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1963 RADA script for a production of The Castle based on Franz Kafka’s novel, written by Max Brod, translated by James Clark Franz Kafka; Max Brod; James Clark; kenneth Tynan £250.00 Ephemera Add to basket
Lancashire Merchant’s Daybook inscribed JW (probably Joseph Walker of Manchester) 1826 Joseph Waller: A Lancashire Merchant £150.00 Manuscript Add to basket
The Dundee Directory 1896-97,including Lochee, Broughty Ferry,Monifieth, Carnoustie, Newport, Tayport and the rural district in the vicinity of Dundee. J P Matthew & Co / The Dundee Post Office £110.00 Book Add to basket
WITH 8 LETTERS FROM HAMON LE STRANGE: Norfolk Official Lists, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day Hamon Le Strange £150.00 Book Add to basket
Great Opera Houses A Traveller’s Guide to their History and Traditions. Full of paper cuttings, postcards and ephemera Spike Hughes £125.00 Book Add to basket
Daybook from the Years 1897/1898 of an employee of Aperfield Court Estate, Biggin Hill. Unknown £125.00 Manuscript Add to basket
FIRST EDITION AUTHOR’S COPY Human Curiosities including assorted ephemera laid within Colin Clair £125.00 Book Add to basket
DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK: 1766- 1794 for transactions of freehold, leasehold. warrant, rent and mortgage payments pertaining to the estates of the Percy Family of Northumberland. J Adams - Percy Family £250.00 Book Add to basket
LONDON HOTELIER’S COPY PUNCH’S POCKET BOOK for 1866, Containing an almanac, cash Account, Diary and Memoranda For Every Day In The Year, And A Variety of Useful Business Information as well as short stories, poetry and cartoons Punch Magazine, Robert Chandler, John Tenniel £95.00 Book Add to basket
Mr Mean SIGNED COPY Roger Hargreaves £75.00 Book Add to basket
Mr Greedy SIGNED COPY Roger Hargreaves £75.00 Book Add to basket
NORFOLK MANUSCRIPT MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT Mr John Cotman of Great Yarmouth’s marriage settlement alongside various additional indentures [Robert Sayer; John Cotman] £95.00 Manuscript Add to basket
TWO WORKS TOGETHER BOUND An Apology for Christianity, in a series of Letters, addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq, sixth edition 1797 & The Catholic Doctrine of a Trinity Proved by above an Hundred Short and clear Arguments, expressed in the terms of the Holy Scripture, sixth edition 1787. William Jones; Richard Watson [Samuel Webbe glee composer] £200.00 Book Add to basket
LIMITED EDITION WITH A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR TO THE ARTIST JOSEPH CRAWHALL: Collectanea Curiosa or Miscellaneous Reprints of Rare Tracts &c. Relating to Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne. Robert Robinson [Joseph Crawhall] £125.00 Book Add to basket
EDINBURGH MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOK: Containing over 125 cookery and medicinal receipts/recipes. [Lady Chichester] £100.00 Manuscript Add to basket
MANUSCRIPT ‘THE OATH OF A FREEMAN of the Town of Northampton’ John Slater; Mayor Joseph Woolston £275.00 Ephemera Add to basket
THE SCIENTIST AT WORK: ROBERT THOULESS’S COPY - Statistical Methods for Research Workers R A Fisher £300.00 Book Add to basket
A CRITIC AND FRIEND’S FIRST EDITION Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh; Neville Braybrooke £175.00 Book Add to basket
Vellum Shipping Pilot’s Licence issued by Trinity House for use between Great Yarmouth and Sizewell Bank Richard Collinson; Richard Reeve James £125.00 Manuscript Add to basket
EDWARDS OF HALIFAX VELLUCENT BOOKBINDING The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments [Edwards of Halifax] £2000.00 Book Add to basket
FULL LENGTH AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: Clansmen by Ethel Boileau Ethel Boileau £1750.00 Manuscript Add to basket
FULL LENGTH AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: Turnip Tops Ethel Boileau £650.00 Manuscript Add to basket
FIFTH IMPRESSION Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J K Rowling £950.00 Book Add to basket
ARTHUR RAISTRICK’S COPIES The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers (in 2 volumes) combined with A History of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers, in Ireland, From the Year 1653 to 1700. Bound together as a set of 3. William Sewel / John Rutty £175.00 Book Add to basket
LOG BOOK OF A MERCHANT WEST INDIAMAN TRANSPORTING SLAVE-PLANTATION SUGAR: ‘Ship Mercury on her Passage to Tobago under Convoy of HMS Meleager Captain Ogle’ Robert Rising £3750.00 Manuscript Add to basket



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Christian White Rare Books

We sell rare books and manuscripts through this website, via monthly newsletters, to private customers and by exhibiting at book fairs. We are always buying rare books and manuscripts, and happy to meet with customers new and old. Christian White Rare Books Ltd is based in Ilkley, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales but we travel throughout the UK and abroad both to buy and sell.