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title: CONTRASTS 4.
N.D. Spring or Summer 1969. Demy 8vo format pp.44 including text-paper wrappers paged ii41i blank. Wrappers slightly dusty; otherwise fine. Includes poems by Jeff Nuttall George Buchanan Adrian Henri David Chaloner Barry MacSweeney Bob Cobbing David Mercer Dave Cunliffe Peter Finch Martin Booth Michael Schmidt John Pudney Wes Magee translations from Pablo Neruda Jacques Prévert etc. and a cover design by Bob Cobbing. Dated from the listings of ‘Recent Books and Magazines’ at the end. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE BOOKMAN.
No.185 Vol.XXXI. February 1907. Lge.f’cap folio format 44pp. wire-stitched as a single gathering into fawn paper wrappers printed in black; numerous illustrations in text; demy 8vo half-tone portrait of De Quincey after a crayon drawing by James Archer R.S.A. mounted on pott folio leaf of brown paper captioned in silver loosely laid in as issued. Small chip to paper of wrappers at head of spine; otherwise a nice copy. Includes ‘Thomas De Quincey’ by W.E.A. Axon; ‘The Late F.W. Maitland’ by Thomas Seccombe; ‘Lafcadio Hearn’ by Charles Squire; ‘The Fruits of Silence’ by R.C. Lehmann; ‘Studies in Seven Arts’ by Walter de la Mare; ‘The Romany Rye’ by Arthur Ransome; ‘The Songs of Sidi Hammo’ by Edward Thomas; etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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LABOUR MONTHLY: A Magazine of International Labour.
Volume 23 Number 3 March 1941. Editor R. Palme Dutt. Roy.8vo wire-stitched; pp.97-144; pale brown wrappers cut flush printed in dull blue. Top- and spine- edges of front wrapper a little darkened; otherwise a fine copy. Contributors include George Bernard Shaw H.G. Wells H.W. Nevinson etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE ARGOSY.
Edited by Mrs. Henry Wood. Volume XXXV. January to June 1883. Publisher’s cloth; six plates. Slight scattered foxing; otherwise nice. Includes the first half of ‘Winifred Power’ by Belle Duffy the first half of ‘Mrs. Carr’s Companion’ by M.G. Wightwick work by Jean Middlemass Victor Plarr two ‘Johnny Ludlow Papers’ by the editor etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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title: THE STRAND MAGAZINE Edited by Geo: Newnes.
No.178 Vol 30 Oct. 1905. Super roy.8vo in half sheets; integral advertisements at front and back; illustrations on text-paper; pp.100362-480101-116; small inserted card advertisement for Plantol Soap printed in colour precedes start of text; ‘Tablone’ advertisement on smaller salmon paper; ‘International Library’ advertisement on cream paper; and 4pp. advertisements on smaller thin paper for ‘Sanatogen’ bound in at end; pale blue wrappers printed in dark blue. Back wrapper lacking; otherwise a very nice copy. Contributors include Max Pemberton W.W. Jacobs and in a minor way Mrs. Humphrey Ward ‘John Oliver Hobbes’ Stanley Weyman etc. Illustrators include S.H. Sime Gordon Browne Will Owen F.C. Gould and John Hassall. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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PRIAPUS 5.
Summer 1966. Lge.post 4to format single sheets wire-stabbed; inserted leaf of green paper printed with illustration in black on recto and another of white paper neither included in the pagination; cream paper covers front cover cut flush printed in black scarlet and yellow; pp.ii26. Top margins chewed affecting in all about four letters of by-lines; last opening a little dusty. Poetry by Edward Lucie-Smith Leslie Norris Ted Walker Paddy Webb Gunter Grass Gerda Mayer Earle Birney D.M. Thomas John Cotton Eileen Campbell Sharon E. Mayer Michael Armstrong; the illustrations are by Heinke Jenkins the front cover designed and printed by Oscar Mellor at the Fantasy Press Oxford. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE LONDON MAGAZINE.
Vol.XI No.62 1903. Avertisement sections at front and back; illustrations on text-paper; 4pp. advertising leaflet for ‘Veno’s Seaweed Tonic’ loosely laid in as issued; pp.iii - xxiv113 - 224xxv - xxx back wrapper; white glazed wrappers printed in black and red. Lacking the front wrapper and paper of spine badly defective but otherwise a nice copy. Includes ‘The Melancholy Hussar’ by Thomas Hardy; ‘Mr. Valentine’s New Profession’ by O. Henry; a motoring story ‘The Deliverance of Archdeacon Ram’ by John K. Leys; ‘The Salvation of Detective Furley’ by W. Pett Ridge; ‘Three at Table’ by W.W. Jacobs; etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE BOYS OWN PAPER.
Lge.Imp.8vo format. Individual issues as under. Staples removed; otherwise nice copies. Seven numbers Vol.XIV 1892: Nos.692 693 703 704 705 706 and 707. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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BOYS.
