An Artist’s Game Bag.
First and limited edition, de luxe issue: number 14 of 25 copies; with a fine original watercolour signed by Lynn Bogue Hunt, showing a pair of mallard on a riverbank. Hunt (1877-1960) was one of...
View ArticleThe Naturalist in Nicaragua:
First edition. This copy inscribed verso of the front free endpaper; "P. Brown Esqre, M.D. with the kind regards of the Author", with Brown's ownership inscription to the title page. The son of a...
View ArticleDreams From My Father.
Octavo. Original black cloth-backed grey boards, titles to spine gilt, mustard endpapers. With the dust jacket. Corners very gently bumped, single small faint mark to bottom of front board, in all...
View ArticleEighteenth Century Essays.
Octavo. Finely bound in near-contemporary red streaked morocco, spine richly gilt-tooled in compartments with titles direct, sides panelled with floral gilt tooling, gilt-tooled turn-ins, marbled...
View ArticleThe Cantos.
The New Collected Edition of the Cantos, inscribed by Pound on the half title, "a la gentilissima Diana Basedow, auguri et felicita, Ezra Pound, Venezia, fifth of march, 1971". The recipient is not...
View ArticleThe Way We Live Now.
First edition, first impression, number 175 of 200 numbered copies signed by Sontag and Hodgkin, from a limited edition of 243 copies in total. Hodgkin and Sontag's beautifully produced collaboration...
View ArticlePhotographs.
First edition, first printing of Ginsberg's collection of photographs of his close friends, including Kerouac, Cassady, Burroughs, Orlovsky, Snyder, Corso and Leary; and some of luminaries such as...
View ArticleModern Development of the Dry Fly,
2 volumes, quarto. Contemporary red half calf, top edges gilt. Half-titles, portrait frontispiece, 9 colour plates of flies, 18 colour charts, 16 mounted photogravures with tissue guards....
View ArticleYou’re Only Old Once!
Quarto. Original green boards with brown cloth spine, titles to spine in silver. With the unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated throughout out in colour. An excellent copy. The post You’re Only Old Once!...
View ArticleTyped letter signed to the Lord Chancellor relating to appeasement:
One month to the day before the declaration of war Rab Butler writes to the Lord Chancellor: "the description of the Czechoslovak crisis might at this date be rather cut down". A fascinating glimpse...
View ArticleA Brief Record of The Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force
First edition, first impression, more commonly found in buff paper wrappers, O'Brien commenting that only "a few copies" were bound in cloth, scarce in this state. A "collaborator's copy" bearing the...
View ArticleThe Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse.
First edition, first impression, rare presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To T. H. Riches, from Thomas Hardy. With good wishes. January: 1924". This copy also has an autograph note...
View ArticleMoonfleet.
First edition, first impression, rare presentation copy inscribed to publisher Reginald J. Smith on the front free endpaper, "Reginald J. Smith, from the author, 1st December 1898". Smith was editor of...
View ArticleTo the Memory of Edward Thomas.
First edition, sole impression, number 9 of 250 copies, this copy signed by James Guthrie and also the pressman John Freeman, in the very scarce dust jacket. This beautiful limited edition Pear Tree...
View ArticleThe Writings.
The Autograph edition. One of a limited edition of 153 sets, this set printed ad personam for William Beers Crowell and signed by Hardy and the publisher in volume I. This edition, the definitive...
View ArticleWall and Roof Climbing.
First edition, first impression, very scarce presentation copy inscribed "'from the Culprit' 1906", of this notable satirical anthology of buildering lore through the ages by Geoffrey Winthrop Young...
View ArticleDer Tod des Vergil.
First edition, first impression (published simultanesouly with the English translation), signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Presentation copy from Broch's English translator Jean Starr...
View ArticleWild Chorus.
Large quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to upper board and spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, decorative endpapers. With the dust jacket and slipcase. Mounted colour...
View ArticleCharlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie 1950.
Wonderfully produced poster celebrating the work of David Stone Martin, using the imagery from the 1950 album "Bird and Diz". This copy signed by DSM at the lower left-hand corner and highly desirable...
View ArticleOn Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, decoration to upper board in white. With the dust jacket. In a quarter red morocco solander case. Paper slightly darkened at the edges and...
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