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150,000.000 Majakovskij, Vladimir. Masek, Vaclav (illustrator) - Mathesius, Bohumil (trans.). Praha: Melantrich. 1945. Original breathtaking black and white lithographs. Second Czech edition, illustrated by Vaclav Masek, this copy (unsigned and not numbered) is in addition to the 200 copies numbered and signed by translator and illustrator. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Jon Savage. Englands’ Dreaming. Sex Pistols and Punk Rock. 1991.

André Deutsch, London.1967. First edition. Copiously illustrated with the author's illustrations. A comprehensive study of the odd, beautiful, frightening or lunatic things which the human race to make for and of its dead. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper.

Mervyn Peake. Gormenghast. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1st Edition, 1950.

Noel Streatfield. Harlequinade. Chatto and Windus. 1st, 1943. Spectacular autolithographed illustrations by Clarke Hutton.

S. R. Badmin. Village and Town. A Puffin Picture Book No. 16. Reprint, 1946. The back cover depicts the rise of the modern concrete block.

Dan Crow. The Moon Fairy. [1922]

Marie Neurath. The Wonder World of Strange Plants. Max Parrish. 1st Edition, 1956. A fantastic example of the educational Isotype series with Neurath's characteristic bold diagrams.

Steve Moore. Published by Somnium Press.

"Written in the early years of the 21st century, when the author was engaged in dream-explorations and mystical practices centred on the Greek moon-goddess Selene, Somnium is an intensely personal and highly-embroidered fictional tapestry that weaves together numerous historical and stylistic variations on the enduring myth of Selene and Endymion. Ranging through the 16th to 21st centuries, it combines mediæval, Elizabethan, Gothic and Decadent elements in a fantastic romance of rare imagination.

With its delirious and heartbroken text spiralling out from the classical myth of Endymion and the Greek lunar goddess Selene, Somnium is an extraordinary odyssey through love and loss and lunacy, illuminated by the silvery moonlight of its exquisite language.

With an afterword by Alan Moore, whose biographical piece Unearthing details the life of his friend and mentor Steve Moore, and includes the circumstances surrounding the writing of Somnium."

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/somnium/

Leonora Carrington. The Hearing Trumpet. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1st UK Edition, 1977. This book was previously owned by Angela Carter and it includes a posthumous bookplate.

Lewis Carroll, Boris Zakhoder (Trans.). [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]. "Mastatskaya Litaratura". Minsk. 1981. Russian language edition illustrated by N. Kozlov. Bizarre and wonderful watercolour illustrations on every other page.

Barbara Jones. The Unsophisticated Arts. First edition, 1951. The Architectural Press. Throughout the 1940s, Barbara Jones set about documenting the vernacular art of England; visiting fairgrounds, tattoo parlours, taxidermists, houseboats, high street shops, seaside piers and amusement arcades. This epic project culminated in this fabulous book full of photographs and cascades of beautiful black and white line drawings and colour plates. Dust wrapper a little worn with tape marks and a few chips with some light foxing internally, else a very good copy with very little wear.

http://littletoller.co.uk/bookshop/artist-editions/the-unsophisticated-arts/

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