Search results for: 'MARY ROSE'
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MARY ROSE. Narrative of the Loss of the Mary Rose,Portsea : 1842
First edition. It was issued with boards sourced from the wood of the Mary Rose itself, being bought at auction in 1840; the spine is lettered "Relic of the Mary Rose", and has the publisher's notice on the front pastedown to that effect.
The Mary Rose was among the largest of ships in the British navy for over 30 years, fighting in many battles... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 146039
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IRVIN, Albert (artist); Mary Rose Beaumont (compiler). The Complete Prints.Farnham, Surrey : 2010
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the artist on the title page "With very best wishes Albert Irvin", additionally inscribed underneath by the compiler "and all good wishes Mary Rose Beaumont", and signed by Irvin on the frontispiece recto; together with a signed limited print by Irvin, "Stratford", number 201 of 250 signed copies. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 146920
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CHARLTON, Mary. Rosella, or Modern Occurrences.London : 1799
First edition of this anti-sentimental satire on novel-reading by the author and translator Mary Charlton (1794-1824). Charlton wrote several popular novels for William Lane's Minerva Press and she "has much in common with her fellow Minerva best-sellers. All of Lane's top authors worked in the Gothic mode, providing their readers with tales of domestic... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 101111
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JONES, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.Oxford : 1750
First edition of the author's only book, a beautifully bound subscriber's copy, one of approximately 330 copies printed on royal paper, this from the library of Sir Edward Popham of Littlecote.
Born in Oxford, where she lived all her life, Mary Jones (1707-1778) was a well-connected poet and letter-writer whose work was greatly influenced by... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 134908
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BACON, Mary Ann. The Legend of St. Bernard.Norwich : [1840]
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Mrs Howlett from her affectionate friend MAB". We can trace ten copies in institutions worldwide, just one of those a presentation copy, inscribed from the author's father (see below).
The little-known British poet Mary Ann Bacon (fl. 1839-1870, d. 1875) was born into... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 136220
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OLIVER, Mary. Blue Pastures.San Diego, New York & London : 1995
Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, signed by the author on the title page, scarce thus. Blue Pastures contains 15 prose pieces by Oliver, inspired by her three "sustaining passions": "love of the wild world, love of literature, love for and from another person" (p. 119).
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) is best remembered today for her crystalline... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 147170
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OLIVER, Mary. West Wind.Boston & New York : 1997
Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, signed by the author on the title page, scarce thus. West Wind is the thirteenth collection by Oliver, containing 40 pieces of lyric poetry and prose.
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) is best remembered today for her crystalline style and minute attentiveness to nature, characteristic of Romantic poetry. Richard... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 147173
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OLIVER, Mary. White Pine.New York, San Diego & London : 1994
First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. This is an advance review copy, with the publisher's press release laid-in. White Pine is Oliver's eleventh collection, in which "she writes of the silky bonds between each person and the natural world" (dust jacket); it includes "The Sea Mouse" and some of her earliest prose poems.
Mary... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 146952
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OLIVER, Mary, & Molly Malone Cook. Our World.Boston : 2007
First edition, first impression, signed by Oliver on the rear free endpaper. Published two years after the death of Oliver's partner, Molly Malone Cook, in 2005, Our World brings together Cook's photography and Oliver's poems and prose in "an intimate revelation of their lives and art" (front flap).
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) is best remembered... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 147538
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SUTCLIFF, Rosemary. The Chronicles of Robin Hood.Oxford : 1950
First edition, first impression, of the author's first published book.
Rosemary Sutcliff (19201992) was an English novelist best known for children's books, especially historical fiction and retellings of myths and legends. She spent most of her life in a wheelchair, and "most of Sutcliff's intellectual stimulus had come from books read aloud... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 135706
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PENROSE, Elizabeth as MARKHAM, Mrs. A History of France with Conversations at the End of each Chapter.London : 1828
First edition, in an attractive contemporary binding, of Elizabeth Penrose's pseudonymously published second popular history for children. Penrose's pioneering and influential juvenile works were distinguished by her use of an explicatory narrative technique which concludes each chapter with dialogue between the author and her fictional pupils.
The... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 117710
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ROSENDAHL, Charles Emery. What About the Airship?New York : 1938
First edition, first printing; a superb presentation copy, inscribed by the author across the front free endpaper, "With best wishes and happiest recollections of our airship service together, to Captain George W. Steele. Charles Emery Rosendahl, August 1938". The recipient was Rosendahl's predecesor as commander of the ZR-3 airship USS Los Angeles... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 143198
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COLE, Benjamin BILLINSGATE WARD AND BRIDGE WARD WITHIN with their Divisions into PARISHES according to a new SURVEYc.1756.
