Vintage and Rare Books

Local interest. Kendal and Wainwright. Includes reprint pictorial guides, etc. (22)

Naval. Submarines and U-Boats, a selection. Includes; Alastair Mars - British Submarines at War 1939-45 (1980); Barr and Stroud, ltd. - The Submar...

Military Aviation. A selection, includes; Ces Mowthorpe's - Battlebags (1998); Cumbria Airfields in the Second World War (2006); Lancashire Airfie...

Naval. Warships and Battleships. A selection. (8)

Barrow and Furness. A selection, includes; 'Our Barrow' parts 1 + 2; Furness Folk and Fact; Roosecote Power Station (1955); etc. (7)

Maritime and Shipbuilding. A selection, includes; Lonsdale Library volumes XV and XIX; Basil Lubbock's - The Log of the Cutty Sark (1974); etc. (1...

Malcolm and Donald Campbell. A small selection of items relating to Bluebird and speed records. Includes a signed copy of Arthur Knowle's - With C...

Cricket. A selection, includes; Andrew Flintoff and other biographies, etc. (17)

Scottish and Mountaineering. A selection, includes; Mairi Hedderwick's - An Eye on the Hebrides; etc. (12)

Football. Manchester United and related, a selection. Includes; Matt Busby's - Soccer at the Top (1973, 2nd imp.) signed; several Alex Ferguson bi...

Lake District and related. A selection, includes; W. Heaton Cooper - The Tarns (1970, 2nd) signed & The Hills (1984) signed; etc. (16) ...[more]

Fishing and Angling. A small selection, with 3 unrelated Mountaineering titles. (11)

Folio Society. Churchill - The Second World War. 2000. Six volume set. Both slipcases with split to upper left joint. Books in Fine condition. (6)

Literature. R. B. Cunninghame Graham. A selection, includes; Tschiffely's biography - Don Roberto (1937) 2nd impression; Mirages (1936) 1st; Hope ...

Folio Society. A selection, all in slipcases. Includes; Roald Dahl; The Arabian Nights - Detmold; P. G. Wodehouse; etc. (14)

Illustrated. Arthur Rackham. Reprint editions - A Midsummer Nights Dream (1977) and The Ring of the Niblung (1976) two volumes. All in dust wrappe...

Natural History. Pteridology. Moore, Thomas; Lindley, John (ed.) - The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. Nature-Printed. London: Bradbury and Ev...

Antiquarian. Wood, Anthony - Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their education in the most Ancient U...

Antiquarian. Culpeper, Nicholas - The Complete Herbal. London: Thomas Kelly, 1843. With 20 hand-coloured engraved plates (1 bound at rear). Poor c...

Antiquarian. Local History. Evans, Francis - Furness and Furness Abbey; or, A Companion through the Lancashire part of the Lake District. Ulversto...

Miscellaneous. A selection, includes; Carroll, L. - The Hunting of the Snark (1916) original limp leather; White, G. - A Book of Toys (1946) King ...

History. Maxwell, Sir Herbert - The Chronicle of Lanercost 1272-1346. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1913. Limited edition, no.13/100. Origina...

Literature. Dennis Wheatley. A selection; first editions in dust wrappers. Fair - VG. (6)

First Edition. Lucas, Victoria [Plath, Sylvia] - The Bell Jar. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1963. Original cloth. No dust wrapper. Sylvia Plath'...

Industrial History. Four early 20th century catalogues for Fireplaces, Mantles and other domestic fitments. Each fully illustrated with designs of...

Antiquarian. Craven. Montagu, F. - Gleanings in Craven: in a Tour from Bolton-Abbey to Ambleside. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1838. Original...

Children's. 'BB' [Denys Watkins-Pitchford]. The Little Grey Men. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1942, 1st. Signed by author twice, once to f.f.e.p...

Folding Map. Oliver & Boyd's New Travelling Map of England and Wales. No date, circa 1820's. Coloured. 20 sheets/sections, linen backed. Measures ...

Children's. The Boy's Own Annual. Two editions: 1917 & 1921. Both in original decorative cloth. (2) ...[more]

Children's. Roald Dahl Collection. Puffin Books, 2016. Box set of softbacks, 15 titles in total. In original shrink-wrap.

Poetry. Sassoon, Siegfried - An Octave. 1966. Limited edition, no.98/350. Papered boards in matching slipcase. (1)

Children's. Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1894. 44th thousand, People's Edition. Illustrated by Tenniel. O...

