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Go Tell It On The Mountain

James Baldwin
1991
Facsimile of a first edition in orange cloth publisher’s binding which is in fine condition with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Minor roughening to paper at head of the front flyleaf. Top edge stain in blue. Very good dust jacket condition with minor rubbing to top and bottom of spine, not price clipped. Printed book insert for The First… Read more…
#7880

£65.00

How to Write Letters: A Manual of Correspondence

J.W. Westlake
1878
First editions in green cloth a publisher’s binding with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Binding in very good condition with some bumping to board corners and dusting to top edge. Moderate browning to front and rear end-papers and a small hole in inner hinge. Double ownership signature in pencil to front end pages. Bright and attractive. Read more…
#7879

£55.00

Talks on Successful Gowning [INSCRIBED]

Elizabeth Batts Lee
1910
Inscribed copy of this scarce fashion guide: ‘To dear Hilda with Auntie’s love/ Flushing New York June 1910’ on the first flyleaf. Bound in decorative tan buckram with spine lettering. Frontispiece with printed signature. Good binding; internally near fine. Very much of its era, the book begins: ‘Good dressing, nowadays as every woman known, who is… Read more…
#7862

£175.00

Wordsworth and Plants [typescript & manuscript]

Kikuo Doi [William Wordsworth]
1953
43 hand-drawn and coloured illustrations of plants found in the English Lake District, with hand-written botanical descriptions, their names in English and Latin and both their scientific and popular names in Japanese, together with quotations from William Wordsworth’s poems in which each plant is mentioned; prefaced by a 4 page introduction, typed… Read more…
#7702

£85.00

Following the Flag

William Hesketh Lever - Viscount Leverhulme
1893
Publisher’s blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine, and embossed gold title and white ensign flying from staff to front board, with long title and author in black lettering; rubbed spine and slight pushes to corners; sound binding. Internally, green coated end-papers front and rear; pp 132 generously illustrated with black and white ph… Read more…
#7691

£95.00

Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw [PRESENTATION COPY]

Ellen Terry; George Bernard Shaw; Christopher St John
1931
A presentation copy from the editor who has inscribed their book: ‘It is a great pleasure to the editor of this correspondence to inscribe this copy for “Jack” Leon. Christopher St John Smallhythe 24th of October 1932.’ Additionally a signature of Ellen Terry has been tipped onto the first flyleaf. The book is in good condition only, the boards mar… Read more…
#7856

£150.00

The Cantab

Shane Leslie - Sir John Randolph Leslie
1926
First Edition, near fine, a little spotting to book edges only. In a good jacket with small loss to tail of spine and several closed tears. A scarce title thus in jacket. Read more…
#7851

£150.00

Between John Leybourn Witham, Plaintiff in Error

T Bootle; William Wynne
1744
Rare printed summary of the case brought by the Earl of Derby in an appeal hearing made in the House of Lords: 1 copy only in the United States. Large bifolium, folded horizontally with docket title and drop head title. Short tears at ends of folds and browning to the outermost panel which bears the docket title. Interesting annotation in a contemp… Read more…
#7715

£200.00

Woollen Weavers Book 1854-1855 [Manuscript]

William Simpson
1854
A Yorkshire woollen weaver’s day-book, a small octavo bound in brown leather over board, grazing to panels with rubbing to edges and top of spine; binding sound. Front endpapers comprise a printed ‘Almanack for 1854’ and ‘Commercial Stamps, Taxes &c, Sold by John Baildon, Bookseller, Bull Green, Halifax’. Overleaf a contemporary hand-written ink in… Read more…
#7820

£200.00

The Child at Home [inscribed]

Cynthia Asquith
1923
Scarce signed copy of an already uncommon work. Publisher’s blue cloth, lightly marked. Internally clean. Asquith has written her name in black ink at the top of the flyleaf suggesting that this may have been her own copy of this book about bringing up children - largely full of sound advice from this cataloguer’s quick browse. A near very good cop… Read more…
#7804

£95.00

Recollections of my Childhood and History of my Pets

Grace Greenwood
1853
pp 180. First UK edition of the recollections of this American writer. Very good in embossed brown cloth. 1856 presentation inscription on front free end paper. With frontispiece and illustrations by William Harvey. Previous owner's notes about the artist taped to front paste down. Read more…
#4270

£56.00

Le Gault dans le Bassin de Paris

Charles Barrois - Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen
1875
pp 707-714. A geological pamphlet dedicated by its author, Charles Barrois, to the English geologist Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen. The inscription is written at the top of the first page: 'To Mr Godwin Austen, Esq with the Author's respt'l comp's'. The text is complete with some marginal wear. The original printed paper wrappers are complete… Read more…
#1169

£55.00

The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire

Nikolaus Pevsner
1954
[13] pp 10-516 Pevsner's Cambridgeshire with a letter from the author to a correspondent who had written to Pevsner about the series. Pevsner's letter is written on 'The Buildings of England' notepaper, dated '29 Apr 66' and written to a Mr Reid, thanking him for his letter of March 30th and 'for all the comments on The Buildings of England. I cann… Read more…
#1743

