mandrake press ltd (34 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Water damage to book. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1991; white paper covers with stapled binding; wear and discoloration around edges; 8vo, 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; previous store's sticker on title page; Interior is clean and unmarked; unpaginated.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in light tan coloured cloth with brown title lettering to spine and upper cover in a Good Dust-Jacket that has a chip to head of spine and closed tear to the top edge of the upper cover with some black ink marks to front cover of the dust-jacket.Not Price clipped.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with no leaning to spine.Clean copy internally with some offsetting/Browning to the endpapers,12mo measures 13cm by 16cm First Edition [1930].

hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1930 pocket edition on yellow cloth + owners name to end paper.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original blind-boardered title-bocked cloth; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 62, [2] p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley's lover. Sex. Erotic stories, English History and criticism. Married women in literature. Adultery in literature. Erotic stories, English History and criticism. Married women in literature. Adultery in literature. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Jacket has some dust wear. Pages/boards clean.

1930. (12mo, cloth) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 61pp. Dust wrapper (with slight wear) over glassine over the book; with a very contemporary illustration on the wrapper.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xvi, 188 pp., fold-out illustrations, b/w illustrations A reprint of the original 1817 edition. Translated from the French by J.D. Price. With Observations by J. Christie. In the series First Impressions: A Series of Rare Works by Aleister Crowley and Others.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1/500 copies. This copy not numbered. English edition. Translation by J.W. Matthews with a foreword by Arthur Symons and illustrations by Haydn Mackey. 299 pages. 11.75x9 inches. Navy cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. The covers show some very light discoloration, otherwise this is a clean, nice copy in good condition.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 512 of a limited run of 750. In fantastic condition. Clean pages, tight binding, no tears, cover looks great.

