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The British Archer; or Tracts on Archery

Thomas Hastings
1831
A very scarce work attractively illustrated by the author and found here rather crudely rebacked. Original green cloth covered boards with worn rounded corners; new endpapers. Ownership signatures of ‘B P Gryom’(?) and ‘Mary Pearce 1854’ to title page. Library numbers on first leaf of Preface (Free Library Newark, N.J. 1833’ in blindstamp x4 later)… Read more…
#8616

£225.00

Leeds University Poetry 1949 & Leeds University Poetry 1954

Robin Skelton, editor; Bonamy Dobree; Wilfred Childe, Mollie Herbert, W. A. Hodges, Derrick Metcalfe’ Kenneth Muir, Marian Owen, Gerald Robinson, Robin Skelton; Robinetta Armfelt, George Campbell, Dorian Cooke, Gordon Heard, J Heath Stubbs, John D Hill. W.A. Hodges, Bernard Jones, David C Marno, Ralph N Maud, Roderic Owen, Gerald Robinson, Robin Skelton, Alan Tompkins, Keith Waddams.
1949; 1954
Two soft backed volumes of original poetry written and published by University of Leeds writers. Both in very good condition; wrappers a little dulled; University of Leeds library labels to front endpapers; clean and crisp throughout. From the collection of a retired Leeds academic. Leeds University Poetry 1946. 24 pp. Contains the poems of Wilfred… Read more…
#10062

£65.00

Cairo Caprice

Lewis Helland
1939
In good condition, a scarce first edition. Mustard cloth boards remain bright; age toned to edges and spine tail. Slight spine slant. Lovely prize label to front free reveals the volume to be a ‘correct solution crossword prize’ dated 1939. Text block sound, speckled to edges. Original jacket suffers a few cm of loss to top and tail; tape repair to… Read more…
#10094

£100.00

Where's Mr. Chumley

Seldon Truss
1949
First Edition in near very good condition. Publisher’s burgundy cloth boards a little bumped to corners and spine top and tail. Endpapers and text block clean and crisp; text block edges a little spotted. Original jacket near very good; 1 cm loss to tail and a little frayed to top; nicked to edges and folds. 252 pp. A lovely copy in its striking or… Read more…
#10095

£220.00

L'Examen Important de Milord Bolingbroke. Accompagnee des Notes de Mr M..... Editeur de fes Ouvrages

Henry St John Bolingbroke; Jean Jacques Rousseau; Voltaire
1771
Neuvieme - ninth edition - of this famous polemical work by Voltaire., with a signature purporting to be Voltaire’s on the title page. A good plus copy in contemporary calf boards with gilt filet to edges, titled to spine, slightly knocked to corners. Binding square and firm. Marbled endpapers clean, just cracking over gutters. Annotation in French… Read more…
#9742

£250.00

Clash of Cymbals

James Blish
1959
First Edition in original jacket. In very good plus condition. Red cloth boards very fresh, just a touch shelf worn to spine top and tail; corners sharp; titled in gilt to spine; sound and square. Endpapers and text block fresh and unmarked throughout. 197 pp. Original clipped jacket very good plus, just a fraction age toned along inner top edge; d… Read more…
#10050

£85.00

’Hitler’s luck cannot go on forever’ - Letters to ‘Dear Ralph’, her soldier boyfriend, from ‘Phyllis’, a Northamptonshire Woman

Phyllis; Ralph
1939 - 1940
A social artefact which reveals a previously unheard female voice at the outbreak of WW2. The 63 manuscript letters in this collection, written between November 1939 and October 1940 are penned by Phyllis of 61 Station Road, Burton Latimer, Northants to her sweetheart Ralph of 83 Montague St, Kettering who had been conscripted into the army, based… Read more…
#9666

£350.00

Folk Song Tunes & Morris Dances Compiled and Arranged for Piano by Arthur Purcell

Arthur Purcell
c1940
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…
#10093

£85.00

Playtime Poetry for Playful Little People

Margeruite Howes
c.1925
In near very good condition. A rare, small press children’s poetry book in original jacket which features an early monochrome photograph of two children at play. Peach hard backed boards very good with loss to top 1.5 cm of spine. Text block very square and sound; age toned; b/w photograph to flyleaves in very good condition. 24pp. Original jacket… Read more…
#10088

£80.00

Nursery Rhyme Plays. The ‘A.L.’ Series

Bessie H. Clift and W.H. Clift
c1910
Scarce fourth edition in very good condition. Illustrated boards unmarked, square and sound, Endpapers and preliminaries unmarked; a little age toned and very minimally spotted as expected. Musical scores throughout. Printed in Leeds. 58pp plus advertisements to rear. A charming copy from the estate of an employee of the publisher, E.J. Arnold. Read more…
#10089

£85.00

Mrs Dalloway - MASSIVELY ANNOTATED

Virginia Woolf
1953
A volume simply teeming with the pencilled annotations and inserts of a Professor of English literature. The soft backed volume in very good condition contains c25 laid in, jotted on page markers and perhaps c1000+ handwritten pencilled notes and annotations throughout the endpapers, text and margins. Much more than just a casual reader’s notes, th… Read more…
#10091

£175.00

Swift and Bold. The Story of The King’s Royal Rifle Corps in the Second World War 1939 -1945

Major General Sir Hereward Wake; Major W.F. Deedes
1949
First Edition in very uncommon unclipped dust jacket in overall near very good condition. Blue cloth boards very good, embossed in red to upper with insignia of The King’s Royal Rifle Guards. A square and sound copy, corners just a little bumped and lower board very lightly scuffed. Endpapers and text block clean and crisp. Illustrated frontispiece… Read more…
#10055

