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Scarce First edition with six original b/w full page illustrations in very good condition. A tale of the slums written in words of one syllable only and dedicated to the ragged school teachers of Manchester and Salford. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Hardbacked paper covered boards in good condition incorporating embossed decoration front and rear, titled i… Read more…

Scarce, beautifully printed work on lettering and writing from the 1920s bound in attractive lettered (of course) paper covered boards with a buckram spine. Bumping to corners and mild edgewear. Several examples of decorative writing laid down on the front pastedown, above a ‘Foyles’ bookshop sticker. Coloured frontispiece from the Curwen Press. Fu… Read more…

Following the formation of the Bradford Council of Social Service in 1921, a survey of the provision made for the various social needs of the city was made and published under this title with a foreword by the Rt Hon JH Whitley, Speaker of the House of Commons. Sections on the History of Bradford, Childbirth and Infancy, Adolescence, Provision for… Read more…

Georges Bataille the philosopher, art historian and literary critic was also the author of some of France’s most famous forbidden books. Ma mere/My Mother was the first of his novels to appear in Britain. First UK edition in very good + condition. Unclipped dust jacket in excellent condition protected in removable, transparent wrapper. Jacket desig… Read more…

Pleasingly bound in its original publisher’s decorative cloth, an 1825 ‘New Edition’ guide to the university city of Oxford providing a description principally designed for strangers and containing a description of the colleges, halls, public buildings, churches &c, a chronological table of the university and city, an account of the government, exa… Read more…

A 3 page hand written letter penned by the American writer, political activist and saloniste Susan Mary Alsop who writes to Scottish writer and journalist Iain Finlayson in November 1978 in a snatched moment during a busy tour to promote the publication of her latest publication, ‘Lady Sackville: A Biography’. The letter is full of warmth. ‘Thank y… Read more…

Signed copy of J G Ballard’s passionate part autobiographical, part novel portrait of the post war world. In very good plus condition. Hardcover red boards pristine, a little spine lean. Original price-clipped dust jacket like new, protected by neat and removable transparent wrapper. Endpapers crisp and clean. Author’s inscription to title page rea… Read more…

Third edition of this 18th century conduct book which provides a valuable insight into the conventions surrounding the behaviour and the expectations of women at that time. The volume contains 4 of the most popular and influential moralising stories of the day including ‘Dr. Gregory's Father's Legacy to His Daughters’, ‘Lady Pennington's Unfortunat… Read more…

pp 288 Near fine first edition in near fine jacket of Thompson's full length novel of India. Not price clipped; bright jacket over black boards. Foxing to the book edges the only minor blemish. A very nice copy. Read more…

Very good first edition of Clewes' first novel set in Wales inscribed to the author's literary agent: 'To Julian from Howard 18.1.38' A very good copy in good jacket, not price-clipped, split along the hinge between front panel and spine. A pit-head design to the dustjacket by the artist Mortimer'. The book was acquired from a distinguished collect… Read more…

First British edition: red cloth, inscribed by the author on the first endpaper: 'To Joyce and Peter with best wishes from the Author James Turner. 26th June 1961.' Very good copy, stain along the top of the first blank and visible on the verso of the jacket. A fascinating novel in its Cameron Poulter dustjacket. Read more…

An excellent first edition, near fine in near fine jacket - particularly brights and unblemished. Read more…

First Edition of Showell Styles' account of HMS Vencejo's last cruise. (Vincey Joe to her crew). The book is fine internally in fresh blue boards, just a little foxing to top edge. The dustjacket is fine with its dynamic design by Charles Mozley. Read more…

First edition in orange boards. Top edge slightly dusty, back board lightly stained. Internally very clean. Dust jacket good, 6cm tear to soiled rear panel. Small chips and nicks to edges. The intriguing plot concerns a piano marathon in a 1930's holiday camp! Read more…

First edition in red cloth. Near very good copy, some foxing to edges, foot of spine discoloured. In fair jacket, not price-clipped. Chips to head of spine, large chip to foot. Creases and closed tear across front panel with some loss. Read more…

pp286 Very good first edition in a good plus jacket. In fresh burgundy boards, the edges and preliminaries are lightly foxed, the binding is tight and the pages clean with no inscriptions. In a striking dust jacket featuring a monocled gentleman sporting daisies on his top hat. The white panels are soiled and the spine sunned with a couple of chips… Read more…

Early edition of Pope’s Dunciad in contemporary calf with faded gilt lines to the spine and blind panelling to the boards; red speckled edges to text block. Bookplate of ‘Thomas Lediard’ to the front pastedown (1685-1743, diplomat, stage designer and latterly Agent and Surveyor of Westminster Bridge, resident in Smith Square). Cracking to paper ove… Read more…

Prettily bound eighteenth century Cambridge Book of Common Prayer in red goatskin with gilt edges. Small octavo in full leather binding with gilt decoration, faded to the spine; book label of ‘Rev J L Saywell’ (author of History of Northallerton); handwritten ‘Evening Prayer’ to the final leaf. A very good copy, pleasing and unsophisticated. Read more…

Elegiac theologian Geoffrey Hill’s annotated copy of this work by the surrealist David Gascoyne, a fellow English poet half a generation older. Red cloth-effect paper binding over boards; very good in a near very good jacket, chipped along the top edge of the front panel. Hill’s blue biro ownership inscription to the front flyleaf; annotated early… Read more…

In very good condition. An early edition of English novelist Charles Reade's nineteenth-century novel which was first published in 1856 and was later turned into a play. It tells the story of a ruthless squire who becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires to have her lover framed and sent to jail. PHYSICAL CONDITION: Rebound in very good… Read more…

First UK edition of a seminal work of climate change science fiction, written before climate change had been widely discussed and set in the year 2145 when global warming has left most of Earth underwater. In very good condition, no dustjacket. Orange cloth boards unmarked and entirely sound. Spine panel in lovely condition, titled brightly in gilt… Read more…

The sixth and unauthorised edition of Lord Byron's first poetry collection, published by W.T. Sherwin after the initial 1807 version. In very good condition in a handsome perhaps contemporary binding. 8 vo. Half calf over marbled boards attractively embossed and titled in gilt on black ground to spine; modestly age toned to edges as expected. Later… Read more…

Legal reports with a handwritten note to the front loose flyleaf which reads ‘Bought the fifth of October 1657 [.....]’. The spine has cracked, the boards are unattached, several sections of the text block sit loosely within the exposed binding but the leaves are in good condition throughout, barely foxed and interestingly and abundantly annotated… Read more…

RESERVED - A richly hand written first person narrative detailing stag hunting trips in the Strathmashie area of the Scottish Highlands in the year 1929, written by young JWC Cameron. His account, written up in a lined text book, fills almost every leaf (circa 60 pp) and is illustrated with pasted in b/w photographs and cuttings. The text book is c… Read more…

First edition, near fine in a near fine jacket not price-clipped, a Review Copy with a slip from Faber and Faber laid in. A very nice copy. Read more…