Vol.I No.1 September 17th 1892 - Vol.I No.52 September 10th 1893. Demy 4to format. Forty-four weekly numbers ex fifty-two: Nos.8 14 15 17 18 34 37 and 40 lacking. Poor quality paper lightly embrowned but a nice run. Very scarce. Edited anonymously by Edwin Step. Serials include ‘The Black Bar’ by George Manville Fenn Nos. 1-21; ‘The Golden Canon’ by G.A. Henty Nos. 1-8; ‘Oræfa-dal; or The Iceland Farers’ by S. Baring Gould Nos. 21-32; a science fiction story ‘Under the Sea to the North Pole’ by Pierre Maël Nos. 28-43; ‘A Friend and A Foe’ by Ascott R. Hope Nos. 33-44; and ‘The New House-master’ by Charles Edwardes Nos.44-52; other regular contributors include Henry M. Stanley Robert Overton and William Allingham. Dartt pp.21-2 records only the issue in volume form not the numbers. The Baring-Gould novel appears never to have been reprinted All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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AINSWORTH’S MAGAZINE.
Vol.XII. July - December 1847. Med.8vo; pp.ii July title-page90ii August title-page91 - 270ii October title-page271 - 360ii November title-page361 - 450ii December title-page451 - 536; publisher’s scarlet vertical fine dotted-line-ribbed cloth lettered gilt on spine. Cloth restored at head of spine slightly chipped at tail; front free end-paper lacking; two or three early leaves reinserted and slightly dusty or frayed at fore-margins; title to September issue not bound in nor the Buss plates; one or two minor faults otherwise but a sound reading copy. Includes Book the Third Chap.II to Book the Fifth Chap.IX i.e. the end of ‘James the Second’ by Ainsworth; Chapters XXIII to the end of ‘Launcelot Widge’ by Charles Hooton; ‘The Gascons of 1585; or the “forty-fiveâ€â€™ by Alexandre Dumas complete; work by E.P. Rowsell James Gilborne Lyons Mrs. White Julia Maynard Francis Ainsworth Thomas Roscoe W. Hughes W.H. G. Kingston Caroline de Crespigny Mrs Ponsonby Francis Wyman Nicholas Michell Thomas Wright Robert Snow Charles Hervey as well as sundry contributions that are unsigned. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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ANTEÆUS.
Edited by Daniel Halpern. No.70 Spring 1993. On verso of title: Antæus Hopewell N.J. 1993. Med.8vo format perfect bound; half-title not called for; epigraph leaf precedes title-page printed in grey and black; 10pp. Ecco Press advertisements at end followed by blank; pp.244x2; white glazed wrappers cut flush printed in colour; issued without end-papers. Fine copy. LITERARY PERIODICALS ‘Special Fiction Issue’ including work by R.K. Narayan Joyce Carol Oates Steven Millhauser Julio Ortega John Barth Jorge Luis Borges etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON SOCIETY.
Vol.XIII. London: Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins 1871-2. 1872. F’cap 4to; inserted leaf of text-paper bearing ownership certificate precedes title-page; half-title not called for; fly titles to the separate parts; inserted text-paper blank precedes title leaf of fourth part; integral blank at end of fourth part; publisher’s brown net grain cloth ruled and blocked blind on sides ruled blind and gilt lettered gilt on spine; a.e. uncut; end-papers coated pale cream. Spine unobtrusively restored at joints; first and last pages embrowned apparently by contact with the end-papers; otherwise a nice copy. This volume consists of six separately printed items bound up together. Pp.ii8 title-leaf followed by Contents and list of members47i168416ii22257i. Printed over two years on large fine hand-made paper and here first issued as one volume. The ownership certificate is inscribed with the name of one of the members and certified by Lord Houghton. The contents of the present volume are ‘Narrative by Mr. Edward Grimston Of his captivity in the Bastille And his escape therefrom ’ 1558 edited by Henry Reeve; ‘Lettres De Madame de Maintenon á Sa nièce Madame De Caylus’ and ‘Lettres De Madame de Maintenon á Monsieur le Maréchal De Villeroy’ both edited by Louisa M. Knightley; ‘Notice of the late Princess Lieven. By Ralph Sneyd Esq.’; ‘The tombs of the Scaligers at Verona. Communicated b y Edward Cheyney Esq.’ together with a poem on the same subject by Robert Henry Cheyney; and ‘Mrs. Harcourt’s diary of The court of King George III.’. The Society had at this date thirty-seven members. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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THE ARGOSY.
Vol. XX.- No.2. February 1959. Sm.double cr.16mo; illustrations in text; pp.144; printed white wrappers cut flush. Slight spine roll; some very light marginal embrowning; otherwise a virtually fine copy. Includes short stories by Arthur C. Clarke E.L. Malpass Brian Cleeve John Wyndham Neil Bell Elizabeth Ferrars etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ENCOUNTER December 1973 Vol.XLI No.6.
