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YORK NATIONAL BOOK FAIR CATALOGUE 2024

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INSCRIBED TO BERTRAM ROTA BY ABEL BERLAND AND 80 CAXTON CLUB MEMBERS: Printers’ Marks and Devices Howard W Winger [Bertram Rota, Abel Berland etc] £300.00 Book Add to basket
MARY SOMERVILLE’S COPY: Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804, 1805 and 1806 Sydney Smith £300.00 Book Add to basket
FROM ONE HUNGER STRIKER, INSCRIBED TO ANOTHER: Days of Fear Frank Gallager [Andrew McDonnell] £250.00 Book Add to basket
PIONEERING GIRLS’ EDUCATION IN 1870S LONDON: Archival Collection of Inspection Reports on a Marylebone School that Educated Katherine Mansfield and Gertrude Bell Sidney Colvin; Edward Plumptre; Adolphus Sonnenschein; Bryan Walker; Henry Craik £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
OXFORD ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Minutes, Michaelmas 1943 - Michaelmas 1948 Fraser Darling; Ludwig Koch; Eric Ennion; Seton Gordon; Tinbergen; Landsborough Thomson £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
The Rioters; or, a Tale of Bad Times Harriet Martineau £85.00 Book Add to basket
A Collection of Bound-up Indentures and Associated Ephemera belonging to the Favell family dating back to 1729 Favell Family - Elizabeth Caroline Favell; John Favell; William Favell; Samuel Favell £250.00 Ephemera Add to basket
World War 2 Sketch Book Depicting Day to Day Observations on the Life of a Wren Anonymous Artist £150.00 Ephemera Add to basket
CHAPBOOK The Poor Blacksmith Made Rich or Godliness Profitable Unto All Things The Rev. Richard Knill £75.00 Book Add to basket
R.100 Howden Yorkshire - Airship R.100 Designed and Constructed by the Airship Guarantee Company, Ltd Airship Guarantee Company, Ltd £75.00 Book Add to basket
Arab Archer Nabih Amin Faris & Potter, Robert Elmer £125.00 Book Add to basket
‘I SHALL BECOME QUITE AU FAIT AT PROBING BULLET WOUNDS’: A Scottish Surgeon on the Yangtse during the Taiping Rebellion Robert Grieve (Assistant Surgeon to Admiral James Hope) £3750.00 Add to basket
NEO-ROMANTIC LANDSCAPES, ENGLISH CHURCHES & ARCHITECTURE IN A WARTIME SKETCHBOOK John Piper £12500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
INTERLEAVED: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS WITH BLANK INTERLEAVES, SUBSEQUENTLY ANNOTATED, 1760-1976 Lucy Hutchinson, Juvenal, Herschel, J S Henslow, HMSO, £4500.00 Book Add to basket
‘LONGING FOR A BIT OF SCOTLAND’: Diary of the Preeminent Scottish Servant of Empire & Scottish Footballer in the First Ever International Football Match with England Sir William Alexander Baillie Hamilton £3500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
OWNED BY A LIKELY EYE-WITNESS TO BALLOON TRAVEL IN NEWCASTLE IN 1786: An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland [with] Late Disturbances at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle [with] Late Disturbances at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh [&] Lecture on the Heads VINCENT LUNARDI [Thomas Davidson, Mrs Elizabeth Kemble] £3250.00 Book Add to basket
CARRY ON CLEO - The Production Archive & Screenplay Belonging to the Film’s Scriptwriter Talbot Rothwell - Dennis Norden, Frank Muir £2000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
UNPUBLISHED ARTS & CRAFTS MEMOIR William de Morgan The Potter as I Knew Him with an Appreciation by Halsey Ricardo Emilie Russell Barrington & Halsey Ricardo [William De Morgan] £2000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
ORIGINAL PORTFOLIO ISSUE: The Scenery of the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk: 24 Photo Engravings: First and Second Series George Christopher Davies £1950.00 Book Add to basket
HONEYMOON SKETCHBOOKS OF THE RENOWNED CHILDREN’S WRITER & HER HUSBAND, Author of Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig Alison Uttley; James Uttley £1500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
‘I AM OVERWHELMED WITH WORK AT PRESENT’ 20 Letters from Eric Gill to a friend and Artistic Patron Eric Gill [Desmond Flower] £1450.00 Manuscript Add to basket
THE ROYAL SCOTTISH BURGH OF ELGIN’S COPY: An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. 25th March 1807: Anno Quadregesimo Septimo Georgii III. Regis. William Wilberforce, James Stephen, William Wyndham Grenville, Charles James Fox £1850.00 Book Add to basket
17th & 18TH CENTURY PAMPHLET COLLECTION The Tryal and Condemnation of Mervin, Lord Audley Earl of Castle-Haven... for Abetting a Rape upon his Countess, Committing Sodomy with his Servants [with] An Inquiry into some of the Causes of the Ill Situation of the Affairs of Ireland, Jonathan Swift, Edward Young, John Theobald etc £1250.00 Book Add to basket
‘NO LIVING MAN WHOM WE MEN IN AMERICA FEEL A GREATER DEBT TO’ Illustrator William Hatherell’s Album of Professional Correspondence including a Famous Copy Letter from Thomas Hardy [William Hatherell] Dean Cornwell; Charles Dana Gibson, Richard Harding Davis, Edward Russell, Thomas Hardy, Florence A Kirkpatrick etc £1250.00 Manuscript Add to basket
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE Howards End E M Forster - Edwin Morgan Forster £750.00 Book Add to basket



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