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1) The Bookman Volume III October 1892-March 1893

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1893 Includes reviews and features on many of the dedcadent authors. Some minor underlining.. First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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2) Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent
Adams, Jad

London: I.B. Tauris & Co., 2000. A biography of Ernest Dowson who was a major poet of the late-Victorian Decadent period who wrote some of the most quoted lyrics in English verse including them 'gone with the wind' and 'days of wine and roses', showing how his strange delights and sexual excesses were worked into the pure verse of lyrics such as 'Cynara'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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3) Stenbock, Yeats and the Nineties
Adlard, John

London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1969 Biographical exploration of the man described by W.B. Yeats as "Scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men." Includes an unpublished essay on Stenbock by Arthur Symons and a bibliography by Timothy d'Arch Smith. Limited to 750 copies, this copy not numbered.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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4) One Evening of Light Mist in London: The Story of Annie Playden and Guillaume Apollinaire
Adlard, John

Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1980. Account of Apollinaire's tempestuous relationship with a beautiful English governess. Hand numbered limited edtion 139/145, printed on Glastonbury Antique laid paper. Rare.. First Edition. Paperback. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press. more information

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5) The Religion of Beauty: Selections from the Aesthetes
Aldington, Richard (editor)

London: William Heinemann, 1950 d/j worn and chipped.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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6) Science in Arcady
Allen, Grant

London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1882 Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a science writer, author and novelist; an able upholder of the evolution doctrine and an expounder of Darwinism. Born near Kingston, Ontario, Canada, the son of an emigrant Anglo-Scottish Protestant minister, he studied in the United Kingdom and France and in his mid twenties became a professor at Queen's College in Jamaica. Despite his religious father, Allen became an agnostic and a socialist. After leaving his professorship, in 1876 he returned to the UK, where he turned his talents to writing, gaining a reputation for his essays on science and for literary works. His first books were on scientific subjects, and include Physiological Æsthetics (1877) and Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886). He was first influenced by associationist psychology as it was expounded by Alexander Bain and Herbert Spencer, the latter often considered the most important individual in the transition from associationist psychology to Darwinian functionalism. In Allen's many articles on flowers and perception in insects, Darwinian arguments replaced the old Spencerian terms. On a personal level, a long friendship that started when Allen met Spencer on his return from Jamaica, also grew uneasy over the years. Allen wrote a critical and revealing biographical article on Spencer that was published after Spencer was dead. After assisting Sir W. W. Hunter in his Gazeteer of India in the early 1880s, Allen turned his attention to fiction, and between 1884 and 1899 produced about 30 novels. In 1895, his scandalous book titled The Woman Who Did, promulgating certain startling views on marriage and kindred questions, became a bestseller. The book told the story of an independent woman who has a child out of wedlock. Another work, The Evolution of the Idea of God (1897), propounding a theory of religion on heterodox lines, has the disadvantage of endeavoring to explain everything by one theory. This "ghost theory" was often seen as a derivative of Herbert Spencer's theory. However, it was well known and brief references to it can be found in a review by Marcel Mauss, Durkheim's nephew, in the articles of William James and in the works of Sigmund Freud. He was also a pioneer in Canadian science fiction, with the 1895 novel The British Barbarians. This book, published about the same time as H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine", also described time travel, although the plot is quite different. Many histories of detective fiction also mention Allen as an innovator. His gentleman rogue, the illustrious Colonel Clay, is seen as a forerunner to later characters. In fact, Allen's character bear strong resemblance to Maurice Leblanc's French works about Arsene Lupin, published many years later. Allen was married twice and had one son. He died at his home on Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, England on October 25, 1899. His unfinished novel "Hilda Wade" was completed, at his request, by his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. An annual festival celebrating Canadian mystery fiction is held annually on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Allen's birthplace.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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7) The Lower Slopes
Allen, Grant

