Simon Watson Taylor Ed (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rubbing and some creasing to the DJ. Some small markings to the back of DJ. Some age spotting to the outer edges of pages but otherwise clean and free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. BP.

Softcover. Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition Thus. First Evergreen edition, trade paperback, has a very subtle skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and corners, two short short cross tears to the spine at "Plays," rubbing and shallow waving to the covers, slight sunning to the spine and edges, and a tiny tear to the tail of the front cover. Overall, this is a solid, unmarked, Near Very Good copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by editor. Book block has yellowed; light wear to edges. Otherwise in very good condition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Wrappers. [52pp.] + errata slip bound in at the rear (on confusing Charles de Gaulle with Napoleon and Hitler by turns). 'The concept of unity has to-day come to imply an antithesis to that of freedom. It is this antithesis in politics, morality, art and society that denies life, that renders fruitless and invalid so much activity and effort on all these planes, that permits an unscrupulous distortion of these words out of all meaning and recognition; and it is this antithesis that some of us, in the following pages, have determined to resolve.' The material for this illustrated one-shot was assembled during World War Two and is in English, with French, German and Spanish contributions given parallel translations. Including Alfred Jarry, Lucian Freud (a mounted illustration), Benjamin Peret, Edith Rimmington, Roland Penrose, Valentine Penrose, E. L. T. Mesens, Emmy Bridgwater, George Melly, John Banting, Feyyaz Fergar, J. B. Brunius, Sadi Cherkeshi, Charles Robert Maturin, D. A. F. de Sade, and more. The cover is by Conroy Maddox. Very Good, bumped to the corners and slightly spotted/marked outwardly, the spine rubbed with a couple of ineffective horizontal splits. …