Literature and Poetry

London: Delectus Books, 1994. SPECIAL PRICE FOR DECEMBER ONLY!! An insolent aristocratic youth, Charles, makes an unwelcome, though not initially discouraged, pass at his voluptuous tutoress Laura. In disgust at this transgression she sends Charles to stay with her cousin Diane d'Erebe, in a large country house inhabited by a coterie of governesses. They put him through a strict regime of corrective training, involving urolagnia, and enforced feminisation; dressing him in corsets and petticoats to rectify his unruly character. Written under a pseudonym, by London lawyer Stanislas De Rhodes, (the same author as Gynecocracy by Viscount Ladywood) and first published in 1898 by Leonard Smithers' Erotica Biblion Society, Delectus have reset the original into a new edition with an introduction by Michael R. Goss. "Frantic, breathless, spicy, restating the publisher's place at the top of the erotic heap." Divinity. "A great classic of fetish erotica, a marvellous period piece." Bizarre. "Delicious." Sydney Morning Herald.. New Ed. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Ariel Books, 1985 From a early age Lowry cultivated the legend of the drunken sailor and ukulele- playing poet. Obsessed by two tyrannies, the pen and the bottle. This collection reminiscences, many of which are being published for the first time.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Random House, 1952 Paul Bowles' third novel with the beautifully E. McKnight Kauffer illustrated dustjacket. Small chip from lower spine along with some minor tears and creases.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Abacus, 1990 First U.K. Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Pocket Books, 1968 Superb cover art.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1991 American author and composer's journal of his life in Tangier, Morocco.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Paul Bowles, author of The Sheltering Sky, speaks his fluid mind, in nineteen interviews given from 1952 to 1990. Though often giving different answers over the years to similar questions, some constants do emerge: for instance, Bowles fascination with Moroccan culture, with music, and his insistence on the precise use of language. This collection is an engaging introduction to the man and his work, and even readers familiar with Bowles will find new insights here. It includes a bibliography of his writings, and a chronology of his life. Presciently, in a 1990 interview with Stephen Davis, Bowles mentions that, if forced to choose a biographer, he would want it to be Millicent Dillon, the biographer of his late wife, Jane."Each man's life has the quality he gives it, but you can't say that life itself has any qualities. If we suffer, it's because we haven't learned how not to." "The man who wrote the books didn't exist. No writer exists. He exists in his books, and that's all." "I write unconsciously, without knowing what I am writing.". First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1964 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1945 First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Macmillan & Co., 1943. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Fortune Press, 1944 Includes a number of war poems. Arthur Boyars (b. 1925) is a British poet and musicologist, who is also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher. He started the small magazine Mandrake in 1946 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford; it was published until 1957. He was editor of Oxford Poetry in 1948. He is known also as a translator of Russian poetry. He married Marion Lobbenberg, who became a partner with John Calder in the publishing house Calder & Boyars.. First Edition. Cloth. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968 Historical study of American obscenity law. Some minor library stamps.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Canoga Park: Viceroy Books, 1968 A study of girl children seduced by older women for mutual lesbian pleasure.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Edinburgh: National Trust for Scotland, 1990 Illustrated guide book to the Robert Smail printing museum in Scotland.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1979 Chip to front jacket.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Derby: Gold Star Books, 1964 Crime novel. "His twisted mind added a new element to the horror of rape-murder--by reversing the order of these unspeakable crimes.". First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Richards Press, 1963 Anthology of extracts from Bramah's fantasy novels based in China with a biographical and bibliographical introduction by John Connell.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Grant Richards, 1924. Fantasy novel based in China.. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: William Heinemann, 1914 First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Bowes & Bowes, 1963. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Tandem, 1965 First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Panurge Press Machine numbered limited edition 582/1000. nd c.1930s. Rare in this condition.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Tandem, 1966 First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Adolphe Delahays, 1857. Nouvelle Edition revue d'apres les meilleurs textes avec une preface historique et critique et des annotations par H. Vigneau. Spine frayed. French text.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Bibliotheque Des Curieux, 1913 Introduction and notes by B. de Villeneuve. French text.