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AUTHOR’S CORRECTED COPY: Lives of the Engineers: Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges: Smeaton and Rennie Samuel Smiles £1250.00 Book Add to basket
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King J R R Tolkien £1750.00 Book Add to basket
BELLE EPOQUE POSTCARDS: Album Pour Cartes Postales [Henry Mercier; Serjeant James J Bell] £950.00 Ephemera Add to basket
Letters From Scotland by An English Commercial Traveller. Written During a Journey to Scotland in the Summer of 1815 Anonymous Author £450.00 Book Add to basket
AUTHOR’S TYPED MANUSCRIPT: Daphne Adeane Maurice Baring £3000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
‘WOULD YOU MIND IF I RECORDED THE “SOUR CREAM” SONG? Henscratches and Flyspecks: How to Read Melodies from Songbooks Pete Seeger [Dan Budnik] £700.00 Book Add to basket
INSCRIBED TO A GLOUCESTERSHIRE FRIEND Recognition of Robert Frost: Twenty fifth Anniversary Robert Frost - Norman Douglas, Edward Thomas, Ezra Pound, Edward Garnett, W H Auden, £950.00 Book Add to basket
US TOUR DIARY: Ritz Paris Diary 2005: Journal & Appointments Diary Marianne Faithfull £2000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
WITH AUTHORIAL ADDITIONS Records of Naval Men Gerald Fothergill £150.00 Book Add to basket
ANNOTATED IN THE 1930s - Autobiography. With an Appendix of Hitherto Unpublished Speeches. John Stuart Mill, preface by Harold J Laski £200.00 Book Add to basket
The Papers Which Passed at New-Castle Betwixt His Sacred Majestie and Mr Alex: Henderson [with] Apophthegmata Aurea, Regia, Carolina. Apophthegms [with] Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie Alexander Henderson; John Gauden; Charles I £650.00 Book Add to basket
OWNED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON’S FELLOW COMMANDER: An Account of what Passed at the Execution of the Late Duke of Monmouth [&] The Proceedings Against Sir Thomas Armstrong [&] The Free and Voluntary Confession and Narrative of James Holloway [&] A True Account & Declaration of the Horrid Conspiracy against the late King [&] Copies of the Informations and Original Papers Thomas Sprat, Earl of Monmouth, Thomas Armstrong [George Washington, Archibald Montgomerie] £1500.00 Book Add to basket
Papers Presented to the House Of Commons Relating to the Building A New Infirmary and Leasing of Ground, at Chelsea Hospital House of Commons; Sir John Soane £475.00 Book Add to basket
UNRECORDED RUSKINIANA: New-Year’s Address and Messages to Blackfriars Bible class, Aberdeen John Ruskin, W E Gladstone, Dean Farrar etc £600.00 Book Add to basket
UNRECORDED CHAPBOOK EDITION: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Who was Born in Newgate... Was Twelve Years a Whore; Five Times a Wife (Whereof once to her own Brother) Twelve hyears a Thief, Eight years a Transported Felon to Viriniga, at Last Grew Rich, Lived Honestly and Died a Penitent Daniel Defoe £600.00 Book Add to basket
M Tulii Ciceronis Verrinae - Verrine Orations Marcus Tullius Cicero; Filippo Giunta £500.00 Book Add to basket
KETT’S REBELLION Alexandrinevilli Kettus, Sive de furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto Duce : Liber unus Alexander Neville £1250.00 Book Add to basket
SLAVE PLANTATION SUGAR-CARRYING WEST INDIAN MERCHANT SHIP’S LOGBOOK: ‘Ship Mercury on her Passage to Tobago under Convoy of HMS Meleager Captain Ogle’ Robert Rising £2000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant’s Vendetta WITH A SHRUNKEN HEAD DRAWING R Austin Freeman [Alfred De Sauty] £450.00 Book Add to basket
Democracy. An American Novel [Henry Brooks Adams] £750.00 Book Add to basket
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Charles Darwin £9500.00 Book Add to basket
Common Sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America [with:] Miscellaneous Articles [and] A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North-America [and] Paine's Four Letters [and] Rights of Man [and] Rights of Man; part the Second Thomas Paine [Barber Beaumont] £4500.00 Book Add to basket
Archive of Letters and Postcards from Singer and Actress Eartha Kitt Eartha Kitt £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
The Literary and Philosophical Magazine WITH AN ARTICLE ON THE MORALITY OF READING BY THE QUAKER MINISTER, ANNA BRAITHWAITE Charles Lloyd L Braithwaite; Anna Braithwaite [William Ellis] £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Fancy [Dress] Ball. January 11th 1882 George Tuohy & Co £2000.00 Book Add to basket



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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.