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A surviving chapbook containing four stories by Hannah More billed as A Warning to all Young Women both in Town and Country. In good condition, a little edge worn and age toned as expected. Sewn binding fragile but all leaves holding well. Sold by J Evans and Sons, printers to the Cheap Repository. Sold also by J Hatchard, London and Binns & Robins… Read more…

A charming chapbook narrating the lives of Richard Nancollas aka Rhyming Dick , Henry Hitchcock A Strolling Player and a poor man, named Bain , designed to teach behavioural and ethical lessons. It opens with the life of Richard Nancollas who died on the first of August, 1802 and who used to ramble through the western counties of England, exciting… Read more…

In very good condition. Undated but circa 1820-1840. Issued in 52 parts, this being No. 46. This copy folds as issued with no evidence of binding. Printed by John Pitts who traded from 6 Great St. Andrews Street, Seven Dials, London advertised as a Toy and Marble Warehouse. Consists of a single page folded into four, giving eight numbered pages, 36… Read more…

Unrecorded broadside ballad c 1850 not found elsewhere in this form. The Child's Dream is a dialogue between two children, in which they discuss how much better it would be to be in heaven than on earth. At the end it is revealed that the next winter the two children and their mother are taken to be with their father in heaven.  Printed to one side… Read more…

Unrecorded shepherd’s guide compiled by the Bentham and District NFU covering the central area of the Yorkshire Dales including Austwick, Horton in Ribblesdale, Ingleton and the Forest of Bowland. Card wrappers, discoloured and lightly soiled, a Preface and 2 page guide to the marks is followed by 80 pages detailing those marks, village by village.… Read more…

1A very uncommon First Edition owned only by 3 universities worldwide (Cornell, Manchester and British Library). In very good condition. Original cloth boards embossed to edges and decoratively titled in gilt to front. Sunned to spine. Dark brown endpapers crisp and clean. Half title page age toned. Very minimal spotting to opening leaves otherwise… Read more…

A 48 page catalogue produced by Myers & Co of New Bond Street, London advertising books for sale including those from the libraries of the late prolific English author Arnold Bennett and the art critic C Lewis Hind. The catalogue is numbered 282, dated December 1931 and contains over 500 titles alongside brief descriptions and prices. PHYSICAL DESC… Read more…

Rare example of the People’s Penny Library edition of Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe published in this cheap, now elusive, edition in 1860s Manchester in the 1860s. Number 1. Missing original boards. Leaves 1-4 are loosened to lower halves along gutter but surviving text block remains otherwise entirely sound. Illustrated frontispiece in go… Read more…

Bound volume containing six complete individual penny weeklies from Lloyd’s Weekly Volume of Amusing and Instructible Literature. Each weekly is brimming with sensational tales of love and adventure, extravagantly portrayed and often spiced with the supernatural. Many contributions from early female writers including Intimate Friends by Mrs Emma C… Read more…

Volume II containing No. 36 - No. 53 of Grant’s London Journal (18 consecutive issues) published originally as weeklies between Saturday September 5th 1840 and Saturday December 26th 1840. Each issue takes the form of a general interest magazine publishing short fiction and non-fiction pieces. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A half binding of calf over marbl… Read more…

With an important and evocative provenance to the Grimke and Drayton library at South Bay House, South Carolina and one of the most prominent abolitionist families in American history. The Grimké family's abolitionism began with the sisters Sarah (1792-1873) and Angelina (1805-1879), the daughters of a South Carolina slave owning plantation owner w… Read more…

Uncommon first edition examining the prison system, in good condition. Publisher’s brown roan boards decoratively embossed to front and titled in gilt to front and spine panel. A little bumped to corners, moderate shelf wear to spine top and tail, binding cracked approx. 2 cm along hinge to top. Dark green endpapers reveal a partial pasted in subsc… Read more…

