1. Haring, Keith / [André Heller].

Luna Luna Karussell – A Poetic Extravaganza [One of the few (c.100) Original, Limited Edition- Pop-Ups (stated as No.164 of 2000), designed by Keith as a carousel for the “Luna Park Fair with Modern Art”, with the seats in the shape of cartoon characters, and painted the whole thing with his icons and symbols (Wikipedia)]. The original edition was 2000 but according to Sotheby’s, this is one of the extremely rare, roughly 100 Pop-Ups which has survived a destructive accident after the opening of the Fair.

Langley (England) / Cali (Colombia), Van der Meer Paper Design Limited, Carvajal in Cali, Colombia, 1986. Large Quarto (30.4 cm x 30.4 cm). Pop-Up Folder (2 pages). Softcover with stunning pop-up inside. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Pop Up inside in absolutely stunning condiiton. Extremely scarce and among the rarest pieces of Art-Ephemera ever produced !

2. Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M.

Robert Kennedy and his Times. Illustrated with Photographs.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1978. Large-8°. XVII, 1066 pages. Hardcover / Decorative red quarter morocco with gilt lettering on spine. In original slipcase. One of 500 signed copies of the Collector’s Edition. With two pages dogeared and only absolutely minor signs of wear. The book itself unread ! Signed by Schlesinger on front free endpaper.

3. Dawson, Fielding.

The Greatest Story Ever Told: A Transformation.

Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1973. 8°. 69 pages. Original Hardcover in the original acetate dustjacket [Mylar]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. No. 107 of 200 hardcover copies, numbered and signed by the author.

4. Xingjian, Gao.

L’Encre et la Lumière. [Ink and Light]

Limited Edition [One of only 222 copies, signed and numbered]. Voix, Jeanne Hyvrard, 1998. Duodecimo. 40 unnumbered pages with illustrations and poetry. Includes also the very fragile, folded illustration on fine, extra-thin paper. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely rare publication of the exiled nobel laureate from China.

5. Wells III, Stuart W.

The Science Fiction and Heroic Fantasy Author Index.

Duluth, Minnesota, Purple Unicorn Books, 1978. 15cm x 22,5cm. XXI, 186 pages. Original Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. First Edition. No. 39 of 300 copies of a limited edition. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author and the designer on the limitation page.

6. Vanbrugh, Sir John.

Sir John Vanbrugh, In Two Volumes. Volume I. Edited by W.C. Ward.

142 of an edition of 750 copies printed for England and America. Volume one of two volumes. London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. 16 cm x 23 cm. LXXVIII, 397 pages. Illustrated on frontispiece with engraving by J. Faber, 1727 after a portrait by J. Richardson, 1725. Modern Hardcover (Recent, modern Maroon cloth, label from original binding on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Gilt top, deckled edges.

7. Uris, Leon.

Exodus. Illustrated by Harlan M. Karkovitz.

Signed Limited Edition. Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1977. 16 cm x 25,5 cm. 720 Pages. Original Hardcover. Full leather with gilt lettering and ornament. Gilt edges. Beautifully singed by Leon Uris. Small smudge to the fore-edge of the book. Otherwise in excellent condition. Enclosed is a little pamphlet: “Note from the Editors”.

8. Steiner, George.

The Uncommon Reader. Originally delivered at Bennington College as Lecture One in the Ben Belitt Lectureship Series, October third, 1978.

LIMITED EDITION. Vermont, Bennigton College, 1978. 8°. 22 Pages. Original ice blue card wrappers, stapled (softcover). Excellent condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings. [Offprint from: “The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature”]

9. Steegmuller, Francis / Bornstein, Dean (illust.).

The Incident at Naples.

First Edition. New York, Privately Printed, 1992. 8°. 35 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Excellent condition. No text markings. Pages inside clean, fresh and bright. Illustration on p. 7 by Dean Bornstein.

10. Purdy, James.

Sunshine Is An Only Child. Poems by James Purdy.

No.8 of only 150 signed copies [26 of these lettered/reserved for the author]. New York, Aloe Editions, 1973. Large Octavo (16.3 cm x 24 cm). 10 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition.

11. Price, Reynolds.

Nine Mysteries (Four Joyful, Four Sorrowful, One Glorious).

Limited Edition / One of 309 signed copies. Palaemon Press, 1979. 18 cm x 25 cm. 29 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by Reynolds Price.

12. [Moore, Leonard] Rolfe, Frederick Baron Corvo.

Letters to Leonard Moore. Edited and with an Introduction by Cecil Woolf and Rabbi Bertram W. Korn and Epilogue by Leonard Moore.

