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Shakespeare’s Plays, gifted by the Canadian writer Robertson Davies to the daughter whom he named after Prospero’s daughter in The Tempest and affectionately inscribed: ‘For Miranda Davies with every good wish for her birthday December 24th 1954 - The Tempest Act III Sc. I. lines 38-40 from R.D.’ Davies’ reference is to Ferdinand’s encomium: ‘Admir… Read more…

Super Royal 8vo. Beautifully bound in soft brown calf, titled in gilt to spine with unusual, oversized yapp edges in very good condition. Striking red text block edges. Unmarked endpapers. Printed in Tamil. Text block clean and crisp throughout. Printed at the Diocesan Press Madras. Binders label to rear pastedown reads ‘Bound at The Methodist Publ… Read more…

An Edwardian era novelty thumb print and autograph book which spans 80 years of collecting from 1905 until 1985. ‘The Latest & Newest Form of Science and Amusement’. A gift inscription dated 2/9/05 to front free reads, ’Morley with love from Annie [Style]’. The first four entries next to vivid blue thumb prints read N. Style, Annie Style, Marion St… Read more…

Two First Editions in near fine condition. Achilles. First edition hardback in original jacket, inscribed by author. Jacket is fresh and unmarked with just a small nick to top edge of lower. Brown cloth boards and text block pristine. Inscribed in blue ink by the author to the title page, ‘with much love to Alistair & Jennifer / Liz / 1.iii.01’. Bo… Read more…

A pair of first editions in very good condition. Alamein to Zem Zem. Editions Poetry London: London, 1946. Strong card boards with orange cloth to spine. Small paper cutting of a review cellotaped to front pastedown; neat previous ownership inscription to front free; text block age toned as expected throughout; clean and unmarked. Alamein to Zem Ze… Read more…

First Edition in near fine condition and very good plus Uncorrected Proof Copy ‘Not For Sale’. Goodbye Mickey Mouse. Hutchinson: London, 1982. First Edition in original, very good dust wrapper. Red cloth boards lettered in silver to spine; unmarked, square and sound. Endpapers and text block crisp and unmarked. Original jacket very good. Goodbye Mi… Read more…

A very good, scarce first edition in original jacket. Blue publisher’s boards show very slight hints of shelf wear; square and sound. Clean and unmarked throughout text block. Frontispiece and 25 further illustrations very good; collated and complete. Original jacket very good, just a touch nicked to spine and tips of flaps. A lovely copy. Read more…

Five first editions from the complex early publication of Ezra Pound’s Cantos by Faber and Faber. 1 A Draft of XXX Cantos. Faber and Faber: London, 1933. 8vo. First UK Edition. In very good plus condition. Black cloth boards notably fresh, titled in gilt to spine; corners sharp. Text block edges rough trimmed. Clean, crisp and unmarked throughout.… Read more…

Owned by the London painter turned interior decorator and cabinet maker, George Morant a revised 1805 edition of this work by Irish clergyman, Matthew Pilkington, first published in London in 1770. Pilkington’s text revised and enlarged by Swiss painter Henry Fuseli. 19th century quarter red roan over green cloth very good, titled and dated in gilt… Read more…

Lytton Strachey’s copy, formerly the Britwell Court copy, owned by Samuel Christy Miller. Large octavo bound in contemporary speckled calf with a gilt double fillet and shell motifs to the corners of the boards in gilt; remnants of a spine label; red speckled edges to the text block. Some cracking to the leather over the outer hinges. Dora Carringt… Read more…

Uncommon First edition in good plus condition. Green cloth boards blind tooled; titled over white panel to upper; corners a little bumped; age toned. Yellow endpapers clean and unmarked. 4pp advertisements for Mr Weale’s New Series. Title page protected by original tissue guard. Coloured illustrations. viii, 167pp, index. Text block clean and unmar… Read more…

Scarce First Edition in good plus condition. Card wrappers age toned, suffering loss to spine panel which reveals binding beneath; text block shaken to earlier leaves but otherwise binding remains sound; clean and unmarked. Errata notice tipped in to p1. 60pp plus 24 pp illustrated list of colours and materials sold by Winsor & Newton; final few le… Read more…

