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FIRSTS LONDON RARE BOOK FAIR CATALOGUE 2026

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Germinal; or, Master and Man. A Realistic Novel Emile Zola £2250.00 Book Add to basket
Treatises on Various British and Foreign Coal and Iron Mines and Mining - 11 Separate Imprints Thomas Y Hall £600.00 Book Add to basket
The Golden Notebook SIGNED IN PUBLICATION YEAR Doris Lessing £1000.00 Book Add to basket
The Mysteries of Udolpho; The Italian and The Romance of the Forest Ann Radcliffe £300.00 Book Add to basket
The History of the Isle of Wight; Military, Ecclesiastical, Civil & Natural Rev. Richard Warner £300.00 Book Add to basket
Ballads and Old Scottish Songs: 35 Glaswegian Chapbooks Various Authors £350.00 Book Add to basket
13 SCOTTISH SONGSTERS: The National Songbook [&] Scottish Comic Songster etc Various £450.00 Book Add to basket
13 Broadsides and a Watercolour of the Trial, Sentence, Execution, Gibbeting & Body-Theft of William Jobling [Nicholas Fairles, William Jobling, Ralph Armstrong, John Bell] £3000.00 Ephemera Add to basket
EARLY TOLKIEN POETRY - Leeds University Verse 1914-1924 [&] A Northern Venture -Flyer J R R Tolkien, Sydney Matthewman, Storm Jameson, Geoffrey Wolledge, Lascelles Abercrombie, Herbert Read, E V Gordon etc £3750.00 Book Add to basket
INSCRIBED TO DENYS THOMPSON: Fiction and the Reading Public Q D ‘Queenie’ Leavis £250.00 Book Add to basket
‘THE GREATEST FEATURE OF THIS WONDERFUL CITY IS THE SKYSCRAPER: A Four Week Ocean-Going Trip to Visit New York City in the Summer of 1903 Edward F Ventris [T J Buck] £2500.00 Ephemera Add to basket
A Child of Our Time - INSCRIBED TO A SINGER AT THE PREMIER Michael Tippett £950.00 Book Add to basket
COLONIAL-ERA MANUSCRIPT MAP OF ‘TEN NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES’ in: A System of Geography Consisting of Thirty-Five Maps 1796 M.L.S. [18th Century Child, contemporary of Jane Austen] £3000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Unpublished Autobiography of a French Immigrant turned Montana Ranch-Owner & Businessman in Key West, Florida and New York City Albert L Caillet £2500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
US TOUR DIARY: Ritz Paris Diary 2005: Journal & Appointments Diary Marianne Faithfull £2000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Fancy [Dress] Ball. January 11th 1882 George Tuohy & Co £2000.00 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 Art of Translation in Prose and Poetry - Original Manuscript by Arthur Symons’ Arthur Symons £2000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
ORIGINS OF THE CREDIT RATINGS INDUSTRY: Minute Book of The Society of Mutual Communication for the Protection of Trade John Strongitharm etc £1950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
THE COMPLETE SYSTEM OF ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCING, Containing all the Figures ever used in English Country Dancing Thomas Wilson £1950.00 Book Add to basket
‘“BEASTLY WET”, “HORRIBLY DAMP”, “ABOMINABLE”’ Our Visit to Scotland 1892 - Three Large Manuscript Volumes ‘W.I.’ and Hannah M Young - G W Wilson, Photographer £1750.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J K Rowling £1500.00 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
‘A Passover spent in a way many a Jew from England may well envy - in the holy city of Jerusalem’: WORLD WAR I JERUSALEM ALBUM Shulamith Shabtai, Georg Fernbach, Dina C Mayer, Antonio de la Cierva Y Lewita £1250.00 Manuscript 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



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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.