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The Aristocrats is a culturally important fictional narrative written in the early 20th century which delves into social themes, the contrasts between American and European cultures and the personal struggles of its characters against the backdrop of nature.  PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Hardback pale blue, paper covered boards decoratively embossed in ver… Read more…

One of 150 copies printed by hand at Warlingham, Surrey in June 1935. By poet Daniel George, author of Tomorrow will be different, Lunch and Holiday. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Printed card wrappers in good condition a little shelf worn to corners. 20 unnumbered leaves on handmade paper contain 18 individual poems. In very good fresh condition internally… Read more…

First hardcover edition of Beckett's second novel, written while he was in France during the Occupation. The book was published in the Traveller's Companion Series from Olympia Press in Paris, which was known for publishing avant-garde writers and controversial works of literature. The novel comes from the personal library of Yorkshire art collecto… Read more…

Tiny naval history volume bound in wood salvaged from the wreck of H.M.S. Royal George. This volume (8.8cmx5.7cm) has been refurbished with a green morocco leather spine and lettering and new endpapers. Old pencil inscription of ‘E.J. Hayward’ pp120 and four plates which illustrate the loss and salvaging of the vessel. A very good copy. The largest… Read more…

Behan’s finest play massively annotated here for an Oxford University student production which was directed by the English theatre director Braham Murray during his time as an undergraduate at University College and before he went onto a successful career in stage direction. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Red quarter cloth quarto over textured paper covered… Read more…

Third edition. Contemporary calf boards in good, very sound condition, rubbed, scratched and slightly bruised to corners. Gilt decoration to board edges inside and out. Handsome spine boasts a black, red and gilt middle panel initialled V - volume five. Text block edges browned particularly to top edge. Attractive marbled endpapers in very good con… 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…

Manuscript notebook by a committed poultry breeder, reader and customer of Darwin's poulterer and dealer in live birds, John Baily, with a letter from Baily about 'confinement' of birds. In this fascinating work W Stone keeps copious notes of John Baily's published observations on poultry, most dated to the early 1850s, as well as inserting a lette… Read more…

First edition of John Soane's first book. Letterpress title page plus 23 engraved plates numbered I - XXIII (incomplete - numbers XXIIII - XXXVII to rear no longer included). Issued shortly after he departed on his grand tour, following his gold medal winning studies at the Royal Academy, this volume is an historically significant and rare example… Read more…

A reprint of the catalogue used for the London exhibition in February 1959 including additional colour plates and a report of the exhibition’s reception abroad. In good condition; card wrappers showing age expected wear including a cup mark and some minor abrasions to front; spine panel a little chipped. Flyleaves a little dust marked; text block i… Read more…

The New Hogarth Library Vol. VI. A lovely first edition of what were originally 3 small books bound as one. 1200 copies printed. Slim hardcover boards in good condition in original egg shell cloth, titled in red to spine. Text block age toned but clean and fresh throughout. Very minimal spine slant. Original dust jacket is overall in good condition… Read more…

First edition. Small 8 vo in slim and somewhat faded hardcover boards incorporating pasted on title label; spine panel missing top 1 cm and completely detached from rear hinge revealing binding beneath; just cracking over front gutters. Endpapers age toned; remaining text block sound and unmarked throughout. 36 pp. A pleasing copy of this Pulitzer… Read more…

Black and White exhibition catalogue dated 2 March – 8 April 2000 produced by Annely Juda Fine Art, London in collaboration with the ground breaking artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The catalogue is in fabulous condition, a beautiful and thought provoking thing, fresh and crisp throughout. Devoted to their work in black and white 74 pp. of ful… Read more…

Uncommon First English editions. 2 volumes translated from the French by Arthur Wills. Hardcovers in pale blue cloth both in good condition, volume one a little faded. Titled in gilt to spine over red ground. A little age toned to endpapers but otherwise both in lovely, sound condition throughout. Original dust jackets retain their colour although… Read more…

First edition in fair condition. Contains 20 poems selected by the author including those from Tulips and Chimneys 1923, XLI poems 1925, From & 1925, Is 5 1926, Viva 1931 and No Thanks 1935. Card wrappers age toned, a little water marked, a little chipped to fore edge. String binding visible. Boards loose over gutters front and rear. Endpapers clea… Read more…

First English edition. Hardcover in very good condition in black cloth titled in gilt to spine; other than some very minimal yellowing to free endpapers the text is crisp and clean throughout. Original dust jacket designed by Craig Dodd in overall good condition, a little faded to edges, small nick to spine tip; inside jacket flaps yellowed to tops… Read more…

First edition. Hardcover in very good condition in green cloth titled in gilt to front and spine. Author's name penned on his personal dedication plate to Ronnie ("ex dono auctoris") on the front pastedown. Very slight spotting to tail of front board otherwise entirely crisp and fresh throughout. Original dust jacket overall good although a little… Read more…

Twelve year diary (1907-1919) of a distinguished Scottish servant of the British Empire, who represented Scotland as an international footballer in the very earliest of all competitive matches with England in 1870 - and loathed his ministerial boss, the young Winston Churchill. Scion of the aristocratic Baillie-Hamilton family (Earls of Haddington)… Read more…

A minutely observed manuscript travel diary of a research and sightseeing trip to China and the Soviet Union, ending with a nostalgic visit to Vienna, that offers glimpses of a personal history shaped by the Holocaust. Succinctly, but with close detail, Billig documents cultural, industry-focused and academic visits to cities and provinces, includi… Read more…

Voltaire’s ‘short explosive’ critique of clerical taxation with 7 further pamphlets which it inspired, most with false imprints in ‘Londres’ and ‘Utrech’. Duodecimo volume bound in contemporary polished calf, ‘Les Voix’ to the spine label. Marbled endpapers; an early owner has written ‘Recueil de Petites Pieces faites a L’occasion des affaires du c… Read more…

Presentation volume inscribed by a distinguished roster of 1000 scientists and officials of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research as a retirement present for its founder. Expensively bound with Frank Heath’s initials on the upper cover, all edges gilt, manuscript title page and 50 card leaves. Vellum-bound list of signers in rear poc… Read more…

A bill of sale for ‘Three Slaves’ - in fact three enslaved children of 15, 14 and 13 - who were sold by Roswell Beebe, future benefactor of Little Rock in Arkansas, to John Gusman, owner of huge tracts of land on the west side of the Louisiana river Bayou Bonfouca. Prepared for and signed by the New Orleans notary William Boswell, the document reco… Read more…

Oswald Birley’s painting-saturated diary written in the winter months of his year abroad in the Mediterranean which records his obsession with Velasquez who would go on to inspire the artist’s enormously successful practice, as well as offering an eye witness account of the Friday ceremonial of the penultimate Ottoman Sultan. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:… Read more…

Two sketchbooks drawn and painted by the children’s author Alison Uttley and two by her husband James whose early death, she would later claim, inspired and necessitated Uttley’s prolific output. The first sketchbook records Alison Uttley’s honeymoon with James Uttley when they travelled along the south coast of England and matches the third item i… Read more…

500 engravings from the late 17th century made by Louis XIV’s chief engraver which include celebrated depictions of the fountains of ‘le labryrinthe de Versailles’, costume at the court of the Sun King and the Fauxbourgs of Paris. Three large quarto volumes (21x26cm) bound in worn calf; marbled endpapers with the bookplate of ‘Abercairny’ (Scottish… Read more…