Edited by Melvin J. Lasky and Anthony Thwaite. Super.roy.8vo; pp.96. Nice copy. Includes ‘A Goodbye for Evadne Winterbottom a story’ by Malcolm Bradbury ‘The Planet on the Table’ by Roy Fuller ‘Sir Karl Popper’ by Anthony Quinton poetry by Robert Nye William Anderson Erica Jong Alan Brownjohn Alistair Elliot Christopher Pilling and David Day ‘On Auden’s Death’ by Anthony Thwaite ‘The Speckled Hill the Plover’s Shore’ by Douglas Dunn ‘Bad Language’ by Jonathan Raban etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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The Microcosm A periodical work By Gregory Griffin Of the College of Eton.
Inscribed to the Rev. Dr. Davies. In two volumes. The third edition. Windsor: Published for C. Knight Castle-street; And sold by Mess. Robinsons Pater- Noster Row; and Mr. Debrett Piccadilly London 1790. 2 Vols. 12mo; half-titles not called for; both title leaves and the final leaf of volume one are single insets; pp.ixi blank242; x228; contemporary full sprinkled calf spine elaborately tooled gilt black lettering-piece sprinkled burnished edges. Slight cracking to three joints otherwise a very nice copy. From the library of Eric Quayle with his brief pencilled notes on the front end-papers of volume one. Originally published in forty numbers between November 6th 1786 and July 30th 1787 the chief contributors being George Canning John Smith Robert Smith and John Hookham Frere. All the contributions were anonymous. The back of the front end-paper in volume one bears a neat ink note in a contemporary hand reading “The Westminster scholars having published the Trifler as a rival work to the Microcosm and prefixed to it a Frontispiece in which the respective publications were shown in a pair of scales the Trifler weighing down the Microcosm Mr. Canning. who was chiefly concerned in writing the latter wrote the following Epigram: ‘What mean you by this print so rare / Ye wits of Eton jealous / But that your rivals soar in air / And you are heavy fellows’ All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ARGOSY.
Vol.XXII No.1 January 1961. Sm.double cr.16mo; illustrations in text; pp.144; printed white card wrappers cut flush. A very nice copy. Stories by C.S. Forester Youngman Carter John Wain H.E. Bates two etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE.
No.985. Winter 1950/51. Edited by Peter Quennell. John Murray 50 Albemarle Street London W.1. Demy 8vo; seven double-sided half-tone plates after photographs; pp.viii advertisements80; pale green paper wrappers cut flush printed in carmine and brown. A nice copy. Includes ‘Editorial Note’ and ‘Temples in Sicily’ by Peter Quennell; ‘The Flag’ by H.E. Bates; ‘Recollections of Lytton Strachey’ by Clive Bell; ‘After Reading Burke’ by W. Somerset Maugham; ‘Umaru’ by Joyce Cary; etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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title: NINETEENTH CENTURY FICTION On inside wrapper: Continuing The Trollopian: A journal of Victorian fiction.
Volume 4 Number 4 March 1950. TOGETHER WITH: Cover title: NINETEENTH CENTURY FICTION On inside wrapper: Continuing The Trollopian: A journal of Victorian fiction. Volume 5 Number 1 June 1950. Both: University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles; Cambridge University Press London. 2 issues med.8vo format each wire-stitched as a single gathering into grey card wrappers printed in black; blank at end of No.4; subsciption slip tipped in to No.1 before first page; pp.251 - 336ii; 83i blank. Staples of No.2 very slightly rusted; otherwise both issues very nice. Scarce. Includes the first publication of poems by Henry Trollope; also in two parts complete ‘What Might Have Been: A Study for Droodians’ by Richard M. Baker; articles on ‘Trollope and the Beverley Election’ by Lance O. Tingay; ‘Trollope’s Use of Canadian History in “Phineas Finnâ€â€™ by Morton W. Bloomfield; ‘Charles Reade’s Debt to William Howitt’ by Carl R. Woodring ‘Wilkie Collins Reconsidered’ by Robert P. Ashley Jr.; ‘A Uniquely Illustrated “Cranfordâ€â€™ by Annette B. Hopkins;etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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WORLD REVIEW.
New Series 28 June 1951. Super roy.8vo; pp.80. Slight foxing of early leaves but a nice copy. Includes ‘The Artist’ by André Malraux ‘The Novels of William Godwin’ by Angus Wilson ‘Re-reading ‘The Rover’ by John Lehmann work by Stuart Hampshire P.M. Fitzgerald Emma Smith etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE ARGOSY.
Vol. XVIII.- No.8. August 1957. Sm.double cr.16mo; illustrations in text; pp.144; printed white wrappers cut flush. Small chip to paper at tail of spine; otherwise a virtually fine copy. Includes short stories by Paul Gallico C.S. Forester E.L. Malpass Michael Gilbert John Collier John Wyndham H.A. Manhood etc. and a poem ‘Licorice Fields’ by John Betjeman. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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TRANSFORMATION.
