Search results for: 'WHITE, T. H'
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![The Insolence of Man. [Unpublished carbon typescript.]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/8/6/86006.jpg)
WHITE, T. H. The Insolence of Man. [Unpublished carbon typescript.][1942]
Original carbon typescript to White's unpublished "philosophical pamphlet" The Insolence of Man, with over a hundred notes and corrections in White's hand, and several critical notes in the margins by David Garnett, to whom White sent this carbon typescript for critique. There are numerous corrections by White and annotations by Garnett. T. H. White,... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 86006
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![Macbeth the Knife. [Mimeograph typescript.]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/8/6/86009.jpg)
WHITE, T. H. Macbeth the Knife. [Mimeograph typescript.][1960]
Mimeograph typescript of T. H. White's play, "Macbeth the Knife", sent to Harley J. V. Usill, founding director of British record label Argo Records. The typescript is inscribed on the title page, "from T. H. White / Alderney / Channel Isles", and has a lengthy written note to "Dearest Usill" about the possibility of recording the play: "For sound on... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 86009
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(GOLF; JAPAN.) WHITE, Cyril T. H. Commonplace book containing documents relating to cruises on the China Station and elsewhere.1890-1906
A naval officer's commonplace book from the last years of the 19th century containing rare ephemera, notably two printed documents of 1897 relating to the Hakodate Golf Club. These both predate the accepted date for the foundation of the "first golf club in Japan", at Kobe in 1901. Hakodate, on the northern island of Hokkaido, was the first Japanese... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 117485
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WHITE, T. H. England Have My Bones.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. Scarce presentation copy inscribed by T. H. White on the title page, "N.H.H-B. / One book as a small token of gratitude for very many fried eggs. T.H.W." Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 83943
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WHITE, T. H. Earth Stopped or Mr. Marx's Sporting Tour.London : 1934
First edition, first impression, of White's early comic novel assembling a ludicrous array of characters at a fox-hunting party at "Woodmansterne Hall... a sort of private Bedlam. The guests are sufficiently ill-assorted to amuse, ranging from the Countess of Scamperdale, who endeavoured to go intellectual as well as horsey, to Mr. Marx the Communist,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 85977
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WHITE, T. H. The Book of Beasts.London : 1954
First edition, first impression, presentation copy,inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Ken Smith, with love from Tim White", additionally signed by White under his printed name on the title page. The Book of Beasts was White's translation from a mediaeval bestiary manuscript preserved in the Cambridge University Library. His epigraph is from... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 139142
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BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret. Shooting the Russian War.New York : 1942
First edition, first printing, in a notably bright jacket. "In 1942 Bourke-White became the first woman photographer accredited to the U.S. Air Force. During World War II she was the only foreign photographer in Moscow during the German bombardment" (ANB). This work, which includes an insightful commentary on her time in Russia, a glossary, and technical... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 139285
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WHITE, T. H. The Once and Future King.London : 1958
First edition, first impression, the first collected edition of White's Arthurian epic, and a beautiful bright copy.
