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[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…

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…

Autograph letter with musical fragment from the Anglo-Italian composer then living in London, Ciro Pinsuti, to the English tenor and occasional composer W H Cummings, congratulating him on 'the great success of your charming Cantata', particularly the 'lovely subject in the Introduction.. and the quartett with Harp Accom[panimen]t..' Pinsuti lament… Read more…

pp 124 First edition inscribed to the writer and journalist John Brophy on the first blank: 'John Brophy from Lascelles Abercrombie 1932'. Accompanying the book is a letter from Abercrombie thanking Brophy for his recently published comments and as 'an acknowledgement of your generosity' sends 'the enclosed... I rather suspect you may not have seen… Read more…

[ff] 25 Oblong album, missing rear cover, with the calligraphic ownership inscription on behalf of ten year old Cromwell Stuart, son of Peter Stuart of Seaforth (north of Liverpool) the Lancashire shipowner and lay homeopath. Cromwell Stuart was born in 1847 (dying in South Africa at 22) with most of the inscribed pages dating from about a decade l… Read more…

pp 200 Calligraphically inscribed volume of Lancashire verse with a handful of authorial corrections to the text. Skelton has dedicated the book on the verso of the first blank: 'Presented to Mr Ralph Rigby, with the Best Compliments of the author, John Fawcett Skelton. Oct.r. 1885' in red ink. In the same hand there are corrections to pp 44, 51, 5… Read more…

pp 278 [4] adverts. Victorian guide to arts and crafts for women. Decorative publisher's cloth, all edges gilt, worn to extremities, engraved title page and elaborately illustrated throughout; some gatherings loose. An attractively unsophisticated copy of this book. Read more…

pp 128 [maps] An inscribed copy of this highly successful guide to ancient history, 'With the author's Compliments [underlined] on the first blank. Stained boards, most uncommon thus. Lyde wrote a series of books in this vein and achieve huge success. At the time of this book he was an English master at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. Read more…

Very good first edition in a good jacket, not price clipped, designed by Feibusch, loss at top of spine. Ownership signature of Peggy Longland 1936, a good square book. An uncommon book. Read more…

First edition, a very good book, no ownership inscriptions in a very good jacket with a strikingly designed front panel; not price-clipped but repriced to 5 shillings with a sticker. A very good copy. Read more…

(20x25cm) Silver gelatin photographic portrait of Sir William Golding, probably a publicity shot for the publication of his novel, Rites of Passage. Golding is pictured in Nelson's Great Cabin on board HMS Victory around the time of first publication of his Booker Prize winning novel which became the first part of his nautical trilogy, To the Ends… Read more…