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A Catalogue of Annotated Books

Notes, jottings, crossings-out, cancels, paste-overs & other readers' marks

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PETER MEDAWAR’S ANONYMOUS SCIENTISTS REVEALED Advice to a Young Scientist Peter Medawar £750.00 Book Add to basket
THE PRINTER’S COPY The Pantechnicon Lionel Miskin £125.00 Add to basket
THE PRESIDENT’S MOTHER’S COPY: Franklin Roosevelt His Life and Achievement [SARA DELANO ROOSEVELT]; Basil Maine £300.00 Book Add to basket
‘EVEN STEPHEN [SPENDER] DEFERRED TO AUDEN’ - The Purer Lover: A Memoir of Grief David Plante £250.00 Book Add to basket
A VISUAL JOKE - [S]Trumpets from Montparnasse Robert Gibbings £75.00 Book Add to basket
PROMPT COPY WITH EXTENSIVE ANNOTATION - Here and Now. A Play in Three Acts Lionel Brown £95.00 Book Add to basket
SCOTTISH ARTIST & NOVELIST ALASDAIR GRAY’S COPY - The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. Volume II: The Science of Freedom. Peter Gay; [ALASDAIR GRAY] £200.00 Book Add to basket
‘THE ELEMENTS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM’ - 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 With an Appendix of Hitherto Unpublished Speeches.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
SHAKESPEARE CRITIC G WILSON KNIGHT’S ANNOTATED COPY: The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination Colin Wilson [G Wilson Knight] £175.00 Book Add to basket
PREPARED FOR SCREEN ADAPTATION - Nerve Dick Francis [Hugh Whitemore] £125.00 Book Add to basket
CHILDRENS’ GAMES ANNOTATED BY A FOLKLORIST: The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren; Children’s Games in Street and Playground Iona and Peter Opie [Nigel and Mary Hudleston] £175.00 Book Add to basket
ANNOTATED FOR A RADIO 4 DRAMATISATION - Bright Day J. B. Priestley [Diana Griffiths] £135.00 Book Add to basket
ANNOTATED PROMPT COPY - A Phoenix Too Frequent Christopher Fry £125.00 Book Add to basket
HAROLD WILSON’S COPY - Phaethon and Other Stories from Ovid Ovid, G.M. Edwards [Harold Wilson] £95.00 Book Add to basket
AUTHOR’S ANNOTATED COPY Prolegomena to the Study of Yeats’s Plays George Brandon Saul £125.00 Book Add to basket
ANNOTATED PRESENTATION COPY Sketches of the Origin, Process, and Effects of Music with an Account of the Ancient Bards and Minstrels Rev Richard Eastcott £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] £3000.00 Ephemera Add to basket
THE OATH OF A PRIVY COUNSELLOR Chronological Tables of Europe; From the Nativity of Our Savour to the Year 1703. Engraven on 46 Copper-Plates, and Contriv’d in a small Compass for the Pocket Colonel [William] Parsons £350.00 Book Add to basket
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time Stephen Hawking; George F R Ellis £1200.00 Book Add to basket
PRESENTATION COPY FROM WINSTON CHURCHILL’S STEP-FATHER The Life and Letters of Admiral Cornwallis George Cornwallis West £240.00 Book Add to basket
GALLOWAY RARITY The Tales of the Solway James Aitken - a Gallovidean £175.00 Book Add to basket
IRISH JUDGE GEORGE HAMILTON’S COPY An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe Samuel Puffendorf - Pufendorf £170.00 Book Add to basket
RAMORNIE HOUSE, FIFE - DIARY TURNED COMMONPLACE BOOK Douglas Haig’s FAMILY £200.00 Manuscript Add to basket
THE GENTLEMAN’S RECREATION: In Four Parts; Viz Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing... Fourth Edition Nicholas Cox; Nathaniel Rolls; Ichabod Dawks; William Sherwin; William Dolle; John Manwood £500.00 Book Add to basket
Mrs Roscoe's Confectionary [confectionery] Book Dec 28th 1868 William Roscoe; Mrs Roscoe £160.00 Add to basket



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