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. [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

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 their home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The Diamonds were..... More

One single-sided small quarto sheet, folded horizontally, dated 16th Feb, 1935, and a double-sided small 8vo sheet, dated 28th Feb. The first letter is a response to a letter from Davies, in which the latter seems to have praised Gissing's travel writing. Gissing expresses his fondness for Davies' home region..... 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

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

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

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

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

Pp. [xii]+226+[6](index, last blank), 32 plates, title page decoration, index; med. 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly scuffed, edges slightly worn and lightly browned on reverse; leaves browned, some light foxing and occasional soiling; Globe Press, Melbourne, 1981. First edition. *With a loosely inserted..... 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

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