In The Once and Future King, White revised the shorter novels published from 1938 to 1941, added new material and made significant textual changes. It is divided into four parts: "The Sword in the Stone"; "The Queen of Air and Darkness"... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 135805
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WHITE, T. H. The Elephant and the Kangaroo.London : 1948
Uncorrected proof copy of the first UK edition (preceded by the US publication in the previous year) of White's urbanely-imagined fantasy of a second great deluge, wherein the fate of the humanity rests with two hapless Irish farmers and the semi-autobiographical protagonist Mr. White. With a single page advertising the book tipped in to the front wrapper... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 85980
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WHITE, T. H. The Sword in the Stone.London : 1938
Rare original page proofs for The Sword in the Stone, with a manuscript annotation to the title page, bound with the original wrappers. The Sword in the Stone is "a delightful blend of medieval lore and humorous commentary and in many ways the finest light fantasy of the century" (Bleiler). It was the most significant contribution... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 138836
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WHITE, T. H. The Witch in the Wood.London : 1940
First UK edition, first impression, of White's second Arthurian book. It was first published in the US the preceding year. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 130501
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WHITE, T. H. The Godstone and the Blackymor.London : 1959
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the illustrator, "Signed for Bridget by Edward Ardizzone, Feb 1968", on the front free endpaper, with a typed letter from the Book Trade Group referring to Ardizzone's visit to Melbourne, a related newspaper clipping and a prospectus from Jonathan Cape for their journal Now and Then, all laid in. A lovely... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 108471
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WHITE, T. H. The Sword in the Stone.London : 1938
First edition, first impression, of the most significant contribution to Arthurian literature in the 20th century, reinvigorating the tales for a new and younger audience. The novel was adapted by Disney into an animated film in 1963, and various times by the BBC for radio. Initially intended as a stand-alone work, the success of the novel led to White... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 138828
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WHITE, T. H. The Goshawk.London : 1951
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author "for Elizabeth Alethea Harcourt" on the title page. The recipient is almost certainly the English artist Elizabeth Aletha Harcourt, the daughter of the painter George Harcourt (1868-1947). White wrote this account of his attempt to train a goshawk using traditional falconry techniques in 1936,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 139514
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[WHITE, T. H.] ASTON, James. They Winter Abroad.London : 1932
First edition, first impression of the author's first novel, published pseudonymously. White composed the novel halfway through his studies at Queen's College, while convalescing from tuberculosis in Italy. Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 99609
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WHITE, Leslie T. Harness Bull.[1938]
First UK edition, first impression. Published the year earlier in the US this book was the basis for the 1953 movie "Vice Squad". Learn More£140.00Stock Code: 62564
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WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of SelborneLondon : 1900
Large paper edition, number 86 of 160 copies signed by the editor and artists, lavishly bound and illustrated. First published in 1789, White's Selborne is one of the great English books of the 18th century, "the first book which raised natural history into the region of literature" (Encyclopaedia Britannica). The work is arranged into three sequences... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139565
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WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton.London : 1900
A handsomely bound copy of the Natural History of Selbourne, part of the Library of English Classics. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 132541
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WHITE, T. H. Loved Helen and Other Poems.London : 1929
First edition, first impression. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 88951
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WHITE, T. H. The Sword in The Stone.London : 1938
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 131983
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WHITE, T. H. Gone To Ground.1935
First Edition, First Impression, First Issue binding in the brown cloth with the spine gilt and the jacket priced at 7/6. Not common in the first issue. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 43655
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WHITE, T. H. Verses.Alderney : 1962
First edition, sole printing, number 4 of 100 copies only, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend Harry Griffiths, and additionally inscribed with an unpublished holograph poem. The presentation inscription to the verso of the title page reads: "Harry Griffiths heart and arrow device Tim White". White has also written out an unpublished... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 35075
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[WHITE, T. H.] James Aston. First Lesson. A Novel.London : 1932
