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‘In admiration...’ a collection of 44 books inscribed to Alasdair Gray by friends, family and, mostly, fellow writers, including a gift from Liz Lochhead, several books about Glasgow, and Gray’s own copy of a work that came out of his Creative Writing teaching at Glasgow University. There are 15 inscribed volumes of poetry, among them Gray’s own co… Read more…

The second volume of the Artist’s Repository (1786) bound with a section of the Miscellanies (1790). Contemporary reversed calf binding, cracking along outer hinges but the binding remains sound. New endpapers followed by: sepia general title page with vignette, viii, letter press title page, pp 132 (Miscellanies) pp89-184. 10 sepia plates are boun… Read more…

Oddly scarce Pentland Press imprint A fine copy in a fine jacket. Read more…

Alpine panorama made up of 24 folding segments (24x15cm) with a lithographed (Ch. Serex) image of the mountains on one side and steel engraved adverts on the other. Printed card wrappers, browned and scuffed to edges; internally a couple of closed tears along central fold, otherwise very good. A remarkable image. Read more…

Richly provenanced Nelson family association copy presented by Horatio Nelson’s niece Charlotte Nelson to the future Admiral Richard Crozier. Two handsome small octavo volumes bound in straight grain red morocco with gilt decoration; all edges gilt; grey coated endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Richard Crozier to both front paste-downs. Charlotte Ho… Read more…

An uncommon title recently re-bound in brown buckram over boards with original leather spine relaid; gold spine bands and lettering; red morocco label. Boards clean, corners sharp, no rubbing. Tightly bound, strong hinges. Bookplate of the library of Inner Temple stamped ‘Withdrawn’ mounted on front paste-down. Binders’ ticket of Riley Dunne and Wi… Read more…

Unrecorded memoir of Lancashire life written by the son of the Congregationalist preacher in Darwen, Lancashire, Samuel Nichols. Bound in recent quarter burgundy morocco over buckram covered boards. First printed page, effectively a drop hear title reads: ‘Published in the “Darwen News” on Successive Saturdays commencing January 8th, 1898’. This co… Read more…

Inscribed to the Deputy Dean of Westminster Abbey, the first and only edition of one of the most influential works on church restoration which is inscribed by the author to the Deputy Dean of Westminster, 'The Rev.d Lord John Thynne with the Authors very respectful compliments', just a year after Scott was appointed architect to the Abbey. Bound in… Read more…

First Edition. 1954. In original dust jacket, sunned to spine, age toned. Watermarked to bottom left, chipped to spine top, tail and top corner. Boards in original blue cloth in good condition, titled in gilt to spine. Endpapers clean, very slightly age toned. Half title page annotated by the author Bonamy Dobree, Professor of English Literature at… Read more…

Flawless First Edition of this completely different take on the Superman legend. Written by Kim Howard Johnson with the assistance of John Cleese. Illustrated by artists John Byrne and Mark Farmer to tell the British tale of a Superman raised in England. Laid in is a typed letter confirming the book’s provenance by its previous owner Eric Idle, act… Read more…

First Edition. 1944. Four poems published as a single work. Original dust jacket in good condition. Age toned, a little browned in part. Small 1 cm clean tear to top rear panel. Small hole circa. 1 cm to tail of spine panel. Cloth covered boards in excellent condition, titled in gilt to spine. Endpapers age spotted otherwise clean and crisp through… Read more…

First Edition. 1953. Partial dust jacket remains consisting of front panel chipped to corners and edges. Endpapers partially spotted. ‘RH Duncan, Lady Close, Otley’ handwritten in pencil to front free endpaper. 370 pp. plus index. A sound copy. From the personal library of Yorkshire art collector Ronnie Duncan who befriended many artists and poets… Read more…

Scarce First Edition of this interesting tale of hunting and racing in England in the early 19th century. Illustrated throughout. Written by Henry Hall Dixon (1822-1870), a sporting writer known as 'The Druid', a spectator of all kinds of sport. Original 1859 First Edition rebound in a handsome half red calf over marbled boards. Hand written note t… Read more…

