An original and entertaining book on the smoke and mirrors of the modern consumer's world - case studies that take apart our ideas of the real and the fake, of appearance and deception.
Quiet utterances like snatches of conversation, from the magnificent JB. These brief reflections and observations are not quite poetry, not quite prose - an absolute joy to read and to pause... read more
This delightful slim volume consists of Newcomb's watercolours of still lives around the house & garden, accompanied by a few lines from Blackburn, her indefatigable Suffolk neighbour.
Argues that the physical form of books makes them distinctive, and sometimes dangerous, quite as much as their content. (John Morgan’s recent, limited edition Usylessly, with its beautiful... read more
The great Russian poet became a master of the English language in his long American exile: these essays evoke his youth in post-WW2 Leningrad with memorable portraits of his parents, in whom... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
Wolfe’s legendary trip around the US with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in a psychedelic bus is arguably the best literary introduction to A... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
A fine collection of essays and portraits in Wolfe’s inimitable style; the 1960s laid out like a Victorian butterfly collection, with sharp pins;... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
Her seminal collection of essays. First edition, first printing, published in New York. Book in fine condition, cream boards with stamped floral de... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
First edition, first impression. Published Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1974. Fine in very good dust jacket; pages very slightly yellowed, and dust ja... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
Blackwood’s first book is a mix of stories and reportage; she began her writing career while married to the poet Robert Lowell. First edition, fi... read more
A memoir by the Egytian woman who set up an independent book shop with a friend and her sister in 2002 - ten years later it had grown to include ten shops and 150 employees. Full of the nois... read more
Includes 'Egyptian Nights', 'Dubrovsky' and 'History of the Village of Goriukhino'; Pushkin's great-grandfather is thought to be the model for Ibrahim, the former slave of the title. A new t... read more
A feminist polemic that looks at women's resistance to male domination, both historically and now, and the consequences of independence, education, knowledge and power.