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FOIRADES/FIZZLES. GRAVURES/ETCHINGS. 1976.

paul robertson — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:08:57 +0000

London: Petersburg Press, 1976 21 x 15cm, 8pp brochure to promote the release of the artist's book between Samual Becket (with five new texts) and thirty-three Jasper Johns etchings. One of the short texts is repriduced in full in french and English and there are 3 reproductions from John's etchings. VG+.

DUET FOR MOLE AND WORK. 1972. SIGNED & DEDICATED BY LOGUE.

paul robertson — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:20:04 +0000

London: Trigram Press, 1972 28 x 20cm, 4pp plus orange card covers. Original poem by Logue with a humorous edge in the form of a dialogue between a mole and a work when they encounter each other in a hole underground. Illustrated by Bert Kitchen. This copy is neatly dedicated and signed by Logue at Christmas 1972. VG+.

LIFE ON A SCOTTISH COUNCIL ESTATE VOL. 3 CHAP 1. 2024. ONLY 100 PRINTED.

paul robertson — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:31:50 +0000

Temple SHow & Tell Editions, 2024 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp digital postcard with a short story by Legge on the front - the snobbishness of 90s record collectors is exposed. The short story was reprinted from Rebel Inc. magazine which was published by Kevin Williamson and supported by Trainspotting's Irvine Welsh. Limited to 100 examples. VG+.

DAS WEINEN – DAS WÄHNEN BAND 2A (TRÄNENMEER 4). 1978. ONE OF 400 DOUBLE SIGNED EXAMPLES.

paul robertson — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:44:16 +0000

Zus: Edition Hansjörg Mayer/Dieter Roth's Verlag), 1978 37 x 13.2cm, 136pp plus card covers (which are deliberately undersize), uncut signatures. This is the text of Roth's never performed play (that is until 2020 when an adaption was put on at the Schauspielhaus Zurich) - the texts in the book are sometimes described as neo-dada. This is signed and dated twice by Dieter Roth (in red and black) supposedly because Roth did not like the look of his red signature in the book. Slight bumping to top right of the exposed signatures else VG. One stain on back cover - see photograph.

REBEL INC. ISSUE 4. 1993.

paul robertson — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:53:49 +0000

Edinburgh: Rebel Inc. , 1993 30 x 21cm, 46pp plus gloss wrappers. A single number of this influential politics and culture magazine which was founded by Kevin Williamson (with the support of Irvine Welsh and others). Short stories, poetry and short articles including Irvine Welsh on Ecstasy, Gordon Legge with a short story called Embra Cunts, Victims by Laura J. Hird, an article on Millwall Football Club by John King and others. Front cover is an image from Spike Lee's Malcolm X movie. VG+. Now extremely rare - no other copies available online.

REBEL INC. ISSUE 5. 1994.

paul robertson — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:45:48 +0000

Edinburgh: Rebel Inc. , 1994 30 x 21cm, 46pp plus gloss wrappers. A single number of this influential politics and culture magazine which was founded by Kevin Williamson (with the support of Irvine Welsh and others). Short stories, poetry and short articles including a short story (Kissing and Making Up) by Irvine Welsh, another by Laura J. Hird (There Was A Soldier), Rave Culture, Trocci and, of course, doughnuts and other similar topics. VG+. Now extremely rare - no other copies available online.

REBEL INC. ISSUE 3. 1993.

paul robertson — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:40:37 +0000

Edinburgh: Rebel Inc. , 1993 30 x 21cm, 42pp plus gloss wrappers. A single number of this influential politics and culture magazine which was founded by Kevin Williamson (with the support of Irvine Welsh and others). Short stroies, poetry and short articles by Welsh, Graham Fulton, Tom Kane, Alan Warner, Hazel Carmichael, Marina Blake, Kim Oliver and others. Front cover is an image from Spike Lee's Malcolm X movie. VG+. Now extremely rare - no other copies available online.

Good President Wenceslas. 2013. SIGNED BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH.

paul robertson — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:20:19 +0000

Edinburgh: Maclean Dubois, 2013 21 x 15cm, 12pp plus wrappers with attached illustrated title label. A charming Xmas story by the author based on the Christmas carol and illustrated (2 b/w lithographs by Iain McIntosh Originally published in 'The Scotsman' - this is one of 1,000 copies printed by is signed in ink by McCall Smith on the title page. VG+.