Scarce First Edition paperback in good condition. Authored by The Queen of the Sabbat and Highpriest of the Sheffield Coven of Witches. Special chapter by J. Insall-Mason. Illustrated blue and black paperback covers in good condition. Endpapers clean and unmarked. Front endpapers cracking over spine but still holding. Illustrated with 6 full page b… Read more…

Congratulatory letters to Sir Alfred Stanley Fordham K.B.E., C.M.G. (1907-81) who was educated at Eton and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge  before joining the Foreign Service and becoming a career diplomat. He was Vice-Consul in San Francisco in 1932. Other stations in his career included Lima (1933–1936), Guatemala (1936–1943), Los Angeles (… Read more…

165 pieces of Conservative Party electoral ephemera gathered together by the victorious candidate in the General Election of 1922 in East Dorset. It is a collection of original letters (handwritten and typed), postcards, telegrams and cables sent to Gordon Ralph Hall Caine on his election victory for the East Dorset seat. The letters have been tipp… Read more…

Reissue of Jim Ede’s groundbreaking study of Henry Gaudier Brzeska whose archive and many of whose sculptures he owned. Ede has inscribed the book on the title page to his friend and fellow art collector Ronnie Duncan: ‘For Ronnie and Henriette Duncan most gratefully Jim Ede 30.9.71’. Laid in is a letter from Ede to Duncan, written a year later, on… Read more…

From the private collection of Yorkshire art collector Ronnie Duncan who befriended many artists and poets during their time at the University of Leeds as Gregory Fellows subsequently inspiring his life long love of innovative 1950s and 1960s British art. First Edition. 1954. In original dust jacket, sunned to spine, age toned. Watermarked to botto… Read more…

Labour Prime Minister Clement Atlee’s signed autobiography from the personal library of the influential Labour MP, Gerald Kaufman. In original dust jacket in good condition, a little bumped to corners and edges. Nicked to spine top and tail. Red cloth covered boards in very good condition, titled in gilt to spine, a little shelf worn to top and tai… Read more…

Rare printed collection of heartfelt mid 19th century poetry written by an aristocratic woman and printed to a remarkably high standard by an otherwise almost unknown provincial press new Newcastle. DESCRIPTION: Large quarto format (22x28cm) bound in ribbed red cloth with gilt decoration; a few marks to boards but very good; all edges gilt. Vibrant… Read more…

Manuscript fair copy of the German classical scholar Johan Georg Graevius’s commentary on Suetonius Lives of the Caesars, possibly compiled by someone with connections to Graevius himself. No later than the mid 18th century this is an imposing manuscript with an end note that appears to read: ‘Datore officiore codillos’ - suggesting it might be the… Read more…

Minutes of an important but almost forgotten organisation, the ‘Medical Defence Association’, a collective, well-supported attempt made in Britain by members of the profession in the 1870s to target and outlaw malpractice and charlatanry by purported members of the medical profession. Predating the better known Medical Defence Union, the first minu… Read more…

Autograph manuscript bound up with a bespoke typed transcript of Arthur Symons’ essay on translation, cased by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. This manuscript essay does not appear to have been published, and previously formed part of the collection of the bibliophile and performer Barry Humphries who had a particular interest in the theory and practice o… Read more…

‘Reminiscences of HMS Gloucester. Commissioned at Plymouth 30th January 1913 - NOT FOR PUBLICATION’, a diary cum memoir seemingly intended as a rejoinder against those who criticised the inactivity of the British navy during the early years of the Great War. This small folio, 349pp, originally intended as a W/T Cabinet Log book is full of well pres… Read more…

An extensive collection of diaries, photographs, blueprints, letters and documents - and even a painted sample sheet of Longwood’s famous wallpaper from the 1920s - which together record the rescue and rebuilding of Napoleon Bonaparte’s dilapidated home on St Helena. Longwood housed Napoleon from December 1815 to his death in 1821, was bought by th… Read more…