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'To Philip Foster best wishes, Leonard Cheshire' £90 Author: CHESHIRE, Leonard Year: 1970 Publisher: N/A Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes 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... Buy this book online More info...

An Inhabitant of The Rock [and papers] £200 Author: BEIBITZ, Joseph; Lord Palmerston Year: 1846 Publisher: B Wetheim Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: No pp 124. Judaeo-Christian conversion narrative of an 1830s Austrian immigrant to Britain with his naturalisation papers signed by Prime Minister Palmerston and John Romilly as Master of the Rolls. Jose... Buy this book online More info...

‘In admiration': 44 Books for Alasdair Gray £2500 Author: GRAY, Alasdair; Liz Lochhead; Linton Kwesi-Johnson etc Year: 1995 Publisher: Miscellaneous Dust Jacket: No Place: Scotland and England Signed: Yes ‘With thanks for the inspiration’ - a collection of 44 books inscribed to Alasdair Gray by friends, family and, mostly, fellow writers, including a gift from Liz Lochhead, several books about Glas... Buy this book online More info...

Baskin: Sculpture Drawings & Prints £95 Author: BASKIN, Leonard Year: 1970 Publisher: George Braziller Dust Jacket: Yes Place: New York Signed: Yes 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... Buy this book online More info...

Broadchurch III, Episode I £87 Author: CHIBNALL, Chris; Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker etc Year: 2016 Publisher: Unpublished Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes ff 54. Shooting Script signed by the fourteen cast members including Oscar Winner Olivia Colman, Dr Who actor Jodie Whittaker, Julie Hesmondhalgh, David Tennant and ten other actors. Hole punched A4 p... Buy this book online More info...

Complete Works of Burns [with a letter] £225 Author: BURNS, Robert; James Glencairn Burns Year: 1857 Publisher: George Virtue Dust Jacket: No Place: London [and Cheltenham] Signed: Yes A letter from Robert Burns's son James Glencairn Burns mounted on the final leaf of this mid-century edition of his father's works. The book is bound in battered half calf over cloth boards, upper cov... Buy this book online More info...

Crosby Hall: A Chapter in the History of London £62 Author: GOSS, Charles W F Year: 1908 Publisher: Crowther and Goodman Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: No Inscribed to the author's daughter, with a photograph of Charles Goss, also inscribed, laid in. Goss has written on the first endpaper: 'This is the First Edition to my daughter Pauline from the Autho... Buy this book online More info...

Dickens to his Oldest Friend [presentation copy] £150 Author: DEXTER, Walter [Henry Fielding Dickens] Year: 1932 Publisher: Putnam Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: No 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... Buy this book online More info...

Dmitri Shostakovich Catalogue, Bibliography... £60 Author: HULME, Derek C [Dmitri Shostakovich] Year: 1982 Publisher: Kyle and Glen Music Dust Jacket: Yes Place: Muir of Ord Signed: Yes 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... Buy this book online More info...

Draw it with the Artbox Bunch - Original Art £250 Author: HART, Tony; Roc Renals Year: 1995 Publisher: BBC Children's Books Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes Original artwork, photographs and an inscribed book by Tony Hart, inscribed to his agent and friend Roc Renals. The artwork 36x29cm show a dozen original ink and gouache cutouts by Hart from his Ar... Buy this book online More info...

Er of Pamphylia and Other Poems £50 Author: Edward Henry Pember Year: 1908 Publisher: The Chiswick Press for Private Circulation Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes 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... Buy this book online More info...

Everest: Eighty Years of Triumph and Tragedy £125 Author: GILLMAN, Peter [George Band's Annotated Copy] Year: 2001 Publisher: Little Brown and Company Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: No pp240. 1953 Everest mountaineer George Band's own copy of an illustrated anthology with contributions from Everest pioneers including George Mallory, Tenzing Norgay, Peter Boardman and Chris Bonington... Buy this book online More info...

Francis Galton: The Life and Work [Stopes Copy] £100 Author: FORREST D W [Harry Stopes-Roe - Mary Stopes-Roe] Year: 1974 Publisher: Paul Elek Dust Jacket: Yes Place: London Signed: Yes Inscribed by the philosopher Harry Stopes-Roe (son of Marie Stopes) to his wife ‘Another Tuesday present To combine her old and new interests/ To encourage her to think about great thoughts and grea... Buy this book online More info...

Gallipot Eyes: A Wiltshire Diary £125 Author: HUXLEY, Elspeth; Valerie Ryshworth Hill Year: 1976 Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson Dust Jacket: Yes Place: London Signed: No Extensively extra-illustrated with Huxleyan ephemera and letters. Three letters from Elspeth Huxley to Valerie Ryshworth Hill in Portugal are mounted on early pages, dating from 1977, the first of whi... Buy this book online More info...

