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KRAUSS, Ruth, Remy Charlip, Maurice Sendak, Margaret Rey, H. A. Rey, Karla Kuskin, Ezra Jack Keats, Miriam Schlein, Harvey Weiss and Crockett Johnson. 10 signatures by 10 US children's authors and illustrators.c. 1970
A collection of esteemed Children's authors and illustrators, presumably signed at the same gathering as the signatures are in the same pen, unfortunately we do not have the whereabouts or exact dates. Ruth Krauss was the author of many Children's books including "The Carrot Seed", one of many collaborations with her husband illustrator, Crockett Johnson,... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 146040
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JOHNSON, Samuel; BIRRELL, Augustine. Aphorisms on Authors and their Ways;[London] : 1917
First and only edition, 100 copies printed. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the initial blank, "To M.C, from AB, Christmas 1917" on the initial blank, and latterly in the collection of American-born Conservative politician and diarist Sir Henry "Chips" Channon (1897-1958), with his pencilled ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 111281
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JOHNSON, Samuel - MACNICOL, Donald. Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides;London : 1779
First edition. Donald MacNicol (17351802) was a Church of Scotland minister deeply interested in Scots Gaelic culture and the oral traditions of the highlands. His large collection of Ossianic and modern poetry was consulted by James Macpherson, translator and author of The Poems of Ossian (1773). When Dr Johnson trained his formidable arsenal on Macpherson's... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 132692
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JOHNSON, Samuel - BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson,London : 1791
First edition, first state (p. 135, vol. 1, uncorrected, reading "gve"), of the most famous biography in any language. The immense task of compiling the thousands of notes Boswell had recorded on "the great man's talk, habits and opinions" was begun after Johnson's death in 1784. Made up of trifling incidents as well as the significant events in Johnson's... Learn More£42,500.00Stock Code: 141441
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JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works of the English Poets.London : 1790
Second edition, with 14 authors, including Johnson himself, added to the original selection of 1779-81. The ultimate literary success of Johnson's career, the prefaces written to append the vast collection of English poetry were quickly recognized as setting a new standard for English literary biography. "In particular, the surveys of Cowley, Milton,... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 140493
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JOHNSON, B. S. House Mother Normal.London : 1971
First edition, signed limited issue. Number 52 of 126 copies signed by the author, of which the first 100 were for sale. A classic experimental novel utilising stream-of-consciousness to explore the lives of a group of elderly people living in a nursing home. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 81693
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JOHNSON, W. Fletcher. Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, Late Retired General, U.S.A. - a Publisher's Blad.Philadelphia : 1891
A salesman's sample for this highly successful biography. Mounted on the front pastedown is the upper board of the Autograph Edition - "in Extra English Cloth in a chaste English style, to meet the want of people of culture, who will desire the Life of General Sherman in really choice style, rather than showy" - and on the rear pastedown the spine... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 70914
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JOHNSON, B. S. Poems Two.London : 1972
First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number R of 26 copies for the author's use only, inscribed on the limitation page "R is for Rayner Heppenstall. 35/3/72". The recipient was British experimentalist and BBC radio producer Rayner Heppenstall (1911-1981). A further 100 copies were thus specially bound, numbered, and signed. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 144147
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JOHNSON, Ray; Jasper Johns; Andy Warhol - LEVINE, Les. Culture Hero. A Fanzine of Stars of the Super World. Jill Johnston Exposed: Special Issue.New York : 1970
First edition, first printing, signed by Ray Johnson, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol on the front cover, signed by Levine on the first and last pages, the page devoted to Andy Warhol signed by Warhol, and the page devoted to Ray Johnson signed by Johnson. The artists who have signed this publication were in attendance at the launch party. Jill Johnson... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 139809
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JOHNSON, B. S. The Unfortunates.London : 1969
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the inside cover of the box to the publisher, editor and literary agent William Miller, who was one of the main driving forces behind Panther Books: "For William, with respect for his courage in publishing this: and thanks, Bryan, 1/1/69" and with his signature over the printed... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 88781
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KAUFFER, E. McKnight (dust jacket); BISHOP, Morris, as W. Bolingbroke Johnson. The Widening Stain.New York : 1942
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Bill Upson, who might even have been involved - W. Bolingbroke Johnson". The author began to write his real name and crossed it out after the first two letters of "Morris". A nice copy in the E. McKnight Kauffer jacket.
The recipient of this copy was William Hazlet... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 73994
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BASHE, Charles, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, & Emerson W. Pugh. IBM's Early Computers;Cambridge, MA : 1986
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed from the authors to "I. Bernard Cohen - Many thanks". As the editor of the MIT Press Series in the History of Computing, Cohen provided the foreword for this book, which chronicles and analyses the technical development of IBM from its time as a small manufacturer in the 1920s to its status... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 118806
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MCNAMARA, Robert - BISHOP, Jim. A Day in the Life of President Johnson.New York : 1967
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author to President Johnson's Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, inscribed on the initial blank "To Robert McNamara, This is the way I see the President, closeup. Sincerely, Jim Bishop. May 1967".