First edition in grey, textured- paper covered boards. Very good copy with a little spine lean; Foyle’s ticket to front pastedown; no marks to text apart from a little off-setting from a 1950s bus ticket laid in, p214. Unclipped near very good jacket; browning to rear panel with small loss at head of that panel near spine. Read more…

Attractive presentation copy of the first trade edition, inscribed ‘Miss Julia Skerrett with all best wishes from Alfred Bruce Douglas’ on the front flyleaf. With a small silver gelatin photograph of the middle aged poet seated in a deck-chair on an ocean liner. Julia Skerrett (1871-1945), spent her early years in New Zealand before returning to Eu… Read more…

A superb Bloomsbury association copy owned and inscribed by David Garnett who published an influential review of this novel in 1923, describing Woolf as ‘the most interesting of the younger writers now living as well as the best of them.’ Jacob’s Room was the first full length work published by the Hogarth Press, Woolf’s first fully experimental no… Read more…

Second Edition including complete set of 16 folding plates in very good contemporary sheep boards just a little bumped to corners. Very handsome 6 panelled spine ornately tooled in gilt and titled over red ground. Age toned as expected throughout; endpapers clean; remnants of an ink and water stain evident to title page. Text block very sound and u… Read more…

A lovely and uncommon little book which shows the stages of colour separation of a woodblock print in 20 plates, with the verso showing the block for each colour and the recto showing the progress of the print (Kiyonaga's ‘Ferry over the Sumida’). Folded once in Japanese style. Softcovers just a little age toned to edges; upper illustration remains… Read more…

Scarce First Edition in an attractive example of the scarce original trade binding. Green publisher’s cloth decoratively embossed; titled in gilt to spine; bevel edged; a little bumped to spine tips and corners; age toned to edges. Floral endpapers very good. b/w frontispiece. A little foxed to preliminaries. Text block sound and square. Numerous e… Read more…

Rare, near-complete run of the most important of the newspapers to emerge from the trenches of the Western Front during the First World War. The brainchild of two members of the 12th Battalion of The Sherwood Foresters who located a serviceable printing press amidst the ruins of Ypres, this run comprises 22 of the 23 original issues - only exceeded… Read more…

Asprey & Co. Ltd. London, reference library miniature book collection consisting of 8 small matching volumes bound in textured dark brown leather with decorative gold gilt to spines; all edges gilt; signed to turn in, ‘Made in England. Asprey, London, England’. Clean crisp and unmarked throughout. Arranged inside a custom, angled, limed wood desk t… Read more…

Two First Edition, first impressions in distinctive original red and black snakeskin patterned boards with spine lettered in gilt: 1. Vile Bodies. Good condition. First Edition. Chapman and Hall Ltd.: London; 1930. Publisher’s red and black snake skinned boards age worn; knocked to corners; gilt titling a little faded to spine. very good red and bl… Read more…

Deluxe hardcover first American edition signed by British modernist Victor Pasmore to the title page, including two original, late career, limited edition signed lithographs printed in colour: The Pool of Narcissus; numbered 49/100; initialled by the artist in pencil; takes the form of a two page folding plate loosely inserted within the volume wit… Read more…

An attractive limited edition, signed copy in original American Arts and Crafts binding by The Roycrofters of Erie County, New York. Limp suede cover, good plus featuring inlaid leather labels titled in gilt and yapp edges which are a little worn to corners and tail. Gilt text block edges. Dark orange silk pastedown features the ex libris label of… Read more…

Second edition of Richard Gilpin’s treatise of Satan’s temptations. Contemporary full sheep, crack to upper cover which doesn’t affect the integrity of the book. Red edges to text block. Ownership signature of ‘A Broadley’ to first flyleaf; further inscription cut away from upper outer corner of this flyleaf. Note in 19th century(?) hand overleaf p… Read more…

A radical association copy bringing together the cultural critic and journalist Henry Nevinson and the American born actress, novelist and playwright Elizabeth Robins who wrote the iconic suffrage play Votes for Women. Nevinson presented this volume - which contains his essay-review of Votes for Women - to Robins the day after they lunched together… Read more…