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HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Inscribed photographic portrait of Hemingway holding a black Persian kitten. 1950
£12,500
An unusually intimate image in uncommonly large format. With Hemingway's magnificent presentation inscription on the white portion of his shirt, "To Alfred Rice from his friend,...
13 × 11 ins, original monochrome print from the negative. With the photographer's stamp on the verso. Glazed and framed. Fine. Read more
FAULKNER, William.
Inscribed original photograph of the author with Sally Emrich on the deck of a yacht in a Greek harbour. [1957]
£12,500
With Faulkner's signed presentation inscription to a blank portion of the image in the upper left corner, "For Miss Sally with love from William Faulkner". Sally Emrich was the wife...
10 x 8 inches. Framed and matted behind glass. A little negligible creasing to the edges of the image but a superb print. Read more
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
Inscribed photograph.
£10,000
Photograph inscribed by Fitzgerald "Yours in ironic humor, F. Scott Fitzgerald". Also inscribed by the recipient "Recieved as given in gentle humor, J. Biggs". This passport photo...
Single photo (75 × 75 mm) inscribed by Fitzgerald. Mounted, glazed and framed. Light tape residue to upper and lower edges slightly affecting inscription. Read more
LACROIX, Paul de (ed.)
Galerie Contemporaine des Illustrations Françaises. 1890
£9,750
The more than 160 mounted photographs include portraits of Baudelaire by Carjat, Victor Hugo, Rossini, François Coppée, Gounod, le Duc d'Aumale, Corot, Edmond About, Puvis...
8 volumes, folio. Original half morocco with marbled boards, titles and decoration to boards gilt. Profusely illustrated with more than 160 mounted photographs.... Read more
(STIEGLITZ, Alfred, & others) SCHIFFNER, R. (ed.)
Wiener Photographische Blatter Herausgegeben von Camera-Club in Wien. 1894–8
£9,500
Sole printings. A complete set of the original manifestation bound without the wrappers from the monthly numbers with new title leaves and indices. The organ of the influential...
60 issues in 5 volumes, quarto. Original puce half morocco, titles and rolls to spines gilt, puce cloth boards, grey-blue endpapers, marbled edges. Profusely... Read more
BAILEY, David.
Box of Pin-Ups. [1965]
£8,750
First edition, sole impression. This seminal collection of portraits by Bailey is one of the great iconic representations of the Swinging Sixties in London. The subjects typify the...
Original card clamshell box (380 x 330 mm), containing 36 loose sheets; each a full page half tone reproduction of a photographic portrait with biographical details of... Read more
(ERNST, Max) CREVEL, Rene.
Mr. Knife Miss Fork. 1931
£7,500
First edition, sole printing. From a total edition of 255 copies
Small octavo. Original black cloth, elaborate decoration to lower board in blind and to upper board and spine gilt, black endpapers. With the publisher's gold trimmed... Read more
MILNE, A. A.
Collection of photographs of Christopher Milne, 1925 & 1976
£6,750
Two letters and three photographs suggesting a source for E. H. Shepard's illustrations of Christopher Robin in the Pooh books. The first letter is in the hand of Milne's wife,...
2 letters, the first being a one page autograph letter by Daphne Milne and signed by A. A. Milne, the second a double-sided typed letter signed by Christoper Milne. 3... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Autographed photographic portrait: "Our Skipper". [1941/1950]
£6,500
The photograph was taken late in 1941 and circulated quite widely throughout 1942 in postcard form. For the 1950 general election the Conservative Party revived the image as a poster...
16 x 12 inches. A head and shoulders photograph entitled Our Skipper in the lower margin. Framed behind glass in dark brown wood. Signed "Winston S. Churchill" in the... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Photographic portrait inscribed to Alice Keppel. 1941
£5,250
Inscribed on the mount; "To Alice [Keppel] from Winston." A half-length bust portrait showing Churchill seated at the Cabinet table in 10 Downing Street. Keppel was Edward VII's...
Original silver print (164 × 148 mm) mounted on plain manilla card with photographer's studio wet-stamp verso. Very good. Read more
FRITH, Francis.
Sinai and Palestine. [1863]
£5,000
Volume I of the second, enlarged edition of the work originally published in two volumes in 1859. "The prints in this edition are of a much stronger quality than those in the first...
Folio. Original half tan morocco, red cloth sides, titles to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Mount albumen print to half title and 36 larger albumen... Read more
(BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY)
Collection of original photographs commissioned for the BAPCO in-house magazine, The Bahrain Islander. 1954-6
£4,750
An unusual collection of original photographs illustrating the oil industry in Bahrain, together with a group of internal company documents, providing news, history and an overview...
18 original silver-print "8 by 10" press photographs (257 × 204 mm, or the reverse), one a duplicate, carbon-copy, typescript caption texts mounted versos;... Read more
[HARDINGE, Sir Charles]
The Viceregal Visit to Jodhpur. 1914
£4,500
Superb album commemorating the visit of Sir Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India 1910-16, to Jodhpur in 1914. The album contains an excellent range of...
