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Proofed and covered with typographic instruction, a bound typescript of Miskin's novel inspired by Andreyev's short story with additional double page spreads on tracing paper showing the layouts for the half title, title page, chapter headings and sample text page, annotated 'Specimen pages for Willmer Brothers Ltd for Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited… Read more…

First edition, signed, inscribed with teasingly private annotations intended for the book’s recipient alone. Plante has written on the half title “To Frank / with countless / years of devotion / and love! / David / Cambridge, 2009”, and again in blue ink to the title page: “To Frank once / again, with even / more devotion and / love, / though we /… Read more…

Cartoonist John Ryan’s copy (“ex John Ryan” in pencil to the front free endpaper). Although without annotations to the text itself, Ryan, best known as the creator of Captain Pugwash, has, for his own amusement, added the letter S to the beginning of the title on the dustwrapper, thus re-naming the work “Strumpets from Montparnasse”. A simple, yet… Read more…

A prompt copy, with extensive annotations throughout, adapting the text for use in a performance of the play. The annotations consist of numerous pencil underlinings, highlighting the various printed stage directions in addition to scattered verbal additions and alterations to these, as well as prompts for sound, lighting, and visual effects, and f… Read more…

Alasdair Gray’s copy, with an original manuscript poem in red ink and pencil to the half title page and continuing on the final index page. The poem (potentially a work in progress, as indicated by its numerous corrections) considers the nature of power and wealth, beginning: “The loneliness of power / self pity for the / many hearts you broke / ne… Read more…

Signed and inscribed by Colin Wilson to the literary critic G. Wilson Knight (1897-1885) in black ink on the title page “For G. Wilson Knight / warm regards & / admiration / Colin Wilson / Exeter 13-4-62”. Wilson Knight has subsequently added numerous pencil annotations to the text, often quizzical or critical in nature, comprising underlinings, ma… Read more…

Owned and annotated by folk lore researchers, Nigel and Mary Hudleston of Rillington in north Yorkshire, two First Editions of these seminal works in the field of folklore and children's studies based on many years of research involving contributions from over 10,000 children across England, Scotland, and Wales. Laid in is a handwritten letter and… Read more…

Prompt Copy and seventh Impression in near very good condition of this dramatic play first produced at the Mercury Theatre, London in 1946. ‘PROMPT COPY’ is written in bold capitals to the top of the free endpaper above a list of rehearsal dates and times to take place at Shiplake House or Rawbrook Cottage - Henley on Thames area. Further annotatio… Read more…

Future Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s school copy in near very good condition with his expert annotation to the Latin text. A charming little volume in red cloth boards titled to front and spine. Very lightly bumped to corners, very modestly worn boards to rear. A sound and square copy which is crisp and clean throughout. Front free endpaper is ins… Read more…

Owned and inscribed by the author, composer, and Professor of English at the University of Connecticut George Brandon Saul (1901-1986) in red ink on the front free endpaper, and with his detailed verbal annotations in red, green, and blue ink scattered throughout. These comprise meticulous bibliographical corrections and additions, numerous quotati… Read more…

Uncommon Dublin edition owned by the Irish MP, judge and developer of Balbriggan, George Hamilton (1732-1793). From a small collection of books owned by Hamilton, the book is bound in worn contemporary calf; portions of leather having flaked off but the integrity of the binding unaffected. Half the front pastedown no longer present; Hamilton has in… Read more…

pp 40 & 100 blanks. Manuscript recipe book owned by the Liverpool abolitionist and historian William Roscoe whose recipes were entered into the book a generation after his death, probably by one of his daughters-in-law. Neat Regency period quarto manuscript book bound in decorative green cloth with 'W.m Roscoe Book' in black ink to the front pasted… Read more…

Oxford presentation copy to the former Warden of Keble College, inscribed on the first blank: 'Walter Lock From E. B. Poulton, in memory of much kindness & much fresh stimulus received from him while a colleague in work at Keble, and in years of friendship since then. Oxford. March 1924.' Bound in publisher's blue buckram, slight fading to the spin… Read more…

