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Early 20th century watercolour pocket sketchbook which offers a visual record of time spent in the late Ottoman Empire and of British pastoral and still life scenes. The first small watercolour to the front pastedown depicts a character in national Turkish costume in a street scene and is followed by 11 more full page scenes depicting the Topanch M… Read more…

A charming and somewhat comedic account of a trip taken by two young women to the Lake District in their Morris Minor in August 1935. Recorded by our travellers Jan Foster and Theo Bottomley, the diary is rich in anecdote and ephemera. Typed entries log every detail of the four night trip from the departure time (’3pm. Prompt. Brighouse’, Yorkshire… Read more…

The Britwell Court-Lytton Strachey-Roger Senhouse-Jerrold Northrup Moore copy! Lytton Strachey acquired the book following the dispersal of the Britwell Court Library (1916-1927) before leaving it to his final lover, Roger Senhouse and, according to a postcard laid in, it was then ‘bought... at Roger Senhouse’s sale of LS’s library in the late 60’s… Read more…

First edition inscribed by Tenzing Norgay in Leeds on June 1st 1977 also bearing the signatures of his ghost writer and collaborator, Malcolm Barnes as well as the publisher, a local journalist, the mountaineer Doug Scott and the child for whom the book was inscribed, a keen Everest collector, Ian Bareham. Accompanying the book is a local newspaper… Read more…

A colour by numbers image of the conquest of Everest in 1953, presented by a young Everest collector to Tenzing Norgay in Leeds on June 1st 1977 and signed for him by the great mountaineer. Accompanying this image is a reproduction of a local newspaper clipping showing Bareham meeting his hero at Austicks bookshop in Leeds where Norgay was signing… Read more…

Distinctive and interesting hand written, naively illustrated travel journal written by one of the international delegates travelling through Europe and East Africa as part of the global tour in connection with the Anglican World Conference (the Toronto Conference) of August 1963. The entries which are written in a difficult hand record East Africa… Read more…

A very fine limited edition of ‘John Nash’s Cats’ comprising ‘The Nash Cat’s Story’ by Ronald Blythe, six wood engravings and two woodcuts. One of only 300 copies produced by the Wood Lea Press, printed on Zerkall mould paper. Bound by the Fine Bindery at Wellingborough with a printed cover. Three of the wood engravings and the two woodcuts are pri… Read more…

Super Royal 8vo. Beautifully bound in soft brown calf, titled in gilt to spine with unusual, oversized yapp edges in very good condition. Striking red text block edges. Unmarked endpapers. Printed in Tamil. Text block clean and crisp throughout. Printed at the Diocesan Press Madras. Binders label to rear pastedown reads ‘Bound at The Methodist Publ… Read more…

Lytton Strachey’s copy, formerly the Britwell Court copy, owned by Samuel Christy Miller. Large octavo bound in contemporary speckled calf with a gilt double fillet and shell motifs to the corners of the boards in gilt; remnants of a spine label; red speckled edges to the text block. Some cracking to the leather over the outer hinges. Dora Carringt… Read more…

Five first editions from the complex early publication of Ezra Pound’s Cantos by Faber and Faber. 1 A Draft of XXX Cantos. Faber and Faber: London, 1933. 8vo. First UK Edition. In very good plus condition. Black cloth boards notably fresh, titled in gilt to spine; corners sharp. Text block edges rough trimmed. Clean, crisp and unmarked throughout.… Read more…

A very good, scarce first edition in original jacket. Blue publisher’s boards show very slight hints of shelf wear; square and sound. Clean and unmarked throughout text block. Frontispiece and 25 further illustrations very good; collated and complete. Original jacket very good, just a touch nicked to spine and tips of flaps. A lovely copy. Read more…

Catalogue for a 1980 Arts Council of Great Britain retrospective show of the work of Victor Pasmore. Preface by Joanna Drew. Introduction by Alastair Grieve. 34 full page illustrations in colour and b/w. Catalogue Listings. Select Bibliography. Very good soft cover boards, illustrated to upper with ‘No 49 Volcano 1977’. A little foxing to text bloc… Read more…