Landscape folio (490 × 375 mm) red morocco album, elaborately gilt on the upper board with title as above, the arms of the Marwar Durbar, or Darbar, the regional... Read more
(EINSTEIN, Albert) Benington, Walter.
Photographic portrait. 1921
£4,500
In 1921, Einstein made an official visit to the United States, where he lectured at Princeton and Columbia and visited the White House. Returning to Europe he stopped first in...
Silver gelatin print from the original negative (445 × 345 mm). Mounted, glazed, and framed. Excellent condition. Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Signed Photograph of Churchill and A.V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty outside Downing Street, Winter 1941. 1941
£4,500
Churchill and Alexander are shown on a snow-covered Downing Street, both wearing heavy top coats and with highly Churchillian cigars. Churchill is waving his hat to the...
Good large press photograph, (258 × 175 mm), mounted on card. Very slight damage at the top left-hand corner, but overall very good contemporarily mounted on... Read more
SHEPARD, E. H., & A. A. Milne.
Signed photographic portraits of Milne and Shepard from the office of Punch. [c. 1920s]
£3,750
Contributor portraits reputedly from the offices of Punch, in the same framing style as other Punch portraits. Both Milne and Shepard contributed to Punch before partnering to...
Original photographic portraits of E. H. Shepard (145 × 98 mm) and A. A. Milne (oval approximately 130 × 95 mm). Individually mounted, glazed, and framed.... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S. & Clementine.
Pair of Original Portrait Photographs, signed. 1946
£3,750
Each photograph is signed on the mount, that of Clementine with the inscription, "To Frank Clarke with happy memories of our visit to America in the Winter & Spring of 1946." Co....
2 original photographs (195 x 143 mm), mounted on card and now window mounted side by side, framed and glazed. Card mounts a little browned, inscriptions slightly... Read more
(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) KARSH, Yousuf.
Portrait photograph, 1941. 1949
£3,500
Karsh's most famous image. Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002), the Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage known as Karsh of Ottawa, is widely regarded as one of the most famous and...
Large gelatin silver print. Presented in handmade black and moongold frame. Framed size: 580 x 700 mm 510×402 mm. Deep and strongly contrasted studio print. Read more
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[?KÖHLER, Emil]
Ansichten von Calcutta. [Views of Calcutta] c.1880
£3,250
Fascinating collection of images of Calcutta around 1880, seemingly the work of a technically highly competent amateur. The images divide more or less in half, one part featuring the...
Quarto. Black cloth portfolio (325 × 248 mm), cloth from the upper panel of the original contemporary folder, with title as above gilt, mounted. 31 albumen... Read more
(NIBELUNGENLIED)
Das Nibelungen Lied or Lay of the Last Nibelungers. 1848
£2,800
First edition in English of the Nibelungenlied, published in Berlin at the behest of Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia; this copy suitably extra-illustrated with plates reproducing the...
Octavo (218 × 150 mm). Near-contemporary Italian vellum over boards, red morocco label, spine richly gilt in compartments, sides bordered in gilt and with title... Read more
HARDY, Thomas.
Signed photographic portrait. [c. 1890s]
£2,250
Photographic portrait of Thomas Hardy signed by Hardy on the mount below the photo.
Photograph (145 × 115 mm). Mounted, glazed, and framed. Some discoloration to mount from photo, signature a little faded. Very good condition. Read more
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BENINGTON, Walter.
"The Church of England" [St. Paul's Cathedral]. [1903]
£2,250
A vintage print in exceptionally large format, signed on the mount by the photographer, of St. Paul's Cathedral taken from the south bank of the Thames. Benington was part of the...
Original platinum print, mounted and framed behind glass. Some very minor oxidization to the edges of the print, a little conservation to one edge but a superb example. Read more
(LINCOLN, Abraham) BERGER, Anthony.
Cabinet card photographic portrait, taken at Mathew B. Brady's studio, 9 February 1864. c1890
£1,950
On 9 February 1864, Anthony Berger, a photographer employed by Mathew Brady, and the manager of Brady's Washington studio, took a sequence seven exposures, intended for use as...
Albumen photograph (140 × 103 mm) mounted the original glazed card mount (164 × 106 mm), gilt edges, gold-printed studio "stamp" of "M.B. Brady Wash. D.C."... Read more
NOTMAN, William, & Fennings Taylor.
Portraits of British Americans. 1865–8
£1,850
First edition in book form, first issued in 16 parts, presentation copy to the governor general of Canada, inscribed in each volume. "To His Excellency The Right Honourable The Earl...
3 volumes, octavo (214 × 142 mm) bound for presentation in tan half calf, on marbled boards red and green morocco labels to spines, raised bands, marbled... Read more
(CARTES DE VISITE.)
Album of 90 Victorian Celebrity Cartes de Visite. [c. 1860s]
£1,800
Extensive mid-19th century carte de visite album containing cards of public figures, authors, and entertainers. Cartes de visite, small photos the size of visiting cards, were...
Concertina album in brown morocco by Jenner & Knewstub, diced pattern stamped to boards and spine in black, metal clasps and monogram, blue silk doublure. 90 cartes de... Read more