Edited By Stefan Schimanski And Henry Treece. Victor Gollancz Ltd October 1943. Double cr.16mo; half-tone frontispiece and two double-sided plates on plate paper; 3pp. integral advertisements at end; pp.317iii; pale grey wrappers cut flush printed on front wrapper and spine in blue; card advertisement for ‘â€Dalton†Ware’ loosely laid in probably as issued. Nice copy. TOGETHER WITH: Transformation Two. Edited By Stefan Schimanski And Henry Treece. Lindsay Drummond Ltd. 6 Buckingham St. W.C.2. 1944. Sm.double demy 16mo; half-title not called for; one double-sided plate; pp.iv220; scarlet rough cloth blocked black lettered black and scarlet through black on front cover and spine. Fine copy in frayed dust-wrapper. TOGETHER WITH: Transformation Three. Edited by Stefan Schimanski And Henry Treece. Lindsay Drummond Ltd. 2 Guilford Place N.D. but not before April 9th 1945 when the publishers moved to their new address. Sm.double demy 16mo; half-title not called for; two double-sided plates; pp.204; scarlet rough cloth blocked black lettered black and scarlet through black on front cover and spine. Fine copy in slightly frayed dust-wrapper. TOGETHER WITH: Transformation Four. Edited by Stefan Schimanski And Henry Treece. Lindsay Drummond Ltd. 2 Guilford Place N.D. 1946. Sm.double demy 16mo; one plate; pp.ii305i printer’s imprint; scarlet rough cloth blocked black lettered black and scarlet through black on front cover and spine. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. Four volumes complete. All issued. ‘Transformation’ was intended to appear twice yearly a schedule it never made. The second volume is uncommon; the first volume definitely scarce. Complete sets very hard to find. ‘Transformation Four’ is seen also in a glazed fine net grain cloth the present binding being the earlier. This set belonged to Dr. August Closs variations of whose small neat pencil signature appears in three of the volumes together with a scattering of notes. Closs was a would-be contributor to the series: loosely laid into the first volume are two letters to him c.300 words from Schimanski discussing the possibilities of contribution. Schimanski suggests among other things that Closs should contact Fred Marnau with a view to offering him something for his ‘New Road’ anthologies. Closs did and duly appears in ‘New Road 4’. a number of more or less relevant press cuttings etc. are loosely laid in including a Lindsay Drummond catalogue for 1945 whilst a review of the first volume is loosely tipped inside the front cover. Contributors to the first volume include Herbert Read Reginald Sorensen Alexander Blok J.F. Hendry S.I. Hsiung G.S. Fraser Anne Ridler Schimanski Francis Scarfe Mulk Raj Anand W.J. Turner Reginald Moore William Sansom Elizabeth Berridge Boris Pasternak etc.; to the second Richard Church A.S. Neill Ian Serraillier alan Ross Lewis Mumford Schimanski Herbert Read Graham Thomas Steven Spender Ivan Bunin Henry Treece Michael Hamburger Henry Miller etc.; to the third Edith Sitwell facsimile of a ms. poem Gertrude Stein Reginald Sorensen Herbert Read Schimanski D.S. Savage Henry Treece Henry Moore Paul Nash etc.; and to the fourth Henry Miller Jean Paulhan Nicolas Berdyaev Antoine de Saint Exupery Henry Treece Hugo Manning Kenneth Patchen Anais Nin William Saroyan Jean Garrigue Margiad Evans Olaf Stapledon etc. etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE.
No.977. Winter 1948/9. Edited by Peter Quennell. John Murray 50 Albemarle Street London W.1. Demy 8vo; four double-sided half-tone plates after drawings by Feliks Topolski; seven full-page cartoons by Osbert Lancaster in text; pp.vi advertisements347 - 412; pale green paper wrappers cut flush printed in light reddish-brown and purple. Slight dusting of wrappers but a nice copy. Includes ‘Editorial Note’ and ‘Ruskin and Rose la Touche’ by Peter Quennell; ‘In the Gallery’ by Arthur Waley; ‘The Cottage Hospital’ by John Betjeman; ‘Self Portrait’ and ‘Notes for a Lantern Lecture: With Slides’ by Osbert Lancaster; ‘According to the Directive’ by Inez Holden; ‘Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte Baume’ by James Pope-Hennessey; etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE.
Number 1008. Summer 1956. Demy 8vo; two double-sided half-tone plates after photographs; other illustrations in text; title and index leaves to Volume 168 Numbers 1003 - 1008 Spring 1955 - Summer 1956 loosely laid in at end as issued; pp.viii advertisements title-page order form etc.415 - 506iv; white card wrappers cut flush printed in colours. Very nice copy. Includes ‘Dame Laurentia McLachlan and George Bernard Shaw’ by A Nun of Stanbrook a long piece including some interesting unpublished letters from Shaw; ‘Hare Park A Story’ by Elizabeth Taylor; ‘Shades of the Prison House’ by John Verney; etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ENCOUNTER 80 May 1960.
Edited by Stephen Spender & Melvin J. Lasky. Super.roy.8vo; pp.88. A nice copy. Includes ‘Face Lifting’ by Constantine Fitzgibbon ‘Hamlet and the Ghetto’ by Colin MacInnes a review by Angus Wilson poems by W.H. Auden and Kingsley Amis etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ENGLISH Volume XVI Autumn 1967 Number 96.