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Georges Briffaut, 1927 Edited, with an Introduction, glossary and notes by Louis Perceau. Some damage to lower and upper spine. French text.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Bernard Hanison, 1958 Translated by Desmond I. Vesey with verse translations by Christopher Isherwood.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1990 An uncommon and important reference.. First Edition. Cloth. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: London Magazine Editions, 1971 First English edition of a novel about her life as a prostitute in Mexico while her husband, beat poet Ray Bremser, was in jail.. First U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1929 Criterion Miscellany No. 6. Written as a rebuttal to the D.H. Lawrence work, Pornography and Obscenity.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Editions du Vert Logis, 1933 French text.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Gallimard, 1969 Erotic novel. French text.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: The Erotic Print Society, 2002 Illustrated erotic novel. Hand numbered limited edition 20/950.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Mario Tauzin. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: The Spiral Press, 1925 Breton was a prolific author of considerable versatility and gift, popular with his contemporaries, and forgotten by the next generation. His work consists of religious and pastoral poems, satires, and a number of miscellaneous prose tracts. His religious poems are sometimes wearisome by their excess of fluency and sweetness, but they are evidently the expression of a devout and earnest mind. His lyrics are pure and fresh, and his romances, though full of conceits, are pleasant reading, remarkably free from grossness. His praise of the Virgin and his references to Mary Magdalene have suggested that he was a Catholic, but his prose writings abundantly prove that he was an ardent Protestant. Hand numbered limited edition 129/425, some rubbing to corners.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Ernest Fiene. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Ballantine Books, 1963. Novel first published in 1934. In Name Only is a 1939 romantic film starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay Francis. It was based on the novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984 Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE, (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by the SF pioneer, H.G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1923 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1972 First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Published for The William Morris Society By the Times Bookshop, 1962. William Morris (24 March 1834 - 3 October 1896) was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball and the utopian News from Nowhere. He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with the movement over goals and methods by the end of that decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Robson Books, 1990 First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chichester: Phillimore & Co., 1972 First thorough examination of the Act Books of the Ecclesiastical Court of Stratford. These are made available in considerable detail throwing a flood of light on Shakespeare's nearest relatives, friends and contemporaries as well as his religion and the circumstances of his death.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Lancer, 1968 Erotic novel.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Columbia University Press, 1995 Explores the legacy of effeminacy in homoerotic literature that began more than a century ago with the 1885 Labouchere Amendment criminalizing male homosexual contact and Oscar Wilde's subsequent incarceration. This broad overview looks into the century that followed these defining moments in the history of gay literature, demonstrating how the effeminate behaviour that came to be connected so solidly with male homosexual identity has manifested itself in the literature of gay male writers in England. Focuses closely on the works and lives of several prominent British literary figures of the past century, including E.M. Forster, John Addington Symonds, and Quentin Crisp. In a concluding section, the author evaluates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men's writing and offers a thoughtful, original reading of Alan Hollinghurst's novel, The Swimming Pool Library. The author shows how the stereotype of effeminacy has been variously celebrated and challenged over the years, from Forster's strong moral distinction between "feminine" and "effeminate" in Howards End to the camp effeminacy in the writing of Ronald Firbank. The book shows how different writers have helped to attach sentiments of stigma and pride, loathing and love, to the stereotype of the effeminate gay man through their literature. Includes notes, bibliography and index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Edinburgh: Charles Skilton, 1985. hand numbered limited edition 56/275. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Femina Books, 1968 Study of obscenity and lesbianism in the literature of Radclyffe Hall. Vera Mary Brittain (December 29, 1893- March 29, 1970) was an English writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the growth of her ideology of Christian pacifism.