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In very good condition in very uncommon original dust jacket. Red cloth boards illustrated to upper and titled in black to spine very good; sound and square. Neat hand written names of previous owners to front endpapers. Text block clean and crisp throughout; charming full page illustrations by Charles Copeland. 165pp. Original 1922 illustrated jac… Read more…

An inscribed copy in near fine condition. Hard backed, illustrated First Edition inscribed by the author ‘For Jennifer and Alistair, who added critical style & influence to the Austen Review & so helped to save an old biography’. Just a few age spots to text block edges. 454pp. From the collection of a retired University Of Leeds academic of Englis… Read more…

First Edition in very good condition. Beautifully illustrated boards titled in red and decoratively tooled in gilt to spine; a little bumped to top and tail; a little dulled with a few minor scratches. Cracking over gutters front and rear but remains a sound and square copy. Front endpapers clean with a small ownership stamp to front free and also… Read more…

In very good condition, two rare copies of the monthly UK music publication ‘Styx Incorporating The Modern Drummer’ which capture the post WW2 drumming landscape. The volumes are dated February 1947 and Issue No.9, 1948. Iconic covers in good plus condition feature stylised mid century graphic design over black and red paper wrappers; the 1947 copy… Read more…

In good plus condition. A very scarce surviving 32mo hardback volume most certainly used in many past parlour games. Red cloth boards age toned, featuring a gold, gilt stamped illustration of a hand fanning out cards. Inscription by previous owner to front endpapers notes name, address and instructions if lost; name and address additionally to rear… Read more…

Second Edition in very good condition. Attractive publisher’s illustrated boards square and sound; illustrations bright; title a little faded; text block edges dust marked. Illustrated endpapers fresh. Neat penmanship to preliminaries reveals the name of the previous owner to front pastedown, half title and title page. Half title page loose from sp… Read more…

1st Edition in good plus condition. Publisher’s green cloth a little dulled, lightly worn to corners, spine top bumped and nicked. An ex university library copy with library label to pastedown and remnants of an additional adhesive label and stamp to front free. Text block square, sound and unmarked. With numerous illustrations built into the text… Read more…

School prize awarded to a future forgemaster and Lord Mayor of Leeds, a second Edition in near very good condition. Handsomely bound in soft, dark brown calf, delicately tooled and titled in gilt to upper, lower and spine. Nicked across the centre of the upper; a little bumped to corners; a little chipped along spine hinges and edges. Very fresh ma… Read more…

1st Edition in softcovers in very good plus condition. Boards covered in a (removable) unique home-made paper dustjacket illustrated with a hand drawn chess piece to upper and sub titled ‘My favourite Defence Against P-Q4’. Built in sleeves to the front and rear of the jacket are titled ‘Games and Notes’ and contain hand written and printed variati… Read more…

A collection of 7 volumes by Geoffrey Hill including four 1st editions and a signed copy. 1. Clavics. First Edition. Enitharmon Press: London, 2011. Hardback in original wrapper in very good plus condition. pp42. 2. The Lords of Limit. First Edition. Andre Deutsch: London, 1984. Hardback in original wrapper in very good plus condition. pp203. 3. Te… Read more…

Two scarce undated early editions bound together in this volume which were first issued as yellowbacks in 1872 and published using this volume’s imprint sometime between 1872 - 1878. The author’s name refers to a joint pseudonym of French authors Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian who published highly popular historical novels set during the Nap… Read more…

Two scarce undated editions first issued as yellowbacks in 1872 and published using this volume’s imprint sometime most probably between 1872 -1878. The author’s name refers to a joint pseudonym of French authors Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian who published highly popular historical novels set during the Napoleonic era in the late 19th c. Be… Read more…

Rare book binding displaying Jessie M King’s blue and green paisley pattern batik silk. One of the most influential artists of her time, King (1875-1949) introduced the wax-dye technique of batik into Scotland, and though she has become most celebrated for her illustration work King also created jewellery, ceramics and, as here, fabric. King’s wrap… Read more…

