[WALLPAPER.]

A substantial album of printed wallpaper samples.

France, 1923–24.

A delightful sample album of French wallpapers printed by a variety of stencil, block and lithographic methods, on papers plain, coloured, textured, and silked.

£4750

MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.

Les secrets de la génération ou l’art de procréer à volonté des filles ou des garçons, de faire...

chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].

Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86) popular guide to the secrets of sex, (billed as the thirtieth edition of vol. I and the twelfth of vol. II).

£150

PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.

Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit novoque adparatu critico instruxit...

Cambridge, University Press, 1928.

First edition of Richmond’s controversial Propertius, A. F. Scholfield’s copy, with three letters from the editor.

£400

TREVLYN, Valda.

High Death.

Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.

One of 100 copies of this poem on death by drowning and the simultaneous beauty and danger of the sea by the Cornish poet, activist, and suffragist Valda Trevlyn Grieve (1906–1989), inspired by the seascapes of her native Cornwall, our copy inscribed ‘with affection and some embarrassment Valda’.

£75

MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

Beyond this Limit …

[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

First edition. This was Lewis’s only collaboration with Mitchison but she arranged for the publication of his Left Wings over Europe the following year, and they remained friends until his death. 32 designs by Lewis served as the inspiration for Mitchison’s narrative.

£75

AIKEN, Conrad.

Thee.

New York, George Braziller, 1967.

First trade edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey and Joyce [Bridson] / this little hymn of love / from Conrad / 1968’.

£250

WATSON, Sheila.

‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the Underground Press’, a special issue of artscanada, November 1967, issue...

The recordings included are three sections from One-Way Song, made at Harvard in 1940 alongside his lecture, and ‘Marshall McLuhan recalls Lewis’.

£50

POUND, Ezra.

Cantos 110–116 …

printed & published by the Fuck You / press at a secret location in the lower east side, New York City, USA, 1967.

Unauthorised edition (unsurprisingly), no. 261 of 300 copies. The contents are extracts and include a number of apparently unidentified lines; this piracy forced the publication of Drafts and Fragment of Cantos CX–CXVII (1969).

£150

REXROTH, Kenneth.

An Autobiographical Novel …

Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966.

First edition, inscribed ‘In friendship / for Geoffrey Bridson / Kenneth Rexroth SF June 66’.

£300

AUDEN, Wystan Hugh.

Louis MacNeice, a memorial Address, delivered at All Souls, Langham Place on 17 October, 1963.

Privately printed for Faber & Faber, [1963].

First edition, one of 250 copies, of Auden’s memorial address for Louis MacNeice, with the printed order of service and newspaper cuttings of poems on MacNeice, including ‘The Cave of Making’ by Auden (The Listener, 1 October 1964).

£150

LEE, Laurie.

Cider with Rosie … with drawings by John Ward.

London, Hogarth Press, 1959.

First edition, second impression, the author’s copy with his pencil marks for public readings and loosely inserted correspondence including praise from Leonard Woolf.

£1000

[SASSOON, Siegfried.] SURTEES, [Robert Smith]; Lionel GOUGH, editor.

Hunting Scenes from Surtees.

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.

Sassoon’s proof copy of Hunting Scenes from Surtees, with pages left blank for the inclusion of his as-yet unwritten introduction.

£850

MURDOCH, Iris.

Sartre. Romantic Rationalist.

Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1953.

First edition, the first published book of Iris Murdoch, in her capacity as a fellow and tutor in philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

£200

AIKEN, Conrad.

Ushant, an Essay.

New York & Boston, Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company, [1952].

First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey [Bridson] from Conrad. Ex – Xmas 1956’. Ushant, Conrad’s ‘autobiographical narrative’, is often considered his most significant work in prose.

£300

LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

Le Père Noël supplicié.

[Paris, Chantenay, 1952.]

Rare first separate appearance, a presentation copy, of Lèvi-Strauss’s article ‘Father Christmas tortured’, an ethnological analysis of French ecclesiastical authorities’ disapproval of the ‘paganisation’ of Father Christmas, describing the hanging and burning of an effigy at Dijon just...

£250

REYES, Alfonso.

Corrected carbon typescript, signed, of an essay entitled ‘Chesterton y los titeres’ [Chesterton and the puppets].

[Buenos Aires?, c. 1952–3.]

Corrected carbon typescript of Alfonso Reyes’s essay entitled ‘Chesterton y los titeres’, concerning G.K. Chesterton’s play The Surprise, a religious allegory written in 1932 but first published posthumously in 1952.

£1000

ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD

The Authoritarian Personality.

New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.

First edition of this groundbreaking work of social psychology on the development of prejudice by Theodor Adorno and the psychologists Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, written in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

£225

KAVAN, Anna; Karl Theodor BLUTH.

The Horse’s Tale.

London, Gaberbocchus Press, [1949].

Uncommon first edition of this novel authored jointly by Kavan and her psychiatrist and friend Karl Theodor Bluth, written from the perspective of an ex-circus horse trying to find a place in postwar society and artistic circles, a criticism of prevailing trends in 1940s psychiatric treatment.

£850

LEWIS, Wyndham.

America and Cosmic Man.

London and Brussels, Nicholas and Watson Ltd., [1948].

First edition, second state binding as always (the first, in green cloth, was rejected by Lewis as ‘hideous’ and was used on only 3 trial copies). In hand by 1943, not finished until 1946 and then rejected by American publishers until it finally found a British home in 1948, America and Cosmic Man...

£200

WILLIAMS, William Carlos.

Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].

Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]

First collected edition of Books One to Four and first edition of Book Five; inscribed on the front free endpaper of One to Four (in Williams’s distinctive scrawl, in two different pens after the first ran out of ink) ‘D.J. [i.e. G.] Bridson with my compliments / William...

£1250