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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…

Absolutely fine fourth impression of the Bloomsbury first edition of the first Harry Potter novel. Number line: ‘10 9 8 7 6 5 4’; no gap between ‘Thomas Taylor1997’ as called for; young Dumbledore and priced at £10.99: fine in fine dustjacket. This book is housed along with a similarly fine example of the 7th impression of Chamber of Secrets in a H… 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…

Rare John Day imprint drawing upon the text of Latimer’s Frutefull Sermons from the 1570s which has been reorganised to bring the title page of the second part of the text forward to become the general title page, making it a variant version of STC 15278. Boosting the appeal of this volume is its provenance to the Romantic poet Samuel Rogers who se… Read more…

Three of Bradford born novelist JB Priestley’s best known novels from the 1930s including two first editions and one limited edition. Angel Pavement. London:Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. Original DJ in good condition, some age toning to spine and edges. a little chipped to spine tips. Midnight blue cloth hardcover boards titled in gilt to spine i… Read more…

Spiral-bound pre-publication proof copy of Foster Wallace’s first collection of stories. Black spiral binding with acetate upper cover and card lower cover. Paper label to upper cover giving details of publication planned for 6th November 1989 and a publicity contact. Text reproduced in landscape format, two pages to a leaf; rectos only. Near fine… Read more…

A wide ranging and very detailed handwritten account of the pedigree and genealogy of the Ellis and Waltham surnames and family trees written by Charles Walton Elllis (b.1842), the son of Edwin Ellis and Emma Waltham with links to Mirfield, Camberwell and Tulse Hill. Laid in throughout are various ephemera including funeral cards, letters, cuttings… Read more…

Walter Thomas was born in Liverpool and attended its College of Art between 1912–13 followed by two years studying art in London. His focus on maritime subjects culminated in a commission from the Cunard White Star Line who appointed him to paint marine portraits of their great ocean liners which plied the North Atlantic route in the first half of… Read more…

Master Humphrey’s Clock was published originally in 88 weekly parts between April 1840 and December 1841 with illustrations by G Cattermole and HK Browne. This limited-edition set is (apparently) one of 3000 complete sets published by the Anglo-American Historical Society in New York [circa 1985]. We can find no similar sets or individual copies av… Read more…

William Hone: London, 1816. Second edition. Published in the year before Princess Charlotte’s untimely death. Text block only. Original boards no longer survive. A sliver of the original gilded calf spine panel remains. The complete remaining text block is sound and in good condition comprising b/w frontispiece titled Leopold and Charlotte, title p… Read more…

Rare Third Edition of this tract titled to front cover which incorporates a handwritten contemporary ownership inscription reading Mr A Steward. Price One Penny. Spine fold has been strengthened with later addition white tape holding well. Corners are bumped, a little puckered throughout. To verso of title page are listed volumes by the same author… Read more…