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Published by Friends of St. Lawrence College in association with Bruce & Gawthorn, Watford, nd (probably 1960 from text references). Blue leatherette boards,silver lettering to spine, gilt lettering to front board, no dustwrapper. 10ins x 7.75ins, 160pp. Illustrations within text including a colour frontis. Subjects covered incl…

337 S. Moderner/neuzeitlicher englischsprachiger Roman. Englischer Text, perfekt für jedermann/-frau, der/die sein/ihr Englisch verbessern möchte, ohne allzu schwere Kost zu lesen. Hierzulande eher schwierig zu bekommen. Ein kurzweiliges Lesevergnügen für Freunde englischer Romane! Gelesen, Text sauber. Rücken etwas gewölbt und…

Printed by Gibbs & Bamforth, St Albans, 1928. Bound in green cloth boards without lettering. 10.25ins x 6.25ins, xii, 118pp. Initial pages contain a list of officers, list of members, presidents report and balance sheet of the society. Previous owners signature to top of title page and to front pastedown. Light foxing to title p…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (second issue); octavo; xl, 195, [4]pp, with opening engraved frontispiece by Van der Gucht. Bound in early eighteenth century panelled full calf (a little worn to extremities with minor loss to head of spine), four raised spine bands, lacks spine label to second compartm…

LETTER ONE (to Wolfestan): 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Damage to text (including signature 'E. A. Storey') along inner edge of last page by clumsy removal from mount, repaired with archival tape. Otherwise in good condition, lightly aged. Folded. Wolfestan's letter is 'capital' and he hopes he will send it 'as it exactly backs up my ow…

Printed at "The Hunts County Guardian", St. Ives, 1889, 1st edition.Red, pebbled cloth spine, green paper covered boards. Modern paper label to spine. 8.5ins x 7ins, [iv], 98pp. Preface includes the following statement "circumstances which I cannot control compel me to issue a few copies printed directly from the paper" - so wou…

Zustand: As New. A 78-card tarot deck in which the classic images are replaced by food recipes. Includes instruction booklet describing each card/recipe in tarot terms. Rare and unusual collectible. Bag is 5-1/2 x 9-1/2, 78 cards and stapled 21-pp booklet are 4-/2 x 5-1/2. Illus cloth bag with drawstring closure, contains cards…

Both letters good, on lightly aged paper. Both items concern Canning's article on 'International Relations' in the October 1877 issue of 'The Nineteenth Century'. Letter One (12mo, 4 pages, bifolium with mourning border). Knowles hopes Canning has received the proof of the article from the publishers Spottiswoodes. A judicious b…

Published by P.Lacomblez, Bruxelles, 1903/04/05. Three volume set uniformly bound in half leather with brown cloth boards. Five raised bands to spine. Title to compartment two, volume number to compartment three, gilt decoration to rest of spine. Teg. Bound by Truelove & Hanson of Sloane St. London. 7.5ins x 5ins, marbled endpap…

Tritton was educated at Winchester College, and in later life held the office of High Sheriff of Essex. He served as War Office Publicity Officer between 1940 and 1945 (the first civilian to hold the post). The present items exhibit the candour and evocative immediacy for which his wartime diaries were praised on their publicati…

For information on Russell see the Oxford DNB entry on his wife from 1957, the social worker Kit Russell [Katherine Frances Russell, née Stewart] (1909-1998). Both letters are in fair condition, lightly aged and creased. ONE: Signed 'Joyce Grenfell'. 2pp, 12mo. She begins the letter with a question: 'Dear Sheridan Russell. | Wha…

The ten letters total 4pp., landscape 8vo, and 6pp., 4to. The collection in good condition, lightly aged and worn. With stamps and annotations of the Royal Society of Arts. The correspondence relates to a lecture given by him by invitation, and its subsequent publication in the Society's journal. He originally suggests that it b…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Printed for Tim. Child, at the White Hart in St. Paul's Church-yard, London, 1711, 3rd edition. Full leather binding. Panelled front and rear boards with blind stamped decoration to corners of borders. Five raised binds to spine. 7.75ins x 5ins, [xx], 160pp (part one), 148pp (part two) plus folding map.…

A splendidly intemperate correspondent between contributor and publisher, almost worthy of one of Jackson's own bibliophile volumes. The four items are in fair condition, on aged and worn paper, one with paperclip stain, another with brass stud, and a third with staple holes; creasing to carbon copies. Kapp's handwriting is 'art…

Totalling 36pp., 4to. In fair condition, bound by Escott with brown paper into paper wraps, with the front wrap signed by Escott and bearing the typed label 'LETTERS from HERBERT PALMER on "Minstrels of Christ" and my second book of verse "Soar for Victory", amended in February 1948 to "Back to the Fountain."' An interesting cor…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. "Presents the northeast British Columbia local history of the area bounded on the south by the Peace River, on the east and north by the Beatton River, and on the west by the 'north-south' road west of the Haerdi homesite." - page 2.…

8vo, pp. [xxxii], 536, [2] table of contents; with separate title pages for individual pieces, but continuous signatures; a fine copy in contemporary speckled panelled calf, spine gilt, later brown morocco label (a little rubbed, very slight wear to upper joint and the tips of the spine). First edition: a copy on large and fine…

From the papers of theatre historian Walter James Macqueen-Pope (1888-1960). (See his entry in the Oxford DNB.) The three items are in fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Her two letters are pinned together. The letter to Kerby has the large and firm signature 'Suzette Tarri'; the letter to Horsfield is evidently signed 'Suze…

Four items, in good condition, lightly aged and worn. An interesting correspondence, casting light on the proprieties of Victorian biographical writing. Hare's 'The Story of my Life' was published in six volumes between 1896 and 1900, and was described by the original DNB as 'a long, tedious, and indiscreet autobiography'. The O…

Three excellent letters, written to his old headmaster at Charterhouse. Bickersteth's papers are at Aberdeen, and with those of his family at the Bodleian. See the Oxford DNB entry for his brother Julian Bickersteth (1885-1962). Three long letters, every page fully filled with text neatly written in a close hand. The three items…

8vo, pp. [xxxii], 536, [2] table of contents; with separate title pages for individual pieces, but continuous signatures; some early leaves dust-soiled and creased, with small tears (particularly A1); but otherwise a sound copy, in contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. First edition: much of this volume is devoted to three long…

Two Manuscript Letters from the London banking house Robert Herries & Co. to the former Governor of West Florida George Johnstone, the first 'with Account Current' and the second regarding delivery of 'the plate to Mr Maxwell. Both items in good condition, lightly aged and worn. ONE: 2pp, 8vo. On the inner sides of a bifolium, w…

[32], 536pp. 8vo. Final leaf of index not bound in, list of contents written on recto by an early owner. Full contemporary panelled calf; rear joint cracked. A fine paper copy, distinguished by lack of a watermark, and with wide margins. Armorial bookplate of James, Earl of Bute, with 'Dup. Bute' written in pencil at head of tit…