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Pocket Edition published at the Yorkshire Factory Times Office in Huddersfield. Heavily worn colour pictorial boards show wear and tear; browned, corners bumped, spine panel distressed but intact. Text block shaken but intact. Front clean endpapers cracking over gutter with pencilled ownership initials read JSM . Rear endpapers clean. Leaves unmark… Read more…

RAF Cosford opened in 1938 as an aircraft storage and repair facility and became a major training unit during WW2. These 7 volumes dated between March 1953 and April 1955 have been created and published by those stationed at RAF Cosford, Staffs. The volumes are jam packed with news and notices. The magazine committee is presided over by Air Commodo… Read more…

Second edition greatly enlarged by WH Leeds. 2 volumes. Containing over 150 beautifully intricate architectural drawings of London’s finest public buildings alongside historical and descriptive essays of each. Volume 1:Contains 75 full page b/w illustrations in excellent condition including 8 of St Paul’s and 6 of Covent Garden. 375 pp. (1 illustra… Read more…

Founded as a weekly on 10th December 1831, Figaro in London used satire in humorous articles and illustrations to critique various aspects of English society, including the aristocracy, parliament, and the British army. The magazine included theatre news, political poetry, anecdotes, and commentary on wide ranging issues of the time. It is also not… Read more…

Second edition rebound in a very good, decorative, brown diced calf with panelling and gilt lettering to spine. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown: ‘Stephen Conway, Bradford’. Front and rear endpapers also later additions, clean and crisp with small mark to top right of front loose endpaper. Original text block sound in good condition, leaves slight… Read more…

Beautifully Riviere-bound and extra-illustrated with 26 amateur photographs of turn-of-the-century Spain including 3 images of a bull fight. Crushed red morocco, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers with gilt turn-ins. The 26 additional silver gelatin photographs are mounted on inserted leaves and include images of Gibraltar, Toledo, Madrid and three… Read more…

A document of the Irish diaspora: a physics manuscript, with strong Newtonian content, written by an Irishman obliged to attend university - the Irish College - in France in the 1770s. Bound in dyed Irish green vellum with the remnants of an inscription in black ink to the upper cover and an old spine label. Splitting along outer hinges does not af… Read more…

pp 89 The 1914 reprint of Musketry Regulations Part II, well illustrated with numerous technical diagrams. Near fine in red cloth laid onto thick card with gilt spine lettering, edges lightly rubbed, binding tight, pages crisp and clean, no marks or inscriptions. 23 pages of adverts for military books printed on pink paper at the front and rear of… Read more…

From the private collection of a Yorkshire art connoisseur, this collection includes 7 hardback first editions in good conditions, all in original dust jackets including A Calendar of Love (1967 First Edition); Greenvoe (1972 First Edition); Fishermen with Ploughs (1971 First Edition); A Spell for Green Corn (1970 First Edition); Letters From Hamna… Read more…

Rare autograph letter in which the architect presents the book that he co-wrote with his fellow medievalist George Gilbert Scott. Burges (1827-1881) has come to be seen as perhaps the pre-eminent dreamer of the ‘Victorian dream of the Middle Ages’ as Betjeman put it. According to J Mordaunt Crook, author of William Burges and the High Victorian Dre… Read more…

A richly provenanced copy of this memoir of an Englishwoman in Paris, first acquired by the artist Rex Whistler, probably around the time of the book’s publication and his own first visit to the French capital in 1931. Subsequently the book was owned by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin’s second son, Arthur Baldwin whose ownership inscription on the f… Read more…

Rare unproduced screenplay which was constructed around the lyrics of a leitmotif song provided by Stephen Sondheim which structures the entire narrative. Screenplay script dated September 1969 to title sheet, ‘Screenplay by William Goldman from his novel. Songs and other musical moments by Stephen Sondheim’. Bound to spine using 2 metal brads. 172… Read more…