Zustand: Wie neu. 64 S. No. 796 von 1000 Expl. Schutzumschlag an den Rändern minimal berieben/bestossen. Leinenbuchdeckel + Innenteil tadellos - u n g e l e s e n - keine Risse, Knicke, Anmerkungen. ! KEIN Mängelexemplar! Altersbedingt minimal nachgedunkelt. Versand aus München F05305 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 240 Gebundene Ausgabe, Maße: 15.88 cm x 1.27 cm x 22.23 cm.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Essex House, Thame, Oxon: Mandrake Press Ltd, 1991. Hand-numbered, Limited to 350 copies. Unread. Touch of age, still FINE in Dust Jacket (see scan). Laid-in Publisher's Original, Double-sided Laminated Announcement (8" x 6"), in Fine condition : "Hardback Edition Limited to 350 copies bound in white Aberlave Buckram. Of the many curious and obscure Crowley works Alexandra is one of the most mysterious. The blanket of silence that Crowley cast over Alexandra subsequently led to much confusion concerning the nature and history of the book. The whole of the original stock was thought to have been destroyed by H M Customs on the grounds of obscenity and lèse majesté but is now available for the first time in this strictly limited edition". First Edition Limited/Hand Numbered. Hard Cover, Buckram, Sewn. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Frontispiece, Drawings, Decorative Drop Cap, etc. 8vo - 9½" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Book hardcover gold inlaid cover and spine, marbled endpapers, profuse b&w ills .pp364. Condition No DJ As New marred only by mark owner's name and crossed out owner's name in small handwriting to front endpaper. Appears unread.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. Oxon, England / Edmonds, WA: First Impressions (Mandrake Press Ltd / Holmes Publishing Group), 1992. AS NEW and Remarkable thus. RARE experimental binding. The Limited Leather "Fine Deluxe Edition" First Impressions Series titles of 1992 used a square, quarter leather bound binding. This copy has been expertly bound with a Rounded Spine / Perfectly Concave Fore Edge, with Additional Gold Gilt Rule to Boards (see scans), the same binding style was eventually utilized for the later Limited Edition Bindings of the Austin Osman Spare "From The Inferno To Zos" trilogy (1993/95). One of 50, Hand Numbered copies. Quarter Leather, Buckram Boards with Silk Tie Page Marker. All Edges Gilt, Marbled Endpapers. An evidently Unread copy with binding extremely tight, page marker seemingly unmoved since the day it was bound. A facsimile of A.C.'s proof copy held in the Yorke Collection at the Warburg. This is the First volume in the First Impressions Series, and one of the most desirable due to the copious, extensive notes in the Old Crow's hand, as well as the inimitable Crowley penned ownership statements accusing Norman Mudd of thievery two times, once to the fly, and again to the title page. This is also the True First Edition, being that although reaching page proofs in 1915 (here, as per title page "New York Mitchell Kinnerly.1915"), it was never issued. First Edition Deluxe/Ltd/Hand Numbered. Quarter Leather/Buckram Boards. As New/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo size - 9" tall.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine. The copy is wrapped in its original plastic, which has some small tears.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first trade edition of D. H. Lawrence defensive essay about his controversial novel, 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', a superior copy in a dust wrapper. The first trade edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover' was written as Lawrence's response to the pirated editions of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' being published in the States and in Europe. The piracy was rampant for this novel after it was banned for obscenity in many countries, including in the U.K.In this work, Lawrence defends the contents of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was a controversial novel when first published in a private edition in Italy in 1928 and France in 1929. An unexpurgated edition was not openly published in the U.K. until 1960, when it was the subject of an important obscenity trial against Penguin Books. The book had been banned due to its obscenity in being sexually explicitly, and for its use of the then-unprintable four-letter words. The romance in the novel was also notorious at the time as it took place between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.This was an important novel of the twentieth century, ushering in the sexual revolution that happened post-World War Two into the 60s and 70s.Published by the Mandrake Press, a small British press that was founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephensen in 1929. The company ran into financial issues in 1930, leading to a consortium led by the occultist Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press LTD. The consortium was also unsuccessful and the press was dissolved in 1930. During their short publishing run the press published over thirty items, including works by D. H. Lawrence, Giovanni Boccaccio Cecil Roth, and more. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Spine is faded. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the cloth. Dust wrapper is edge worn, with small chips and closed tears, mostly to the head and tail of the spine. Larger closed tear to the tail of the front joint. Light age-toning rubbing to the spine. A few light marks to the wraps. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). The second trade edition of D. H. Lawrence's essay defending his controversial novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', published by The Mandrake Press. The second expanded trade edition of this work, previously published as 'My Skirmish With Jolly Roger'.'A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover' was written as Lawrence's response to the pirated editions of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' being published in the States and in Europe. The piracy was rampant for this novel after it was banned for obscenity in many countries, including in the U.K.In this work, Lawrence defends the contents of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was a controversial novel when first published in a private edition in Italy in 1928 and France in 1929. An unexpurgated edition was not openly published in the U.K. until 1960, when it was the subject of an important obscenity trial against Penguin Books. The book had been banned due to its obscenity in being sexually explicitly, and for its use of the then-unprintable four-letter words. The romance in the novel was also notorious at the time as it took place between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.This was an important novel of the twentieth century, ushering in the sexual revolution that happened post-World War Two into the 60s and 70s.Published by the Mandrake Press, a small British press that was founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephensen in 1929. The company ran into financial issues in 1930, leading to a consortium led by the occultist Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press LTD. The consortium was also unsuccessful and the press was dissolved in 1930. During their short publishing run the press published over thirty items, including works by D. H. Lawrence, Giovanni Boccaccio Cecil Roth, and more.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper, 'Fenton Braithwaite, Mill Lane, Lr Manton, N Blackpool'. Braithwaite was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, working at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light marks and discolouration to the boards. Six puncture marks to the rear board, puncturing through to the rear endpapers. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Essex, Mandrake Press Ltd., 1990. Octavo, 61 pages with an illustration. Cloth lightly bumped on one corner; a near-fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. Number 284 of 1000 copies. The lengthy introduction (21 pages) is by Keith Richmond.

Mandrake Press Ltd., Essex House Thame Oxon 1991. Gr.-8°. Introduced by Keith Richmond and Edited by Anthony Naylor. 216 S. OLwd. m. goldgepr. Deckel u. OUmschlag. This Edition is limited to 350 copies, of which is this Number 198. - Umschlag mit schwachem Lichtrand, sonst gutes Exemplar. Sprache : en.

Hardback, 8.5 x 6 inches. Black grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (DW in protective sleeve.) Cloth clean. Numbered on rear of title page. Pages all very clean and nice tight throughout. 171pp. With B&W illustrations. Oscar Wilde, Frank Harris, Aleister Crowley, John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys, Llewelyn Powys, William Somerset Maugham.