Appointed Secretary of Defense in 1961 by President Kennedy, and retained by President... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 146300
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JOHNSON, Lionel. Poems.London : 1895
First edition, number 6 of 25 inscribed large-paper copies, inscribed by the author on the initial blank "Twenty-five copies of this edition. No. 6. Lionel Johnson".
"His reputation was confirmed by the publication of his Poems in 1895, which marks the high point in his career" (ODNB). Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 144311
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.London : 1791 & 1793
First editions, presentation copies, both the Life of Johnson and Principal Corrections with individual autograph presentation inscriptions from the author to Andrew Lumisden (1720-1801), a friend of Boswell's who had assisted in preparing the Life by deciphering Johnson's manuscript notebook of his trip to France in October-November 1775.
This... Learn More£185,000.00Stock Code: 119415
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JOHNSON, Pamela Hansford. Blessed Above Women.London : 1936
First edition, first impression, of the author's second novel, the story of a school mistress, a "Modern Jael", who falls in love with one of her students. Scarce. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 90149
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson,London : 1791
First edition. "Boswell's Life of Johnson remains the most famous biography in any language, one of Western literature's most germinal achievements: unprecedented in its time in its depth of research and its extensive use of private correspondence and recorded conversation, it sought to dramatize its subject in his authorial greatness and formidable... Learn More£35,000.00Stock Code: 122700
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson.London : 1835
An attractive set of Boswell's great biography, first published in 1791. "This version contains both the original texts, augmented by the additional writings of the biographer and his subject, and the very valuable new and related material which Croker introduced in his 1831 edition" (Pottle). "Boswell's Life of Johnson remains the most famous biography... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140500
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson,London : 1835
An attractive set of Boswell's great biography, first published in 1791. "This version contains both the original texts, augmented by the additional writings of the biographer and his subject, and the very valuable new and related material which Croker introduced in his 1831 edition" (Pottle). "Boswell's Life of Johnson remains the most famous biography... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139422
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JOHNSON, Pamela Hansford. World's End.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, of the author's fourth novel, set in Chelsea's World's End. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 89573
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CAMPBELL, John. Lives of the British Admirals:1812-17
Best Edition, down to the Expedition against Algiers in 1816. Campbell's work, originally published between 1742 and 1744, was subsequently revised, expanded, and condensed in various editions issued up to a hundred years after his death in 1775.
"A man of untiring industry and considerable accomplishment, Campbell is described as gentle in manner... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 40293
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BEATTIE, James - FORBES, Sir William. An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D.Edinburgh : 1806
First edition of Forbes's principal work, an excellent association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to the author's son, "William Forbes Esqr. from the author"; together with a small group of related contemporary autograph material laid in which reflects the strong ties between the Forbes and Beattie families.
Sir William Forbes, 6th... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 118450
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WALLACE, George C. - WALLACE, George Jr. The Wallaces of Alabama.Chicago : 1975
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author's father, George C. Wallace, on the front free endpaper "To my friend Herbert B. Jaynson George C Wallace". Wallace's "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" speech, his infamous stand in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama to block the entry of two African American... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 137165
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BURKE, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.London : 1782
Ninth edition of Burke's treatise on aesthetics, first published in 1757.
The Philosophical Enquiry was Burke's first truly successful work, winning praise in many quarters: Dr Johnson, "an example of true criticism"; Hume, "a very pretty treatise"; Reynolds, "the admirable treatise"; and Kant describing Burke as "the foremost author" in "the... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 144789
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BURKE, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.London : 1757
First edition of Burke's treatise on aesthetics, published in what Todd calculates to have been "a rather small edition, possibly limited to 500 copies". The Philosophical Enquiry was Burke's first truly successful work, winning praise in many quarters: Dr Johnson, "an example of true criticism"; Hume, "a very pretty treatise"; Reynolds, "the admirable... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 141332
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O'SHEA, Beth. A Long Way From Boston.New York : 1946
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "First off the press - For Julian Johnson - who was first to tell me I should write a book and, when it was started, told me how to slant it - Beth O'Shea". Preceding Kerouac's On The Road, this transcontinental road trip narrative unusually features... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139409
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[FLACK, Isaac Harvey.] GRAHAM, Harvey. A Crab Was Crushed.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the first blank, "To Carol Johnson, with all best wishes and my thanks. I. Harvey F. 25.1.37." Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 105422
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HOROWITZ, David. The Abolition of Poverty.New York : 1969
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Mr. Robert S. McNamara, in friendship and appreciation D Horowitz Jerusalem November 1969". The recipient was Robert McNamara (1916-2009), United States Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, and a significant figure in the Cold War, having a... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138303
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MILLER, Philip. The Gardeners Dictionary:London : 1735
First octavo edition, an abridgment of the first comprehensive dictionary of gardening. Philip Miller (1691-1771) was the most distinguished and influential British gardener of the 18th century. His dictionary is a noteworthy milestone in the great sequence of encyclopaedias and dictionaries of that era, fit to rank with John Harris's Lexicon Technicum... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 116084
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BURKE, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.Chiswick : 1825
An attractively printed and bound copy of Burke's great work on aesthetics.