£75.00

Account of the Hospital of St

John Parker
1884
[4 plates] pp 8 The first separate publication of Parker's account of the Hospital of St John the Baptist with a letter from the author. The book is bound in most attractive original green boards with gilt lettering to the front. Trivial wear only to the corners leaving the binding near Fine. Internally Fine, with the letter from Parker tipped onto… Read more…
#1770

£55.00

Manuscript Pharmaceutical Ledger for a prescribing Pharmacist working in Heanor, Derbyshire 1930-40

NA
1930
A 1000 page manuscript ledger which records the prescriptions issued by a pharmacist working in the Derbyshire town of Heanor. Each entry includes a name, address and date with chemical details of prescription. A superb research resource for local history and pharmaceutical history. Read more…
#1869

£75.00

A Series of Prints Designed to Illustrate the English History by Mrs Trimmer

Mrs Sarah Trimmer
1828
[4] [64 full page engravings] The uncommon 1828 edition of Sarah Trimmer's sequence of instructive juvenile engravings from English history. The book is bound in full grain roan, flat backed with 'Trimmer's English History Prints' in gilt on the spine. The tan coloured leather is partly worn away towards the lower corner of the rear board. Internal… Read more…
#1990

£65.00

Sämmtliche Werke

Jean Paul
1861
34 volumes in 12 handsomely bound sturdy blue buckram volumes with gilt spine lettering and speckled edges. The bindings are about very good with a little wear to extremities; internally the text is near fine throughout. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about these books - additional postage m… Read more…
#2104

£55.00

Tribute to Wystan Hugh Auden [W H Auden]

W H Auden, Charles Causley, Kevin Crossley-Holland, D J Enright, Roy Fuller, James Kirkup, George Macbeth, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, Jon Silkin
1973
[25 sheets manuscript facsimile] [24] Pamphlet. A collection of poems commissioned by the inaugural Ilkley Literature Festival and reproduced in facsimile in April 1973 in honour of 'one of its most distinguished collaborators'. The publication comprises a green card folder with some bumping to the edges; a 24 page pamphlet giving the text of the p… Read more…
#2108

£75.00

A Collection of the Public General Statutes, Passed in the Forty-Seventh Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Third [including an Act] 'preventing any dealing or trafficking in the buying or selling of Slaves within the Colony of Sierra Leone [slave trade]

N/A
1807
pp 578 A bound folio of 78 Acts of Parliament from the second session of the 1807 Parliament, including an Act 'preventing any dealing or trafficking in the buying or selling of Slaves within the Colony of Sierra Leone' which followed the act to abolish the slave trade earlier the same year. The book is bound in speckled calf with gilt decoration a… Read more…
#2109

£75.00

Pocket Register for Climatological Observations: Metform 3100 [10 Volumes] [Wingerworth] A Meteorological Archive Collection

David Fellowes [Met Office]
1972
The meterological archive of David Fellowes, a voluntary contributor to the Met Office based in Derbyshire. The archive is made up of ten pre printed volumes provided by the Met Office completed in two Derbyshire locations by Fellowes in conventional fashion with numerical entries and comments for two locations at Wingerworth and Clarborough: Vol I… Read more…
#2241

£75.00

Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects of London

Michael Faraday, R Willis, Ambrose Poynter, Herr Hallmann, Joseph Gwilt, W A Nicholson, Herr Beuth etc
1842
xvi, pp 1-191 [plates] The second volume of the Transactions of the Institute of British Architects formerly owned by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. The book is bound in the original brown decorated cloth with the Institute's crest in gilt on the front board. The backstrip is partly detached but the binding remains sound. The inner hinges ar… Read more…
#2311

£75.00

Papers read at the Royal Institute of British Architects

Mackenzie E C Walcott, Reverend Whewell, William Lightly etc
1863
pp 282 Twenty papers read at the Royal Institute of British Architects 862-1863 season, formerly owned by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. The book is bound in handsome pebble green cloth with the Institute's crest in gilt on the front board and is in very good condition with a little wear at the head of the spine. (The binder's ticket of Bone… Read more…
#2312

£75.00

The Log of the Water Lily (Thames Gig) During Two Cruises, in the Summers of 1851-2 on the Rhine, Neckar..

Robert Blachford Mansfield
1854
Third edition of Robert Blachford Mansfield's The Log of the Water Lily, 'Revised and Enlarged'. It's an account of 'the first English rowing-boat that was taken on an excursion to the Continent', bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rubbed with some wear at the top of the spine. Minor staining to endpapers. Entertaining steel engra… Read more…
#2421

£85.00

Confessions of a Horse Dealer

Frederick Taylor "Ballinasloe"
1861
pp 300 An 1861 edition of Frank Taylor's Confessions including chapters on rogues and fools, the great horse auction swindle and other such horse gossip. Bound in the original green cloth which is slit along the lower hinge; original yellow coated endpapers and some browning to paper stock. Probably a surreptitious edition. Read more…
#2454

£60.00

University of Cambridge [Charles] Darwin Commemoration June 22-24, 1909

J W Clark, A C Seward
1909
[4] The official four page 'Programme' sent to delegates attending the Darwin commemoration held in Cambridge between 22 and 24 June, 1909 when the University hosted scientists, scholars and public figures from 167 different countries to celebrate the centenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the ?ftieth anniversary of the publication of On the Origi… Read more…
#2513

£65.00