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Rudyard Kipling autograph December 1904
Signed aboard the SS Armadale Castle on Kipling's way to Cape Town
Rudyard Kipling
Not Published, 1904
£120.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Les Chinois pendant une période de 4458 années (1854, second edition)
A French study of Chinese civilization, with three engraved plates
Hippolyte de Chavannes de la Giraudière
Alfred Mame et Cie, Tours, 1854
£45.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The Stunt Girl
c1935, an adventure / romance and the japes of a film stunt girl. Super dustwrapper.
Richard Starr
Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1935
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Readers Library Cookery Book (1928)
in the original dustwrapper
Judith Ann Silburn
Readers Library, London, 1928
£30.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes (1906, 2nd edition)
Beautifully illustrated throughout with decorative borders by the Birmingham School of Art
Sabine Baring-Gould, illustrated by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the Direction of A J Gaskin
Methuen, London, 1906
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Marie Lloyd, music hall singer, signed handwritten letter
Dated December 1902, and mentioning she is busy with panto and rehearsals
Marie Lloyd
Not Published, London, 1902
£95.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Rudyard Kipling, handwritten signed letter from Bateman's
Undated, and mentioning a trip to Rottingdean
Rudyard Kipling
Not Published, Burwash, Sussex, n.d.
£300.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
A Study of Words (1911, first edition)
E W Blackburn's study of the philology and etymology of words
E W Blackburn
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1911
£12.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Transactions of the Eighth Congress, Theosophical Society 1923
Lectures and reports from the Vienna Congress of July 1923
C W Dijkgraaf, editor, contributors include Jean Bindley, Mabel Besant-Scott and Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa
Council for the Federation, Amsterdam, 1923
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover | First Editions
Inside Burgundy (Second edition, 2021)
Jasper Morris's comprehensive survey of the wines and vineyards of Burgundy
Jasper Morris MW
Berry Bros & Rudd Press, London, 2021
£50.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Cesare Pavese, Selected Poems (Signed copy)
This copy signed and dedicated by translator and editor, Margaret Crosland
Cesare Pavese, edited and translated with a foreword by Margaret Crosland
Penguin Books, London, 1971
£20.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus
The Song of God: Bhagavad-Gita
1951, the third impression of Isherwood and Prabhavananda's translation
Swami Prabhavananda, and Christopher Isherwood, with an introduction by Aldous Huxley
Phoenix House, London, 1951
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover
Interludes and Incantations, A Set of Poems (1927, limited edition)
Poems from minor Modernist poet B G Brooks, printed in Dijon by Maurice Darentierre
Benjamin Gilbert Brooks
Privately printed, Dijon, 1927
£25.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions
The House of Life (1898, The Siddal Edition)
An attractive silk-bound copy of D G Rossetti's sonnet sequence
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, frontispiece by Arthur Ellis
Ellis and Elvey, London, 1898
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
The Turmoil (First thus, 1915)
From Louis Conard's Standard Collection of British and American Authors series
Booth Tarkington
Louis Conard, Paris, 1915
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
One Summer's Day, Comedy, in Three Acts (1900)
An early edition of H V Esmond's play
H V Esmond
Samuel French Limited, London, 1900
£12.00
Drama | Soft Cover
Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and other poems
1913, a pocket hardback edition of Christina Rossetti's verse
Christina G Rossetti
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1913
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First thus
They Knew What They Wanted
1926, the first UK edition of Sidney Howard's play
Sidney Howard
Chatto & Windus, London, 1926
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Drama | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Primer for Peace and War (1915, first edition)
Charles Plater's Principles of International Morality
Charles Plater, editor
P S King & Son, London, 1915
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions
Andy Warhol, Zoya Museum
The museum's illustrated book for its important Andy Warhol collection
Iveta Ledecka, et al
Zoya Museum, Modra, Slovak Republic, 2010
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | Illustrated
The Lady of the Canaries (1913, first edition)
Seven short stories by St John Lucas
St John Lucas
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1913
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Poesies 1864–1869
A nice quarter leather binding of François Coppée's poetry, c1880
François Coppée
Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, 1880
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Swift and Bold; A Portrait of The Royal Green Jackets 1966–2007
An illustrated history of the regiment and its service
Andrew Pringle, editor, with a foreword by Field Marshal the Lord Bramall
Third Millennium, London, 2007
£38.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The New Bath Guide (1807)
Christopher Anstey's satire of the Blunderhead family navigating Bath society
Christopher Anstey, published anonymously
John Browne, Bath, 1807
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Oeuvres Choisies; Poesies et Drames en Vers
c1920, a good selection of Victor Hugo's poetry
Victor Hugo, illustrated by Leopold-Lacour, preface by Gustave Simon
Bibliotheque Larousse, Paris, 1920
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
