“L'amour plus fort que la mort”
[1] SECTION PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DE L'ARMÉE FRANCAISE. Douze Estampes De Guerre. Section Photographique De L'Armée Francaise.
First edition. Landscape folio, 12ll., numbered b&w photographs of 16.9 x 20.6 cm on 28 x 37.5 cm. sheets, with facsimile holograph commentaries on lower margins, printed on stiff white paper with integral tissue guards with printed captions in seven parallel languages, loose in the original beige laid paper folder fastened with the original string ties and eyelets. Titles in emboss on front portion, the lower margins of some plates annotated neatly in pencil.
A signed, inscribed presentation copy from Jean Baptiste Tournassoud. N.p., [Paris], Section Photographique de la Armée Francaise, 1918. £500
Cover edges worn, plates largely in crisp condition, a few with foxing on the margins, tissue guards with endemic light browning a few with rumpled left edges and short tears presumably because they open from bottom to top edge. Remains of a pocket [?] on the inside back wrapper. The images are good, deep impressions.
Very rare in both commerce and institutions with 2 copies only found on Worldcat at the French National Library and at the Netherlands National Library. Even rarer with this good an association and complete. Both library entries for this book do not call for any textual content and the BNF collates for the plates only.
The full inscription, written boldly in an elegant hand in black ink on the upper right corner of the cover above the main titles, reads:
“A mon jeune et affectionné ami, Maurice Perriollat ce recueil d'estampes magistralement realisté par mes prédecesseurs, Directeur du Service Photographique de la Grande Guerre. J.B. Tournassoud” [To my young and affectionate friend, Maurice Perriollat this collection of brilliant, realistic pictures by my predecessors, Director of The Photographic Service of The Great War”].
A great association copy, Tournassoud was a respected photographer (who pioneered the use of autochromes in the field), and was also a collector and archivist who knew the Lumiere brothers personally. He took over the Section, newly merged with the film unit, on October 30, 1918 and ran it until September 30, 1919 (p-13 [digital edition] Hélène Guillot - La section photographique de l'armée et la Grande Guerre De la création en 1915 à la non-dissolution in Revue Historique Des Armées, 258, 210). Perriollat was probably a fellow soldier, who served with Tournassoud, and whom, internet records allude to as possibly a prisoner of the Germans.
Images include a munitions factory, 'On leave', a beautiful and haunting image of a devastated crucifix, with a commentary by Pierre Loti, 'The mutilated tree flowering anew' (with Anatole France's pithy comment “L'amour plus fort que la mort”), convoy lines on their way to the Front, prisoners (with a comment from Henri Bergson) and a gun emplacement.
The Section was formed in response to the realisation that the Leipzig 'Verkehrsbureau' was flooding the neutral powers with visual propaganda (ibid p-6). Indeed, German photographic units were ubiquitous on the frontline. The French nation at war needed to counter this propaganda effort with a more artistically sensitive record of the military conduct of the 'godless', 'Barbarian Hun' with images of ruination, such as the crucifix and tree in this collection, to send on to the neutrals.
A remarkable if rather ephemeral book at the forefront of innovation in photographic media, proving Trotsky's motto that: ‘War is the locomotive of change'.
[2] [Inter-war Europe in photographs], 4to., 10 private photoalbums; approximately 373 original b&w gelatine photographs, largely of approximately 13. 5 x 8 cm or 17 x 10 cm (with variations), mounted one apiece, on to paper backgrounds and in turn on versos only of stiff white or other decorative textured card boards, on tape stubs, tissue guards, many photographs captioned either on the page or recaptioned on handmade labels, 2 bound in patterned full silk, 8 in other patterned or single colour textiles Some with holograph titles on spines in Biro.
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Great Britain (North Yorkshire, Scotland), Germany, Bosnia, Switzerland et al., £675
All photographs in near fine condition, a few annotated on the print, light, endemic browning of tissue guards, albums largely in very good condition; a few in excellent state, one rubbed and another delicate silk album much decayed but intact. A sound collection.
The majority of the photographs are very high quality, near enough professional in some instances, and are largely well composed views of the beautiful riverine and alpine landscapes, landmarks, street scenes and church architecture of Great Britain and Europe, with one album almost entirely dedicated to Egypt.There is much rural photography, and especially in Austria and Scotland, but also a great concentration on the great old cities of the former Habsburg Empire and Northern Europe. The documentation of Austrians fraternizing with Nazis on motorcycle sidecars in one of the Austrian albums adds a disquieting note, a portent of the breaking of the peace and a presentiment of the coming deluge of the Second World War. There are also a number of other documentary and portrait photographs of partners, family and friends and a selfie or two, as well as a visit to Blairs' college and renowned library.
One album entitled 'Geneva, Leipzig, Prague' is made up almost entirely of political portraits of statesmen at various sessions of negotiation of the Locarno Pact from 1925 to its sequel in the Stresa Conference on the Borromean Isola Bella on Lago Maggiore as well also candid shots of the Kellogg-Briand sessions of 1928. The photographer seemed to have remarkable access to a wide spectrum of delegates including Austen Chamberlain and Gustav Stresemann who both won Nobel Prizes for their role in the making of the Locarno Pact. The German Foreign Minister Stresemann is depicted in one quite close-up portrait seated at a table, he seems to recognize the photographer. Another shows him in a group portrait with Reichschancellor Hans Luther presumably on the steps of The Grand Hotel Locarno and another shows him in session with Frank B. Kellogg and Aristide Briand. There are other portraits of Briand throughout the album as there are of Chamberlain. Most important among them perhaps is a picture of the Kellogg-Briand pact being signed.
One portrait in particular conveys a great sense of intimacy and urgency, this is a close-up of Heinrich Bruning as Reichschancellor in conversation. Another close-up shows Italian Fascist Foreign Minister Dino Grandi in session, possibly in Geneva or Isola Bella, and he is preceded by a very striking portrait of Count Apponyi (dubbed 'The Greatest Living Hungarian' by many) posed in mid oratorical flow with his fist striking his heart. Other intriguing shots include a beautifully composed snap of Paul-Boncoeur and Sir John Simon half facing a wall and talking earnestly.
Sequentially, the first portrait is of the Czechoslovak delegation with Minister of Foreign Affairs, and soon to be President, Edvard Beneš, the second is a portrait of three with Beneš again and Arnost Heidrich leaning against the garden balustrade of the Palazzo Borromeo where the Stresa negotiations were held. Most striking of all perhaps, is a portrait of Beneš giving a speech at Geneva and another of Masaryk at a rally in 1939.
The album also has two portraits of Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the first is a remarkable longshot of him laying the foundation stone for the Wagner Memorial, at Leipzig with Mayor Karl Goerdeler on March 6, 1934. The other is a very atmospheric shot of Hitler passing close by, in full uniform, giving the shorter Sieg Heil salute.
The photographer was an Austrian or German medical doctor of no real renown but he evidently had friends in high places and or real determination to get into actual closed diplomatic sessions and amongst the delegates in the informal antechamber sessions. The album seems to be constructed to show the failure of inter-war peace initiatives with suited men against the Volkish ideology and political theatre of Hitler's martial rallies in military uniform. A very good and evocative collection, beautifully bound in very classy Art Deco textiles, bought in a posh papeterie, and illustrating both the beauty and horror of inter-war Europe.
[3] STULPNER (Kurt) (Dr.). Meiner Lebensgehfahrtin zu Erinnerung an gemeinsam durchlebte schone Jahre im Lande der aufgehenden Sonne!
3 private photoalbums; landscape folios,, #1 with 209 items, almost entirely photographs but with several cartes de visite and other ephemera, #2 approximately 263 items largely photos but with many postcards, #3 with 176 items very largely private b&w photos with some shop bought genre scenes and landscapes, photo-postcards and ship's ephemera.
All albums captioned, largely in Germany with some parody English, on typed white paper labels. A pair of albums in matching painted brown kimono cloth from the same bolt, with the lower portion covered in faux brown leather, the third in quarter black grained leather and red and grey silk covered boards. The loose card leaves bound Japanese style with silken cords and bullions, original tissue guards.
One album documents the journey from Germany through Spain, Portugal, Italy, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore, The Cape, Brazil arriving at Yokohama. The matching pair cover Fukuoka, Saga, Nikko, Beppu and various other Japanese places, 1935-1938. SOLD.
Slight wear on the tails of the spines of all three, the cloth of one a little waterstained. Contents crisp and clean, several photos and pieces of ephemera have loosened but there are no spaces, all are remarkably complete.
Over 400 photographs dedicated to an academic and his “..life partner's recollections of beautiful years in the land of the rising Sun!”. Dresden born Stulpner was a 'scentific assistant' at the Saxony State Research Institute for Anthropology in Lepzig when he set off from Bremerhaven on the Nordedeutscher Lloyd Line steamer Postdam, on July 5th 1935. He was a field anthroplogist who along with Gunther Spannaus had his work on Portugese East Africa published. Stulpner was appointed to the post of Lecturer in German language and culture at a very martial Kotogakko [a private secondary school?] in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan. One album is standard ship traveller's fare documenting the journeys to and from Japan and though it is the very epitome of German order and academic tidiness, it is unremarkable. The two other albums document the sights, people, milieux, workplace and political climate of Japan on the eve of Germany's entrance into global war, shedding light on the special relationship between German and Japanese dictatorships.
