291. Humphreys, Christmas.

A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism.

Surrey, Curzon Press, 1997. 16 cm x 24 cm. 224 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

292. Elliott, A.G.

A Portrait of Brighton. Circa 1911 and Today.

First Edition. Portslade, A.G. Elliott, 1980. 15 x 21 cm. 32 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. From the library of Art Historian Claudia Kinmonth.

293. Cooper, Capt[ain] T.H.

A Practical Guide For The Light Infantry Officer : Comprising Valuable Extracts From All the Most Popular Works on the Subject ; With Further Original Information: And Illustrated by a Set of Plates, on an Entire New and Intelligible Plan ; Which Simplify Every Movement and Manoeuvre of Light Infantry. By Capt. T.H.Cooper (Half-Pay 56th Regiment, Infantry).

Original First Edition. London, Printed for T. Egerton at the Military Library, 1806. Octavo. XXIV, Errata Leaves [1], 98, 6 unnumbered pages (including Explanation of Plates and Index). With 14 (of 16) Fold-out-Plates and one which is missing a small strip (Plate 2). Also including the two additional Music – Plates with Four Pages of: 1.and 2.: Barrack Sounds / 3. Field Sounds [for the Trumpeter] as well as 4. Quick and Slow Marches [Buglers Trumpet Call / Setting the Watch / Shoulder Arms / Order Arms / Cease Firing / Incline to the Right / Form Indian Files / On Discovering the Enemy / The Enemy is Infantry & Cavalry / Call in the Advanced Guard / Call in the Skirmishers / etc. Hardcover / Original 19th century full leather Spine cracked but holding. Interior in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All the plates in very good condition with one missing. This is the very rare original edition and NOT a reproduction.

294. Morris, Willie.

A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season. Illustrated by Barry Moser.

San Diego / New York / London, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. 18.8 cm x 19.9 cm. Unpaginated (28 pages). Colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original slipcase. Slipcase still in protective film. As New condition with only minor signs of external wear. This edition has been specially bound and is limited to three hundred copies signed by the author and illustrator. This copy is number 74.

295. Maclennan, Ben.

A Proper Degree of Terror: John Graham and the Cape’s Eastern Frontier.

Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1986. 13.8 cm x 21.5 cm. 252 pages. 21 illustrations. 3 maps within text. Softcover [publisher’s original] with beautifully illustrated boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

296. von Franz, Marie-Louise.

A Psychological Interpretation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius.

Private limited edition. New York, Spring Publications, 1970. 15,5 cm x 21,5 cm. 184 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front free endpaper. Limited private edition of only 900 copies. Some minor misprints. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

297. Creeley, Robert.

A Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays.

First Edition. Berkeley, Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. 8°. 365 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Robert Creeley to Robert Winson and Miriam Sagan on title page. Also included is a signed postcard to Winson and Sagan in which Creeley thanks them for sending their magazine.

298. Lovell, Mary S.

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard & Isabel Burton.

New York, W.W. Norton, 1998. 16 cm x 24 cm. XVIII, 910 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition, extremely rare first edition with only very minor signs of external wear.

299. Posner, David / Hockney, David.

A Rake’s Progress – a poem in five sections. First edition (with the often missing Errata sheet bound in to the rear of the Volume)

No. 218 of a limited edition of 450 copies. London / New York, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1962. Square Folio (39.5 cm wide x 36 cm high). 84 unnumbered pages with illustrations by Hockney throughout. Hardcover / Designed by John Tomlinson. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Wonderful, firm example of this rare publication.

300. [Melville, Herman] Miller Jr., James E.

A Reader’s Guide to Herman Melville.

New York, The Noonday Press, 1962. 14 cm x 20 cm. XV, 266 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with signs of external wear.