Signed and inscribed - R-Z

A collection of books owned by members of Winston Churchill's immediate family, many belonging to his youngest daughter, Mary Spencer Churchill. In total there are 130 volumes, many of them given or o...

pp 1-123 A signed copy of this important checklist of Philippine Birds. Dean C Worcester has signed the printed wrapper to the book, 'with the compliments of Dean C Worcester.' Worcester was an Americ...

A single page note in blue ink by Willy Coppens which discusses the varied and contrasting means of controlling an aircraft, 'Je considere le "manche a balai" comme un organe de commande par...

An inscribed copy of one of the key collections of poetry to be published in the second half of the twentieth century. Released in a version that was controversially edited by Ted Hughes some three ye...

A collection of two dozen letters dating from the 1860s written to the company of Samuel Cunliffe Lister. Lister was a leading British industrialist based in the Yorkshire town of Bradford. Thanks to ...

[6] pp 7-256 Steve Roper's memoir of the golden age of rock climbing in Yosemite with an interesting handwritten letter from one of the participants, Royal Robbins, laid in. The book is Fine in a Fine...

[8] pp 1-88 [54 plates] An inscribed copy of Roger Fry\'s study of the father of modern art, Cezanne. The book was given as a prize by the artist and Slade School Professor, Sir William Coldstream, to...

pp 1-200 A Signed First Edition of Raymond Mortimer's essay collection with a typed letter and handwritten postcard both signed by the author. Mortimer who was a member of the Bloomsbury group has sig...

[4] pp 1-129 [1] A signed First Edition of W Frederick Edwards pioneering Ethnological study of racial types in Europe. Edwards was born in Jamaica but trained and worked in Paris where he published h...

[8] [2] pp 3-286 [2] The signed Limited First UK Edition of Tom McCarthy's acclaimed debut novel. This edition was preceded only by a very scarce edition published in 2005 by the Metronome Press in P...

[8] pp 9-285 [3] A Signed First Edition of 'Song of Doom' which has been inscribed in the year of publication to the famous Californian book collector, Albert M Bender. Virgil Markham's inscription ap...

[1] pp 2-8 [3 large folding engraved machine diagrams] A patent for machinery invented by the Bradford industrialist and silk magnate Samuel Cunliffe Lister. It appears that this copy passed through C...

[6] pp 7-103 The first edition of Ronald Knox\'s Lenten Lecture series with an authorial inscription on the front free endpaper. Knox has idiosyncratically noted: \'written in by the author Nov 1 1953...

viii, pp 1-500 An inscribed copy of the first popular edition of Warren's Diary of a Late Physician. At the top of the title page the author has written: 'Richard Wallis Esq - With the Author's kind r...

pp 302-325 with illustrations. An offprint of this study of glaciated surfaces in South Africa which has been signed and dedicated by the author George Slater on the title page: 'Prof. W. T. Gordon M...

[xii] [2] pp 3-148 The history of the first century of the Guardian newspaper, inscribed by the paper's legendary editor, C P Scott. Scott has signed name neatly in blue ink below the frontispiece pho...

pp 1-192; viii, pp 1-184 Two photographic books given by Stanley Kubrick's sister Barbara to her film-maker brother as a reminder of their shared childhood in the Bronx. The books are accompanied by ...