The journey and his life are idyllic to the point of kitsch, the albums document the coming together of two highly ordered and hierarchical cultures. The most important album starts with photographs of domestic life, living with a Japanese family dressed in the traditional style, or at least with a live-in housekeeper in a garden lodge. There are numerous photos of a puppy named 'Herr Purzel' and scenes of domestic and pedagogical bliss with numerous visits to Shinto and Buddhist temples and shrines and views of volcanoes and lakes and a carp pond. Stulpner photographs himself and his wife and colleagues and the academy, showing classroom and military parade ground, and rather stiff drinking scenes with a British colleague called 'Mr Averill' (and an uncomfortable Last Supper type group portrait with him under a swastika). Others show Stulpner wearing his white coat and a commercial photo of a group of Western men in a Geisha lodge etc. The companion volume has a large quantity of colour photo-postcards of landscapes of Nikko and other places and of Japanese 'types' in costume.
There is a portrait, in a mount, of and from 'Oberst S. Yamamoto' with Stulpner's Japanese 'family', it is heavily inscribed in both Japanese characters and German cursive. Examples of Yamamoto's business cards are placed either side of the portrait. This stern figure with sword in hand is presumably Colonel Yamamoto of the 124th Infantry Regiment who fought in the Battle of Java, 1942.
There is also a group of a dozen, mainly large, propaganda type photographs labelled 'Im Zeichen der deutsch-italiensich-japanishen Freundschaft', or, 'Under the banner of german-italian-japanese Friendship'. They depict, variously, Stulpner giving the Nazi salute in a stationary parade or ritual type meeting, scenes of a hilltop with a statue and Axis flags, Stulpner speaking on a podium as well as a particularly engaging large studio portrait of him with a Japanese and an Italian colleague holding little paper Axis flags in front of the same hilltop. In the background there is a group, also holding flags, posed in the cloud pruned treeas and bushes. The photo is covered with a paper banner inscribed with brush and ink Japanese characters. Further scenes depict Stulpner toasting 'friendship', speaking on a stage bedecked with flags and slogans and socialising and posing with the same group.
From 1933 on, Hitler purged academia, and the professions with a series of legal measures to 'Aryanise' German life and expel 'community aliens' and Jews. Scientific racism in the form of Anthropology was at the forefront of the Nazi racial state and Otto Reche's Leipzig based Ethnologisch-Anthropologisches Institut had many materials confiscated by the American occupation authorities after the war (p-167 Robert Proctor -From Anthropologie to Rassenkunde in The German Anthropological Tradition in -Bones, Bodies and Behaviour: Essays in Behavioural Anthropology, 1990). Reche, the racialist blood theorist and early Nazi party member, probably taught Stulpner and he did indeed write an introduction to his published book on Malagasy death customs. An interesting group of albums with a more than interesting subsection that, in the light of history, renders the largely idyllic scenes of travel and Japanese spirituality and hospitality into what the Nazi historian Saul Friedlander termed 'Kitsch and Death'.
[4] [BOXER REBELLION]. [P.R.].
Private photoalbum. Small folio, 86 x 10 x 6 cm b&w gelatine silver b&w prints pasted on to stiff card leaves on tabs, in a contemporary padded brown grained morocco binding, gilt all edges, clasp, decorative endpapers, 'P.R.' monogram in gilt on upper board, studs on lower.
N.p. [Tientsin?, Beijing and other Chinese locations], c. 1900. SOLD.
Crisp condition, endemic browning of leaves, one photo chipped on top right corner.
From an unknown German officer, wearing a Pickelhaube, who was part of the German led international force to punish the Boxers. Evocative photos depict debarcation, many views of Beijing including the Forbidden City, Astrological Court, Temple of Heaven and much destruction of houses and the diplomatic compound. One of the last photos depicts comrades acting drunk in a traditional Chinese village.
[5] FRANKLIN (Stuart) (Photographs by), VINES (Tony) (Introduction). Tiananmen Square.
First edition. Folio, unpaginated; 24pp., photographically illustrated in colour with 2 doublespreads, 1 gatefold with a folding section, one full page and 7 smaller images at 1 per page one of which on recto of folding section, different coloured papers, stapled into the original glossy stiff card wrapper, printed in black red and yellow, titles in English in reverse white on black and yellow Chinese characters on red.
N.p. [London], n.p. [AJ Vines Strategic Design Consultants],
1990. £100
Slight wear on wrapper edges, crisp, clean copy. Very rare company photobook with one copy only on Worldcat at the National Art Library. Not in Parr (too schamltzy?).
Franklin is a former president of Magnum; this book includes the famous image of a figure standing in the path of a tank column as a small photograph and also blown up to enormous proportions on a doublespread with a folding page.
[6] SCOTT (John). Behind The Urals. An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel.
First UK edition. 8vo., endpaper, half-title, title, pp-5-223, in the original brown cloth, titles in blue on spine, in photographic jacket designed by John Heartfield. London, Secker & Warburg, 1942. SOLD.
Wartime paper a trifle yellowed, spine with a small area of fading on the spine from a piece mssing fromn the jacket which is also a bit creased and torn on the edges. Neatly written presentation inscription on front free endpaper.
Uncommon book in the rare Heartfield jacket.
[7] KALIGHAT SCHOOL. 7 paintings, all leaves of approximately 46 x 32 cm. (the sheet), watercolour or gouache, pencil outlining, metallic paints, on paper. N.p. [The vicinity of Kalighat, Kali Temple, Calcutta], unsigned, n.d., 1800s. POA.
Patinated, evenly browned paper, some contemporaneously splashed lightly with paint revealing the haste with which they were produced. In very good condition.
A few of the secular images are rare, we cannot find a similar oval double portrait in the V&A's collection of 600 or so. Khalighat paintings are being bought up with alacrity at auction in recent years.
Kalighat painting emerged in the early nineteenth century and went away in the first third of the twentieth century. It is a synthesis of traditional Indian folk art practised by the Patua caste and derived from scroll painting and the influence of western art school teaching. It was dismissed as 'bazaar art' by many because the practitioners supplied the pilgrim and tourist trade with populist, secular, often tabloid themed material, as well as pictures of the Hindu gods for the trade around the temple of Kali, Khaligat, Calcutta. The style is characterised by bold use of opaque watercolour with rapidly executed brush strokes. Identifiable images, supplied therein include Lord Krsna playing his flute, the folk goddess Devi holding snakes and scenes from at least one popular story of the day that is similar to, or an interpretation of, the story of 'Nabin and Elokeshi'.
[8] EAMES (Charles and Ray) (the office of) & GIRARD (Alexander). Jawaharlal Nehru His Life and His India. An Exhibition From March 2 To April 24 at The California Museum of Science and Industry Los Angeles.
Original exhibition poster. 4to., (folded), four panels printed in repeat with titles in saffron and green on white with an additional emblem in Hindi in dark brown, with a uniform double border in saffron and green, versos with text and titles in black with numerous halftone photographs in b&w. N.p. [Los Angeles], National Institute of Design Ahmedabad in consultation with the Office of Charles and Ray Eames and Alexander Girard, n.d., 1965. SOLD.
Near fine. Rare institutionally with no copies found on Worldcat. on eamesoffice.com, in current Barbican show 'The World of Charles and Ray Eames' and in 'Addressing the Need: The Graphic Design of the Eames Office'.
[9] OSTROFF (Daniel). Eames + Valastro. Design in the life of an American family. A Rough Sketch.
First edition. endpaper, title, pp-2-80, profusely illustrated; largely with colour photographs with some b&w, in the original red cloth covered boards, grey endpapers, loosely publicity bumf inserted. Los Angeles, The O Team, 2011. £10
Near fine.
[10] [BEUYS (Joseph)], STAECK (Klaus) (Editor). Genommene Kurven 20 Jahre Edition Staeck.
Heidelberger Kunstverein - 3 Februar bis 17 Marz 1985. Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf .
Small folio, [4pp.], pp-5-159, [1p.] publishers' advert, largely illustrated in colour and black and white, perfect bound into the original stiff laminated, illustrated card wrapper, this copy signed by contributor Joseph Beuys in his charactereistic red crayon on the upper portion. Heidelberg, Edition Staeck, 1985.
Enquire with Tamsin at [email protected]
Crisp, clean copy.
A survey type exhibition catalogue with hundreds of contributions from Beuys, Broodthaers, Christo, Haacke, Palermo, Polke, Roth, Vostell et al.
[11] [BEUYS (Joseph)] et al & KUNSTLERINITIATIVE GEGEN DAS KRIEGSRECHT IN POLEN. Gegen das Kriegsrecht in Polen fr Solidarnosc: Kunstpalast Dusseldorf, Kunstpalast Dusseldorf, Ehrenhof, Halle A5.
First edition. Tall 8vo., pp-3-71, almost wholly illustrated with b&w captioned plates, perfect bound into the stiff white paper wrapper, titles in red and black, cover with a reproduction of Solidarity's motif, signed in pencil by Joseph Beuys, one of the contributors, on the cover. Dusseldorf, Der Initiative, 1982. SOLD.
Dusty wrapper.
Collective catalogue for an exhibition and auction at Duesseldorf's Kunstpalast that includes, along with Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Tony Cragg, Hans Haacke, Baselitz and many others.
[12] [BEUYS (Joseph)], TISDALL (Caroline) (text and photographs). Joseph Beuys dernier espace avec introspecteur 1964-1982.
