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First edition scarce science fiction novel described as a fictionalised discussion of capitalism, technocrats, and robotics originally circulated privately during 1927, given as the basis of a public lecture in London and serialised in The Star Review in 1929. This limited edition is numbered 229 and signed by the author John Hodgson Xmas 1929. The… 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…

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 higes. Dora Carringto… Read more…

First edition signed on the flyleaf by Churchill as ‘W Churchill’. A very good plus copy in bright blue cloth, white marking to the lower board, in a good jacket (assumed to be supplied) which has old paper repairs to the verso, not price-clipped but with the ‘7/6’ price overprinted. Very slight marking to the signed flyleaf. The final volume of Ch… Read more…

A remarkable and mystical unpublished short story written in April 1898 by a young woman called ‘Ecila’ - presumably a reversal of her actual name, Alice - which presents as a sort of adolescent fever dream in which the young woman is led through a mystical landscape, distracted by Sensuality and finally arrives at a vision of the Goddess Truth. Th… 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…

Scarce 18th century almanac, published either in 1718 (if you believe OCLC) or in the 1730s if you accept ESTC’s assessment. Small format (14.5x9cm) bound in old burlap; title page with woodcut and printer’s ornaments around the text. Pen obscuring what may be a date at the tail of the title page, [pp] 48, collates complete, A-D6; lower, outer corn… Read more…

Gill's exquisitely-produced and illustrated essay on the two things that make him both famous and unforgivably notorious: art and love. One of a signed limited edition of 260 copies of which this is hand numbered 164. Bound in black buckram, lettered in gilt to the spine. A very good copy showing a couple of small scuffs to the external boards and… 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…

A limited edition of 160 copies, of which 153 were for sale. This edition is hand numbered 41. Signed ‘Eric G’ to colophon. Contains ten wood-engravings by the author. In very good condition. Original octavo quarter bound roan over patterned paper boards, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine. Corners minimally bumped. Very light spotting to front an… 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…

Yorkshireman Geoffrey Platts sought out the freedom of a simpler life and in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau began to live by himself in a secluded one room cabin in central Arizona from the early 1980s. An outspoken advocate for the environment, a public speaker and ‘desert laureate’, he consecrated his life to the preservation of native habitat… 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…

A remarkable collection of trial and execution accounts from Lancashire, containing an otherwise unknown Calendar of Prisoners at Lancaster Prison (1826) and an unrecorded collection of poems by a published Lancastrian poet, printed in Haslingden. Other imprints include a known Kendal trial narrative on blue paper which appears in no institutional… 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…

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…

Avowedly private journal of an English aristocrat, recent Cambridge graduate, Mayfair-resident, avid ball and theatre-goer and, paradoxically, future husband of the socialist and suffragist Ruth St Maur from whose union sprang the 8th and 9th Dukes of Portland. Known by his third given name, Frederick - William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck (… 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…

Ambitious occult typescript from the first years of the 20th century written by a retired naval officer and currently unidentified occult scholar living in Putney, west London where he had settled after 40 years naval service. Over the first two volumes ‘Potestas’, as he dubs himself, has transcribed Godfrey Higgins’ Anacalypsis about the idea of a… 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…

Tenth edition of the foundational work of modern economics by Adam Smith, attractively bound in half black calf over marbled boards. A good looking set in a binding from a few decades after its publication. Octavo volumes (21x13cm) Vol III is the only one of the three with its spine label. Volumes I and III are bound without their half title; Vol I… Read more…