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A scarce first edition with attractive Wharfedale provenance. Paper covered boards in near overall fair condition; front board detached; rear board very tender; small booksellers label to front pastedown reads ‘Matthew’s and Brooke Bradford’. Text block age toned, holding well. Front pastedown reveals that the volume once belonged to and ‘must be r… Read more…

New Edition in very good condition, attractively bound in soft brown calf featuring a double gilt filet to the upper and lower borders and a decoratively embossed 6 panel spine with gilt title over red ground. Marbled endpapers fresh; front pastedown has a small white label pasted to top left; preliminaries a little age spotted; lovely title page v… Read more…

Fifth edition with the spine relaid, in good plus condition. Boards decoratively embossed to upper and lower; title faded but still visible to spine panel. Endpapers a little age toned and spotted as expected; small vignette to original half title page; illustrated throughout with an introduction by Benjamin Silliman; 428 pp.; missing frontispiece.… Read more…

Six imprints bound as one in half calf over marbled boards; bumped and scuffed to corners and boards; six panelled spine good; a sound and square copy. Endpapers and flyleaves age toned and water marked; a handwritten 1961 ownership inscription to top of front free endpaper; text block unmarked; tender over gutters front and rear. 1. Demon of the D… Read more…

First Edition of this Victorian era novel written by Mary Anne Jagger. In fair plus condition showing signs of use. Red roan boards age marked, faded and worn to fore edge and corners. Spine panel darkened; gilt titling still visible; bumped to top and tail. Pictorial endpapers worn and a little nicked to edges. An inscription in a contemporary han… Read more…

First Illustrated Edition in good condition. Publisher’s attractive green decorative boards age toned to edges; bumped to corners; spine browned; slight spine lean evident but otherwise a very sound copy with just a little spine lean. Publisher's advertisements to front and rear endpapers unmarked. Ownership inscription dated 1852 to top of half ti… Read more…

A beautifully designed first issue, part of The Golden Poets series. Publisher’s cloth boards in good plus condition feature a gilt wrap around design; just a little bumped to spine top, tail and corners; endpapers clean; frontispiece and vignette title by A.S. Hartrick in very good condition protected by original tissue guard; 8 further colour ill… Read more…

A scarce copy in good plus condition. Cloth boards a little age toned; endpapers clean with the bookplate of Clifford Stephenson, a long serving politician and prominent local figure from Huddersfield to the front pastedown dated June 1970; just a hint of age spotting to preliminaries; rough cut unmarked leaves; 12 b/w illustrations and biographies… Read more…

First Edition in jacket in very good overall condition. Cloth boards, endpapers and text block pristine. Jacket good; shelf worn and a little nicked to top edges; clipped; a little scratched to upper panel. 256 pp. Laid in is a signed letter from Tom Maschler, publisher and managing director of Jonathan Cape and the architect of the Booker prize fo… Read more…

Signed first Edition in good condition. Dark blue cloth boards a little dulled with a touch of patchy damp staining to upper and lower. Endpapers clean, inscribed by the author to front free ‘Elizabeth Bewen May 15th 1939’. Text block unmarked, crisp throughout. A little spine lean evident. 445 pp. An acclaimed 20th century novel set in 1930’s Lond… Read more…

Third Edition illustrated by EH Shepard. Publisher’s salmon pink pictorial cloth boards in very good condition; top edge gilt; gilt decoration and titling bright. Illustrated endpapers with panorama and characters in silhouette fresh and unmarked. Neat ownership inscriptions to half title and front free reveal that the volume has passed through the… Read more…

Eleventh Edition illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Publisher’s green cloth pictorial boards in very good condition; gilt titling and embossing remains bright. Illustrated endpapers with map and characters fresh and unmarked. Neat ownership inscriptions to half title and front free reveal that the volume has passed through the ‘Savage’ family. Text block… Read more…

Signed First Edition in very good, near pristine publisher’s pictorial boards. Endpapers and text block clean and crisp.Inscribed by author to front free ‘Pearse, With fondest affection, Martin 21-6-72’. Original unclipped dust wrapper good plus; shelf worn and nicked along top edge and to spine tip; a clean tear approx. 4 cm in length to top half… Read more…