First published in 1757, the Philosophical Enquiry was Burke's first truly successful work, winning praise in many quarters: Dr Johnson, "an example of true criticism"; Hume, "a very pretty treatise"; Reynolds, "the admirable treatise"; and Kant describing Burke as "the... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 142413
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JODRELL, Richard Paul. The Persian Heroine.London : 1822
First edition thus, second overall, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Originally published in 1786 in octavo, this edition presents the play in three acts instead of the previous five "to allow a representation of it in either of those two modes" (preface). Well represented institutionally but commercially uncommon; signed copies are... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 137315
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MACPHERSON, John. Critical dissertations on the origin, antiquities, language, government, manners, and religion, of the ancient Caledonians, their posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish Scots.London : 1768
First edition of the author's most important work, his posthumously published response to the Ossian controversy, written in part as a defence of the Ossianic poems but also to encourage wider appreciation of Scottish culture and literature.
A Scottish minister and a recognized Celtic authority on antiquities, Macpherson had met James Macpherson... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140867
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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "For Sir William Forbes Bart. from the Author" on the title page verso, complete with both the half-title and addenda pages (pp. 527-34), the former of which is bound in after the errata as issued. Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (1739-1806) was an eminent Scottish banker and benefactor, and a good friend of... Learn More£6,250.00Stock Code: 118071
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[SLAVERY] CAMPBELL, John. Candid and impartial Considerations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade; the comparative importance of the British and French islands in the West-Indies: with the value and consequence of St. Lucia and Granada, truly stated. Illustrated with copper plates.London : 1763
First edition of the first-named, fourth of the second which was first published Antigua, 1750 under the pseudonym of "An Old Planter". John Campbell (17081775), was a highly successful historian and miscellaneous author, Johnson thought well of him and praised the usefulness of his knowledge, also describing him as "the richest author that ever grazed... Learn More£5,250.00Stock Code: 132583
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FORD, Charles Henri (ed.) View.New York : 1940-7
A complete set, one volume inscribed by Ford, of first printings of the remarkable American literary and art magazine published by artist and writer Charles Henri Ford and writer and film critic Parker Tyler. View covered the contemporary avant-garde and Surrealist scene, and was published quarterly as finances permitted. The roster of prestigious contributors,... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 109741
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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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SILVETTE, Herbert. The Medlars.London : 1957
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Edwin & Mary Barton with love, Herbert Silvette. '? Year' 14 July '57". Learn More£55.00Stock Code: 85136
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YOUNG, Whitney M. Beyond Racism.New York : 1969
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Ted Sorensen and his wife Gillian on the half-title: "For Ted & Gillian: With appreciation for your support of the cause and gratitude for your personal friendship. Sincerely Whitney". Ted Sorensen (1928-2010) had a significant behind-the-scenes influence on American politics... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 132110
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BLESH, Rudi. Shining Trumpets.New York : 1946
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author, warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Frances Reitmeyer - a true devotee of the "righteous" jazz - with best personal wishes, Rudi Blesh, November 12, 1946", and by his daughter on the verso, "To Frances, this is an honour for me! Best wishes and love, Hilary Blesh".
Frances... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 133585
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LEMPRIERE, William. A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, Tarudant; and thence over Mount Atlas to Morocco: including a Particular Account of the Royal Harem, etc.London : 1791-4
First editions, William Beckford's copies, with his pencilled annotation to the initial blank of the first work, noting "p. 218 at night, Sidy Mahomet had constantly six blood hounds in his chamber" and other detail; subsequently in the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles (1838-1914), with the usual bookplates and markings... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 117613
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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, in a fine Scott of Edinburgh binding, presentation copy, inscribed from the author on a preliminary blank to William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, whose celebrated library was largely destroyed by fire during the Gordon Riots.
