The April Library Sale (Presented by Rare Book Auctions)

To Include Counter-Culture & Underground Publishing

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The April Library Sale (Presented by Rare Book Auctions)

To Include Counter-Culture & Underground Publishing

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Oz Magazine, editor Richard Neville, published London, encapsulates the huge social changes of the 1960s/1970s. Included here: issue run from numb...

The International Times, underground newspaper which documented the revolutionary changes taking place within society in the 1960s/1970s, 130 rema...

Ink The Other Newspaper, alternative and underground publication started by Richard Neville editor of the notorious Oz Magazine, 21 well-preserved...

Zap Comix, no.0, 60C, R. Crumb, v. good, Oct. 1967, Apex Novelty, California._ All New Zap Comix, no.1, R. Crumb, good, Nov. 1967, Apex Novelties,...

R. Crumb's Comics and Stories, no.1, 35C, dated Apr. 1964 published 1969, some handling marks, staples aged, otherwise v. good, Rip Off Press, San...

Big Apple Comix, 1st printing, v. good, Big Apple Productions, New York, 1975._ Authentic Visionary Comix, no.1, 75C, removed price tag, Illinois,...

Grave Tales, ltd. ed. 227/1000, some rubbing at spine fold, staples aged, internally bright, Wonderful Publishing Co., Arizona, 1974._ Spaced, no....

ROMNEY, Hugh (Wavy Gravy pseud.) The Hog Farm and Friends, First printing, some rubbing at edges, half-title corner trimmed, New York: Links Books...

Kindness, John. The Hand: A Tale of Old Belfast, some marks around cover edges, n.d. 1976._ Bastard Angel, no.2, marking/toning around covers, San...

The Berni Wrightson Treasury, some marking at covers, staples aged, Detroit: Omnibus Pub., 1975._ Madstar Science Fiction Quarterly, no.1, marking...

SUMACH, DR. Alexander. Grow Yer Own Stone, pictorial softcover, some spotting at edges of text-block/opening page, Toronto: River City Stoneworks,...

LEE, David. Cocaine: Consumer's Handbook, First printing, some rubbing at edges, light spotting at ffep and edges of text-block, light water stain...

WROBLEWSKI, Chris. Tattoo - Pigments of Imagination, SIGNED, London: Virgin Books, 1987._ WROBLEWSKI, Chris; GOMMEZ-VAEZ. City Indians - Photograp...

WROBLEWSKI, Chris. Skin Shows, Signed dedication, and Skin Shows II, softcovers, London: Virgin Books, 1989, 1991._ WROBLEWSKI, Chris. Classic Ski...

A selection of books relating to spirituality and philosophy, including: Quetzalcoatl by Jose Lopez Portillo, 1977 - The Man Who Gave Thunder to T...

RAJNEESH, Bhagwan Shree. Tantra The Supreme Understanding, First edition, d.j. spine faded, frontispiece photograph loose, Poona: Rajneesh Foundat...

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh collection, including: The Diamond Sutra, First ed., unclipped d.j., Poona: Rajneesh Foundation, March 1977._ Above All Don...

Unlimited Blues Magazine, from issue no. 114, July/August, to issue no. 135/136, July/September 1979. Well preserved (21)

Photographs Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990, SIGNED First edition, 32 x 29cm, attractive document of 20th century culture, largely as new, New York: Har...

CHRISTOPHERSON, (Peter). Photography, "Collector's Edition", limited to 26 lettered copies, this being "Y", [comprising first edition, special edi...

SHARPE, (Elizabeth). The Flame of God: A Mystical Autobiography, scarce first edition, 8vo, publisher's grey cloth lettered in black, 126pp., inte...

EDWARDS, (Harry). A Guide to Spirit Healing, presentation copy SIGNED by the author, 12th impression, 8vo, publisher's red cloth lettered in black...

FRISVOLD, Nicholaj & Katy de Mattos. The Canticles of Lilith, Special Limited Edition numbered 24/125, featuring a loosely-inserted publisher's ca...

SKINNER, Stephen (Ed.). Aleister Crowley's Four Books of Magic, Book 4 (Liber ABA), first thus, first printing, SIGNED by the editor (confirmed by...

CHURTON, Tobias. Aleister Crowley in England: The Return of the Great Beast, first edition, first printing, tipped-in Atlantis Bookshop plate SIGN...

GRANT, Kenneth & Steffi. Hidden Lore, Hermetic Glyphs, Limited Edition numbered 24/777, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt with unclipped dus...

ACHER, Frater. Mutabor: A Journey into the Goêtic Flesh, [Deluxe Limited Edition, one of only 72 hardcover copies], SIGNED by the author, featurin...

BERTIAUX, Michael. Cosmic Meditation, limited edition numbered 763/777, 8vo, limp boards, tipped-in colour frontispiece, near-fine/fine, London: F...

