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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 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…

Small archive, extraordinarily offensive to modern eyes, which reveals the avid consumption of racialised performances in 20th century Britain and America. Created by a committed fan of the blackface minstrel, George Henry Elliott and an American blackface performer from an earlier generation, Eugene Stratton, this collection contains a Bertram Abb… Read more…

First British editions of The Sea of Fertility quartet in very good conditions, in original unclipped dust jackets. 1. Spring Snow: 1972. 389 pp. Foyles bookshop label to front pastedown. Ownership inscription ‘Barbara Osborne’ neatly written to top of front free. Very good copy; sound, square, unmarked. Good plus illustrated, unclipped jacket has… Read more…

First Edition in very good condition. Half calf binding over marbled boards a little scuffed to top of spine; vellum corners; spine panel very good, gilt ruled and titled in gilt over red morocco label. A very sound and square copy. Endpapers clean other than ‘6/6’ in a contemporary hand to front pastedown; text block remarkably fresh and unmarked.… Read more…

Rare printed collection of heartfelt mid 19th century poetry written by an aristocratic woman and printed to a remarkably high standard by an otherwise almost unknown provincial press new Newcastle. DESCRIPTION: Large quarto format (22x28cm) bound in ribbed red cloth with gilt decoration; a few marks to boards but very good; all edges gilt. Vibrant… Read more…

The arrival of the trendy holiday curate as depicted by Graham Oakley in this witty, quintessentially English story. The original artwork was executed for the illustration found on p.2 of the published volume that accompanies it; the pen and water colour image is wonderfully evocative of the 1970s with its chaotic high energy and visual humour as t… Read more…

Unpublished authorial typescript - containing an original letter from Frieda Lawrence - about Johnston’s bibliographical pursuit of a disguised edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover which had been designed to evade US customs after the book was banned. We can find no record of this essay ever being published. In the essay Johnston, a distinguished Ame… Read more…

Three manuscript letters written to the Anglo-American artist Dorothy Brett (1883-1977) from Roger Fry, Gilbert Spencer and Albert Rothenstein. A graduate of the Slade School of Art, friend of Dora Carrington, and an established member of the London artistic scene, Brett exhibited in London in the 1920s with the New English Art Club (NEAC), and ass… Read more…

Unpublished, lost work by the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, the Reverend W Awdry. A devoted railway enthusiast and expert, it is well documented that Awdry began writing a biography on J.E. McConnell in the 1980s but no other copies have been located. This substantial typed manuscript is corrected throughout in Awdry’s hand and tells the story… Read more…

Full length autograph working manuscript spread over 22 exercise books, paginated by Hadfield to page 1162. Textually distinct from the published version, Hadfield writes with a blue fountain pen, double-spaced, correcting extensively as he worked with frequent swirling crossings-out. There are two quite distinct openings to the novel, the earlier… Read more…

Lightly illustrated, entertainingly written teenage diaries by the precociously accomplished future British landscape and portrait painter, and nephew of the renowned ‘Norwich School’ artist John Sell Cotman. The first and more extensive volume from 1867 (Cotman was then 17) covers his final months of intense study with William Thomson Griffiths, h… Read more…

A collection of song lyrics, correspondence and set lists spanning nearly half a century of performing life of the singer and actor, Marianne Faithfull. This includes a song from 1964 that was intended to be Faithfull’s debut single - except that she found it ‘awful’ and refused to record it. Three of Faithfull’s albums are particularly well repres… Read more…