Illustrated. Southby, Logi - The White Dragon. London: The Griffin Press ltd. 1934, first edition. Original cloth in dust wrapper. (1)

Presentation copy. Melross, T. - The Argosy of the Nithsdale Silver Foxes. Privately published, circa 1933. Inscription to presentation leaf. Orig...

Architecture. Wolpe, Berthold - Johann David Steingruber: Architectural Alphabet 1773. London: Merrion Press, 1972. Limited edition, no.27/425. Or...

Architecture. Audsley, W. & G. - Cottage, Lodge, and Villa Architecture. London: William Mackenzie, no date circa 1870. Numerous plates and illust...

Martial Arts. Uyenishi, S. K. - The Text Book of Ju-Jutsu as practised in Japan. London: Athletic Publications ltd. No date, presumed first thus, ...

Magic & Illusion. Kunard, Prof. R. - The Book of Modern Conjuring. London: The Bazaar Exchange and Mart Office. No date, circa 1920's, presumed 1s...

Local History. The Furness Year Book. 1905 & 1907. Both in original state. 1905 edition with folding railway map, 1907 edition with folding town a...

Manuscript Workbook. Mathematics. No ownership markings, presumed late 18th century due to presence of date '1783' in examples of problem solving....

Mountaineering and Travel. A selection, includes; Ken Wilson's Classic Rock, Hard Rock and Cold Climbs; H. W. Tilman Omnibus Editions; Edward Wils...

Fishing. Falkus, Hugh - Sea Trout Fishing. 1979, 2nd edition reprint. Signed by Falkus on end paper. VG copy. (1)

Postcards and Photographs. A selection of albums, predominately postcards. Much Maritime and Shipping interest, particularly Barrow and Vickers re...

Children's and Fantasy. A modern selection. Includes Artemis Fowl novels, etc. (12) Condition: Following books signed by author - Jasper Fforde 'T...

Children's and Illustrated. A large selection, includes first editions and reprints; Aiken, Joan - Night Birds on Nantucket (1966); Travers, P. L....

Poetry. A 20th century miscellany. Majority in dust wrappers, first editions and early impressions. Includes; Bertrud and other Dramatic Poems. Ed...

Children's. Enid Blyton - Plays for Younger Children. Loosely tipped-in is an Enid Blyton headed postcard, dated 1953 and addressed to Paul Hodder...

Literature. Marsh, Honoria D. - Shades from Jane Austen. 1975, limited edition 292/300, signed. Full leather, in slipcase. Spine faded. Provenance...

Literature and related. Signed copies. A selection, includes; Hammond Innes - The Mary Deare (1956); J. B. Priestley - Angel Pavement (1930) limit...

Literature. A selection, includes; Tomlinson, H. M. - All Our Yesterdays, 1930, signed limited edition; Pater, Walter - Marius The Epicurean His S...

Literature and Poetry. Dylan Thomas. A selection, includes; Under Milk Wood, 3rd impression 1954; Quite Early One Morning, 1st 1954; The Beach of ...

Literature and related. H. E. Bates. A selection, first editions in dust wrappers. Condition mixed. (15)

Literature. Late 19th and early 20th century miscellany. Includes; Rudyard Kipling; Rolf Boldrewood - The Miners Right a tale of the Australian Go...

Literature. 20th century miscellany. All in dust wrappers, mixture of first editions and early impressions. Includes; Beverley Nichols; Hammond In...

Children's. Alfred Bestall's Rupert - a selection of reprint annuals and the biography by Caroline Bott. (20)

Children's. Three Richmal Crompton 'William' novels in dust wrappers (1st editions 1958/1960); with a selection of Beatrix Potter storybooks, all ...

Literature. Modern dust wrapper miscellany. Includes; Styron, William - Sophie's Choice, 1979 1st UK edition; Kingsley Amis - The Alteration, 1976...

Limited edition. Tuer, Andrew W. - The Follies & Fashions of Our Grandfathers (1807). London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press. 1886/87. Limited...

Antiquarian. French History. Rankin, Rev. Alexander - The History of France. London: 1801-1822. Volumes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Contemporary diced...

Local Industrial History. A small selection, includes; Ian Tyler's Force Crag (1990) and Greenside (1992) mining histories; etc. (11)