First edition, first impression of the author's fourth book, and the second that he published under the pseudonym James Aston. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 111408
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[WHITE, T. H.] ASTON, James. First Lesson. A Novel.London : 1932
First edition, first impression of the author's fourth book, the second that he published under the pseudonym James Aston. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 63902
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[WHITE, T. H.] ASTON, James. First Lesson. A Novel.London : 1932
First edition, first impression of the author's fourth book, the second that he published under the pseudonym James Aston. Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 99576
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WHITE, Gleeson, & Charles Shannon, eds. The Pageant.London : 1896-7
First editions, first impressions. All published of a typically unfeasible 1890s venture, an artistic and literary collaboration between the "Rhymers' Club" decadents and the pre-Raphaelite aesthetes, and others, including work by Max Beerbohm, Robert Bridges, Edward Burne Jones, Charles Conder, Walter Crane, Austin Dobson, Ernest Dowson, Richard Garnett,... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 140450
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WHITE, E. B. Typed letter signed to the publisher John Gilbert.8 August 1961
Typed letter signed from E. B. White to the publisher John Gilbert at Books for Pleasure: "Dear Mr. Gilbert: Thanks for your letter inviting me to write an introduction to a book of photographs. I am sorry that I cannot accept this assignment. My life at this point is a matter of catching up with jobs already begun, and with no time for new work. But... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 139160
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DE CHAIR, Somerset. The Golden Carpet; The Silver Crescent.London : 1943
First editions, each in a signed edition limited of 300 copies of which just 30 were in the full binding as here, copies 16 and 25 respectively. De Chair was Intelligence Officer with "Kingcol", a Flying Column of less than 1,500 men under the Command of Brig.-Gen. Kingstone. This tiny force was sent from Palestine to Baghdad to deal with the effects... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 105498
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(THE WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT.) 3rd Battalion The Worcestershire Regt. 1905 - Mandora Barracks, Aldershot - fine presentation photograph album.Aldershot : 1905
An exceptionally handsomely-presented album produced for Lt.-Col. E.A. D'Arcy Thomas on leaving command of the battalion. Inscribed verso of the front free endpaper; "To Colonel E.A. D'A. Thomas from his Adjutant A.S. Nesbitt (April 1904 to April 1907)." Fine selection of well-captioned group portraits - the officers in dress, and in service uniform,... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 81935
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(GALLEY, Edmund.) WHITE, F. Faulkner (illuminator). The Galley Memento.[Exeter : 1879]
Handsomely bound and illuminated presentation album, one of just two copies, presented to honour the work of solicitor and county clerk Ralph Sanders, one of two men instrumental in reversing the miscarriage of justice in the case of Edmund Galley, who became an international cause célèbre after being wrongfully convicted of murder and transported... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 132619
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(THATCHER, Margaret.) Official cabinet photograph, July 1983.Margaret Thatcher's own copy of the official cabinet photograph taken 7 July 1983, the first cabinet photograph after her landslide victory in the June 1983 election, signed by herself and every other member of the cabinet. This is one of two signed 1983 cabinet photographs, this in colour, the other in black and white, which were kept by Thatcher until... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 133384
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(THATCHER, Margaret.) Official cabinet photograph, July 1983.Margaret Thatcher's own copy of the official cabinet photograph taken 7 July 1983, the first cabinet photograph after her landslide victory in the June 1983 election, signed by herself and every other member of the cabinet. This is one of two signed 1983 cabinet photographs, this in black and white, the other in colour, which were kept by Thatcher until... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 133386
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SHAW, Joseph T. Derelict.New York : 1930
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dr. Howard A. White with deep appreciation - Joseph T. Shaw". Joseph Shaw is best known as the editor of the fiction magazine Black Mask, which published the early stories of authors such as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. A lovely copy. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 69427
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WHITE, Patrick. Happy Valley.London : 1939
First edition, first impression, of White's first novel, a superior copy in the scarce dust jacket. White "later rejected Happy Valley as prentice work, refusing to allow a reprinting, but it was warmly received by English critics, though some commented, justly, on the obvious echoes of Joyce and Lawrence. In Australia, while critics were not so kind,... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 104223
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SWEET, Samuel White, Captain. Captain Sweet's Views of South Australia.Adelaide : c.1884