29 full page b&w photos. First and limited edition. Small 4to., unpaginated, endpaper, blank, title, [40pp.], in the original grey paper covered boards, titles in white on the spine. One of 500 hardbound copies signed by Joseph Beuys in pencil on the title from a complete run of 2, 000 with 1500 in card wrappers. London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, May 1982. Enquire with Tamsin at [email protected]
Crisp, clean copy.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, March-May 1982. Tisdall was an important figure in the introduction of Beuys, and therefore the Dusseldorf Tendency, to the UK.
[13] BORTHWICK (Mark). Africa.
First edition. 8vo., 24ll of illustrations largely printed on rectos, blank, tipped in original photograph signed on verso. Handsewn and pasted into the original stiff white card boards, titles and one illustration stamped in gloss white on upper portion. 16 of 100 handnumbered copies. London, Jane & Jeremy, 2014 RESERVED.
Near fine. Rare.
[14] BORTHWICK (Mark). Abandom Reverie.
First edition. 8vo., unpaginated; 32ll., illustrated throughout, stapled, with a handmade decorative paper jacket and insert bound in with red string. London, MB, 20.9. 2014. RESERVED.
Fine. Rare. No copies on Worldcat.
[15] BOURGEOIS (Louise)], WEIERMAIR (Peter) (Editor). Louise Bourgeois.
Profusely illustrated with b&w photos of artworks. First English language edition? 4to., endpaper, half-tiitle, title, colour photo-portrait frontispiece by Peter Moore, [4pp.],pp-9-194, [2pp.], in the original black paper covered boards, titles blindstamped on spine, dustjacket with titles in black. Kilchberg/Zürich, Edition Stemmle, 1995. £30
Wrapper faded, text and book fine.
First Zurich edition of an exhibition catalogue for a show on a lengthy tour of Zurich, Frankfurt and Otterloo.
[16] BEILES (Sinclair) BURROUGHS (William S.), CORSO (Gregory) & GYSIN (Brion). Minutes To Go.
Second edition. 8vo., title, section-title/frontispiece, pp-3-63, in the original manila paper wrapper printed in black and illustrated by Brion Gysin. N.p.[San Francisco], Beach Books, Texts & Documents, Distributed by City Lights Books, 1968 SOLD.
Crisp, clean copy. Maynard & Miles A3b.
[17] BURROUGHS (William S.), GRAUERHOLZ (James) & SILVERBERG (Ira) (Editors). DOUGLAS (Ann). (Introduction). Word Virus. The William S Burroughs Reader.
First collected edition. 8vo., endpaper, 2 blank, half-title, title[1p.], vi-xxxi, [3pp.], pp-3-352, CD bound into back, quarter bound in black cloth, gilt titles on spine, gold paper covered boards, photographic jacket. New York (published simultaneously in Canada), Grove Press, 1998 SOLD.
Crisp copy, lightly worn jacket.
[18] [BURROUGHS (William S.)], FALLOWS (Colin) et al (Editors). Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs: The Art of William S. Burroughs.
Second edition. 4to., endpaper, title, [3pp.], pp-6-173, colophon, profusely illustrated, exhibition ephemera loosely inserted, bilingual English and German text. In the original illustrated paper covered boards; b&w photoportrait of Burroughs by Gysin on upper board. Nuremberg, verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, 2013. SOLD.
Near fine.
Catalogue for the Ljubljana leg of an expansive WSB show that started at Vienna's Kunsthalle.
[19] BURROUGHS (William S.) (Illustrations & text), MAPPLETHORPE (Robert) (Photographic frontispiece). The Seven Deadly Sins.
First deluxe, limited edition. 4to., decorative endpapers, tissue leaf, half title, full page b&w portrait frontispiece, title, [1p.] text, [1p.], 14ll. full page, illuminated commentaries interspersed with full page illustrations on rectos only, titles on versos of preceding page, [4pp.]. In the original grained faux black leather covered boards titles on the upper board in silver and red below an onlaid rectangle of red plywood with shotgun pellet holes, decorative red and black marbled paper endpapers, in the original tissue and folding card white box..
104/150 copies numbered by Burroughs on the colophon and signed and dated ('1992') on the title.
New York, St. Louis, Amsterdam, Lococo Mulder, 1991. SOLD.
Fine. Schottlaender B8a.
[20] WIEDNER (Donald Lawrence). México Guatemala 1949.
Original photographically illustrated typescript, travel journal. 4to., blank, scrap frontispiece, section title with colour photograph, 141pp., on rectos only, 188 small photos, largely b&w with around 15 in colour (tipped into tabs), numerous photographic postcards and other printed ephemera, a telegram, letters, clippings, maps etc (with at least one linedrawn) pasted in the text and in the appendices with some loose additional material. Signed on the title. The loose leaves bound by a clip into the original card boards with a pasted typescript label with blue borders on the upper board. With Wiedner's (possibly for the General Examination) typed essay for Prof C.H. Haring's 1953, History class at Harvard. Unpublished, 1949. SOLD.
Text clean and crisp, browning and cross transfer from ephemera, acidic scrapbook boards browned with upper portion detached.
Wiedner studied at Colgate University and then Harvard after his trip with the American Friends Service Committee of Philadelphia. He seems to have had a long career in history and, if the name isn't a coincidence, he ended up as Emeritus Professor at Temple. Much of his account is quite pedestrian but insightful, emapthetic and thorough. He was also a competent and exhaustive photographer documenting Mexico, DF, Xochimilco, Taxco, Teotihuacan, Popacatépetl, Oaxaca, Monte Alban, Mitla etc. He encountered the more negative aspects of the Monroe Doctrine when he was held up by Secret Police in Guatemala City and even included teh telegram home to his parents on his brush with sppoks and a bundle of clippings on US 'dirty tricks' in Latin America. The Guatemalan coup was carried out by the CIA four or so years later.
[21] BURROUGHS (William S.). [X-Ray Man]
Original print. 20 x 28 cm., silkscreened in red and blue on stiff white paper, one of 178 signed and numbered copies. N.p. [St. Louis], Lococo-Mulder, this copy dated '92 in pencil on recto but stamped on verso as 1991. SOLD.
Fine.
Sonic Youth reused this image of a figure on the cover of 'NYC -Ghosts and Flowers'.
[22] GYSIN (Brion), WILSON (Terry) & BURROUGHS (William S.) (Preface & Additional Text). Here To Go Brion Gysin.
Second edition. Tall 8vo., endpaper, title, [6pp.], pp-9-246, [2pp.], perfect bound into the original illustrated card wrapper, loose book launch ephemera inserted. A contemporaneously signed, inscribed and dated presentation copy from the author to “Carl” [?]. London, Creation Books, 2001. SOLD.
Crisp copy.
Seminal book reseminalised with additional stuff. .
[23] CARACO (Albert). Le Désirable et le sublime. Phenomenologie de L'Apocalypse.
First edition. Tall 8vo., endpaper, title, pp-7-395, [2pp.], in the original limp, folded white paper wrapper, titles in green and black, loose 4ll. prospectus for the book inserted. A contemporarily signed, inscribed and dated presentation copy from the author to Salvador de Madariaga. Boudry-Neuchatel, A La Baconniere, 1952. SOLD.
Browned wrapper with wear.
The 17 line inscription, in block capitals, in Spanish on the front free endpaper discusses Torquemada and his place of execution in Seville, truth and horror, it is signed off 'in homage' with Caraco's distinctive calligraphic signature and dated 16-III-53. His name and address are written at the foot of the page in another hand.
Largely unopened of course, Salvador de Madariaga was a great Spanish historian who opposed Franco and Caraco was a French-Uruguayan Sephardi born in Turkey who was of the Celinean/Nietszchean influenced school of nihilism.
[24] CAVAFY (C.P.), MAVROGORDATO (John) (Translation) & WARNER (Rex) (Introduction). The Poems of C.P. Cavafy Translated into English With A Few Notes by John Mavrogordato...
First UK edition. 8vo., endpaper, half-title, title, [6pp.], 199pp., in the original thalassic [?] blue cloth, silver titles on spine, light blue jacket with a decorative border, devices and text in darker blue. London, The Hogarth Press, 1951. SOLD.
Text clean, cloth a bit faded on the spine, jacket worn and browned.
Important work by a great publisher that reintroduced the great poet of homoerotic love to the non-public school Britishmen.
[25] [CLARK (Michael)]. Oh My Goddess Michael Clark.
First edition. Folio, title, [16pp.] of dublespread b&w photos, [3pp.] text, stapled into the original Dayglo orange wrapper, titles on upper portion in reverse white.
N.p. [London], n.p. [Sadlers Wells], n.d, 2003. SOLD.
Bright copy, slightly creased wrapper. Very rare no copies on Worldcat.
The programme for the show at Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue.
[26] FIORUCCI. Fiorucci Milano. C. So V. Emanuele II.
Original matchbook. 4.9 x 4.5 cm. [folded], stab stapled into the original glossy white card, text in blue, illustrations in red; on both panels, striker strip, remains of paper seal, inside printed in red with titles in reverse white, double row of conjoined plywood matches with white heads, printed in black with an illustration of seated female legs in garter belt, suspenders, stockings and high heeled shoes. N.p. [Milan?], Fiorucci, n.d., c. 1970s. SOLD.
The booklet opened with remains of the seal, a few creases, all matches present.
