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Signed and inscribed - A-H
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Princess Beatrice's Birthday Book, owned by the Fawkes family of Farnley Hall in Wharfedale, and inscribed by the besotted Ruskin: 'John Ruskin 1819 [his birth year] Happy, once more, at Farnley 1884'...
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Silver gelatin photograph of Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC, inscribed to a fellow second world war veteran: 'To Philip Foster with best wishes Leonard Cheshire'. One of the best known wartime im...
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![18 Poems from 1966 ['for Ted and Assia']](/img/products/18poemsfrom1966327674032-thumb.jpg) |
Inscribed gift from the poet Ruth Fainlight (friend to both Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill) ‘for Ted [Hughes] and Assia, Ruth’. Ruth Fainlight was married to Hughes' friend and ally Alan Sillitoe a...
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![A Catalogue of Second-hand Books [annotated]](/img/products/acatalogueofsec62996570-thumb.jpg) |
c.48 ff [half dozen blank; some stubs]. Straight grained roan, rubbed, gilt decoration and label of 'F J Gorle' to upper board. The blank book has been reused by travel bookseller John Buchanan to mou...
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![A E Housman A Sketch [Arthur Gow's copy]](/img/products/aehousmanasketc149249868-thumb.jpg) |
Andrew Gow's own - temporary - copy of his memoir of his friend A E Housman, presented by Cambridge University Press to the author, transferred to the Housman collection of John Carter who ultimately ...
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![A Passage to India [signed]](/img/products/apassagetoindia342222059-thumb.jpg) |
pp 336 Signed by E M Forster in the final years of his life: the novelist has signed twice in biro, once below the half-title and again, as was his practice, on the title page below his printed name w...
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![A Selection of Psalms and Hymns [inscribed]](/img/products/aselectionofpsa319154250-thumb.jpg) |
[2] pp 3-112, contemporary sheep, flat spine with gilt horizontal bands, rubbing to boards and edges but sound. Inscribed by the presumed author - or instigator - of the collection on the first pasted...
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![Africa Verses [with manucript poem]](/img/products/ablackchristbow364135596-thumb.jpg) |
pp 99 A jacketed first of Cripps' final volume of verse with a manuscript draft of his poem in praise of his friend, Frank Weston, Bishop of Zanzibar. The book is near fine in a very good jacket which...
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![Animal Poems [decorated by Frieda Hughes]](/img/products/animalpoemsdeco291452100-thumb.jpg) |
(iv) pp 18 [2] Uniquely embellished copy of her father Ted Hughes' poems decorated by the artist daughter of Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Frieda Hughes has created a fantastic fish-like creature along the...
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pp 170 Baskin's own selection of his work, affectionately inscribed to his German agent and dealer: 'For Holger: This book 10 years old - a new book coming at the threshold of our Conquering Deutschla...
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pp 221 A signed first edition of Aldiss's memoir with a most interesting inscription. He has written on the first blank: 'To dear Leon - who will observe I not only wrote the book: I also designed the...
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![Concerto for Orchestra [Davis' annotated score]](/img/products/concertofororch222210866-thumb.jpg) |
Colin Davis' conductor's score of Darnton's Concerto for Orchestra which he premiered in 1976, annotated throughout. Note to upper cover ‘Property of Christian Darnton’ and annotated elaborately b...
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![Cyril Connolly as a Book Collector [ltd edition]](/img/products/cyrilconnollyas56889920-thumb.jpg) |
[2] pp 24 [4] Number 36 of 150 copies bound in stiff blue card wrappers, near fine, slight rubbing to edges. Hobson adapted his essay from a paper read to Friends of the McFarlin Library in Tulsa, Okl...
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![Dickens to his Oldest Friend [presentation copy]](/img/products/dickenstohisold272274830-thumb.jpg) |
1/500 copies, inscribed and presented to Henry Fielding Dickens by Walter Dexter with a spiky letter laid in. Inscribed to the half title: 'Sir Henry Fielding Dickens with kindest regard, Walter Dexte...