Jussi Bjorling: International Celebrity Recital £75 Author: BJORLING, Jussi [Schubert, Sibelius] Year: 1956 Publisher: Orchestral Concerts Society Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes 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, ... Buy this book online More info...

Leda [Limited Edition with Original Illustrations] £1850 Author: HUXLEY, ALDOUS [Richard de Bohun Lovell Smith] Year: 1920 Publisher: Chatto and Windus Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: No Extra-illustrated edition with five full-page original pen and ink drawings by the New Zealand artist, Richard de Bohun Lovell Smith interpreting Huxley’s Leda poem. Expensively bound in half cru... Buy this book online More info...

Les Métamorphoses Historiques de Dada [inscribed] £250 Author: ARNAUD, Noël [René Magritte Year: 1958 Publisher: Revue Generale des Publications Francaises et Etrangeres Dust Jacket: No Place: Paris Signed: Yes Inscribed to the Belgian surrealist and one-time Dadaist René Magritte, with a few pencilled annotations to the lower cover which might be in the painter's hand. Arnaud has written on the first leaf ... Buy this book online More info...

My Autobiography [inscribed to the Prime Minister] £1950 Author: CHAPLIN, Charlie [Harold Wilson] Year: 1964 Publisher: The Bodley Heda Dust Jacket: Yes Place: London Signed: Yes INSCRIBED TO THE PRIME MINISTER WHO GRANTED CHARLIE CHAPLIN HIS KNIGHTHOOD in 1975: in a shaky hand Chaplin has written on the dedication page 'To Harold and Mary:- [drawing of the little tramp] Charl... Buy this book online More info...

My Canoe [signed by translator] £62 Author: CHENU, Maurice; Bertram Ratcliffe Year: 1931 Publisher: Eric Partridge at the Scholartis Press Dust Jacket: Yes Place: London Signed: Yes One of six hundred copies, this example inscribed by the translator who was the first British soldier to escape a German POW camp during the First World War and return to Britain. The translator has i... Buy this book online More info...

Nude Ego £70 Author: Horace Roye Year: 1956 Publisher: Hutchinson Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes ... Buy this book online More info...

Old Trades & New Knowledge [signed] £275 Author: BRAGG, Sir William H Year: 1926 Publisher: G Bell and Son Dust Jacket: Yes Place: London Signed: Yes Presentation copy inscribed by Bragg on the front flyleaf: ‘Peter Duffield with best wishes from W.H.B.’ Peter Duffield’s signed bookplate appears opposite. The book is in near fine conditio... Buy this book online More info...

Peninsula of Death [presentation copy] £62 Author: CRAVEN, Digger; William James Blackledge Year: 1937 Publisher: Sampson, Low, Marston and Co Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes viii, pp 248. First world war Gallipoli memoir inscribed by its author - or perhaps its ghost writer - as the title pages describes the work 'As Told to W J Blackledge by Digger Craven.' Blackledge ha... Buy this book online More info...

Poor Caroline [inscribed by author] £150 Author: HOLTBY, Winifred Year: 1931 Publisher: Chatto & Windus Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes Signed third impression of Holtby's satire on philanthropy and religion. Mustard coloured cloth, very clean, inscribed by the author for a Bradford librarian 'With good wishes - Winifred Holtby.' Ther... Buy this book online More info...

Réalités et Nostalgies Marines [with drawings] £200 Author: GUIERRE, Maurice Year: 1920 Publisher: Chez Floury Dust Jacket: No Place: Saint-Sulpice, Paris Signed: Yes Out of sequence edition containing three original drawings by the artist and writer and an additional suite of woodcuts preceding the text. Unnumbered, but resembling one of the first 13 copies, the b... Buy this book online More info...

Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante £100 Author: FOWLER, Gene; Jimmy Durante Year: 1952 Publisher: Hammond, Hammond and Company Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: No Signed by the subject of this biography of the entertainer Jimmy "Schnozzola" Durante: 'For Jock Elliott a pleasure Jimmy Durante'. Very good in lightly marked burgundy cloth with gilt spine... Buy this book online More info...

Sculptures, Reliefs, Drawings, Watercolours... £60 Author: BASKIN, Leonard Year: 1981 Publisher: Leinster Fine Art Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes 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... Buy this book online More info...

Sweeney Astray [inscribed in a speech bubble] £300 Author: HEANEY, Seamus Year: 1984 Publisher: Faber and Faber Dust Jacket: Yes Place: London Signed: Yes Comically inscribed by Heaney with a speech bubble from Sweeney’s head on the title page. First Faber reprint from 1984 with Heaney’s bubbled inscription: ‘I wonder are the Saunderses coming ... Buy this book online More info...

