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YEATS. Jack B. (illus.); SYNGE, John Millington. The Aran Islands.Dublin : 1907
Signed limited edition, number 42 of 100 large paper copies signed by Synge and Yeats, and with plates hand-coloured by the artist. This book, based on the author's annual visits to the islands prompted by W. B. Yeats, would become the "the great prose manifesto of the Irish literary revival" (ODNB).
Accompanying this copy is a loosely inserted... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 142886
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ALI, Shahamat. The Sikhs and Afghans,London : 1846
First edition of this unusual and uncommon travelogue of the north-west frontier, written by the expedition leader's Indian-born munshi and inscribed by him to the earl of Shaftesbury. A highly desirable copy, unopened, unrestored in the original cloth, and with an appealing association. The title is fairly well represented institutionally, but commercially... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 139555
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HARPER, Henry Howard. The Psychology of Speculation.Boston : 1926
First edition, sole printing, presentation copy, from the author to "Mr. Strauss", of this pre-Crash character study of stock brokers and speculators. In the accompanying letter Harper writes, "It has afforded me a pleasant diversion to write this book for complimentary distribution among my friends and fellow-booklovers, and I trust you may not find... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 143827
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HOBSON, John Atkinson. Work and Wealth: A Human Valuation.London : 1914
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper "A. G. Gardiner with the writer's kind regards". The recipient was most probably the journalist and author Alfred George Gardiner (1865-1946), chairman of the National Anti-Sweating League, which opposed sweatshops and campaigned for a minimum wage.
"Hobson's... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 141867
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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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BECKE, A. F. The Royal Regiment of Artillery at Le Cateau, Wednesday, 26th August 1914.Woolwich : January 1919
First edition, first impression, 2nd Corps commander Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien's copy, with his ownership inscription in blue pencil to the front board and his annotations to some 20 pages, of this extremely detailed stage-by-stage account of the first major action of the British Expedition Force (BEF) in the First World War, the action on which Smith-Dorrien's... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 120865
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CAILLARD, Antoine Bernard. Catalogue des livres rares et précieux de la bibliothéque.Paris : 1810
First edition, second issue, presentation copy from a member of Caillard's family, inscribed "Donné à Monsieur Grutter, par son ami S. C. Caillard" on the half-title, with the rare four page sale schedule. First published by Debure in 1808, the catalogue was printed again, with the additional schedule inserted, for the posthumous auction of the library... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122638
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HORSBURGH, James. The India Directory, or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America.London : 1841-43
An exceptionally well-preserved copy, presented here in an American naval officer's portable book box - as such remarkably uncommon - with the additional appeal of a series of original holograph coastal profiles. This is the fifth edition of this important publication, much enlarged in successive editions from the first of 1809-11, which was to become... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 126537
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WEYLAND, John. Thoughts submitted to the Employers of Labour, in the County of Norfolk, with a few words to the employed.Norwich : 1830
First edition of Weyland's work advocating reform in order to assist the labouring classes in maintaining a decent subsistence in winter. Presentation copy, inscribed "from the author" at the head of the title page. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 126692
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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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PUIG, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman.New York : 1979
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front blank, "To Michael Blower, with gratitude for his interest in my work, Manuel Puig. Boston 86". Originally published in Argentina in 1976. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 85941
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GIBBONS, Stella. Roaring Tower and Other Stories.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Bettina and Eric with the author's love. Stella Gibbons. Feb. 22 1937". This work is a collection of short stories "written with a refreshing, easy grace" typical of Gibbons (The London Mercury Vol XXXV, p. 532). The recipients, Eric Schilsky,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122634
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PRINCE, Richard. Why I Go to the Movies Alone.New YorK : 1983
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Prince, "To Glenn, From Richard, all the best". Why I Go to the Movies Alone was Prince's first work of published fiction. Prince is best known for his deadpan appropriations of mass media imageryoften using the technique of "rephotography," or taking photographs of others' photographs. Yet the artist also... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 145652
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CUNYNGHAME, Sir Arthur Thurlow. An Aide-de-Camp's Recollections of Service in China, a Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to other Islands in the Chinese Seas.London : 1844
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Cunynghame "From the author, to Dr. Heldermaier" on the half-title of the first volume: Dr Heldermaier is recorded as the headmaster of Worksop School in Nottinghamshire. Cunynghame (1812-1884), the son of a Scottish baronet and the illegitimate daughter of Edward Thurlow, the lord chancellor, was commissioned... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 112176
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KIDDER, Daniel Parish, & James Cooley FLETCHER. Brazil and the Brazilians,Philadelphia & New York : 1857
First edition, presentation copy inscribed on the recto of the frontispiece "With the regards of the Principal Author, J. C. Fletcher, New York, Oct. 25 - 1860". This work "gave great impetus to the emigration movement from the defeated Confederates' South to Brazil" (Henry, p. 451).
