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This list includes all books currently published and forthcoming titles available by subscription (for details see the Books page). All books are published by Andrew Lanyon, unless stated otherwise.

A Fairy Find (Portobello Books Oct 2006)
'A delightfully absurd book'.
Hardback colour 244p
more £12.99
Circular Walks Around Rowley Hall
(Atlas Press Oct 2006)
Introduced by Alastair Brotchie. The curious history of Vera, Mervyn and Walter Rowley.
more £18
Counterart
'A brilliant tour de force of sublime and idiotic logic'. Rodney Burt.
'Innocuous yet so subversive. Very witty.' Paul Newman.
'Quite simply the best kick in the paints painting has received so far'. Lionel Miskin.
  £20
Anti-Lit
'I have giggled my way through 'Anti-Lit' several times.' Peter Dallas Ross.
  £24
Art Seeds
'Innocuous and subversive (again).' The author.
  £6
The Fairy Cake
It's not a fairy cake, it's the sepulchre over the fairy queen...
  £15
How To Tell Fake Fairy Cakes
Essential advice, even if you are not interested.
  £15
Napoleon
Illustrated poems by Dave Scott about Bonaparte. 'The robustly bouncing verse cuts the subject nicely down to size.' P. Spooner.
  £28
Vertigo
Christiane Kupke's poems illustrated with A. Lanyon's photographs. 'Far above what one tends to find in poetry elsewhere.' W.G. Sebald.
  £28
Xan Xi
Paul Spooner's incomparable working models. 'Hybrid myth/models that transgress the rules of day to day sense.' Dave Scott.
  £35
Abandoned Filling Station
Keith Spurgin's nostalgia for motoring '...fills me with desire to jettison my carless lifestyle, put on a pair of driving gloves and go flirt wildly with a pump attendant.' Christiane Kupke.

'I bet old Betjeman would have admired it - a quite marvelous poem.' Lionel Miskin.
  £28

Lionel Miskin's Ineffable Passion
A merging of wallpaper and bloodshed, of the domestic and the pathological. Humour as dark as it gets.

'Previously I'd little appreciated the breadth of his work. The imaginative vitality is very high and what an interesting book. His preoccupation with cannibalism is yet another heartwarming feature of his outlook and, what with the problems of bodies stockpiling and the lack of graveyard space, I suppose we may all have to start snaking on ourselves in the near future!' Paul Newman.

