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A fine, bright blue, soft backed catalogue which accompanied an exhibition of the works of William Tillyer at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery in London between 11th October and 30th November 2013. Accompanying the catalogue are six pristine colour plates presented within a matching blue sleeve which depict the cycle of six luminous landscape paintings… Read more…

A colour by numbers image of the conquest of Everest in 1953, presented by a young Everest collector to Tenzing Norgay in Leeds on June 1st 1977 and signed for him by the great mountaineer. Accompanying this image is a reproduction of a local newspaper clipping showing Bareham meeting his hero at Austicks bookshop in Leeds where Norgay was signing… Read more…

Catalogue for a 1980 Arts Council of Great Britain retrospective show of the work of Victor Pasmore. Preface by Joanna Drew. Introduction by Alastair Grieve. 34 full page illustrations in colour and b/w. Catalogue Listings. Select Bibliography. Very good soft cover boards, illustrated to upper with ‘No 49 Volcano 1977’. A little foxing to text bloc… Read more…

Ambrose Heal’s personal copy of a scarce original sales catalogue of manuscripts issued by George Sherwood of 210 The Strand, London. The catalogue contains much which would have been of interest to Heal who researched, collected and published several volumes on the activities of London tradesmen from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Annota… Read more…

Youthful scholar J. Harrison’s manuscript of advanced arithmetic and scientific exercises from Mr. Gibson’s Whitby School. There is no record of Mr Gibson’s school but it is likely to have been a private academy tailoring its curriculum to practical skills in a booming maritime and industrial region. Hand drawn, decorative title page inscribed ‘Ari… 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…

A very pleasingly illustrated product catalogue produced by the Devonshire School of Lettering in Morecambe c1955. The school acted as both an educational institution and a supplier to the trade and the contents provide a snapshot of mid 20th century commercial art history in an era before the introduction of digital or vinyl printing when every sh… Read more…

An onboard newspaper printed during a crossing dated Thursday Feb 5 1914. Remnants of a stamp which reads ‘Boston’ to title panel. Folded horizontally and vertically into quarters; the fold lines are sound with no tears; spine panel tender in places; one small nick to top edge of front cover; corners creased otherwise very clean and unmarked throug… Read more…

Unrecorded volume of self-published World War II verse, in very good condition. A volume of poetry, written in the years spanning 1937 - 1940. Green cloth boards age toned particularly to spine. Inscribed ‘for my mother, Peter’ to front free and ‘D.M. Daymond King’ written to top dated 1951. Text block clean and unmarked. Contains 24 poems. Early p… Read more…

Printed Christmas promotional booklet distributed by the Norwich based Colman’s Mustard company as a seasonal gift for children. Card covers are now loose from text block which is otherwise entirely sound; the lower staple has bled very slightly along the gutter lines throughout; beautiful colour illustrations, vibrant and unmarked, depicting child… Read more…

A bizarre compilation of print and manuscript items recounting the controversy that erupted between Mrs Henry Morton Stanley - Dorothy Tennant - the Womens’ Committee of the Unionists of North Lambeth and the disruptive young woman journalist, Miss Strutt Cavell of the leftist newspaper, The Star. A one page introduction in the neat hand of Henry P… Read more…

Private Second World War private, manuscript diary written by 27 year old Bill Howkins who wears his heart on his sleeve throughout and simply can’t decide whether he’s in love or simply infatuated with 21 year old Mary. Both were stationed at an RAF camp in Cardington, Bedfordshire and the diary offers an intimate window into everyday base life, t… Read more…

Three posters advertising Beverley, Hull and East Riding Races in 1882 and 1883 which offer a glimpse into the world of Victorian era horse racing including the names of owners, officials and stewards. Lord Durham and Mr I’Anson’s mounts feature heavily throughout the race card. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 2 x race posters dated June 14th and 15th 1882.… Read more…

A collection of 6 First Editions in very good plus condition, variously signed and/or inscribed by the author to their previous owner, a retired academic of English at the University of Leeds. Laid in are paper cuttings and 3 printed e-mails between the two. 1. Clarity or Death. Carcanet Press Ltd: Manchester, 2008. Soft backed First Edition. Inscr… Read more…

Illuminated manuscript on vellum presented as a retirement gift to William Eller Esq in recognition of unstinting work as Musical Director of the Manchester Midday Concerts Society - an association that survives to this day. Beautifully written in a calligraphic hand with gold leaf illuminated initials; vibrantly and colourfully illustrated featuri… Read more…

Gabrielle Enthoven’s marked up copy of a French’s Acting Edition (No.338) of Black Eyed Susan. Enthoven was an English playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist, and prolific collector of theatrical ephemera relating to the London stage. Much of her private collection of playbills, programmes and associated ephemera is now in the theatre and p… Read more…

An archive of lively and beautifully descriptive letters written by young Sylvia Duckworth (b. 1899, daughter of Major Arthur Campbell Duckworth and Viola Davies-Evans of Orchardleigh, Frome - a relative of Julia Jackson, Duckworth - Stephen - Virginia Woolf’s mother) who navigates the changing world of 1920s England as she embraces the opportuniti… Read more…

A small archive from Charles Skipper & East Limited, the London bank note printers including 2 hand written letters on company headed paper which divulge negotiations regarding the potential supply of new bank notes to the Banco da Republica dos Estados Unidos du Brazil and Banco Nacional de la Republica de Colombia. The letters are dated March and… Read more…

An archive of career spanning and revealing letters written by Lieutenant, later Commander in Chief, Ralph Campbell Musbury Duckworth (1907–1983), the majority addressed to his ‘darling sister’ Sylvia who married into the Fawkes family of Farnley in Yorkshire. A lively correspondent with an eye for detail his earliest letters are written to his ‘da… Read more…

Salford Mayoral Visitors’ Book from the 1930s including the signatures of visiting industrialists, foreign officials including the Consuls for Norway, China (the Chinese Kuomintang government officially appointed its first consular representative to Manchester in February 1933), Finland etc and numerous Mancunian dignitaries and power-brokers. Serv… Read more…

Rare, short-lived high quality satirical journal written and printed in Bradford, with all 52 issues bound into a single volume. The Jackdaw was published in Bradford during 1904-1905 with the intention of poking fun at the local establishment, municipal spending, and the eccentricities of Victorian/Edwardian Bradford society - the very era that J… Read more…

In good plus condition, original sheet music book containing 36 arrangements for historic English pieces including Widdicombe Fair, Sellenger’s Round, The Cuckoo’s Nest and Oranges and Lemons. Card covers age toned; just a little bumped to corners; nicked to top and tail; cracking over spine; tape repair to lower spine. Red tinted cover illustratio… Read more…

In very good condition, two rare copies of the monthly UK music publication ‘Styx Incorporating The Modern Drummer’ which capture the post WW2 drumming landscape. The volumes are dated February 1947 and Issue No.9, 1948. Iconic covers in good plus condition feature stylised mid century graphic design over black and red paper wrappers; the 1947 copy… Read more…

Siobhán McKenna’s 1959 recording of Finnegans Wake, specifically the ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ section is a renowned spoken-word LP released by Caedmon Records (TC 1086). McKenna performs alongside Cyril Cusack who reads ‘Shem the Penman’, delivering a celebrated, passionate rendition of Joyce's complex prose. LP in very good condition. Sleeve in goo… Read more…

A signed and dated limited first edition of Tony Harrison’s play ‘Poetry or Bust’ produced for the play’s premiere event at Salts Mill on September 5th 1993. Features a cover design by David Hockney and tells the story of Airedale poet John Nicholson. From the collection of a retired University of Leeds academic who has tipped in his opening night… Read more…