Fletcher, a Presbyterian minister, was sent to Brazil in 1951,... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 142719
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KORNISS, Peter. A Vendegmunkas, (The Guest Workers).Budapest : 1988
First edition, first printing. With the photographer's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "To Augusta and Arnold Newman in the hope you will know a bit more about my small country from this book. With warmest regards Korniss Peter Budapest September 12, 1989". Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 76021
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ROBINSON, W. Heath. Bill The Minder.London : 1912
Signed limited edition, number 253 of 380 copies signed by the author and illustrator, who in this work "notably in the line drawings, surpassed himself" (ODNB). Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 118626
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STAGNO, Bruno - Alexander Tzonis; Liane Lefaivre; Ken Yeang. Bruno Stagno: An Architect in the Tropics.Ampang, Malaysia : 1999
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the subject, inscribed on the half-title "To Rod, with great pleasure, Bruno Stagno, Beijing 99". Excellent monograph on the work of the prize-winning Costa Rican architect and pioneer of tropical architecture.
Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 141484
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NIELSEN, Kay. Original watercolour: "List, ah list to the zephyr in the grove."1913
An original watercolour, signed and dated "Kay Nielsen 1913" in the lower left corner, for In Powder and Crinoline, a collection of seven fairy tales chosen by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. This watercolour illustrates the story "Felicia or The Pot of Pinks" and appears at p. 52: "Nielsen shows in his development a fancy so delicate and an outlook so original... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 111943
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FOWLER, Gene. Trumpet in the Dust.New York : 1930
First edition, first printing, fine presentation from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Ring Lardner what a sap I'd be to try to tell you what I think of you and your work - you know... Gene Fowler April 3, 1930". A major association. Fowler met Lardner when the two men joined Damon Runyon as writers on Hearst's paper The American.... Learn More£1,600.00Stock Code: 50429
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SODDY, Frederick, & Muriel Howorth. Atomic Transmutation. The Greatest Discovery Ever Made.London : 1953
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Soddy on the half-title, "Frederick Soddy, May 20th 1953" and also by his co-author, "Love from the author, Muriel Howorth". Frederick Soddy, the discoverer of isotopes, began his career in the laboratory of Ernest Rutherford. "Together they published a series of papers on radioactivity and concluded that... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 83467
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POGANY, Willy (illus.); COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.London : [1910]
First Pogany edition, signed limited issue, number 7 of 25 copies signed by the artist and printed on japon (a further 500 signed copies were issued on paper, alongside a trade issue; this is thus the most desirable and scarcest issue). Featuring intricately decorated borders and text printed in manuscript style, this edition of Coleridge's masterpiece... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 128465
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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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ADAMS, John Quincy. An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport,Newburyport : 1837
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper: "Edward Cruft Esq. from John Quincy Adams." Cruft (17761866) was a prominent Boston merchant, loyal political supporter, and husband of Elizabeth Storer Smith, a second cousin of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
Together with a defective... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 146764
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EVANS, Walker. Message from the Interior.New York : 1966
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the photographer "Lincoln, from Walker". Lincoln Kirstein is most noted for his hand in founding the New York City Ballet, he was a close friend of Walker Evans who he had befriended in his early days in New York. In 1938 Kirstein collaborated with Evans on 'American Photographs'... Learn More£6,250.00Stock Code: 48543
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TRUCIAL STATES. Archive relating to the Royal Navy service of Midshipman Francis Wyatt Rawson Larken.1928-51
A fascinating and unpublished primary source - and as such rare in private hands - being the manuscript journal books kept by a Royal Navy midshipman during a tour of the Gulf in 1930-31; including a compelling account of a visit to Dubai and an on-board reception for the Trucial Sheikhs, part of a broader British policy of "courting" local rulers;... Learn More£125,000.00Stock Code: 142568
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STARRETT, Vincent. Seaports in the Moon.Garden City, NY : 1928
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front blank, "For Leroy T. Gober - remembering a pleasant part in my lunar voyaging - in friendship, Vincent Starrett, 25 May 1928". Loosely inserted is a manuscript letter from Janet Hill Zimmerman to the recipient, thanking him for the loan of the work, "I was sold on... Learn More£70.00Stock Code: 87516
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RICHARDS, Ceri. Journey Toward the North. Comprising: Journey Toward the North; From a Conversation between Hermes and Menipeus on a Field of Snow; Improvisation No 9, Upon the Dawn (Mahler's Hat); The Story Lost in the Snow; Elergy for Vernon Watkins; Information reportMilan : 1972