ABRAHAMSSON, Carl. Reasonances, 2000-2013: Essays, Lectures, Interviews, limited "Mercurial" edition, SIGNED by the author, numbered 226/530, loos...

ADAMS, Peter Mark. The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola-Busca tarocchi, limited edition numbered 506/871, 4to, full black Shantung cloth lettered...

ASSANGE, (Julian). The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire, first edition paperback, first printing, SIGNED by Julian Assange at the...

Nick Walker (British, b. 1969). Mona Simpson, screenprint in colours, limited edition numbered 555/750, signed l.r., bearing Pictures on Walls bli...

LANG, (Andrew). "Rainbow Fairy Books". A collection of seven Fairy Books, sealed/unopened in original cellophane wrappers, comprising: The Pink Fa...

Raphael's Prophetic Messenger for 1842, The Events, Predictions, and The Weather for Each Month; 19 x 12cm, later sympathetic half-calf, large fol...

A collection of miniature & juvenile books comprising: The London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1797, featuring 4-page engraved view of Trinity ...

The Times Report of the Trial of William Palmer, infamous Victorian poisoner, original cloth with lettering in gilt, some toning, splitting at gut...

Victorian Scrapbook, finely bound with decoration in gilt and royal blue, all edges gilt, 29.5 x 25cm, attractively hand-coloured title/name page ...

An Account of the Loss of the Royal George, bound in wood recovered from the ship, 11.7 x 7cm, some rubbing at spine, printed by J. Hammond jun., ...

The Deathless Story of the Titanic, second edition, original newspaper report of the disaster, featuring loosely-inserted contemporaneous clipping...

Collection of carte de visite/photograph albums, including: A carte de visite album, (15.5 x 12cm), includes photograph of the 'Fat Boy of Peckham...

PHOTOGRAPHY. A collection of 23 ambrotype [collodion positive] family portraits, unknown sitters, mounted, framed and glazed, ranging in size from...

PHOTOGRAPHY. An enlarged portrait of a husband & wife, probably advertising a photographic studio's service of offering enlargements from cartes-d...

PHOTOGRAPHY. A collection of Victorian cartes-de-visite & cabinet cards, portraits of various family members taken at studios in Harrogate, Hull, ...

PHOTOGRAPHY. A miscellaneous collection comprising: A Victorian carte-de-visite album containing 6 family portraits taken by McIntyre (Tweedmouth)...

PHOTOGRAPHY. A miniature late-Victorian carte-de-visite album containing 11 photographic portraits taken by Jasper Redfern (Sheffield), Ernest Pea...

[Hugh Cecil (1889-1974)]. An original glass plate negative of Edward VIII (1894-1972), produced for the Royal Mint for use on stamps and planned c...

American & British Actors, Writers & Cartoonists. A collection of 1930s autographs, photographs and cartoons in three morocco albums lettered in g...

Postcards. An album of music hall stars, 1910s, photographic portraits, many signed, including Gertie Gitana, France L. Kimball, Flora MacDonald &...

BABER, (Douglas). A unique archive comprising: God's Blind Eye, the author's original typed draft with manuscript annotations/corrections, 399pp....

MASSIE, Chris. Death Goes Hunting, incomplete manuscript draft, entirely handwritten in black ink, commencing from p. 63 [midway through Chapter V...

A manuscript conveyance on vellum, dated 7 February 1855, made between "The Manchester, Buxton, Matlock & Midlands Junction Railway Co." and Mr. G...

RATCLIFFE UPON TRENT – NOTTS.  – 1715. A rare vellum document relating to 242 pieces of land etc. within the Open Fields with names, abutments and...

Apprentice Indenture - Edwin Francis George Jellyman aged 13, son of Albert Edward Jellyman a publican from Coaley in Gloucestershire, 7 year appr...

European Manuscripts & Autograph Letters Signed. A small archive comprising a secretarial memorandum in Italian, counter-signed by Cardinal Alessa...

17th/18th-century Ottoman Turkish manuscript dealing with the formal rules and conventions of a madhhab [school of though within Islamic jurisprud...

Manuscript Music. A William IV period album of manuscript folk songs, anonymously copied from various composers & lyricists including Charles Jeff...

Autograph letter signed from Anthony Pasquin [pseud. of John Williams] (1761-1818), notable satirist, writer, theatre critic, and poet. Written, i...

STAFFORDSHIRE HISTORY. An archive of accounting ledgers for J. C. Staton & Co., manufacturers & suppliers of cement & plaster of paris, Burton upo...

SELLERS, W. H. Mensuration, a manuscript workbook, bearing printed title for John D'Arby's Academy, Leeds, where "Young Gentlemen are taught the E...

League of German Girls. A collection of 10 letters written by a German teenager in Berlin to her pen-pal in Coventry, 1932, including references t...

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