Bulletin V is now available, click on the cover below – Costume, a prison memoir translated by Thomas Holcroft, flogging, selling hogs, militia, rioting, orphans, idiots, an extraordinary collection of ‘warning notices’ and more…
Catalogue XI is now available; in a departure from our usual earthly obsessions, it is a list of three hundred and sixty books on astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and other related subjects, mainly of a a modern academic bent, but a few slightly older.
Click the cover below to access the catalogue
Bulletin III – More recent acquisitions, including an A.L.S by Florence Nightingale, a cheque signed by Charles Dickens, a complete set of the first series of Anarchy and much (well a little bit) more!
In a desperate attempt to salvage something from the York book fair, we present Bulletin II, nine items, (all purchased at the fair), including a broadside on the treadmill (the original one in gaol and not the the modern one in the gym), a prescription signed by Guillotin (better, but incorrectly, known as the inventor of the Guillotine) and a warrant signed by George IV and Melbourne committing a patricidal vicar to a mental asylum
Here we go again, back up to York for the 2016 PBFA Book Fair, not too much in the way of new stock for this, so we won’t be taking much with us, but with about two hundred other stands there is plenty for you all to see – See you there…
Possibly too lazy to compile full catalogues, (which compared to many in the trade are only short lists anyway), here at ZHQ we have decided to embark on a new feature – which we have decided to call ‘Bulletins’.
These will be short lists, (yes, even shorter than the catalogues), of recent acquisitions and possibly some brief thematic lists (presuming we do actually acquire some books in the near future), which we hope will appear regularly and be of some interest to someone… With that in mind, behold the link to the first one!
Including food stamps, broadsides (one unrecorded), Shakespeare and Garibaldi and documents organising Somerset with fears of Napoleonic invasion
Catalogue X now available – more of the same, including Anarchism, Luddism, Feminism and Socialism
Catalogue IX – Politics again (it is May Day) – ranging from utopia, to protection from nuclear attack, late eighteenth and early nineteenth century radicalism, to Scottish spies and Korea. Click on the catalogue cover below
Only a week to go…
Catalogue VIII – our first antiquarian catalogue – is now available. Includes several attractive bindings, crime and punishment before the establishment of the police and an unrecorded eighteenth century workhouse broadside. Click on the cover below for a direct link
Well, here it is, the first catalogue of 2016…
Fifty items, including uncommon anarchist periodicals, pamphlets on housing and equal pay, two unrecorded eighteenth century poll books and a libellous ‘destroyed’ biography of Bradlaugh
