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The Novelist’s Magazine. Grandison. Plate XXIII. [(Blake, William)] London: Harrison, 1782. First state, full sheet. Essick, Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations, XI. ... $50.00

Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision. [Adams, Hazard] New York: Russell and Russell, 1968. 8vo, xvii, 328 pp. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Light bumping to corners. Very good. New edition, originally published in 1955. Cornell Studies in English, vol. XL. Bentley, Blake Books, 776B: “an intelligent case for the view ‘that in effect Blake’s early poems strive to express the same system that the later prophetic books approach’.” ... $40.00

William Blake. A Reading of the Shorter Poems. [Adams, Hazard.] Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1963]. Large 4to, xiv, 337 pages. Illustrations to title-page and fly titles after works by Blake. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Annotated and underlined throughout in ink by Kay Long. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 780: “particularly useful”. ... $15.00

The New Apocalypse: the Radical Christian Vision of William Blake. [Altizer, Thomas J.J.] Michigan State UP: 1967. 8vo, xxi, 226 pages, portrait frontispiece of Blake’s life mask. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 807. ... $25.00

Arrows of Intellect. A Study in William Blake’s Gospel of the Imagination. [Ansari, Asloob Ahmad] Aligarh, India: Naya Kitabghar, 1965. 8vo, 248 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1085. ... $50.00

Narrative Unbound: Re-Visioning William Blake’s The Four Zoas. Foreword by George Quasha. [Ault, Donald] Barrytown, New York: Station Hill Press, 1987. 8vo, xxvi, 518 pp. Illustrated. Black cloth, illustrated dust-jacket in protective mylar. Very good. First edition of this very substantial book. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 356: “an attempt to provide the reader with a process text that plausibly retells this immensely complex… narrative.” ... $60.00

William Blake his Mysticism. [Ba-Han, Maung] Folcroft, PA: The Folcroft Press, 1973. 269 pp. and errata. 2 title pp. from 1924 & 1973. Green cloth with gilt to backstrip. Very good. First reprint of a scarce book. Bentley, Blake Books, 1110: “Blake’s mysticism consists in his insistence on the supreme value of ‘self.’” Blake Books Supplement, page 357 issue B. ... $75.00

William Blake his Mysticism. [Ba-Han, Maung] Folcroft, PA: The Folcroft Press, 1973. [another edition] Maroon cloth with gilt to backstrip. Very good. Cheap reprint of a reprint of a scarce book. In this edition p. 125 is blank (thus lacking text). ... $10.00

William Blake Versuch Einer Entwicklungsgeschichte des Mystikers. [Bagdasarianz, Waldemar] Zurich and Leipzig: Max Niehans Verlag, 1935. 8vo, vii, 171 pp. Printed wrappers. Minor edgewear. Very good. Only printing. Swiss Studies in English, vol. II. Bentley, Blake Books, 1107. ... $15.00

The Scattered Portions. William Blake’s Biological Symbolism. [Baine, Rodney M. and Mary] Athens Georgia: [the author], 1986. 8vo, 260 pp., and 77 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket, as new. First edition, discussing the biological images and symbols in Blake. The Baines wrote several articles together and separately on Blake. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 358. ... $25.00