Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. One of 500 cloth trade copies. Original glassine wrapper a little creased, top board a little abraded at the foot. Cloth spine with paper label. Lime green eps, 266pp. Lightly foxed. More
Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1982-91. 1/4 cloth. 5 volumes, first editions. Good to Very Good. Annotated by Billy Jones at the end of each. The Colour of Air. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. One of 300 trade cloth copies, 301pp. Lacks glassine wrapper. Edgeworn. Paper label... More
Thame: Mandrake Press, 1990. Black cloth boards. 217 x 148mm, 61 [3] pp. Top corners very lightly bruised. Light foxing throughout. Dust jacket complete, with some rippling and light foxing underneath. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 282. Aleister Crowley was, among other things, a poet, novelist occultist... More
New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1911. Cloth boards. Second revised edition. Octavo (189 x 125mm), [2] 277 [9] [2, blank] pp. Spine browned and rubbed, slight soiling to boards, edges worn. Endpapers lightly foxed, occasional creasing to top corner of pages. SIGNED by Goldman on the ffep. Emma Goldman... More
London: Henry Herringman, 1694. Recased in brown calf. Octavo (184 x 115 mm), [2] 254pp. Minor bruising to top of spine, browning to edges of text block. Bookplate inside front cover, new endpapers with moderate foxing, water marks to first 16 pages, rippling, small creases, light spotting and occasional pencil... More
London: J. Debrett, 1797. Eighteenth. Recased in brown paper boards. Octavo (213 x 132mm), [4] 138 pp. Covers very faintly rubbed, light soiling to back cover, rubbing, soiling and tear to top right hand corner of paper label on front cover, light bruising to corners and top of spine. Bookplate... More
London: Trianon Press. Hand stencil (pochoir) prints in various sizes on hand-mould paper. The Blake Trust established the Trianon Press in the mid-twentieth century with the aim of reproducing as closely as possible the illuminated works of William Blake. The project was born between Blake Trustee Sir Geoffrey Keynes and... More
London: Trianon Press, 1987. Folio, 22 facsimile hand coloured plates, loose in a folder as issued. Near fine (first plate has a bent corner) in a near fine (slightly rubbed) folder.. The publication of Blake's last completed set of engravings formed an appropriate finale to the William Blake Trust's scheme... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First Thus. One of 400 cloth trade copies. Original glassine wrapper slightly wrinkled. Cloth spine over illustrated boards with chipped and abraded paper label, mustard yellow eps, 161pp. Billy Jones’s signature spiral on ffep and at p.160, minor underlining. Foxing to edges of the... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First Thus. First edition, one of 250 signed and numbered by the author. This is 110. 165pp., [4] biographical note and colophon. Cloth spine over illustrated boards. Signature Jones 'spiral' on p.159, underlining and marginalia on a few pages. Note at the end in... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. With Etchings by John Register. First Trade edition limited to 1000 copies in paper wrappers, 32pp., dark purple endpapers. Spine lightly abraded. From the personal collection of Billy Jones (1935 - 2012). Jones was a New Jersey-born but Queensland based artist and poet. While... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Original glassine wrapper a little worn at the top corners and head of spine. Cloth spine with paper label, blood orange eps, 133 pp., Billy Jones bookmark on front paste down (mass produced). One of 200 trade copies. Inscribed to... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Cloth spine with paper label, red eps, 133 pp. Of 200 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author this is 20. Original glassine wrapper in good condition.Occasional marginalia from Billy Jones in his distinctive text. Light foxing. From the... More
London: London College of Printing and Goldsmith's College, 1978. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Translated by Ronald Knox. [3] blank, [36]pp, [3] blank, mustard coloured paper covered boards, cloth spine, paper label on spine, speckled endpapers. Printed in 18pt Bembo type with 60pt. initials. Sixteen lithograph illustrations printed at Goldsmith's College... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001, 2002. c: 8pp (including covers), foxed; Black Sparrow Press Checklist and Order Form Spring/Summer 2002: one sheet with four folds to create DL sized document, fine; Black Sparrow Press Checklist and Order Form Current and Forthcoming Titles: single sheet folded four times, very good... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. Paperback. Poetry chapbook, stapled16pp., soft illustrated covers. A New Year's Greeting 1999 Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966 by John Martin specifically to put out the works of Charles Bukowski and other avant garde authors. It is best known for publishing Bukowski, John... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Paperback. Poetry chapbook, stapled, 20pp., soft illustrated covers. A New Year's Greeting 1995. Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966 by John Martin specifically to put out the works of Charles Bukowski and other avant garde authors. It is best known for publishing Bukowski... More
Paperback. Poetry chapbook, stapled, 20pp., soft illustrated covers. A New Year's Greeting 1997. Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966 by John Martin specifically to put out the works of Charles Bukowski and other avant garde authors. It is best known for publishing Bukowski, John Fante, Paul Bowles and many... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. Paperback. Chapbook, stapled, 20pp, graphically designed soft covers with minor edgewear to the foot of the front and a tad age-toned along the top edge. A New Year's Greeting 2001. Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966 by John Martin specifically to put out... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Fair. Square chapbook, 18pp. Covers are abraded and edgeworn. Trade paperback edition. A New Year's Greeting. 1987. Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966 by John Martin specifically to put out the works of Charles Bukowski and other avant garde authors. It is best... More
![Songs of Innocence [with] Songs of Experience. Muir facsimile, William Blake.](/pictures/thumb/453_Muir_1 copy.jpg?v=1535100321)
London: 1927. The soft wraps are toned and pushed along the edges and corners, with a couple of minor (2mm) tears. 2 volumes, quarto. Songs of Innocence: 28 hand coloured plates, copied from the "Beaconsfield" original in the British Museum by Joseph Patrick Trumble, Muir, and William Muir. Songs of... More
Sydney: Hordern House, 1999. Fine. Quarto, 32pp, (16), 1-64, (4) map, 65-72, (4) map, (2), 64pp, (2); hand bound in quarter alum tawed goatskin with marbled paper sides designed by Margo Snape. Published by Hordern House for the Austraian Maritime Museum. Australian Maritime Series Number Five. A facsimile of the... More
Sydney: Collins, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. 1,466 pages including two-page Glossary of Aboriginal Terms. Octavo, 26 x 18 cm, hard cover, cloth bound with red and gilt spine titling, jacket painting by Ray Crooke. Weight: 2 kg. Minor edge wear to top of dust jacket spine, original owner’s name in... More
Sydney: Macmillan, 1999. Tall softcover, 32 x 24cm, b&w photograph on top cover and title in white on black, repeated on spine, 168pp, overflowing with Yang's b&w photographs of Sydney's queer culture (1970 - 1995) and his eloquently simple and personal reflections. There is a 1mm nick at the head of... More
New York and Hassocks, Sussex: Cornell University Press and The Harvester Press, 1975-1992. cloth. The Salisbury Plain Poems, edited by Stephen Gill. Ithaca , New York: Cornell University Press and Hassocks, Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1975, First Printing.xviii 310 pages. First title in the Cornell Wordsworth. Condition: Near Fine. Half... More