Alexandria: A History and A Guide.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by Forster "AJB, from the author" on the front free endpaper, with the ownership inscription of the recipient, A. J. Butler, to the front...
View ArticleDog Soldiers; [with:] A Hall of Mirrors.
First editions, first printings. Both volumes presentation copies, inscribed by author title pages, "For Dink Bruce, with thanks and best wishes, Bob Stone". The recipient was Benjamin "Dink" Bruce, a...
View ArticleBilly Liar.
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author and his co-writer on the front free endpaper. The play was first performed at the Cambridge Theatre, London, in 1960 with Albert Finney in the...
View ArticleThe Unfortunate Colonel Despard, and other Studies.
First edition. Interesting collection of essays previously published in various magazines or reviews, includes a study of Despard, with analogies to Casement, and an essay on Arthur Thistlewood "the...
View ArticleWellington’s Army, 180-9-1814.
First edition. Presentation copy from Oman to his wife; "To the Maker of the Index with the best love of the Writer of the Book, Oct. 19th 1912" - "The index is by the same loving hand which has worked...
View ArticleStudies in the Napoleonic Wars.
First edition. This copy inscribed by the author to his son on the front free endpaper; "C.C.O. from his affectionate father, April 7th 1929". Charles Chichele Oman (1901-82), was a noted antiquarian,...
View ArticlePlenty.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title "For Lindsay, Love, David, 26: viii: 78". The recipient was Lindsay Duncan who played Dorcas Frey in the...
View ArticleChallenge.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by author on the half-title, "To Stephen Gwynn from Wilfrid Gibson". It is possible the recipient was the Irish journalist, politician, and...
View ArticleAlastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems.
First edition, very scarce, of Shelley's first mature work, which drew from Leigh Hunt, then a stranger to him, the first public recognition of Shelley's gifts as "a very striking and original...
View ArticleThe Starlit Mire.
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed, "To A. Mavrocordato, with best wishes from one of the authors, Russell F. Wilkinson, March 1911". This collection of blasphemous aphorisms,...
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