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Inscribed to a legendary figure at Leeds University, the Professor of English, Douglas Jefferson. First edition in original jacket in overall very good plus condition. Boards and text block near fine, clean and very fresh. Inscribed on front free ‘Peter Redgrave to DW Jefferson Oct 1962’ - Jefferson possibly in his own hand, 56pp. Original jacket v… Read more…

In good condition, an uncommon signed copy of this commemorative historical and local topography book published specifically for the 92nd Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association which took place in Bradford in July 1924. Green cloth covers worn to top edges and spine; titled in gilt to upper and spine panel; a little spine slant evident.… Read more…

First Edition in good condition. Illustrated and with a preface by W.E.B. Priestley. Blue cloth boards titled in gilt featuring a central vignette of the Bronte Parsonage; spine sunned and bumped to top and tail; bevel edges a little shelf worn. Text block sound, square and unmarked throughout. 146pp. Printed by G.F. Sewell, Bradford. Overall a goo… Read more…

Three posters advertising Beverley, Hull and East Riding Races in 1882 and 1883 which offer a glimpse into the world of Victorian era horse racing including the names of owners, officials and stewards. Lord Durham and Mr I’Anson’s mounts feature heavily throughout the race card. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 2 x race posters dated June 14th and 15th 1882.… Read more…

School prize awarded to a future forgemaster and Lord Mayor of Leeds, a second Edition in near very good condition. Handsomely bound in soft, dark brown calf, delicately tooled and titled in gilt to upper, lower and spine. Nicked across the centre of the upper; a little bumped to corners; a little chipped along spine hinges and edges. Very fresh ma… Read more…

A collection of 6 First Editions in very good plus condition, variously signed and/or inscribed by the author to their previous owner, a retired academic of English at the University of Leeds. Laid in are paper cuttings and 3 printed e-mails between the two. 1. Clarity or Death. Carcanet Press Ltd: Manchester, 2008. Soft backed First Edition. Inscr… Read more…

Minutely detailed manuscript record of American cotton imports arriving in Liverpool, written by the Rochdale-born banker and trader James Howarth Midgley. The manuscript contains weekly statements of the sales, imports and stocks of cotton from 1849-1854, breaking down these figures into three categories of cotton, coming from New Orleans, the Por… Read more…

Very large, elephant folio (72x54cm) bound volume of maps of the Bradford district. Half red roan over green cloth containing a selection of Ordnance Survey maps of the Bradford district: Volume 4. Maps are numbered and presented in the order: 8, 7, 1, 4, 3, 15, 14, 13, 16, 15, 14. Most probably produced for the brewing or inn trade, the front past… Read more…

Printed for the use of Bradford City Police, and apparently not held in any institutional collection, the constabulary’s working copy of printed guidance and instruction for the Officers and Constables of the city of Bradford, with an additional c25 laid in or tipped in bye-laws, rules and amendment acts. Cloth covers show wear; bumped to corners;… Read more…

Uncommon Caligula Books pamphlet printed in black on silver softback card covers in near good condition; scuffed to corners and spine; a little nicked to edges. Text block very sound; a little age toned with neat previous ownership inscription to front half title. Illustrated by Andy Butler. 43 pp. Printed in small batches, publications from this s… Read more…

First Edition in good condition. Red cloth boards square and sound; a little age worn with a few small marks and darkening to edges; sunned to spine. Endpapers clean with a very neat previous ownership inscription dated 1933 to top of front free. 55 pp. Printed in Great Britain by Morrison & Gibb Ltd, Edinburgh. A pleasing copy. Read more…

A complete set of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and stories. This attractive soft cover set includes 1 first printing (The Spy Who Loved Me) and 2 second printings (The Man With the Golden Gun and Octopussy). The books are generally about very good, clean and unmarked throughout, the rest of the imprints are mixed reprints. A lovely set. Read more…

Illuminated manuscript on vellum presented as a retirement gift to William Eller Esq in recognition of unstinting work as Musical Director of the Manchester Midday Concerts Society - an association that survives to this day. Beautifully written in a calligraphic hand with gold leaf illuminated initials; vibrantly and colourfully illustrated featuri… Read more…