Each print unnumbered aside from the edition of 100. Printed at the Curwen Studio, London. This complete set of lithographs was created to accompany the text of Roberto Sanesi's book of poems "Journey Toward the North", they were drawn on plates brought by Stanley Jones to Richards home in Edith Grove, Chelsea, on the day before he died and was Richards'... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 111233
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YEATS, W. B. The Poems.London : 1949
First and signed limited edition, number 182 of 375 copies signed by the author to the verso of the half-title, published by Macmillan as a Definitive Edition of his work, as stated in the prospectus, which is not found with this copy. The edition was personally overseen by Yeats's widow, George, the publisher Harold Macmillan, and the publisher's reader... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 131846
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GALLOP, Rodney. A Book of the Basques.London : 1930
First edition, first impression, signed by Gallop and dated March 1939 on a loosely inserted piece of paper. A Book of the Basques "seems likely to remain the standard work in English on that small country" (V.A.).
Rodney Gallop (1900-1948), was a noted folklorist and member of H. M. Foreign Service. He travelled the world to gather folk-songs... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 143205
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CARTWRIGHT, John. The state of the nation; in a series of letters, to his Grace the Duke of Bedford.Harlow : 1805
First edition, inscribed on the front free endpaper "From the Author"; a crisp, clean copy of this strong critique of the government and its conduct regarding the American War of Independence and the French wars, written by an outspoken advocate of political reform.
Cartwright attacks the corruption and abuses of government, singling out Pitt,... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 141096
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1903
Deluxe edition, number 56 of 250 copies signed by the publisher, this copy in a striking and unusual arts and crafts binding, perhaps the work of the Guild of Women Binders, though unmarked, exhibiting their adventurous style. Goldsmith's masterpiece was first published in 1766. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 139010
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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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STRICKLAND, Agnes [& Elizabeth]. Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England.London : 1861
First edition, presentation copy from the authors' sister, inscribed in ink on the title page, "To dear Charlotte Foster in remembrance of her friends Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland with Jane Margaret Strickland's love"; the divisional title "Edward the Fifth" is annotated in the same hand, "By Elizabeth Strickland", referring to the work's joint authorship.
By... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 140279
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CHURCHILL, Charles Henry, Colonel. The Druzes and the Maronites under Turkish Rule from 1840 to 1860.London : 1862
First edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on front free endpaper verso, "To the Right Honble the Earl of Carnarvon, from the Author". The recipient, Henry Herbert, fourth earl of Carnarvon (1831-1890), politician, was twice Secretary of State for the Colonies. During the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) Carnarvon "supported a policy of... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 139024
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HORNSTRA, Rob. Roots of the Rúntur.[No place] : 2006
First edition, first printing, signed by Hornstra on the front free endpaper, one of 500 copies only self-published by the Dutch photographer.
"The introduction of fish quotas in the eighties lead to an industrialization of the Icelandic fleet in order to be able to compete on the world market. The traditional craft of fishing gave way to modern... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 134575
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BURROUGHS, William - NUTTALL, Jeff. My Own Mag: Issue 13 The Dutch Schultz Special containing the complete 'Dead Star' MS by William Burroughs.Barnet : 1965
First edition, number 286 of 500 copies, here additionally signed by William Burroughs on the first page of his story Dead Star, the typescript of which is here reproduced. The publication is highly scarce signed by Burroughs, with this example deriving from the collection of Greenwich Books owner Roger Richards.
The magazine My Own Mag was produced... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 145627
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WATANABE, Tadao. Typed letter signed from the Mayor of Hiroshima, marking the tenth anniversary of the atomic bombing.1955
Typed letter signed from Tadao Watanabe (1898-1980), Mayor of Hiroshima from 1955 to 1959, to the British Columbia Peace Council in Vancouver, a constituent part of the Canadian Peace Congress. "It is with distinct pleasure that I send, on behalf of the people of Hiroshima, cordial greetings of peace to the British Columbia Peace Council as they, together... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 141397
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ALLEN, Mary S. The Pioneer Policewoman.London : 1925
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "with every good wish, from Mary S. Allen", with an autograph note loosely inserted, "Hoping you will accept this - If in your part of the world I will certainly let you know. M. S. Allen".
