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A collection of 8 manuscript notebooks owned by Rowland Adamson A.M.I.Min.E of Horwich near Bolton. Four of the notebooks contain notes taken while Adamson was a student of mining at Wigan and District Mining and Technical College in 1943-44. The notes and diagrams on mining law, machinery and safety are in a neat hand and obviously the work of a c… Read more…

pp516 A handsome Welsh translation of Kitto's 'Life of Christ'. This devotional work contains weekly readings which are extensively illustrated with detailed steel engravings and bright coloured maps of the Holy Lands. A substantial folio in good condition, bound in half calf over cloth which is stained and soiled, the cloth is lifting from the wor… Read more…

An album of photographs of a holiday in the French resort of Nice in 1905. There are 40 pages of small black and white photographs of various individuals, both adults and children, enjoying walks, sports, group picnics and motor vehicle trips. There are photographs of street scenes with local inhabitants, and coastal and river scenery. The buff pap… Read more…

pp178 In blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, floral end papers, attractively printed with decorative chapter headings and black and white illustrations. Very good, a couple of stains to the covers, browning to end papers, the pages are clean and crisp. Bookplate of James Durham and his wife Lady Agnes (Townsend) of Cromer Grange, Norfolk. Letter… Read more…

[xiv] pp352 By Father Leopoldo Duran, a Catholic priest and former professor of English and American literature at the University of Madrid, who was a close friend and confidant in the latter part of Greene's life. Near fine. Warmly inscribed to film maker Peter Duffell by Leopoldo Duran. Read more…

[xiii] pp127 A collection of 29 letters with an introduction and explanatory notes by M C Taylor, Personal Representative of the United States to His Holiness Pope Pius XII. Fine in red cloth, buff spine with gilt lettering, protected by a cellophane wrapper within a green card slip case. This high quality publication was a gift edition inscribed b… Read more…

Large folio. A private publication of a 1932 manuscript in the collection of Donald S Carmichael, first published here in facsimile form in1982. A very attractive limited edition (100 copies only) printed on high quality paper by the Stinehour Press. Fine in blue paper wrappers. Inscribed by the author with laid in letter [1 TLS] from Carmichael to… Read more…

pp37 FDR's record of "the salt-water wanderings of a houseboat jointly owned and operated in 1923 to 1926 with his old friend John Lawrence" with an introduction by Donald Scott Carmichael. One of fifteen copies reprinted from The Franklin D Roosevelt Collector, VolI, No 1, November 1948, bound for the author to distribute to certain FDR enthusiast… Read more…

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…

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…