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This copy in a unique leather Surrealist binding

Vision, London, 1948

Signed and dedciated by Viv Albertine

Faber & Faber, London, 2018

Fourth edition of Caraciollo's convent scandal memoir Mysteries of the Neapolitan Cloister / Misteri del Chiostro Napoletano. In the Register of Erotic Books (Entry No 2950).

Richard Bentley, London, 1865

First UK edition of the first instalment of Susan Sontag's diaries

Hamish Hamilton, London, 2009

Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter to Charles Schefer, a prominent orientalist and bibliophile

Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887

1953–1956; Three volumes archiving the lives and activities of Alexander Herzen and Nikolai Ogarev

Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1953

A centenary celebration of the Bulgarian poet Geo Milev

Hristo Botev, Sofia, 1995

Rochdale interest, and Nicholson persecution for fighting against Ritualism in the Parish Church

Not stated, Rochdale, 1892

Brian Keeble's three essays on W.R. Lethaby, Edward Johnston, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Temenos Academy, London, 2005

Liverpool MP and philanthropist Samuel Smith's memorial book to his only son

Turner, Routledge & Co, Liverpool, 1899

1962, a first edition of Clyde Hyder's biography

University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1962

A biography of the fight for Vots for Women

Bailey Brothers and Swinfen Ltd, Folkestone, 1974

1988, signed and dedicated by George Hayim

Quartet Books, London, 1988

1939, a rare copy gifted from Alun Lewis to his wife, Gweno, in Christmas 1942, just before he embarked for India in WW2

William Heinemann, London, 1939

Signed by Asad Qureshi

Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 2022

Conjuring in Life, Letters and Literature. Signed by Ian Keable.

Printed for the Author(s), 2014

Half-vellum binding, 1886. Alphonse de Lamartine's editing of his mother's diary

Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1886

2011, signed and dedicated by Neil Ansell

Hamish Hamilton, London, 2011

1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection

Faber & Faber, London, 1968

1979, 2 volumes, Morton Cohen's comprehensive edition of Lewis Carroll's correspondence

Macmillan, London, 1979

1948, signed by William Kent to Maurice Bowra. A historical record of foreign visitors welcomed to London

Nicholson & Watson, London, 1948

1941, Tom Wintringham's account of his time with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War

Penguin Books, London, 1941

1937 edition in dustwrapper

Jonathan Cape, London, 1937

Signed and dedicated by Baroness Lola Young

Fig Tree, Penguin, London, 2024

Signed by Paul Willetts, The Bizarre Life of Writer, Actor, Soho dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross

Dewi Lewis, London, 2003