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Max Brod’s dramatization of Kafka’s novel The Castle with associated ephemera including contemporary paper cuttings and correspondence given its first English production by RADA students in June 1963 at the Vanbrugh Theatre leading to its becoming known in the English-speaking world. The John Fernald Company of the Meadow Brook Theatre in Michigan… Read more…

A sturdy and handsome daybook which tells the story of the trading activities of a Lancashire merchant between the years 1824 – 1827. Packed full of hand written transactions, pricing and customer details pertaining to the provision of oats, barley, beans, salt etc in areas including Deansgate, Didsbury, Eccles, Salford, Bridgwater and Worsley. Tod… Read more…

A sturdy volume of the Dundee Directory dated 1896 -1897. Includes advertisements, ecclesiastical lists, municipal lists, judicial lists, postal directories, street, trades, general and professions directories and a fold out plan of Broughty Ferry. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: In good condition bound in brown cloth covered boards incorporating blind rulin… Read more…

FIRST EDITION: Published by subscription and compiled from original sources with an introduction by Hamon Le Strange. Includes within 8 signed hand written letters from the author to WT Bewley Esq. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Good original cloth boards showing modest spots of wear and a little surface abrasion with bevelled edges and gilt lettering to fr… Read more…

An opera lover’s copy of this unique account of the different characters and traditions of twenty famous opera houses in 14 European cities. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1957 Second impression. Pale blue cloth covered boards in fair to good condition. Gilt title over red ground to spine which is damp stained. Dust jacket in good condition, nicked to spine… Read more…

The manorial estate of Aperfield Court was broken up after its purchase in 1895 by Frederick Henry Dougal of Wandsworth and the land sold off cheaply in small parts. It was not until after the Second World War however that the name of the area was changed from Aperfield to Biggin Hill in recognition of the Biggin Hill Aerodrome and the role played… Read more…

First edition with authorial ephemera laid in of Colin Clair’s personal copy of Human Curiosities in which the author explores human nature and the shocking popularity throughout history of exhibitions, fairs and shows which set up human beings as freaks to be stared at by the public. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Dark blue paper covered boards embossed in… Read more…

An extremely detailed hand written book of accounts spanning the period from 1766 -1794 kept by J Adams who uses a first-person narrative alongside his annual ‘account of money which I owe or am liable to pay’ and ‘an account of sums due to me.’ Transactions and dates are listed in great detail in a neat, black cursive next to sums of money exchang… Read more…

An offshoot of the famed British satirical magazine Punch, ‘Punch’s Pocket Book’ was an annual publication functioning simultaneously as a ledger, diary, almanac and source of entertainment and business information. This 1866 pocket book is full of Punch’s characteristic wit and wonderfully Illustrated by prominent English illustrators including Jo… Read more…

Signed copy of the nineteenth book in the Mr Men series which, with its simple stories and brightly coloured illustrations has sold over one hundred million copies worldwide across twenty-eight countries. This is an original first edition printed in 1976. DESCRIPTION: Printed card wrapper, stapled to spine. Age toned, otherwise in very good conditi… Read more…

Signed copy of the second book in the Mr Men series which with its simple stories and brightly coloured illustrations has sold over one hundred million copies worldwide across twenty-eight countries. This edition is an original first edition printed in 1971. DESCRIPTION: Printed card wrapper, stapled to spine. Age toned, a very slight vertical crea… Read more…

Printed card wrapper in fair condition, age toned, worn to edges, ink marked. Hand stitched to leaves within. Interesting b/w woodcut to front titled ‘Boy Blowing Charcoal’ after the work of the Dutch 17 th century printmaker Godfried Schalken. Number 5 has been written above in pink ink at a later date. Internally end papers and leaves are clean,… Read more…

Attractive provenance relating to Samuel Webbe, friend of an early owner of the book whose borrowing of it lasted longer than expected. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Both works are bound as one within contemporary calf boards with gilt roll tool to all edges. Boards bruised to the corners, showing minor abrasions and wear. Spine in 6 gilt framed compartmen… Read more…