A very interesting plan of this part of London, with key buildings drawn in miniature onto the map. Dedicated by an inscription running along the bottom to William Beckford Esq. and William Stephenson Esq., the coats of arms of these aldermen are presented, one above the other, to the left of plan. Title in decorative cartouche in bottom left corner,... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 55026
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BOWEN, Thomas. Billings Gate Ward and Bridge Ward Within their Divisions into Parishes according to a New Survey1767
Map of the Billingsgate and Bridge Wards in the City of London. From the northern end of London Bridge the map extends across (Lower) Thames Street and Eastcheap into Gracechurch Street and includes the Monument, Billingsgate Market and Fishmongers' Hall, the churches of St. Magnus the Martyr, St. Margaret Pattens, St. Mary at Hill and St. George, as... Learn More£90.00Stock Code: 58751
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BOWEN, Thomas. Billings Gate Ward and Bridge Ward Within their Divisions into Parishes according to a New Survey1767
Map of the Billingsgate and Bridge Wards in the City of London. From the northern end of London Bridge the map extends across (Lower) Thames Street and Eastcheap into Gracechurch Street and includes the Monument, Billingsgate Market and Fishmongers' Hall, the churches of St. Magnus the Martyr, St. Margaret Pattens, St. Mary at Hill and St. George, as... Learn More£90.00Stock Code: 58750
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ELKHORN, cruising motor launch. "Islesboro - - 1926." [label on front pastedown.]Isleboro, ME : 1926
Highly appealing photograph album documenting the Bertolet family's 1926 summer cruise off the Maine coast in the Elkhorn, an 81 foot motor yacht built by George S. Lawley & Sons in 1906, captained at the time by Whitney B. Lowe. Of particular interest are the many identified images of some superb sail and motor yachts of the era, including the Queen... Learn More£1,450.00Stock Code: 126909
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CLOUGH, Arthur Hugh. Poems.Cambridge : 1862
First edition thus, presentation copy, inscribed by the author's wife (Blanche Mary Clough, née Shore-Smith), on the half-title, "With Mrs. Clough's kind regards". With an additional inscription by its recipient below noting the date of its receipt, "Rec. 6th August 1862, sent to me at Chew Magna, C. L. Rose". This posthumous memorial issue (Clough... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 117878
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TARLETON, Priscilla Susan Bertie. Manuscript volume of poetry with numerous pen, ink, and pencil vignettes.London : 1796-1821
A superbly presented and deeply personal manuscript volume of largely unpublished poetry and drawings by Priscilla Susan Bertie Tarleton (1778-1864), wife of the notorious army officer and rakehell Sir Banastre Tarleton. The manuscript was produced between the years 1796, when the author was only 18 years old, and 1821, when she was 43. It contains... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 94720
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YEATS, W. B. The Collected Works in Verse And Prose.London : 1908
First collected edition, one of 250 first issues sets in the deluxe quarter vellum binding, with the Chapman & Hall imprint on the spines and title pages, from a total edition of 1,060 sets printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. As a production, this collected edition is regarded as a marvellous piece of publishing (Yeats himself was proud of it, remarking,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 114925
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LEWIS, Norman. Every Man's Brother.London : 1967
First edition, first impression. A copy inscribed by the author on the title: "To Ken and Mary/ With love- and a low moon from the land of my fathers- Norman/ and Ken, many thanks for all your invaluable help.". For Luigi Barzini, reading Lewis's prose was "like eating cherries". Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 115821
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WOMEN; WORLD WAR II. Original manuscript notebook.Ramsgate : April 1942 - March 1943
A poignant manuscript notebook, amusingly illustrated, recording the friendship and lively exploits of a group of six young women from Ramsgate during the Second World War. The group, who named themselves "the Order of Little Bears", consisted of Maud Isabella Milgate, the primary author of this manuscript, her sister Blanche Adelaide Milgate ("Bibs"),... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 137776
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TAVERNER, H. T. Charles Dickens: The Story of his Life.London : 1870
Fascinating copy of the first edition of the first posthumous biography of Dickens, signed on the title page and annotated throughout by Dickens's associate, the English journalist Edmund Ollier (1826-1886).
Ollier was a scion of a literary family of some consequence in the course of 19th-century English literature. His father Charles Ollier... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 136324
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab, A Philosophical Poem, with Notes.London : 1813
First edition, an "unmutilated" copy, with title page and final leaf intact, and including the poetic dedication to Harriet.
Queen Mab was Shelley's most provocative poem and a key radical text in the early years of the 19th century. The entire edition was 250 copies, published by Thomas Hookman for private distribution by Shelley himself. Due... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 143222
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THE BANKER'S DAUGHTER. Family archive illustrating the consequences of bankruptcy.London : [c.1803-1871]
A fascinating and varied archive which vividly illustrates the ramifications of bankruptcy upon family life, comprising financial, promotional, and personal documents related to the late Regency-era performer Mary Radcliff Chambers, "the Banker's Daughter", who took up an onstage career to revive her family's fortunes after the collapse of her father's... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 128644
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BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus.Hammersmith : 1892
First Kelmscott edition, one of only 300 copies, presentation copy, pseudonymously inscribed by Blunt to his sometime lover Mary Singleton on the front free endpaper, "Violet Fane from Proteus April 29 1892". Singleton was notably the subject of Sonnet LV "St. Valentine's Day" on page 162 of this work. A beautiful copy with a fittingly romantic association.
