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A Dog of War [with letter from Hester Sainsbury]
Author: TAYLOR, John; Hester Sainsbury Year: 1927
Publisher: Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: Yes

[6] pp 7-32 Number 42 of a limited edition of 375 copies of John Taylor's poems with a letter from the illustrator Hester Sainsbury to the military historian Guy Chapman 'returning the books you were ...

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A Dry White Season, A Screenplay by Colin Welland
Author: WELLAND, Colin [Andre Brink, Marlon Brando] Year: 1986
Publisher: N/A Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: Yes

[149 sheets, printed on one side only] An early version of Colin Welland's screenplay for his adaptation of Andrew Brink's novel, A Dry White Season. It is bound in brown card wrappers with a letterbo...

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A Memoir of Thomas Glazebrook Rylands of Highfield
Author: RADCLIFFE, R D; L - Louis - Gordon Rylands [Moses Roper; Frederic Douglas] Year: 1901
Publisher: Privately Printed by Pollard and Company Dust Jacket: No
Place: Exeter Signed: No

Privately printed memoir with vintage photographs of West Houghton Old Hall - a former Rylands residence - laid in and annotated to the versos. Bound in blue cloth, darkening across the bottom of the ...

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All Passion Spent [with letter to Eleanor Bron]
Author: WEST, Vita Sackville; Eleanor Bron; Polly Wood Year: 1991
Publisher: Carroll and Graf Dust Jacket: No
Place: New York Signed: No

Two page letter to the actress Eleanor Bron from Polly Wood discussing 'the enclosed enchanting and amusing novel which I think you could do wonders with - as you did MRS DALLOWAY....' 1991 American ...

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Angela Carter's Elizabethan & Metaphysical Imagery
Author: TUVE, Rosemond [Angela Carter] Year: 1961
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Dust Jacket: No
Place: Chicago Signed: Yes

Angela Carter's lightly annotated copy of Rosemund Tuve's classic study of Elizabethan and metaphysical imagery. The first Phoenix edition from 1961 bound in card wrappers, a little rubbed. Carter's o...

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Bookplate of and Copperplate for Herman Finck
Author: RIMMINGTON M Florence Year: 1910
Publisher: Unpublished Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: Yes

ARTS & CRAFTS JEWELLER, MODELLIST AND MEDALLIST, Florence Rimmington's bookplate of and copperplate for Herman Finck. Contained within its original chamois leather protective pouch with ties; crus...

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Cherrywood Cannon [inscribed with drawing]
Author: STEADMAN, Ralph Year: 1978
Publisher: Paddington Press Dust Jacket: Yes
Place: London Signed: No

Adorned with a double-page drawing/ inscription 'Bad Craziness from ME Steadman' across the half title and opposite blank. A near fine copy, very slight musty odour attaching to book, in near fine jac...

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Croesus, King of Lydia: A Drama [inscribed]
Author: RYLANDS, Louis Gordon Year: 1902
Publisher: Privately Printed by R Folkard Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: No

pp 84. Privately printed play inscribed by its Lancastrian author to another family member opposite the title page: 'K Rylands From L. G. R. 1902'. Bound in green cloth with the title to the upper cov...

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Facade (Revived) [Annotated Score]
Author: WALTON, William [Colin Davis, Kathy Berberian etc] Year: 1977
Publisher: Oxford University Press Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: No

Colin Davis' lightly annotated conductor's score of the 'revived' version of William Walton's mini-masterpiece Façade with the conductor's initials in pencil to the upper cover. Large folio in green ...

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Hecuba in Camden Town [inscribed]
Author: SHIPP, Horace Year: 1920
Publisher: The Bloomsbury Press Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: Yes

pp 60 [4] Inscribed by the critic and poet 'Horace Shipp January 1921' to the first free endpaper. Partial fading to the green card wraps, otherwise very good. Uncommon thus....

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Introduction a la Poetique [inscribed]
Author: VALERY, Paul Year: 1938
Publisher: Gallimard Dust Jacket: No
Place: Paris Signed: Yes

Inscribed on the first blank 'a Mr Rudler, amical souvenir de Paul Valery' - a 'souvenir' being a typical formula used by the French poet in his inscriptions. Original printed wrappers, browned to edg...

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Jet: The Story of a Pioneer [signed]
Author: WHITTLE, Frank [Bob Feilden; Year: 1956
Publisher: Frederick Muller Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: No

Twice signed autobiography of the man credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine. Fourth impression of the book from 1956 which is inscribed by Whittle on the title page below his pri...

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Meine Weltansicht [signed by author's widow]
Author: SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin Year: 1961
Publisher: Paul Zsolnay Dust Jacket: Yes
Place: Hamburg Vienna Signed: Yes

pp 180 Schrödinger's last book, inscribed by his widow to the first post-war German Ambassador in Vienna, Carl Hermann Mueller Graaf. Anne Marie Schrödinger inscribed the book after her husband's de...