Superb lifetime album of fully-captioned photographs of remarkable depth and clarity by the pioneering photographer of Australia Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886), presenting a generous panorama of his art in prints reflecting the civic pride of the city of Adelaide through its many fine buildings, alongside the landscape of South Australia captured... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 129596
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[WHITE, James, & Charles Lamb.] Original Letters, &c. of Sir John Falstaff and his friends;London : 1796
First edition. The author James White (1775-1820) was a friend of Charles Lamb from their schooldays at Christ's Hospital. He so enjoyed Shakespeare's Henry IV, to which he was introduced by Lamb, that he developed an impersonation of Falstaff good enough to rouse the jealousy of professional actors and for which, according to another schoolfellow John... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 130600
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(THATCHER, Margaret.) Order of Service for Margaret Thatcher's cremation.2013
The Order of Service for Margaret Thatcher's private cremation service at Mortlake Crematorium on 17 April 2013, following her funeral at St Paul's Cathedral earlier that day. The service was presided over by the chaplain of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, with music provided by the Royal Hospital Chapel Choir and the hospital's organist. Thatcher had close... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 124409
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(SLAVERY; WEST INDIES.) HAITIAN SLAVE REVOLT. Log book of Commodore John Ford.1792 - 1794
A conspicuous survival from a period of violent tumult in the Caribbean: the log book of the distinguished Royal Navy officer Commodore John Ford, kept while Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica Station. "At the start of the French Revolutionary War Ford d. 1796 had nine small vessels including three frigates in addition to his flagship at Jamaica. Having been... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 128585
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GOUGH, Sir Hubert. The Fifth Army.London : 1931
First and only contemporary edition, this copy signed on the title page by the author, his nephew Freddie Gough, who served as a midshipman on board Ramillies and Witherington in WWI, but found fame as commander of the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron in Operation Market Garden; together with the signatures of two World War I VC winners, Geoffrey... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 140695
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(THATCHER, Margaret.) Official cabinet photograph, January 1985.Margaret Thatcher's own copy of the official cabinet photograph taken January 1985, signed by herself and every other member of the cabinet. The photograph was kept by Thatcher until her death in 2013, and here appears on the market for the first time after acquisition directly from her estate. 1985 was a strong year for Thatcher, with her authority... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 133387
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HEPPLEWHITE, Alice. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide;London : 1789
Second edition, revised, of one of the great pattern books of the 18th century, first published in the preceding year, this printing adding an extra plate.
"In 1788 Isaac and Josiah Taylor published The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide... In publishing the Hepplewhite Guide the Taylors were filling a yawning gap. The plates were issued in batches... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 33768
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WHITE, Florence. Good Things in England.London, Toronto, New York : 1932
First edition, first printing, with the scarce dust jacket, of this classic book by the founder of the English Folk Cookery Association. Born in 1863, White's somewhat unhappy childhood, shopping "economically for food (since the family was by then poor), waiting on her uncongenial stepmother, and teaching the three small children of her father's third... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 104630
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WHITE, Edmund. Nocturnes for the King of Naples.London : 1979
First UK Edition, First Impression of the author's first book. Learn More£35.00Stock Code: 31461
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WHITE, E. B. Charlotte's Web.New York : 1952
First edition, first printing. E. B. White won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970 for Charlotte's Web and his first children's book, Stuart Little, which was published in 1945. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136193
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WHITE, E. B. Charlotte's Web.New York : 1952
First edition, first printing. E. B. White won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970 for Charlotte's Web and his first children's book, Stuart Little, which was published in 1945. Loosely inserted in this copy is a programme for a school production of Charlotte's Web, of unknown date. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 125068
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WHITE, E. B. Charlotte's Web.New York : 1952
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author in blue ink on the half-title: "For Lynn Bushell with greetings from E B White". E. B. White won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970 for Charlotte's Web and his first children's book, Stuart Little, which was published in 1945. Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 137825
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WHITE, Ethel Lina. While She Sleeps.New York & London : 1940
First US edition, first printing. Originally published in the UK in the same year. Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 107123
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WHITE, E. B. Charlotte's Web.New York : 1952
