Angels' Wings
London: George Allen (1913). A very good in lightly worn navy boards.The first edition appeared in 1898. More
London: George Allen (1913). A very good in lightly worn navy boards.The first edition appeared in 1898. More
London: George Allen (1921). The uncommon "complete edition". Very good in green buckram boards. More
London: George Allen (1912). Hardcover. A study in human evolution and transfiguration. Laid in is a 2pp ALS from Carpenter to "My Dear Frieda" about a visit and shared interests. Very good in blue fabric boards. More
Swann Sonnenschein & Co. London & New York: Macmillan (1892). A detailed narrative of the social reformer's travels through India and Ceylon. Illustrated. A very nice copy in navy boards, gilt decoration is quite bright. More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (1916). Very good in stiff wrappers, light wear, light foxing. Roger Senhouse's penciled signature inside front cover. More
London: Arthur C. Fifield (1905). An Inquiry into the causes and treatment of crime and criminals. Warmly inscribed by Carpenter to George Ives on the front endpaper in the year of publication. The book is heavily annotated by Ives throughout and bears a notation on endpaper: "Where is the work of which this is only the fore runner?" This comment pressages Ives' own decision to publish "A History of Penal Methods" in 1914. Very good in red boards, slight bumped, a little foxing to endpapers. 1905. 153, [7] pages; publisher's advertisements to last 7 pages. 8vo, original rose cloth, front board with title and border stamped in black, gilt-stamped spine. Inscribed by Carpenter: "To George Ives / in friendship from / E.C." dated March 1905 and penciled note beneath: "Whose is the work of which this is only the fore-runner?" First and only English Edition. Inscribed by the "Gay Godfather of the British Left" to a fellow activist. Carpenter was an English writer, reformer and lifelong advocate of gay liberation. Disenchanted with what he perceived as the hypocrisy of Victorian society, he abandoned his life in Cambridge as a scholar and cleric and moved to northern England. Referred to by many in recent years as "the gay godfather of the British left," Carpenter's radical politics and open relationship with his partner George Merrill influenced many activists and writers, including E.M. Forster, whose visit to the couple in 1913 inspired his novel "Maurice." More
London: George Allen (1908). First edition of these memoirs. Very good in blue/green cloth, photographic frontispiece. More
London: A. C. Fifield (1908). Carpenter contributes "The Village and the Landlord" originally published in the Albany Review in 1907. Very good in brown boards, dust jacket present, but is in poor condition with browning, tears and chips. More