Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper including the railway collection of Sir William McAlpine, Bt.

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Pasternak (Boris) Doctor Zhivago, first trade edition in Russian, marginal toning, original green boards, lettered in black, dust-jacket with shor...

Paton (Alan) Cry, the Beloved Country, first American edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper and dated 19/2/52, the odd marginal spo...

Rand (Ayn) Atlas Shrugged, first edition, modern dark olive green morocco, gilt, g.e., 8vo, New York, 1957.

Rilke (Rainer Maria) Duineser Elegien, first edition, one of 300 copies, printed in red and black, this one of 100 deluxe copies bound in full dar...

Verne (Jules) A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, first English edition, frontispiece, title-page vignette and 50 wood-engraved illustrations by...

Wheatley (Dennis) The Devil Rides Out, first edition, signed presentation inscription dated Jan. 4th 1935 from the author, faint marginal spotting...

Yeats (William Butler) The Variorum Edition of the Poems, one of 825 copies signed by the author, one leaf near end creased, original cloth, slip-...

Binding.- Boccaccio (Giovanni) Decamerone, 3 vol. in 1, half-titles, engraved plates after Stothard, proofs on India paper, occasional foxing, sum...

Binding.- Fromentin (Eugene) Dominique, one of 117 copies, etched frontispiece and illustrations by Gustave Leheutre, occasional light offsetting,...

Binding.- Gautier (Théophile) Fortunio, engraved frontispiece, original printed wrappers bound in, superb red morocco by Yseux Sr. de Thierry-Simi...

Binding.- Jekyll (Gertrude) Lilies for English Gardens, second edition, plates and illustrations, minor foxing, superb contemporary green morocco,...

Binding.- Keats (John) The Poems, 2 vol., edited by Charles J.Holmes, one of 210 copies on paper, wood-engraved borders and decorative initials by...

Binding.- Sliman ben Ibrahim. El Fiafi Oua El Kifar ou Le Desert, one of 60 copies on Japon, from a total edition of 450, hand-coloured title, pla...

Binding.- Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Chastelard; a Tragedy, first edition, superb tan morocco, gilt, with single filet borders creating a perspe...

Binding.- Walton (Izaak) & Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, 2 parts in 1, second Bagster edition, illustrated half-title, 2 engraved portraits...

Binding.- Williams (Monier) Sakoontala or the Lost Ring, one of 110 copies on Japon, colour-printed decorations, initials and decorative borders, ...

Binding & Calligraphic Manuscript.- Sangorski (Alberto).- Spenser (Edmund) Una and the Redcross Knight, from "The Faerie Queene", illuminated manu...

Binding.- Kieffer (René).- Sliman ben Ibrahim. Rabiä el Kouloub ou le Printemps des Coeurs, translated by E.Dinet, number 34 of 30 copies on Japon...

Jewelled Binding.- Spenser (Edmund) Epithalamion and Amoretti, number 2 of 14 copies on vellum (limitation amended in manuscript from 12 copies to...

Doves Bindery.- Mackail (J.W.) Socialism and Politics, An Address and a Programme, blue morocco, gilt, by the Doves Bindery (signed 'C-S 1904'), g...

Doves Press.- In Principio, [one of 200 copies], printed in red and black, original russet morocco by the Doves Bindery, lettered in gilt, t.e.g.,...

Doves Press.- Cobden-Sanderson (Annie) How I became a Vegetarian, first edition, one of a small number of copies printed for private distribution,...

Binding.- The Holy Bible, superb metal gilt binding for the Earl de Grey, elaborately sculpted covers with two cherubs holding a coronet of five b...

Binding.- Williams (Monier) Sakoontala; or, The Lost Ring, wood-engraved vignettes with fine chromolithograph decorative borders, text leaves with...

Cosway Binding.- Browning (Robert) A Selection from the Works, engraved portrait, tear to pp.177-178 repaired, superb "Cosway" binding of brown mo...

NO RESERVE Binding.- Print album of blank paper, handsomely bound morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt, spine gilt in compartments with raised ban...

Calligraphic manuscript.- Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, illuminated calligraphic manuscript by Alberto Sangorski, 32pp., 24 lines (3 verses) in red and ...

Martin (John).- Milton (John) The Paradise Lost, 2 vol., half-titles, 24 mezzotint plates with etching by John Martin, sheets c.355 c 260 mm (14 x...

Pyne (William Henry) The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, B...

Royal Presentation copies.- Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, 1819-1901).- The Keepsake; o...