Mary... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 144728
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works in Prose and Verse.London : 1919-31
The Wessex Edition, the definitive edition of Hardy's works, and a finely bound set. Macmillan became Hardy's publishers in 1902 and "in 1912 they undertook a new and definitive edition, called (at Frederick Macmillan's suggestion) the 'Wessex Edition'. For this edition Hardy revised his novels throughout for the last time In a 'General Preface to... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 125755
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ILIFF, Edward Henry. A Summary of the Duties of Citizenship!London : [1795]
First edition of this radical tract, by the actor, playwright, and novelist Edward Henry Iliff, a friend of William Godwin. Iliff writes "the genus of society contains two species of odious monsters; Tyrants and Slaves" (p. 5), the former including soldiers, priests, and lawyers, the latter the poor multitudes. This "strident attack on the Army, Church,... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 139092
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KENNEDY, John F. The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy's speeches and manuscripts.c.1945-63
The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy's speeches and manuscripts spans the statesman's political career up to the presidency, from his first primary race in the 11th District in 1946 to the eve of nomination as president in the summer of 1960, encompassing three Congressional campaigns, two runs for the Senate, and a bid for the vice presidency.
David... Learn More£375,000.00Stock Code: 120955
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BUCHANAN, George. Ane Detectioun of the Duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes,London : [1571]
First edition thus, highly uncommon, a translation in Scots dialect of Buchanan's De Maria Scotorum Regina, from the Latin edition printed the same year, but including a number of items not included there. It has been described as "the most important" of the early tracts against Mary, Queen of Scots, and "the standard narrative about her descent into... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 128756
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SKELTON, Sir John. Charles I.London, Paris & Edinburgh : 1898
First edition, a handsomely bound copy. Skelton was a Scottish lawyer and literary figure; "In his historical work he characteristically displayed something of the spirit of the advocate" (ODNB). He also wrote a number of works on Mary Stuart. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 102763
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[HOFF, Harry Summerfield.] COOPER, William. Disquiet and Peace.London : 1956
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With love to Rosemary & Arthur Mizener. London 1956 - come back again! William Cooper." Arthur Mizener was the author of the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 112186
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SWEERT, Emanuel. [Vine and three other species].Amsterdam 1647
The print shows four plants- the vine - 'Vitis Vinifera', Rosemary, 'Balsamina sive momordica' and 'Halicacabus Indicus Arborescens'. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 53415
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WARREN, Robert Penn. Flood.New York : 1964
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Arthur and Rosemary, warmest regards, Robert. Fairfield, April 5, 1964." Arthur Mizener was renowned for writing the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 94333
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BORGES, Jorge Luis. Inquisiciones.Buenos Aires : 1925
First edition, first impression, a superlative presentation copy of the author's first work of prose. One of 505 copies printed, this is a uniquely untrimmed, unnumbered, and specially bound presentation copy inscribed by Borges on the first blank to his fellow Argentine author, and muse, Norah Lange (1905-1972).
Borges's inscription, using the... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 145266
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HASKELL, Arnold. The National Ballet.London : 1943
First edition, first impression, with 21 signatures in blue ink on the endpapers from members of the pioneering generation of the 1940s Sadler's Wells Company, of this wartime publication by British dance critic Arnold Haskell who, together with Dame Ninette de Valois, was influential in the development of the Royal Ballet School.
The autographs... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 146585
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PHOTOPLAYS. Photoplay Collection.London, New York, etc : c.1910-50
An excellent photoplay collection from the early decades of cinema, with the scarce and sensational illustrated dust jackets. 64 volumes are from the Readers Library series, published in London, 38 are from New York's Grosset & Dunlap (these notably illustrated with photographic film stills), and the remainder are from various other publishers. The... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 120921
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[HOFF, Harry Summerfield.] COOPER, William. Scenes from a Provincial Life.London : 1950
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Arthur Mizener, author of the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his wife: "Love to Rosemary & Arthur. Harry, 7.iv.58." With their bookplate to the front pastedown. This is the third impression (issued the same year as the first). Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 112221
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SUETONIUS. The History of the Twelve Caesars, Emperors of Rome.London : 1672
First edition of this translation, the second edition in English overall, following the first of 1606 translated by Philêmon Holland. The translator has never been firmly identified. It was published by John Starkey, a well-known Whig and Dissenting bookseller, and some have perceived an anti-royalist tone in the translation, although the book does... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 136176
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WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando.New York : 1928
First edition, first printing, signed limited issue, number 109 of 800 copies signed by the author in her customary purple ink on the verso of the half-title. Woolf's Orlando is widely recognized as a masterpiece of modernist and feminist literature, and remains among her best-known works.
Dedicated to Vita Sackville-West, whose androgynous... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 148334
