Jour". A translation of Croquis Parisiens by Richard Griffths. The first English edition of these delightful prose poems. (d'Arch Smith 304). Rare.. First English Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Fortune Press, 1962. This series of sketches represents a Huysmans who still held within him love/hate fascination with Parisian life, before he would turn his back on Paris, and Zola's realist movement, in A Rebours and the guidebook like novels charting the adventures of Durtal, his alter ego. If these Parisian Sketches are Baudelairean in one sense, where beauty and pleasure are drawn from deviance and repugnance, and the city dweller's manipulation of nature in order to match his bloated requirements evokes his own beautiful downfall, they just as easily evoke the colourful world of Renoir and Monet. They are impressions that precede the delight of Jean Renoir's "French Can-Can" as much as the bourgeois hypocrisies of Bunuel's "Belle de Jour". A translation of Croquis Parisiens by Richard Griffths. The first English edition of these delightful prose poems. (d'Arch Smith 304). Rare.. First English Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Leon Vanier, 1886 Backstrip missing, spine badly cracked though holding. Suitable for rebinding. French text. This is the first edition to include additional pieces. Rare in any condition.. First Complete Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Brodard et Taupin, 1952. 38 pages avec 5 planches hors texte. Petites taches sur la couverture sinon bon etat Commemoration de la recontre de J.-K. Huysmans et de l'abbe Mugnier. Entre autres, textes de Maurice Garcon, Pierre de Gaulle, abbe Philippe Bertault. Rare.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Langtry Press, 1986 Translated by Darius Halpern and Ellen Moerman. The Bièvre is a 32.8 km long river of the Île-de-France région that flows into the Seine (left bank) in Paris. The name translates to "Beaver River" in English. The current course is said to have been modified from its natural course to supply irrigation for an abbey located outside the city wall of Phillipe-Auguste. This diversion is reflected in maps of Paris dating from the 13th century. Historically the river was heavily industrialized with mills, and supported numerous tanneries and dye-makers. This led to serious pollution concerns that persist up to the present time. The river is nowadays buried in tunnels for its whole course within Paris; as of 2004, the city of Paris is considering uncovering some sections of the Bièvre. Rare.. Signed by Publisher. First English Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Jill Heberden. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Private Press. more information

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Pairs: P.V. Stock, 1903 French text. First section loose. Book preserved in collectors slipcase with leather spine label. Rare.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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