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Rare, apparently unrecorded, English song-sheet edition of two of Thomas Rice’s black-face minstrel song as performed in the USA and exported to England by the ‘father of American minstrelsy’. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION An unrecorded ‘Second edition’ of this racist London imprint priced at ‘1/6’ with a lithographed caricature of Rice depicted as a dancin… Read more…

Portfolio of signed comic and suggestive sketches by the Nebraskan born artist Clarence Anderson, compiled while living in Washington Square in New York City. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: The sketches are housed in an ‘Anchor Clasp Envelope’ on which Anderson has written ‘Rough Sketches C.W. Anderson 41 Wash[ington’ Sq[uare] New York City.’ Old repairs to… Read more…

Rare book of specimen type borders and ornaments offered for sale by the most famous of all British letter founders. Large octavo bound in speckled paper covered boards with new acid-free endpapers. Title page with decorative border (with spotting) followed by Caslon’s 1838 ‘Prices of Printing Types’ with tissue guard. A single leaf of letterpress… Read more…

Extensively illustrated Midshipman’s log book of a return voyage from England to Madras with drawings of an albatross-shoot, whale-ships burning oil, a mirage at sea and a sequence of coastal views including St Helena and Tristan da Cunha. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Folio-sized manuscript which has been copied by its author from the original document in… Read more…

Sir Hans Sloane’s great-nephew’s fourth edition, complete with his bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume and annotation regarding slavery in the ancient world. Attractive contemporary full calf, red speckled edges in very good condition. Pencil casemark above each bookplate and an earlier casemark in red ink crossed through in pencil. Vol… Read more…

‘In admiration...’ a collection of 44 books inscribed to Alasdair Gray by friends, family and, mostly, fellow writers, including a gift from Liz Lochhead, several books about Glasgow, and Gray’s own copy of a work that came out of his Creative Writing teaching at Glasgow University. There are 15 inscribed volumes of poetry, among them Gray’s own co… Read more…

The second volume of the Artist’s Repository (1786) bound with a section of the Miscellanies (1790). Contemporary reversed calf binding, cracking along outer hinges but the binding remains sound. New endpapers followed by: sepia general title page with vignette, viii, letter press title page, pp 132 (Miscellanies) pp89-184. 10 sepia plates are boun… Read more…

Oddly scarce Pentland Press imprint A fine copy in a fine jacket. Read more…

Alpine panorama made up of 24 folding segments (24x15cm) with a lithographed (Ch. Serex) image of the mountains on one side and steel engraved adverts on the other. Printed card wrappers, browned and scuffed to edges; internally a couple of closed tears along central fold, otherwise very good. A remarkable image. Read more…

An uncommon title recently re-bound in brown buckram over boards with original leather spine relaid; gold spine bands and lettering; red morocco label. Boards clean, corners sharp, no rubbing. Tightly bound, strong hinges. Bookplate of the library of Inner Temple stamped ‘Withdrawn’ mounted on front paste-down. Binders’ ticket of Riley Dunne and Wi… Read more…

Unrecorded memoir of Lancashire life written by the son of the Congregationalist preacher in Darwen, Lancashire, Samuel Nichols. Bound in recent quarter burgundy morocco over buckram covered boards. First printed page, effectively a drop hear title reads: ‘Published in the “Darwen News” on Successive Saturdays commencing January 8th, 1898’. This co… Read more…

Inscribed to the Deputy Dean of Westminster Abbey, the first and only edition of one of the most influential works on church restoration which is inscribed by the author to the Deputy Dean of Westminster, 'The Rev.d Lord John Thynne with the Authors very respectful compliments', just a year after Scott was appointed architect to the Abbey. Bound in… Read more…

First Edition. 1954. In original dust jacket, sunned to spine, age toned. Watermarked to bottom left, chipped to spine top, tail and top corner. Boards in original blue cloth in good condition, titled in gilt to spine. Endpapers clean, very slightly age toned. Half title page annotated by the author Bonamy Dobree, Professor of English Literature at… Read more…