Woman author.- Pilkington (Mrs. [Mary]) New tales of the castle; or, the noble emigrants, a story of modern times, first edition, engraved frontis...

Brangwyn (Frank) Belgium, one of 160 copies signed by the artist, printed in red and black, plates and illustrations, original vellum, yapp edges,...

Cervelli (G., French cartoonist and artist, active 1910-1920) Album with 32 original illustrations, point of the brush, pen and ink, watercolour, ...

Chagall (Marc) The Jerusalem Windows, text by Jean Leymarie, with 2 original lithographs, plates, many colour, original cloth, dust-jacket price-c...

Crane (Walter).- Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queene, edited by Thomas J. Wise, 6 vol., one of 1,000 copies, illustrations and decorations by Walte...

Crawhall (Joseph) Chap-book Chaplets, 8 parts in one vol., limited edition, numerous hand-coloured woodcuts by Crawhall, occasional light offsetti...

Fashion.- Barbier (George) Falbalas & Fanfreluches: Almanach des Modes présentes, passées & futures, vignette title, 12 pochoir plates, illustrati...

Jones (Barbara) Twit & Howlet & the Balloon, first edition, illustrations by the author, printed in orange, yellow and black, ink signature to fro...

Jones (Harold, British artist, illustrator and writer of children's books, 1904-1992) Three original illustrations for 'Tales from Aesop', includi...

Photography.- Urbanova (Alexandra) Abeceda Dusevniho Prazdna [Alphabet of Spiritual Emptiness], first edition, photographic illustrations by Zdene...

Pyle (Howard) Book of Pirates, first edition, additional vignette title, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, some colour, some tipped-i...

Rackham (Arthur).- Shakespeare (William) A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of 1000 copies signed by the illustrator, 40 tipped-in plates by Arthur Ra...

Rackham (Arthur) The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book, one of 460 copies signed by the illustrator, colour plates, illustrations, original vellum, gilt, ...

Cranach Press.- Shakespeare (William) Die Tragische Geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Daenemark, edited by Gerhart Hauptmann, number 217 of 230 co...

Furst (Herbert, editor) The Woodcut: An Annual, 4 vol. [a complete set], out-of-series special copies on hand-made paper from editions limited to ...

Doves Press on vellum.- Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Faust, 2 vol., one of 25 copies printed on vellum, printed in red and black, original limp ve...

Eragny Press.- White (Diana) The Descent of Ishtar, one of 226 copies, printed in red, green and black, wood-engraved frontispiece, border and in...

Essex House Press.- The Book of Common Prayer, one of 400 copies on paper, printed in red and black in Endeavour and Prayer Book types, woodcut il...

Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) Blind Drawings, number 30 of 30 copies with an original signed blind drawing, from an edition limited to 75 copies s...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Lucian of Samosata. The True History of Lucian the Samosatenian, translated by Francis Hickes, number 73 of 275 copies, te...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Powys (Llewelyn) The Book of Days...Thoughts from his Philosophy selected by John Wallis, number 23 of 55 specially-bound ...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Shakespeare (William) Twelfth Night or, What You Will, number 230 of 275 copies, wood-engraved title-vignette, borders, il...

Heron Press.- Dreiser (Theodore) Epitaph. A Poem, number 178 of 200 specially-bound copies on handmade Van Gelder paper and signed by the author, ...

Nash (Paul) & others.- Boulestin (X.M.) The New Keepsake for the Year/ Le Nouveau Keepsake pour l'Annee 1921, number 330 of 620 copies on hand-mad...

Piper (John) & others.- Cunard (Nancy) & others. Salvo for Russia, [one of 100 copies], 4pp. letterpress poems, 10 etched/engraved plates by John ...

Stanbrook Abbey Press.- Flint (Sir William Russell) The Lisping Goddess: A Figurehead Fantasy, one of 275 copies, signed by the author/ artist on ...

Stourton Press.- Ouspensky (Peter D.) A Record of some of the Meetings held...between 1930 and 1947 [&] A Further Record chiefly of Extracts from ...

Whittington Press.- Butcher (David) The Whittington Press: A Bibliography 1982-93, with an introduction and notes by John Randle, number xi of 28 ...

Wilde (Oscar) Sixteen Letters from Oscar Wilde, edited by John Rothenstein, one of 550 copies, 4 plates, including 2 caricatures by Max Beerbohm, ...

Wood (John Norris) An Alphabet in praise of Frogs & Toads, number XXIII of 36 special hand-coloured copies from an edition limited to 360 and sign...

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