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Skellig Revisited 2015

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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