London: Elkin Mathews, 1894 Limited to 600 copies. Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a science writer, author and novelist; an able upholder of the evolution doctrine and an expounder of Darwinism. Born near Kingston, Ontario, Canada, the son of an emigrant Anglo-Scottish Protestant minister, he studied in the United Kingdom and France and in his mid twenties became a professor at Queen's College in Jamaica. Despite his religious father, Allen became an agnostic and a socialist. After leaving his professorship, in 1876 he returned to the UK, where he turned his talents to writing, gaining a reputation for his essays on science and for literary works. His first books were on scientific subjects, and include Physiological Æsthetics (1877) and Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886). He was first influenced by associationist psychology as it was expounded by Alexander Bain and Herbert Spencer, the latter often considered the most important individual in the transition from associationist psychology to Darwinian functionalism. In Allen's many articles on flowers and perception in insects, Darwinian arguments replaced the old Spencerian terms. On a personal level, a long friendship that started when Allen met Spencer on his return from Jamaica, also grew uneasy over the years. Allen wrote a critical and revealing biographical article on Spencer that was published after Spencer was dead. After assisting Sir W. W. Hunter in his Gazeteer of India in the early 1880s, Allen turned his attention to fiction, and between 1884 and 1899 produced about 30 novels. In 1895, his scandalous book titled The Woman Who Did, promulgating certain startling views on marriage and kindred questions, became a bestseller. The book told the story of an independent woman who has a child out of wedlock. Another work, The Evolution of the Idea of God (1897), propounding a theory of religion on heterodox lines, has the disadvantage of endeavoring to explain everything by one theory. This "ghost theory" was often seen as a derivative of Herbert Spencer's theory. However, it was well known and brief references to it can be found in a review by Marcel Mauss, Durkheim's nephew, in the articles of William James and in the works of Sigmund Freud. He was also a pioneer in Canadian science fiction, with the 1895 novel The British Barbarians. This book, published about the same time as H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine", also described time travel, although the plot is quite different. Many histories of detective fiction also mention Allen as an innovator. His gentleman rogue, the illustrious Colonel Clay, is seen as a forerunner to later characters. In fact, Allen's character bear strong resemblance to Maurice Leblanc's French works about Arsene Lupin, published many years later. Allen was married twice and had one son. He died at his home on Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, England on October 25, 1899. His unfinished novel "Hilda Wade" was completed, at his request, by his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. An annual festival celebrating Canadian mystery fiction is held annually on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Allen's birthplace. End papers foxed, spine extremities slightly worn. Rare.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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8) The Shame of Oscar Wilde from the Shorthand Reports
Anonymous

Paris: Privately Printed, 1906 An account of Wilde's trial for homosexual acts with Lord Alfred Douglas. Originally published by Charles Carrington. This edition c.1920s.. First US Edition. Paperback in Wraps. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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9) What Never Dies: A Romance
Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules

London: Fortune Press, 1933 D'Arch Smith (53) who notes: 'A Fortune Press prospectus announces the edition to be limited to a thousand. A translation, often wrongly ascribed to Oscar Wilde, of Ce qui ne Meurt pas (1884).. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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10) What Never Dies: A Romance
Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules

London: Fortune Press, 1933 D'Arch Smith (53) who notes: 'A Fortune Press prospectus announces the edition to be limited to a thousand. A translation, often wrongly ascribed to Oscar Wilde, of Ce qui ne Meurt pas (1884). Some chipping and tearing to d/j. Rare.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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11) The Story Without a Name
Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules

New York: Bretano's, 1919 With Impressions of the author by Edgar Saltus. Rare.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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12) Les Diaboliques
Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules

London: Paul Elek, 1947 Introduction by Peter Quennell. English text.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Dodie Masterman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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13) Les Diaboliques
Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules

