Oriental Stories. (La Fleur Lascive Orientale). Being a Recueil of Joyous Stories Hitherto Unpublished, Translated from Arabian, Mongolian, Japanese, Indian, Tamil, Chinese, Persian, Malayan, and other Sources. Athens: Imprinted by the Erotika Biblion Society. For Private Distribution Only, 1893.
Smithers, Leonard Publisher's black cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Lower margins throughout the text water-stained otherwise in good condition. Limited Edition, 'Two hundred and fifty copies only of this volume have been printed, none of which is for sale'. This copy No. 60, inserted in purple ink and signed 'Neaniskos' in Leonard Smither's hand. Neaniskos is the name Smithers had used for his editorial work for Richard Francis Burton (explorer, linguist & orientalist scholar). Leonard Smithers published works by Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Aleister Crowley, Arthur Symons and Oscar Wilde. After the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, Smithers was one of the few publishers prepared to handle "decadent literature, such as Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which he published in 1898.- $845
- $845
Eleven Poems. Belfast: Festival Publications, [1965] First Edition, First Issue on creamy white laid paper with decorative device on front, printed in purple (nine pointed star – as called for in the first issue)
Heaney, Seamus Pp, 15. Light browning to wrappers, more pronounced to outer margin of rear wrapper, contents pages in nice bright condition. The scarce first issue of Heaney's first book of poetry, published while he still a student in Queen's University, Belfast.- $7,829
- $7,829
The Golden Hind. Quarterly Magazine Of Art And Literature. Complete Set of Eight Volumes. Vol. 1, No. 1 Oct. 1922 to Vol. 2. No. 4. July 1924. Published by Chapman and Hall, 1922-1923. Publisher’s original wrappers. All issues in nice bright condition. Prospectus with subscription form loosely inserted.
Bax, Clifford & Austin Osman Spare- $1,061
- $1,061
Many Mansions. Designed and published by Stoney Road Press for the Ireland Chair of Poetry, November 2009. Containing twelve new unpublished poems, two each, by John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Paul Durcan, Michael Longley, Ciaran Carson and Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney has also written a Foreword to the volume. This special edition is limited to one hundred and twenty five copies and each numbered copy is signed by all the contributors [copy 100].
Heaney, Seamus [et al]. The text is composed in 12.5 point Book Antiqua and printed by hand at the National Print Museum, Dublin. The paper is 250gsm BFK Rives Blanc paper and the inside papers are Somerset velvet black. It is quarter-bound in mid-blue goatskin leather and beige bookcloth with matching slipcase by Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Dublin. A fine bright copy- $3,295
- $3,295
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova. Written by Himself now for the First Time Translated into English in Twelve Volumes. Privately Printed, 1894. Large Paper Edition, Strictly Limited to 50 Copies, Each Numbered (this set #7)
Casanova, Jacques Publishers full cream buckram boards, title lettered in gilt to spines. Top edges in gilt, fore-edges uncut. Covers with occassional pale stains & light dust soiling, contents pages bright and clean. Large Paper Edition, Strictly Limited to 50 Copies, Each Numbered (7). Translated by Arthur Machen from the French original. Volume One with translator's & author's prefaces. [Note: Extra Shipping Charges Apply]- $1,675
- $1,675
Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, with his Original Correspondence: Collected from the Family Records at Blenheim, and Other Authentic Sources. Illustrated with Portraits, Maps, and Military Plans. Second Edition In Six Volumes. London: Longmans, Hurst, etc, 1820.
Coxe, William Contemporary full smooth calf, boards with gilt rules and filet boarder in blind, spines ruled in gilt with black title labels lettered in gilt; inner dentelles, marbled endpapers & fore-edges, Armorial bookplates. Scattered browning to contents pages, but overall a nice bright set, handsomely bound. First published by William Coxe in three volumes in 1818,for this second edition the military maps and plans were issued in a separate volume "being on too great a scale to fold in this edition."- $838
- $838
Fairy Tales. By the Abbé De Voisenon. Translated by R.B. Douglas. Illustrated with an Etched Frontispiece by Will Rothenstein. Imprinted by the Erotika Biblion society for Private Destribution Amongst Its Members. Athens: MDCCCXCV (1895).
De Voisenon, Abbe Smooth green buckram, title lettered in git to spine, bookplate to pastedown. A nice bright copy. Printed limitation statement verso half-title; One hundred copies only of this Translation have been printed, No. 10 and initialed 'LCS' in purple ink by Leonard Smithers. Printed & published in London on hand-made paper watermarked Van Gelder by H.S. Nichols, in collaboration with Smithers. Some copies were issued without the Rothenstein etching. Contains two tales by the French novelist & playwriter 'So Much the Better for Her' and 'The sultan Misapouf' light-hearted erotic allegory which were typical of many fairy tales written in 18th-century Parisian salons. [Mendes 92].- $949
- $949
The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos. Written by Alexander Pope, embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. First Edition.
Pope, Alexander Publisher's blue cloth, gilt blocked beveled boards, with Beardsley design, gilt lettered spine, slight rubbing to gilt & scattered foxing to some pages, but overall a nice bright copy. Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Publisher in the year of Publication on the front free endpaper.- $1,675
- $1,675
The Candle of Vision. London: MacMillan, 1919. Third Impression. Pp viii, 175, [4], uncut. Blue cloth titled in gilt, a very good copy. Inscribed by the Author on front free endpaper, with portrait to front pastedown. ‘To my dear James Pryse this works is inscribed humbly by his old friend, AE
A.E. (George Russel). James Morgan Pryse (1859 1942) was an author, publisher & member of the esoteric religious movement the Theosophical Society. Irish author, poet, painter and mystic George William Russell's collection of transcendent essays on Celtic mysticism. Known by his pen name AE (which is short for Aeon), Russell was friends with many other figures of the Celtic renaissance of the early 20th century, including W.B. Yeats, and James Stephens.- $531
- $531
The Light of the Leaves. Poems in English with Translations into Dutch by Jan Eijkelboom and Spanish by Pura Lopez Colome. With original screen-prints, many double-page, by Jan Hendrix. Mexico City: Imprenta De Los Tropicos/Banholt: Bonnefant Press, 1999. First Edition, Limited Issue. Two Volumes. Fine set, housed in collectors solander box.
Heaney, Seamus Limited Numbered Edition of 70 Copies Signed by the Author and Artist (numbered 1-63; with seven copies printed as Personam.) One volume containing poems, translations and four sets of full-page screen prints, one silver foil, the others black & white. Signed by the Author and Artist; bound in quarter cloth with natural white Japanese paper sides, small screen-print to centre of upper cover. The other volume with ten prints, reduced to 7×11 cm on a silver background, bound in printed black paper wrappers, signed by the artist. Contains ten poems by Seamus Heaney, followed by their translations. The Dutch artist Jan Hendrix, explores in his work how the relationship between place, space and time affect landscape.- $6,646
- $6,646