Beautifully bound in a blind-stamped Victorian leather binding. Five raised spine bands with gilt lettering; central decorative panel to upper and lower boards; all edges gilt and silk bookmark. Marbled endpapers and bookseller’s ticket of A Holden, Exeter. The book’s first owner has recorded on the verso of the first flyleaf that the book was publ… Read more…

The twentieth edition. 12 mo. In good + condition. Pleasingly worn smooth but robust calf boards, moderately scuffed as expected. Remnants of clasp fastenings remain on both boards. Previous ownership scribbling in pencil on front pastedown. Title page age toned to edges. Text block very sound; just cracking over pp. 268/269; small ink marks; very… Read more…

The Commercial Ledger with the contemporary ownership inscription for “John Kniveton” in black ink to the front free endpaper, with 27 pages subsequently filled out in his hand. Kniveton’s notes detail his accounts, including his expenses (“missionary money”, “flowers and washing”, a “glazier’s bill”, meat, butter, salt, pig feed, “a portion of lau… Read more…

Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s copy with critical notes in pencil, with verbal annotations, underlinings, marginal lines, asterisks, crosses and question marks, across around a third of the text. The verbal annotations range from a simple “Ha!” to lengthier commentary on the subjects under discussion. These are almost entirely focused on the introd… Read more…

The book bears the ink inscriptions of three previous owners across the front pastedown and the rear of the frontispiece: the first states “William Galthans[?] / His Book No.23”; the second, in a bold calligraphic hand, declares “J. S. Sanders / New York USA”; and the third, more curiously, “C. E. M. – Valparaiso, Chili / 157 So 9 th St. / Brooklyn… Read more…

Hardcover First Edition. Red cloth covered boards in very good condition; spine darkened; age toned title label to top. Just cracking over front endpapers. Inscribed in a contemporary hand to front pastedown and half title page ‘Louisa Barton to Mary Jane Barton. Nov 11th 1858’. A later inscription reads ‘M O Rattenbury Feb 1970’. Text block square… Read more…

A handsome volume containing the works of William Shakespeare, presented by Kings College London to John Thomas Arlidge who studied medicine there and went on to specialise in asylum psychiatry, publishing extensively on the subject. The book bears the College’s gilt crest to the upper board, dated 1829, the year the college was founded and the own… Read more…

Poems, stories and sketches kept as a personal record of his creative output by the wealthy ex-patriate Australian businessman, publisher and neighbour of Virginia Woolf and Hillaire Belloc in the Sussex village of Rodmell. James Murray Allison (1877-1929) was born in Melbourne, left Australia in 1908, managed advertising for The Times (he wrote a… Read more…

Beautifully illustrated guide to maritime science and theory, including navigation, from the final phase of sailing ships’ dominance over world trade. Contemporary green textured cloth-covered boards with paper library numbers on the spine. ‘Institution of Naval Architects... Scott Library Collection’ book plate to both pastedowns, no other library… Read more…

True first edition of this early poem, inscribed to a close friend on the northern poetry scene numbered 4 out of 26 signed copies. Printed brown paper wrappers which are browned and faded and separated along the spine. Harrison has inscribed the poem above the title with a double-edged quotation: ‘Nor need we to the distant Indies rome; The curst… Read more…

Super-plush and most uncommon private edition of these letters written between two members of one of Britain’s great Whig dynasties, found here in a presentation binding of crushed red morocco by Zaehnsdorff. Near fine binding, fractional rubbing to extremities; red silk doublures, signed ‘Zaehsdorff 1913’; half title precedes the window-framed, ha… Read more…

Memorial book bound in blue leather with gilt lettering to front board and raised bands to spine in very good condition with damage to leather to spine and some areas on lower board. Discolouration to top left corner of upper board and to lower board. Collection of 85 condolence letter addressed to Mr Norman E.Davis and one to his daughter Molly/Mo… Read more…