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A rich family album compiled by Lucy Gwendoline Duff, grand daughter of the Rev James Grant, in the early 20th century preserving family documents, printed obituaries and tributes and a fine selection of photographs which together trace the achievements and history of the Grant family dating, back to the mid 1700s in the Glenbuchat, Badenoch and To… Read more…

Very good copy of an original Royal Visit Supplement from the Dundee Advertiser dated July 9, 1914 marking the Royal visit of George V and Queen Mary to Dundee and Perth. Printed just weeks before WW1, a lasting record of a seemingly prosperous united Britain before the Great War took its toll. Each leaf is packed full of advertisements, articles o… Read more…

Six Glasgow Herald Royal Visit photographic supplements dated July 7th - July 13th 1914, bound together to mark the Royal visit of George V and Queen Mary. Printed just weeks before WW1, bursting with 100s of wonderful images, a lasting photographic record of a seemingly prosperous united Britain before the Great War took its toll. The supplements… Read more…

A bound collection of 31 pieces of engraved sheet music including a collection of 7 songs, several sung by Madame Stockhausen, relating to Switzerland. Handsomely half bound in brown calf over marbled boards measuring 35 cm x 25 cm. Binding square and firm. Hand numbered 229 pp. Hand written index to front flyleaf. All in very good condition throug… Read more…

Court report on the trial of a young woman in high society Glasgow who was accused of murdering her secret lover, Alexander Forbes Irvine. Publisher’s brown textured cloth with a printed spine label, worn to head and tail of spine. Early ownership inscription, possibly American of a ‘Lesset Stephen’(?) beneath a paper ‘55c’ price. Two hand-tinted e… Read more…

Full length pre-publication typescript with extensive authorial corrections to this novel set on a remote Scottish Hebridean island off the coast of Wester Ross. The island - Eilian More - is the beautifully described backdrop to the machinations of its Chief, Evan Urquhart, whose castle is burned to the ground in the final chapter by his greatest… Read more…

How many receive a telegram with a special blessing from His Holy Father the Pope on the occasion of their golden wedding? Mr and Mrs Patrick Dempsay did. This original pencil written Post Office Telegram originating from Cita Del Vatican is stamped on receipt at Spean Bridge, a village in the parish of Kilmonivaig in the Highlands of Scotland and… Read more…

Anthony Burgess's influential novel, A Clockwork Orange, signed on a bookplate by the author in black ink - and laid into the book. This mid 1982 reprint is near fine in a very good jacket, a very attractive copy of a cult novel. 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 limited edition, limitation statement signed by Ted Hughes which originally accompanied a Charles Seluzicki, 1975 edition of Chiasmadon. The statement is numbered XXXX of 175. Very good, lightly marked and creased white card. Provenance: from the sale by Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes of 'my personal family items' at Bonha… Read more…

Three Manuscript Poems by Norman MacCaig. The Rougemont Press, Exeter 1970. (Ted Hughes was one of the directors). Limited edition, number 8 of 300, signed by the author "Norman MacCaig Oct. '70". Very good in lightly marked grey card wrappers, internally fine. Provenance: from the sale by Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes of '… Read more…

[pp] 12, 242 [2] Howard's first plays including his collaboration with his brother in law John Dryden in The Indian Queen and his inflammatory preface on dramatic verse. The book is bound in half brown rexine over marbled boards with new endpapers. The text is collated and complete with much toning to the paper stock and the following paper repairs… 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…

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…

Ten separate imprints including Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto dating from the early 1830s, bound together by the publisher together with an additional engraved frontispiece by ‘R Cooper’. 19th century half calf over cloth, worn and scuffed but soundly bound. Marbled endpapers; marks to title page and browning to frontispiece with the stub of a… Read more…

Four volumes of A A Milne's classic children's books bound in a Deluxe Publisher's Binding of brown calf with the author's monogram to upper covers and gilt decoration to the spines featuring characters from the books, all edges gilt. These volumes date from 1927-29, the editions being 16th, 6th, 4th and 3rd respectively. They are in good plus cond… Read more…

An inscribed copy of this rare book about the manners and customs on the Solway Firth. Small format bound in embossed blue-green cloth, neatly repaired, with yellow-coated endpapers and an albumen portrait of the author tipped in opposite the title page, inscribed below. Collates complete: pp208; a little paper decay at the foot of the title page a… Read more…

Nicolas Cox’s compendium of hunting, hawking, fowling, and fishing lore in one of the three variant imprints published in 1697. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Contemporary boards, sympathetically rebacked with a new spine, retaining the original endpapers. Extensively provenanced: ‘Ch: Parry 1742’ on the front pastedown looks to be the earliest owner follow… Read more…

Annotated presentation copy of the third edition with an affectionate note about the author’s life in Exeter, ‘now (1823) quite blind’ written by the book’s recipient, George Westlake. Half calf binding overlaid and strengthened with red cloth at some later stage - over marbled boards. Westlake’s bookplate appears on the front pastedown with offset… Read more…

Smart copy of the life of Nelson’s friend Admiral William Cornwallis written and inscribed by Winston Churchill’s step-father, a man just 16 days older than his distinguished stepson. The subject of the biography, Admiral Cornwallis, an ancestor of the author, was the brother of the defeated British general at Yorktown, Charles Cornwallis, and hims… Read more…

Pre-printed diary used interestingly by a member of Earl Haig’s family as a commonplace/ day book. Chunky small quarto bound in full calf, splitting slighly at outer hinges but very robust still. Laid in is a selection of quotations from Carlyle written on ‘Ramornie Ladybank’ headed paper. Marbled endpapers. Preceding the diary pages are two albume… Read more…

The author’s heavily annotated personal copy with corrections and emendations by the Manchester-based artist throughout. Bound in pictorial publisher’s cloth, a little rubbed to the extremities. Paton’s inscription appears on the half title ‘My Studio Copy Hugh Paton Oct/ 10’. The book is a lavish production which contains an original etched fronti… Read more…

A presentation copy of this guide to the use of sacred music in the liturgy. Tipped onto the title page a Vatican compliments slip from 'Secretarius consillii ad exsequendam constitutionem de sacra liturgia' - the secretary of the counsel for the implementation of the constitution on the sacred Liturgy. Opposite is the bookplate of Prinknash Abbey… Read more…

Mid-eighteenth century bound collection of 'Graveyard' poems including elegies and meditations such as the earliest publication by John Scott of Amwell (the first notable Quaker poet) and works by Thomas Gray, Edward Young, John Delap and Reginald Heber. Small quarto bound in eighteenth century speckled calf, the boards decorated with a border of c… Read more…

The book’s dedicatee has annotated this inscribed copy of Medawar’s Advice by revealing the names of the otherwise unnamed scientists cited by Medawar in his text. Alongside the relevant sections Todd has added the names Herman Kahn, Harry Johnson, Herbert Samuel, R E Billingham, effectively decoding Medawar’s anonymised text. Medawar has inscribed… Read more…