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Scarce, beautifully printed work on lettering and writing from the 1920s bound in attractive lettered (of course) paper covered boards with a buckram spine. Bumping to corners and mild edgewear. Several examples of decorative writing laid down on the front pastedown, above a ‘Foyles’ bookshop sticker. Coloured frontispiece from the Curwen Press. Fu… Read more…

Thomas Blount's celebrated account of the future Charles II's escape from Parliamentary soldiers after the Battle of Worcester complete with the two maps but lacking van Houe’s portrait of Prince Charles. This is the third edition of Blount’s text which appears here alongside Anne Wyndham’s Claustrum Regale. Late 17th or early 18th century panelled… Read more…

First separate edition of Cicero's Verrine orations with Giunta’s preface addressed to Tommaso Pighinucci. A little sequence of early ownership signatures on the first flyleaf take us back to 17th century Venice, the earliest from 1621; then from the town of Gorizia: ‘Andreas de Thomasinis Goritia Dolce ingano d'amor cossanon voglie’ and a later in… Read more…

Following the formation of the Bradford Council of Social Service in 1921, a survey of the provision made for the various social needs of the city was made and published under this title with a foreword by the Rt Hon JH Whitley, Speaker of the House of Commons. Sections on the History of Bradford, Childbirth and Infancy, Adolescence, Provision for… Read more…

Georges Bataille the philosopher, art historian and literary critic was also the author of some of France’s most famous forbidden books. Ma mere/My Mother was the first of his novels to appear in Britain. First UK edition in very good + condition. Unclipped dust jacket in excellent condition protected in removable, transparent wrapper. Jacket desig… Read more…

Pleasingly bound in its original publisher’s decorative cloth, an 1825 ‘New Edition’ guide to the university city of Oxford providing a description principally designed for strangers and containing a description of the colleges, halls, public buildings, churches &c, a chronological table of the university and city, an account of the government, exa… Read more…

Front of House manuscript account book for the Prince Edward Theatre covering the extraordinary month when it hosted the American-born, French dancer, singer and entertainer Josephine Baker in October 1933. This printed book which is accomplished in manuscript covers the period from the theatre’s grand opening in April 1930 until the closure of its… Read more…

A 3 page hand written letter penned by the American writer, political activist and saloniste Susan Mary Alsop who writes to Scottish writer and journalist Iain Finlayson in November 1978 in a snatched moment during a busy tour to promote the publication of her latest publication, ‘Lady Sackville: A Biography’. The letter is full of warmth. ‘Thank y… Read more…

Signed copy of J G Ballard’s passionate part autobiographical, part novel portrait of the post war world. In very good plus condition. Hardcover red boards pristine, a little spine lean. Original price-clipped dust jacket like new, protected by neat and removable transparent wrapper. Endpapers crisp and clean. Author’s inscription to title page rea… Read more…

Third edition of this 18th century conduct book which provides a valuable insight into the conventions surrounding the behaviour and the expectations of women at that time. The volume contains 4 of the most popular and influential moralising stories of the day including ‘Dr. Gregory's Father's Legacy to His Daughters’, ‘Lady Pennington's Unfortunat… Read more…

pp 288 Near fine first edition in near fine jacket of Thompson's full length novel of India. Not price clipped; bright jacket over black boards. Foxing to the book edges the only minor blemish. A very nice copy. Read more…

Very good first edition of Clewes' first novel set in Wales inscribed to the author's literary agent: 'To Julian from Howard 18.1.38' A very good copy in good jacket, not price-clipped, split along the hinge between front panel and spine. A pit-head design to the dustjacket by the artist Mortimer'. The book was acquired from a distinguished collect… Read more…

First British edition: red cloth, inscribed by the author on the first endpaper: 'To Joyce and Peter with best wishes from the Author James Turner. 26th June 1961.' Very good copy, stain along the top of the first blank and visible on the verso of the jacket. A fascinating novel in its Cameron Poulter dustjacket. Read more…

An excellent first edition, near fine in near fine jacket - particularly brights and unblemished. Read more…

First Edition of Showell Styles' account of HMS Vencejo's last cruise. (Vincey Joe to her crew). The book is fine internally in fresh blue boards, just a little foxing to top edge. The dustjacket is fine with its dynamic design by Charles Mozley. Read more…

First edition in orange boards. Top edge slightly dusty, back board lightly stained. Internally very clean. Dust jacket good, 6cm tear to soiled rear panel. Small chips and nicks to edges. The intriguing plot concerns a piano marathon in a 1930's holiday camp! Read more…

First edition in red cloth. Near very good copy, some foxing to edges, foot of spine discoloured. In fair jacket, not price-clipped. Chips to head of spine, large chip to foot. Creases and closed tear across front panel with some loss. Read more…

pp286 Very good first edition in a good plus jacket. In fresh burgundy boards, the edges and preliminaries are lightly foxed, the binding is tight and the pages clean with no inscriptions. In a striking dust jacket featuring a monocled gentleman sporting daisies on his top hat. The white panels are soiled and the spine sunned with a couple of chips… Read more…

A charming 1790s compilation album of aquatints and engravings, many taken from James Baker’s Picturesque Guide through Wales and the Marches of 1795. Small quarto (16.5x21cm) in red straight grain morocco with an elaborate border to the boards; wide raised bands to the spine; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers with trace of a removed bookplate to t… Read more…

Early edition of Pope’s Dunciad in contemporary calf with faded gilt lines to the spine and blind panelling to the boards; red speckled edges to text block. Bookplate of ‘Thomas Lediard’ to the front pastedown (1685-1743, diplomat, stage designer and latterly Agent and Surveyor of Westminster Bridge, resident in Smith Square). Cracking to paper ove… Read more…

Prettily bound eighteenth century Cambridge Book of Common Prayer in red goatskin with gilt edges. Small octavo in full leather binding with gilt decoration, faded to the spine; book label of ‘Rev J L Saywell’ (author of History of Northallerton); handwritten ‘Evening Prayer’ to the final leaf. A very good copy, pleasing and unsophisticated. Read more…

Unpublished full length verse epic poem on the subject of the Duke of Wellington’s decisive defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo. Although Waterloo became the subject of short poems written in its aftermath by writes such as Walter Scott and Lord Byron, we can find no similar enterprise to George Allsop’s full length treatment of… Read more…

First edition, first impression of this delicious evocation of the long-vanished English high street. Illustrated with lithographs by Eric Ravilious just before the beginning of the second war which would claim both Ravilious and the lithographed stones that were used to produce this book and whose loss made it impossible to reprint in this form. T… Read more…

First edition, first impression in publisher’s black cloth effect paper covered boards, sharp corners, just a trace of spine lean. Spotting to text block edges; internally clean and unmarked. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket with a little fading to the red lettered spine and some browning to extremities. A lovely square copy of this remarkabl… Read more…

Scarce pirated 1851 Routledge London edition of Hawthorne's classic novel. Half burgundy cloth over marbled boards (binder’s ticket of ‘G Parker Stationers Kirkdale, Ripon’ to lower pastedown). Spotting to preliminaries; early gift inscription to title page: ‘A Staples to S Hoy’. Old paper repair to verso of title page in gutter at tail of page. Co… Read more…