An 1892 collection of reprints of rare and unique 17 th and 18 th century tracts relating to Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne edited by Robert Robinson. Includes pastoral poems, letters, histories, notices of Newcastle worthies and excerpts from books. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Brown paper covered boards in good condition embossed to edge… Read more…

RESERVED Lady Chichester, Lady Harris, Mrs Campbell and Mrs Neville are all given as sources for the recipes in this Scottish collection. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Bound in soft back red roan unadorned except for narrow gilt fillet to front and rear edges and across spine. External boards show some soiling and surface abrasion. Minor wear to spine ends… Read more…

Handwritten oath of a freeman pledging allegiance and loyalty to the Town and authorities of Northampton in southern England in the early 18th century. John Slater made his oath to the Mayor of the town, Joseph Woolston and ultimately to the monarch, Queen Anne. Famously, the Oath of a Freeman had been adopted by the Massachusetts Bay Company nearl… Read more…

RESERVED Cambridge psychologist Robert Thouless’s annotated copy of the third edition of this foundational study of statistics by the English polymath Ronald Fisher. Blue boards, bumped and rubbed; Thouless’s ownership inscription on the front flyleaf together with an elaborate tabular pattern of annotation across the first four pages of the book w… Read more…

A first edition, first printing of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh owned and lightly annotated by his acquaintance and occasional correspondent, the critic Neville Braybrooke. Without dust wrapper. Red cloth covered boards in fair to good condition, age worn and spotted in parts, darkened to edges. Corners bruised; spine panel showing moderate… Read more…

Pilot’s licence issued by Trinity House to a Great Yarmouth man, Richard Reeve James in January 1877, allowing him to practise his profession between Yarmouth and Southwold and extended down to Sizewell Bank. Printed on vellum and executed in black ink by Admiral Richard Collinson (explorer of the North West passage and would-be rescuer of Sir John… Read more…

An appealing contemporary vellum binding by Edwards of Halifax, executed for a client in the 1770s who bore the initials ‘MA’ - will she ever be found? Contemporary vellum, covers with a gilt metope and pentaglyph roll border on a blue wash background enclosing a gilt vine-leaf border, upper cover drawing beneath the vellum of a young woman in clas… Read more…

Autograph manuscript of best-selling novelist Ethel Boileau’s most successful novel which tells the story of Alan Stewart of Ardbreck who brings his bride back to the Highlands where to survive he has to summon up the ‘courage and clan loyalty of his fighting ancestors.’ The author, Ethel Boileau (1881-1942) was a popular novelist in the 1920s and… Read more…

Autograph manuscript of the 1932 English set romance novel of a family whose flapper daughter, Veronica Mallory, marries a pilot who makes a transatlantic flight. The author, Ethel Boileau (1881-1942) was a popular novelist in the 1920s and ‘30s who corresponded with Ayn Rand after writing to the American author about her 1936 novel, We the Living.… Read more…

Fifth impression of the Bloomsbury first edition of the first Harry Potter novel. Number line: ‘10 9 8 7 6 5’; no gap between ‘Thomas Taylor1997’ as called for. This is a near fine example of the first UK edition of the book that started it all. Squarely bound with excellent colour to the boards; slight crumpling at the tail of the spine and slight… Read more…

The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers (Fifth edition in 2 volumes) combined with A History of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers, in Ireland, From the Year 1653 to 1700 (Fourth edition) bound together as a set of 3, numbered 1 -3 on spines. Contemporary tree calf boards in fair condit… Read more…

Officer’s log book of a merchant West Indiaman engaged in supplying horses and mules to the enslaved African and African-American servicemen of Britain’s West India Regiments - and on the homeward journey bringing back a cargo of sugar manufactured by their enslaved cousins in the plantations of the Caribbean. Both Atlantic crossings were fraught w… Read more…