Elliott Kastner (1930-2010) was a larger-than-life American film producer, whose best-known credits include Where Eagles Dare and The Long Goodbye. This original 1969 typed screenplay script of William Goldman’s adaptation of his 1967 novel The Thing Of It Is comes from Kastner’s film production archive. Robert Redford had expressed an interest in… Read more…

BBC Beethoven Concerts in conjunction with The London Music Festival Council Programme dated Monday 22 nd May 1939. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini. Cream illustrated card wrappers to front and rear. A little age spotting to front but otherwise in very good condition throughout. 44 pp. clean and unmarked. Front wrapper is signed to top left in pencil b… Read more…

Second Impression inscribed the author to fellow author of the future Arthur C Clarke. An account of a War Correspondent’s journeys through the Middle East, India, Burma and W Africa during 1941-2. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Blue cloth covered boards in good condition, age toned to gilt titled spine. Endpapers clean and unmarked. Text block in very good… Read more…

Inscribed by the author, an original best selling novel which fictionalises the story of one Mary O'Neill, who tries to secure freedom and happiness after marrying a cruel, adulterous man. Originally serialised in Hearst's Magazine. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Publisher’s red cloth in good condition lettered and embellished in black to front board and in… Read more…

10 copies of the Air Training Corps Gazette bound in one volume each dated between December 1941 and December 1945. The gazettes span the period of time from the ATC’s official establishment in 1941 through to the peacetime summer and winter of 1945. The articles within reflect the scope and variety of the training programmes which prepared young m… Read more…

January starts bitterly cold with the biggest tide since 1854 recorded by this diary keeper who is full of cold and aches. John Ward is his name, his wife is Hannah and their children Tom, Dan and Nellie. Each day John Ward writes recording the weather, the seasons, his working days and the produce procured for the family shop which is situated nea… Read more…

Alfred Tennyson’s moving poem which he began writing in 1833 following the sudden death of his beloved friend Arthur Henry Hallam. The author continued working on the poem for seventeen years culminating in what is one of the most moving evocations of loss in English, touching also many of the deep concerns of the day. Queen Victoria was among its… Read more…

Extra-illustrated in the 19th century with copper engravings by Gerard Van der Gucht and John Pine which were taken from earlier 18th century editions of this book including a portrait of the author. Fourth Edition of this satire by Ned Ward bound in pretty contemporary century calf, with nineteenth century repairs at the top and tail of both spine… Read more…

Beautiful presentation volume by an infatuated Oxford undergraduate (shortly afterwards President of the Union) following his cousin’s winter wedding at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris. Small oblong volume with matching slipcase (13.5x11.5cm) The manuscript book has olive green printed paper overlay, the upper cover with a hand-coloured… Read more…

R A Millikan announces his oil-drop experiment which defined the elementary electrical charge on an electron. Single journal article from Volume 19, No. 110 of the Philosophical Magazine (February 1910) which subsequently gained him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923. Bound together as Volume LXVII - Sixth Series, Volume 19 - for the period Januar… Read more…

A copy owned and lightly annotated by the Scottish rationalist, atheist and literary critic J M Robertson. Beautifully bound in half parchment over marbled boards, Robertson’s ownership signature on the first flyleaf dated 1879. Some foxing but a very good copy. Robertson has left a few pencilled notes, jotting down dates when he read the first ten… Read more…

[4 imprints] Small volume of children's books including an 1805 Darton edition of Franklin and an apparently unrecorded Darlington edition of William Law's Call to a Devout Life. Bound in half black roan over marble paper covered boards; rubbed to edges; nineteenth century newspaper clipping about a gift of a Franklin engraving to Manchester librar… Read more…

Dialogues relating to 'A bill intituled An Act further to amend the Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Act concerning the management of episcopal and capitular estates in England', which was debated in July 1858. John Evelyn Denison (1800-1873) was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1857-1872 and was created Viscount Ossing… Read more…