£100.00

Happy Go Lucky; Tinker Tailor; Rainbow Gold; Humpy & Grumpy

[May Byron (Mary Clarissa Gillington Byron)]
c1920
A lovely collection of four pocket sized, hardcover children’s books in good condition. Published between Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, an alliance famous for manufacturing beautifully illustrated books for younger readers. Paper covered boards feature eye catching colour on lays; spine panel on ‘Happy Go Lucky’ has worn revealing binding… Read more…
#10064

£100.00

Betty Blue

May Byron (Mary Clarissa Gillington Byron)
c1910 -1913
In very good condition. Pocket sized Edwardian children’s book in rarely surviving original matching protective slip case. Slipcase overall good plus showing minimal edge wear; top edge has split cleanly open separating top panel from side panel but all parts otherwise intact; pictorial paste on cover illustration lovely and bright. Card wrappers v… Read more…
#10072

£100.00

The Ugly Princess; Billy Quack; Scrappety Hop and Pearly Top; Hazel and Willow - Miniatures

[May Byron (Mary Clarissa Gillington Byron)]
c1910 -1913
In near very good condition. A set of four pocket sized Edwardian children’s books in overall good plus condition, a little dulled showing typical edge wear. Thick card wrappers very good throughout the four, illustrated with colourful paste on covers; cord tied spines very good; coloured pattern endpapers unmarked; full colour frontispiece plates… Read more…
#10073

£100.00

The Happy Flower; Little Pink Petticoat; The Golden Door; The Little Old Woman of X; Puss in the Palace

[May Byron (Mary Clarissa Gillington Byron)]
c1910 -1913
In near very good condition. A set of five pocket sized Edwardian children’s books in overall good plus condition, a little dulled showing typical edge wear. Thick card wrappers very good throughout the five, illustrated with colourful paste on covers; cord tied spines very good; coloured pattern endpapers unmarked; full colour frontispiece plates… Read more…
#10075

£100.00

Call the Midwife - INSCRIBED

Jennifer Worth SRN
2002
Inscribed First Edition in very good condition signed by the author. Illustrated softcovers and endpapers just a little shelf worn to corners. Inscribed by the author on the title page ‘To Tess, with best wishes for Christmas 2002. Jennifer Worth’. Additionally inscribed ‘to Tess from Derek’. Text block clean and crisp throughout. 294 pp. A very ni… Read more…
#9968

£100.00

Handbook to Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire - INSCRIBED

Thomas Sheppard
1923
First Edition in good plus condition. Brown illustrated cloth boards a little dulled, bumped lightly to corners, a little frayed to top and tail. Endpapers unmarked. Tipped in to front pastedown is a ‘Curator’s Compliments’ slip headed ‘The Municipal Museum of Hull. T Sheppard. Curator’, hand dated 19.6.24. Cracking between flyleaf and half title p… Read more…
#10045

£95.00

The Story of the Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer

Samuel Smiles
1859
First abridged edition in handsome binding. Heavily textured, pebble grain, green cloth boards titled in gilt to spine are notably very good. Brown endpapers clean and fresh. Small label to rear pastedown reads, ‘Bound by Edmonds & Remnants London’. Very slight spine slant. Light spotting to preliminaries, frontispiece and title page. Text block ot… Read more…
#10049

£100.00

The Nature of Cold Weather & Other Poems

Peter Redgrove
1961
Inscribed to a legendary figure at Leeds University, the Professor of English, Douglas Jefferson. First edition in original jacket in overall very good plus condition. Boards and text block near fine, clean and very fresh. Inscribed on front free ‘Peter Redgrave to DW Jefferson Oct 1962’ - Jefferson possibly in his own hand, 56pp. Original jacket v… Read more…
#10087

£95.00

Six Signed and Inscribed First Editions - Jeffrey Wainwright Collection: Clarity of Death; Heart’s Desire; The Reasoner; Out of the Air

Jeffrey Wainwright
1978 - 2012
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 emails between the two. 1. Clarity or Death. Carcanet Press Ltd: Manchester, 2008. Soft backed First Edition. Inscri… Read more…
#10090

£125.00

The Premier Book of Drums

Premier Drum Co. Ltd - ‘R S Kitchen Leeds’
c1945
In very good condition, a rare, complete, pocket trade edition of the famous catalogue L. Stamped to rear by the prominent northern musical supplier, ‘R.S. Kitchen Ltd, Leeds. Phone 22222’. Iconic red, black and silver geometric cover shows everyday signs of wear, just a little scuffed to spine panel; corners remain sharp; cracked to both front and… Read more…
#10092

£125.00

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King

J.R.R. Tolkien
1968
A smart set of earlyish editions of J R R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. All dating from 1968 these are the 2nd edition 3rd impressions of the three novels in order of appearance. Internally all three novels are crisp and fine with the maps present at the rear of the books. The gilt spine lettering is bright; the red boards show signs of shelf wear,… Read more…
#10096

£150.00

Why-So Stories of Birds & Beasts from Folklore & Legend

Edwin Gile Rich; Charles Copeland, illustrator
1922
In very good condition in very uncommon original dust jacket. Red cloth boards illustrated to upper and titled in black to spine very good; sound and square. Neat hand written names of previous owners to front endpapers. Text block clean and crisp throughout; charming full page illustrations by Charles Copeland. 165pp. Original 1922 illustrated jac… Read more…
#10084

£75.00

Jane Austen Her Life

Patrick Honan
2007
An inscribed copy in near fine condition. Hard backed, illustrated First Edition inscribed by the author ‘For Jennifer and Alistair, who added critical style & influence to the Austen Review & so helped to save an old biography’. Just a few age spots to text block edges. 454pp. From the collection of a retired University Of Leeds academic of Englis… Read more…
#10085

£85.00