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Click on the links below to download PDFs of my printed and purely digital catalogues  of rare books, posters, archives, manuscripts and art from Carl Williams Rare Books. Catalogues cover a diversity of material including avant garde art, social and political movements, esoterica, erotica, occult, counterculture, altered states and more, Many other lists are available through my book shop's mailout, sign up here. 

The Search For Soma. Selections From The Library of Julio Mario Santo Domingo. Catalogue 1. (pdf)

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Honeypump in the workplace - Joseph Beuys catalogue. (pdf)

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"For Adults Only". Aktionsraum Poster Catalogue. (pdf)

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THE SURREAL LOVES OF VALENTINE HUGO: (pdf)

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Still kicking, Catalogue 2 (pdf)

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What we do & how we do it.

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Carl Williams

  • Like all good rare booksellers,  I buy as well as sell and will travel anywhere to see good, rare books, manuscripts, archives and so on. 
  • I  undertake valuations of archives and collections. and am proud to say that I also did the valuation of Felix Dennis's Oz archive for London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Which was subsequently acquired by the Performance Department of the V&A.  In July 2018. 
  •  I tend to specialise in the occult, counterculture, erotica, Contemporary/Modern Art, protest, the sixties and so on.
  • I've worked in the rare book trade for twenty-five or so years. I helped to start the UK branch of a dotcom in '99 dealing rare and secondhand books then worked for Maggs Bros until 2015.
  •  For three or so of the years that I worked with Maggs Bros I was also on secondment to Julio Mario Santo Domingo's LSD Library. 
  • In the 8 years that  I have worked as an independent dealer I have, among other things, done small shows of Aktionsraum, Joseph Beuys, Sheila Rock's punk photos and original calendar art from India. 
  • I like to sell large/major collections en bloc such  as protest posters produced by the Berkeley Poster Workshop that I sold to The Houghton Library. 
  • I  have produced three printed catalogues of material from the LSD Library called 'The Search For Soma', Still Kicking and 'LSD 3.1 & 3.2'. 

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Jane & Louise Wilson - The Poster Room of the LSD Library.

T&Cs.

  • All purchases of rare books, manuscripts, works on paper, photographs etc remain the property of Carl Williams Rare Books until paid for in full.
  •  Postage and packing is usually charged extra at cost. 
  •  We reserve the right to charge for any merchants fees incurred if a refund is issued.

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