First edition, first printing. E. B. White won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970 for Charlotte's Web and his first children's book, Stuart Little, which was published in 1945. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 136192
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WHITE, E. B. Charlotte's Web.New York : 1952
First edition, first printing. E. B. White won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970 for Charlotte's Web and his first children's book, Stuart Little, which was published in 1945. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 136673
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KAYE, John William; G. B. Malleson; Frederic Pincott. A History of the Sepoy War in India. 1857-1858.London : 1878-81
Mixed editions as usual, Kaye first published 1864-76, Malleson 1878-80, and Pincott in 1880. The standard "empire history massive, verbose, all-embracing histories: authoritative and dogmatic: entirely noble in sentiment, entirely British in attitude and viewpoint" (Taylor). Sorsky draws attention to Chauduri's critical comments on Malleson's scholarship... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 129818
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(KING, Jessie M.) WHITE, Colin. The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King.1989
First edition, first impression. With a bibliographical checklist of books illustrated by Jessie M. King at the back. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 61632
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(THATCHER, Margaret.) A pair of white display cabinets.A pair of display cabinets owned by Margaret Thatcher, acquired by her when furbishing the five-storey Chester Square house which she bought in 1991, and kept and used by her in the house until her death in 2013. It thereafter entered storage until acquisition by Peter Harrington directly from the Margaret Thatcher estate. Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 134440
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MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone With The Wind.New York : 1956
Limited edition in celebration of the dedication of "White Columns on Peachtree", the colonial revival building that was home to Atlanta's WSB and WSB-TV stations from 1956 to 1998. WSB-TV was founded in 1948 by James M. Cox, publisher of the Atlanta Journal newspaper, making it the second oldest broadcaster south of Washington D. C.. This copy signed... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 71905
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MALLEY, Ern. [pseud. James McAuley & Harold Stewart.] The Darkening Ecliptic.Melbourne & Adelaide : 1944
First book edition, first printing, of the poems that constituted one of the great literary hoaxes of the century. The collection of poems first appeared in a special commemorative Autumn 1944 number (actually June) of Angry Penguins, Australia's leading modernist literary magazine, who had had the poems submitted to their offices with a cover letter... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 117362
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(THATCHER, Margaret.) Order of Service for Margaret Thatcher's funeral.2013
The Order of Service for Margaret Thatcher's funeral in St Paul's Cathedral, on 17 April 2013. The funeral was attended by over 2,000 people, with an estimated 4.4 million watching on television across the country. Thatcher's remains were cremated later that day, with her ashes buried in the Royal Hospital Chelsea, next to her husband Denis, in September.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 124408
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(EVANS, Walker.) CRANE, Hart. The BridgeParis : 1930
First edition, first impression, number 89 of 200 copies on Holland Paper from a total limited edition of 284 copies. The Bridge was Crane's only attempt at a long poem, inspired by his view of the Brooklyn Bridge from his apartment in Columbia Heights, and includes three plates from photographs of the bridge by his friend Walker Evans. Harold Bloom... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 135122
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JOHNSON, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon.New York : 1955
First edition, first printing, of the first book in the series. A very attractive copy of this charming story of what imagination and one crayon can bring. Learn More£2,875.00Stock Code: 98938
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Holograph revisions to the typescript short story "A High Wind-less Night in Jamaica" by his lover Jane Mason.Havana (?) : c.mid-1930s
Remarkable survival that memorialises Hemingway's infatuation with the young and glamorous socialite Jane Mason, who was to become the model for the character of Helene Bradley in To Have and Have Not (1937), his last experimental work from the Key West years. The couple first met in the autumn of 1931, when Hemingway and his wife Pauline were... Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 109126
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CRANE, Hart. The Collected Poems.London : 1938
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published by Liveright in the US in 1933. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 89802
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BECKETT, Samuel, & Georges Duthuit. Proust; [and] Three Dialogues.London : 1965
Signed limited edition, number 28 of 100 copies signed by Beckett and specially bound. Proust, Beckett's epistemological and aesthetic manifesto, was first published in 1930. Three Dialogues, a series of letters between Beckett and Duthuit concerning contemporary art, was first published in the literary journal transition in 1949. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123408