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pp 247 [2] The self-published first edition of Derek Hulme's Shostakovich catalogue with an interesting two page autograph letter from the author laid in. The letter which is dated 1991 goes into some...
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viii, pp 1-226 Pember's poems, number 164 of limited edition of 200 copies. The book is bound in quarter polished calf over green cloth with a little rubbing to the spine, top edge gilt, other edges u...
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![Essays and Addresses [with Balfour letter]](/img/products/essaysandaddres838101240-thumb.jpg) |
pp 444 Association copy revealing Arthur Balfour's fascination with Handel - his Handel collection is how held by the National Library of Scotland. Tipped in after the title page a typed, signed lette...
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Presentation copy with a letter laid in from the author to Henry Charles Dickens, the last living grandson of Charles Dickens. Bound in canary yellow boards with gilt titles: near fine, covers very li...
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pp 16 Signed programme by the Swedish tenor next to his somewhat corpulent portrait. The concert took place on May 27th 1956 at the Royal Albert Hall where Bjorling, famed for his lyric expressivity, ...
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No 410/ 10250 copies. Inscribed collection of Giono's works on the half-title: 'To Mademoiselle Monique Bondol Tres Cordialement Jean Giono Noel 67'. Attractively bound compilation which includes The ...
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![Letters Addressed to a Young Gentleman [annotated]](/img/products/lettersaddresse4987201-thumb.jpg) |
xii, pp 423 [3] [musical notation] Annotated and corrected presentation copy of the first (only) of two volumes of letters by the Suffolk cleric, Charles Davy, sometime student of Edward Stillingfleet...
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![Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney [inscribed]](/img/products/memoirsofjoseph442068146-thumb.jpg) |
Two volume biography of the prominent Norfolk Quaker and banker, brother of Elizabeth Fry, and evangelical minister whose views led to a schism among American Quakers. Bound in publisher's embossed gr...
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pp 18 A stapled pamphlet publication of Field Marshal Wavell's lecture to Birkbeck College, inscribed by its distingished author. Wavell has signed the title page in blue-black ink with his surname an...
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![My Wicked, Wicked Ways [with signed note]](/img/products/mywickedwickedw21102576-thumb.jpg) |
First American edition of Errol Flynn's autobiography, with laid in signature by the author. The postcard sized leaf of a Bridge score pad which is signed on the verso in pencil with a flourish, 'Erro...
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![O Providence [inscribed by the author]](/img/products/oprovidenceinsc151145280-thumb.jpg) |
pp 394 First Hogarth Press edition inscribed by the author using his full name in the month of first publication: 'Arnold Ovenden with John Hampson Simpson's good wishes. 11-2-32.' Bound in very good ...
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![Old Lights for New Chancels [signed]](/img/products/oldlightsfornew113732236-thumb.jpg) |
pp 67 [1] A humorously inscribed first edition of Betjeman's collection of 'Verses Topographical and Amatory'. The book is very good with browning to the endpapers; the jacket is good only with loss ...
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From the library of Vivien Greene and inscribed to her by her estranged husband Graham Greene in 1948, the year the couple separated. Using pencil to record his sentiments on the first blank the novel...
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Very limited edition - Number X (10) of XX (20) copies - of the catalogue of Leonard Baskin's First London Exhibition in 1981, tall oblong format, gilt name to upper cover (slightly flecked) in bright...
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![Studio Ceramics Today [inscribed by 25 potters]](/img/products/studioceramicst164013948-thumb.jpg) |
A remarkable copy of this directory and catalogue signed by 25 of its contributors for the leading English potter Harry Horlock Stringer below the image of their work. These signatures and inscription...
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![The Bankrupt Bookseller [with a letter]](/img/products/thebankruptbook398237862-thumb.jpg) |
pp 351 The irresistibly titled Bankrupt Bookseller with a letter from the author tipped on to the front pastedown. The letter is on Darling's headed paper and addressed to a book reviewer at the Halif...
