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An incomplete copy of William Penn’s defence of Quakerism. Original dark brown calf boards and panelled spine, both rubbed and slightly chipped, otherwise in good condition. Front endpapers yellowed with browning to all edges. Text block edges browned and puckered sitting a little proud of text block to fore edge. Owner’s details written in black i… Read more…

Half crimson morocco boards with marbled sides in good condition. Spine rubbed. Moderate bruising to corners and edges. This binding has been used to cover part of an older book which lists Acts of Parliament relating to duties to be paid on goods, each page titled ‘49 George III. Cap.98’. The pages have been appropriated to form a new book in whic… Read more…

Very good condition. Original landscape format, stapled, stab stitched card wrapper. Colour illustrated to front and back. 26 cm x 20.5 cm. Slight bruising to corners, small chips to back. Beginning to peel away from back cover on bottom left corner. 28 pages of b/w titled photographs including Indigenous peoples, street scenes and various stages o… Read more…

In very good condition. Card wrappers, stapled, promotional booklet for Nelson’s Baby Cars dated 1913. 24.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Slight discolouration to front and back wrappers. Very slight bruising to corners. Vertical crease to booklet runs from top to bottom of pages throughout. Advertisements in black contemporary font on front and back wrappers insi… Read more…

Original brown sheepskin covered boards in fair condition showing surface abrasion and wear with leather spine worn away. Corners bruised and nicked. 14 cm x 8.5 cm. Text block edges in good condition showing some browning. 108 pp. collated and complete with a preface by the author. Endpapers soiled, sound and attached although split and loosened f… Read more…

Third edition of this 2-volume account recording Napoleon’s opinions and reflections on his life and work while in exile, written by his personal surgeon Barry O’Meara. O'Meara was surgeon on board the Bellerophon when it received Napoleon in 1815. Bonaparte was attracted by the doctor's ability to speak Italian, and when his own surgeon declined t… Read more…

Good condition purple cloth covered boards incorporating embossed decoration. Title and name of publisher lettered on spine in gilt. Title in gilt panel on front cover. Minor bruising to spine ends and corners. Gilt edges to the text block, slightly faded. 6.5 x 4 inches. Front end papers clean. Bookplate attached to front pastedown denoting First… Read more…

First edition, bound in quarter black roan over worn marbled boards. Ownership signature of ‘Midgley Rushworth’ from 1840 on front flyleaf; similar inscription on final flyleaf. Foxing and browning but internally very good. Lacking the frontispiece. Martineau’s novella about industrial conflict is set in Manchester. BLx3 only. Read more…

The author’s copy. In very good condition. Brown cloth boards covered by decorative dust jacket laminated onto the boards. 302 pp. Slight discolouration to page edges. Text throughout clean and unmarked. 24 plates and facsimiles. 8vo, (248x150mm), Front end papers unmarked. Small pasted card on the front pastedown denotes author’s name and referenc… Read more…

A moralising chapbook dated Stockport, November, 1837. Homemade, vernacular, card wrappers in very good condition with old folds. Hand stitched to the printed leaves and inscribed on the wrapper: ‘Mess.rs Geo Wilson & Co’ in black ink. Vignette of a blacksmith at work on the title page. 12 pages all intact, in very good condition. Read more…

First Edition of the translation of a unique Arabic Manuscript on archery of circa. A.D. 1500 which is part of the Garret Collection of manuscripts in Princeton University Library. Includes an inlaid note card stamped and dated Princeton, August 11th 1942 to Dr Robert Elmer from the author, signed Nabih. In very good plus condition with very slight… Read more…

The artist William Hatherell’s collection of letters and documents relating to his work as an illustrator in the 1890s-1920s. Among c70 items is Hatherell’s retained copy of a famous letter to him by Thomas Hardy praising his 1895 illustrations for Jude the Obscure, which the novelist wrote ‘to express my sincere admiration for the illustrations of… Read more…