Flawless First Edition of this completely different take on the Superman legend. Written by Kim Howard Johnson with the assistance of John Cleese. Illustrated by artists John Byrne and Mark Farmer to tell the British tale of a Superman raised in England. Laid in is a typed letter confirming the book’s provenance by its previous owner Eric Idle, act… Read more…

First Edition. 1944. Four poems published as a single work. Original dust jacket in good condition. Age toned, a little browned in part. Small 1 cm clean tear to top rear panel. Small hole circa. 1 cm to tail of spine panel. Cloth covered boards in excellent condition, titled in gilt to spine. Endpapers age spotted otherwise clean and crisp through… Read more…

First Edition. 1953. Partial dust jacket remains consisting of front panel chipped to corners and edges. Endpapers partially spotted. ‘RH Duncan, Lady Close, Otley’ handwritten in pencil to front free endpaper. 370 pp. plus index. A sound copy. From the personal library of Yorkshire art collector Ronnie Duncan who befriended many artists and poets… Read more…

Scarce First Edition of this interesting tale of hunting and racing in England in the early 19th century. Illustrated throughout. Written by Henry Hall Dixon (1822-1870), a sporting writer known as 'The Druid', a spectator of all kinds of sport. Original 1859 First Edition rebound in a handsome half red calf over marbled boards. Hand written note t… Read more…

Congratulatory letters to Sir Alfred Stanley Fordham K.B.E., C.M.G. (1907-81) who was educated at Eton and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge  before joining the Foreign Service and becoming a career diplomat. He was Vice-Consul in San Francisco in 1932. Other stations in his career included Lima (1933–1936), Guatemala (1936–1943), Los Angeles (… Read more…

165 pieces of Conservative Party electoral ephemera gathered together by the victorious candidate in the General Election of 1922 in East Dorset. It is a collection of original letters (handwritten and typed), postcards, telegrams and cables sent to Gordon Ralph Hall Caine on his election victory for the East Dorset seat. The letters have been tipp… Read more…

Reissue of Jim Ede’s groundbreaking study of Henry Gaudier Brzeska whose archive and many of whose sculptures he owned. Ede has inscribed the book on the title page to his friend and fellow art collector Ronnie Duncan: ‘For Ronnie and Henriette Duncan most gratefully Jim Ede 30.9.71’. Laid in is a letter from Ede to Duncan, written a year later, on… Read more…

From the private collection of Yorkshire art collector Ronnie Duncan who befriended many artists and poets during their time at the University of Leeds as Gregory Fellows subsequently inspiring his life long love of innovative 1950s and 1960s British art. First Edition. 1954. In original dust jacket, sunned to spine, age toned. Watermarked to botto… Read more…

Minutes of an important but almost forgotten organisation, the ‘Medical Defence Association’, a collective, well-supported attempt made in Britain by members of the profession in the 1870s to target and outlaw malpractice and charlatanry by purported members of the medical profession. Predating the better known Medical Defence Union, the first minu… Read more…

‘Reminiscences of HMS Gloucester. Commissioned at Plymouth 30th January 1913 - NOT FOR PUBLICATION’, a diary cum memoir seemingly intended as a rejoinder against those who criticised the inactivity of the British navy during the early years of the Great War. This small folio, 349pp, originally intended as a W/T Cabinet Log book is full of well pres… Read more…

An extensive collection of diaries, photographs, blueprints, letters and documents - and even a painted sample sheet of Longwood’s famous wallpaper from the 1920s - which together record the rescue and rebuilding of Napoleon Bonaparte’s dilapidated home on St Helena. Longwood housed Napoleon from December 1815 to his death in 1821, was bought by th… Read more…

Victorian true crime collection, centring on the notorious 1850s case of the poisoner William Palmer, known as ‘The Prince of Poisoners’, a doctor found guilty of murdering his patients and described by Charles Dickens as ‘the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey’. A quarto half binding of calf over marbled boards in fair to good cond… Read more…