Skittles: A Biography of a Fascinating Woman: The fictionalised biography of one of the last great Victorian courtesans
"Anonyma"
First edition; 8vo; modern calf binding; top edge gilt. Catherine "Skittles" Walters (1839-1920) came from humble beginnings but became one of the last of the great courtesans of Victorian London...
£2750.00
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Autograph signed letter to Eric Gill's daughter Petra
JONES, David
Autograph signed letter; 4to; addressed Northwick Lodge, Harrow-on-the-Hill. Christmas 1948 to Petra Tegetmeier, the daughter of Eric Gill, written on the reverse of a calligraphic print by Jones 'Gloria in Excelsis'...
£1250.00
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The Chester Play of The Deluge with an Autograph Letter signed "David Michael" from David Jones to Gordian Gill
JONES, David
Limited edition; 4to; original red buckram and pictorial dust jacket printed on pale blue paper, 10 large wood-engraved illustrations by David Jones...
£4750.00
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Two autograph signed letters to Desmond Macready Chute
JONES, David
Two autograph signed letters; 4to; with two original envelopes, addressed Northwick Lodge, Harrow-on-the-Hill. August 30th 1954 a six page letter to Desmond Macready Chute...
£2750.00
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Ploughman and Other Poems.
KAVANAGH, Patrick
First edition; 8vo; original green wrappers printed in blue. Kavanagh's first published collection of poetry. It is notable for its realistic portrayal of Irish country life, free of the romantic sentiment often seen at the time in rural poems...
£2000.00
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Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
MARX, Karl
Fourth English edition; 8vo; original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Translated from the third German edition, by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and edited by Frederick Engels...
£3000.00
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The Informer
O'FLAHERTY, Liam
First edition; 8vo; original green cloth and dust jacket. Set in 1920s Dublin in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, the novel centres on "Gypo" Nolan...
£2250.00
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Down and Out in Paris and London
ORWELL, George
First edition. 8vo; original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, The first part is an account of living in near-extreme poverty and destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens...
£3750.00
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Kolgosp Tvarin. Kazka. [Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.]
ORWELL, George
First Ukrainian edition; 8vo; original illustrated wrappers. Translated by Ivan Chernyatinski pseudonym of Igor Shevchenko. Foreword specially written by Orwell for this edition...
£1500.00
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The Road to Wigan Pier.
ORWELL, George
Left Book Club Edition. First edition; 8vo original orange printed covers. 264 pp and 32 pages of black and white photographs. With a foreword by Gollancz...
£125.00
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The War: A Speech Delivered at the London Opera House, on September 8th, 1914
PANKHURST, Christabel
First edition; 8vo; publisher's cream wrappers, lettered in green. Text of the speech delivered by Christabel Pankhurst on September 8th 1914 at the London Opera House (latterly the Stoll Theatre) when she outlined the new WSPU policy of abandoning 'Votes for Women' to support the government during the war...
£500.00
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The Mandrake and The Second Mandrake
RAVILIOUS, Eric
Two Volumes. Limited editions; 4to. Original pictorial printed card wrappers, those for Volume one designed by Edward Bawden, with hand-colouring. Eric Ravilious' copies with his ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper of Volume one...
£2000.00
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Austerlitz.
SEBALD, W.G.
Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. First edition. 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Sebalds story of Jacques Austerlitz is a search for the truth and roots, the reader is taken on a guided tour of a lost European civilization: a world of fortresses, railway stations, concentration camps and libraries...
£500.00
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Vertigo.
SEBALD, W.G.
Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. First UK edition. 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Vertigo is another of Sebalds blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history and travel writing...
£500.00
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Woman and her failings
TYRRELL, Henry
First edition; 8vo; modern grey boards, printed paper label to spine. Henry Tyrrell was an historian known for his studies and expertise on Russian history and wars with Russia, but had interesting views on the position pf women in Society...
£400.00
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Anti-Suffrage Doll
Women's Suffrage
Novelty doll, wearing a brown dress and hat and holding a 'Votes for Women' placard, the head made from a ping pong ball with a hand painted face, stuffed canvas body, pins for hands and around the hat, another pin in the middle of her chest, brim of hat detached, on square card base bearing retailers label 'Sold by Fred Franklin/ Drapery & Fancy Stores/ 11 High Street Deal/ family/ Established 1808', 150mm...
£4000.00
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Police Court Charge sheets for Mary Phillips
Women's Suffrage
Charge sheet for Mary Phillips one page, printed with manuscript insertions 4to Canon Row Police Station, 30 June 1908. Bound in the sum of two pounds to appear at Westminster Police Court on 1 July 1908 to answer charges of "Wilfully obstructing Police in the due execution of their duty at Parliament Square"...
£2500.00
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Printed Abstract of the Regulations Relating to the Treatment and Conduct of Convicted Suffragette Prisoners, Holloway
Women's Suffrage
Printed Abstract of the Regulations Relating to the Treatment and Conduct of Convicted Prisoners, outlining 14 rules of conduct, printed recto and verso on stiff card, holes for hanging at upper edge, 330 x 202mm, with a printed lending library order form issued to prisoners with manuscript insertions, 230 x 153mm...
£1750.00
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Black Friday: Suffragette demonstration
Women's Suffrage: Henry Noel Brailsford
Autograph Letter signed from Henry Noel Brailsford to his mother on Conciliation Committee For Woman Suffrage headed paper. Brailsford was a journalist, political activist and husband of the militant suffragette Jane Brailsford...
£1350.00
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Photograph album: H.M. Factory, Gretna
WORLD WAR ONE
Photograph album c.1916-1918 of H.M. Factory, Gretna, with 102 mounted silver gelatin prints of various sizes with pencil captions including a large folding panoramic view of the exterior of the site; original brown card covers...
£1750.00
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