First thus edition in good plus condition illustrated by English artist and book illustrator Walter Crane. Original pictorial cloth binding remains bright; a little age toned and shelf worn to edges. Decorative endpapers unmarked front and rear, just cracking over front gutter. Neat previous ownership inscription to front free reads ‘G Jessop’. Orn… Read more…

First edition in very good publisher’s red cloth titled in gilt to upper and spine. Original price clipped jacket good; shelf worn to edges and nicked along top. Endpapers and text block unmarked. A very fresh, sound and square copy of this anthology of poetry and criticism from Shakespeare to Hardy. 224 pp. Read more…

A scarce First Edition in near good condition. Publisher’s original black cloth a little dusty and dulled showing light shelf wear to corners. ‘Sundial Circulating Library’ ephemera secured to front pastedown. Text block a little age toned; unmarked. A sound and robust copy with a little spine lean. 289 pp. Read more…

First Class Saloon passenger Miss Gladys H Wilkinson’s scrapbook of her journey to Cape Town, South Africa departing Southampton on board RMS Dunvegan on Saturday July 7th 1900 and her subsequent 18 months spent in Grahamstown (now Makhanda), a staunchly English speaking colonial stronghold. Seemingly a solo female traveller, Miss Wilkinson made th… Read more…

First Edition of this modernist anthology of poetry (sixth cycle) edited by Edith Sitwell containing 19 individual poems including those by the other Sitwell siblings, Aldous Huxley and Sherard Vines. In good condition in original black quarter cloth, illustrated in a bold, avant garde style by William Roberts; remnants of paper title label remain… Read more…

Novelist R S Surtees’ copy: the New Edition, bound in half red leather over red cloth, titled in gilt to spine within a red marbled slipcase. Front pastedown reveals the library bookplate of celebrated Victorian novelist Robert Smith Surtees of Hamsterley Hall. Original 1884 volume bound within in very good condition, with wrappers, a little age sp… Read more…

A Weymouth Log Book absolutely bursting with meticulous detail which charts ‘Bonito’s’ journey to Wales and its daily runs from its moorings in Moel y Don on Anglesey throughout the years 1957 - 1962. The vessel, a Vedette Mk II is owned by Dr K. K. Wood of Bury who has paid scrupulous attention to charting every twist and turn, adding many items o… Read more…

A group of poems which would subsequently appear in Hill’s most overtly religious collection of poetry, Tenebrae, here found photocopied from their very first publication in the journal Agenda, inscribed by Hill, and presented to a long-standing Leeds University colleague and friend. Seven octavo-sized pages, held with a staple, and inscribed at th… Read more…

A 445 pp. primary source in the form of an accounts ledger bursting with detail which provides a window into the socio-economic life, craft techniques and community networks of of a wheelwright and carpenter working in mid-19th century Messingham, Lincolnshire. Beyond simple bookkeeping John Gowsell’s (1860 -1872) written ledger reveals how the agr… Read more…

An excellent Leavisite association copy in Queenie Leavis’s best regarded work, inscribed to the couple’s long term collaborator and friend, Denys Thompson. First edition in blue cloth, externally nearly very good; cracking along the inner hinges, upper and lower; gatherings a little shaken; spine lean. Queenie Leavis has inscribed the flyleaf: ‘A.… Read more…

Limbird’s illustrated edition of Ann Radcliffe containing 3 of her novels including the Gothic classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho, noted as an inspiration for Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Half calf over marbled paper boards in good condition; bumped to corners; moderately rubbed to edges. Both volumes titled ‘British Novelist’ in gilt on a red mo… Read more…

Decorative Irish binding commemorating the political trials of Irish nationalist, with a six panelled spine and a decorative Irish harp in the top compartment. In very good condition, half bound in green and brown roan; endpapers age toned and inscribed in a contemporary hand ‘W[illia]m Burns’ to front pastedown. All 3 sections of this second editi… Read more…