Ambrose Heal’s personal copy of a scarce original sales catalogue of manuscripts issued by George Sherwood of 210 The Strand, London. The catalogue contains much which would have been of interest to Heal who researched, collected and published several volumes on the activities of London tradesmen from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Annota… Read more…

Uncommon First edition in good plus condition. Green cloth boards blind tooled; titled over white panel to upper; corners a little bumped; age toned. Yellow endpapers clean and unmarked. 4pp advertisements for Mr Weale’s New Series. Title page protected by original tissue guard. Coloured illustrations. viii, 167pp, index. Text block clean and unmar… Read more…

Scarce First Edition in good plus condition. Card wrappers age toned, suffering loss to spine panel which reveals binding beneath; text block shaken to earlier leaves but otherwise binding remains sound; clean and unmarked. Errata notice tipped in to p1. 60pp plus 24 pp illustrated list of colours and materials sold by Winsor & Newton; final few le… Read more…

Youthful scholar J. Harrison’s manuscript of advanced arithmetic and scientific exercises from Mr. Gibson’s Whitby School. There is no record of Mr Gibson’s school but it is likely to have been a private academy tailoring its curriculum to practical skills in a booming maritime and industrial region. Hand drawn, decorative title page inscribed ‘Ari… Read more…

Single volume acquired by the young Madeleine L’Engle in her late teens and bearing her thoughtful reflections on Shakespeare’s art. The first scene has a long passage in L’Engle’s hand on Shakespeare’s use of end-stopped lines and the influence of Christopher Marlowe, written at a level suggesting she probably made use of this text while at Smith… Read more…

First edition in grey, textured- paper covered boards. Very good copy with a little spine lean; Foyle’s ticket to front pastedown; no marks to text apart from a little off-setting from a 1950s bus ticket laid in, p214. Unclipped near very good jacket; browning to rear panel with small loss at head of that panel near spine. Read more…

Attractive presentation copy of the first trade edition, inscribed ‘Miss Julia Skerrett with all best wishes from Alfred Bruce Douglas’ on the front flyleaf. With a small silver gelatin photograph of the middle aged poet seated in a deck-chair on an ocean liner. Julia Skerrett (1871-1945), spent her early years in New Zealand before returning to Eu… Read more…

A superb Bloomsbury association copy owned and inscribed by David Garnett who published an influential review of this novel in 1923, describing Woolf as ‘the most interesting of the younger writers now living as well as the best of them.’ Jacob’s Room was the first full length work published by the Hogarth Press, Woolf’s first fully experimental no… Read more…

Second Edition including complete set of 16 folding plates in very good contemporary sheep boards just a little bumped to corners. Very handsome 6 panelled spine ornately tooled in gilt and titled over red ground. Age toned as expected throughout; endpapers clean; remnants of an ink and water stain evident to title page. Text block very sound and u… Read more…

A lovely and uncommon little book which shows the stages of colour separation of a woodblock print in 20 plates, with the verso showing the block for each colour and the recto showing the progress of the print (Kiyonaga's ‘Ferry over the Sumida’). Folded once in Japanese style. Softcovers just a little age toned to edges; upper illustration remains… Read more…

Shakespeare’s Plays, gifted by the Canadian writer Robertson Davies to the daughter whom he named after Prospero’s daughter in The Tempest and affectionately inscribed: ‘For Miranda Davies with every good with for her birthday December 24th 1954 - The Tempest Act III Sc. I. lines 38-40 from R.D.’ Davies’ reference is to Ferdinand’s encomium: ‘Admir… Read more…

A most unusual copy, improved by Sir Henry James (1803-1877, Director of the Ordnance Survey) with several examples of his invention in action: pages quite beautifully reproduced through photo zincography. This innovation arose out of James’s need to be able to reproduce maps effectively but is remarkable effective at reproducing missing leaves in… Read more…

Scarce First Edition in an attractive example of the scarce original trade binding. Green publisher’s cloth decoratively embossed; titled in gilt to spine; bevel edged; a little bumped to spine tips and corners; age toned to edges. Floral endpapers very good. b/w frontispiece. A little foxed to preliminaries. Text block sound and square. Numerous e… Read more…