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A beautifully produced collection of 20 architectural illustrations of the city of Prague, inscribed by Julius Horn to the title page. The original wood engravings (5 x 7cm) entitled Praga Caput Regni, are laid down onto buff card within a binding of cream leather with raised bands and gilt titles. In very good condition, the covers are lightly mar… Read more…

13 Legacy receipts dating from 1831-2 for payments made by the estate of John Thomas Batt of New Hall near Salisbury in Wiltshire. There are legacies to individuals, such as his wife's sister, Sophia Neave, who received £2000 and two guineas for a ring; William Courtenay who received £500, and also charitable gifts, for example£100 to the Governors… Read more…

pp46 A beautifully produced volume of the American poet and author Glenway Wescott's autobiographical "melancholy fantasy upon western themes". Designed by J Van Krimpen, set in Lutetia type face and printed in Haarlem, Holland on Pannekoek paper. A first and limited edition 352/375, inscribed by the author "For William Humphrey from his friend Gle… Read more…

pp195 First edition and Dedication Copy belonging to Marjorie Bingham, with laid in letters (4 ALS), newspaper cuttings and a black and white photograph of the author. In a letter to the Baptist times Marjorie's father, W H Bingham of Wigan, explains how the 25 year friendship between their family and Mr Cule began. The book is near fine in illustr… Read more…

pp4 Drop Head Title. Resolutions passed by the Incorporation of Merchants in Leith "in consequence of the present Political Agitation", at the Assembly Rooms, Leith, near Edinburgh, December 7th 1792. Printed on 4 sheets of paper which are in good condition, chipped and lightly stained with short closed tears but the text is complete and very legib… Read more…

A collection of 8 manuscript notebooks owned by Rowland Adamson A.M.I.Min.E of Horwich near Bolton. Four of the notebooks contain notes taken while Adamson was a student of mining at Wigan and District Mining and Technical College in 1943-44. The notes and diagrams on mining law, machinery and safety are in a neat hand and obviously the work of a c… Read more…

pp516 A handsome Welsh translation of Kitto's 'Life of Christ'. This devotional work contains weekly readings which are extensively illustrated with detailed steel engravings and bright coloured maps of the Holy Lands. A substantial folio in good condition, bound in half calf over cloth which is stained and soiled, the cloth is lifting from the wor… Read more…

pp6 A charming memento of the cathedral and town of Wells in southern England. In very good condition in publisher's glossy white card wrappers with black titles, embossed with a pretty lace decoration. The booklet contains 6 accomplished etchings, 9x7cms, dating from 1857 to 1862 by Rock & Co of London. Each black and white image has a catalogue n… Read more…

An album of photographs of a holiday in the French resort of Nice in 1905. There are 40 pages of small black and white photographs of various individuals, both adults and children, enjoying walks, sports, group picnics and motor vehicle trips. There are photographs of street scenes with local inhabitants, and coastal and river scenery. The buff pap… Read more…

pp178 In blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, floral end papers, attractively printed with decorative chapter headings and black and white illustrations. Very good, a couple of stains to the covers, browning to end papers, the pages are clean and crisp. Bookplate of James Durham and his wife Lady Agnes (Townsend) of Cromer Grange, Norfolk. Letter… Read more…

[xiv] pp352 By Father Leopoldo Duran, a Catholic priest and former professor of English and American literature at the University of Madrid, who was a close friend and confidant in the latter part of Greene's life. Near fine. Warmly inscribed to film maker Peter Duffell by Leopoldo Duran. Read more…

[xiii] pp127 A collection of 29 letters with an introduction and explanatory notes by M C Taylor, Personal Representative of the United States to His Holiness Pope Pius XII. Fine in red cloth, buff spine with gilt lettering, protected by a cellophane wrapper within a green card slip case. This high quality publication was a gift edition inscribed b… Read more…

