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Signed and inscribed - A-H
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[photographic frontispiece] viii, [1] pp 2-338 [2] A superbly inscribed copy of Andrew Carnegie's account of a summer coach tour around the British isles. This copy was signed during Carnegie's summer...
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A double sided manuscript letter from Bernard Quaritch, perhaps the preeminent bookdealer to have worked in the British Isles, to the bibliographer and collector Samuel Sandars. The letter has extreme...
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[6] [1] pp 2-119 [120] The First Edition of this uncommon BB title with an interesting association with the Churchill family. The book was owned by Winston Churchill's grandson, Jeremy Soames, with hi...
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This is an audio recording - in all likelihood unique - of the funeral speech given by the author Christopher Isherwood for his friend, the Hollywood actor, and fellow British ex-patriate Charles Laug...
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Death Valley £95
[4] pp 5-55 [1] A signed First Edition of Ansel Adams' photographic study of Death Valley. Adams has signed his name with a flourish on the reverse of the title page, writing in black biro. The tex...
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[10] pp 11-217 [1] A First Edition of Anita Loos' classic novel with a signed letter from the author laid in. The letter is typed on yellow line paper with Loos' letterhead in September 1973. In it t...
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George Robert Gleig £1150
xvi, [1] pp 2-467 Gleig\'s military essays inscribed to Winston Churchill\'s father on leaving Eton in 1865. The inscription from a friend is written in brown ink on the blank leaf before the title pa...
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Inigo Sandys £65
[viii] [2] pp 3-246 A signed First Edition of Emily Beatrix Coursolles Jones's 1924 novel. Jones has inscribed the front free endpaper 'Dennis Proctor from the author May 1928'. Emily Jones was a mo...
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Memoir of a Survivor £135
[6] pp 7-190 [2] Adverts Doris Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor with a memorable gift inscription from Julie Christie who played the lead role in the 1981 film adaptation. Christie has written diagonal...
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Moonlight £235
[3] 1-94 (single sided text) A comb-bound typescript of this Harold Pinter play from the early nineties which is inscribed to his typist Georgina Gooding above the list of characters: 'To Georgina Wit...
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An original ink drawing by E H Shepard for the English periodical, Punch. Shepard became a staff cartoonist for Punch in 1922 and lead cartoonist in 1945 before being removed from the job by Malcolm M...
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Peace in Our Time £250
xii, pp 1-308 [Portrait Frontispiece with Tissue Cover] A fascinating association copy inscribed by the author, Austen Chamberlain: 'To Warden Chilcott, on whose yacht Dolphin I have twice carried for...
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pp 1-3 An offprint inscribed by Henry Hicks. Hicks has written on the front cover: 'From the Author' The pamphlet has several library markings including a stamp from the Geological Survey Museum Lib...
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6] pp 7-95 [96] The English translation of Return to My Native Land in a version annotated and prepared for performance by the actor Cy Grant. The Guyanese actor premiered the poem at the Royal Court ...
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[9] pp 10-320 An early edition of The Mystery of Diamond Creek with an intriguing, and lengthy, inscription by the author. Alexander Macdonald has written on the front free endpaper: 'To Dr Tom Nicol...
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pp 1-24; [36] [18 signed photographs of members] The inaugural volume of the proceedings of Glasgow's late nineteenth century Fortnightly Club. Expensively bound in full green leather with marbled end...
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[v] vi-x [3] pp 4-519 [520] [2] A signed 1909 edition of Towards Democracy by the socialist and pioneer gay writer, Edward Carpenter. The book is signed on the front free endpaper 'Langdon Everard fr...
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A typed letter from Evan Hunter, also known as Ed McBain, offering 'the rough draft of Sadie When She Died' to a manuscript collector. Hunter comments that 'I cannot send you the original pages becaus...
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Van Dyck £195
vi, pp 1-83 [1] A monograph on the Dutch old master Van Dyck with an interesting gift inscription by the early twentieth century artist Jacob Kramer. Using black ink Kramer has written on the half-ti...
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Villette £250
[Frontispiece] xxxvii, pp 1-594, [6] adverts. An inscribed copy of Charlotte Bronte\'s Villette, given by Mrs Humphry Ward to the future Clementine Churchill. Mary Ward has inscribed the front endpap...
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A vintage Cecil Beaton photograph of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister taken at one of the darkest moments of the Second World War with Europe under occupation and America not yet engaged in the war...
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