The repeated illustration is of a beautiful pair of glossed lips parting to kiss.
[27] CROWLEY (Aleister). Oz: Liber LXXVII.
Unknown edition. Small 8vo., bifolium; one b&w photoportrait, [1p.] text in black, facsimile signature, illuminated title, on stiff white rag paper, one edge oversized and gummed, text on recto [for posting?], portrait inside. N.p. [London], n.p. [The Author], n.d., 1940s. SOLD.
Text dusty. Rare, we can find no other copies of the publication in this format.
A five point occult bill of human rights, with, most contentiously perhaps, “Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights”. The whole remarkably simialr to the libertarian philosophy of 'The Satanic Bible'. In the portrait, Crowley poses in the striped Arab dress that recently sold at auction and smokes a large pipe presumably stuffed with his favourite Perique soaked in rum.
[28] DCS (Rory). How to be Fun. Visual Self-Help Volume 1.
Largely illustrated with captioned full page (often nude) colour photographs. First edition. Tall 8vo., unpaginated; [44pp.], stapled into the original stiff, yellow card wrapper, titles in black on front cover alongside onlaid colour photograph. A signed inscribed presentation copy, the inscription in balck felt tip on inside front cover with a red loveheart. N.p., [London], n.p. [Self published], n.d., 2014. £20
Near fine. Very rare in both commerce and institutions, no copies on Worldcat.
[29] SCOTT (Reginald), SUMMERS (Montague) (The Rev.) (Introduction). The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Folio., endpaper, blank, half-title, title, limitation, vii-xxxvii, [2pp.], pp-2-282, [1p.], in the original quarter red buckram, gilt titles in a box on spine, grey cloth covered boards, device stamped in red on upper board. One of 1275 handnumbered copies on specially made Dutch paper. London, John Rodker, 1930. SOLD.
Crisp clean copy, browned front free endpaper.
Provenance: printed exlibris bookplate of Anne and F.G. Renier on the front pastedown, the former has initialled the back free endpaper.
[30] DOUGLASS (Frederick). M'CUNE SMITH (James) (Dr.) (Introduction). My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I. - Life as a Slave. Part. - II.- Life as A Freeman.
First edition. 8vo., endpaper, blank, engraved portrait frontispiece with original tissue guard, title, dedication leaf, [1p.], vi-xxxi, [1p.], plate, [1p.], pp-34-464, plate between pp-334-335, [4pp.] publishers' catalogue, in the original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt titles on spine. In a recent clamshell tan cloth covered box, gilt titles on spine. New York and Auburn, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. SOLD.
Rubbed and bumped corners and cloth, some loss of cloth on base of spine, fragile headcap. Stained front free endpaper and blank, foxed frontispiece. A poor copy. Sold as described
A contemporary inscription in sepia ink on the front blank reads “Lydia R. Putnam from her friend Frederick Douglass”.
[31] HASKINS (Jim) & MITGANG (N.R.). Mr. Bojangles. The Biography of Bill Robinson.
First edition. 8vo., endpaper, half-title, title, [3pp.], pp-8-336, 7ll. of b&w photos, in the original quarter blue cloth and grey paper covered boards, silver titles on spine, photographically illustrated jacket. Contemporaneously signed and inscribed by both authors on the front free endpaper in Biro. New York, William Morrow ans Company, Inc., 1988. £20
The full inscription reads:
“Copasetically Haskins Mitgang”.
Near fine book, slightly edgeworn jacket.
Bojangles was the first solo, black dancer to appear in vaudeville, he coined the term “copasetic”.
[32] ROBESON (Paul), WEINERT (Erich), BRECHT (Bertolt) CHOIR DER II BRIGADE, BUSCH (Ernst) et al.. 6 Songs For Democracy Discos De Las Brigadas Internacionales.
First edition. Folio, 3 x 10 inch audio discs in integral paper sleeves; one with a printed sticker on the label, small 8vo., unpaginated; [16pp.] libretto in a pocket, in the original red velvet covered card folder, screw bound, with an onlaid white paper panel on the upper portion; illustration and titles in green and black, recordings in the original Spanish and German, libretto in English, German and Spanish. New York, Keynote Recordings, Inc., The Music Room International Series,Set 101, n.d., 1940. SOLD.
A contemporary presentation inscription neatly written in ink on the front pastedown, the recipient 'Jean Escoll'[?] has signed the libretto.
Folder rubbed and faded, sleeves pastedowns and libretto endemically browned; first leaf split and detached, staples missing, sleeves slit on tails, discs unplayed by this cataloguer but apparently very good or better. Uncommon. No copy on Discogs either for sale or as an archival entry.
Robeson contributed a prefatory note to the libretto recalling “I was there in the course of that struggle and my faith in man - in the eventual attainign of his freedom - was strengthened a thousand fold”. Busch was a lifellong communist who sang in Weimar Berlin for the political cabarets and acted in Brecht. He fled fascism to fight with and sing for the International Brigades. The songs were recorded in Barcelona in 1938 under bombardment, the intermittent electricity explaing the 'defects', they are 'Los Cuatro Generales' (a popular Spanish folksong), 'Lied der Einheitsfront' with words by Brecht and music by Eisler, 'Lied der internationalen Brigaden' with words by Weinert and music by Espinosa Palacio, 'Die Thaelmann-Kolonne' [words by Karl Ernst and [music by Peter Daniel, Hans Beimler, words by Ernst Busch music by Friedrich Silcher and 'Lied der Moorsoldaten'.
[33] [NEWTON (Huey)]. Black Power and the Revolutionary Struggle. Huey Newton talks to The Movement about the Black Panther Party, cultural nationalism and white revolutionaries in a whole issue of Tricontinental, #32, Year III, November 1968.
First edition. 8vo., pp-5-12 of 48pp., 4 illustrations (and illustrations throughout), stapled into the original colour illustrated paper wrapper, English text. Havana, The Executive Secretariat of The Organization of The Solidarity of The Peoples Of Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1968. £50
One old central horizontal crease, crisp clean copy.
Most interesting because of the wrapper illustration and the inset line drawings in the style of/or perhaps adapted from Emory Douglas. Huey says “the white mother country radical is the off-spring of the children of the beast that has plundered the world exploiting all people, concentrating on the people of color”.
[34] [JAURES (Jean). A letter, signed, 1l., 18 x 10.5 cm., 12 lines, French cursive. With a stock portrait by Henri Manuel. N.p., 30 January, no year, SOLD.
Central horizontal fold.
The French Socialist leader asks an unknown correspondent to get him and Madame Jaures two tickets for a performance of Wagner's 'Siegfried' etc..
[35] DU MAURIER (George). A Lletter signed, bifolium; one page of text, 3 blank. [Hampstead], 31 May 1871]. £20
Fourth page shows the letter was detached from an album.
The artist and novelist writes to William Bowman on the subject of the Commune, recording that his brother in situ reported that the family was “..much affected by the terrible scenes they have witnessed. He had removed his wife & child to another house and a short time after a shell came down through the roof of the house they had left and burst in the first floor”.
[36] ELLROY (James). The Cold Six Thousand. A Novel.
First UK edition. Tall 8vo., endpaper, [10pp.], 122pp., [1p.], in the original black cloth, gilt titles on spine, dustjacket. Contemporaneously signed by the author on the title. London, Century Books, 2001. £20
Book near fine, jacket a trifle creased.
[37] ELLROY (James). L.A. Confidential.
First UK edition. Tall 8vo., endpaper, half-title, title, dedication, epigram, section title, pp-3-480, in the original white cloth, gilt titles on spine, illustrated dustjacket. London, Century A Mysterious Press Book, 1990. £20
Endemic text browning, cloth a trifle dusty, jacket a bit worn.
[38] FELLENS (J.-B). Manuel de Météorologie ou Explication Théorique et Démonstrative Des Phénomenes Connus Sous Le Nom De Météorees, Ouvrage extremement, méthodique, á l'usage de toutes les classes de lecteurs..
First edition. Small 8vo., endpaper, half-title/tirage, title, [2pp], pp-6-382, 3 plates; one folding, in contemporary quarter green, grained morocco, marbled paper covered boards and endpapers, integral silk bookmark, signed by the author. Paris, L'Auteur,
1828. £100
Nice copy. Rare.
“Les exemplaires déposés conformément a` la loi, sont revetus de la signature autographe de l'auteur. Tous les exemplaires qui ne porteront pas la meme signature seront réputés contrefaits” from verso of half-title signed “Fellens” in sepia.
[39] GEER (Carl Johan De) (Photographs) & KUGELBERG (Johan) (Preface). Carl Johan De Geer The Camera As Consolation 1959-1980.
Wholly illustrated with b&w photographs. First limited edition. Oblong 4to., unpaginated, [1p.], text, 27ll. b&w photos, colophon. In the original black cloth, photographic jacket. From a run of 300 numbered copies, this one Hors Commerce with 'H/C' in pen on the upper portion of the jakcet and again on the colophon. New York City, Ectoplasm Books, [Blurb], 2009. £100
Near fine.
“Karl Johan De Geer satte upp en fotoautomat pa Galleri Karlsson i Stockholm 1968”.
[40] GEER (Carl Johan De), KUGELBERG (Johan) (Introduction). Galleri Karlsson 1968 Carl Johan De Geer.