True first edition, first issue of E M Forster's family saga with the motto 'Only Connect', considered by many to be his masterpiece. This edition has absolute primacy with four pages only of advertisements following the printed text - in the second issue from later in 1910 the advertisements extend to eight pages and include a notice of this novel… Read more…

A selection of 37 window-mounted, hand coloured views around Regent’s Park in a super-luxurious bespoke Sotheran’s binding. Chunky square format (25x25cm) bound in crushed red morocco with gilt lettering, raised spine bands - a little fading to the spine. Marbled endpapers with red morocco turn-ins and slight off-setting to the marbling. Card leave… Read more…

William Parson’s 1826 Leeds Directory, owned and inscribed by a Leeds butcher and a female family member also from a butchering family - both of whom are referenced in the printed text. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONl: Small octavo bound in half black roan; fold out map of Leeds is present but detached. Signatures of ‘John Cockshott Farsley 1826’ and ‘Mary A… Read more…

First English edition in black buckram publisher’s binding with gilt lettering to spine in near fine condition with very slight bumping to top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket in very good condition with small tear to top of spine and wrinkling to spine and front cover. A translation of the 1961 Russian first edition containing additional amendment… Read more…

First edition of Smart’s signature novel - with its memorable title and equally striking dustjacket. Publisher’s red cloth binding, near fine; contents near fine - a little toning to paper stock. Bookseller’s label from Welwyn Garden City to front pastedown.The jacket has divided along the spine with substantial loss to the paper over the spine and… Read more…

Rare possibly unique survival of this miniature ready reckoner with a record of female ownership, probably to a London family of Covent Garden market traders. Miniature format bound in publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering, faded and marked but sound. All edges gilt. Pencilled ownership signature of ‘Isabelle Levy 1874’ to the yellow-coated flyleaf… Read more…

Appointments diary from their family home in Lord North Street, Westminster, of Mary Wilson, wife of the past and future Prime Minister Harold Wilson, during his phase as Leader of the Opposition to Edward Heath’s Tory government in 1973. From dinners with Lord Goodman to her packing list for the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool in October 1973… Read more…

Written by the former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, this is the first section of a speech which he delivered - and then revised for subsequent reuse - around the time of the publication of his book-length account of ‘the creation of the State of Israel’. A lifelong and unwavering Zionist, Wilson wrote into his 1981 publication, Chariot of Is… Read more…

Privately printed family history with biographies and photographs of family members. Red crushed roan binding; heraldic bookplate; 48 pages of text interleaved with blanks for photographs and additional card blanks with further images to the rear. Inscribed on the front flyleaf: ‘J Lowther Bouch from E.J.L.’ A little grubby along the top of some pa… Read more…

First edition with the Book Society’s wraparound band still present. Very good plus book, spotting to the edges of the text block and first few pages; bright red boards otherwise internally fine; offsetting from an early newspaper review laid into the final in at the end. In a very good plus example of John Craxton’s magnificent dustjacket; tiny pu… Read more…

First edition signed for ‘Richard...’ by Greg Searle, and 4 other British Olympic Gold Medallists for rowing: Katherine Grainger (now Chancellor of the University of Glasgow), Alex Gregory, Pete Reed and Zac Purchase. A fine first in a fine jacket. A lovely association copy, presented in another Olympic year. Read more…

Inscribed first edition from the book’s editor and the author’s son: ‘To my Florentine friends with affectionate greetings from Geoffrey Bret Harte April 1926’, written on the front flyleaf. Publisher’s blue cloth; a crease to the upper cover where it has been bent. Spotting to early leaves but internally very good. Geoffrey Bret Harte himself publ… Read more…

In verse and pictures, the cycling adventures of Hiram Jones - sent as eight weekly cards by Brown Brothers of London - to advertise the new coasting brake manufactured by the New Departure Manufacturing Company of Connecticut. Eight stiff cards (18x14cm), printed on both sides in green and black. On the recto of each is the full title which explai… Read more…