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pp 368 The First and Last Notebooks of French philosopher, political activist and Christian mystic Simone Weil, translated by Richard Rees. An unidentified ownership inscription appears on the front free end paper along with extensive annotations to the text, especially to the New York Notebook. Very good in red cloth, sunned to spine ends, top edg… Read more…

pp 416 and pp 424. Two volumes of social history in an attractive binding of polished calf, pretty gilt spine decoration within raised bands, marbled edges and end papers. Volume I is inscribed "Mr Charles Fitzwilliam from Cecil James Littleton on his leaving Eton Xmas 1864". Very good, the leather is clean but worn to edges, corners and in small p… Read more…

An attractive beginners guide to sketching in the open air. Three volumes bound together in half leather with blind stamped title to spine over marbled boards; Part I is the 6th edition; Part II, Light and Shade, 5th edition; Part III, Colour, 7th edition. The book is undated but appears to be mid-Victorian. Fully illustrated with both black and wh… Read more…

pp 285 A volume of apocryphal Forsyte tales which "come between the Saga and the Comedy, for without the Saga they would not be understood, and they are over before the Comedy begins". This volume belonged to British film producer Alexander Korda, whose bookplate appears to front pastedown. Very good in purple cloth, spine sunned, covers very light… Read more…

Five novels by Iris Murdoch published by Chatto & Windus, all very good, in very good dust jackets. Four are first editions - The Time of the Angels, 1966; An Accidental Man, 1971; The Philosopher's Pupil, 1983; and The Good Apprentice, 1985; The Nice and The Good is a near fine 3rd impression, September 1968. The books are all in clean cloth with… Read more…

pp335. Memoirs of British naturalist and travel writer Vivienne de Watteville who was a friend of Edith Wharton who provided the preface. The book is in two parts, the first 'Among the Elephants' recounts her solitary camp in the Maasai Game Reserve on the border of Tanganyika in 1928-29. Part II 'The Mountain' is a record of her two month stay at… Read more…

[x]pp170 A well illustrated local history study published to celebrate the centenary of English composer, conductor and Cambridge Professor of Music Sir William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875). Very good in printed card wrappers, spotted and tanned to the creased spine, the binding is firm, lightly spotted throughout. This was a Sterndale Bennett fam… Read more…

pp 4, 5 photographic plates. A Certificate of Apprenticeship issued by Bradford Technical College, which is attractively produced with the college coats of arms embossed to the front covers, marbled end papers and edges, and includes five photographic plates mounted on card showing the college engineering workshop, pattern shop, junior drawing offi… Read more…

pp196 A record of events of public interest which took place in the vicinity of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the north east of England in the year 1880, the most notable of which were an explosion at Seaham Colliery in September which resulted in over 160 deaths and a "Gale in October which proved so disastrous to life and shipping". The volume has been… Read more…

Sheet music, large folio: a collection of engraved music dating from the first half of the 19th century, bound together in one volume. Bound in half leather over marbled boards, the condition is very good; the covers are rubbed, the leather nicked and worn with one small hole to the spine; the binding is firm, the pages are bright with only occasio… Read more…

Inscribed to the Belgian surrealist and one-time Dadaist René Magritte, with a few pencilled annotations to the lower cover which might be in the painter's hand. Arnaud has written on the first leaf 'a René Magritte Amicalement N.A.' picking out the letters 'DADA' vertically in his inscription. Arnaud's brief history of Dadaism is browned, with fol… Read more…

(10.5x6.5cm) Souvenir photograph of 'Miss Jennie Worgen The Midget Housewife. 19 Years of Age. 25 inches in height. Permanent Photograph.' The albumen photograph is mounted on card; slight abrasion to the surface of the image. Jennie Worgen is seen wearing a full length dark dress and bustle, standing before a painted backdrop of carved columns wit… Read more…

(105x155mm) Hand-coloured photographic postcard, with screenprint in red, from an unrecorded edition size thought to be around 150 published by 'Robert Fraser Gallery 69 Duke Street London W1'. These cards were given away at the Hamilton exhibition at Robert Fraser Gallery in 1969 exhibition or sent out with invitations. Printed on photographic pap… Read more…

Extensively extra-illustrated with Huxleyan ephemera and letters. Three letters from Elspeth Huxley to Valerie Ryshworth Hill in Portugal are mounted on early pages, dating from 1977, the first of which describes the recent death of Huxley's mother, Nellie Grant at a great age. The third letter acknowledges the gift of a bookplate designed by Ryshw… Read more…

Presentation copy inscribed on the cover, 'Henry Bellingham from H.E. Cardinal Manning March 14th. 1876', probably in a secretarial hand. Bound in printed blue card wrappers, worn to edges and along spine fold where the upper and lower covers are partly separated. Internally very good, a couple of spots only. Sir Alan Henry Bellingham was Private C… Read more…

Stanislaus Joyce's copy, inscribed by him presumably in Triests where he shared lodgings with his brother James Joyce. Black textured cloth binding, presumed to be a mid twentieth century rebind, gilt spine lettering; original pastedowns laid down at either end of the small format Tauchnitz imprint - 15x11cm. Browning to paper stock which has becom… 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…

Six volume set of English and American poetry contained in 'a Morocco [book]case with glass front' as described in The Gentlemen's Advertiser which originally offered the set at a guinea a piece in 1838. This set still boasts its original case (11.5x14cm) although the glass door has separated from its hinge leaving the original glass happily still… Read more…

Draft dustjacket design for the reissue of Blunden's classic account of battalion life on the Somme and in Flanders between 1915 and 1918. In this version the unnamed artist has laid out the montage, jotting a handwritten credit to the Imperial War Museum for the photograph of the stricken tank over a gouache backdrop of orange, red and crimson wit… Read more…

An excellent association copy inscribed by one eminent Scottish writer to another and annotated by the recipient, Alasdair Gray. Bound in the publisher’s illustrated card wrappers, about very good and inscribed on the first endpaper: ‘With fondest regards, Jeff Torrington 10-8-92’. Gray seems to have read the first two thirds of the book enthusiast… Read more…

The Letters of Samuel Beckett edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck, published in four volumes with slipcase. This edition encompasses “sixty years of of Beckett’s writing life (1929-1989), and include letters to friends, painters and musicians, as well as to students, publishers, translators, and colleagues… Read more…

pp 366 [2] pp120 Enchiridion bound with De Imitatione. Contemporary calf binding, worn to hinges but sound. Stamp of St Edmund’s College ‘Avita pro fide’ to front pastedown with old handwritten shelf mark above. Internally very good. Read more…

Very uncommon in trade, the 1635 edition of this work on Athenian politics with the ownership signature of a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges and external bands along the hinges of the book. Ownership signature on the first flyleaf of ‘Wm Alex. Aytoun 1872’. On the verso of the title page an earlier owners… Read more…

A copy owned and lightly annotated by the Scottish rationalist, atheist and literary critic J M Robertson. Beautifully bound in half parchment over marbled boards, Robertson’s ownership signature on the first flyleaf dated 1879. Some foxing but a very good copy. Robertson has left a few pencilled notes, jotting down dates when he read the first ten… Read more…

Uncommon example of this Dublin imprint which formed part of Henshall’s Pocket Library. Full calf binding, cracking along outer hinges, morocco label to spine. Old ownership signature of ‘Caswell’ to first pastedown. Browning and soiling to early leaves, worm trail to last few leaves. Engraved frontispiece. Undated but around 1796. Read more…