Skellig Revisited 2015
ACKROYD, Norman
Limited edition; sheets loose as issued, in original solander box, overall 39.2 x 26 x 3.6cm. Portfolio of ten etchings on 280 gsm Somerset rag, each signed, dated, titled and numbered 38/90 in pencil, with limitation page signed, dated and numbered in pencil by the artist...
£3750.00
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The Oxford Books of English Verse 1250-1900
C W Dawson Changi Prison 1942
A 1924 edition of "The Oxford Books of English Verse; 8vo; original cloth boards. A relic of the Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II...
£350.00
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Poems of Truth
DILLON, Michael
First edition, 8vo original blue cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine and dust-jacket. A significant figure in transgender history, Michael Dillon- a minor Irish aristocrat- was the first person to undergo Female-To-Male- surgery in 1946, followed by phalloplasty...
£1500.00
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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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The Nature Poems of George Meredith.
HYDE, William
Limited edition; small folio; full green crushed morocco, top edge gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, covers with multiple gilt rules and gilt corner devices; watered silk end papers...
£1500.00
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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...
£1500.00
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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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Four Hedges: A Gardener's Chronicle
LEIGHTON, Clare
Second edition; 4to; full crushed morocco binding, spines with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt to spine, front board and board edges, inlayed design of a dove to front board and green inlays to spine compartments and front board...
£425.00
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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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A Catalogue of the Etchings of Samuel Palmer with introduction and notes by R. G. Alexander
PALMER, Samuel
Limited edition; 8vo; original boards, with gilt decoration to front board and gilt titles to spine. Number 81 of 375 copies. Very good, wear to extremities and scattered light foxing to the preliminaries
£500.00
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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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Autograph letter signed, to Max Aitken, First Baron Beaverbrook, regarding the author's portrait of Winston Churchill
SUTHERLAND, Graham
Autograph letter signed Graham, to Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, West Malling, Kent. Four pages, addressed 'My Dear Max Letters to the author's friend and patron, the newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook...
£1000.00
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Three page typed signed letter to Lord Beaverbrook, regarding the acquisition of the artists sketches of Churchill
SUTHERLAND, Graham
Typed letter, signed Graham Sutherland to Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Annotated and corrected in pen by the author. Sutherland took to portraiture relatively late in his career, his first portrait was of Somerset Maugham...
£1000.00
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The Black Country
WADSWORTH, Edward
Signed limited edition; small folio; original cloth-backed boards. Initial devices and vignette by Wadsworth and 20 black and white plates. Wadsworth's own copy of the signed limited edition, which was 'specially seen through the press by the artist' and contains a 'unique woodcut now destroyed'; this is number 41 of 50 copies...
£2250.00
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The Black Country
WADSWORTH, Edward
First edition; small folio; original cloth-backed boards. Initial devices and vignette by Wadsworth and 20 black and white plates. Wadsworth's working proof copy, with his annotations in pencil...
£2250.00
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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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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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