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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Maynard Keynes
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919.First edition, first printing of the highly influential economics work published in the wake of WWI, establishing Keynes’ as one of the world’s leading economists.
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Armed with Madness
AU$3,250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Butts; Jean Cocteau
London: Wishart & Company, 1928.Experimental novel based on the myth of the Holy Grail. A one time student of Aleister Crowley, Butts is credited as a co-author of the 1912 Magick (Book 4). In 1921 she spent time at Crowley’s Abbey of Thelema, not enjoying her stay, and departing with a drug habit. Armed with Madness explores the relationships (including homoeroticism and bisexuality) and ritualism among a group of young bohemians living at a country home. Considered a masterpiece of Modernist prose. One of 100 numbered copies of the Deluxe Edition on handmade paper with illustrations by Jean Cocteau.
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War of the Classes
Read MoreJack London
London: Wm. Heinemann, 1905.First UK Edition of London’s collection of radical socialist essays: The Class Struggle; The Tramp; The Scab; The Question of the Maximum; A Review; Wanted: A New Law of Development; How I Became a Socialist.
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The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism: Fraudulent and Geniune
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHereward Carrington
Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1907.Being a Brief Account of the Most Important Historical Phenomena; a Criticism of their Evidential Value, and a Complete Exposition of the Methods Employed in Fraudulently Reproducing the Same. The first published book by American investigator of psychic phenomena Hereward Carrington (1880-1958), in which he exposes many of the tricks used by fraudulent mediums in the Spiritualism movement.
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Modern Psychical Phenomena: Recent Researches and Speculations
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHereward Carrington
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919.Continuing investigations by American investigator of psychic phenomena Hereward Carrington (1880-1958) including studies of psychology, ghosts, psychic photography, astral projection, Spiritualism, and more. One chapter is devoted to the question of whether gender exists after death.
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Seen and Unseen
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. Katharine Bates
London: Greening & Company, 1907.A record psychic experiences by British Spiritualist Emily Katharine Bates (1846-1922).
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The Philosophy of Physiomedicalism: Its Theorem, Corollary, and Laws of Application for the Cure of Disease
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. M. Thurston
Richmond: Nicholson Printing & Mfg. Co., 1900.A late text in the school of Physiomedicalism, a natural medicine system which grew out of Thomsonianism in the United States and was influential in modern herbalism and holistic approaches to health.
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Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn T. Gulick
Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905.Human evolutionary theory by Hawaiian naturalist, missionary, and snail collector John Thomas Gulick (1832-1923). The three colour plates showing numerous shells.
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Histoire des Amazones Anciennes et Modernes, Enrichie de Medailles
Read MoreM. l’Abbe Guyon
Paris: Jean Villette, 1740.Study of the history and mythology of the legendary race of warrior women, the Amazons. With 8 engraved plates based on ancient coins and medals. Provenance: This copy with a warm inscription to the front flyleaf of vol. 1 dated June 1925 from German political scientist Arnold Bergstraesser (1896-1964) to humanitarian Eleanora Iredale.
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The First Book of Andrea Palladio’s Architecture
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrea Palladio; Isaac Ware
[London]: I. Ware, 1742.Treating of the Five Orders; and What is most necessary in Building. Correctly drawn from Original Work, published by himself at Venice, Anno 1570. And accurately engraved by I. Ware. Pocket edition of Ware’s translation and illustrations of Palladio’s book one from his The Four Books of Andrea Palladio’s Architecture published in folio in 1738.
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
AU$220.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFergus W. Hume
London: The Hansom Cab Publishing Company, [1888]. -
Grass Roots Gazette
Read MoreCalifornia Marijuana Initiative Coalition
Vallejo: California Marijuana Initiative Coalition, 1973.Complete run of The Official Voice of the California Marijuana Initiative Coalition. A short lived weed legalisation periodical. No. 3 featuring an interview with Allen Ginsberg on marijuana which is continued in No. 4.
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Les Ames du Purgatoire
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartProsper Merimee; Hermann Paul
Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1929.The Souls of Purgatory, short story retelling of the myth of Don Juan, the first edition with fifteen watercolours by Hermann Paul. One of a numbered edition of 450 copies on wove paper (of a total edition of 480), this copy bound by French bookbinder Rene Kieffer (1875-1964) in a fine full leather binding with an elaborate star, heart, and chain blind design to both boards, with his ticket to the endpaper, the original wrappers bound in.
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Les Civilises
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere; Henri Le Riche
Paris: Librairie de la Collection des Dix, 1926.French colonizers indulge in fornication, opium, and general debauchery in late 19th century Saigon (then French Cochincina, modern day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). One of 200 numbered copies of Arches vellum (of a total edition of 300), bound with the original wrappers.
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La Mort de Philae
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre Loti; Geo Colucci
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1924.The Death of Philae (English title: Egypt), a tale set around the submerging of the island of Philae with the construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the river Nile. The first edition with illustrations by Geo Colucci. One of 460 numbered copies on vellum (of a total edition of 500), in a fine half leather binding signed Ch. De Samblax with the original wrappers bound in.
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Les Ames du Purgatoire
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartProsper Merimee; Lucien Guezennec
Paris: Pierre Larrive, 1947.The Souls of Purgatory, short story retelling of the myth of Don Juan, the first edition with 10 engravings by Lucien Guezennec and woodcut ornaments by Dan Sigros. One of a numbered edition of 500 copies on Lafuma (of a total edition of 611).
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La Fille Elisa
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Paul-Louis Guilbert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, George Briffaut, 1929.Goncourt’s prostitute-prisoner novel, here published for the first time with original drypoints by Paul-Louis Guilbert, a preface by J. -H. Rosny Aine, and an afterword by Jean Ajalbert. Edition of 425 numbered copies, this copy on Arches vellum, unnumbered but inscribed by the publisher, likely to the Belgian publisher Albert Parmentier of Les Editions du Nord.
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Le Parfum des Iles Borromees
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRene Boylesve; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: L’Editions D’Art H. Piazza, 1933.French novel of passionate vacationers on the shores of Lake Maggiore. The first edition with 26 illustrations by Becat. Edition of 450 copies, this copy on vellum numbered IV (outside of the justification) with a printed subscriber’s name scratched out.
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Les Ragionamenti (2 Volumes)
Read MoreL’Aretin; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: Editions de la Nef d’Argent, 1944.Also called Sei Giornate, a 20th century French translation of 16th century Italian poet, Pietro Aretino’s pair of Renaissance dialogues is illustrated with hand embellished lithograph nudes and small drawings by Paul-Emile Becat. One of 2,800 numbered copies on pure rag vellum (of a total edition of 3,000).
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Histoire d’Amour de la Rose de Sable
Read MoreHenry de Montherlant; Edouard Chimot
Paris: Editions des Deux-Rives, 1951.French novel critical of colonisation in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa. This edition with erotic illustrations by Chimot. One of 900 numbered copies on Rives vellum.