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Critic and writer Herbert Read’s copy, numbered and presented to him probably by the book’s distributor, Faber and Faber. Illustrated cloth covered boards ‘printed by offset li...
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![A Boy's Will [first state]](/img/products/aboyswillfirsts111358660-thumb.jpg) |
First edition, first state, bound in golden brown textured cloth, small indentation close to foot of spine, part ringmark on upper board. The book was owned and annotated in pencil by an English acqua...
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![Bliss [signed]](/img/products/theunlimiteddre80199768-thumb.jpg) |
Bliss [signed] £225
pp 296 The First Edition of Peter Carey's first novel, Bliss, published by the University of Queensland Press. This is a very clean copy, fine in a near fine example of the tin foil jacket with just a...
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![Breath and Other Shorts [proof]](/img/products/breathandothers476631819-thumb.jpg) |
Numbererd proof with 'Advance Proof' presentation notice from Fabers laid in. Number '8' on the upper cover in ink, above a large coffee stain. Otherwise a very good copy with soiled wrappers. ...
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[7] pp 8-192, pp 32 ads. The first English edition of Harte's four Californian Stories. Attractively produced as a yellowback, the illustration on the front cover shows a rescue attempt in progress, w...
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Captain Bottell £50
First edition. Very good plus in black boards with striking silver and red decoration on spine and front cover. Very light foxing to extremities. In good jacket designed by Boswell. Not price-clipped....
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Cubism and Abstract Art £2650
SUPERB COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS INFLUENTIAL EXHIBITION CATALOGUE with Alfred Barr’s famous flow-chart diagram of the origins and influences of modern art which appears on the dustjacke...
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![Family Curse [inscribed]](/img/products/familycurseinsc15298704-thumb.jpg) |
pp 376 Very good first of Hampson's novel set around a dying matriarch. Very good, black boards with yellow lettering; inscription from the author on the first blank: 'for Arnold with all good wishes ...
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![Heidegger [inscribed by Steiner]](/img/products/heideggerinscri292452753-thumb.jpg) |
pp 160 Steiner's Modern Masters study of Heidegger, attractively inscribed to a friend: 'For Jim, in fond recollection of a season in Eden! George (9/9/78)'. Jim is James Sheehan, then working at Nort...
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Madame Maillart £50
First edition in a striking art deco style dustjacket by 'L Houghton' of a work translated by Hamish Miles. Light green publisher's cloth with lettering, no ownership signatures, spotting to edge of t...
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Katherine Ainslie's distinctively illustrated childen's book, Mops versus Tails, in oblong pictorial boards, rubbing to edges, decorative endpapers, pencilled gift inscription from 1907. A very good c...
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![Rebecca ['Special Presentation Edition']](/img/products/rebeccaspecialp923910350-thumb.jpg) |
pp 446 The 'Special Presentation Edition' of Daphne Du Maurier's classic of romantic fiction which boasts one of the most memorable first lines in the English novel: 'Last night I dreamt I went to Man...
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First edition, first state, of perhaps the greatest of all collections of Sherlock Holmes stories which contains The Speckled Band and a Scandal in Bohemia. Publisher's light blue cloth over heavy...
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viii, pp 1-529 [1] [4] pp 5-508 [4] A scarce dustjacketed copy of the first appearance of D H Lawrence's collected poems in a single volume. The collected poems first appeared in two volumes in 1928 a...
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[6] pp 7-135 [136] A First Edition that describes itself as 'stories of the Pahouin negroes of the Great Forest of Gaboon. True stories these, not invented.' The book is bound in its original boards...
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pp 224 [8] adverts First edition of Firbank's novel with a jacket by C R W Nevinson and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Augustus John with a vignette on the title page of Firbank by Wyndham L...
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![The French Lieutenant's Woman [signed]](/img/products/thefrenchlieute51049344-thumb.jpg) |
Fowles' third novel, signed by the author on the title page in black ink for the 'Literary Guild' whose stamp appears at the foot of the page. A near fine first edition in publisher's brown cloth with...
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Inscribed to his colleague in the Air Ministry intelligence branch: 'Geoffrey Harmsworth, continuing the pleasant association at P.R.3 with best wishes H.E. Bates'. This is the first Guild Edition of ...
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![The Little World Horse and Bamboo [artist's book]](/img/products/thelittleworldh22044240-thumb.jpg) |
[16] Artist's book of linocuts inspired by the work of the Netherlandish artist Peter Breugel. Several of the cuts are signed in the plate 'B.F. [19]79' but we can find no record of the book or its au...
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![The Lord's Song [Limited Edition]](/img/products/thelordssonglim14241670-thumb.jpg) |
pp 16 Limited edition, number 89 of 500 copies printed by Christopher Sandford, Owen Rutter and Francis Newbery on rag paper, a full page engraving and title vignette by Gill. pp. [4] 16 [4]. Whit...
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pp 18 A mimeographed periodical from the 1970s, the most intense period of political activity for Britain's mineworkers. Douglass contributes an editorial on the 'dynamic advance of militancy' with a ...
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Influential account of architectural brutalism in Britain from the 1950s and 1960s. Near fine black cloth, very slightly bowed boards; no ownership inscriptions, near fine internally, very slight m...
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![The Pocket Hardy: Being Selections [1906 jacket]](/img/products/thepockethardyb6888000-thumb.jpg) |
pp 312 An early compilation from Hardy's novels and poems in the uncommon jacket. The book is near fine in blue decorative cloth and the typographic jacket is rubbed and nicked to extremities. The jac...
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[unpaginated] Edward Gorey's biblio-joke, his miniature 'Pointless Book' in 6x4 cm oblong format published pseudonymously under the Fantod Press imprint. Maintaining the joke, Gorey has signed the boo...
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Beautiful private-press version of The Seafarer. Japanese-style binding enclosed within a portfolio of oatmeal linen and blue buckram lining with ties. The text juxtaposes Crossley-Holland’s...
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Eric Gill's superbly illustrated Golden Cockerel edition of the work he called a 'love song'. Copy number 252 of 750 issued. Bound in original cream buckram with gilt spine lettering, light markin...
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![The Unwanted [with Foyle's Luncheon Programme]](/img/products/theunwantedwith425973535-thumb.jpg) |
pp 390 A signed copy of Barnard's novel, inscribed on the title page: '19/3/76 To Patricia Christiaan Barnard' no doubt at the Foyle's Literary Lunch on the same day whose programme is laid in, showin...
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Copy number 24 of 226 published examples of Trees, a sequence of poems by Michael Hamburger with wood engravings by R Samaraweera. This limited edition is signed by the author and artist, fine in gree...
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No 44/ 250 copies bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter red sheepskin over yellow linen cloth boards. Blind stamp and wartime gift inscription to his daughter from Irish novelist and director of...
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(105x155mm) Hand-coloured photographic postcard, with screenprint in red, from an unrecorded edition size thought to be around 150 published by 'Robert Fraser Gallery 69 Duke Street London W1'. These ...
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![Wuthering Heights [Film tie-in edition]](/img/products/wutheringheight187938534-thumb.jpg) |
The 'Read the Book:See the Film' edition of Emily Bronte's masterpiece published alongside Samuel Goldwyn's 1939 film adaptation. Very good in burgundy cloth, with photographic frontispiece of Merle O...
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