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Poems.
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. [Verse] FIRST EDITION, limited issue, number 94 of 200 copies, signed by the author. Slim small folio, pp.18; [2]. Printed on hand-press paper. Publisher's cloth-backed red paper boards, edges untrimmed. Decorative bookplate and ownership signature of Eve Fleming. Contents clean, boards shelf-worn. very good. Evelyn Beatrice..... More
Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean. Edited and revised by Robert W. Lowe. With Fifty Copper Plate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings.
The Strand, London: John C. Nimmo, Printed at the Ballantyne Press, 1888. [Theatre] FINELY BOUND. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 13cm). Frontispiece and illustrated throughout. Handsomely bound in full blue morocco, richly gilt-decorated spines, boards panelled and triple ruled in gilt at edges, inner gilt dentelles gilt, all..... More
Twelve Part Songs. Omnipotent Lord; Little Celandine; Gitanella; Bright Star of Eve; My True Love Hath My Heart; Take Me, Mother Earth; The Farewell; Go, Lovely Rose; The Bell; Far From My Native Mountains; Adam Could Find No Solid Peace; Le Loup et L'Agneau (The Wolf and the Lamb), a Fable from La Fontaine, with French and English Words.
London: Goddard & Co., no date [1872-1873]. [Part-Song Collection] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS, with two significant associated inscriptions. Two six-part series bound as one volume. Large octavo (27 x 19cm). With the composer's blue ink stamp-signature to title page of each Part Song. Additionally INSCRIBED in pencil to the composer's sub-conductor..... More
A History of The British Army. Volumes 1 & 2, First Part to the Close of the Seven Years War.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1899. [History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Large octavo (22 x 15 x 9cm). Handsomely bound in deep red half morocco, gilt, with gilt initials 'C.V.C.' to front cover. Formerly the property of Cecile Victoria, Lady Cunliffe CBE (née Sackville-West), later ownership of Hilary Bray (dated..... More
Translations & Verses
London: The Dropmore Press. September 1949. [Literaturel] LIMITED EDITION. One of fifty copies in Niger (although un-numbered/out-of-series) from a total edition of six hundred (the remainder in buckram). Large Octavo (24 x 15cm). pp.[6]; [vi]; 63; [3], blank, printed on cream wove paper, title and colophon printed in two colours..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.75 of 950 copies, with publisher's compliments slip inserted, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Type set in Eric Gill's Pilgrim and..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press, New York: the British Book Centre, December 1953. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. 1000 copies (this being un-numbered/out-of-series). Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5]. Original red cloth with gilt titles,illustrated dust-wrapper. Fine, in near fine price-clipped jacket, slightly..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.263 of 950 copies. Large Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Original red Buckram with gilt titles, and gilt 'QA' monogram to upper board, top..... More
[Manuscript Letter Declining an Invitation].
London. no date [circa 1860]. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER. One small sheet of headed note paper from The Priory, 21 North Bank, Regent's Park, written in purple ink and backed onto a sheet of card (13 x 12cm). George Lewes here writes to Mrs Binyon, informing her that his partner Mary..... More
Preliminary Studies for H. M. Factory, Gretna, and, Study for an Installation of Phosgene Manufacture.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, no date [1920]. [Munitions Factory Plans] SIGNED BY KENNETH BINGHAM QUINAN, one of just 1000 copies. Large octavo (28 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 145 [1]. With 24 large folding plans and diagrams. SIGNED and dated 3rd November 1920 by Quinan in black ink to front pastedown..... More
Herb Ritts Calendar 1994.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. INSCRIBED TO MEMBER OF LED ZEPPELIN. Small Quarto, unpaginated. With 28 black and white photographic images, subjects including Dizzy Gillespie, Madonna, Mel Gibson and David Bowie. Warmly INSCRIBED TO JOHN PAUL JONES by the artist in gold ink/paint to front free endpaper: 'To..... More
An Explanatory Pronouncing Dictionary of the French Language, (in French and Englilsh); Wherein the exact Sound and Articulation of every Syllable are distinctly marked (according to the Method adopted by Mr. Walker, in his Pronouncing Dictionary.) To which are prefixed, the Principles of the French Pronunciation; Prefatory Directions for using the Spelling Representative of every Sound; and The Conjugation of the Verbs, Regular, Irregular, and Defective, with their true Pronunciation.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. [French-to-English Dictionary] EX LIBRIS JANE CARLYLE, INSCRIBED BY THOMAS CARLYLE, with an autograph letter from Alexander Carlyle tracing the provenance. A New, Revised edition. Duodecimo in half-sheets (17 x 11cm), pp.[2] 40 [unpaginated]. Black ink ownership of Jane Ballie Welsh..... More
Red Eagle. The Story of the Russian Revolution and of Klementy Efremovitch Voroshilov, Marshal and Commissar for Defence of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
London: Hutchinson, 1937. [Military History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.390 [26]. With a coloured halftone frontispiece, 16 plates (30 illustrations), and 8 maps. With author's gift note in blue ink to the title page: 'For / Percy Muir / With the best of / good wishes /..... More
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