Largely illustrated with b&w photographs. First edition. Oblong 8vo., unpaginated; [34pp.], perfect bound into the original stiff white card wrapper, with one b&w photo apiece on each portion and titles in black, Swedish text. From an edition of 100 signed and handnumbered copies for Galleri Opreatingplace, this copy Hors Commerce with 'H.C.' in pen on the colophon and in pencil on the front cover. New York, Ectoplasm Books, 2009. £20
Fine.
[41] GENERAL IDEA. PLA©CEBO.
First edition, original multiple. 1.6 x 3.7cm., pill shaped, three colour, two pin, enamel badge on gold metal N.p. [Toronto], n.p. [General Idea], n.d., 1991. SOLD.
Fine. 9114, General Idea Editions 1967-1995, 148, General Idea: Multiples. Rare.
[42] GILBERT & GEORGE. BRACEWELL (Michael) (Introduction). The Postcard Art of Gilbert & George 1972-1989 & The Urethra Postcard Art of Gilbert & George [Two volumes].
Almost completely illustrated with colour photographs. First edition. Folios. Endpaper, half-title/b&w photoportrait frontispiece, title, [3pp.], pp-9-475, [6pp.]. Endpaper, half-title/frontispiece,title [3pp.], pp-8-587, [12pp.].
In the original gold cloth, titles in dark brown, illustrated dustjackets and the illustrated card conjoined slipcases and the bespoke cloth tote bag with titles in black and red. Both volumes signed and inscribed by the artists on the occasion of a talk at White Cube, St. James.
Munich, Berlin, London, New York, DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2011. £275
Near fine.
The full inscriptions in Biro on the front free endpapers reads:
“With love from Gilbert x & George x”
[43] GLEIZES (Albert). Vers Une Conscience Plastique La Forme Et L'Histoire.
66 illustrations. First edition. Small folio, blank, half-title/justification, title, sewction title/frontispiece, x, [3pp.], pp-3-481, [1p.], in the original card wrapper, folded white paper overwrapper with titles in black and one device in black on cream, glacine jacket, French text. Number 292 of 2, 000 on Alfa Scotch numbered 151 to 2150, from a complete run of 2153 with 3 hors commerce copies on Montval á la forme and 150 on vidalon á la forme numbered 1 to 150. Paris, Chez Jacques Povolozky, 1932. £25
Crisp, clean copy.
One of only two books that Gleizes did not auto-publish hurriedly and cheaply and therefore one of his most beautiful and saturated with his Christian Cubist philosophy.
[44] GLEIZES (Albert). Vie et Mort de l'Occident Chrétien.
First edition. 8vo., half-title, title, [1p.], ii-xxxi, 220pp., uncut, in the original blueish green paper wrapper, titles in black. Sablons (Isere), Editions Moly-Sabata, n.d., 1929. £15
Wrapper endemically faded, slit on backstrip near head.
[45] GLEIZES (Albert). Tradition et Cubisme vers une conscience plastique Articles et Conferences 1912-1924.
Illustrated with plates. First edition. 8vo., endpaper, half-title, title/publishers' catalogue, frontispiece, [4pp.], pp-223, in the original mustard colkoured paper wrapper, unopened copy, French text. Paris, Aux Éditions “La Cible”, Chez J. Povoloozky et Cie, 1927. £15
Slight stains and dustiness, small hole on lower portion of wrapper.
[46] HUNT BADINER (Allan) & GREY (Alex) (Editors). SMITH (Huston) (Preface). Zig Zag Zen Buddhism And Psychedelics.
First edition. 4to., endpaper, half-title/frontispiece, title, [4pp.], pp-9-239, [2pp.], 28 plus illsutrations, in the original pale yellow paper covered boards, decorative dustjacket. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2002. SOLD.
Near fine book, spine of jacket a bit faded with light edgewear.
[47] HUYSMANS (Jorris [sic] Karl). Against The Grain (A Rebours).
Second and limited edition. 8vo., endpaper, half-title, tirage leaf, title, v-xxxi, [1p.], 299pp., in the original black cloth, top edge gilt, gilt titles on spine, the sheets from a French printer prssumably reused from the Groves & Michaux edition . One of 250 handnumbered copies. London, The Fortune Press, n.d., 1931. SOLD.
Lacks jacket. Text endemically browned, cloth a trifle tired. Sound copy of a Decadent classic.
[48] JARRY (Alfred). Gestes Et Opinion Du Docteur Faustroll Pataphysicien.
Later edition. 12mo., half-title/justification, bibliography, title/frontispiece, [1p.], pp-8-126, in the original plain paper wrapper, titles and ruling in in black; a publishers' catalogue on the lower portion, price overstamped. The trade edition, there were also 50 copies on Hollande Van Gelder signed by the Éditeurs. Paris, chex Delamaine, Boutelleau et Cie, Librairie Stock, Les Contemporains Oeuvres et Portraits du XXeme Siecle, 1923. £15
Dusty cover, old dampstain on first few pages.
[49] KEENAN (Larry). [Neal Casssady Shaving at Allen Ginsberg's Apartment, 1965].
Original photographic print. x cm., b&w, digital print, image copyright, studio stamp on verso, signed in pencil by the photographer on the bottom left edge. N.p. [Oakland], n.d., c. 1999. SOLD.
Fine. In Oakland Museum of California.
Provenance: a gift to an interviewer (whom he considered to be his best) who kept it in front of his bathroom mirror for some time.
Cassady, with his back to the viewer stands in front of a mirror shaving, his face reflected, a flyer for the Sexual Freedom League is attached to the mirror at left and reads, “Clothed / or / NUDE we are NOT OBSCENE” it is illustrated with a line drawing of a couple in the buff.
The Micaëla Gallery blurb quoted on the OMCA's catalogue entry reads:
““Allen Ginsberg did not have a bathroom in his apartment so Neal Cassady is shaving in Ginsberg's kitchen in this photograph. Cassady had a hard time trying to get some lather from the old bar soap. His face had gotten cut. When Cassady was introduced to people, he was always introduced with, 'meet Neal Cassady who is Dean Moriarty from Kerouac's “On the Road.”' I had been looking for a way to illustrate this dual role. While he was shaving, I suddenly realized, there they both were. The hair on the back of my neck stood straight out.”““. Keenan considered this to be one of his most important images and used it for the cover of his City Lights Book 'Postcards From The Underground Portraits of The Beat Era (Potraits of The Beat Generation)'.
[50] KOSUTH (Joseph). Two Oxford Reading Rooms.
First limited edition. Thin 8vo., [112pp.], b&w photos, die cut windows, overlays, prinetd in two colours. Two texts printed not quite tête-bêche as tête-pied as one is printed vertically and the other horizontally. In the original folded black card wrapper with die cuts revealing titles in silvere on each portion. One of 750 unsigned copies from a complete run of 1, 000 with 250 signed. N.p. [London], Bookworks, 1994. £20
Lacks the original fitted plastic bag as issued. Upper wrapper detaching from block.
[51] BRAUN (Michael). “Love Me Do” The Beatles' Progress.
32 pages of b&w photos. First edition. 8vo., [6pp.], pp-9-140, [2pp.], perfect bound into the original photographically illustrated wrapper. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1964. SOLD.
Endemic browning of text, wrapper a bit browned and worn. Tight, unread copy.
A proper account of the Beatles in paperback format.
[52] [LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS STUDENTS' UNION]. Beaver Newspaper of The London School of Economics Union. No. 87 December 5th 1968.
First edition. Folio, unpaginated; [9pp.], illustrated, bifolia and single leaves loose in the original blue paper wrapper; the upper portion illustrated with a reproduction of Tenniel's 'You're Nothing But A Pack of Cards” from chapter Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland'. N.p. [London], London School of Economics Students' Union, 1968. SOLD.
Endemic light browning, three old horizontal folds, wrapper tatty.
An issue with a suitably psychedelic-political cover image from when the LSE was revolting. One article by Stuart Christie is about political radicalism. There is an advert for Middle Earth at the Roundhouse with 'Gun' and 'Jeff Dexter' DJing.
[53] SAUNDERS (Nicholas) assisted by CUCKSEY (Anne). alternative London
First edition. 8vo., [1p.], pp-2-192, illustrated, illustrated, perfect bound into the original illustrated, glossy, stiff card wrapper. London, Published by The Author, 1970. £10
Text lightly, endemically browned, covers a little bit worn. Tight copy.
““He constructed a flat in Edith Grove, west London, so that ducks in the pond outside could swim under a plate-glass window and into his living room, and he slept in a papier-mache “cave”. The flat became a centre for hippies and anyone with new alternative ideas. These he began to record and the first edition of Alternative London was brought out in 1970. It became an immediate best-seller. Further editions followed until a friend meditating in front of a candle inadvertently burnt the flat down” “(Obituary, Independent, 5 Feb 1998).
[54] MAGRITTE (René). René Magritte Imagination et Imaginaire. Dodici Lettere A Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro E Un Disegno Di Magritte.
First edition. Tall 8vo., endpaper, title and 25 panels of facsimile holograph lettters, postcards and drawings, with the latter on sepia, printed in black or blue, on textured paper, colophon, in leporello, in the original white silk covered boards. Number 1 of 125 numbered copies. Milan, Edizioni Del Naviglio, 1969. SOLD.
Lacks acetate jacket. Boards a bit grubby.
Provenance: from the sale of Magritte's stuff in London.
[55] [MALONEY (Martin)] (Contributes). I Am a Camera.