Published for the English Association by the Oxford University Press. Cr.4to format sewn as a single gathering; 4pp. trade advertisements at front and back numbered 1 - 8; 44pp. text printed in double column numbered 207 - 250; a folding flyer for the ‘MacGibbon & Kee/Hart-Davis’ poetry loosely laid in; pale sand paper wrappers cut flush printed in brown. Slight marking of wrappers but a nice copy. Edited by Margaret Willy. ‘Scottish Number’. Includes: ‘James VI and Renaissance Poetic Theory’ by Ronald D.S. Jack; ‘A Note on “Tam O’Shanterâ€â€™ by James Kinsley; ‘Edwin Muir: “The Journey Backâ€â€™ by Peter Butter; ‘Scottish Writing Today’ by Robin Fulton and Edwin Morgan; reviews by Ian M. Campbell James Craigie David Rintoul and others; poems by J.K. Annand George Mackay Brown R.L. Cook Robin Fulton Robert Garioch Norman MacCaig Hugh MacDiarmid Alastair Mackie Iain Crichton Smith Sydney Goodsir Smith and Sydney Tremaine. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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title: COSMOS.
Number 2. On Contents: 1969 York. Edited by Steve MacDonogh with Michael Gray. Lge.post 4to format 32pp. wire-stitched as a single gathering into white card wrappers cut flush printed on front wrapper in black; f’cap folio leaf duplicated on both sides folded in half loosely laid in as issued. Wrappers slightly dusty; otherwise a very nice copy. Includes poems by Trevor Pallister Michael Horovitz George Dowden Harold Norse Liam O’Gallagher Jeff Nuttall Steve MacDonogh etc. The inserted leaf bears a long letter from Harold Norse “addressed to the T.L.S. but omitted because of ‘space requirements’â€. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE NEW HUNGARIAN QUARTERLY Volume XXIV No.90 Summer 1983.
Sq.med.8vo format perfect bound; twelve double-sided plates many in full colour; order form loosely laid in as issued; pp.224; white card wrappers cut flush. Fine copy. ‘Kodaly Method - Kodaly Composition’ by Erno Lendvai; ‘Problems of International Indebtedness - as seen from Hungary’ byJanos Fekete; ‘Mihaly Babits - Poet and Essayist 1883 - 1941’ by Balazs Lengyel ‘Angevin Hungary’ by Pal Engel and Erno Marosi; etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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title: AGENDA.
Vol.7 No.2. Spring 1969. Demy 8vo; pp.96; glazed white card wrappers printed in black. Nice copy Poetry by Michael Hamburger Peter Dent etc. prose by Basil Bunting Charles Tomlinson Tom Scott Christopher Levenson Ewart Milne etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
A monthly review Edited by James Knowles. No.22 December 1878. C. Kegan Paul & Co. London 1878. Med.8vo; Advertiser 24pp. precedes start of text; three sets of inserted trade and commercial advertisements on smaller papers at end; pp.24969 - 1150iv prelims. to Vol.IV1151 - 1156; light grey-green wrappers printed in black the inside and back wrappers bearing commercial advertisements. Paper of spine a little chipped; a little scattered foxing to margins; otherwise a nice copy. Contributors include W.H. Mallock ‘Dogma Reason and Morality’ Major-General Sir Henry C. Rawlinson ‘The Afghan Crisis’ Ruskin ‘The Three Colours of Pre-Raphaelitism concluded’ The Rev. John Newnham Hoare ‘The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians’ Sir Henry W. Tyler ‘The Cape: a Descriptive Sketch’ etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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RESIDU 2.
Spring 1966. On verso of title leaf: England: Residu/Richter c/o Trigram Press Ltd 148 Kings Cross Road London WC1. U.S.A. Residu/Richter 6 Cook Street Provincetown Mass. Cr.4to format 132pp perfect-bound; illustrations in text; pp.97-8 and 131-2 of light brown paper the former a large folding leaf printed on recto only and serving as title-page for ‘The Mongol Review’ edited by John Esam which is incorporated into this issue the final leaf serving as its back wrapper. Residu includes prose and verse by Alexander Trocchi William Burroughs Gregory Corso Harry Fainlight Mark Hyatt Harold Norse Anselm Hollo Jean-Jacques Lebel Daniel Richter Jeff Nuttall Gerard Malanga Paolo Lionni Simon Vinkenoog Om de Haulleville George Andrews Anton Kothuys Neal Phillips John Esam Ruth Krauss Spyros Meimaris Nazli Nour Janine Asa Beneviste Geoffrey Thurley Sheldon Choist and Michael Horovitz; The Mongol Review work by F.H. Julius Adrian Haggard Paolo Lionni Phil Shepherd Michael de Freitas Gillian Smyth Brian Patten Daniel Richter Bart Hughes Phil Epstein M.D. Nick Shoumatoff George Andrews Daevid Allen and John Esam. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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HOUSEHOLD WORDS.