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: Savoy Books, 1996. The Citizen Kane of Bad Taste. There's so much evil energy in this book, if it moved next door to you you'd probably get cancer within a week! In the long-awaited sequel to David Britton's first novel, Lord Horror (and Savoy's contender for the 1996 Booker Prize for Fiction) the great horror of modern history is absorbed into the framework of Surrealism, literary fantasy and the darkest children's fiction. By viewing the Holocaust as a tragicomic carnival of the grotesque, the author offers the reader a vivid, dream-level identification with the era of efficient barbarism. A terrain of unfettered imagination, written to the glorious edgy, spooky, intense, mad, weird Rock'n'Roll and Rhythm'n'Blues music of the 1950s, from a series of tapes compiled for David Britton by the legendary Roger Eagle. Roger provided us with the best and most obscure down home Blues, Rockabilly, Hilly-Country and Rockin' instrumentals from that seething decade. His experience and unrivalled musical library helped reinforce the musical motifs that run through Motherfuckers. Clubman and DJ extraordinaire, Roger was a friend of ours for thirty years. A word to the wise: Roger was owner The Magic Village Club in Manchester and helped form the Punk movement of the '70s with his seminal Liverpool club, Eric's. As a promoter he brought to Britain many Blues performers (Bo Diddley, LaVern Baker, Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and a number of Jamaican artists, particularly Lee 'Scratch' Perry. "A bizarre and outrageous confection of riotous, Rabelaisian imagery it may be, but Motherfuckers does offer a consistent view of fascism. This is also the terrain of unfetted imagination; where the macabrely-detailed dreamscape of Lautréamont and Sade meet the popular common-sense fantasy of L. Frank Baum and Roald Dahl. The book draws on the fantastic current in English writing (the gothic, Swift, Carroll, Hodgson, Graham, Ballard) but there's a strong input from the more specifically continental transgressors, both social and textual, Huysmans, Bataille and Céline. Motherfuckers is a truly frightening book." Julian Petley, The New Statesman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: Savoy Books, 2001. David Britton's novel, Lord Horror, published in 1990, became the first book to be banned in England since Hubert Selby Jnr's Last Exit to Brooklyn in 1968. Geoffrey Robertson QC and Article 19 led the appeal in 1992, when the ban was overturned. Baptised in the Blood of Millions is the second Lord Horror novel. Allegedly an 'autobiographical' work, the book is set in a very bizarre alternate universe in England before and after the Second World War. Events are rendered in Symbolist fashion and explore the British Fascism of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts and war-time radio broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw. Other dramatis personae include pop icon Jack Good, 1950s parliamentarian Lord Boothby, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, poetess Sylvia Plath and the biggest English movie star of the 1930s, Jessie Matthews. Includes illustrations by the author. We guarantee you will never read another novel like this one! Cover art by John Coulthart.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: Savoy Books, 2005 Fuck Off and Die is the follow-up to the notorious Adventures of Meng & Ecker. Featuring all the usual favourites Meng & Ecker, Lord Horror, La Squab as well as new characters, it is probably David Britton and Kris Guidio's farewell volume of comic strips. All-new strips in b/w and 48 pages of full colour, containing the complete run of the La Squab three-panel strips, FOAD stacks-up more fucking bad taste than a monkey can shake a pointed stick at; the un-politically correct Daddy of comic books. La Squab's mischief frames epistles from Meng & Ecker, including 48 pages of full-color delirium wending from urban legend and the Hungerford murders into Schopenhauer with the full-immersion baptism in hate, violence, fascism, and duplicity that have marked Britton as a brave, unapologetic, and unblinking satirist arguably the best of our generation and, in England at least, as a pornographer and criminal. Guidio's artwork is wrenchingly beautiful, repulsive, nightmarish, profound. Buying this book is an act of conscience and of revolution against those who fear words and images." DOUGLAS WINTER. With an introduction by Alan Moore and an afterword by Dr Benjamin Noyse. Jacket design by John Coulthart.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by Kris Guidio. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Manchester: Savoy Books, 1984 A special limited edition collection (1,000 copies) of fiction, articles and graphics, and the second in Savoy's planned trilogy of anthologies which commenced with The Savoy Book in 1978. Contains a selection of the letters which Michael Moorcock wrote to J.G. Ballard when the latter was Prose Editor of Ambit magazine, with the drug references left in. The full correspondence sans drug references formed Moorcock's account of his adventures in the movie capital of the world, Letters From Hollywood (Harrap, 1986). Police raids and litigation delayed publication of Savoy Dreams for four years, but on the plus side we were able to include detailed coverage of these raids as well as the 1982 trial and imprisonment of David Britton. "Money well spent, not least for its especially articulate and timely account of the way obscenity trials are now being conducted in Britain." RAMSEY CAMPBELL.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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