Pp. vi+66; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards slightly scuffed, fore-corners a trifle bruised, spine faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, free endpapers offset, outer leaves and edges foxed; printed for private circulation by the Broadwater Press, Welwyn Garden City, Herts., 1957. First..... More
Pp. 56; printed paper wrappers, edges slightly silverfished, corners a trifle creased; The Shovel and Bull Press, Hyde Park, South Australia, 1977. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. *Review copy, from the collection of Literary Editor Thomas Shapcott, with author's ALs to him loosely inserted. More
Pp. [vi](of viii)+304+[32](advertisements); cr. 8vo; grey cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards a trifle canted and slightly rubbed, edges lightly worn and corners slightly bruised, spine slightly frayed at extremities; fore and bottom edges uncut; bookplate [of James Bertrand de Vincheles Payen-Payne] on upper endpaper, hinges starting at..... More
from the library of the late H. B. Muir. More than 40 items, dating from 1940 to the early 1950s, mainly printed in numbers ranging from 5 to 100 copies by the Diamonds at their two small private presses - The Diapure Press and The Hyacinth Press - operated from..... More
Or, the young man's guide, and the old man's comfort, in the choice of a library. Pp. [iv]+lii+912, title page vignette, index, errata; thick demy 8vo; early half calf over marbled papered boards, rebacked (not recently), with the original gilt lettered & decorated spine laid on, the gilt worn away..... More
Presentation Issue. With an Introduction by Salec Minc. Pp. [8], plus 44 plates hand-tipped onto stiff black art paper, each plate accompanied by a caption and brief text (mostly unattributed verse, perhaps also by Jones, usually also on hand-tipped sheets); impl. 4to; white art. leather, upper board lettered and ruled..... More
Pp. xviii+272+[2](colophon, blank)+32(publisher's catalogue, last blank), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 1 plate; cr. 8vo; dark green cloth, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, the cloth a trifle flecked, edges very lightly rubbed; t.e.g.; bookseller's sticker (Tyrrell's) at foot of..... More
written on the Steamship 'Mariposa', 'off Honolulu, June 25, 1890.' Six page letter (2 closely written sheets, one of which is folded to form 4 pages) from American Thomas B. Merry to Colonel J. D. McCutcheon, written near the start of Merry's return trip from Australia to San Francisco. *The..... More
2 page letter in ink, with conjugate address leaf, folded to envelope size (small 4to); from the publisher, Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842), to the ballad forger, John Pinkerton (1758-1826); n.d.[c. 1816]. *The letter is undated, on paper watermarked 1809, with a lightly pencilled note 'about 1816' at head of first..... More
Pp. xvi+182, 72 plates (8 coloured), black & white half-title, title, and text illustrations, index; demy 8vo; pink cloth, spine blocked in purple and lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves..... More
The true story of the upward progress of Thomas J. Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary and otherwise. Pp. xvi+316(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, appendix, index; demy 8vo; red cloth, lettered in gilt, top fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised, the spine gilt occasionally slightly dulled; top..... More
T he letters (3 of which are aerogrammes) are from Mervyn Peake's widow, Maeve, to Australian author and book collector Robert Holden, and were written between September 1971 and March 1974. There are several references to Mervyn Peake's work: 'It is always a source of great joy to me when..... More
Four sides of a folded small octavo sheet, dated 'Dec. 18, 1873'. The letter is an application for charity on behalf of a Mrs. Coles, who apparently delivered the note in person to [Dr. Cradock?] the Principal of Brazenose College, Oxford. 'The Bearer, Mrs. Coles has asked me to give..... More
Edited in a Series and privately printed by Thomas J. Wise. A complete set of the eight titles in ten volumes, each limited to only a few copies [allegedly 30 or 33, but more likely 55], printed on Whatman handmade paper; all post 8vo; various coloured cloth over bevelled boards..... More
![Item #144879 AUTOGRAPH LETTER, Signed, from John Tenniel to Horace [Mayhew]. John Tenniel](/pictures/thumb/144879.jpg?v=1674620038)
Single sheet, folded to form four small pages (two text and two integral blanks), the first page with a heavy black border; slightly soiled, with vertical and horizontal creases from folding for envelope; London, n.d. *Headed 'Haste' and with Tenniel's address by hand '3 Portsdown Road/Maida Hill West', the letter..... More
being a Short Record of the Services of the Regiment. Foreword to original issue by Colonel Ian Hamilton, short preface by Colonel Commandant S. G. Craufurd. Pp. [viii]+172+[12](appendices, last colophon), printed in green, 7 colour plates; demy 16mo; white cloth, upper board with insignia and lettering within a tartan border..... More
![Item #094498 LETTERS [spine title]. Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet](/pictures/thumb/094498.jpg?v=1674619526)
A bound collection of 42 autograph letters from different writers, all but one addressed to Sir George Warrender, varying in length from 1 to 12 pages (the majority being one page), and all but one signed; 8vo; bound with blank interleaves in nineteenth century half green leather, the spine lettered..... More
performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries; and illustrated with Maps, Charts, and Views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent Artists. With a preliminary discourse on the..... More
Seven autograph letters, signed: four from T. J. Wise to Mrs. M. Bruce, and three from Bruce to Wise. The letters from Wise are all on single sheets of Shelley Society letterhead, folded to small 8vo, addressed to 'Dear Madam', signed either 'Thos. J. Wise' or 'Th. J. Wise'. The..... More
Comprising two signed letters, a framed inscribed photograph, and a sterling silver christening mug. Together four items: 1. A four page autograph letter, dated 1.9.34, on the printed octavo letterhead of The Golfview Hotel, Nairn, Scotland, horizontally creased from folding. The letter is addressed to 'My dear Madge' [Mrs. A...... More
on small cr. 4to United Service Club letterhead, dated by month only [Dec. 15th]; lightly creased from folding; partly backed onto a smaller unrelated card featuring a portrait of the poet Robert Burns and a newscutting about the Scottish novelist D. K. Broster; London, n.d.[c. 1924?]. *The letter, addressed to..... More