The Pioneer Policewoman was Mary Sophia Allen's (18781964)... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 131558
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) East of the Sun and West of the Moon.London : [1914]
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the illustrator on the verso of the front free endpaper, "To Miss Bernadine Murphy with my kindest regards, Kay Nielsen, April 1947". Loosely inserted is a one-page autograph letter signed by Nielsen to the book's owner and dated October 10, 1948. Nielsen thanks Murphy for what seems to have been her attempt... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 79481
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COMMONS, John R. Typed letter signed to businessman Edward Filene, on the foundation of the capitalist system and the responsibility of businessmen.12 June 1922
Typed letter signed from John R. Commons, on his University of Wisconsin letterhead, to the American businessman and philanthropist Edward Albert Filene (1860-1937). Filene founded the eponymous department store and pioneered credit unions across the country.
Commons writes in response to a letter from Filene regarding an article he published:... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 147802
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[MORRIS, Corbyn.] Observations on the Past Growth and Present State of the City of London.London : 1751
First and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Captain Bernard ab Authore C.M.", with a three-page manuscript transcription before the title, almost certainly in Morris's hand, of "The Freeholder's Ditty, To The Tune of Moggy Lauder", and a note at the end stating that the printer of the ballad was "Jack Mahon,... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 120893
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BENTLEY, Nicolas. Chi-Chi the panda.1966
A zookeeper grins as Chi-Chi the panda watches a piece of toast inscribed "An-An's a Man for a' That!" fly up from the toaster. Chi-Chi was the star attraction of London Zoo; she was greatly pampered, and often indulged with human food by visitors. In 1966 her fruitless liaison with Moscow Zoo's An-An made front page news. The cartoons and illustrations... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 67106
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CAMPION, George G. The Riddle of the Sphinx: An Essay.London : [1914]
First and sole edition of this very scarce and interesting essay on education, printed for private circulation in presumably very small numbers. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title, "With the Author's Kind Regards, 22 Oct. 1914, G. G. C.". Campion (d. 1945) was consulting dental surgeon to the Manchester Dental Hospital. He... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 141399
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GUTHRIE, John. Ten Designs for the Two Gentlemen of Verona.Flansham : 1925
First edition, first impression, number 45 of 50 copies only signed by the designer. Five plates show Guthrie's designs for the stage decor; the others illustrate six characters for a theatre production of Shakespeare's play. John Guthrie was the son of the printer and owner of the press, James Guthrie, whose print-making technique and aesthetic was... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 140871
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JACOB, George Le Grand. Western India before and during the Mutinies:London : 1872
Second edition, following the first of the previous year; presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title "A little Christmas present from Major General & Miss Jacob, to Mr Poole. Dec. 24. 1879" and with two lengthy, fascinating and carefully-written authorial footnotes at pages 177 and 262.
The first of these refers to the actions... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 140775
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WATERMEYER, Egidius Benedictus. Three Lectures on the Cape of Good Hope,Cape Town : 1857
First edition, this copy inscribed on the first blank: "D. Schönberg Esqr. with the writer's respects". Series of lectures delivered by "Ben" Watermeyer (1824-67), jurist and founding Member of the Cape Legislative Assembly, to "supply the urgently felt want" for at least some "slight information" on the history of South Africa "before it became a... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 135581
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PEPPER, John Henry, "Professor". The True History of the Ghost;London : 1890
First and only contemporary edition, inscribed by the author on the title, "Mr. John Bailey, July 25 1893, With the Author's kind regards, J. H. Pepper". The work gives his exposition of the famous stage illusion that came to be known as "Pepper's Ghost", in which a spectral image of an actor was projected before the audience.