Publication No 5, 3 RD Edition. Scarce copper-coloured, cloth hardback book, spiral bound with copper wire in very good condition. Pencilled numbers jotted to front cover by previous owner. Text block clean throughout. An interesting book with diagrammatic drawings by Winston Walker and descriptions of copper work processes. 14 full page plates con… Read more…

One of 25 pre-publication draft copies of what would become The Testament of Beauty, printed for the author and distributed to his friends for comment and feedback. This is a known but previously unlocated copy which was presented to the historian and novelist Ernest Thompson as an invitation to criticise and improve his friend’s work. In his 1944… Read more…

A sustained and outrageous forgery purporting to be a collection of essays individually owned, inscribed and in places even annotated by the naturalist and writer Gilbert White. The fictitious chain of provenance has the book being owned by White’s successor at Selborne, the vicar Thomas Cobbold who has supposedly written on the flyleaf that ‘These… Read more…

Presentation copy from Pete Seeger to one of the book’s photographers with Dan Budnik’s handwritten corrections to the North Carolina and Alabama locations of several of his best-known images of the civil rights era, as well as a letter from Pete Seeger’s wife presenting this copy of the book. First edition, a fine copy in a very good jacket with f… Read more…

Extra illustrated by the Hampstead antiquarian and author Ernest E Newton with around 100 additional maps, illustrations, letters, trade cards and Hampstead ephemera. In very good, robust condition bursting with additional material. Handsomely half bound in brown and blue contrasting cloth, old library stamp to verso of title page. With numerous ad… Read more…

Inscribed on behalf of the leading physician of his age, William Osler, probably by a publisher’s clerk, to Donald McAlister in the year that he became president of the General Medical Council, later Principal of Glasgow University. Small octavo bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and bevelled edges to the boards. Brown paper endpapers; cracki… Read more…

Six issues from David Hockney’s time at Bradford Grammar School, including two of the artist’s earliest self-portraits, created while he studied at the school and published here in the school magazine, The Bradfordian. Hockney’s cartoon-style self-portraits appear in the March 1953 issue (235), both signed in print ‘Okni’ and depict the young David… Read more…

First Edition. Volumes I and II bound as one including maps and numerous illustration. Quarter binding of brown calf over marbled boards in good condition. Boards faded, edges shelf worn; spine nicked to top and bottom, ruled in gilt and titled in gilt over red ground. Endpapers unmarked, age spotted particularly to rear. Volume I includes b/w fold… Read more…

Unusually complete, with the folding engraved frontispiece, a satirical spoof on small-town politics in the face of the threat of a French invasion of England at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. The play centres around the recruitment of local men to join a 'Home Guard'-type militia to fight the French, based in the Essex town of Coggeshall and pri… Read more…

In superb condition in its original, sealed polythene bag as delivered through Bradford letterboxes. In 1989 David Hockney, who was born and grew up in Bradford, was invited to design the front cover of the district's telephone directory. No more were printed after the first edition and no more will ever be printed. 7 Hockney entries are included i… Read more…

Scarce first edition in good condition. 16 mo. Paper boards faded and age worn, moderately bumped to corners and edges. Calf spine well worn and cracking but remains solid; binding just visible through top panels where title is partially still visible. Endpapers age toned. Scribbled handwritten numbers in a contemporary hand to front pastedown. Tex… Read more…

A deluxe copy from the first 50 issued in a black morocco binding and with a suite of additional engravings, lacking one image. Full black morocco binding, top edge gilt; a little scuffed to edges; offsetting from glue used to secure the front pastedown. Vignette title and five engravings in the text with tissue guards printed on untrimmed leaves.… Read more…

Manchester presentation copy from the author William Stokes to a ‘Miss Marshall Disley’. An uncommon First Edition of this timeless collection of poems written by William Stokes which explore themes of peace, liberty, and friendship reflecting their author’s commitment to these ideals. Written in various styles including sonnets, ballads, and odes,… Read more…