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FIRSTS LONDON RARE BOOK FAIR CATALOGUE 2025

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PRIVATE ISSUE - PRE-PRODUCTION SHEETS WITH MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS: Testament of Beauty Robert Bridges £4750.00 Book Add to basket
PROBABLY NOT ANNOTATED BY ALEXANDER POPE: The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. Volume the Fifth. Containing Romeo & Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. King Lear. Othello. William Shakespeare £4500.00 Book Add to basket
DIARY WRITTEN BY ‘THE KEEPER OF THE PALACE OF WESTMINSTER’, RECORDING THE COLLAPSE OF CROMWELL’S COMMONWEALTH & THE CORONATION OF CHARLES II John Wynyard £14500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT ESSAY: ‘The Art of Translation in Prose and Poetry - Original Manuscript by Arthur Symons’ Arthur Symons £2750.00 Manuscript Add to basket
OBSCENELY ‘GRAFFITIED BY GOON S[HOW]’ - PETER SELLARS, SPIKE MILLIGAN AND HARRY SECOMBE: Dialstone Lane Peter Sellars, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe [W W Jacobs] £3500.00 Book Add to basket
REBUILDING NAPOLEON’S LAST HOME, ‘LONGWOOD’, ON ST HELENA: 1860-1950 Napoleon Bonaparte £3500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
SIGNALMAN’S PERSONAL DIARY AND HIS OFFICIAL ‘SIGNAL LOG’ FOR HMS GLOUCESTER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN DURING THE RUN-UP TO THE GALLIPOLI LANDINGS, 1913-1915 Alexander Wiseman (Leading Signalman) £1500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
SKETCHBOOKS & ARCHIVE OF LIVERPOOL-TRAINED ARCHITECT, ACADEMIC & PRIX DE ROME FINALIST, WESLEY DOUGILL Wesley Dougill £1250.00 Add to basket
1870s BRITISH DOCTORS HIT BACK AT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: British Medical Association: Minute Book Medical Defense Association; G Danford Thomas etc £1500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
RARE PROVINCIAL IMPRINT Original Poetry by Harriot H Wormald Lawson Harriot H Wormald Lawson £950.00 Book Add to basket
MANUSCRIPT OF GEORG GRAEVIUS’S COMMENTARY ON SUETONIUS’S ‘THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS’ Johan Georg Graevius; Suetonius £1250.00 Manuscript Add to basket
GERALD KAUFMAN’S COPY, SIGNED BY ATTLEE: As It Happened Clement Attlee £550.00 Book Add to basket
LEAVES FROM THE BUIK OF THE WEST KIRKE - Manuscript Copy Incorporating Original Manuscript by David Williamson and Neil McVicar, ministers to the West Kirke Church of St Cuthbert’s in Edinburgh George Lorimer [David Williamson; Neil McVicar] £400.00 Manuscript Add to basket
INSCRIBED TO AN OLD FRIEND The Nightfishing William Sydney Graham £450.00 Book Add to basket
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE’S COPY: The English Monsieur. A Comedy as it is Acted by His Majesty’s Servants. James Howard £450.00 Book Add to basket
UNRECORDED & WITH OVERTONES OF JANE AUSTEN: By Command of their Majesties, Theatre Royal Weymouth. On Monday July the 27th, 1801 George III £450.00 Ephemera Add to basket
CONGRATULATIONS TO HALL CAINE ON TORY ELECTORAL VICTORY IN DORSET Gordon R Hall Caine - son of the novelist Hall Caine; Ernest Hodder-Williams; Henrietta Bankes etc £300.00 Manuscript Add to basket
‘A PINT OF BEER EACH DAY’: Thomas Townshend’s Minute Book as a Commissioner for Westminster Road Building and Civic Improvement in the 1760s Thomas Townshend Esq. [later 1st Viscount Sydney] £300.00 Manuscript Add to basket
UNRECORDED BROADSIDE Turn the Carpet; or, the Two Weavers; a New Song in a Dialogue between Dick and John [Hannah More] £350.00 Ephemera Add to basket
INSCRIBED TO A FELLOW COLLECTOR, WITH A LETTER: Savage Messiah Harold Stanley Ede - Jim Ede [Henry Gaudier Brzeska] £350.00 Book Add to basket
‘VERY MANY CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR “K”’ – 50 LETTERS RECEIVED BY SIR ALFRED STANLEY FORDHAM AND HIS WIFE ISABEL R A Butler [Alfred Fordham] Diplomats and Ambassadors £175.00 Manuscript Add to basket
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Rochester A Conversation between Sir George Etherege and Mr Fitzjames Bonamy Dobree £250.00 Book Add to basket
‘THE PRINCE OF POISONERS’- A VICTORIAN TRUE CRIME COLLECTION: Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer of Rugeley & Illustrated and Unabridged Times Report of the Trial of William Palmer for the Poisoning of John Parsons Cook at Rugeley & A Letter to the Lord Chief Justice Campbell by The Rev Thomas Palmer brother of William Palmer. Thomas Palmer; George Godwin; James Gordon Allan; The Times £450.00 Book Add to basket
ILLUSTRATED BY BEARDSLEY Bon Mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook edited by Walter Jerrold with Grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Beardsley; Samuel Foote; Theodore Hook; Walter Jerrold £325.00 Book Add to basket
FIRST EDITION WITH INSCRIPTION BY PIONEERING SCOTTISH CANADIAN GLACIOLOGIST AND ARCTIC SEA ICE RESEARCHER MOIRA DUNBAR - Arctic Canada from the Air Moira Dunbar; Keith R. Greenaway £85.00 Book Add to basket



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