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Missel des Serviteurs de Marie [extra illustrated]
Author: SAGNIERES, R; Arduin family Year: 1898
Publisher: J Lefort Dust Jacket: No
Place: Paris; Lille Signed: No

pp 592 Custom-bound French missal which has been embellished with family mementoes as an aid to prayer and meditation including a 1944 letter written by 'R Sagnieres', a grieving mother, to Lieutenant...

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My Official Wife [Stanislaus Joyce's Copy]
Author: SAVAGE, Colonel R H; [Stanislaus Joyce] Year: 1891
Publisher: Tauchnitz Dust Jacket: No
Place: Leipzig; Germany Signed: No

Stanislaus Joyce's copy, inscribed by him presumably in Triests where he shared lodgings with his brother James Joyce. Black textured cloth binding, presumed to be a mid twentieth century rebind, ...

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Naval Broadcasts
Author: Rear Admiral R K Dickson, D S O Year: 1946
Publisher: George Allen and Unwin Dust Jacket: Yes
Place: London Signed: Yes

pp 92 Dickson's naval broadcasts with a letter from the author laid in, presenting the book to his wartime colleague, Sir Clifford Jarrett, who was Principal Private Secretary to the First Lord of the...

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Nuclear War & Disarmament: 30 Pamphlets
Author: RUSSELL, Bertrand; Leonard Cheshire, Bruce Kent, Arnold Toynbee, Martin Shaw etc [Walter Stein] Year: 1960
Publisher: Gollancz etc etc Dust Jacket: No
Place: London etc Signed: No

Collection of 30 pamphlets and polemics concerning the nuclear debate, and the quest for a Christian response to 'the nuclear dilemma' through non-violent protest: a collection from the library of the...

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Ronsard Lyrics [owned by Ted Hughes]
Author: RONSARD [Ted Hughes' copy] Year: 1946
Publisher: Allan Wingate Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: Yes

Ronsard's poems in English and French, owned and inscribed by 'Olwyn Hughes January. 1947' in ink and below in pencil by 'Edward James Hughes' – from Ted Hughes' handwriting probably relatively soon...

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Roosevelt and Hopkins [White House letter & Proof]
Author: SHERWOOD, Robert E Year: 1948
Publisher: Harper and Brothers Dust Jacket: Yes
Place: New York Signed: Yes

[xvii] pp979 With a 1939 White House letter from Colonel Edwin M Watson thanking the book's owner, bibliophile Frederick Adams, for congratulating him on being made Secretary to President Roosevelt. ...

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Sacra Congregatio Rituum [Compliments the Vatican]
Author: SARALEGUI, Cardinal Arcadio Maria Larraona; Cardinal Giacomo Lercamo; Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli Year: 1967
Publisher: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis Dust Jacket: No
Place: Rome Signed: No

Presentation copy from the Vatican of this guide to the use of sacred music in the liturgy; tipped onto the title page a Vatican compliments slip from 'Secretarius consillii ad exsequendam constitutio...

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Seedie's List of Fleet Air Arm Awards 1939-1969
Author: Seedie Year: 1990
Publisher: Ripley Registers Dust Jacket: No
Place: Chippenham, Wiltshire Signed: No

pp 156 Seedie's List, 1939-1969, with dozens of cut obituaries and other ephemera relating to the recipients of the awards laid in together with an original photograph and a letter. ...

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Tender Precautions or the Romance of Marriage
Author: SERLE, Thomas James Year: 1851
Publisher: Thomas Hailes Lacy Dust Jacket: No
Place: Loncon Signed: Yes

pp 28 Serle's play about marriage inscribed by the author on the title page to his wife 'Cecilia Serle from her affectionate husband T.J.S.' Bound in half red morocco over marble-paper covered boards;...

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The English Lawyer; a Comedy Acted at the Royal...
Author: RAVENSCROFT, Edward [George Ruggle] Year: 1678
Publisher: J M for James Vade Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: No

A2, B-I4, K3 [lacking I3 and final blank K4] A most interesting copy of Ravenscroft's play annotated in a seventeenth century hand with lines from one of the play's sources, George Ruggle's Ignoramus....

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The Female Approach [Signed]
Author: SEARLE, Ronald; Sir Max Beerbohm Year: 1952
Publisher: Macdonald and Co Dust Jacket: Yes
Place: London Signed: Yes

Inscribed to 'Patricia Wood with best wishes Ronald Searle Aug 53' on the first free endpaper. The eighth impression, bound in red with some white markings to the boards in a good plus dustjacket and ...

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The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs
Author: SKELTON, John Fawcett Year: 1876
Publisher: Simpkin Marshall and Co; John Heywood Dust Jacket: No
Place: London and Manchester Signed: Yes

pp 200 Calligraphically inscribed volume of Lancashire verse with a handful of authorial corrections to the text. Skelton has dedicated the book on the verso of the first blank: 'Presented to Mr Ralph...

