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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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Privately printed account of a trip to the USA and Canada by the editor, later owner, of the Harrogate Herald in north Yorkshire. Publisher's brown cloth with title in gilt to the upper cover, stainin...
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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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![An Inhabitant of The Rock [and papers]](/img/products/aninhabitantoft50494923-thumb.jpg) |
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...
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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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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...
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![Cantata Misericordium [inscribed to 'Tom' Hemsley]](/img/products/cantatamiserico18846314-thumb.jpg) |
Inscribed by Britten to a favourite baritone and collaborator, Thomas Hemsley, who gave the work's British premier in 1963 and performed the Cantata around Europe. At the end of that tour Benjamin Bri...
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![Complete Works of Burns [with a letter]](/img/products/completeworksof277675242-thumb.jpg) |
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...
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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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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...
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![Death in Venice [musical drafts]](/img/products/deathinvenicemu652007232-thumb.jpg) |
Pre-publication and pre-premier sequence of successively revised scores from early 1973 together with a kit of parts to make good the revisions of Britten's scores for his final opera, Death in Venice...
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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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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...
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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...
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![In the Twilight Slot [limited edition]](/img/products/inthetwilightsl619595385-thumb.jpg) |
Number 30 of 75 copies of this limited edition signed by the author, accompanied by a signed and numbered photograph of the author by Arthur Tress - from the collection of Ted and Frieda Hughes. The p...
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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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![Les Métamorphoses Historiques de Dada [inscribed]](/img/products/lemtamorphosesh80372712-thumb.jpg) |
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 ...
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![Mixed Moments [signed]](/img/products/mixedmomentssig189949650-thumb.jpg) |
Signed presentation copy from the co-publishers Olympus. David Bailey has inscribed the book in pencil to the first leaf; an Olympus Optical Co. 'With Compliments' slip is laid in, numbered in ink '28...
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![My Autobiography [inscribed to the Prime Minister]](/img/products/myautobiography275741413-thumb.jpg) |
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...
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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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![Peninsula of Death [presentation copy]](/img/products/peninsulaofdeat524782095-thumb.jpg) |
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...
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![Poor Caroline [inscribed by author]](/img/products/poorcarolineins231125004-thumb.jpg) |
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...
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![Réalités et Nostalgies Marines [with drawings]](/img/products/ralitsetnostalg11362292-thumb.jpg) |
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...
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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...
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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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(8.8x13.7cm) Signed portrait post-card of the founder of the Labour Party, presented sixty years later to the Labour Leader and Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. This card was issued as part of 'The Knig...
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Inscribed 'To Dorothy with love E[ric] G[ill]' to the artist Dorothy Bishop Mahoney who attended Edward Johnston's calligraphy class at Ditchling. Eric Gill has inscribed the first free endpaper in hi...
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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 ...
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![The Comedies [Presentation Copy]](/img/products/thecomediespres466073366-thumb.jpg) |
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...
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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 Good News Bible [inscribed to Harold Wilson]](/img/products/thegoodnewsbibl178911810-thumb.jpg) |
pp361 Inscribed on a Bible Society presentation label to former Prime Minister 'Sir Harold Wilson to mark the publication of The Good News Bible. Stuart Ebor. President. Scargill Conference Centre 4th...
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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 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 Mystery [Rosamond Lehmann's copy]](/img/products/themysteryrosam185922600-thumb.jpg) |
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', ...
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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 Trouble I’ve Seen [inscribed]](/img/products/thetroubleivese124302035-thumb.jpg) |
INSCRIBED BY WRITER MARTHA GELLHORN TO CHRISTINA FOYLE on the verso of the half-title with a sly (critical or complimentary?) reference to St Louis where Gellhorn was born: ‘For Miss Foyle who feels...
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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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![Travels in Arabia Deserta [presentation copy]](/img/products/travelsinarabia28908156-thumb.jpg) |
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 ...
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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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![William Gropper Retrospective [with a drawing]](/img/products/williamgropperr734892636-thumb.jpg) |
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...
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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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