Paris: Modern Bibliotheque (Atheme Fayard), 1900 Rebound with original wraps together with two other illustrated novels from the same publisher Le Lecon d'Amour dans un Parc by Rene Boylesve, illustrated by A. Calbet and Ermeline by Abel Hermant, illustrated by G. Conrad. French text. nd c.1900.. First Illustrated Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, as Issued. Illus. by M. Marodon. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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14) Weird Women: The Crimson Curtain; Happiness in Crime; A Dinner of Atheists; A Woman Vengeance
Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules

London: Lutetian Bibliophiles' Society, 1900 The first English edition published by Charles Carrington of Paris with 18 engravings. Hand numbered limited edition 72/500 on van Gelder paper. Front hinge cracked, binding split in the centre, however appears to be in an original Carrington binding which would benefit from some gentle restoration. Very rare in any condition.. First English Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Rene Lelong, Lambrecht and Mas. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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15) The Daughters of Babylon
Barrett, Wilson and Hichens, Robert

London: John Macqueen, 1899 First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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16) Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry
Baudelaire, Charles

New York: The Modern Library, 1919 Minor chip to one page.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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17) Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude
Baudelaire, Charles

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. Translated and edited by Rosemary Lloyd.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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18) The Letters of Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire, Charles

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927 Translated by Arthur Symons. Showing wear.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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19) Les Fleurs de Mal
Baudelaire, Charles

Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1928 Showing some chipping and wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Good/Good. Illus. by Maggy Monier. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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20) Intimate Journals
Baudelaire, Charles

London: Panther, 1969 Translated by Christopher Isherwood.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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21) Selected Poems
Baudelaire, Charles

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1975 Translated and introduced by Joanna Richardson. Text in English and French.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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22) Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats: Letters
Bax, Clifford (editor)

London: Home & Van Thal, 1946 First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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23) De Quincey's Art of Autobiography
Baxter, Edmund

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990 Considers aspects of the self in the wide range of De Quincey's writing: autobiography, biography, fiction, politics and political economy. This is done with close focus on De Quincey's working and revision methods. Detailed 'select' bibliography. Indexed.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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24) The Story of Venus and Tannhauser
Beardsley, Aubrey

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1907 ... in which is set forth an exact account of the manner of State held by Madam Venus, Goddess and Meretrix, under the famous Horselberg, and containing the Adventures of Tannjauser in that Place, his Repentance, his Journeying to Rome and Return to the Loving Mountain. Hand numbered limited edition No. 226 /300 copies printed on hand-made papaer. Includes original publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. Small loss to head of spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. Illus. by Aubrey Beardsley. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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25) Under The Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse
Beardsley, Aubrey

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1904 Embossed front board, lightly rubbed. Minor tear to page 63-64, otherwise a nice copy. (Samuels-Lasner 141). First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. Illus. by Aubrey Beardsley. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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26) Under the Hill: The Story of Venus and Tannhauser
Beardsley, Aubrey

London: Olympia Press, 1966 Completed by Canadian author and poet John Glassco. An unread copy.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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27) The Story of Venus and Tannhauser or Under the Hill
Beardsley, Aubrey

London: Academy Editions, 1974 Spine faded to d/j.. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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28) Henry Harland: His Life and Work
Beckson, Karl

London: The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1978 Drawing upon 315 letters written by Harland and his wife Beckson provides a biographical and critical study that’s places Harland in the context of the 19th century.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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29) Arthur Symons: Selected Letters 1880-1935
Beckson, Karl and Munro, John M. (Editors)

