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BBC Beethoven Concerts in conjunction with The London Music Festival Council Programme dated Monday 22 nd May 1939. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini. Cream illustrated card wrappers to front and rear. A little age spotting to front but otherwise in very good condition throughout. 44 pp. clean and unmarked. Front wrapper is signed to top left in pencil b… Read more…

Second Impression inscribed the author to fellow author of the future Arthur C Clarke. An account of a War Correspondent’s journeys through the Middle East, India, Burma and W Africa during 1941-2. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Blue cloth covered boards in good condition, age toned to gilt titled spine. Endpapers clean and unmarked. Text block in very good… Read more…

Inscribed by the author, an original best selling novel which fictionalises the story of one Mary O'Neill, who tries to secure freedom and happiness after marrying a cruel, adulterous man. Originally serialised in Hearst's Magazine. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Publisher’s red cloth in good condition lettered and embellished in black to front board and in… Read more…

10 copies of the Air Training Corps Gazette bound in one volume each dated between December 1941 and December 1945. The gazettes span the period of time from the ATC’s official establishment in 1941 through to the peacetime summer and winter of 1945. The articles within reflect the scope and variety of the training programmes which prepared young m… Read more…

January starts bitterly cold with the biggest tide since 1854 recorded by this diary keeper who is full of cold and aches. John Ward is his name, his wife is Hannah and their children Tom, Dan and Nellie. Each day John Ward writes recording the weather, the seasons, his working days and the produce procured for the family shop which is situated nea… Read more…

Alfred Tennyson’s moving poem which he began writing in 1833 following the sudden death of his beloved friend Arthur Henry Hallam. The author continued working on the poem for seventeen years culminating in what is one of the most moving evocations of loss in English, touching also many of the deep concerns of the day. Queen Victoria was among its… Read more…

Extra-illustrated in the 19th century with copper engravings by Gerard Van der Gucht and John Pine which were taken from earlier 18th century editions of this book including a portrait of the author. Fourth Edition of this satire by Ned Ward bound in pretty contemporary century calf, with nineteenth century repairs at the top and tail of both spine… Read more…

Beautiful presentation volume by an infatuated Oxford undergraduate (shortly afterwards President of the Union) following his cousin’s winter wedding at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris. Small oblong volume with matching slipcase (13.5x11.5cm) The manuscript book has olive green printed paper overlay, the upper cover with a hand-coloured… Read more…

A copy owned and lightly annotated by the Scottish rationalist, atheist and literary critic J M Robertson. Beautifully bound in half parchment over marbled boards, Robertson’s ownership signature on the first flyleaf dated 1879. Some foxing but a very good copy. Robertson has left a few pencilled notes, jotting down dates when he read the first ten… Read more…

[4 imprints] Small volume of children's books including an 1805 Darton edition of Franklin and an apparently unrecorded Darlington edition of William Law's Call to a Devout Life. Bound in half black roan over marble paper covered boards; rubbed to edges; nineteenth century newspaper clipping about a gift of a Franklin engraving to Manchester librar… Read more…

Dialogues relating to 'A bill intituled An Act further to amend the Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Act concerning the management of episcopal and capitular estates in England', which was debated in July 1858. John Evelyn Denison (1800-1873) was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1857-1872 and was created Viscount Ossing… Read more…

Written by the novelist Penelope Mortimer to the Yorkshire art collector Ronnie Duncan, a letter and postcard from June and August 1979. The postcard (featuring a Duchamp image) looks ahead from June to ‘My spell at Hebden [Bridge]... It sees far in the future, but the distant Commitments have a habit of quite suddenly being tomorrow - which I find… Read more…

A fascinating letter from the Oxford undergraduate poet Anthony Thwaite to his fellow ‘Yorkshireman’, recent Oxford graduate and poetry publisher, Ronnie Duncan. Having been asked for advice on potential contributors to the slightly older man’s poetry magazine, Chance, Thwaite rattles off a series of recommendations in a substantial two page typed… Read more…

A chunk of the Second Edition which includes a General Map of the Earth, a Map of Europe, a Map of England, Scotland and Ireland, a Map of England and a Map of Wales. A disbound collection of early leaves from the second edition of Robert Morden’s Geography Rectified , a valuable historical resource for understanding the geography and cartography o… Read more…

Book of poems by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Elizabeth Bishop. In original dust jacket, spotted to front and rear, a little nicked to top edge and browned in part. Yellow boards water stained to lower half front and rear. Endpapers unmarked although water damage evident particularly to rear including final leaf. Remaining text block in very goo… Read more…

Seventh Edition with original dust jacket. Inscribed by its journalist author to ‘Arthur C Clarke’, almost certainly the future novelist. The book is an account of a war correspondent's journeys, meetings and what was said to him in France, Britain and Flanders during 1939-1940. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Blue cloth boards in good condition, age spotted… Read more…

Privately printed collection of poems published after the death of its American writer Maria Gross Horwitz by her ex-patriate daughter Florence Horwitz; one institutional copy only located at Yale. No publisher or location or limitation given but inscribed on the first blank: 'A little souvenir of our beloved Mother printed from memory.... Florence… Read more…

Uncommon limited edition of 525 copies of which 250 were for sale in Great Britain and 250 in the USA. This copy is hand numbered No. 420. In very good condition in original vellum binding, minimally soiled. Decorative illustration to front board, titled in black to spine panel. Yapp edges in good condition. Endpapers clean and unmarked front and r… Read more…

A bound collection of advertisements, election posters and ephemera from the Marsden area of Yorkshire collated circa 1895. Contains: 5 full page and double page pasted in election posters dated 1894 promoting the candidates to the electors of the Urban District Council of Marsden. Candidates include Fred Beaumont (Liberal), George Henry Cotton, Sa… Read more…

Originally published in two volumes. This updated 1924 edition, uncommon in dustjacket, has been rewritten and revised by the author Olga Racster, a novelist, playwright, arts historian and journalist who specialised in literary and musical criticism. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Red cloth boards lettered in black and gilt in very good condition. Original… Read more…

Paperback edition by Grove Press and Evergreen Books. Distributed in Great Britain by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd, Sackville St, London. Card wraooer, age toned, browned to edges, a little bumped to corners. Text block edges shelf worn, dusty. Endpapers clean front and rear. Original red price sticker for 14/6 and distributor’s label to front half… Read more…

An anonymous hand manuscript prayer book reflecting the main religious trends and processes happening within Germany at the time of its writing. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION In very good condition. Bound in original roan, tooled ornamentally with a decorative edging and a diamond pattern to front and rear. Two original leather and brass hinge clasps fasten… Read more…

First Edition, 1968. Turquoise cloth covered boards incorporating gilt titling to spine in excellent condition. Original dust jacket illustrated by Robin Jacques shows only very slight shelf wear to edges. Small clean tear circa 1cm to bottom front edge. Very small nicks to spine top and tail. Colours remain vibrant. Contents crisp, fresh and large… Read more…

Scarce copy of this 1890 children’s book which contains comical verses by Nister’s popular lyricist Clifton Bingham and is perfectly illustrated by G.H. Thompson. Full of humorous rhymes and quite as humorous pictures. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Large oblong 4to format. Original pictorial boards beautifully illustrated to front in good condition. Colours… Read more…

(5.5x9cm) [pp220] Miniature book bound in publisher's red cloth with remains of a paper spine label. Very good condition.. Read more…