Rare privately printed ‘in memoriam’ volume for the Dumfries poet and politician David Dunbar who gave his home town its nickname, ‘Queen of the South.’ Laid into this volume is a large albumen photograph of Dunbar, an annotated Scottish family photograph take at College House, Dollis Avenue, Finchley (1911) and a photograph of the grave of Jane Cr… Read more…

A fascinating commonplace book cum family history by the super-connected Norfolk Cresswell family charting the inter-linked lives of the Gurneys, Opies, Frys, Wodehouses and Cresswells. The volume brings together original material by Francis - Frank - Joseph Cresswell, poems by his mother Rachel Elizabeth Fry as well as contributions from other mem… Read more…

Beautifully bound early 17th century Vulgate Bible in a mid to late 17th century binding over wooden boards. Elaborately gilt with two half wheels framing a central lamb of God motif, the design is richly gilt which survives more brightly on the lower board. Upper part of upper hinge just starting. Only the lower clasp remains functional. Gauffered… Read more…

First edition in a handsome half green calf over marbled boards, delicately tooled in gilt to 6 panelled spine and titled in gilt over red ground. In good plus condition; shelf worn to corners; spine top a little scuffed; boards rubbed. Marbled text block edges and marbled endpapers front and rear clean and fresh. Light spotting to preliminaries an… Read more…

Siobhán McKenna’s 1959 recording of Finnegans Wake, specifically the ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ section is a renowned spoken-word LP released by Caedmon Records (TC 1086). McKenna performs alongside Cyril Cusack who reads ‘Shem the Penman’, delivering a celebrated, passionate rendition of Joyce's complex prose. LP in very good condition. Sleeve in goo… Read more…

Three year diary written by a marine on board HMS Amphitrite which includes an account of meeting the Sultan of Muscat during a visit in June 1902 when the vessel became the largest warship ever to visit the Gulf. Arriving on the China Station the vessel took a ‘long trip across the Pacific Ocean’ via Yokohama to Honolulu in Hawaii where the diaris… Read more…

Wth a letter from the author and in very good condition, bound in a handsome half dark green sheepskin binding over marbled boards, tooled and titled in gilt. Marbled endpapers very fresh displaying the bookplate of ‘Jain Ramsay of Kildalton, Islay’ and the bookseller’s label of ‘John Turton, Willington, Co. Durham’. Endpapers clean, very lightly f… Read more…

In very good condition in publisher’s blue cloth illustrated boards. A square and very sound copy. Front and rear endpapers age toned, slightly nicked to lower corner of front free, featuring striking illustrations by the volume’s illustrator Arthur Rackham and a bookseller’s label from W & C Foyle Ltd, London WC2. Complete with full page frontispi… Read more…

First Edition, uncommon in jacket. Black cloth boards titled in gilt to spine in very good plus condition. Endpapers a little age toned, text block clean, fresh and sound throughout. 68pp. Original pink dust jacket fair despite significant flaws; colours remains bright; a clean tear approx. 10cm long runs vertically from the lower edge through the… Read more…

A signed and dated limited first edition of Tony Harrison’s play ‘Poetry or Bust’ produced for the play’s premiere event at Salts Mill on September 5th 1993. Features a cover design by David Hockney and tells the story of Airedale poet John Nicholson. From the collection of a retired University of Leeds academic who has tipped in his opening night… Read more…

A good plus first edition in original jacket. Publisher’s blue cloth boards titled in gilt to upper and spine; a little patchily age toned; sound and square. Inscribed to front free ‘Chas B Cook from his wife Xmas 1923’. Text block clean and unmarked. 364 pp plus advertisements. Original clipped jacket in fair plus condition; shelf worn with nicks… Read more…

First Edition in good plus condition. Collated and complete with XX plates, lignographs, tables and illustrations. Publisher’s original embossed cloth binding with gilt decoration to spine panel just a little knocked to corners; very lightly stained to front board; a little worn along front spine hinge. Endpapers and text block clean and unmarked.… Read more…