The Scottish agriculturalist and political economist James Anderson (1739-1808) wrote several influential... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 127839
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WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:London : 1792
First edition of the first great feminist treatise. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) argued in her groundbreaking manifesto that the rights of man and of woman were one and the same thing. Her demand for "justice for one-half of the human race" was too revolutionary for her time, but she found a following among radicals and educated women, and succeeded... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 137762
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Beauties of English Poesy.London : 1767
First edition, complete with the half-titles and contents leaves in both volumes. This is a particularly nice copy, in a handsome unrestored contemporary binding, of this scarce anthology of English poetry selected by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), published the year after The Vicar of Wakefield.
The selection includes such near-contemporary... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 143778
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CONDORCET, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat. Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind:London : 1795
First edition in English of Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain, originally published earlier the same year in Paris. Condorcet's tract is the clearest and boldest statement of the enlightenment belief in progress. Condorcet wrote the work in 1794 while in hiding from Robespierre's agents, having voted against the execution... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 128561
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FORBES, Edwin. Life Studies of the Great Army.New York : 1876
Scarce first edition of one of the finest graphic representations of the American Civil War; this copy with the bookplate of Union army veteran William Bush Blackwell (1837-1922), first lieutenant and quarter master with the 26th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry (the "2nd Oneida Regiment"), later a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 114470
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BUYS, Egbert. A New and Complete Dictionary of Terms of Art.Amsterdam : 1768-9
First edition of this scarce and rather eccentric technical dictionary with definitions in English and Dutch. A broad spectrum of subjects is covered, including architecture and applied arts, botany and mathematics, law, military and naval terms, heraldry, ancient history, alongside archaisms and obscure vocabulary drawn from Chaucer, Milton and Shakespeare.... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 128721
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BEATTIE, James. Elements of Moral Science.Edinburgh : 1790
First edition, volume I only; volume II was published in 1793. As the professor of moral philosophy and logic at Marischal College, Aberdeen from 1760 to 1803, Beattie delivered some 300 or so lectures annually to final year arts students. "He was a gifted and conscientious teacher, as shown by the surviving notes taken in his lectures by his students,... Learn More£1,200.00Stock Code: 118366
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DOUGLAS, Norman. Looking Back.London : 1933
Signed limited edition. Additionally inscribed by the author to his friend, the lawyer Arthur Johnson, "For Arthur, with love from Norman, Capri, January, 1950" (front free endpaper of first volume). Number 533 of 535 copies signed by the author. In 1953 Johnson wrote to Nancy Cunard: "I first met Douglas on Capri on the terrace of a café overhanging... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 104200
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CHESTERTON, G. K. Greybeards at Play. Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen.1900
First edition, first impression, of the author's first book. Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 50828
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RUSSEL, William Augustus. A New and Authentic History of England,London : [1777-81?]
An imposing and well-illustrated History of England from the time of the American Revolutionary War. The book was published in parts from 1777 onwards; three variant issues are known based on the dates of the historical events that the book includes, this going to 1781, the other two issues going to 1779. The book ends with the hope that the colonists... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 131920
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LAWRENCE, D. H. Women in Love.New York : 1922
First US trade edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Witter Bynner D. H. Lawrence", the recipient being the American poet and translator Harold Witter Bynner (1881-1968), with his bookplate to the front pastedown and occasional marginalia in the text. An excellent association - introduced by Mabel Dodge Luhan,... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 138968
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SQUIER, E. G. Notes on Central America;New York : 1855
First edition. Squier served as charge d'affaires to Central America for the US in 1849, the first of a number of posts in Central America which led to him becoming, "perhaps the best single authority on the Central America of the period" (DAB). This work offers a comprehensive account of the region. From the library of John E. Russell (1834-1903),... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 119213
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HOWARD, John. The State of the Prisons in England and Wales,Warrington : 1777 & 1780
First edition of Howard's pioneering work on prisons and penal reform, "the first major practical work on the subject" (PMM), here bound with the 1780 Appendix in a particularly attractive contemporary binding from the library of James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield (1750-1811), with his bookplate to the front pastedown. "From... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 136194
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LAW, William. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life.London : 1729
First edition. "It is the Serious Call, a plea for a return to the practice of private individual piety, in an unadorned, lucid and deeply moving style, on which Law's reputation chiefly stands. Its peculiar force is difficult to convey; authorities as different as Gibbon, Lord Lyttelton and George Whitefield spoke enthusiastically of it. Samuel Johnson... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 121014
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YOUNG, Lester. Original handbill for "The Big Rhythm and Blues Show" 1953.Kansas City, MO : [1953]
Scarce, eye-catching handbill for "The Big Rhythm and Blues Show" held at the Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, on the night of Sunday 26 July 1953, with Joe Louis ("The Champ") topping the bill and Prez propping up singer Ruth Brown ("Mama-Teardrops"), Buddy Johnson and his orchestra, and doo-wop vocal group The Clovers. Joe Louis was performing a... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 137252