303 photographs including cover image. First edition. 4to., largely illustrated, perfect bound into the original illustrated flexible glossy wrapper. London, The Saatchi Gallery, Published by Booth Clibborn Editions, 2001. SOLD.
Crisp, clean copy.
Seminal exhibition catalogue that includes the controversial Tierney Gearon, Rineke Dijkstra, Nan Goldin et al.
[56] MARX (Enid). An ABC of Birds and Beasts. Identified (with their diets) and engraved by Enid Marx.
First edition. Landscape small 8vo., endpaper, half-title, justification/2pp. biography, [1p.], section title, 26ll., of small engravings in black with captions and letter of the alphabet in green, in limp vellum; gilt titles on spine, an extra set of the engravings in a green wallet and a uniform cloth covered slipcase designed by Marx. Thirteenth in the Clover Hill Editions; LIX of LXXV copies signed and numbered in latin by the artist, on Barcham Green handmade in 1937, with the extra set on Gampi Japon. There was also a trade tranche of 300 in the same patterned cloth. London, Douglas Cleverdon at The Trumpet Press, Clover Hill Editions, 1985. SOLD.
Near fine. Scarce deluxe edition.
[57] MCLUHAN (Marshall) & FIORE (Quentin). AGEL (Jerome) (Co-ordinated by). The Medium is The Massage.
The UK paperback edition published simultaneously with the first edition. Largely illustrated with integral text. 8vo., unpaginated; [9pp.], pp-10-159, [1p.], perfect bound into the original illustrated stiff paper wrapper. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books Ltd., 1967. SOLD.
Crisp copy.
The pauper's edition of the great multimedia work.
[58] MCLUHAN (Marshall) (Professor), MELLER (James) (Graphic design). ica&rca present Changing modes of perception since TV. Prof. Marshall McLuhan Author of The Gutenberg Galaxy and Director of Understanding Media' US Education Office project 1959'60.... 8;30 pm Thurs 27th at The Royal College of Art details Gro6186.
Original poster x cm., titles and illustration in black on orange paper, conservation framed and glazed. N.p. [London], n.p. [ICA?], Kelpra Studios, n.d., 1963. SOLD.
Near fine. Rare.
Provenance: James Meller.
Meller's simple, effective design and the event it advertises embody a coming together of McLuhan's theories via his influence on the Independent Group and especially Lawrence Alloway who provided a sort of bridge between McLuhan, British Pop and the French Situationism of Ralph Rumney (p187 Richard Cavell -McLuhan In Space: A Cultural Geography, 2003). Meller worked for Buckminster Fuller and edited a seminal anthology of his thought and was in effect the Dover Street based ICA's in-house graphic designer.
[59] MESENS (E.L.T.), PENROSE (Roland) (Translated by both). Troisième Front poèmes de guerre suivi de Pièces Détachées. Third Front & Detached Pieces.
First limited edition. 8vo., half-title, title/pp-4-45, colophon, illustrated, paper made specially for the publisher by Arnold & Foster Ltd.. Sewn into the original pale green stiff card wrapper, folded yellow paper jacket with titles in a uniform black, parallel French and English texts. Number 389 of 500 handnumbered copies signed by Mesens. London, The London Gallery, 1944. SOLD.
Unopened copy. Crisp copy, lightly faded jacket.
[60] MORIYAMA (Daido). Marrakech.
Completely illustrated with b&w photos. Second edition. Thin 4to., uppaginated; 2 x 42ll. sewn booklets, titles in white on first leaves, pasted on to a nubby gold silk, two tone cloth covered portfolio, the pastedowns illustrated with b&w photos uniform with the books, in a photographically illustrated card sleeve, text in Japanse and English. Signed in Japanese characters by the photographer in silver ink. N.p. [Tokyo], Super Labo, 2013. £50
Near fine book, slight wear on foot of sleeve.
Moriyama's response to Canetti's 'Voices of Marrakech”.
[61] MORTIMER (W[illiam] Golden) (M.D.). Peru. History of Coca “The Divine Plant “ of The Incas With an Introductory Account of The Incas, and of The Andean Indians of To-day.
178 illustrations with some after photographs. First edition. 4to., endpaper, half-title, frontispiece, title, dedication, ix-xxxi, 576pp., in the original red cloth; blindstamped and with titles and decorations on the spine, and one device on the upper portion, all in gilt and designed by the author, top edge gilt, printed textual bookplate on the front pastedown. New York, J.H. Vail & Company, 1901. SOLD.
Bookplate removed roughly from front pastedown, revealing another, classmark sanded off title and spine, paper over front hinge split, as often, clotha bit rubbed on head and tail of backstrip. Several copies in the LSD Library.
Provenance: presentation bookplate of “H[is].E[xcellency]. Lewa Mansfield Pasha [of] 7 Sharia Ben Tai [to the] Koubbeh Palace”.
We can only find a few scattered references to Mansfield as Commandant of The Cairo Police and later as Inspector General of Police.
Mortimer's great cultural examination of the “..unique and subtle..” Coca leaf from which cocaine is derived. Gootenberg described it as a “..classic herbalist defense..” (p-2 Paul Gootenberg -Cocaine Global Histories, 1999). He sought to correct fanciful Travellers' Tales and “..cultural hostility to the claims of Latin American Coca users..”, with Indians seens as born liars (p-9 Joseph Spillane - Cocaine. From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States 1914-1920, 2000).
[62] MASPERO FRERES LTD., CIGARETTES EGYPTIENNES. [Maspero Freres Ltd., Cigarettes Egyptiennes Le Caire, Egypt].
Original salesman's sample book. 55 bespoke, decorative cigarette papers, some gilt tipped and lettered, tipped on to rectos.Small 8vo., endpaper, 23ll. of stiff pink paper, endpaper. In the original flexible green silk covered boards, marbled endpapers, gilt titles and a device on upper cover, all edges gilt.
N.p. [Cairo], Maspero Freres Ltd., n.d., 1905-1912. £250
Lacks three papers, 2 blank leaves removed, number stamps on front endpaper, a contemporary hand has made a few neat notes in ink at the back of the book. The papers still fresh and rollable.
Very rare ephemeron, we can find no other examples in Worldcat.
Maspero produced tailored/handmade cigarettes, tthis was BAT's first subsidiary, established in 1905, in the heavily tobacco using Egyptian market dominated by water pipe use in the long established North African café culture.
[63] WILLEFORD (Charles). The Ubiquitous Roach Clip: Wherein is Set Down Briefly the Whole Matter of its History, Utility, and Beauty as Art Form and Artifact.
First edition. Small 8vo., single sheet folded, [2pp.] text, decorative covers, in the original printed envelope, one of 150 copies signed by the designer Michael Keller on the back cover, this a publishers' presentation copy. N.p. [Santa Barbara], The Pride Of Tacoma Press, 2003 SOLD
Nice copy. Rare.
[64] [NAPOLEONICA]. il s'est sauvé pour la derniere fois /Vive le Roi.
Original movable toy. Small 8vo., handcoloured print on white paper cut into horizontal strips and mounted on cartonnage with a blue border and another coloured print alternately cut and attached to a tab, an onlaid strip of blue paper below the print printed with a bandeau in black, titles printed in black. N.p., n.p., n.d., 1814-1816. £300
Crisp, intact condition. Very rare in both commerce and institutions with one copy only on Worldcat at The Houghton Library a Gift of W.B.O. Field.
Beautifully executed optical, satirical toy, the unpulled print depicts Napoleon stood by a boat's gangway. When pulled Louis XVIII is revealed.
[65] [NAPOLEON], [ANONYMOUS]. EXPLANATION of the Arms and Supporters of Napoleon Bonaparte the self created Emperor, alias the Corsican, and now the CURSE OF EUROPE.
Original broadside. 60.3 x 30.2 cm. (the sheet), etching, handcolouring and aquatint illustration with letterpress text below in . N.p. [London], n.p., Printed by J.B.G. Vogel, n.d., 1808. £50
Lightly browned, a few spots and light foxing, fragile, lacks bottom left corner, thumbnail sized piece missing from right edge (not affecting image or text), several closed tears. Rare, though the British Museum has two copies both of which appear to be smaller than this one, even if cropped to the image, (BM Satires 11057).
A heraldic satire, the Arms are explained in a list of 8 below the image, two devils, a French and a Corsican hold the beautifully executed shield which includes a dpecition of “..the shooting of 800 defenceless turkish prisoners, near the town of Jaffa, ordered very coolly by the monster Boney”.
[66] POPPER (Karl). Unended Quest. An Intellectual Biography.
First separate edition, revised and with a new title. 8vo., [5pp.], pp-9-255, perfect bound into the original glossy stiff card wrapper, with a cover illustration by Peter Tybus, thumbnail authorial portrait with testimonials below on lower portion, price struck out by hand.. A contemporaneously signed inscribed and dated presentation copy from the author to Professor Percy S. Cohen. London, Glasgow[?], Fontana, printed by William Collins & Co., 1976. SOLD.
The full inscription in a bold, clear hand, in blue pen, on the title reads:
“To Percy Cohen from Karl Popper October 1976”.
Endemic paper browning, first few pages near front hinge with a hole developing.
Seemingly unread as well as 'Unended', nevertheless, an important association copy. Cohen was a serious protagtonist in Popper's Philsophy of Science seminars at the LSE and a major force in the development of social theory in his Depratmental field Sociology.
