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Margaret KeaneKEANE: Walter Keane &amp; MDH Margaret KeaneRedwood City, California: Johnson Meyer Publishing Company, 1964. First edition. Perfect bound in cloth boards with pictorial dustjacket, additional glassine jackets, tissue guards. Unpaginated. 12 7/8 x 10 in. Lacking original slipcase, but otherwise an excellent pair.&nbsp;Two volume set documenting Margaret Keane’s iconic “big-eye” portraits, which at the time were unfairly attributed to her husband, Walter Keane.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Margaret Keane — KEANE: Walter Keane and MDH Margaret Keane

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W. Lancelot HollandWalled Up Nuns &amp; Nuns Walled InEdinburgh and London: The Author, Hunter, Kensit, Thynne, and Wileman, 1895. 8vo. Publisher's wraps with engraved illustrations after Abbott, lettered in red. Frontispiece and 19 engraved illustrations after Abbott, one double-page photomechanical illustration. Housed in a gilt-lettered quarter morocco clamshell box with red morocco lettering-pieces. A very nice, bright copy; wraps with slight losses at spine, stray spots.This work engages with a contemporary scholarly as to whether nuns were walled-in alive as a form of torture during the Spanish Inquisition. There had been reports of such activities in newspapers and books, while the church and authorities maintained denial that the practice ever took place. Holland uses these existing arguments in this book, compiling and reprinting passages to add to his position that nuns were, indeed, walled in or immured. Through investigative journalism and historical research, Holland’s argument of these nuns’ grim fate proves to be an intriguing read; weighing historical accounts, myths, and poetry. With 21 illustrations of the torture and resulting remains, this book is an overlooked and strange historical document detailing a particularly dark chapter in the history of religion.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

W. Lancelot Holland — Walled Up Nuns & Nuns Walled In

Simon ArrowCount Fanny’s Nuptials: Being the Story of a CourtshipLondon: G.G. Hope Johnstone, [1907]. First edition. 4to. Publisher's black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges uncut. Half-title, 7 plates with illustrations in the style of Aubrey Beardsley. [6], 68, [1] pp. 10 x 7 1/2 in. Upper hinge cracked but holding, a bit rubbed, upper board lower corner bumped, leaves with minor toning and smudging.Typically attributed to English eccentric Ronald Firbank, this decadent romance is adorned with seven plates of Beardsley-like drawings, accompanying prose filled with shadows, twilight, and aristocratic decadence. The plates are sometimes attributed to Alastair (a pseudonym of Hans Henning Voight).Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Simon Arrow — Count Fanny’s Nuptials: Being the Story of a Courtship

Teofilo FolengoOpus Merlini Cocaii poetae Mantuani MacaronicorumVenice: Horatium de Gobbis, 1581. 12mo. Type in Roman and italic, 35 lines plus headline. Contemporary limp vellum, covers ruled blind, contemporary manuscript supralibros “A.G.,” contemporary manuscript title on spine, 4 leather bands piercing covers at spine. A-Z12 (Z12 a blank, Q6 signed Q9, X3 signed H3): 276 leaves. 5 1/2 x 3 in. Title-page with woodcut device, 26 woodcuts, decorated initials, printer’s ornaments, side-notes. Binding slightly shrunken, tailband broken but binding intact, minor stray soiling.First published in 1521, this work is an important example of macaronic verse, a satirical and synthetic mixture of languages, using hybrid words and a pastiche of Latin and vernacular Italian. The author, Teofilo Folengo, a Benedictine monk, was the best representative of the genre. His masterpiece Baldus, collected here, is a poem in macaronic hexameters, and was published under the pseudonym Merlin Cocai. In addition to Baldus, the work includes the parodic Zanitonella love poetry and the fable Moschaea, about a battle between flying ants. Satirical throughout, the work bordered on sacrilege when it addressed the topic of the clergy.The experience from Folengo’s traveling life makes his poems one of the most important source books on contemporary life and customs. His work, and macaronic poetry more broadly, enjoyed great popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy and beyond. Indeed it appealed to Rabelais, who found in it the prototype for his Panurge and Gargantua.Provenance: In addition to the supralibros, an ownership inkstamp “GLP” is present on the title-page. Edit16 19379; USTC 830155Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Teofilo Folengo — Opus Merlini Cocaii poetae Mantuani Macaronicorum