Mandrake Press Ltd., Essex House, Thame, Oxon, England 1990. 4°. [305 x 216 mm]. With 16 illustrations by Austin Spare in the text. 78, [2] w. S. Black cloth with gold-embossed title on the spine and color-illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Copy No. 999 of an limited edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies (this copy is signed by Keith Richmond). - Now for Reality "Was the title of the frontispiece that appeared in Austin Osman Spare's book The Focus of Life published in 1921. It was also the title of the first of a series poems which Aleister Crwoley later wrote to accompany Spare's illustrations for the book. The present volume comprises the complete text and illustrations of The Focus of Life, re-set to incorporate the first ever publication of Aleister Crowley's attendant poems. Now for Reality is thus a unique fusion of the artistry and occult vision of two of the twentieth century's greatest magicians, Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Soare. Included in this volume is an introductory essay on the relationship between Spare and Crowley by Keith Richmond, a student of both men's work" (from dust jacket). - A very good copy, apparently unread. Sprache : en.

Mandrake Press Ltd., Essex House, Thame, Oxon 1990. 4°. Intoduction by Keith Richmond. Explanatory essays by Terence DuQuesne. Additional Illustration by Dwina Murphy-Gibb. 303 S. Black cloth Hardcover with gilted embellishments on spine in mylar-protected dustjacket. This Edition is limited to 1000 numbered copies, of which this is Number 651. Zu den Riten siehe Bibliotheca Crowleyana S. 23 (b) u. S. 15 (80). - Contains numerous photographs, some of which are unpublished, taken during the performance of the rites at Caxton Hall. Also included are three photographs of Aleister Crowley and two facsimiles of the first handwritten drafts of the rites. From the contents: The Eleusinian Mysteries by Terence DuQuesne. Aleister Crowley and "The Rites of Eleusis" by Terence DuQuesne. The Rites of Eleusis as performed at Caxton Hall by Leila Waddell and Aleister Crowley. The Rite of Saturn. The Rite of Jupiter. The Rite of Mars. The Rite of Sol. The Rite of Venus. The Rite of Mercury. The Rite of Luna. LIBER [.] SVB FIGVRA DCCCCXIII. LIBER 0 VEL MANVS ET SAGITTAE SVB FIGVRA VI. Concering "Blasphemy" In General and The "Rites of Eleusis" in particular by Aleister Crowley. Notes. Bibliography and critical reading list. - Excellent condition, Sprache : en.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. CROWLEY, Aleister. The Forbidden Lecture. Gilles De Rais Thame, Mandrake Press Ltd, 1990 8vo, limited ed. (n. 17/1000), [9], 61 pp., with half-title, title and table of contents. Introduction by Keith Richmond. Buckram with gilt title on spine. Original dust jacket. A fine copy. It contains the revised text of Crowley s conference about French black magician Gilles De Rais, which never happened due to the ban of the author from Oxford. It also includes a previously unpublished article by Crowley titled How I came to be banned at Oxford and an introduction by Keith Richmond.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. An advance copy of the first trade edition of D. H. Lawrence defensive essay about his controversial novel, 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. An advance copy, stated to the half-title 'Advance Copy with compliments from Mandrake Press Ltd. Date of Publication is June 24th. Price 3s. 6d.'. This is the advance copy of the first trade edition.'A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover' was written as Lawrence's response to the pirated editions of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' being published in the States and in Europe. The piracy was rampant for this novel after it was banned for obscenity in many countries, including in the U.K.In this work, Lawrence defends the contents of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was a controversial novel when first published in a private edition in Italy in 1928 and France in 1929. An unexpurgated edition was not openly published in the U.K. until 1960, when it was the subject of an important obscenity trial against Penguin Books. The book had been banned due to its obscenity in being sexually explicitly, and for its use of the then-unprintable four-letter words. The romance in the novel was also notorious at the time as it took place between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.This was an important novel of the twentieth century, ushering in the sexual revolution that happened post-World War Two into the 60s and 70s.Published by the Mandrake Press, a small British press that was founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephensen in 1929. The company ran into financial issues in 1930, leading to a consortium led by the occultist Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press LTD. The consortium was also unsuccessful and the press was dissolved in 1930. During their short publishing run the press published over thirty items, including works by D. H. Lawrence, Giovanni Boccaccio Cecil Roth, and more.In the original glassine wrap. