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A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS PRINTS - some topographical. A collection £70-100

MISCELLANEOUS PRINTS AND ENGRAVINGS - includes some reproductions. A collection £50-80

MISCELLANEOUS PRINTS AND ENGRAVINGS - includes some reproductions. A collection £50-80

[original illustration] Bratby (John) ILLUSTRATIONS FOR "BRAKE PEDAL DOWN". 3 illustrations used facing pages 56, 76 and 184. Black-and-w...

[original illustration] Bratby (John) ILLUSTRATIONS FOR "BRAKE PEDAL DOWN". Three illustrations: 'Vera Chinley', 'Samuel Harr...

A COLLECTION OF FIRE-OFFICE POLICIES 1802-1837. Issued by the SALAMANDER FIRE OFFICE SOCIETY, WEST OF ENGLAND FIRE OFFICE, PROTECTOR FIRE INSURANCE, P

A GROUP OF FIRE INSURANCE POLICIES AND DOCUMENTS ISSUED BY THE BIRMINGHAM OFFICES OF THE ALLIANCE ASSURANCE COMPANY, THE MILLERS AND GENERAL FIRE INSU

Westminster Fire-Office INSTRUMENT OR POLICY dated 1780 in the name of Henry Lyte of Bloomsbury, London. Engraved sheet with portcullis device at head

HOLY BIBLE...... Ills: J. Fittler Ed. T. Bensley. 1795. 2 vols. Engr. titles, contents leaf to each book and plates with tissue guards. Cont. dic

Dent (Arthur) THE RUIN OF ROME..... 1822. Engr. frontis and plates. Some light staining. Cont. calf. Some rubbing. Jesse (J.Heneage) MEMOIRS OF THE

Terentius Afer (Publius) LES COMEDIES .... Trans: - D'Acier. Ills: B.Picart & others. Amsterdam, 1724. 3 vols. 12mo. Engr. frontis. Titles i...

Fenelon (F. de S. de la Motte) AVANTURES DE TELEMAQUE. 1719. Engr. frontis. Fldng. map. Mod. quarter calf gt. Nice copy. £40-60

Mitford (William) THE HISTORY OF GREECE 1784-1808. 4 vols. 4to. Half-titles. Map in vol.1. Cont. gt-ruled calf with dec. spines. Lacking one labe

Catharinus (Nicolas) EPIGRAMMATUM. 1664. Title; 64pp. Sm. 8vo. 19th Century annotations on final blank. Cont. vellum. £60-80

Vaniere (Jacques) PRAEDICUM RUSTICUM Ed; R.P. Badon. probably Amsterdam, ca. 1750. Added engr. title & 16 plates. Lacks typographical title. ...

Berkeley (George) THE WORKS Ed: A.D. Fraser Oxford, 1901. 4 vols. Port. frontis. Cont. green armorial calf. Gt. dec. spines. Labels chipped. (4)

Wolcot (John - 'Peter Pinder') THE WORKS Ills: after T. Rowlandson. 1788-89. 4to. 10 works in 1 vol. Each with title page. Mezzotint port. f...

Apuleius (Lucius) THE NEW METAMORPHOSIS: OR, PLEASANT TRANSFORMATION OF THE GOLDEN ASS. Ills: W. Hogarth 1724. 2 vols. 7 engr. plates. Woodcut h

Caradoc of Llancarfan (Saint) THE HISTORIE OF CAMBRIA, NOW CALLED WALES Trans: H. Lloyd 1584. 1st edn. B.L. Lacking before Ci (which is p.1) and

NONARUM INQUISITIONES IN CURIA SCACCARII. TEMP. REGIS EDWARDI III 1807. 1st edn. Folio. Facs. plate. Cont. half calf gt. Sl. wear to extremities. The

Bruzen de la Martiniere (Antoine Augustin) LE GRAND DICTIONNAIRE GEOGRAPHIQUE, HISTORIQUE ET CRITIQUE. Dijon & Paris, 1739 -41. 6 vols. Folio. H...

POETRY LONDON/APPLE MAGAZINE. Ed: Tambimuttu. Ills: G.Sutherland. 1977 Vol. 1. No. 1. Ltd edn. [63/150]. Signed by Tambimuttu & Sutherland. Fldn...

[T.S.Eliot] Dryden (John) OF DRAMATICK POESIE. AN ESSAY 1668. With a Dialogue.... by T.S. Eliot. 1928. 4to. Ltd edn. [85/580]. Partly untrimmed

Thompson (Francis) THE COLLECTED POETRY 1913. 1st edn. 4to. Ltd [500] numbered & signed by Publisher & Printer. Etched port. frontis. ...

