Twelve Days.
First edition, first impression, presentation copy of Sackville-West's Persian travelogue to her then lover Hilda "Stoker" Matheson, in an excellent example of the scarce jacket, inscribed on the front...
View ArticlePepita.
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed to the author's sometime lover Hilda "Stoker" Matheson (1888-1940). This copy is inscribed "H. with love from V. Oct 30th 1937" on the front...
View ArticleL’Homme et la machine.
Oblong quarto. Original charcoal grey cloth, titles to spine and front board in black and white, blue endpapers. No dust jacket as issued. Full-page black and white photographs throughout. Extremities...
View ArticleMan and Machine.
Oblong quarto. Original charcoal grey cloth, titles to spine and front board in black and white, blue endpapers. No dust jacket as issued. Full-page black and white photographs throughout. Extremities...
View ArticleCharacters of Shakespear’s Plays.
First edition, Chandos Leigh's copy, of "the first ever economically priced critical survey of all Shakespeare's works" (ODNB), and "the first of Hazlitt's books to achieve immediate success" (Keynes)....
View ArticleThree Madrigals.
First edition, first printing, number 59 of 150 signed and numbered copies; there were another 12 copies reserved for the author. The book reprints the author's holograph manuscript in facsimile. The...
View Article“The Bank”.
First and sole edition, number 18 of 50 copies of this short story privately published by the author, originally composed in Berlin in 1928. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title,...
View ArticleInterests and Obsessions.
First edition, first impression. With a clipped inscription signed by the author pasted onto the front pastedown, which reads: "Five years of Cassandra, Robert Skidelsky". The post Interests and...
View ArticleA Bibliography of the Writings of D. H. Lawrence.
First edition, first printing, signed limited issue, one of 100 large-paper copies signed by Lawrence and the bibliographer on the limitation page; there were 500 regular copies printed at the same...
View ArticleBath After Sailing.
Quarto, pp. [8], single half-sheet folded into original blue card wrappers, brown textured paper label to front, printed on rectos only. Toning to edges of wrappers; an excellent copy. The post Bath...
View ArticleDickens’s Dictionary of the Thames,
First edition, very scarce presentation copy inscribed, "George Ryan, with kind regards, Charles Dickens, Nov. 1879" above the Preface. Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames was a very popular guide to...
View ArticleThe Physical Geography of the Sea.
First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Walter R. Jones from his friend the Author". Jones was president of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company and had a sustained...
View ArticlePassenger To Teheran.
First edition, first impression, in the rare dust jacket, and inscribed by the author to her lover Hilda "Stoker" Matheson (1888-1940). The inscription, to the front free endpaper, reads "From V. Dec...
View ArticleRevolt in the Desert.
Presentation copy of the third impression, inscribed "To Brendy, Feb. 22. 1927, from Eric H. Kennington" on the front free endpaper, with an original sketch by Kennington of a baby's face with a halo...
View ArticleCollected Stories.
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author "To Philip, from his friend, GabM, 85" on the title page. The recipient was Irish bibliophile Dr Philip Murray, whose collection was sold in 2016...
View ArticleTwelve Days.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to one of his company officers, "To George Hall, with every good wish and in memory of so many...
View ArticleThe Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold.
First edition, large paper issue. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend and biographer Christopher Sykes, "Christopher with love. Look out. It might be you next. Evelyn" on the front...
View ArticleThe Parthenon;
First and only edition, the author's personal copy, with James Fergusson's extensive manuscript annotations, an autograph letter signed to Fergusson from controversial and pioneering archaeologist...
View ArticleAnthem.
First US edition, second printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on title, "To Mary - Cordially - Ayn Rand. Oct. 5, 1950". Anthem is the second novel Rand published in the West. The...
View ArticleIf…. a film.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy. Inscribed on the title page by Lindsay Anderson to Ben Travers, "For Ben - another egotistical gift I'm afraid: but with my warmest affection and...
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