Pepper (1821-1900)... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133346
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DUNSANY, Lord. Time and the Gods.London : 1906
First edition, first impression, of this influential fantasy text, with a four-page autograph letter signed from the author to William Roughead tipped-in to the front free endpaper, and Roughead's bookplate to the front pastedown. Roughead (1870-1952) was a Scottish lawyer and popular true crime author with whom Dunsany shared a long-held correspondence... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 139315
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QUETELET, Adolphe. Letters addressed to H. R. H. the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, on the Theory of Probabilities,London : 1849
First edition in English, originally published in French at Brussels in 1846, presentation copy from the translator, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "R. Biddulph Esq./ with the Translator's/ Respectful Compliments". A pioneering work on probability and social statistics by the Belgian astronomer and mathematician Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874),... Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 96972
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WAUGH, Evelyn. The Curse of the Horse Race.[1932]
The author's own proof sheets of his contribution to the 1932 work, "Little Innocents". Inscribed by Waugh to Diana Cooper on the reverse of the final leaf, "the Lady Diana Cooper 202", with the author's further annotation adding his age of 7 to the first page.
A very rare, if not unique, individual issue of Waugh's first piece of fiction, written... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 112489
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. The Case of America.New York : 1923
First edition of Veblen's most caustic work, a discussion of the need for advertising and salesmanship in modern business, with a sly dig at Christianity, where he describes Propaganda of the Faith as"quite the largest, oldest, most magnificent, most unabashed, and most lucrative enterprise in sales-publicity in all Christendom" (p. 319). This copy... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 88082
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LUNA, Miguel de. The History of the Conquest of Spain by the Moors.London : 1687
First edition in English of the first part (all published) of Miguel de Luna's Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo (1592-1600), itself purportedly translated from an Arabic source, but in fact an original composition.
Luna's account of the Arab conquest of Spain to the year 761 was considered genuine by Southey, dismissed by George Ticknor... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 120934
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HOBSON, Robert Lockhart. The Later Ceramic Wares of China.London : 1925
First edition, deluxe issue, number 135 of 250 copies signed by the author on the limitation page, and containing a suite of five extra plates not found in the trade issue ("ordinary edition"). Hobson (1872-1941) was keeper of ceramics and ethnographer at the British Museum from 1921, and keeper of oriental antiquities from 1934 to 1938. This work was... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 121474
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WINSOR, W. & H. C. Newton. Instructions for the Practice of Fresco Painting;London : 1843
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the authors on the front free endpaper, "To C. Stanfield Esq. R. A., respectfully presented by his obedient humble servants, W. Winsor & H. Newton."
The recipient was Clarkson Stanfield, elected as a Royal Academician in February 1835, who "between 1820 and his last submission in 1867 showed 135... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 118578
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RIIS, Jacob A. Children of the People (original manuscript).[New York : 1903]
The original manuscript of Riis's short story "Children of the People", signed by the author at head in pencil, describing the ongoing suffering of children, as published in The Century Magazine for December 1903, and later collected, under the title "The City's Heart", in his 1915 story collection Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half.
The... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 146044
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[WATSON, H. C. MARRIOTT.] The Decline and Fall of the British Empire; or, The Witch's Cavern.London : 1890
First edition, second impression, presentation copy from the author, inscribed at the head of the half-title, "To E. W. Wallington, with the author's compliments". The recipient is almost certainly Sir Edward William Walllington (1854-1933), at this time secretary to the Earl of Hopetoun, Governor of Victoria, future Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 122191
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DISNEY, Walt (inscr.); THOMAS, Bob. Walt Disney: the Art of Animation.New York : 1958
First edition, first printing, inscribed by Walt Disney on the verso of the front free endpaper, "To Vita Best Wishes Walt Disney", of one of the pillars of Disney bibliography and the definitive work on Disney animation to that date.
Additionally it is inscribed by Roy Disney and contains the signatures of more than 100 other people in the... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 138684
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FRANCKLIN, William. Tracts, political, geographical, and commercial, on the dominions of Ava.London : 1811
First edition. Scarce with only 4 locations on Library Hub. Inscribed on the front pastedown to Major William Yule, father of Sir Henry Yule, on 28th June 1829. William Yule served in the East India company and "gained some knowledge of oriental literature. He retired from India in 1806, and his valuable collection of Persian and Arabic manuscripts... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 128631
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GREAVES, Walter. Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler in front of the Thames.London : [c.1875]
Whistler moved to 7 Lindsey Row, Chelsea, in March 1863. Among his neighbours were the Greaveses, a family of Thames watermen. Walter and Henry Greaves (1844-1904) became his guides on the river, pupils, and devoted assistants in the studio. Walter and Henry themselves had been painting from their earliest years, probably starting by doing heraldic... Learn More£40,000.00Stock Code: 75289
