A HAIRLESS HORSE, A CRAZY DIAMOND, A GAY TRAITOR ...

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[1] SIMMONS (Owen).
(F.C.S.) (“Owen &
Owen”). (Pseudonym).
The Book of Bread.
28 illustrations with ten
of those tipped in
original bromide
photographs. First
edition de luxe limited
issue for subscribers.
4to., endpaper, half-title, title, [3pp.], pp-8–360,
endpaper, in the original red grained morocco,
raised bands on spine, gilt titles and ruling, gilt
dentelles, all edges gilt, gilt marbled paper
endpapers and pastedowns, on doubleweight fine
art paper and with the bromide photographs, 350
copies. London, Maclaren & Sons, Offices of
“The British Baker”, 1902. £6000
Hinges worn, rubbed corners. A good to very
good copy of an overlooked edition of an iconic
photobook. Parr Vol 1. (for the trade edition
only).
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[2] WOOD (Tom). Looking for Love.
Photographs From Chelsea Reach Nightclub
New Brighton Merseyside.
Largely illustrated with colour photographs.
First edition. Oblong 4to., unpaginated, perfect
bound into the original illustrated stiff card
wrappers. Manchester, Cornerhouse
Publications, 1989. £450
Very good, crisp, clean copy.
[3] HASKINS (Sam).
Posters.
32 colour and b&w
posters. First, limited
deluxe edition. Folio,
unpaginated, black
front and back
endpapers, limitation
leaf, [1p.] text, 31ll.,
printed on rectos only,
bound in contemporary
black cloth, gilt titles on
spine and gold leaf covered boards, titles in a
vignette in black on upper board, one of 1500
signed and hand-numbered copies. Zurich, For
Sam Haskins, 1972. £2000
Fine. Very rare.
[4] ENGLISH (Michael). ufo 31 tot. ct. rd. feb
27 pink floyd brothers grimm Mar 3 soft
machine mar 10 pink floyd.
Original poster. 76 x 102 cm., titles in Dayglo
pinks and green on white paper stock,
silkscreened, signed in the stone. N.p. [London],
n.p, [UFO?], n.d., 1967. £1500
Crisp clean image, dog eared corners, creased
and worn edges, a small chip lost on the upper
edge, some dustiness, old central vertical fold. A
very nice copy. Rare.
Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett.
[5] ENGLISH (Michael) (Designed by). Love
Festival. u.f.o 31 tot. ct. rd. 1030 daydawnlite.
feb 10. bonzo dog doo dah band. ginger
johnson. bank dick. w.c. fields. + chien
andalou. salvador dali. feb 17. soft machine.
indian music. disney cartoons. mark boyle.
feature movie.
Original poster. 75.8 x 101.6 cm., graphics and
titles in Day-Glo pinks and reds on white paper
stock, silkscreened. N.p. [London], n.p., n.d.,
1966. £1000
Crisp, clear image and titles, triflingly browned,
creased edges, large pinholes in each corner,
rolled. A beautiful copy, Day-Glo is notoriously
fugitive, it is remarkable that they are still so
very bright after 45 years. Rare. Seemingly a
later edition only on MOMA online.
“THE DIAMOND EXHIBITION
IS REALLY GOING TO BLOW
YOUR MIND” [6] [BARRETT
(SYD)]. Scrapbook.
Silvine. Ref. 438.
Folio, 12ll., 18pp. with
pasted in clippings
from newspapers and
magazines with some
laid onto ruled paper,
sugar paper, stapled
into the original stiff
red card wrappers, titles
in black and a trompe
l’oeil vignette of a pair
of scissors on the upper
portion, COA loosely inserted. c. 2005. £5000
One of the three staples missing, endemic
rippling of pages from paste, lightly worn
wrappers, some clippings removed and replaced.
Very good condition. Provenance: Lot 740.
Cheffins Syd Barrett sale (2006). From Syd
Barret’s estate via Cheffins to a private collector,
thence to Maggs.
Cheffins described this as “Syd’s primary scrap
book”. One clipping is a story from The Times
Magazine, 2 July 2005, reviewing a diamond
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