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pp 268 [4] adverts. A Blackwood illustrated edition of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe from around 1880 with illustrations by Zwecker. Finger marks to preliminaries, otherwise very good in paper covered illustrated boards showing a very jaunty figure of Crusoe after the shipwreck. Read more…

[2 Vols] The first trade edition of the life and letters of Joseph Pennell inscribed by his wife and biographer to the couple's mutual friend, the Bradford librarian, Butler Wood on the title page: 'Inscribed for Butler Wood, with many Memories and much Appreciation of the Friendship he always showed to Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell.… Read more…

ff 40 The octavo-sized minute book of the Priory Church of St Anthony, Lenton, in Nottinghamshire from 1887 when the church was rebuilt to 1897. The book is bound in quarter green roan over textured paper covered boards and in its preamble sets out its role in 'unitedly' meeting 'together to consider matters of interest and efficiency in Church and… Read more…

pp 64; page/week. A young London mother's diary for 1921. Adele Margate's ownership signature appears on the first endpaper above the adverts: she has made around 150 short diary entries in the printed grid which allows one page per week. She reveals herself as a married woman living in the vicinity of Richmond in south west London. At least two of… Read more…

(102x64cm) A British Railways Poster of Stratford upon Avon which promises to take the visitor to 'Shakespeare Country' and showing the scene around Holy Trinity Church in the town, presumably an image from the late 1950s or early 1960s. Old folds and four small nibbles from the right hand side of the poster. Read more…

[13 Vols; 8x12cm) Bradbury and Agnew's 1870s pocket edition of Shakespeare in soft red morocco leather, all edges gilt, a little faded to spines but a very good set. The introduction to Volume I makes clear that this was an edition intended for the Shakespearian on the move: 'to form a handy readable series of Volumes, equally adapted for the Pocke… Read more…

xvi pp 44 The first anonymous edition of Delany's Apology: a disbound pamphlet with '5' in ink on the title page and 'By Patrick Delany, Dean Down in Ireland' written above the imprint. Top corner of half title neatly cut, probably removing a former ownership inscription, otherwise a near fine copy on bright clean paper stock, small woodcut embelli… Read more…

viii, pp 112 Serces' anti-Catholic polemic in its sole printing from 1737. Title page in red and black; a couple of holes close to the ink number '6' in the top corner which denotes its removal from a pamphlet collection. A substantial work by the Vicar of Appleby in Lincolnshire. Read more…

[4 Vols] Edmund Burke's speeches in four volumes from 1816, contemporary worn quarter calf over pretty paper covered boards with marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Some loss to backstrip of Vols I/IV. In an age of great oratory Burke is perhaps the only politician of his generation whose reputation has never waned. Read more…

Autograph letter from the architect and surveyor George Gwilt the Elder (1746-1807) in which he values the leasehold property in London's East Smithfield area held by the company Neave and Aislabie at £2250 but somewhat reduced taking into account the 'low Price of the public funds' presumably as a result of the war then raging between England and… Read more…

pp 156 Seedie's List, 1939-1969, with dozens of cut obituaries and other ephemera relating to the recipients of the awards laid in together with an original photograph and a letter. Read more…

pp 330 A very smart copy of the Burnley collection of hymn tunes, chants, kyries and glorias, with an introduction dated 1875 explaining that the book was published as a response to 'the rapid strides made by the people during the same period, in musical education and executive ability'. Textured cloth with decoration in black and gilt, black coate… Read more…

First edition in tan coloured boards, a very good copy with a little foxing to the endpapers in good pictorial jacket not price-clipped, split along hinges between both panels of the jacket, slight loss to the topof the spine. Household's first adult novel: 'a novel without a country'. Read more…

pp 288 Near fine first edition in near fine jacket of Thompson's full length novel of India. Not price clipped; bright jacket over black boards. Foxing to the book edges the only minor blemish. A very nice copy. Read more…

Near fine first edition in good jacket designed by 'A.N.' Green cloth, light foxing to the first few pages; good illustrated jacket with striking design similar to some of the illustrations to the Ariel Poems of the same period. Chipping to top and bottom of spine of jacket, not price clipped. A first novel, scarce in jacket. Read more…

Fine first edition with the uncommon advertising belly band wrapped around the jacket. Near fine book in a near fine jacket - a very nice copy. Read more…

Near fine first edition inscribed to Clewes' literary agent on the first endpaper: 'To Julia with love, as ever Howard. July '49'. A very clean copy in very good jacket, not price-clipped, rubbing to extremities, small loss at the head of the spine. An excellent copy acquired from a distinguished collection of modern firsts and detective fiction. Read more…

Very good first edition of Clewes' first novel set in Wales inscribed to the author's literary agent: 'To Julian from Howard 18.1.38' A very good copy in good jacket, not price-clipped, split along the hinge between front panel and spine. A pit-head design to the dustjacket by the artist Mortimer'. The book was acquired from a distinguished collect… Read more…

First edition; blue cloth, inscribed on the first blank to Tom Hutchinson: 'Tom, Yours Allan..76' Accompanied by a typed, signed letter to Hutchinson about the radio adaptation of the novel with Wilfred Pickles and referring to the picture of Prior on the back of the jacket. Near fine in near fine jacket. A very nice copy with an excellent associat… Read more…

First edition, a near fine copy inscribed by the author on the title page with a nickname: 'For Bryan and Maud. With the Author's Love and Best Wishes always, June 25.52. Goodfern Mac" ' and signed on the title page: 'C K Jaeger'. A very nice copy, near fine, a little foxing to top edge of text block in a very good jacket, light staining to lower p… Read more…

First edition, black cloth, no ownership inscriptions, clean and complete, internally a very good copy, a few spots to the cloth. An uncommon novel about the young Frank Barclay and his misadventures as the consequences of economic misfortune close in on him. Read more…

[frontispiece] [4] pp 36 [3 plates] Scarce play with a mountaineering frontispiece sketched by the author and lithographed by Day and Sons. The play is set in the aftermath of the Northumbrian Jacobite rebellion of 1715 in which Countess Derwentwater escaped, and saved her liberty and the family jewels by clambering up one of the clefts of Wallabar… Read more…

Excellent signed first edition, inscribed on the title page by the author: 'Vera Brittain July 13th. 1963' Near fine book in very good jacket, not price clipped, no ownership inscriptions; slight fraying to bottom 3mm of jacket spine. A very nice copy. Read more…

First edition in red cloth, a very good plus copy with no ownership inscriptions in near fine good jacket, not price-clipped, bright front panel, clear white panel of jacket. Small bookshop stamp on final pastedown. Foxing and couple of little stains to first few pages. An excellent copy and NOT an ex-library copy. Read more…

[engraving] [5] pp 6-27 [1] John Read's 'appeal to the medical profession' on behalf of his newly invented stomach pump. Engraved frontispiece demonstrating 'Mode of using the instrument' followed by text with further diagrams. Staining and soiling to first few pages, tear to pp 9-12 affecting top right of text. A scarce item, disbound from a large… Read more…