LA DISPARITION. 1969. SIGNED AND DEDICATED FIRST EDITION. THE NOVEL WITHOUT AN “E”! WITH PUBLISHER’S PROMOTIONAL LEAFLET.

paul robertson — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:14:58 +0000

Paris: Denoel, 1969 22 x 16cm, 320pp. Original wrappers. The first edition of this oulipou work where Perec wrote the entire novel without the use of the letter "e" (a feat even more difficult in French, of course). Perec had previously written experimental novels using selected passages taken wholesale from other works (proceeding today's 'sampling' and 'remixing' culture by decades) and "The disappearance" is his greatest work - the self-referential title and genuine plot making the work valuable as literature as well as a tricky writing task. Interestingly, the absence of the letter "e" from a short speech was often the topic of a parlour game in the Perec household during the time of the book's construction. Copies of the first edition of the book are exceptionally hard to find and dedicated and signed books given to friends are even more so. By the way, the handwritten dedication found here on the half-title required the use of five "e"s! Near fine. JOINT: Paris: Denoel, 1969 16 x 10cm, 2pp black on blue typographic promotional leaflet issued by the publisher to promote the book. Annoyingly the ttext uses the letter "e" liberally. Slight fading else VG.

SCOTT’S PARNASSUS. 1970. CEOLFRITH NR 2.

paul robertson — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 16:44:04 +0000

Sunderland: Ceolfrith Art Centre, n.d.. (1970) 28 x 21cm, printed outer folder content of twelve offset lithographic sheets (sizes differ) with portraits by Eric Scott of literary figures - here accurate images of Virginia Woolf, Isadora Duncan, Bertold Brecht, Ezra Pound, Sigrid Undset, EM Forster, Edith Sitwell, Alfred Tennyson, Aldous Huxley, Joh Arden, and Mark Twain. A scarce and very early publication from the literary press which later specialised in visual and concrete poetry. Short biography of artist on inside cover of folder. All VG+ although the front cover has a period price sticker still extant.

THE BOOK OF BREETHING. 1974

paul robertson — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:18:39 +0000

Ingatestone: OU (Chopin), 1974 15.5 x 24cm, unpaginated (c. 160pp). Original card covers. The text by Burroughs is a reworking of an Egyptian hieroglyphic which is illustrated with line drawings by Gale. The foreword are thoughts on pictorial language by the writer. There are French and Dutch translations of the texts also. This is an unnumbered and unsigned example - only 400 in total being released by Chopin's Ou Editions, fifty of which were signed by Burroughs. It is a very scare book not being an official release. VG+ condition. . Ed./Druk: 1e druk. Papieren omslag. One of 50 numbered and signed copies. Unusual Burroughs edition. Contains the text in English, French and Dutch. This edition was never officially issued, but consists of 350 'common' copies, and 50 deluxe-copies on Holland van Gelder, numbered I to L. These deluxe-copies were all signed by Burroughs in colophon. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU. NUMBERS 18 – 28. 1923 – 1925. A SUBSTANTIAL SEQUENTIAL RUN INCLUDING THE SCARCE SPECIAL EDITION.

paul robertson — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:50:12 +0000

Paris: Editions de L'Esprit Nouveau, 1923 - 1925

A sequential and substantial run of this important avant garde revue (edited by Paul Dermee and Michel Seuphor) bound together in a single period binding (cloth covered boards with embossed leather label on spine). 27 x 17.5cm, most numbers are unpaginated although most are approximatly 50 - 72pp. and volume 28 is, in fact, numbered 2320 to 2391.

Many important contributions by the major progressive literary figures of the time and there are many texts on important contemporaries such as Poe. Illustrated throughout with colour and b/w plates of architecture and art including many cubist works after Picasso and Leger (for example).

Particularly important here is issue nr 26 which was solely dedicated to the recently deceased figure of Guillaume Apollinaire with reproductions after drawings, watercolors, manuscripts and letters by the poet, seven portraits of him by Pablo Picasso and two by Louis Marcoussis (one of which is an original lithograph printed in red) + other related facsimile documents and photographs. The special number includes the poet's short tale 'La Plante', correspondence and poems (reproduced in facsimile). Other texts by Celine Arnauld, Paul Dermee, Pierre-Albert Birot, Ivan Goll, Francis Picabia, Andre Salmon, Roch Grey, et. al. + letters to Apollinaire by Fernand Divoire, Picabia, et. al.. Alone the special number is a very scarce item but a complete run of 10 numbers is a significant find.

The original wrappers have not been retained within the binding and there is one (easily remedied) condition problem here in that the weight of the approx 750 pages bound together has caused the internal page block to fall and cleanly tear the binding down the marbled endpapers on the front side although the rear endpapers are still attached although only just - as are the laid in and bound in (here) various maps and fold out architectural documents at the back of the 10 volume run. Elsewhere the paper is browned and the odd page is slightly stressed again due to the weight of the internal page block but over all this is a very good+ run with the stated problems well within a paper conservator's or binder's ability to correct.

Price is for all ten numbers including the special number