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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Multo-Epicycloidal and other Geometric Curves.
ALABONE, Edwin W.
First edition; 8vo; original burgundy morocco-grain cloth. Gilt titles to spine and upper board. Photographic print of the author with his Epicycloidal Geometric Chuck and 77 colour plates...
£400.00
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When the Wind Blows: Five original pencil concept storyboard drawings by Raymond Briggs for the animated film.
BRIGGS, Raymond
Five original pencil concept storyboard drawings by Raymond Briggs for the animated film When the Wind Blows, two with attached typescript attached below each image, mounted on board, some tape residue appearing slightly though images, each image approx...
£1000.00
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
CONRAD, Joseph
First edition, first issue; 8vo; original blue smooth cloth lettered in gilt on spine and in light blue on upper cover. Nostromo was described by Conrad as his work with the largest canvas, set in an imaginary South American republic and covering a period of history from the 1880s to 1900...
£750.00
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Blind Drawings
COX, Morris
Limited edition; 4to; quarter bound in vellum by Gemma O'Connor; acetate dust jacket; printed on Japanese mingei papers. With an introduction by Colin Franklin...
£450.00
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The Seasons, A Landscape Panorama: An Impression of Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn.
COX, Morris
Four volumes. Limited editions each one of 100 copies signed by the artist; 8vo; original boards with monotype printed in colours and transparent dust jackets...
£1750.00
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Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi: Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel from the Latin Text.
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...
£3000.00
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Manuscript Diary of a Camping Trip in France in 1926
HARTLEY, A.W.
Manuscript diary; contemporary white pictorial buckram lettered in black; 16 by 12.5 cm. Signed by A.W. Hartley on the title page. holiday in France in the summer of 1926...
£750.00
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Journey to an Illusion. The West Indian in Britain
HINDS, Donald
First edition; 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper, "Deborah [Rogers] to whom I am deeply indebted...
£2750.00
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Collection of letters to Max Aiken, Lord Beaverbrook, 1921 – 1950
HOARE, Sir Samuel, Viscount Templewood
Series of c.110 autograph or typed letters signed ("Sam"), to Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook (Dear Max"). c.238 pages, 4to and 8vo, House of Commons, 18 Cadogan Gardens, the Air Ministry, India Office, Home Office, British Embassy in Madrid, and other locations, 8 June 1921 to 25 April 1950...
£4000.00
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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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Science Primers: Astronomy
LOCKYER, Norman J., [Beatrix Potter]
Fifth edition; 8vo; original printed cloth. Beatrix Potter's copy, signed 'Helen Beatrix Potter' on the half title. This primer is one of a series which was aimed at introducing young children to the sciences...
£3500.00
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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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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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Chinese Labour Record of Service
South Africa: Rose Deep Limited
Manuscript record of Chinese immigrant workers in the Rose Deep Gold Mine near Johannesburg, 996 pages, large 4to.; original half leather binding, title in gilt on upper cover...
£3000.00
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Holloway Jingles
Women's Suffrage: JOHN, Nancy A (editor)
First edition; 8vo; original pictorial printed wrappers, stitched with the original white, purple and green ribbon. Presentation copy, inscribed "Aunt Mary/ with much love/ from/ Margaret...
£4000.00
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