Highlights

COCTEAU, Jean; PICASSO, Pablo; WILDMAN, Carl (Trans.) Orpheé; A Tragedy in one Act and an Interval. London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Pablo Picasso. First English Language Edition. Original cloth. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xi, 43 [1] : frontis by Picasso : photo of Cocteau as Heurtebise : printed on Basingwerk paper : signed by both Cocteau and Picasso at colophon (p.iv), Cocteau has added his signature star : fore-edge untrimmed : black cloth boards lettered in gilt on top board : custom clamshell box in black cloth littered in gilt. Cloth is chipped to all edges. No.24/100. Item #3927.

[Together with] The Statu Quo Chess Board . New York, Routledge, & London, Jaques & Son, c.1880s: ppxii, 884, vi, 122 (Appendix). Illustrated, large thick 8vo, pictorial cloth, slightly marked, a good copy. The antique In Statu Quo travelling chess set consists of a mahogany and brass box [23x23cms] with red and white bone pieces. Box, mechanism and pieces in fine condition, in the original black leather case (flap detached but complete). The chess pieces each have a lockable brass fitting to their underside which holds them in place when the box is closed, allowing the game to be paused.

FLEMING, Ian Diamonds Are Forever London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. First Edition, first printing, first state. Hardcover : pp. (8) 11-257 : plain e.p.s : publisher's blind stamped black cloth in repeating diamonds with diamond in gilt foil to centre of top board and lettering in silver foil to the backstrip (Binding A) : first state dust jacket design by Pat Marriot showing price 12s6d. With the first edition points as described by Gilbert including publisher's device under the author's name on the title page, "Boofy" on p.134 [Gilbert A4a (1.1)].

Poster print manifesto by Heathcote Williams (1941-2017) for the sexpaper Suck co-founded by Heathcote Williams, William Levy, Jim Hayes, and Germaine Greer. The poster is printed in red and white with manuscript alterations, signed and dated by Williams, 1970. Together with Williams' original typescript of the manifesto, dated London 1969, with typescript and manuscript alterations. Suck is touted as the first European sex newspaper and was launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England's anti-obscenity laws

Hamburg : C. Adler, before 1868. Chromolithographed and engraved folding card in the shape of a bouquet of flowers, housed in the original gilt-printed envelope with a lithographed view of Sydney, lettered in gold, the view measuring 520 x 118 mm, the envelope 86 x 142 mm, a fine example. Adler’s Bouquet of Sydney, a highly ephemeral piece, the charming envelope bearing a view of Sydney from the North Shore, housing the fragile and rare diecut souvenir with 26 engraved views of Sydney.

The Key to the Shops Around the World. Shopping in each place is captured by a colourful full page illustration, along with details of routes and fares for trips on the NYK liners. Illustrated by American illustrator Daniel C. Sweeney (1880-1958)

First edition: a great Singapore rarity, one of the first books to be published there, and including the earliest detailed map of Singapore Town and its surroundings, "The Town and environs of Singapore”, based on a survey by G.D. Coleman. Published just after the island had become the capital of the Straits Settlements, it marks the beginning of the colony’s enormous growth as a regional trading hub and the centre of the rubber industry.

London : printed by W. Closes and Sons for John Murray, 1866. Fourth edition. Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (light bumping to corners, very minor stains), green endpapers, contemporary owner’s inscription in pencil ‘M Purser 1867’ to half-title, pp. xxi; [blank], 593; [blank] 32 (publisher’s catalogue dated January 1865), folding lithographic plate by William West after Darwin, one quire slightly sprung, a fine copy of the fourth edition, entirely unsophisticated, crisp, complete and unrestored.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1939. First Edition. 8vo. original brown cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed, prev. owner's name and ownership stamp to FFE, else internally clean) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a trifle rubbed, slight edge fraying); pp. xxxii, 294 (last blank), with frontispiece, 7 illustrations & map. A near fine copy in the scarce jacket. Phyllis Mary Kaberry was a social anthropologist who dedicated her work to the study of women in various societies. Particularly with her work in both Australia and Africa, she paved the way for a feminist approach in anthropological studies

Artist book produced by Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera. Numbered edition of 1,000 copies, of which this is number 704. An A-Z series of photographs with short text of sexual behaviour. Annie Sprinkle (1954-) is an American sex worker cum sexologist, artist, and ecosexualist. In 1996 she became the first known porn star to get a doctoral degree and has been a champion of sex education and sex-positive feminism.

A superb Sydney Harbour scene, sweeping from Elizabeth Bay House in the middle-ground around to the lower north shore, showcasing Martens’s remarkable talent at capturing the shimmering waters and the intense light of the city.

As it was read in the House of Commons, and attested under the hand of Phelps, Clerk to that Infamous Court. Taken by John Nalson, LLD. Jan 4, 1683. Lond. By H.C. for Thomas Dring. 1684. Sm.folio. Old full leather (rebacked) viii,70,ii,134,ipp. Engraved frontispiece plate, portrait of the King and a view of the interior of the court. Some browning else a Very Good copy. Scarce. Many marginal notes on the persons involved, the endpapers filled with relevant anecdotes and an index, all in contemporary or early 18th century hands. "The only day-to-day account we have of what went on."