N.p, n.d. [London: All London Squatters, ca 1974?]. Poster calling attention to the plight of those evicted from the Camden Street Squat, formerly located at 220 Camden High Street. The owner of the building, Joseph Levy (1906-1990), was a wealthy London property developer whose company Stock Conversion helped rebuild the..... More

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1828. Second Edition. Treatise by the Federalist Boston lawyer John Lowell (1769-1840), criticizing Orthodox congregationalism while promoting religious freedom and tolerance, arguing "Has not a man, or a body of men, a right to found a church for the maintenance of any religious opinions, and..... More

Boston: R.P. & C. Williams, 1821. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 23cm.); disbound; 168pp. Light foxing throughout, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page (serving as upper cover), else Very Good overall. SABIN 102563; SHOEMAKER 6613. More

London: Punch Office, 1847-48. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Full tan calf, tooled in gilt at board edges, spine, and turn-ins, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; xii,320pp; xii,394pp; xii,308pp; 30 hand-colored etchings and numerous in-text wood engravings by John Leech. Straight volumes, with faint staining to bindings at lower spine and..... More

New York: A.S. McCredie & Co., 1831. Receipt made out to a Mrs. H.W. Livingstone, who purchased several yards of Merino wool and cloth, a Hernani shawl, and silk velvet, a purchase totalling $52.50 1/2 (about $1500 in today's currency). The Hernani shawl appears to have been a fashion based..... More

Philadelphia: Anti-slavery Society of the City and County of Philadelphia; printed by Merrihew & Gunn, 1837. Single quarto issue (29cm x 23cm; ca. 11-1/2" x 9-1/4"). Bifolium (4pp), pages numbered [9]-12. Issued monthly. Old horizontal fold at center (as issued?); small loss at upper margin (away from printed area), brief..... More

Paris: Hachette, 1865. First Edition. Octavo. Contemporary gilt-decorated morocco over marbled boards, spine in six compartments; 424 (2)pp. Bookplate, private shelf label and ownership signature of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson's great-grandson and minister plenipotentiary to France from 1892-1893. Slight rubbing to board edges; sun-darkening to spine, with a bit..... More

Vimmerby, Sweden: Trapart Books / Institute of Cmparative Magico-Anthropology, 2011-20. Octavo. Ten Volumes in Eight (as issued); pictorial glazed-paper boards; variously paginated. Each volume signed in ink by editor Carl Abrahamsson. A fine, apparently unread set. Organ of Abrahamsson's Institute of Comparative Magico-Anthropology, devoted to research on "...the human mind..... More

London: Aloes Books, 1984. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's original pink decorated card wraps. 29pp. Some minor creasing and scuffing to the edges and extremities, a touch of sunning around the spine area; internally clean. A very good copy. A short piece originally published as a short form story entitled..... More

Buffalo, NY: Top Stories, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's illustrated stiff card wraps. [24pp]. Light wear to extremities, a couple of small scratches to the front panel; internally clean, ink stamp of "Top Stories" NYC address to copyright page. A very good, clean copy. An early piece of searing..... More

Ferry Press, 1978. First Edition. One of 350 limited copies (26 of which were signed and contained holograph poem), softcover. Octavo (25cm); staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 33pp. Inscribed and signed by author on title page "Peter Ackroyd / To Howard, from his friend the doctor 9.ix.78". Light shelf-soil and foxing..... More

London: The Curiously Strong, 1971. First Edition. First printing. Small quarto. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets with printed card covers; [15]pp, printed recto-only. Mild corner-creasing; still a clean, Very Good or better copy in the original wrappers. A generic bookplate hand-signed by Ackroyd has been loosely laid-in by a previous collector. Ackroyd's..... More

Stockholm: OEI, 2021. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Printed, glossy card wrappers; 512pp; illus. Fine, unread copy in the original bright pink, glossy wrappers. Issued as OEI #92-93 (double issue). A catalogue raisonné of magazines related to the Lettrist movement, beginning with La Dictature Lettriste (1946). 119 periodical titles are discussed..... More