First edition / Limited Edition: One of only 290 copies. London, Nicholas Vane, 1960. 16 x 24 cm. 76 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth. Excellent, near Fine condition of a very rare book. [The Centenary Edition of the Letters of Frederick William Rolfe: II].

13. McDonnell, Hector (Illustrator).

The Night Before Larry was Stretched [with signed etching]. With an introduction by Terence de Vere White.

Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1984. 20.5 cm x 13 cm. IX, 96 pages. Original Hardcover in original slipcase. Number 48 out of a limited edition of 500 copies / Excellent, close to new condition. Includes orignial, signed etching.

14. Mathers, E. Powys.

The Eastern Anthology – Anthology of Eastern Love. Eastern Love: Volumes I & II & III: The Lessons of a Bawd and Harlot’s Breviary. English Versions of the Kuttanimatam of Damodaragupta and Samayamatrika of Kshemendra. Volume I: The Lessons of a Bawd of Damodaragupta. Volume II: The Harlot’s Breviary of Kshemendra. Volume III: The Book of Women and The Education of Wives.

3 Volumes in one (complete set). London, John Rodker For Subscribers, 1927. 15.2 cm x 23.5 cm. Pagination: Vol I: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 92 pages / Vol II: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 100 pages / Vol III: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 152 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful, actually stunning, private full morocco in Art Deco – Style (see images), Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Deckled edges. Top edge gilt. Gilt on spine and red leather hardcover. Minor discolouration and staining to front and rear pastedown enpapers and endpapers. This edition of the Kuttanimatam of Damodaragupta, the Samayamatrika of Kshemendra, the Zenan-Nameh of Fazil-Bey, and Ta’Dib Ul-Nisvan, being Volume I, II and III of the “Eastern Art of Love”, are here translated into English for the first time, by E. Powys Mathers. This edition of 1,000 copies on all rag paper was printed by Messrs. Molyneux, 3 & 4, New Street Hill, London. The copper plate engravings are by Hester Sainsbury and have been printed and hand coloured by Messrs. A. Alexander and Sons, Ltd. This copy is No. 695.

15. Malamud, Bernard.

Long Work, Short Life [″I intend to say something about my life a writer….”].

Hoosick Falls, Bennington College, 1985. 8°. Frontispiece (Faksimile-page of a Manuscript by Malamud), 19 pages. Illustrated with three full-page photographs: 1. Bernard Malamud reading at the Carriage Barn, Bennington College (1978) / 2. Bernard Malamud in the 1960s (Clemens Kalischer photo) / 3. Bernard Malamud with Ben Belitt at Bennington College in 1981 (Kyle Hughes Photo). Softcover. Original brochure. One of only 1000 copies of this limited edition. As new ! [The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature – Published in Memory of William Troy].

16. Janta, Aleksander.

Linia Podzialu. Wstep napsial Artur Marya Swinarski.

Londyn, Oficyna Poetow i Malarzy, 1963. 8°. 40 pages. Softcover in protective Mylar. One corner bumped. Very good+ condition. No. 423 of the limited edition. Inscribed / Signed by Aleksander Janta to Rennie Silver.

17. Holden, Constance W.

Hellas – Drawings by Constance W.Holden with Selections from the Greek Dramatists.

Limited Edition. Boston, Thomas Todd Company, 1969. Folio (32 cm x 41 cm). 62 pages with numerous illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. The rare dustjacket with tears. The Volume itself in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

18. Goldoni, Carlo / Aldington, Richard.

The Good-Humoured Ladies: A Comedy. By Carlo Goldoni. Translated from the Italian by Richard Aldington. To which is prefix’d an Essay on Carlo Goldoni by Arthur Symons. The whole embellish’d with Cuts by Ethelbert White.

London, C.W.Beaumont, 1922. 8°. XXIII, 76 pages. Original Hardcover / Quarter vellum with decorative paper-covered boards. The boards slightly bumped. The vellum spine in excellent condition. No.16 of only 75 copies printed. Signed by Arthur Symons, Ethelbert White and Richard Aldington. [The fifteenth book issued by the Beaumont Press].

19. Gerhardie, William Alexander / Kingsmill, Hugh / Youngman Carter, Philip.

The Casanova Fable. A Satirical Revaluation. Illustrated by Philip Youngman Carter.

Rare, limited and signed first edition (No.20 of only 150 copies). London, Jarrolds, 1934. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 223 pages. With seven full-page illustrations in colour. Hardcover / Original, spectacular quarter vellum binding. Signed by William Gerhardie and Hugh Kingsmill. Bookplate / Exlibris of Liverpool book-collector, John Raymond Danson, to pastedown. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

20. Bell, Don.

Bookspeak.

Signed / Limited edition of 120 copies. Francestown, Typographeum, 2000. 24,5 cm x 16,5 cm. 25 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.