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xx, pp 5-144 A collection extracted from the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bound in red textured paper over boards with gilt decoration, all edges gilt, soiled binding and frayed to the corners; yellow endpapers, some fingermarks to early pages. A scarce title - one copy located on Worldcat at Cambridge only. Read more…

pp 268 [4] adverts. A Blackwood illustrated edition of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe from around 1880 with illustrations by Zwecker. Finger marks to preliminaries, otherwise very good in paper covered illustrated boards showing a very jaunty figure of Crusoe after the shipwreck. Read more…

[2 Vols] The first trade edition of the life and letters of Joseph Pennell inscribed by his wife and biographer to the couple's mutual friend, the Bradford librarian, Butler Wood on the title page: 'Inscribed for Butler Wood, with many Memories and much Appreciation of the Friendship he always showed to Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell.… Read more…

ff 40 The octavo-sized minute book of the Priory Church of St Anthony, Lenton, in Nottinghamshire from 1887 when the church was rebuilt to 1897. The book is bound in quarter green roan over textured paper covered boards and in its preamble sets out its role in 'unitedly' meeting 'together to consider matters of interest and efficiency in Church and… Read more…

pp 64; page/week. A young London mother's diary for 1921. Adele Margate's ownership signature appears on the first endpaper above the adverts: she has made around 150 short diary entries in the printed grid which allows one page per week. She reveals herself as a married woman living in the vicinity of Richmond in south west London. At least two of… Read more…

(102x64cm) A British Railways Poster of Stratford upon Avon which promises to take the visitor to 'Shakespeare Country' and showing the scene around Holy Trinity Church in the town, presumably an image from the late 1950s or early 1960s. Old folds and four small nibbles from the right hand side of the poster. Read more…

[13 Vols; 8x12cm) Bradbury and Agnew's 1870s pocket edition of Shakespeare in soft red morocco leather, all edges gilt, a little faded to spines but a very good set. The introduction to Volume I makes clear that this was an edition intended for the Shakespearian on the move: 'to form a handy readable series of Volumes, equally adapted for the Pocke… Read more…

xvi pp 44 The first anonymous edition of Delany's Apology: a disbound pamphlet with '5' in ink on the title page and 'By Patrick Delany, Dean Down in Ireland' written above the imprint. Top corner of half title neatly cut, probably removing a former ownership inscription, otherwise a near fine copy on bright clean paper stock, small woodcut embelli… Read more…

viii, pp 112 Serces' anti-Catholic polemic in its sole printing from 1737. Title page in red and black; a couple of holes close to the ink number '6' in the top corner which denotes its removal from a pamphlet collection. A substantial work by the Vicar of Appleby in Lincolnshire. Read more…

[4 Vols] Edmund Burke's speeches in four volumes from 1816, contemporary worn quarter calf over pretty paper covered boards with marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Some loss to backstrip of Vols I/IV. In an age of great oratory Burke is perhaps the only politician of his generation whose reputation has never waned. Read more…

pp 156 Seedie's List, 1939-1969, with dozens of cut obituaries and other ephemera relating to the recipients of the awards laid in together with an original photograph and a letter. Read more…

pp 330 A very smart copy of the Burnley collection of hymn tunes, chants, kyries and glorias, with an introduction dated 1875 explaining that the book was published as a response to 'the rapid strides made by the people during the same period, in musical education and executive ability'. Textured cloth with decoration in black and gilt, black coate… Read more…

First edition in tan coloured boards, a very good copy with a little foxing to the endpapers in good pictorial jacket not price-clipped, split along hinges between both panels of the jacket, slight loss to the topof the spine. Household's first adult novel: 'a novel without a country'. Read more…

[frontispiece] [4] pp 36 [3 plates] Scarce play with a mountaineering frontispiece sketched by the author and lithographed by Day and Sons. The play is set in the aftermath of the Northumbrian Jacobite rebellion of 1715 in which Countess Derwentwater escaped, and saved her liberty and the family jewels by clambering up one of the clefts of Wallabar… Read more…

Excellent signed first edition, inscribed on the title page by the author: 'Vera Brittain July 13th. 1963' Near fine book in very good jacket, not price clipped, no ownership inscriptions; slight fraying to bottom 3mm of jacket spine. A very nice copy. Read more…

[engraving] [5] pp 6-27 [1] John Read's 'appeal to the medical profession' on behalf of his newly invented stomach pump. Engraved frontispiece demonstrating 'Mode of using the instrument' followed by text with further diagrams. Staining and soiling to first few pages, tear to pp 9-12 affecting top right of text. A scarce item, disbound from a large… Read more…

Autograph letter with musical fragment from the Anglo-Italian composer then living in London, Ciro Pinsuti, to the English tenor and occasional composer W H Cummings, congratulating him on 'the great success of your charming Cantata', particularly the 'lovely subject in the Introduction.. and the quartett with Harp Accom[panimen]t..' Pinsuti lament… Read more…

[ff] 25 Oblong album, missing rear cover, with the calligraphic ownership inscription on behalf of ten year old Cromwell Stuart, son of Peter Stuart of Seaforth (north of Liverpool) the Lancashire shipowner and lay homeopath. Cromwell Stuart was born in 1847 (dying in South Africa at 22) with most of the inscribed pages dating from about a decade l… Read more…

pp 200 Calligraphically inscribed volume of Lancashire verse with a handful of authorial corrections to the text. Skelton has dedicated the book on the verso of the first blank: 'Presented to Mr Ralph Rigby, with the Best Compliments of the author, John Fawcett Skelton. Oct.r. 1885' in red ink. In the same hand there are corrections to pp 44, 51, 5… Read more…

pp 128 [maps] An inscribed copy of this highly successful guide to ancient history, 'With the author's Compliments [underlined] on the first blank. Stained boards, most uncommon thus. Lyde wrote a series of books in this vein and achieve huge success. At the time of this book he was an English master at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. Read more…

(20x25cm) Silver gelatin photographic portrait of Sir William Golding, probably a publicity shot for the publication of his novel, Rites of Passage. Golding is pictured in Nelson's Great Cabin on board HMS Victory around the time of first publication of his Booker Prize winning novel which became the first part of his nautical trilogy, To the Ends… Read more…

Presentation copy from the father of Danish Studio Glass, Finn Lynggaard, to the British potter Harry Horlock-Stringer inscribed on the half title, 'Mr Harry Stringer with my warmest thanks for helpful cooperation Finn. G.' Blindstamp ' with Stringer's 'Library of HHS Taggs Yard' blind stamp above the inscription. A fine copy in slipcase. We have r… Read more…

No57/100 Broadside (60x40cm) signed limited edition of Sawyer-Laucanno's translation of Lorca's Ode. Two half-tone photographs of Dali and Lorca alongside the letter press: 'published by Ayscamps Press, Paris as a limited edition of 100 signed copies; printed letterpress on Zerkall mould-made paper by the Libanus Press of Marlborough, England.' A n… Read more…

Inscribed edition to the half title page: 'To my great friend and part time consultant Arthur J Rieter Jr [different hand] And with all my good wishes ye editor M J Simon' A good copy only with later presentation inscription to the British potter Harry Horlock Stringer. Fading and wear to covers; amateur buckram reinforcement to spine. Read more…

Near fine 1924 edition in torn glassine wrap with a letter on George Jensen headed paper, tipped in, presenting the book to the British potter Harry Horlock-Stringer who worked at the old Fulham Pottery in the 1950s and Taggs Yard in Barnes, south-west London. A very nice copy. Stringer's work made hims friends from across the world including many… Read more…