Grass (Gunter) DRAWINGS AND WORDS 1954-77. Trans: M. Hamburger 1983. 1st edn. Large 4to Ltd edn [52/100] containing a signed original etching Fin

[Limited Editions Club] Tolstoy (Leo) ANNA KARENINA Trans: C. Garnett Ills: N. Piskariov Moscow, 1933. 2 vols. Wood-engr. ills. Later half moro

Lowell (Robert) 4 [4 POEMS]. Privately printed, Cambridge Mass. 1969. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. With the four illustrated b

Braine (John) ROOM AT THE TOP 1957. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w with one or two small chips. £40-50

Eliot (Thomas Stearns) SWEENEY AGONISTES 1932. 1st edn. 1st state. Orig. printed boards. Unclipped d/w. £150-200

Eliot (Thomas Stearns) THE ROCK 1934. 1st edn. Orig. printed wraps. THE THREE VOICES OF POETRY 1953. 1st edn. Orig. printed wraps. CHARLES WHIB

Auden (Wystan Hugh) THE ORATORS, AN ENGLISH STUDY 1932. 1st edn. With the bookplate of Victor Bloomfield. Unclipped d/w, with a few chips at head

Lewis (Wyndham) ONE-WAY SONG 1933. 1st edn. Inscribed and signed by the author on f.f.e.p. and with corrections in his hand on several pages. Pa

Auden (Wystan Hugh) & MacNeice (Louis) LETTERS FROM ICELAND. 1937. 1st edn. B/w ills. Fldg map. Price-clipped d/w. Auden (Wystan Hugh) &...

Auden (Wystan Hugh) & Isherwood (Christopher) JOURNEY TO A WAR. 1939. 1st edn. Col. frontis. B/w ills. Fldg map. Orig. cloth gt. Unclippe...

Auden (Wystan Hugh) THE DANCE OF DEATH 1933. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w - a little creased near top edge with a 1cm split on spine at upper joint. NEW

MacNeice (Louis) AUTUMN SEQUEL. 1954. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. ONE FOR THE GRAVE 1968. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. POEMS. 1935. 1st edn. Orig. cl

Sassoon (Siegfried) THE HEART'S JOURNEY 1938. 1st trade edn. Orig. cloth. D/w. RHYMED RUMINATIONS. 1940. 1st edn. orig. cloth gt. Unclippe...

Pound (Ezra) CANTOS LII - LXXI 1940. 1st edn. Partly untrimmed. unclipped d/w. £50-80

Pound (Ezra) THE FIFTH DECAD OF CANTOS 1937. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w - slightly faded at spine. £50-80

Pound (Ezra) LUSTRA 1916. 1st edn. Port. frontis. Cont. owner's inscription on f.f.e.p. Orig. printed hessian. Small ink stain on upper co...

Pound (Ezra) GUIDE TO KULCHUR 1938. 1st edn. in early state with 10s 6d d/w. D/w chipped at ends of pine and slightly rubbed. MAKE IT NEW 1934.

Pound (Ezra) A DRAFT OF CANTOS XXXI-XLI 1935. 1st UK edn. Unclipped d/w. Sl. chipped at ends of spine. DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS OF CANTOS CX-CXVII.

Thomas (Dylan) 18 POEMS [1942]. 2nd edn. 1st state. Orig. green cloth gt. Flat spine. DEATHS AND ENTRANCES 1946. 1st edn. Sq. 8vo. Owner's insc...

Smith (Stevie) NOVEL ON YELLOW PAPER. 1936 1st edn. Half-title. Orig. printed cloth. The author's first book. Woolf (Virginia) A HAUNTED HOUSE. ...

Theroux (Paul) THE MOSQUITO COAST. 1981 1st edn. Signed by the author. Unclipped d/w. SAINT JACK. 1973. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. THE FAMILY ARSENAL. 1

[science fiction] Rankine (John) NEVER THE SAME DOOR 1967. 1st edn. Price-clipped d/w. Ball (Brian N.) TIME PIECE. 1968. 1st edn. Price-clippe

Miller (Henry) MAX AND THE WHITE PHAGOCYTES. Paris, 1938. 1st edn. Half-title & title torn, probably as a result of careless opening of pages; s...

Burroughs (Edgar Rice) AT THE EARTH'S CORE Ills: J.A. St John. Chicago, 1922. 1st edn. Joints of half-title & frontis. taped. Pages 5 &...

LITERATURE : 19TH & 20TH CENTURIES including: Buchan, Masefield, Jerome, Wells, Reid, Conrad and others. Approximately 38 vols. Some 1st edn...

[Graham Greene & others] NIGHT AND DAY Ills: F.Topolski & others. 1937. 23 (of 26) issues. B/w ills. Advts. Orig. printed wraps. Man...