The Brontes Their Lives by their Contemporaries £50 Author: DELAFIELD, E M [Mr Freeman] Year: 1935 Publisher: The Hogarth Press Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes Presentation copy with a letter from the author Edmée Delafield to a 'Mr Freeman' tipped onto the front endpaper and a Hogarth Press compliments slip 'Sent at the request of the author.' A good copy ... Buy this book online More info...

The Comedies [Presentation Copy] £475 Author: CONGREVE, William [Algernon C Swinburne; Year: 1895 Publisher: Methuen and Co Dust Jacket: No Place: 1895 Signed: No An excellent presentation copy inscribed by Algernon Charles Swinburne to his intimate friend Theodore Watts-Dunton. Two volumes bound in green buckram, a little fading to the spine of the second volu... Buy this book online More info...

The Devil and All (limited edition) £35 Author: COLLIER, John (Blair Hughes Stanton, illustrator) Year: 1934 Publisher: Nonesuch Press Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: No 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.... Buy this book online More info...

The Last Lays of the Last of the Three Dibdins £75 Author: DIBDIN, Thomas John Year: 1835 Publisher: B B King Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: No [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 ... Buy this book online More info...

The Meaning of Life [signed by Freddie Ayer] £95 Author: AYER, A J, Freddie Year: 1988 Publisher: South Place Ethical Society Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: No 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,... Buy this book online More info...

The Ministry of Art [dedication copy] £100 Author: CRAM, Ralph Adams - Adeline Marie Russell, Duchess of Bedford Year: 1914 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York Dust Jacket: No Place: New York Signed: Yes 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... Buy this book online More info...

The Mystery [Rosamond Lehmann's copy] £75 Author: HODGSON, Ralph [Rosamond Lehmann] Year: 1913 Publisher: A T Stevens Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes pp 20. Rosamond Lehmann's copy of Hodgson's poems, inscribed and dated while studying at Girton College, Cambridge. Lehmann has written her full name on the upper cover: 'Rosamond Nina Lehmann 1920', ... Buy this book online More info...

The Sale of St Thomas [inscribed with letter] £75 Author: ABERCROMBIE, Lascelles [John Brophy] Year: 1931 Publisher: Martin Secker Dust Jacket: Yes Place: London Signed: Yes 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... Buy this book online More info...

The Unwanted [with Foyle's Luncheon Programme] £45 Author: BARNARD, Christiaan Year: 1976 Publisher: Hutchinson Dust Jacket: Yes Place: London Signed: Yes 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... Buy this book online More info...

The Way of Discipleship Sermons... in Leys School £55 Author: BISSEKER H Year: 1932 Publisher: The Epworth Press Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes 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... Buy this book online More info...

Travels in Arabia Deserta [presentation copy] £1200 Author: DOUGHTY, Charles M, [Theodore Dreiser; John Cowper Powys] Year: 1921 Publisher: Boni and Liveright Dust Jacket: No Place: New York Signed: Yes EXCELLENT ASSOCIATION COPY inscribed on the title page ‘My Christmas present to Jock Dec 22nd 1926 Theodore Dreiser To John Cowper Powys.’ On the half title Powys has inscribed the work a second ... Buy this book online More info...

Two Cheers for Democracy [presentation copy] £150 Author: FORSTER E M [Arthur Boyars] Year: 1951 Publisher: Edward Arnold Dust Jacket: Yes Place: London Signed: No 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 ... Buy this book online More info...

Waterlog [signed] £75 Author: DEAKIN, Roger Year: 2000 Publisher: Vintage Dust Jacket: No Place: London Signed: Yes Signed early reprint of the first paperback edition of Roger Deakin's modern classic of wild swimming. Roger Deakin has signed this fine copy on the title page. This marvellous book was inspire... Buy this book online More info...

William Gropper Retrospective [with a drawing] £80 Author: GROPPER, William Year: 1968 Publisher: The Ward Ritchie Press Dust Jacket: Yes Place: Los Angeles; University of Miami Signed: Yes Inscribed by the artist with a simple drawing on the first blank 'To Frank and Edith with warm Regards from the Groppens.' Near fine book, a couple of small marks to the endpapers in a jacket which ha... Buy this book online More info...

Yvette Chauvire: Dix Reproductions Photographiques £40 Author: DE RODE, Francoise Guillot [Yvette Chauvire] Year: 1949 Publisher: R Fromentin et J Driay Dust Jacket: No Place: Paris Signed: Yes 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. ... Buy this book online More info...