[67] COHEN (Percy S.). Modern Social Theory.
First edition. 8vo., endpaper, half-title, title, v-xi, [1p.], 247pp., in the original red cloth, titles in silver on spine, dustjacket. A contemporaneously signed, inscribed and dated presentation copy from the author to Professor Sir Raymond Firth. London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1968. £10
The full inscription in blue pen on the front free endpaper reads: “9/V /1968 With Best wishes Percy S Cohen”.
Cloth and text near fine, top edge dusty, jacket rubbed on head and tail of spine.
The book had an important influence on the teaching of Sociology and was puiblished in that most turbulent of years of protest and occupation at the LSE at the point when Cohen became Dean of Undergraduate Studies.
[68] COHEN (Percy S.). Jewish Radicals and Radical Jews.
First edition. 8vo., endpaper, half-title, title, xviii, 224pp., in the original black paper covered boards, gilt titles and ruling on spine, dustjacket. A near contemporaneously signed, inscribed and dated presentation copy from the author to Sir Raymond Firth. A loose ten line holograph note by Firth inserted. London, Academic Press Inc., 1980. £15
Book near fine, jacket slightly creased.
The full inscription on the front free endpaper, in an uncharacteristically clear hand (for Cohen), dated 27 March 1981 reads:
“To dear Raymond, teacher, master, colleague, friend. With affectionate good wishes Percy”.
The note is Firth's appreciative analysis of the book and the gift. A great association as Firth was a master social anthropologist and teacher at the LSE where Cohen also won his PhD in Social Anthropology.
[69] LEACH (Edmund). Genesis as Myth and Other Essays.
First paperback edition issued simultaneously with the hardback. Thin 8vo., half-title, title, [2pp.], pp-7-124, in the original stiff white card wrapper, titles in silver, dustjacket in pink, titles in reverse white and black. A contemporaneously signed, dated and inscribed presentation copy from the author to Sir Raymond Firth. London, Cape Editions, 1969. SOLD.
The full inscription in blue Biro on the half-title reads:
“Raymond with best wishes E. Leach 30.xii.69”.
Crisp copy.
Provenance: Firth's copy from his library.
[70] LEHMANN (F. Rudolf) (Dr.). Die Polynesischen Tabusitten. Eine ethno-soziologische und religionswissentschaftliche untersuchung.
First edition. Small folio, endpaper, title, v-vii, [1p.], 344pp., in the original olive paper wrapper, black titles and ruling, German text. With a loose TLS from the author to Sir Raymond Firth who has signed the front cover in pen and added marginalia and underlining and even perhaps some corrigenda. With Firth's copy of Lehmann's 'Mana'. Leipzig, A Voigtlanders Verlag, 1930. £35
Shabby edges, wrapper torn with loss and in pieces. The letter fine.
Provenance: A great association, Lehmann was a field worker who examined Polynesian taboos thoroughly and Firth the great ethnographer of the Pacific.
In 13 or so lines, the letter discusses Bronislaw Malinowski, who set Firth on his course of study, and the difficulties of mounting expeditions in the economic climate of The Depression.
[71] RIVERS (W.H.R.). Totemism in Polynesia and Melanesia.
First separate edition. 4to., title/pp-156-180, in the original green paper wrapper, titles on the upper portion and blurb on lower in black. A signed, inscribed presentation copy from the author to an unknown recipient. London, Reprinted from The Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. XXXIX, January-June 1909. £100
Endemic browning of text, covers a tad faded, worn, slight loss on turned corners, spine slit.
The full inscription in blue ink on the top right of the front cover reads: “With kind regards W.H.R. Rivers”.
Rare and esecially so signed.
Rivers wore a number of hats, as well as pioneering anthropologist, and most famous of all is his role as psychiatrist and the story of how he treated Siegfried Sassoon for shell shock in the Great War.
[72] WILSON (Thomas). The Swastika, The Earliest Known Symbol and Its Migrations, With Observations on The Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times.
25 plates, 374 figures in the text and a swastika distribution map. First separate edition. 8vo., title, pp-759-1030, all edges speckled red, rebound into contemporary oatmeal cloth by Thornton, armorial bookplate, signed and dated by Raymond Firth on the front free endpaper. Washington, [Offprinted from], The Report of The U.S. National Museum, 1896. £50
A few fragments of the original wrapper remain.
Provenance: the bookplate of The Balfour Library, The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, with pencilled 'duplicate' note, to Sir Raymond Firth, the great LSE anthropologist of Polynesia; who acquired it postwar.
[73] KEYNES (John Maynard). The Means To Prosperity.
First collected edition, enlarged. Tall 8vo., title, [3pp.], pp-5-37, [3pp.] of publishers' adverts forthcoming Keynsiana. Sewn into the original stiff green paper wrapper, titles in black, bibliography on inside front cover. Contemporary rubberstamp of Leplay House Library on upper portion. London, Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1933. £20
Wrapper browned, text crisp and clean.
An “..enlarged version of four articles printed in The Times..”
[74] KEYNES (John Maynard). A Treatise on Money. The Pure Theory of Money Vol. 1 & The Applied Theory of Money Vol. II [All published].
First edition. 8vo., endpaper, half-title, title, v-xvii, section title, pp-3-363, endpaper blank, bibliography, half-title, title, v-viii, section title, pp-3-424. In the original blue-green cloth, gilt titles on spine, loose printed bookplate. London, Macmillan & Co., 1930. £20
Mixed set with slightly different fades of cloth, first volume needs spine repairing as it is shabby. Lacks jackets. Uncommon.
The presentation bookplate of The British Library of Political and Economic Science with a typed from “The Author”.
Saving is bad spending is good...
[75] NORMAN (Rosenthal) (Sir) (Text) & NAHMAD (Helly). The Collector.
First edition. Folio, unpaginated; 2ll. loose bifolia, illustrated with colour photographs; 5 in the text in rounds and rectangles, one full bleed doublespread, 34 thumbnails for 'works list' on last page. London. Helly Nahmad Gallery, for Frieze Masters London 2014. £20
Fine.
Published to accompany an installation at Frieze Masters, London, 2014, to whit:
“The Collector is an exhibition that aims to question the true meaning of collecting art. It is an installation of an imaginary apartment set in Paris in 1968”.
[76] RICHTER (Gerhard), OBRIST (Hans Ulrich) (Afterword). Gerhard Richter Abstraktes Bild 825-II 69 Details Mit Einer Nachbemerkung von Hans Ulrich Obrist.
First edition, trade issue. 8vo., unpaginate; endpaper, frontispiece, title, dedication leaf, section title, 69 numbered leaves of colour plates, section title,[2pp.], in the original decorative paper coloured boards, onlaid printed title label on upper board and on the title in a uniform style. Signed by the artist in pencil on the title. Frankfurt um Main and Leipzig, Insel Verlag, Insel-Bucherei Nr. 116, 1996. SOLD.
Near fine copy.
There is also a limited editiuon of perhaps 500, signed and inscribed by the artist.
“This work contains 69 different details of the surface of one abstract painting, photographed head-on. At first glance the fragmented topography suggests that Richter followed a specific plan, but the search for fixed coordinates or a sequence of the details leads nowhere. Each fragment almost fills the entire page, followed by a blank page, lending order to disorder” (www.gerhard-richter.com).
[77] RICHTER (Gerhard), SEYMOUR (Anne) (Foreword). Stammheim.
First edition. Thin 8vo., 60pp., in the original grey laid paper wrapper; titles in red and black on upper portion, this copy unopened and sealed in the original white tissue as distributed. One of a 1, 00 copies signed by the artist. London., Anthony D'Offay, 1995. Reserved.
Fine copy.
“This limited edition reproduces in facsimile each of the twenty-three Richter works executed on pages of the book Stammheim. Der Prozess gegen die Rote Armee Fraktion by Pieter H. Bakker Schut - the story of the alleged simultaneous suicides in 1977 of three German members of The Red Army Faction in Stammheim Prison.
The images here are abstract, yet closely historically and thematically linked to the artist's 18. Oktober 1977 series. They affirm Richter's continued search for a means to communicate historical themes beyond the physicality of the paint surface, his refusal to completely dispense with metaphor, his belief that art can express profound mourning while remaining, according to Richter, “the highest form of hope” ““ (www.gerhard-richter.com).
[78] ROSSET (Barney) (Editor) et al. Evergreen Review, Volume 4, Number 13, May-June 1960. [What is Pataphysics?].
First edition. Tall 8vo., [24pp.], pp-25-192, illustrated, perfect bound into the original illustrated stiff card wrapper. The upper portion is illustrated with a treated photograph of a patacyclist in greens with a purple spiral. New York, Grove Press Inc., 1960. £20
Head and tail of backstrip rubbed.
A bellwether text that reintroduced Jarry & Co to the English speaking world - produced 5 years before Martin Esslin's 'Absurd Drama'.
[79] SHRIGLEY (David). Kill Your Pets.
First edition. Small 8vo., unpaginated; 66ll. [2pp.] title with [63pp.] line drawn illustrations, imprint, one leaf in yellow, perfect bound into the original stiff card wrapper in Dayglo orange, facsimile holograph titles in black. Signed by the artist as 'D. Shrig' on the front free endpaper. London, The Redstone Press, 2004. £20
Near fine, scarce signed (at this price anyway).
[80] SINCLAIR (Iain). American Smoke. Journeys To The End of The Light. A Fiction of Memory.