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989 In this volume of selected letters of the symbolist critic and poet, Arthur Symons (1865-1945), the editors have included the best of Symons' extensive correspondence with such figures as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Paul Verlaine, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Augustus John and many others.The letters reveal the world of literary London in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of the development of early Modernism and of Symons' sudden mental breakdown in 1908. Supplementary material is included, such as a long previously unpublished letter on Symons by Havelock Ellis, his friend for over forty years. Edited by Karl Beckson and John M. Munro. Symons (1865-45), poet and critic, became a friend of Yeats, G. A. Moore, and H. Ellis, and attended the Rhymers' Club; his early volumes of poetry (Days and Nights, 1889; London Nights, 1895) were very much of their time in their celebration of decadence and the demi-monde of stage, street, and Café Royal. He was editor of the Savoy, 1896, and published Beardsley, Conrad, Dowson, L. P. Johnson, etc. His The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899) was an attempt to introduce French Symbolism to England, and he wrote critical studies of Blake, Baudelaire, Pater, Wilde, and others. He is largely remembered as a leading spirit in the Decadent movement, a defender of ‘art for art's sake’. Includes a select bibliography of Symons' works.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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30) The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteeth Century
Beer, Thomas

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926 Spine extremities and edges worn.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9. more information

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31) The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteeth Century
Beer, Thomas

New York: Vintage Books, 1960. Some rubbing to covers.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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32) The Road to Heaven: A Romance of Morals
Beer, Thomas

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928 Novel by the author of The Mauve Decade.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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33) And Even Now
Beerbohm, Max

London: William Heinemann, 1950 Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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34) Mainly On The Air
Beerbohm, Max

London: William Heinemann, 1957 Enlarged from the first edition.. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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35) Yet Again
Beerbohm, Max

London: William Heinemann, 1951 Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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36) And Even Now
Beerbohm, Max

London: William Heinemann, 1920 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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37) Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art Collected by Max Beerbohm
Beerbohm, Max

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1920 Beerbohm was a major figure in British theatre. Born in Kensington, London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son of Julius Beerbohm, a Lithuanian-born businessman of German descent, and his English wife Constantia Draper [1]. His younger half-brother was the parodist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm. (Max jokingly claimed that Herbert added the "Tree" to his name because it was easier for audiences than shouting "Beerbohm! Beerbohm!" at curtain calls.) Includes chapters by Edmund, Gilbert Parker, G.B. Shaw and other luminaries. Rebound in strong, but worn, library binding.. Third Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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38) Around Theatres
Beerbohm, Max

New York: Greenwood Press, 1969 Beerbohm succeeded George Bernard Shaw as dramatic critic of the Saturday Review in 1898, and many of his reviews are here reprinted W.B. Yeats, Synge, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, J.M. Barrie, Sarah Bernhardt, Duse, Ellen Terry, Yvette Guilbert, etc. An unread copy.. First Thus. Cloth. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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39) Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story
Beerbohm, Max

London: William Heinemann, 1964 Reprint. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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40) Seven Men and Two Others
Beerbohm, Max

London: William Heinemann, 1950 Rebound in strong library binding.. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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41) Works and More
Beerbohm, Max

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946 Third Printing. Cloth. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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42) Aubrey Beardsley: An Account of His Life
Benkovitz, Miriam

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981 Biography of the Victorian artist. Price clipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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43) Baudelaire: A Criticism
Bennett, Joseph D

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1944. Biography and criticism with bibliography and notes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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44) Nine French Poets1820-1880
Berthon, H.E

London: Macmillan and Co., 1943 Includes Aplhonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, Charles Augustine Saint-Beuve, Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Leconte de Lisle, Paul Verlaine along with an introduction on the structure of French verse and explanatory notes. Covers faded and rubbed, front hinge cracked.. Sixth Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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45) Thomas Bird Mosher, Pirate Prince of Publishers
Bishop, Philip R

London: British Library, 1998 Thomas Bird Mosher, whose editions helped disseminate British literature and design to the American public. Variously described as "literary pirate" by some yet praised as "prince of publishers" by others, Mosher's passion for literary texts led him to reprint books without the author's permission, though he often paid royalties. Mosher never technically broke any copyright laws, and many authors defended him for assisting in introducing the American public to authors such as William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Meredith, Robert Browning and George Gissing in affordable editions. The designs of Blake, Rossetti, Pissarro, Strang, Morris and MacMurdo and presses such as the Vale, Chiswick and Kelmscott also appeared in "The Mosher Books". This study provides the story behind the literary piracy slanders against Mosher and includes sections on various aspects of "The Mosher Books" such as books printed on vellum, privately printed books and an illustrated section on bindings. Introduction by William E. Fredeman.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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46) Thomas Bird Mosher, Pirate Prince of Publishers
Bishop, Philip R

