Robert Ansell, Bookplate Designs of Austin Osman Spare, Bookplate Society & Keridwen Press 1988 No Ltd Ed of 500, this being No. 449 Card covs with decorated DW 36pp OP Illus. A quality production indeed Scarce Very Good Order No. 430038 £35

Coyote TWO & Genesis P. Orridge, Stations in Time / Time Mirrors, Two Essays on Austin Osman Spare, T.O.P.Y. Heart 1990 Large format 32pp plastic clip binder, homley production values. Scarce Fine Order No. 110525 £25

Austin Osman Spare, (Illustrated by) Mr. Justice Darling, On the Oxford Circuit & Other Verses, Smith Elder 1909 Small format (6.5ins x 5ins) Has Dec title pp, 3 full page Illus (with tissue guards), Dec Caps & tailpiece by Spare, quarter bound in vellum with place ribbon, nice paper, printed by Chiswick Press. Copy has some wear tp covers and some darkening of page edges. Ownership inscription dated 1909. Good sound copy Order No. 3606 £45

Austin Osman Spare, Anatema di Zos, Il Sermone Agli Ipocriti, Migliussi Roberto 2001 28pp booklet, very nicely produced Italian translation of Anathemna of Zos. Introductions by the publisher and Kenneth Grant New Order No. 9052 £5

Austin Osman Spare, Focus of Life, Askin 1976 No. Ltd Ed 500 No.43 Large Format 12ins x 10ins Prelims + 44pp + 13 Illus Intro Stephen Skinner Well reproduced Illus F in G+ has tear and is rubbed) DW Order No. 5071 £38

Austin Osman Spare and Vera Wainwright, Art and Letter; Word and Sign, IHO 2003 Paperback 257pp Coloured frontispiece. Printed in various

colours. Vera Wainwright was introduced to Spare by Victor Neuburg. The became friends and in due course Spare supplied 6 illustrations for her poems which was first published as Poems and Masks by Toucan Press (the same press which published Kenneth Grant's early poetry) in 1968. The present work reproduces that edition with its introduction and Wainright's note about Spare with the addition of extra illustrations by him. Also reproduced is the introduction from the second edition of Poems and Masks. Also reproduced are Wainwright's letters to Spare with an introduction by Frank Letchford. These show there relationship was far more than professional. Evidently she supported Spare and they planned to live together. This was not to be. Spare spent his last years in the company of Millicent Paine and it is speculated as to whether he treated Vera at all fairly. Appendices include:- An intriguing photograph of Paine. Is she making the sign of the horned God and what is the highly carved chair, or throne, that she sits upon? A discussion concerning the designs by Spare published in the original Toucan Press edition with some speculation as to sources and showing where similar designs were also used. A short piece by Spare entitled "Fragmenta" with a Frank Letchford introduction. The section on Spare from Adventures with Inspiration by Hannen Swaffer with coloured plate of a Spare portrait of the man. Two poems by Victor Neuburg from the Triumph of Pan were dedicated to Spare Mint Order No. 84571 £12

J.C. Squire, The Gold Tree, Secker 1917 1st Ed Numbered limited edition of 500 signed by Squire, this being number 144. Austin Osman Spare supplied the designs for the illuminated letters which were cut into wood by W. Quick. It has been speculated that Spares work with Illuminated letters may have contributed to his development of the Alphabet of Desire. Some of the designs Spare supplied for the illuminated letters are of his own design (the 'A' and 'O' being striking imaged of naked writhing mermaids), a satyr design is influenced by a Rennaisance design whilst some are wholy copied from Rennaisance designs. Free end papers and pre title browned. Slight spotting affecting page edges and blanks overall G+ Order No. 300265 £40

Various (Austin Osman Spare), Austin Osman Spare, Artist, Occultist, Sensualist, Beskin Press 1999 LF (12ins x 8.5ins) Card covs 72pp Excellent catalogue for a exhibition containing many Cold Illus, plus articles by Keith Richmond, Mick Staley (a prominent member of the Typhonian OTO), Sunny Shah, John Balance, Marcus Jungkurth, Frank Letchford etc. F Order No. 300489 £25

Various (re Austin Osman Spare), Austin Osman Spare, Artist, Occultist, Sensualist, Beskin Press 1999 Card covers large format 68pp Exhibition catalogue. Many coloured illustrations of Spare works. Essays by Keith Richmond, Michael Staley, Sunny Shah, John Blanace, Frank Letchforth, Marcus Jungkurth, Roy Curtis-Bramwell F Order No. 100033 £25

Various (Re Austin Osman Spare), Fortean Times, John Brown March 2001 Large format 66pp Many Illus. This issue features Austin Osman Spare 8 pages of text and illustrations and the front cover dedicated to him. The main article is a intelligent account by Phil Baker whose full length study is anitcipated with interest. Mark Pilkington gives a good account of Spare's magic F+ Order No. 300378 £7