Recent Arrivals from Ripping Yarns

London: George G. Harrap, 1974. Hardback in Dustwrapper. Very Good-/Poor. Patricia Casey. Paul Jennings' first full-length children's book. Green cloth boards, 6½ x 7 inches, gilt lettering to spine; in pictorial dustwrapper. 72 pp, numerous full-page black and white illustrations. Small school library label and stamp to ffep, small stamp to back endpaper, no other library markings. Boards… Read more about this item

Carcanet, 1985. First Thus. . Hardback. Good+/Good+. Translated from the Italian by Dick Davis. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, unclipped dust jacket. Slight fading and toning to spine and margins of dust jacket, bumped and a little scuffed at edges. Small spots of foxing to endpapers and textblock edge, otherwise book very good, clean, bright and… Read more about this item

London: Hogarth Press, 1928. Hardcover. Good. Grey boards with black decoration 48 pp. Number 2 in the Hogarth Living Poets Series. Bookplate of former owner to first free endpaper has caused slight creasing to that page, otherwise a good tight copy.

1966. Soft cover. Good. Paper covers, 80pp. Cover by Mike Goldberg. Contributions from Ted Berrigan, Ed Sanders, Kenneth Koch, Frank Lima, John Giorno, John Wieners etc. Covers slightly tanned in places and a little dusty but good, clean and tight.

Soft cover. Good. Student magazine with b&w Robert Crumb-like strip cartoons, 6pp with one staple.. Advert for 'The Phantom Captain' collective on rear cover. No authors of the comix credited , but appears to be part of the same group, namely Neil Hornick, Jean Michaelson, David Webster, Bernard Kelly. Externally very slightly tanned at edges but good+ clean… Read more about this item

Buffalo: INTREPID pRESS, 1970. Soft cover. Good. Limited run of 1200. Comprises 2 Talks on Carlos Williams delivered to the University of Parma, 1969. Good tight copy

Soft cover. Good. incl. Jim Burns, Dave Cunliffe, Michael Horovitz on Adrian Mitchell etc. Good clean and tight

Lahore: SIMORGH women's resource and publication centre, 1987. Soft cover. Good. 18pp booklet exploring the relationship between women and the 'mazar' or local saint.

Keepsake Press, 1969. Soft cover. Good. Grey card covers, title label to front, unpaginated. This edition was posthumously published after the poet's suicide in 1969. Sunned externally near spine. Otherwise clean tight and good copy.

Stirling: AK Press, 1993. Soft cover. Good. 22pp political booklet. Good clean and tight

1972. Soft cover. Good. Orange paper covers, with design based on notation of steps from Iroquois Dance. 50pp. Literary magazine including poetry, illustration and prose from various contributors inc. Albert Glover, Steve Benson, Rebecca Newth etc. SLightly faded at spine and staples beginning to rust otherwise good++ clean and tight.

London: The Black Dwarf, 1968. Soft cover. Poor. 8pp. Front cover picture of man blindfolded and gagged 'The demonstration October 27th'. Cover stories include 'What to do if you're Arrested', 'Malcolm Caldwell on Mao Tse Tung etc. Lyrics 'Street Fighting Man' submitted by Mick Jagger in facsimile following the record company's refusal to release the single. Back… Read more about this item

London: The Black Dwarf, 1970. Soft cover. Good-. Cover - "Fred Halliday Exposes Britain's Secret War" (piece on British rule in the Gulf). Pages a little crumpled and yellowed, especially at fold crease across centre. Otherwise good.

London: The Black Dwarf, 1970. Soft cover. Good-. Cover - "1970: Where Will Democracy Strike Next?". Inside, 'Letter From Jail' by Bobby Seale, 'The Year of the Militant Woman'. Pages tanned and slightly foxed, edges a little chipped, small closed tear at spine affecting contents throughout. Fold crease across centre.

London: The Black Dwarf, 1970. Soft cover. Good. Cover - "Bernadette Devlin and Ann Devenney: How Sam Devenney Died" (transcript of interview with Ann Devenney following the death of her father in Derry NI). Inside, "Striking for Control", piece on striking Heathrow airport workers; "Easter Skinheads" - clashes in towns along the south east coast; "Police Terror in… Read more about this item

London: The Black Dwarf, 1969. Soft cover. Fair. Ralph Steadman. Radical newspaper of the sixties, 12pp. Cover illustration Steadman cartoon of Harold Wilson and President Nixon. Contents include Vietnam, anti-ANC piece on South Africa 'African Betrayal', Ernest Mandel, car workers' struggles; Enoch Powell exposed. Pages tanned, covers detached, one inch closed tear throughout contents at spine, edges chipped.… Read more about this item

Haus Publishing, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. Bottom corner of covers and contents a little bumped, slight tanning to page margins, otherwise very good. Contributors include Roger Alsop, Peter Bailey, Steve Bell, Quentin Blake, David Hockney, Paul Hogarth, David Hughes, Ronald Searle, David Shrigley, Posy Simmonds, Ralph Steadman. This is a heavy book and will require extra overseas… Read more about this item

Picador, 1993. Soft cover. Good. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Covers bumped at edges, pages a little tanned. Good clean tight reading copy.

Faber, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, unclipped dust jacket. Shop sticker to ffep. Corners and top edge of dust jacket a little tanned and bumped. Book itself very good clean and tight.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868. Hardcover. Good ++. Dalziel Brothers. Translated by H. W. Dulken, PH.D.With Seventy engravings by the Brothers Dalziel. Burgundy cloth bevelled edge boards, Gilt title to front. Boards a little dulled and marked, bumped and rubbed at corners, gilt rubbed from some letters in title. Top layer of cloth has worn away from… Read more about this item