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pp31 "This booklet attempts in modest fashion to portray pictorially, and in terse verbal statistical descriptions, the progress made by the Ordnance Department in meeting the responsibilities of expansion placed on it by the President and the Congress by means of legislation enacted during the past critical year". Inscribed to F B Adams Jr with th… Read more…

First edition of this novel by Patrick Hamilton in blue cloth with silver titles. A good copy, the boards show a couple of white stains, the book is slightly skewed with some browning to paper stock and foxing to the end papers which have a W H Smith's Lambeth Library bookplate. An uncommon book featuring the imperturbable Ernest Ralph Gorse. Read more…

pp 96 [plates] A Victorian antiquarian guide to Ilkley, Yorkshire, and its surrounding area including the archaeology of the Roman and British periods The book is in the original leather over brown cloth, rubbing to spine ends and corners, the binding is tight and the heavy paper pages mostly clean. A limited edition of 50 copies, of which this is… Read more…

xvi pp 676 A biography of the Scottish theologian Robert Haldane (1764-1842) and his brother James who was an evangelist and church leader. In blue leather over pebbled cloth, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt, marbled end papers. Bookplate to front pastedown showing the coat of arms of William Ogilvy Dalgleish of Errol. In n… Read more…

pp103 The first edition of Arturo Barea's appreciation of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, translated from the Spanish by Ilsa Barea. A near fine copy, bound in the original tan boards which are very fresh, a spot of sunning to the head of the spine; the text is printed on heavy grey paper which is clean and crisp. In a very good, bright dus… Read more…

pp 95 [24] First Edition, one of the To-day and To-morrow series published by Kegan Paul in the 1920's to "provide the reader with a survey of numerous aspects of most modern thought". The book is very good in brown boards with white paper labels, very fresh apart from some mould bloom to the boards. In the uncommon white dust jacket which is good,… Read more…

(25x20cm) Large format vintage photograph showing a regal-looking Olivier playing Richard III in the 1955 film. This is a gloss finish stamped proof 'Ref LO/47' and was owned by Olivier himself, probably dating from the 1970s. From youthful success Olivier went on to become the preeminent actor of his generation, defining the great Shakespearean ro… Read more…

(22x15cm) Large format vintage photograph showing Laurence Olivier playing Richard III in the 1955 film. This is a matt finish stamped proof 'Ref LO/55' and was owned by Olivier himself, probably dating from the 1970s. From youthful success Olivier went on to become the preeminent actor of his generation, defining the great Shakespearean roles of H… Read more…

(19x16cm) Large format vintage photograph showing Laurence Olivier playing Richard III in the 1955 film. This is a matt finish stamped proof 'Ref LO/57' and was owned by Olivier himself, probably dating from the 1970s. From youthful success Olivier went on to become the preeminent actor of his generation, defining the great Shakespearean roles of H… Read more…

(22x17cm) Large format vintage photograph showing Laurence Olivier in full armour playing Henry V in the 1944 film. This is a matt finish stamped proof 'Ref LO/49' and was owned by Olivier himself, probably dating from the 1970s. From youthful success Olivier went on to become the preeminent actor of his generation, defining the great Shakespearean… Read more…

(12.5x 9cm) Vintage photograph showing Laurence Olivier in character as Othello in the 1965 film. This is a matt finish proof, marked 'Othello' in blue ink in the margin, and was owned by Olivier himself, probably dating from the 1970s. From youthful success Olivier went on to become the preeminent actor of his generation, defining the great Shakes… Read more…

pp176 Large Folio, fine in black cloth with gilt titles over tan boards, in a fine dust wrapper showing only the slightest signs of handling. Lavishly illustrated in colour. Written by the head of book and photograph sales at Christie's South Kensington. This splendid copy comes from the collection of Yorkshire bookbinder and bibliophile Martin E T… Read more…

An attractive collection of 19 Rudyard Kipling novels and verse dating from 1899 to the early 30's. Some firsts and some reprints in red cloth with gilt top edge and gilt decoration to cover and spine. Titles include: Puck of Pook's Hill, Captain Courageous, Stalky & Co, The Second Jungle Book and Just So Stories. Also included is one volume of Rud… Read more…

pp 324. A collection of memoirs relating to the French Revolution, especially concerning the journey to Varennes by King Louis XVI in June 1791. With editor's foreword, biographical notes and copies of original letters and documents. The book is bound in original publisher's cloth, leather spine label with gilt lettering, speckled edges to the text… Read more…

2 volumes. Good in half green Morocco over marbled boards; with most of the colour removed from the spines and worn to corners. Internally very fresh. Neat ownership inscriptions of John Scott. A history of the European revolutions of 1848, fully illustrated with laid down engraved plates by A H Payne and numerous fold out maps and town plans. Read more…

pp376 A small (11x14cm) magazine of a moral and religious theme bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and embossed and gilt decoration. Ownership inscriptions of J B Boston of Scorton and Miss Laura Earle of Catterick to the yellow end papers. The book is undated but there is an attractive engraved frontispiece of the Crystal Palace in Hy… Read more…

vi pp 1-512 A Brussels imprint in English of George Gleig's novel "The Chronicles of Waltham", part of a series of Wahlen's Modern British Authors. The book is attractively bound in quarter embossed leather with gilt title over green marbled boards; the spine is sunned, the boards are bright but rubbed and worn to the edges and corners. The binding… Read more…

Two volumes [iv] pp 1-334; pp1-435 [2] adverts. George Gleig's novel "The Country Curate". The books are bound in their original boards with printed paper spine labels ; the spines are worn, the boards are only lightly soiled but worn to corners. The bindings are tight and the text is particularly crisp and clean. Unclear ownership inscription to f… Read more…

pp136 large folio. Jiri Mucha traces the career and achievements of his father, Moravian artist Alphonse Mucha. The photographic section of the book shows the use Mucha made of his photographs in planning his work. 157 illustrations, of which 40 are in colour. Near fine in grey cloth, in a very good photographic dust wrapper. Signed to title page b… Read more…

pp26 Near fine pamphlet bound in bright orange wrappers. With laid in note to F B Adams Jr from his father, businessman and philanthropist Frederick Baldwin Adams (1878-1961), "Thanks it is interesting, and the first chapter at least isn't much exaggerated". This book comes from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr… Read more…

First edition, Near fine in black boards, a little spotting to the top edge. In a colourful dust wrapper with 6 shilling price label, very good, head of spine nicked with short closed tear. Read more…

Signed First Edition, Fine in a Fine dust jacket, not price clipped. Author's signature to title page, and inscription to John Baxter from Paris 2007 on ffep. With the author's joke dedication to "Boris Yeltsin" to half title page, reminding him to " take it easy on the vodka". A very nice copy. Read more…

6 magazines and 3 newspapers. Read more…

[vi] pp244 A biography of President Franklin D Roosevelt by his doctor, confidant and friend Ross T McIntire who was Surgeon General of the Navy. Near fine in blue cloth, in a very good dust jacket, rubbed to edges and a tiny hole to lower panel. Laid in: a letter [1tls] from the author to Frederick Adams thanking him for a Christmas gift. This boo… Read more…

ff208 A professionally compiled valuation of furnishings, silver, pictures etc, and Works of Art, made in January and February 1960 for probate purposes. Fine, bound in dark green watered silk cloth with gilt titles, single sided typescript on unlined pages, with index. Valuation prepared by Hollis and Webb Chartered Auctioneers and Estate Agents,… Read more…