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original glassine wrap. Externally, smart. Spine is a little faded. Glassine wrap is torn with a little loss. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with just a couple of light handling marks. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. Thame, England [Edmonds, WA]: Mandrake Press Ltd. [Holmes Publishing Group], 1993. AS NEW. Unlike the simultaneously published regular edition by Mandrake Press Ltd., this Deluxe Edition Set uses high quality paper stock, broadsheets on textured paper, with all items enclosed in an Aberlave Hard Cover Folder, and although the Mandrake Press Title Page was not included with the Deluxe Edition, it is present in this set (see scan). From the US Publisher: ". . .printed beautifully in facsimile from the original sheets and broadsides, and issued on custom papers. . .These rare writings were issued as an adjunct to the publishing of the First Impressions series, which showcased many rare literary works by Crowley, as well as the complete Equinox and other magical writings". Note : Gerald J. Yorke Bibliography numbers follow in brackets : New Year 1903 [73] Madame Tussaud-Besant [90] Hymn to Pan [77] To Man [87] The World Teacher to the Theosophical Society [88] The Avenger to the Theosophical Society [89] Songs for Italy No.1 Tyrol [40a] England, Stand Fast [78] La Gauloise ('Fighting French') [79] La Gauloise ('Free French') [79] Creed of the Thelemites [97] Rites of Eleusis (not listed in Yorke Bib.) [-] Your Interest in Magick [100]. First Edition Deluxe. Hard Cover/Aberlave Folder. As New. Folio size - over 12" tall. Oversized Safely, Securely Packed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. CROWLEY, Alesiter, and Austin Osman SPARE. "Now for Reality" The Focus of Life: The Mutterings of Aãos: written and illustrated by Austin Osman Spare. Poems by Aleister Crowley. Mandrake Press Ltd., 1990. Folio. Limited edition of 1000 copies (No. 17). 78 p., with frontispiece, half-title, illustrated title-page, and 12 other illustrations. Black buckram over boards, gilt title to spine and original illustrated dust jacket. With a booklet in memory of Spare, published by the Atlantis Bookshop for an exhibition held there in 2006, on the 50th anniversary of the artist's death. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Copy No. 241 of D. H. Lawrence's separately published introduction to the Paris popular edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, together with the first trade edition of the expanded introduction, published the following year under the title A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Jolly Roger: Slim Demy 8vo (218 x 147mm): [12]pp, with scarce erratum slip laid in. Publisher's speckled beige paper-covered boards, matching beige paper title label printed in black to upper cover, patterned end papers printed in rose and black. A Very Fine copy without noticeable flaw. A Propos: Slim crown 8vo (189 x 115mm): 62,[2]pp, with title-page vignette. Publisher's French blue cloth ruled and lettered in brown; salmon-pink illustrated dust jacket ruled and lettered in black and priced 3/6. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Roberts A48 (Although the limitation statement states that 600 copies were printed, "the first printing consisted of 700 copies according to the publishers.") and A48b. These introductions were Lawrence's response to the controversy of Lady Chatterley's Lover and the rampant piracy of the novel. In the spring of 1928, Lawrence had commissioned the Tipografia Guintina, in Florence, to print Lady Chatterley's Lover after it was rejected by numerous English publishers. He planned to sell one thousand signed and numbered copies for £2 each, with friends acting as agents. By the end of the year, nearly all copies were sold, despite (or perhaps because of) the novel being banned from the United States and about to be suppressed in London. In these introductions, Lawrence took a two-pronged approach to the defense of Lady Chatterley's Lover. He began by explaining his decision to bring out an authorized popular edition, in response to the piracies. Then he broached the topic of sex , arguing in favor of treating sex respectfully but explicitly in literature. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

First edition, number 29 of 500 copies on Japanese vellum, signed and numbered by the author; small 4to (16.3 x 13 cm); ownership inscription to front free endpaper, minor age-toning, else unmarked internally; publisher's vellum gilt, gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt, covers slightly marked, housed in teal cloth slipcase. One of 500 copies on Japanese vellum, signed and numbered by the author. Signed limited edition of Walter J. Turner's satire, presenting a picture of a modern American woman trying to find her place in society. There was also a standard issue bound in yellow cloth.