Search results for: 'ELIOT, T. S'
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CRAWSHAY-WILLIAMS, Eliot. Night in the Hotel.London : 1931
First edition, first impression. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 108700
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PORTER, Eliot. Portfolio One. The Seasons.San Francisco : 1963
First edition, first printing, of this fine suite of colour nature photographs. "As its name implies, the dye transfer process literally involves transferring dyes (cyan, magenta, and yellow) in succession and in careful registration onto a sheet of gelatin-coated paper. Porter remained committed to the dye-transfer process, both before and after the... Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 120669
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YEATS, W. B. Autograph letter signed to William Force Stead.Riversdale, Willbrook, Rathfarnham, Dublin : 26 September [1934]
A fascinating letter written by Yeats to his friend William Force Stead (1884-1967), expounding the symbolic meanings in the ring that Yeats had had made for him by Edmund Dulac.
Stead was an American-born poet, literary scholar, and Anglican clergyman, who studied at Oxford and then became chaplain and fellow at Worcester College from 1926 to... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 123152
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BROWN, Robert. A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations.London : 1828 & 1829
First editions, the Brief Account being preceded only by the scarce privately printed edition of the same year, of Brown's "pioneering work on pollination and fertilization, which caused sufficient stir so as to be mentioned in George Eliot's Middlemarch" (ODNB).
"In 1927 Brown, while making microscopical observations, saw that pollen grains...... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 146594
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BELL, Clive. Ad Familiares.London : 1917
First edition, sole printing, one of about 50 copies printed for private distribution, presentation copy to Bloomsbury Group affiliate, Lady Ottoline Morrell, incorporating the first printed word at the start of the text "Dear Ottoline".
Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), an aristocrat and society hostess, who counted in her artistic and intellectual... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 145465
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INDIANA, Robert. Robert IndianaPhiladelphia : 1968
First edition, first printing. Edition of 2500 copies. Inscribed in blue felt tip on the front free endpaper by Indiana "*Vinalhaven*, for, Elin, on her island, love, for sharing it, Bob, 12 VIII 69". Indiana has also drawn round his hand on the colophon page and inscribed "For, Elin, too, for, the sea, the sun, a season on her island, love, B In, 12... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 94247
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HOLBEIN, Hans. The Lady Eliot.1792
Conrad Martin Metz was an eminent engraver in the chalk manner and aquatint. He received his education in art under the celebrated Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 55761
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PARKES, Bessie Rayner. The History of Our Cat Aspasia.London : [1856?]
Second edition, following the first of 1855; conspicuously uncommon: Library Hub cites copies at only British Library, Oxford and Scotland among British and Irish institutional libraries, with WorldCat adding no further copies in international holdings; of the first edition Library Hub notes just two copies (Cambridge, Standen House). Bessie Rayner... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 126743
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WOOLF, Virginia. On Being Ill [in:] The New Criterion.London : 1926
First edition, first impression, including the first appearance in print of Woolf's On Being Ill, which was written after experiencing a period of severe manic-depression and later first published separately by her at the Hogarth Press in 1930. This is a rare find, and especially so in such good condition.
On Being Ill (pp. 32-45) is here published... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145068
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BURGESS, William Walter. 4 Cheyne Walk.London : 1894
The house that George Eliot spent the last few weeks of her life. Limited edition of 110, of which only 100 were for sale, from 'Bits of Old Chelsea'. Signed by the artist in pencil lower left margin. Sun symbol within the image area, lower left. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 82200
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GRAVES, Robert (ed.); HARDY, Thomas; Siegfried Sassoon; et al. The Owl.London : 1919-23
First editions, first impressions, the first number being from the very scarce signed limited issue, one of 24 unnumbered copies signed by the 18 contributors: Max Beerbohm, George Belcher, Pamela Biano, W. H. Davies, John Galsworthy, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Eric Kennington, J. Masefield, Robert Nichols, Nancy Nicholson, W. Nicholson, William Orpen,... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 139992
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WILHELM II - MAIRET, Philippe. Aristocracy and the Meaning of Class Rule.London : 1931
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy from Philip Morrell to Kaiser Wilhelm, with extensive annotations written in English by the Kaiser. Together with an autograph postcard signed from Kaiser Wilhelm, Doorn, 1931, to Philip Morrell, written in English in purple pencil across the whole of the back of the postcard beginning "According to... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 122974
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AMERICANA. Nigger Melodies;New York : [c.1849]
Seemingly first edition, predating editions published by Cornish, Lamport and Co., successors to Nafis & Cornish, around 1851. All early editions uncommon, with perhaps two dozen copies on WorldCat, all of them in North America. This copy with the armorial bookplate of Edward Royall Tyler, son of the Rev. Edward Royall Taylor, abolitionist Connecticut... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 98782
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ACTON, Harold. An Indian Ass.London : 1925
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Mrs Harmsworth, or 'dear Nine' (as Yarrick called Miss Hannah Morr) inasmuch as the Nine Muses are united in her delicate and charming person, with the affection & esteem of Harold Acton, on her birthday, the 13th of December 1925, may it be a happy one!".
The... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 146389