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No 521/ 1000 copies in bevel-edged green cloth, a very good copy of this volume numbered and signed by John Collier with a full-page engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton....
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![The Hero with a Thousand Faces [inscribed]](/img/products/theherowithatho59843583-thumb.jpg) |
Campbell's study of the archetypal hero inscribed to the author of Watership Down, Richard Adams. First edition in publisher's quarter black cloth over green cloth, rubbed to edges; Richard Adams' own...
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[Frontispiece Portrait] [4] pp pp 158 [2]The second edition of a collection of Thomas Dibdin's poetry with a verse squib in his hand tipped in. The half sheet of paper has been tipped onto the first ...
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![The Leeds Police 1836-1974 [with ephemera]](/img/products/theleedspolice1723483159-thumb.jpg) |
A history of Leeds police force with extensive ephemera from a Leeds police officer who is described on the half title as 'John Booth, No 457, joined Leeds City Police as a Constable on Feb 5th, 1928,...
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![The Meaning of Life [signed by Freddie Ayer]](/img/products/themeaningoflif363156000-thumb.jpg) |
pp 33 [1] Inscribed to Anthony Quinton, Freddie Ayer's 1988 lecture: 'To Tony from Freddie'. In his autobiography, Ayer records that Quinton supported him in his election to the Wykeham Professorship,...
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![The Ministry of Art [dedication copy]](/img/products/theministryofar28710216-thumb.jpg) |
pp 246 The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to the printed dedicatee, Adeline Marie Russell on the dedication page: 'with the profound regards of the author R A Cram. 1914'. Bound in quarter c...
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![The Polar World [gift of Edward C Austen-Leigh]](/img/products/thepolarworldgi642921430-thumb.jpg) |
pp 548, Hartwig's Polar World, inscribed by Jane Austen's great nephew to a future lawyer and MP: 'John James Withers from Edw C Austen Leigh (Honoris causa) Eton. Election. 1880'. The book has been b...
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![The Sale of St Thomas [inscribed with letter]](/img/products/thesaleofstthom445574048-thumb.jpg) |
pp 124 First edition inscribed to the writer and journalist John Brophy on the first blank: 'John Brophy from Lascelles Abercrombie 1932'. Accompanying the book is a letter from Abercrombie thanking B...
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![The Unwanted [with Foyle's Luncheon Programme]](/img/products/theunwantedwith425973535-thumb.jpg) |
pp 390 A signed copy of Barnard's novel, inscribed on the title page: '19/3/76 To Patricia Christiaan Barnard' no doubt at the Foyle's Literary Lunch on the same day whose programme is laid in, showin...
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pp 152 [2] Four letters from H Bisseker, third headmaster of the Leys School in Cambridge, laid into a copy of his sermons, likely written to a former pupil. The book is a good copy with the ownershi...
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![The Way of the Cross [Limited Edition]](/img/products/thewayofthecros539205795-thumb.jpg) |
No 3/250 copies. Deluxe edition in full vellum gilt with thirteen black and white etched plates. Large folio format, vellum over boards, top edge gilt, handmade paper with untrimmed edges, signed by B...
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![Two Cheers for Democracy [presentation copy]](/img/products/twocheersfordem858550160-thumb.jpg) |
pp 372 Crisp first edition with a Compliments slip from the publisher, Edward Arnold, laid in which is inscribed in Forster's hand. The author has crossed out the publisher's name, apparently written ...
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![Utz [signed months before Chatwin's death]](/img/products/utzsignedmonths168890596-thumb.jpg) |
Second impression of Chatwin's superb final novel about the obsessive nature of collecting with the 1988 Book Prize Shortlist presentation bookplate tipped onto the first blank, signed in black ink by...
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A photographic study of the French prima ballerina Yvette Chauvire, signed by Chauvire on the frontispiece portrait by Seeberger. A very good copy in the printed wrappers with torn tissue wraparound. ...
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