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The Gourmet's Companion [with letters]
Author: RAY, Cyril Year: 1963
Publisher: Eyre and Spotiswoode Dust Jacket: Yes
Place: London Signed: No

pp 506 Hugo Dunn-Meynell's copy of Gourmet's Companion with an amicable exchange of letters between the two men. Ray hand-writes twice on 'Albany' headed paper about Andre Simon's having given permiss...

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The History of Totnes Priory and Town [inscribed]
Author: WATKIN, Hugh R [Field Marshal William Birdwood - Baronet of Anzac & Totnes] Year: 1914
Publisher: Published by the Author Dust Jacket: No
Place: Torquay Signed: No

Watkin's History of Totnes inscribed to Field Marshal William Birdwood on the verso of the marbled endpaper: 'W R Birdwood from the Author. Totnes 19 Nov '31' - an inscription repeated in the second v...

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The Merchant's and Shipmaster's Guide [inscribed]
Author: SAWYER, Frederic [Samuel E Sewall] Year: 1840
Publisher: Benjamin Loring and Co Dust Jacket: No
Place: Boston, USA Signed: Yes

xii, pp 306. Inscribed first edition to 'S E Sewall from the Author', presumed to be the Bostonian abolitionist, Samuel E Sewall. Sawyer has written his inscription in brown ink to the first free endp...

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The Mirror of Conrad [with manuscript]
Author: VISIAK, E H ; Joseph Conrad; Kenneth Hopkins Year: 1955
Publisher: Werner Laurie Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: Yes

THE DEDICATION COPY WITH A SECTION OF THE MANUSCRIPT LAID IN. Near fine first edition in near fine dustjacket. Book label of bibliophile George Sims. Inscribed by the author, Ernest Visiak, on the ded...

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The Real Dickens Land [presentation copy]
Author: WARD, H Snowden; Catharine Weed Barnes Ward Year: 1904
Publisher: Chapman and Hall Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: Yes

pp 240 Presentation copy inscribed on the first blank: 'To Mr and Mrs Henry F Dickens with the Compliments of the authors. H. Snowden Ward, Catharine Weed Barnes Ward October 22nd 1903'. Laid in is th...

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The Strength to Dream [G Wilson Knight's copy]
Author: WILSON, Colin [G Wilson Knight's Annotated Copy] Year: 1962
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd Dust Jacket: No
Place: 1962 Signed: Yes

Inscribed by the author to his friend the Shakespeare scholar George Wilson Knight, and sceptically annotated by Wilson Knight throughout. Wilson has inscribed the title page: 'For G. Wilson Knight wa...

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The Weeping and the Laughter [manuscript review]
Author: WILSON, Angus; Viva King Year: 1976
Publisher: Macdonald and Jane Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: Yes

Small archive relating to the scandalous publication of London hostess Viva King's autobiography, including the manuscript of the dedicatee Angus Wilson's 1000 word review of the book, a letter from K...

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The Wonderful Visit [Dedication copy]
Author: WELLS, H G [Alice Herbert; Walter Humboldt Low] Year: 1895
Publisher: J M Dent Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: No

viii, pp 252 The dedication copy of Wells' 1895 fantasy, inscribed to the widow of the writer Walter Humboldt Low to whom the book was posthumously dedicated. Low who had helped Wells get started in j...

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The Works of Bernard Shaw [inscribed]
Author: SHAW, George Bernard [Apsley Cherry-Garrard] Year: 1930
Publisher: Constable Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: Yes

'I dedicate this set to a very special friend Apsley Cherry-Garrard. G. Bernard Shaw': a big, bold presentation inscription from the author on the half title of Volume 1 of Shaw's Works. This is Numbe...

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Titus Salt and Saltaire: Industry and Virtue
Author: SILVER, Jonathan; John Styles Year: 1990
Publisher: Salts Estates Dust Jacket: No
Place: Saltaire Signed: Yes

A history of Salt's Mill inscribed by the short-lived entrepreneurial genius who brought this great monument to industrial Yorkshire back to life. Inspired by his friend David Hockney's style, Silver ...

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Verses Grave and Gay (Second Series)
Author: SPENCER, William Year: 1912
Publisher: Advertiser Printing Works Dust Jacket: No
Place: Maidenhead Signed: Yes

pp [24] Dedication copy of the collection of verses published by Stanley Spencer's father and inscribed on the title page to his sister: 'To Annie, with father's love Xmas 1912'. Stiff card printed wr...

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Worzel Gummidge [author's annotated proof copy]
Author: TODD, Barbara Euphan [Mrs Bower] Year: 1964
Publisher: Evans Brothers Limited Dust Jacket: No
Place: London Signed: Yes

The author's own copy, liberally annotated over the first two chapters, probably for a public reading, to coincide with the publication of this reprint. Barbara Todd has written her married name in th...

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Zen Guitar [inscribed to George Harrison]
Author: SUDO, Philip Toshio Year: 1998
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Dust Jacket: No
Place: New York Signed: No

Near fine, first Fireside edition inscribed on the front free end paper: 'To Mr George Harrison with great Respect and Aisha, Philip T Sudo, Maui, Hawaii 1998' and decorated with two woodblock stamps ...

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