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Most attractively bound in contemporary calf: four raised spine bands, double blind fillet framing boards with floral corner ornaments; red speckled edges. ‘Society Book’ in an early hand to the first blank which has slightly ragged edges. Probably same hand, ‘The Rev.d Mr Davids’ to the head of the title page. At the tail of the title page an earl… Read more…

[4], pp12 [lacking 13-16] pp 17-20. Imperfect pre-civil war pamphlet housed in a pretty nineteenth century binding quarter red morocco over marbled paper bound by Palmer and Howe of Manchester. Additional blank leaves bulk out the pamphlet which has a seventeenth century ownership inscription at the tail of the title page: ‘Steph: Revelle peer’. Th… Read more…

(24x14cm) Gouache given by the artist to the creator of Captain Pugwash, John Ryan. Inscribed along the tail of the image in pencil: ‘for John [Ryan] from Steven (Appleby) 1993’. Executed in gouache on thick art card ncilled with a line to the right of the image, probably intended for cropping. The image shows a hunt in full flow, at the centre of… Read more…

Three volume hardback edition bound in library buckram in Aberdeen. Internally fine - and excellent edition. Read more…

Small oblong octavo bound in bright red cloth, internally fine. Printed in red and black - a lovely little book, and very uncommon. Read more…

Early edition bound in contemporary sheepskin with a later spine label. Some loss to leather backstrip but the binding is intact and collates complete: viii, pp5-204; pp33 [6] plates; [8] index; 1 folding plate at beginning and 1 folding plate with tape repairs before index. Noted during collation: no preliminary endpapers, tape repair along gutter… Read more…

Whiteback edition, bound in the original decorative pictorial paper covered boards; adverts to the endpapers, staining to text. A near very good copy attractively bound of Ouida’s most novel which tells the story of an English aristocrat who and joined French forces in Algeria. pp608 plus coloured plate of Marie Antoinette Read more…

First edition, first state, complete with the frontispiece and 16 plates illustrated by A.C. Michael; 2 pages of advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth blocked and lettered in gilt with gilt publisher's device to spine. Part of a W H Smith’s bookplate to front pastedown; foxing to edges of text block. Otherwise a good square copy. pp390; 2pp advert… Read more…

Yellowback-style scarce edition bound in the original decorative pictorial paper covered boards, scuffing and wear to binding, upper board detached. Adverts on endpapers, pp372. Read more…

Yellowback edition form the Run and Read Library, though actually bound in the original orange decorative pictorial paper covered boards, extensive rubbing to upper cover and outer hinges, lower board nearly detached with blue stain near foreedge. Endpapers with adverts. Bookseller’s ticket from Ipswich on front pastedown. A good copy but scarce th… Read more…

‘New edition’ bound in the original decorative pictorial paper covered boards, extensive rubbing to upper cover and outer hinges, no backstrip. Endpapers with pictorial adverts. A good copy but scarce thus. pp388 Read more…

With the salutation from a letter signed by Robert Stephenson tipped onto the first blank endpaper. A near fine copy in attractive gilt embossed cloth, bookplate of Sandeman Public Library on the first pastedown and a number on the verso of the title page. A very attractive copy of this biography of both great railway engineers by Samuel Smiles. Read more…

Uncommon signed first English edition with an attractive inscription on the title page: ‘To Maureen Lawrence (yes I am alive!) Yours Christa Wolf’. A near fine copy, pushed to corners, in a near very good jacket. Wolf was one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former East Germany. Read more…

Naomi Jacob’s personal copy of her own novel. Worn black cloth, the front panel of the jacket laid down on the front pastedown as was Jacob’s habit with her own copies of books. Opposite is written in her hand: ‘NAOMI JACOB SIRMIONE PROV. DE BRESCIA.’ Prolific, opininated and wildly eccentric (listen to her appearance on Desert Island Discs with th… Read more…

6 volumes bringing together all of Traherne’s extant writings so far published in this edition. Bound in smart red buckram, a few lightly pencilled annotations. A very nice set containing: Vol. I: 'Inducements to Retirednes', 'A Sober View of Dr Twisses his Considerations', 'Seeds of Eternity or the Nature of the Soul', 'The Kingdom of God', Vol II… Read more…

45 original drawings of ‘Enlumineurs’, printing offices and early printers compiled by a French scholar. Oblong quarto in pretty shiny cloth covered boards. 3 typed pages to the rear offer a ‘Table des Planches’ including images of Sebastian Brant, a Durer and others. A highly individual volume. Read more…

The Warden of All Souls’ copy of the Oxford Dante in a special edition complete with presentation box. The three volumes are bound in crimson leather with gilt edges, marbled endpapers and printed on thin, high-quality paper; a very little rubbing to the spine ends. They collate: pp672 (Inferno); pp442 (Purgatorio); pp494 (Paradiso). The books’ own… Read more…

Probably unique surviving copy of this specification for demolition and construction of a new warehouse in Blackfriars, London for the retailer, J Sainsbury. Printed card wrappers, black cloth spine, fraying somewhat. A very detailed index of contents is followed by the 148 page text, reproduced from manuscript. Arthur Sykes (1862-1940) was the arc… Read more…

A presentation copy inscribed by Playfair ‘For Mr. & Mrs. Wickens in gratitude for their kind and continued appreciation of my small endeavours. Nigel Playfair’ on a blank before the main book. The book has been rebound later to accommodate the fascinating insertions which illustrate Playfair’s career. The binding is half russet silk with decorativ… Read more…