Blitz: Letters from London, Written by Evelyn Lister to her sister Mildred, September & October 1940
ALLIX, Susan
Limited signed edition; small folio, black goatskin and textured binding by Susan Allix, the upper cover with paper and metallic embellishments, housed in a grey folding box...
£2000.00
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The Magus.
FOWLES, John
First American edition,; 8vo; original green cloth and dust jacket with painting by Tom Adams. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper to Denys and Monica Sharrocks - 'Denys and Monica much love, John...
£1750.00
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Het Achterhuis. Diary of a Young Girl.
FRANK, Anne
Designed by Barry Moser and illustrated by Joseph Goldyne. Limited edition; small folio original full leather, with blind stamped design to the front panel housed in slipcase with an additional set of etchings signed by the artists...
£2000.00
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Diary of a Journey From Srinagar to Kashgar Via Gilgit
HARDING, H.I.
Limited edition; 8vo; original multi-coloured Ikat cloth, printed presentation leaf, folding map, 80pp. Inscribed by the author to 'My dear Fitzmaurice, yours sincerely H...
£2500.00
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My Yorkshire: Conversations with Marco Livingstone.
HOCKNEY. David
First edition, first impression, one of 5,000 copies; oblong quarto; original red quarter cloth, lettering to spine in black and to front cover in white, illustrated boards and end papers...
£300.00
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Pen and ink Sketches
India
An album of mainly pen and ink sketches of India; 4to. The sketches include portraits: of a Sikh Warrior, A Daughter of Kashmir, A Gurkha Family and monuments, such as The Hiran Minar or Elephant Tower and Toers of Silence...
£1000.00
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Ulysses: Stuart Brockman, designer binding.
JOYCE, James
First edition, 8th Printing, May 1926; bound by Stuart Brockman; all edges gilt. Binding in blue to match the colour of the original paper wrappers...
£5750.00
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Stones.
MERCHANT, Paul: Illustrated by Barbara Hepworth
Introduction by Ted Hughes. Limited signed edition; 4to; original cloth in glassline dust jacket. Edition of 150, this being one of 75 copies signed by the author and artist...
£1500.00
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Invocation: War Poems & Others
NICHOLS, Robert
Pre-publication galley proofs of first edition, numerous hand written corrections by the author. Many corrections are substantial, largely reflecting the published text...
£1750.00
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The War Poems.
SASSOON, Siegfried
First edition, first impression.; 12mo; bound by Stuart Brockman in full black goatskin; design applied with goatskin onlays, gold tooling; lettered in gold leaf; paste paper endleaves and gilt edges...
£5000.00
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Dinosaur in a Haystack
Stephen Jay Gould
First editio, 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to his close friend and editor at Natural History Magazine, "Richard + Jude All the best dear old friends / Stephen Jay Gould"...
£750.00
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Poems.
THOMAS, Edward ('Edward Eastaway')
First edition; 8vo; original cloth-backed boards and paper label to spine. Portrait frontispiece of the author by Duncan Williams. The author's first regularly published collection...
£500.00
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The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas As Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface
WALLACE, Alfred Russel
First edition; 8vo; original green cloth, upper covers and spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt; 20 engraved plates and seven coloured maps. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) arrived independently at the theory of evolution...
£3250.00
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Giacomo Joyce: James Joyce
WEIL, Susan
Limited edition; folio; specially bound by Hannah Brown in grey goatskin, decorated with multi-coloured linear embroidery, occasional silver inlays and cut-outs revealing end papers, spine backed in sanded pink goatskin, end papers embroidered in variegated thread excerpts from the text, housed in cloth drop-back box, lined with pink felt...
£4000.00
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Letter in secretarial hand to Revd. Hamilton of Knocktopher, Ireland, signed by Wilberforce
WILBERFORCE, William
Two page letter; 8vo. Wilberforce writes "I lose no time after my return from London, where it was really impossible for me to attend to my correspondents, in thanking you for your friendly letter of the 13th I have followed from my retiring from public life, and my health is in a comfortable state , though I am not robust...
£750.00
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Kim Philby's copy
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig
Introduction by Bertrand Russell. First English edition, third impression 8vo; original cloth boards. This work is acclaimed the most important book of twentieth-century philosophy...
£2000.00
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Evacuee Labels
WORLD WAR TWO
Four World War Two Evacuee Labels for Matilda Binstock and Doreen Fellows aged 13 and 14 of Elmwood School, Croydon and Edward & John Faulkner of Hollydale Road School, Nunhead, Peckham, London, which would have been attached to their clothing while in transit during evacuation...
£650.00
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