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RESERVED Scarce First Edition in near very good condition inscribed by the author Charles Stuart Forbes, a Royal Navy captain who had served with Garibaldi during the Risorgimento. This valuable first-hand account details Garibaldi's 1860 expedition to unify southern Italy, offering insights into battles and the political climate. PHYSICAL DESCRIPT… Read more…

Roger Mayne’s photographs of North Kensington, the streets of London W10 and in particular the children of Southam Street. The work takes the form of a reprint of the 1986 Victoria & Albert Museum catalogue accompanying Roger Mayne’s exhibition, incorporates further essays and letters and captures the vigour, colour and complexity of a collection o… Read more…

First edition of this 1880 collection of poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Dedicated to Mrs Lynn Linton (1822 - 1898) who was the first female salaried journalist in Britain, and also her copy of the book. Linton was the author of over 20 novels, and who despite her ground breaking role as an independent woman penned many essays with a strong a… Read more…

Very good first edition mystery novel in a good jacket. bright red boards, crisp pages. Read more…

First Edition. Original unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Publishers black cloth boards very good. Age toning to front and rear free endpapers. Text block in very good condition. Inscribed by author to front free endpaper ‘For Win & Harry with much love Geoffrey. 27.viii.58’. 238 pp. Read more…

A fine first edition written and illustrated by British cinema and Hollywood star James Mason. Near fine unclipped dust jacket over fine dark blue cloth boards. Preliminaries and text block crisp, clean and likewise in very fine condition. Author’s distinctive signature to top of front free endpaper. Illustrated with drawings by the author and 16 p… Read more…

A collection of 11 plays in the ‘Dicks’ Standard Plays’ series. Issued as individual plays, each with an engraved illustration to the front and in overall very good condition. Several are stamped ‘British Drama League, Fitzroy Square’ which was founded in 1919 but the styles of binding and decoration date several of the issues to possibly the late… Read more…

Fifth Edition rebound in later (21st century) very good yellow cloth boards. Endpapers clean and crisp. Titled in black over tan ground to spine. Preliminaries and final leaf age toned with minor loss and creasing to corners. Remaining text block in very good condition. Ownership inscription to front flyleaf reads ‘David Thomas October. D Thomas Oc… Read more…

An attractively designed first edition in jacket. A near very good book in a good plus jacket, not price clipped, bright front panel, a few milLimeters of loss at the foot of the spine. Ownership inscription on the first blank. A good solid copy of this book. Read more…

Three conversational letters between literary friends: from American novelist David Robert Plante to Scottish writer and journalist Iain Finlayson. During this period both David Plante and his partner Nikos moved in the London world of artists, poets, writers and thinkers while Iain Finlayson wrote and reviewed books for prominent publications incl… Read more…

Profusely illustrated rare woodblock colour encyclopaedia/dictionary of all things Japanese. Illustrated beautifully by the eminent period Ukiyo-e artist Chikanobu with an array of fascinating objects from mid-19th century Meiji period Japanese life. Also a useful language dictionary to both English and Japanese native speakers showing both English… Read more…

Wonderfully evocative silver gelatin photo-portrait, signed, of the founder and secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, sat at his desk in the original Transport House, just off Smith Square in Westminster. Lighting his pipe, with a Trades Union certificate framed behind him, books and files on the window sill and a bakelite telephon… Read more…

An important archive of print history ephemera with provenance to the estate of Derek Law, the General Manager of the Scolar Press, Ilkley which was founded in 1965 by Robin Alston, lecturer in English Language and Medieval English Literature at the University of Leeds. Inspired by his belief that undergraduates should read set texts in their origi… Read more…

Fascinating letter seemingly written on behalf of the Prince Regent’s very annoyed librarian - and correspondent of Jane Austen - James Stanier Clarke to another member of the Royal household, Colonel Bloomfield, demanding the return of a book denied his patronage. James Stanier Clarke (1766-1834) was a naval officer and biographer of Nelson, turne… Read more…

John Philips’ rejoinder to the Bishop of Oxford’s plea for a sort of religious tolerance or ‘repeal’ of ‘his most bitter Invectives against the Nonconformists’. Quarto size publication bound in quarter sheepskin over renewed marbled boards. The title page has been laid down, now facing the first page of text; some loss to lower inner corner, paper… Read more…

Undated chapbook edition of Defoe’s satire on William III’s xenophobic critics with the ownership signature of ‘Ja[me]s Norie 1787’ on the title page. Norie (probably) has retained the sugar paper pink original wrappers of the chapbook (old pencil signature on upper wrapper of ‘W R Sorley’) and had them bound into a pre-existing case of half vellum… Read more…

Presentation copy, one of a hundred subscription copies, inscribed by Klopsteg to the American champion archer, Robert P Elmer. Quarter red roan over cloth covered boards. Klopsteg has signed the title page, numbered the book overleaf ‘85’ and written below: ‘Dr Robert P Elmer. With the Author’s appreciation and compliments.’ Unfortunately the book… Read more…

A 10 page manuscript extract from Talbot Rothwell’s original screenplay for Carry on Cleo together with his hilarious typescript proposal/ synopsis of the movie and a full ‘First Draft’ typescript screenplay which contains perhaps the earliest appearance of the oft-voted funniest ever line, ‘Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me.’ Talbot Rot… Read more…

Early edition in pleasingly unsophisticated contemporary sheep binding, unadorned except with blind rules Small octavo in very good early 18th century full sheep, just starting at the tail of the hinge between front board and spine; no pastedowns; engraved title page on verso of A1, as if functioning as a frontispiece; fraying to foreedge of this l… Read more…

24 separately published sermons bound into a single sammelband volume with the ownership inscription of an 18th century Lincolnshire woman. Small octavo sized volume, modern brown buckram and new endpapers (see 20th century pencil note to final pastedown ‘Bound Mr Liddon 16.XI.61.’) and a pencilled list of the imprints on the first flyleaf. Precedi… Read more…

Three delightfully bound volumes, Vols I & II in the third edition and Vol III in the second edition. Full tan calf with gilt decoration to the spine and a fillet to the boards; red and green spine labels. A little fading to the spine and the beginnings of wear to the head and tail of the outer hinges but a very good set. Marbled endpapers and gree… Read more…

Uncommon third edition of this Edinburgh-printed cookbook with a strongly Scottish flavour. Rebound in plain dark calf during the twentieth century and with new endpapers. The two engravings precede the text, both browned and a couple of short marginal tears. The second plate has lost the top corner near the foreedge - not affecting the image. The… Read more…

Pickering edition in a signed binding by Riviere for William Pickering’s son, Basil Montagu Pickering after he took over the family publishing and book-selling business in the 1850s. Crushed black morocco with gilt spine lettering, rubbing to corners. All edges gilt. Marbled endpaper with bookplate to front paste-down. ‘Bound by Riviere’ stamped at… Read more…

First edition, red cloth, no ownership inscriptions, a very good copy in a bright jacket, not price clipped, designed by Biro. A very nice copy. Read more…

pp 592 Custom-bound French missal which has been embellished with family mementoes as an aid to prayer and meditation including a 1944 letter written by 'R Sagnieres', a grieving mother, to Lieutenant Cherassus from Embrun in the Haute-Alpes asking for more information about 'la mort de mon cher fils' and begging for the return of some of his posse… Read more…