“Familiar in their mouths as houshold words.†- Shakespeare. Household Words. Edited by Charles Dickens. With which is incorporated “All the year round.†Vol. XXIX. May to October 1895. London: Houshold Words offices 12 St. Bride Street E.C. 1895. Demy 4to bound in tens; printed in double column; half-title not called for; title and Index leaves precede start of text; pp.iv520; light green buckram ruled black on front cover ruled and blocked reddish brown on front cover and spine lettered black reddish brown and reddish brown shadowed black on front cover lettered reddish brown and gilt on spine; end-papers coated yellow. Short tear to lower margin of index leaf but a nice copy. Scarce. According to CBEL ‘Houshold Words’ ceased publication on 28th May 1859 and was replaced by ‘All the Year Round’ which ceased publication on 30th March 1895. This continuation of the two magazines under the editorship of Charles Dickens II the resuscitated ‘Household Words’ beginning according to the editor’s obituary notice in the issue of August 8th 1896 in 1881 appears to be unrecorded. Most of the contributions are anonymous but named contributors include Mrs. R.S. de Courcy-Laffan and Christian Lys both of whom contribute serials and reminiscences of Charles Dickens the novelist by Howard Paul reprinted from ‘The Caterer’. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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ENCOUNTER October 1964 Vol.XXIII No.4.
Edited by Stephen Spender & Melvin J. Lasky. Super.roy.8vo; pp.96. Slight marking of wrappers but a nice copy. Includes ‘L’Acte Gratuit’ by Francis King ‘Literature in Soho’ by Robert Conquest ‘A Note on the Existence of God’ by Zukfikar Ghose ‘Philosophers & Behaviourists’ by H.J. Eysenck ‘A Letter 1937’ by Boris Pasternak etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ENCOUNTER November 1973 Vol.XLI No.5.
Edited by Melvin J. Lasky and Anthony Thwaite. Super.roy.8vo; pp.96. Slight wear to wrappers but a nice copy. Includes ‘The Idealogical Pilgrim’ by Paul Hollander ‘The Road back to Tomorrow a story’ by John Rizkaller ‘Educational Disputes’ by Jacques Barzun poetry by John Mole Michael Hamburger Peter Porter and Roger Garfitt ‘Quinton’s Case for Materialism’ by A.J. Ayer ‘A Linking of Disciplines’ by Anthony Storr etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE NEW HUNGARIAN QUARTERLY Volume XXV No.96 Winter 1984.
Sq.med.8vo format perfect bound; fourteen double-sided plates mostly in full colour; one map in text; order form loosely laid in as issued; pp.224; white card wrappers cut flush. Fine copy. Sections on ‘Hungary 1944-45’ a short story by Imre Sarkadi interview with Keresztury poetry etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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title: THE CRITERION.
A quarterly review Edited by T.S. Eliot. Volume XVII. Number LXVIII. April 1938. Demy 8vo; pp.viii advertisements403 - 602ix - xii advertisements tipped in; large white card wrappers printed outside in red and black; fore- and lower- edges uncut. Wrappers a little dusty and slightly creased at large edges; otherwise a very nice copy. Includes ‘English Translations of Chinese Poetry’ a fascinating and detailed study by Hsieh Wen Tung; ‘The Veterans’ by Donagh Mac Donagh; ‘From Five till Six’ by James Hanley; ‘In Time of Sickness’ by G. Rostrevor Hamilton; ‘A Commentary’ by T.S. Eliot; reviews by Charles Madge Michael Roberts Bonamy Dobrée Bernard Blackstone Stephen Spender Basil Bunting Richard Church H. Gordon Porteus L.C. Knights A.L. Morton George Barker etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE GADFLY: A Quarterly Review of English Letters in continuation from “The Human World†Conducted by Ian Robinson.
Volume five number three August 1982. Cr.8vo format perfect bound; pp.92; orange card wrappers cut flush printed in black. Fine copy. Includes ‘The Druid Madonna’ by Roy Kerridge; ‘Pretzels’ by Roger Nash; ‘The Divided Sensibility’ by Christopher Purvis; ‘Letter from Oxford to Anthony Fraser esq.’ by Daniel Barratt; ‘Imprimatur’ by James Ball; ‘Objectivity and the Arts’ by David Best; ‘Prefix and Affix to an Unpublished Book of Satires’ by Brian Lee; ‘Freud and the Conquest of Peru’ by Ron Gray; ‘Our Next Poet Laureate’ by M.B. Mencher; poems by Geoffrey Strickland; ‘King Kung’ by Brian Griffin; ‘Keats and Bio-Criticism’ by S.R. Patriarca. Published and typeset at The Brynmill Press. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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STROKER 19.
New York 1981. Demy 8vo format 42pp. wire-stitched as a single gathering into small sic! white card covers printed outside in purple and black inside in black. Very nice copy. Presentation copy with T.L.S. from the editor loosely laid in. Includes two unpublished letters both in transcription and facsimile by Henry Miller a translation by Paul Bowles work by Tommy Trantino Seymour Krim etc. Edited by Irving Stettner. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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title: POETRY AND DRAMA.