Large folio. A private publication of a 1932 manuscript in the collection of Donald S Carmichael, first published here in facsimile form in1982. A very attractive limited edition (100 copies only) printed on high quality paper by the Stinehour Press. Fine in blue paper wrappers. Inscribed by the author with laid in letter [1 TLS] from Carmichael to… Read more…

pp37 FDR's record of "the salt-water wanderings of a houseboat jointly owned and operated in 1923 to 1926 with his old friend John Lawrence" with an introduction by Donald Scott Carmichael. One of fifteen copies reprinted from The Franklin D Roosevelt Collector, VolI, No 1, November 1948, bound for the author to distribute to certain FDR enthusiast… Read more…

[pp] 95. Varied and interesting commonplace book. Bound in half calf over decorated boards, corners and backstrip worn but the binding is still tight. Catherine Dornford's ownership inscription appears on the first blank followed by 30 neat manuscript pages, entitled 'Practice', of mathematical sums and accounts. Next are headings for attendance at… Read more…

pp31 "This booklet attempts in modest fashion to portray pictorially, and in terse verbal statistical descriptions, the progress made by the Ordnance Department in meeting the responsibilities of expansion placed on it by the President and the Congress by means of legislation enacted during the past critical year". Inscribed to F B Adams Jr with th… Read more…

First edition of this novel by Patrick Hamilton in blue cloth with silver titles. A good copy, the boards show a couple of white stains, the book is slightly skewed with some browning to paper stock and foxing to the end papers which have a W H Smith's Lambeth Library bookplate. An uncommon book featuring the imperturbable Ernest Ralph Gorse. Read more…

pp 96 [plates] A Victorian antiquarian guide to Ilkley, Yorkshire, and its surrounding area including the archaeology of the Roman and British periods The book is in the original leather over brown cloth, rubbing to spine ends and corners, the binding is tight and the heavy paper pages mostly clean. A limited edition of 50 copies, of which this is… Read more…

xvi pp 676 A biography of the Scottish theologian Robert Haldane (1764-1842) and his brother James who was an evangelist and church leader. In blue leather over pebbled cloth, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt, marbled end papers. Bookplate to front pastedown showing the coat of arms of William Ogilvy Dalgleish of Errol. In n… Read more…

pp103 The first edition of Arturo Barea's appreciation of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, translated from the Spanish by Ilsa Barea. A near fine copy, bound in the original tan boards which are very fresh, a spot of sunning to the head of the spine; the text is printed on heavy grey paper which is clean and crisp. In a very good, bright dus… Read more…

pp 95 [24] First Edition, one of the To-day and To-morrow series published by Kegan Paul in the 1920's to "provide the reader with a survey of numerous aspects of most modern thought". The book is very good in brown boards with white paper labels, very fresh apart from some mould bloom to the boards. In the uncommon white dust jacket which is good,… Read more…

(25x20cm) Large format vintage photograph showing a regal-looking Olivier playing Richard III in the 1955 film. This is a gloss finish stamped proof 'Ref LO/47' and was owned by Olivier himself, probably dating from the 1970s. From youthful success Olivier went on to become the preeminent actor of his generation, defining the great Shakespearean ro… Read more…

(22x15cm) Large format vintage photograph showing Laurence Olivier playing Richard III in the 1955 film. This is a matt finish stamped proof 'Ref LO/55' and was owned by Olivier himself, probably dating from the 1970s. From youthful success Olivier went on to become the preeminent actor of his generation, defining the great Shakespearean roles of H… Read more…

(19x16cm) Large format vintage photograph showing Laurence Olivier playing Richard III in the 1955 film. This is a matt finish stamped proof 'Ref LO/57' and was owned by Olivier himself, probably dating from the 1970s. From youthful success Olivier went on to become the preeminent actor of his generation, defining the great Shakespearean roles of H… Read more…

(22x17cm) Large format vintage photograph showing Laurence Olivier in full armour playing Henry V in the 1944 film. This is a matt finish stamped proof 'Ref LO/49' and was owned by Olivier himself, probably dating from the 1970s. From youthful success Olivier went on to become the preeminent actor of his generation, defining the great Shakespearean… Read more…