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Three of Bradford born novelist JB Priestley’s best known novels from the 1930s including two first editions and one limited edition. Angel Pavement. London:Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. Original DJ in good condition, some age toning to spine and edges. a little chipped to spine tips. Midnight blue cloth hardcover boards titled in gilt to spine i… Read more…

Spiral-bound pre-publication proof copy of Foster Wallace’s first collection of stories. Black spiral binding with acetate upper cover and card lower cover. Paper label to upper cover giving details of publication planned for 6th November 1989 and a publicity contact. Text reproduced in landscape format, two pages to a leaf; rectos only. Near fine… Read more…

A wide ranging and very detailed handwritten account of the pedigree and genealogy of the Ellis and Waltham surnames and family trees written by Charles Walton Elllis (b.1842), the son of Edwin Ellis and Emma Waltham with links to Mirfield, Camberwell and Tulse Hill. Laid in throughout are various ephemera including funeral cards, letters, cuttings… Read more…

Walter Thomas was born in Liverpool and attended its College of Art between 1912–13 followed by two years studying art in London. His focus on maritime subjects culminated in a commission from the Cunard White Star Line who appointed him to paint marine portraits of their great ocean liners which plied the North Atlantic route in the first half of… Read more…

Master Humphrey’s Clock was published originally in 88 weekly parts between April 1840 and December 1841 with illustrations by G Cattermole and HK Browne. This limited-edition set is (apparently) one of 3000 complete sets published by the Anglo-American Historical Society in New York [circa 1985]. We can find no similar sets or individual copies av… Read more…

William Hone: London, 1816. Second edition. Published in the year before Princess Charlotte’s untimely death. Text block only. Original boards no longer survive. A sliver of the original gilded calf spine panel remains. The complete remaining text block is sound and in good condition comprising b/w frontispiece titled Leopold and Charlotte, title p… Read more…

Rare Third Edition of this tract titled to front cover which incorporates a handwritten contemporary ownership inscription reading Mr A Steward. Price One Penny. Spine fold has been strengthened with later addition white tape holding well. Corners are bumped, a little puckered throughout. To verso of title page are listed volumes by the same author… Read more…

Dark blue souvenir philatelic folder in very good condition. Titled in gilt and finished with a decorative yellow cord to spine. Golden Zenith embossed to rear. Contents in excellent condition, fresh and clean throughout. Six plastic wallets contain a collection of commemorative stamps including: Four stamps issued by Botswana in 1970 depicting Scr… Read more…

Rare second edition (edito altera) with working clasps of one of the most popular Catholic devotional manuals of the 17th century. Augmented and elegant (longe auctior et elegantior). Text in Latin. In the most pleasing condition. Collated and complete. Beautiful calf boards and five panelled spine survive in marvellous condition over 350 years aft… Read more…

A scarce Bradford Theatre playbill for Monday Evening March 21 st , 1859. The main performance of the evening is billed as the popular historical play by TJ Serle Esq entitled The Man in the Iron Mask featuring the English actor Wybert Rousby; to be followed by the Haymarket Interlude of Box and Cox featuring Mr James, Mr Eugene O’Reilley and Madll… Read more…

First Edition. Large hard backed Victorian quarto. 30 b/w engravings and genealogical tables collated and complete. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Half bound red calf boards over red cloth, gilt edged to corners front and rear. Moderately bumped to corners. Handsome 6 panelled spine decoratively adorned and titled in gilt. Firmly bound. Marbled text block e… Read more…

Rare Halifax playbill in good condition promoting a Saturday Evening Concert for the People on 7th January 1860 at the Mechanic’s Hall, Halifax. Billed as a trial concert with more to follow ‘if appreciated’. Vocalists including Miss Hirst, Mr Westmoreland and Mr Garner. Tickets available from Messrs Pohlmann & Son,Waterhouse St., Messrs T & W Birt… Read more…

Pocket Edition published at the Yorkshire Factory Times Office in Huddersfield. Heavily worn colour pictorial boards show wear and tear; browned, corners bumped, spine panel distressed but intact. Text block shaken but intact. Front clean endpapers cracking over gutter with pencilled ownership initials read JSM . Rear endpapers clean. Leaves unmark… Read more…

RAF Cosford opened in 1938 as an aircraft storage and repair facility and became a major training unit during WW2. These 7 volumes dated between March 1953 and April 1955 have been created and published by those stationed at RAF Cosford, Staffs. The volumes are jam packed with news and notices. The magazine committee is presided over by Air Commodo… Read more…

Second edition greatly enlarged by WH Leeds. 2 volumes. Containing over 150 beautifully intricate architectural drawings of London’s finest public buildings alongside historical and descriptive essays of each. Volume 1:Contains 75 full page b/w illustrations in excellent condition including 8 of St Paul’s and 6 of Covent Garden. 375 pp. (1 illustra… Read more…

Founded as a weekly on 10th December 1831, Figaro in London used satire in humorous articles and illustrations to critique various aspects of English society, including the aristocracy, parliament, and the British army. The magazine included theatre news, political poetry, anecdotes, and commentary on wide ranging issues of the time. It is also not… Read more…

Second edition rebound in a very good, decorative, brown diced calf with panelling and gilt lettering to spine. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown: ‘Stephen Conway, Bradford’. Front and rear endpapers also later additions, clean and crisp with small mark to top right of front loose endpaper. Original text block sound in good condition, leaves slight… Read more…

Beautifully Riviere-bound and extra-illustrated with 26 amateur photographs of turn-of-the-century Spain including 3 images of a bull fight. Crushed red morocco, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers with gilt turn-ins. The 26 additional silver gelatin photographs are mounted on inserted leaves and include images of Gibraltar, Toledo, Madrid and three… Read more…

pp 89 The 1914 reprint of Musketry Regulations Part II, well illustrated with numerous technical diagrams. Near fine in red cloth laid onto thick card with gilt spine lettering, edges lightly rubbed, binding tight, pages crisp and clean, no marks or inscriptions. 23 pages of adverts for military books printed on pink paper at the front and rear of… Read more…

From the private collection of a Yorkshire art connoisseur, this collection includes 7 hardback first editions in good conditions, all in original dust jackets including A Calendar of Love (1967 First Edition); Greenvoe (1972 First Edition); Fishermen with Ploughs (1971 First Edition); A Spell for Green Corn (1970 First Edition); Letters From Hamna… Read more…

A richly provenanced copy of this memoir of an Englishwoman in Paris, first acquired by the artist Rex Whistler, probably around the time of the book’s publication and his own first visit to the French capital in 1931. Subsequently the book was owned by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin’s second son, Arthur Baldwin whose ownership inscription on the f… Read more…

Rare unproduced screenplay which was constructed around the lyrics of a leitmotif song provided by Stephen Sondheim which structures the entire narrative. Screenplay script dated September 1969 to title sheet, ‘Screenplay by William Goldman from his novel. Songs and other musical moments by Stephen Sondheim’. Bound to spine using 2 metal brads. 172… Read more…

Elliott Kastner (1930-2010) was a larger-than-life American film producer, whose best-known credits include Where Eagles Dare and The Long Goodbye. This original 1969 typed screenplay script of William Goldman’s adaptation of his 1967 novel The Thing Of It Is comes from Kastner’s film production archive. Robert Redford had expressed an interest in… Read more…

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…