Vol.1 no.1 March 1913. London: 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Road W.C. Price 2/6 net Quarterly. Super roy.8vo; pp.1-123i publisher’s advertisement; 8pp. trade advertisements at front 6pp. at end on different paper; 4pp. insert on smaller Dutch hand-made paper of Specimen Pages of ‘The Bride of Dionysius’ by R.C. Trevelyan with order form loosely laid in; drab large wrappers printed inside and out in black. Slight chipping of wrappers but a very nice copy. An important periodical published by Harold Monro at the Poetry Bookshop as a successor to the ‘Poetry Review’ which he had founded in 1911. It was discontinued because of the war but succeeded by ‘The Monthly Chapbook’ later ‘The Chapbook’ after the war was over in 1919. Includes work and articles by Harold Monro Rupert Brooke J. Rodker F.S. Flint Lascelles Abercrombie Henry Newbolt Edward Thomas Maurice Hewlett James Elroy Flecker Gilbert Cannan etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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EVERGREEN REVIEW.
Volume 1 Number 1. Editors Barney Rosset Donald Allen 1957. Extra cr.8vo; illustrations in text; pp.192; glazed card wrappers cut flush printed in black. Vertical crease in card of spine and slight wear to head and tail; otherwise in general a nice copy. Includes ‘After Budapest’ by Jean-Paul Sartre; ‘Dante and the Lobster’ and ‘Echo’s Bones’ by Samuel Beckett; ‘Miserable Miracle’ by Henri Michaux Chapter Two only: an exploration of mescaline; ‘Georg Büchner’ by Michael Hamburger; ‘Cutting Edge’ by James Purdy etc. The British issue distributed by Calder. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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title: Mrs. Lirriper’s legacy The extra Christmas number Of ALL THE YEAR ROUND Conducted by Charles Dickens.
For Christmas 1864. Contents: Mrs. Lirriper relates How She went on and went over. A past Lodger relates A Wild Legend of a Doctor. Another past Lodger relates His Experiences as a Poor Relation. Another past Lodger relates What Lot He Drew at Glumper House. Another past Lodger relates His own Ghost Story. Another past Lodger relates Certain Passages to Her Husband. Mrs. Lirriper relates How Jemmy Topped Up. London: 26 Wellington Street Strand W.C.; Chapman & Hall 193 Piccadilly W. And all booksellers and newsmen. Price Fourpence. 48pp. super roy.8vo format sewn into light blue-green wrappers printed in black; 4pp. commercial advertisements on light blue-green paper and tipped-in slip of white paper advertising the first volume of ‘Our Mutual Friend’ as to be published on January 20th Price 11s. precede start of text. Insignificant ink-marks on front wrapper; otherwise a nice copy. A story in seven chapters the first and last being written entirely by Charles Dickens. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
British issue No.293 Apr. 1968. Sm.4to format in 16s; commercial advertisement leaf precedes title-page final page classified advertisements; pp.164 including wrappers; white paper wrappers cut flush printed in green red yellow and black. Wrappers very slightly dusty; poor quality paper a trifle embrowned; a nice copy nonetheless. Includes ‘Poison á la Carte’ a Nero Wolfe novelette by Rex Stout ‘Hildegarde Withers Is Back’ a novelette by Stuart Palmer and short stories by Robert Bloch Michael Harrison August Derleth ‘Complete with Ghost’ etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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title: THE CHAPBOOK: A monthly miscellany.
No.8 Vol II February 1920. The Poetry Bookshop 35 Devonshire Street Theobalds Road London W.C.1. F’cap 4to format sewn as a single gathering into white large wrappers printed in black; pp.32; advertisement leaf on thinner paper at front and back; subscription slip tipped-in at end. Vertical crease throughout; otherwise a nice copy. Edited by Harold Monro. This issue devoted to ‘Modern Prose Literature: A Critical Survey’ under the Editorship of Alec Waugh. Contributions by Douglas Goldring W.L. George Alec Waugh and Gerard Hopkins. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE ENGLISH JOURNAL Vol.XXII No.5 May 1933.
Super roy.8vo; two leaves integral advertisements at front and back; 88pp. text paged 349 - 436; green thin card wrappers printed in black cut flush. Fine copy. Scarce. This Journal proclaims itself on the Contents page; ‘The Official Organ of the National Council Of Teachers Of English’. Unexpectedly pp.349 - 358 contain a fascinating essay on Joyce by Ezra Pound. Published in Chicago Illinois U.S.A. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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title: THE STRAND MAGAZINE Edited by Geo: Newnes.
No.142 Vol 24 Oct. 1902. Super roy.8vo in half sheets; integral advertisements at front and back; illustrations on text-paper; pp.lx359-480lxi-lxviii; inserted advertisement on smaller paper printed in colour at end; pale greenish blue wrappers printed in dark blue. Back wrapper lacking; otherwise a very nice copy. Contributors include Rudyard Kipling ‘The Comprehension of Private Copper’ L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace the first part of ‘The Sorceress of the Strand’ Florence Warden ‘A Thief in the Night’ W.W. Jacobs ‘A Spirit of Avarice’ etc. Illustrators include W.B. Wollen J.A. Shepherd Gordon Browne Will Owen and F.C. Gould. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE ARGOSY.