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1998 Thomas Bird Mosher, whose editions helped disseminate British literature and design to the American public. Variously described as "literary pirate" by some yet praised as "prince of publishers" by others, Mosher's passion for literary texts led him to reprint books without the author's permission, though he often paid royalties. Mosher never technically broke any copyright laws, and many authors defended him for assisting in introducing the American public to authors such as William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Meredith, Robert Browning and George Gissing in affordable editions. The designs of Blake, Rossetti, Pissarro, Strang, Morris and MacMurdo and presses such as the Vale, Chiswick and Kelmscott also appeared in "The Mosher Books". This study provides the story behind the literary piracy slanders against Mosher and includes sections on various aspects of "The Mosher Books" such as books printed on vellum, privately printed books and an illustrated section on bindings. Introduction by William E. Fredeman.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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47) Arthur Rimbaud: Modern Critical Views
Bloom, Harold (Editor)

New York: Chelsea House, 1988. Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 - 10 November 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville. As part of the decadent movement, his influence on modern literature, music and art has been enduring and pervasive. He produced his best known wrks while still in his late teens, Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an enfant Shakespeare", and gave up creative writing altogether before he reached 21. He remained a prolific letter-writer all his life. Rimbaud was a restless soul, travelling extensively on three continents before his premature death from cancer less than a month after his 37th birthday.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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48) A Magick Life: The Life of Aleister Crowley
Booth, Martin

London: Coronet, 2001 Aleister Crowley, occultist, poet, novelist, bisexual adventurer and drug user was not a man to inspire half-hearted reaction in his own lifetime. He was either adored or vilified. So Martin Booth's crisply written, agenda-free biography which sets out simply to tell the truth objectively is a welcome addition to Crowley literature. Born to a wealthy brewing family, Crowley, whose parents belonged to the fanatical Plymouth Brethren sect, had a miserably repressed childhood. He spent much of the rest of his life apparently trying to shake off what he regarded as the filth of Christianity. Magic for Crowley, who decided while still at Cambridge in 1898 on a career as a magus, was intrinsically linked to human will. He came to believe that he and his disciples could control almost anything by exerting will. Like the poet WB Yeats he joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Eventually he became leader of the Order of the Oriental Templars or Ordo Templi Orientis, which survives as a huge international cult organisation and gave Booth access to its archives. As Booth says "Crowley may have been oversexed but he was first and foremost a religious and not a debauched character". But famously, and how the tabloid press loved it, Crowley believed that sex was what liberated the creative force necessary to his "work" and he had ritual (and spontaneous) vaginal and or anal intercourse with many hundreds of women and men all over the world. Sometimes the rituals--upon which Booth is to be congratulated for sparing us too many prurient details--involved animals too. Drugs changed the perception of the participants. Booth's book does what it promises. It provides the extraordinary facts and leaves you to decide for yourself from an informed position whether this man--in whom interest has grown considerably since his death in 1947, especially during the 1960s--was merely a degenerate charlatan or an impassioned, although arguably misguided, magical missionary, pitiful at the end of his life.. Third Printing. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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49) Marthe and the Madman
Bosschere, Jean De

New York: Covici, Friede, 1928 Translated from the French by Pierre Loving.. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Jean De Bosschere. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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50) The House of Forsaken Hope
Bosschere, Jean De

London: Fortune Press, 1942. Hand numbered limited edition 472/500 on handmade paper. Colour Frontispiece. Translated by Donald J. MacAndrew. Spine faded. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Jean De Bosschere. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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