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Personal address book

Personal address book

CARTER, Howard

Personal address book; 8vo; a lease leaf ring binder with original leather covers. The contains approximately 200 addresses many with telephone numbers, hand written by Carter in pencil...

£5000.00

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Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi: Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel from the Latin Text.

Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi: Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel from the Latin Text.

GILL, Eric

Limited edition; 4to; original cream buckram and dust jacket. Edition of 250 copies, this being number 57. Printed in red and black, wood-engraved title vignette and illustrations by Gill...

£1850.00

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The German Prisoner

The German Prisoner

HANLEY, James

Limited edition; 8vo; original red cloth, frontispiece by William Roberts and an introduction by Richard Aldington. This is number 243 of an edition of 500, signed and numbered by the author on the limitation page...

£475.00

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Wodwo.

Wodwo.

HUGHES, Ted

First edition; 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Henry Williamson, three days before publication, 'To Henry / always with thanks / "We that are young / Shall never see so much nor live so long" / Only an owl knows the worth of an owl / from Ted / 15th May 1967'...

£2000.00

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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

KEYNES, John Maynard

First edition; 8vo; original blue cloth and dust jacket. One of the most influential economic works of the Twentieth Century. Described as "the chief of his [Keynes'] major theoretical works...

£8000.00

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Secret Speech: Delivered to the Closed Session of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Secret Speech: Delivered to the Closed Session of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

KHRUSHCHEV, Nikita Sergeyevich

First edition, first issue, 8vo; original paper wrapper, ink-stamp '3083' to upper cover. Khrushchev's speech, given to a closed session of Communist Party delegates on 25 Feburary 1956, in which he openly denounced Joseph Stalin (who died in March 1953)...

£4000.00

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Autograph letter signed

Autograph letter signed

MACDONALD, Ramsey

Autograph letter signed on a Chequers headed card from Prime Minister Ramsey Macdonald to Sir John Foster Fraser. "Though I have to bar journalists from this heaven of rest, you sit on my table and you are a really welcome guest...

£300.00

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Diary of An Apple Tree.

Diary of An Apple Tree.

MACGREGOR, Miriam

Limited edition; 4to; top edge gilt, others uncut. Number V of 20 specially-bound copies with an additional suite of plates (one hand-coloured) signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 385...

£750.00

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Autograph Letter signed

Autograph Letter signed

POTTER, Beatrix (Beatrix Heelis)

Autograph Letter signed to Charles Forrester, a Carlisle cattle farmer, 3pp; 8vo, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Ambleside, 13th January 1941, signed H.B. Heelis, with the original envelope...

£3000.00

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Autograph Letter signed

Autograph Letter signed

POTTER, Beatrix (Beatrix Heelis)

Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Miss Wilson", 2pp., 8vo, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Ambleside, 4th July 1942, regarding the use of the Women's Land Army on farms in the Lake District and their remuneration, signed Beatrix Heelis...

£3000.00

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Dolores.

Dolores.

SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles: Illustrated by BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John

Privately printed limited edition; 8vo; bound in black Morocco with title panel to front in brown Morocco, with original blue paper wrappers bound in with white paper label...

£6000.00

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The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?

The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?

TROTSKY, Leon

First edition; 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jacket. Signed and dedicated on the front free end page "To Mr John Finerty with best regards, Leon Trotsky, 13 April...

£4500.00

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Tarka the Otter, by Henry Williamson

Tarka the Otter, by Henry Williamson

TUNNICLIFFE, Charles Frederick

An original pen and pencil drawing on paper, 14 x 8.5 cm, sheet size 22 x 15 cm, measurements in pencil to verso, hinge-mounted. An unused design for the front cover of Henry Williamson's story, first published in 1927...

£3750.00

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A collection of over twenty pamphlets bound in one volume.

A collection of over twenty pamphlets bound in one volume.

VENEREAL DISEASES: Contagious Diseases Acts of the 1860s

A collection of pamphlets bound in one volume. Recently bound in half calf, 8vo. The Contagious Diseases Acts were originally passed by the Parliament in 1864 with additions made in 1866 and 1869...

£1250.00

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Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers.

Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers.

WILLIAMSON, Henry

First trade edition; 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jacket, with woodcut design by Hester Sainsbury. With an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue...

£625.00

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The Gold Falcon or The Haggard of Love: Being the adventures of Manfred, airman and poet of the World War, and later, husband and father, in search of freedom and personal sunrise, in the city of New York, and of the consummation of his life.

The Gold Falcon or The Haggard of Love: Being the adventures of Manfred, airman and poet of the World War, and later, husband and father, in search of freedom and personal sunrise, in the city of New York, and of the consummation of his life.

WILLIAMSON, Henry [Published anonymously]

First edition; special issue, with printed dedication; 8vo; original vellum, goldstamped on front and spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. This copy is dedication to ILW (Ida Letitia Williamson - the author's first wife), 'most magnanimous and natural of women whose essence is in the character of Ann'...

£2750.00

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Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers

Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers

WILLIAMSON, Henry.

Limited edition; 8vo; contemporary half vellum top edge gilt, others uncut, morocco label to spine. Number 76 of 100 copies, signed by Henry Williamson, with his owl device, further inscribed on the front free end paper 'Charles Robert Hibbert Esq...

£4000.00

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Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers: First and Second Revised Proof Copies

Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers: First and Second Revised Proof Copies

WILLIAMSON, Henry.

The first and second revised proof copies of Tarka the Otter; 8vo; the pair uniformly bound in contemporary blue half crushed morocco, spines lettered in gilt...

£7500.00

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Photograph album of Wilson's visit to the British Industrial Exhibition in Moscow 1966

Photograph album of Wilson's visit to the British Industrial Exhibition in Moscow 1966

WILSON, Harold

Photograph album of Wilson's visit to the British Industrial Exhibition in Moscow, 48 black and white photographs, all laid down; cloth covered album 4to...

£200.00

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Touchstone, No. 1-15 (complete)

Touchstone, No. 1-15 (complete)

WORLD WAR TWO: Prisoner of War Maganzines

Touchstone, No. 1-15, Autumn 1943 to March 1945, with numerous illustrations, original stapled wrappers. Together with a four page programme for a prison pantomime...

£2750.00

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