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LEWIS, Wyndham.
Filibusters in Barbary (Record of a Visit to the Sous).
London, Grayson & Grayson, [1932].
First edition, scarce in the dust-jacket, ‘an account of his travels which Lewis had written after a holiday with his wife in French Morocco and the Spanish Sahara. The book … emerged as one of the liveliest travel-books of the time. Like all of Lewis’s writing, it was quirky and opinionated,...
£500
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JOYCE, James.
Giacomo Joyce … With an Introduction and Notes by Richard Ellman.
New York, The Viking Press, 1968.
First edition.
£125
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POWYS, John Cowper.
A Glastonbury Romance.
London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1933].
First edition of Powys’s monumental sixth novel. Though we cannot trace a direct link between Powys and Bridson, Bridson certainly knew Powys’s friend James Hanley - they worked together for the BBC during the war. The centrality of the Grail legends to A Glastonbury Romance would...
£175
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Direadh I, II and III …
[Stamperia Valdonega for] Frenich, Foss, Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974.
First edition, no. 29 of 200 signed copies on Magnani paper.
£175
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MACNEICE, Louis.
Out of the Picture. A Play in two Acts.
London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1946].
First edition, third impression.
£25
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LEWIS, Wyndham, and Anne Gladys LEWIS.
Christmas card to the Bridsons.
[1950s].
‘To Joyce [née Thirlaway] + Geoffrey with Christmas love from Froanna + Wyndham …’
£50
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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
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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
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POUND, Ezra.
Gaudier-Brzeska, a Memoir …
[London,] The Marvell Press, [1960].
Revised edition, inscribed by Dorothy Pound on behalf of her husband to ‘J[oyce] + G[eoffrey] Bridson. DP for EP / Sept 1961. Brunnenburg’.
£250
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SULLIVAN, J.P., editor.
Ezra Pound, a critical Anthology.
[London, Penguin, 1970.]
First edition.
£30
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MORROW, Bradford, and Bernard LAFOURCADE.
A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis … With an introduction by Hugh...
Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1978.
First edition.
£75
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Letters … Edited by W.K. Rose.
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1963].
First edition. Letters to Bridson appear on pp. 540 and 545.
£50
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POWYS, John Cowper.
Autobiography.
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1934].
First edition, signed on the half-title ‘John Cowper Powys, April 1935’. A very nice copy of a work not often found signed.
£250
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DAVID, [Pierre Drapeyron de].
A History of the Campaigns of General Pichegru, containing the Operations of the Armies of the North,...
London, for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1796.
First edition in English, printed in the same year as the French original, of this account of General Pichegru’s campaigns during the early French Revolutionary Wars.
£185
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DICKENS, Charles; Hablot Knight BROWNE and George CATTERMOLE, illustrators.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London, Chapman and Hall, 1840–41.
First edition in book form, of Charles Dickens’ weekly periodical, featuring a collection of short stories and his two novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.
£175
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[DRESS HABITS.]
Considerazioni d’una dama ad una sua amica intorno al vestiario odierno.
[S.l.,] Impresso dal Curti del fu Giacomo, 1810.
Extremely rare set of six pious reflections on modern dress habits, ostensibly written by an anonymous lady to her friend.
£350
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MOORE, Thomas.
Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance … eleventh Edition.
London, [A. & R. Spottiswoode for] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1822.
An early edition of Thomas Moore’s popular orientalist poem Lalla Rookh, owned by a young Siegfried Sassoon.
£450
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MÖSSBAUER, Rudolf Ludwig.
‘Kernresonanzabsorption von Gammstrahlung in Ir191’ [in: Die Naturwissenschaften … fünfundvierzigster...
Berlin, Springer, November 1958.
First appearance of Mössbauer’s PhD work on the recoilless nuclear fluorescence of gamma rays in 191 iridium, later named the Mössbauer effect, which involves the recoil-free emission and absorption of gamma radiation by an atomic nucleus bound in a solid. The effect was later used by Robert...
£200
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APPIAN of Alexandria.
Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre civili de Romani tradotto da M. Alessandro Braccio secretario...
Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for Federico Torresano, April] 1538.
A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine Press productions, the two complementary works on the history of Rome’s wars by Appianus in the Italian translation of Alessandro Braccio (or Braccesi), which had first appeared in 1519 – the first vernacular versions.
£3000