First edition. 8vo., in the original black paper covered boards, silver titles on spine, folded literary map dustjacket, signed by the author on the title. London, Hamish Hamilton, 2013. £30
Crisp copy, jacket slightly worn on spine, a few scattered pencil strokes on foreedge.
[81] SMITH (W. Eugene & Aileen Mioko). [Minamata Life - Sacred and Profane].
First edition. Folio., 12 loose b&w photographic plates with captions, loose leaf 2pp. biographical essay in English, in the original glossy, folding card portfolio; b&w portrait on inside front with bilingual Japanese English text. One b&w photo apiece on both portions of the portfolio, titles in black. Old, small classmark sticker on front, price cancelled with a new ticket on flap. Tokyo, Seibu Hyakkaten, 1973. £50
Crisp clean plates, creased text leaf, portfolio a bit shabby.
Parr doesn't like it, he says it is laying on “the schmaltz with a trowel”.
[82] SMITH (Patti) (Text) & SOONG (Path) ('Painting by'). Going Under.
First edition. Original broadside. 10.6 x 30.5 cm., text and one illustration in black on cream paper, one of 110 copies plus artits proofs signed by both artist and poet. N.p. [Norwich, New York], SOOJ 2006. £50
Near fine.
[83] SOTH (Alec) Songbook.
Photobook largely illustrated. Second edition. 4to., unpaginated; endpaper, frontispiece, title, 70ll. largely of b&w photos either one or two to a leaf insterspersed with text. In the original padded green textured cloth with title in dark brown on upper board and spine and a facsimile musical score on lower portion. N.p. [Mack Books], 2015. £30
Slightly faded cloth (though newlyish published).
[84] SPOERRI (Daniel). An Anecdoted Topography of Chance...
First edition, trade tranche. 4to., [3pp.], pp-4-239, folding plan in rear, perfect bound into the original stiff, glossy illustrated wrapper. London, Atlas Press, Atlas Arkhive 4, 1995 £10
Wrapper a trifle creased and worn.
[85] STEELE-PERKINS (Chris). A Place In The Country. A Year In The Life of Holkham Estate.
Largely illustrated with full page colour photographs. First edition. Oblong 4to., endpaper, illustrated half-title, 1l. double frontispiece, title, pp-7-119. In the original white paper covered boards, titles in black, colour photograph on the upper portion in a uniform dustjacket.
A contemporaneously signed copy, the signature in ink on the title.
Stockport, Dewi Lewis, 2014 £40
Near fine book in a similar jacket.
[86] TINGUELY (Jean) & HULTEN (Pontus). A Magic Stronger Than Death.
First edition. Small folio, [9pp.], pp-10-384, profusely illustrated, leporello insert in a pocket on inside back wrapper. Perfect bound into the original illustrated stiff card glossy wrapper, in a paper covered card slipcase decorated in a uniform style; with two slots for a strap. Milan, Bompiani, 1987. £20
Crisp, clean copy, lacks the scarce carrying strap.
Exhibition catalogue for the incredible show at Palaazzo Grassi.
[87] TONE (Toney) & CONZO (Joe). Hip Hop Map of The Bronx.
Oversized proof copy. 39.3 x 71 cm., facsimile of the Bronx section of the New York City Subway Map in colour; detourned with red numbers relating tro an index in white on a black background and a graffiti style tag, on verso of proof wrapper design for the book 'Born In The Bronx'. N.p. [New York], Unpublished thus? [Rizzoli], n.d, 2006-2007. SOLD.
Rolled and sort of loosely folded, corners creased. Rare.
Evocative of early gang geographies of New York's Harlem, street culture around the game of 'Ringolevio' and 'The Warriors'.
[88] [Sex Trade Cards]. [Scrap Book].
Original ‘shopbought’ scrapbook. Small folio, 39ll., stiff card, 2ll., blank contents leaves, approximately 150 examples of largely printed offset or mimeographed ephemera pasted or tipped in, with some in duplicate illustrating both rectos and versos, several captioned in ink in holograph, various sizes.
The leaves loosely string bound in the original half black cloth, original red cloth boards with a decoupage illustration of a semi nude art nouveau style angel on the upper board. In a recent drop back silk covered box, gilt titles on a red leather label. c. 19291934. SOLD.
Very good condition. Many very rare if not unique items included.
Provenance: William S. Child, Royal Navy Seaman on The H.M.S. Thracia as part of the British Eastern Squadron, and either compiled by (or sent to his wife for ‘scrapping’); the ephemera includes a few picture cards signed and inscribed from Child to his wife.
The ephemera is largely made up of city tourist maps and brochures for hot springs and the like as well as a great deal of cards, flyers and notices for the service industries, such as tailors, watering holes, tea and cake cafes, curio shops, hotels and seamens’ hostels geared to a big shIp or squadron coming in to port. There are also several small, original photographs of' types’. This equates to much of the snowstorm of material that you find in virtually any sailor’s album or trunk from service in the Far East, and as with this scrapbook, landing at/spending time in Beppu,Nagasaki, Yokohama, Tsingtao, Dairen, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe and other ports.
This album, is however distinguished from the majority we have seen by the inclusion of 40 or so largely printed items such as leaflets, flyers, small posters, trade cards and slips, and a few separate handwritten notes, a small collage and a bamboo whistle with coloured feathers relating to female sex workers, the so called
geishas, ‘taxi dancers’, bar hostesses, waitresses and female “servants”. The ‘Taxi dancer’ phenomenon probably originates in Depression era USA, where female companionship in the form of a dance was paid for on the meter like a taxi and with a ticket bought at the venue. Several of these, surely very rare tickets are included in
this collection with three or so printed elegantly in blind with gauffered edges and pastel tints.
Taxi dancing is historically a euphemism for sexual services where a client and taxi dancer hookup offsite after meeting on the dance floor. It worked like the black economy of the lap dancer in modern times, the dance was often a prelude to paid for sexual intercourse. The point of first contact between sailor and sex trade in the Far East was most probably, in the case of Japan, the rikisha taxi drivers and navigators who placed the flyer or card in the hand of the serviceman at port and railway station and which is demonstrated in the ephemera. Many have inset maps and instructions to take the vehicle to the venue, some of the more sophisticated ephemera include a black and white group portrait with a spectrum of ‘types’ of women from tightly wrapped geishas, in white face, and quite glamorously dressed flapper types, all of whom are indigenous to the Far East.
Many of the items are evocative of an evocative world of colony and Empire glamorous, louche and exploitative and styled in a sort of art nouveau orientalism. They shed light in particular on Japan’s ancient sex trade with its arcane and complex rules, signs and symbols. Many of the terms are probably euphemistic, for instance, does ‘sukiyaki’ service really mean the Japanese hotpot served and cooked at the tableside? All in all, they provide an invaluable insight into the idiom of the Chinese and Japanese sex trade catering
Items include: a photographically illustrated flyer for
“Cafe No 1” of Nagasaki, ”Army and Navy Your comforfable [sic] Resfaranf [sic] and bar”.
Two flyers for ‘Salon Pima, of Hiroshima; “How Heartily Lovely Girls want your entering” [sic].
A small flyer for ‘Fantasia Dance Hall’ of Dairen run by “Mme Jeanne Claude”.
A flyer for ‘Suyehiraya’ of Kobe, wherein “..those who may give us in looking with the WORST OF LIQUORS and FOOD at a reasonable price waited on by the UGLIEST Female Servants.. The Establishment can not boast of a Proprietor, but it is carried on by a Japanese lady who would not be thought handsome in a crowd. The cook when his
face is washed considered the best looking of the Company..” [sic].
A flyer for ‘Hayashi House’ of Kobe ( “When in Roma [sic] do as Romans do when in Kobe do as…) with “Sukiyaki waited on by English Speaking Girls” .
A flyer for the ‘Nikko Bar’, also of Kobe, where you could “Have a good time in private..”.
Two copies , pasted recto/verso, of a flyer for ‘Hana Bar’, Kobe, with beautiful women “..always in attendance to lead you into heavenly and earthly enjoyment”.
Others boast of the quantity of women on duty, scarcity of ‘fresh’ women was probably a big problem when the squadron berthed. One Yokohama ‘ Ballroom’ , included here, claimed “..more than 50 beautiful and charming Japanese Girls ”, the ‘night Club Sakura Salon claimed “..80 beautiful young girls, mordorn [sic] girls of old Japan” this exampleis illustrated in the style of Foujita or Laboureur.
The most unique example is a small crayon Japanese flag with a cutout black and white photograph of a Japanese woman in geisha
collaged on top suggesting a deeper fraternisation than a taxi dance or sexual encounter.
All in all, a fascinating album of great rarity and worthy of deeper research into comparative sex trade printing history. These are the ancestors of our modern ‘tart cards’ that appeared in the telephone boxes of the eighties in London and elsewhere.
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cyberlist #1. #thepurge, or, changing modes of bookselling since the net.
In the spirit of #KonMari©, Carl Williams Rare Books has gatherered together lots of stuff as a declutter/reclutter exercise (with a collection of original art in the pipeline and other stuff) and to get that tokimeku feeling all over again.
Pre-War and Great War photography, anthropology, ideas, African-American struggle, propaganda, Burroughs' as artist, Drugs, Indian art etc. . Scroll down to see the 'image cloud' and the very long page below for the complete text.
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