  £55
The Vanishing Cabinet
Softback. Published by Travelling Light.
£35
Sam's Encyclopedia With Sam
Hardback, hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
Hunting, shooting, fishing and sewing for the under twelves. A wonderful array of images.
  £75
Plot For Sale Made into a film
Softback. Tipped-in colour plates.
'A Cook's Tour of the understains of tourism' David Neary
  £N/A
Let's Play Doctors With Sam & Rosa
Limited Edition of 150. Soft, folded and sewn. 32 pages, hand set letterpress and tipped-in colour plates.
'I carry it with me always' Dr. Michael Chaikin
  £30
Let's Play Talking With Sam & Rosa
Limited edition of 150. Soft, folded and sewn. Hand set letterpress and tipped-in colour plates.
'Don't believe a word of it' Rosa Levin
  £25
The Vegetable Plot
Limited edition of 150. Soft, folded and sewn. Hand set letterpress and tipped-in colour plates.
more £35
Old Iron Alfred Wallis
With Dr. Roger Slack and Peter Mates. Very limited edition of 200. Hardback hand set in letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
more £450
Let's Play Animal Training With Sam & Rosa (Subscription)
Limited edition of 150. Soft, folded, sewn. 32 pages of hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
more £25
Peter Lanyon. The Cuttings (subscription)
Limited edition of 150. Hardback in slipcase, casebound and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
A book of press cuttings over the years. High demand so only available to existing subscribers until publication. Sorry.
  £150
St. Ives. The Paintings of Peter Lanyon Only 3 left.
Limited edition of 200. Hardback and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
more £600
Peter Lanyon. Pottery And Postcards
Limited edition of 250. Hardback and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
more £100
Wartime Abstracts. The Paintings of Peter Lanyon Only 7 left.
Limited edition of 250. Hardback and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
more £N/A
Portreath. The Paintings of Peter Lanyon (No copies left).
Limited edition of 250. Hardback and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
The only place Peter Lanyon painted in most of his styles. 		  £N/A
The Rowley series - see the Books page for info
Deadpan Rowley series (No copies left)
Limited edition. Hardback and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
The first book in what was to be the Rowley Trilogy.
more £N/A
Second Nature Rowley series
Limited edition. Hardback and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates. Includes a sealed section at the back with special instructions.
'Lanyon belongs to the genus of Hamlets who clown, church organists who prefer pub pianos and poets who tap dance.' Anna Adams, Apollo.
  £250
The Loose Connection Rowley series
Limited edition. Hardback and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
'Ingenious, funny, entirely constructive too given the chaos theory.' George Melly. 'The world would be the poorer without the revelations that a book like this provides.' Sir Alan Bowness.
  £180
The Unjustified Text Rowley series
Limited edition. Hardback and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
'A bargain' Christopher Logue. 'A beautiful intelligent and provocative volume.' Dan Rose, Word & Image Journal. 'An exciting, incorruptible vision defended by great talent.' Derrek Hines.
  £130
The Quick-Change Act Rowley series
Limited edition. Hardback and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
'Pure pleasure.' Ken Mellon. 'The idea of all these cloned artists gives me a most satisfying hysteria.' Lional Miskin.
more £110
The Theatrical Constructions of Mervyn Rowley Rowley series (Out of print, no copies left)
A small and rare volume, long out-of-print. No copies left and certainly not ever worth reprinting.
  £N/A
Room To Manoeuvre Rowley series
Limited edition. Hardback and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
'Deftly using Vera Rowley as a literary conceit, Lanyon's "Room to Manoeuvre" is a profound work of fiction-philosophy-psychology rendered into his unique idiom.' Christopher Bollas.
more £110
The Shadow Shop Rowley series
Limited edition of 150. soft, folded and sewn. 32 pages hand set in letterpress with tipped-in colour plates.
'A book for Artists and Philosophers.' Lionel Miskin. 'An irresistible pendant to the other Rowleys.' Jennifer Martyn.
more £35
Dying For Eternity Rowley series
Limited edition. Tipped-in colour plates. Together with a 15 minute film 'The Harlequin and the Medicine Man' (VHS PAL) about Walter Rowley, made with Bill Scott.
'Magnificent.' Patrick Hughes. 'You do not open such a book so much as step inside.' Des Hannigan.
more £90
A Persistence of Visions Rowley series
Limited edition. Tipped-in colour plates.
more £75
The Tower of Silence Rowley series
Limited edition of 150. Hardback in slipcase, casebound and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
more £65
A Novel Solution Rowley series
Limited edition of 150. Hardback in slipcase, casebound and hand set letterpress on mould-made paper with tipped-in colour plates.
more £65
A Carbon Copy Rowley series
Limited edition of 150. Soft, folded, sewn. Printed litho with tipped-in colour plates.
more £28
Books On Subscription - Hopefully Ready December 2007
The Palette And The Retort (subscription)
A guide to Rowley Hall, in which the dual between Mervyn and Walter, and between images and words, is resolved.
  £50*
Bill Marshall. Potter (subscription)
A book, mostly by Bill Marshall. With illustrations.
  £14*
Paul Newman. Writer (subscription)
A book mostly by Paul Newman. With illustrations.
  £14*
Let's Play How And Why (subscription)
The fourth in the series about (and by) Sam and Rosa for adults, in which 'how' turns out to be male, 'why' to be female.
  £20*
     
     
*Marked prices are for subscription only. Publication is December 2007

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