Both volumes of the Common Reader: Series 1 (second edition) and series 2 (first edition) in good plus condition. 1. The Common Reader. First series. Second edition. 1925. Light blue cloth boards titled over white paper label to spine, age toned and darkened to spine. Text block unmarked, square and sound. 305pp. 2. The Common Reader. Second series… Read more…

Limited edition, quarter red leather over red cloth boards in pristine condition throughout, containing over 150 illustrations plus 3 fold out maps and tables. Embossed 6 panelled spine titled in gilt and ‘The Grove Bookshop’ to tail. Title page illustration depicts ‘Ilkley, Yorkshire from the River Wharfe’ by Thomas Griffin. 210 pp. plus bibliogra… Read more…

An attractive contemporary half binding of green cloth over marbled boards in very good plus condition containing 2 scholarly articles. Titled in gilt to spine, endpapers age toned, text block clean and crisp, a square and sound copy containing: 1. An 1835 scholarly article titled ‘Results of an Enquiry concerning the Situation and Extent of Westmi… Read more…

A very good signed copy of Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s first book of poems. A fresh copy; clean and unmarked; signed by the author to half title page; 80 poems; 80 pp. Renowned poet and playright Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in Huddersfield, worked as a probation officer in Oldham and won an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry in 1988. He succe… Read more…

Two good plus wrappered editions of the poetry of Christopher Pilling, a graduate of the University of Leeds and first winner of the Leeds University School of English/ Yorkshire Post/ Arts Council of Great Britain, New Poet’s Award with his collection ‘Snakes and Girls’. 1. Snakes and Girls. School of English Press: The University of Leeds, 1970.… Read more…

A good plus first edition in original jacket. Publisher’s blue cloth boards titled in gilt to upper and spine; a little patchily age toned; sound and square. Inscribed to front free ‘Chas B Cook from his wife Xmas 1923’. Text block clean and unmarked. 364 pp plus advertisements. Original clipped jacket in fair plus condition; shelf worn with nicks… Read more…

First UK edition in scorched jacket. Crimson cloth with turquoise and gilt lettering and detail to spine in very good plus condition; just slightly bumped to corners; very slight signs of shelf wear along the upper edges; text block edge a little speckled. Endpapers and contents clean, fresh and unmarked. A sound and square copy. Original unclipped… Read more…

A fine copy of this scarce first edition in its original dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to the half title ‘To Alistair and Jennifer, with love and homage from Park’. 421 pp. From the collection of a retired University of Leeds academic and former colleague of Park Honan. Read more…

A signed copy of this soft cover boards in good condition showing signs of typical shelf wear; lightly age toned front and rear; corners still sharp. Text block similarly age toned; unmarked with a few page markers laid in by a previous owner. Inscribed by the author to the top of the front free ‘For Alistair and Jennifer from Douglas’. The copy co… Read more…

A good card-wrappered poetry pamphlet inscribed by the author. b/w industrial image on front cover; 23 pp.; covers a little age toned; text clean and unmarked. Laid in is a 2pp. typed poem titled ‘Eighteen Eighteen’. From the collection of a retired University of Leeds academic. Contains 14 poems written by John Goodby who was born in Birmingham an… Read more…

Gabrielle Enthoven’s marked up copy of a French’s Acting Edition (No.338) of Black Eyed Susan. Enthoven was an English playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist, and prolific collector of theatrical ephemera relating to the London stage. Much of her private collection of playbills, programmes and associated ephemera is now in the theatre and p… Read more…

An archive of lively and beautifully descriptive letters written by young Sylvia Duckworth (b. 1899, daughter of Major Arthur Campbell Duckworth and Viola Davies-Evans of Orchardleigh, Frome - a relative of Julia Jackson, Duckworth - Stephen - Virginia Woolf’s mother) who navigates the changing world of 1920s England as she embraces the opportuniti… Read more…