John OldhamCharacter of a Certain Ugly Old P—— [from L. Meriton, Pecuniae obediunt Omnia ...][S.l.: Printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1698]. Excised saddle-stitched signatures (in 8s). 20 pp, (paginated [110-111], 112-130 pp). 7 ½ x 4 ¾ in. Contemporary manuscript doodle to final leaf verso. First two leaves loose, marginal chips, old bookseller's annotations to title-page, minor foxing.Despite the year on the title (in fact a section-title), this work was first published in 1696 as part of Pecuniae obediunt Omnia. Money Masters All, attributed by Wing to L. Meriton — likely Luke Meriton, son of George. The present copy is from the second edition of 1698. Meriton's volume was a group of satirical poems "shewing the power and influence of money over all arts," as well as the present work.John Oldham was a poet and satirist, whose work — though little-remembered today — was admired in his time, including by Charles Sedley, the Earl of Rochester, the Earl of Dorset, and most significantly John Dryden, who composed an elegy upon his death. His poems imitated the classical Satires of Juvenal, and his translation of Juvenal saw publication after his death. This scathing prose satire presents a priest so grotesque that he sleeps with his ears tied around the top of his head like a nightcap.The grandson of a famous anti-papist, and son of a Protestant preacher, Oldham turned his wit against many of his contemporaries — perhaps most avowedly against the Jesuit community. He died at the age of 30 from smallpox. An old bookseller's annotation on the title-page misidentifies this as being excised from the 1684 The Works of John Oldham, Together with his Remains, published after his death.Wing M1821B, ESTC R202913Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

John Oldham — Character of a Certain Ugly Old P——

Tad WakamatsuIpy Girl IpyTokyo: Heibonsha, 1970. First edition. Offset. In French-flap photographic wraps. [136] pp. 11 x 8 ½ in. Text in Japanese. Just barely beginning to separate at upper hinge but holding, head of spine bumped, minor rubbing to edges and corners, "Be a Good Neighbor Bookshelf" inkstamp to title page. Cow Books Tokyo booklabel to rear endpaper.Tad Wakamatsu’s masterpiece documenting his travels with the model and actress Haruko Wanibuchi. Divided into sections, the book features photos of Haruko with bikers and hippies, studio nudes (16 of which are printed on glassine), nudes shot on New York streets and subways, fashion shoots, and more.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Tad Wakamatsu — Ipy Girl Ipy

Ed TempletonTeenage SmokersNew York: Alleged Press, 1999. First edition. Offset. Saddle-stapled. In wraps. 8 ½ x 7 in. 32 pp of color and black-and-white photographic illustrations. Signed and inscribed on the upper wrapper verso. Spine and extremities trifle rubbed.Signed first edition. Features images of adolescent smokers from various cities across the world, mostly taken in Templeton's home town of Huntington Beach. An endearing work, capturing the charming awkwardness of teenagers attempting to look like adults. This publication accompanied Templeton's December 1999 exhibition "The Golden Age of Neglect" at Alleged Gallery.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Ed Templeton — Teenage Smokers [signed]

Ed TempletonTeenage Smokers zineNew York: Alleged Press / Genetic Bomb Publications, 1998. First edition. Laser printed. Saddle-stapled. 22 pages. 8 ½ x 5 ½ in. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Signed on the rear wrapper. A superlative copy.The very rare precursor to the Templeton's Teenage Smokers, number 14 of only 100 hand-numbered copies signed by the photographer. Unlike the final book, the photographs this work reproduces are almost entirely polaroids.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Ed Templeton — Teenage Smokers zine [signed]

Ed TempletonTeenage KissersNew York: Seems, 2011. First edition. Offset. Perfect bound in wraps. 84 pages. 8 x 7 ½ in. More than 80 photographic illustrations. Inscribed and signed on the title-page. With 23 x 23 inch folded poster on newsprint signed by Templeton loosely inserted, as issued. Upper wrap with stray instance of soiling and bumped at head.First, limited edition, one of 1000. One of Templeton's most renowned works, Aaron Rose writes, "Teenage Kissers should be viewed as a historical volume. As we look at these photographs of young people exchanging awkward kisses we are reminded again of that wonderful uncomfortability that comes with the discovery of young sexuality. Not only do we all remember the feeling of that first clumsy teenage kiss, as mature viewers we can now look at the photos from afar and understand exactly where it's all going. Like its predecessor, Teenage Kissers is a perfect documentation of this feeling."Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Margaret Keane — KEANE: Walter Keane and MDH Margaret Keane

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