Vol. XVII.- No.10. October 1956. Sm.double cr.16mo; illustrations in text; pp.144; printed white wrappers cut flush. A virtually fine copy. Includes short stories by Paul Gallico Lord Dunsany Gerald Bullett the first part of ‘Ice Cold in Alex’ by Christopher Landon etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE.
Number 1022. Winter 1959/60. Demy 8vo; one double-sided half-tone plate; pp.viii advertisements title-page order form etc.67 - 137i advertisements; white card wrappers cut flush printed in colours. Name lightly pencilled on front wrapper but a nice copy. Includes ‘Real Theatre’ by Alexander Benois translated by Moura Budberg; ‘The Boss A Story’ by Dan Jacobson; ‘Village Wedding A Poem’ by John Betjeman; etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW Spring 1977.
On spine: Vol.XVIII No.1. Double med.16mo and one 12mo gathering of plate-paper first leaf printed in red and black bearing a mixture of illustrations and text; pp.188 including plate-paper gathering; white thin card wrappers cut flush printed in black the front cover bearing a full-colour illustration. Slight darkening of wrappers; otherwise a fine copy. Contributors include Robin Skelton on ‘The Politics of J.M. Synge’ D.J. Enright and John J. Clayton on ‘Alain Robbe-Grillet: The Aesthetics of Sado-Massochism’; the illustrations are after paintings by Jane Lund. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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title: THE CHAPBOOK: A monthly miscellany.
No.21 March 1921. On title-page: The Poetry Bookshop 35 Devonshire Street Theobalds Road W.C.1. F’cap 4to format sewn as a single gathering into large buff wrappers printed in black and green on front wrapper black on inside and back wrappers; pp.24; a leaf of thinner green paper at front and back numbered i - iv bearing advertisements. Slight marking to back wrapper and smudge of printer’s ink on one lower margin; otherwise a very nice copy. The entire content of this issue consists of ‘A House Modern morality play By Ford Madox Hueffer’ later FORD which is here first published. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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The Bibelot.
A Reprint of Poetry And Prose for Book Lovers chosen in part From scarce editions and Sources not generally Known. Volume XVII. Testimonial edition. Edited and Originally Published by Thomas B. Mosher Portland Maine 1891. New York Wm. H. Wise & Co. 1911. F’cap 16mo in half-sheets; half-title not called for; title-page printed in scarlet and black; initial blank; frontispiece and six plates each with tissue guard printed with caption in brown; colophon leaf at end blank on verso; pp.vi436ii; dull purple coarse buckram-surfaced linen paper spine-label printed in black and scarlet; fore-and lower-edges uncut; dull purple end-papers of thick paper. Cloth of spine a trifle faded and rubbed at extremities; otherwise a nice copy. There is no list of plates but they are bound in to face pp.85 117 119 121 302 and 415. Five of them are after Aubrey Beardsley. In our experience volumes of this reprint edition are scarcer than the originals. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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title: The Shelley Society’s Publications.
First series. No.1. THE SHELLEY SOCIETY’S PAPERS. Part I. Being the first part of the first volume. TOGETHER WITH: Part II. Being the second part of the first volume. London: Published for the Shelley Society. By Reeves and Turner 196 Strand 1888 1891. Price ten shillings. Two parts all published. Med.8vo;pp.iv blank and half-title179i blankii fly-title to Appendix30ii blank; pp.ii blank177 - 396ii blank; green wrappers printed in black the back wrappers bearing Contents the inside wrappers bearing Society advertisements; a.e. uncut; issued without end-papers. Paper of spine slightly worn at head and tauil of first part; otherwise a fine set. Part one includes: “Inaugural Address†by the Rev. Stopford A Brooke M.A.; “On the Vicissitudes of Queen Mab†by H. Buxton Forman; “Shelley’s View of Nature contrasted with Darwin’s†by Mathilde Blind; “A Study of Prometheus Unbound†by W.M. Rossetti Part I.; “Notes on the Triumph of Life†by John Todhunter M.D.; “Shelley ‘Peterloo’ and the Mask of Anarchy†by H. Buxton Forman; “The Hermit of Marlow†by H. Buxton Forman; “Shelley and Lord Beaconsfield†by Dr. Richard Garnett; “A Study of Prometheus Unbound†by W.M. Rossetti Part II.; “A Study of Prometheus Unbound†by W.M. Rossetti Part III; and The Shelley Society’s First and Second Annual Reports by W.M. Rossetti; Part two includes “Shelley and Socialism†by Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling Part I.; “Shelley’s Faith†by Kineton Parkes; “Shelley’s Metre†by Rev. Prof. J.B. Mayor; “Shelley’s Philosophy of Love†by Arthur Dillon; “Shelley’s Nature Poetry†by Henry Sweet; “A Study of Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo†by H.S. Salt; “Note on the ‘Identification of the Aziola of Shelley’†by H.T. Wharton M.A. F.Z.S.; “Rosalind and Helen†by H. Buxton Forman; “Shelley and the Marriage Question†by Dr. John Todhunter; and “Hogg’s Life of Shelley†by H.S. Salt. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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