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Click here to subscribeDickens (Charles) Copperfield first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece, additional title, 38 plates, spotting to plates, some offsetting, bookplate, original olive green blind-stamped cloth, variant with blank centre to covers and larger ornaments on spine, spine lettered in gold, faded and rubbed, rebacked, [Eckel pp. 75-77], 8vo, 1850.
Snow (John) On Chloroform 1st in orig. cloth edited by Benjamin Ward Richardson, first edition, 2 wood-engraved illustrations, 1 full-page, 34 pp. advertisements at end, partly unopened, D7&8 carelessly opened, 2 short tears to both ff. within text, but no loss of text, original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, slightly faded some staining and soiling, slight fraying to spine ends and corners, still a very good copy, [Osler 1367; Waller 9035; Norman 1970], 8vo, 1858. *** Rare, especially in the original cloth. The first comprehensive treatise on the subject. As Norman puts it "Snow`s treatise...placed the administration of chloroform and ether on a scientific basis". Snow`s expertise in the field led him to create a new piece of apparatus to administer the chloroform, which delivered slow and exact percentages in air. This apparatus was catapulted into respectability on 7 April 1853 when Snow administered chloroform to Queen Victoria at the birth of Prince Leopold..
Russell My Diary in India in the Year 1st 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, tinted lithographed frontispieces and 10 plates, folding map, some foxing or spotting to plates, frontispiece to vol.2 working loose and with a marginal crease, original cloth, spines faded, slight fraying to edges, 8vo, 1860. *** Scarce. Russell was a war correspondent for The Times and witnessed the Siege of Lucknow. Earlier he had covered the Crimean war, including the Charge of the Light Brigade..
Maxwell (James Clerk) A Treatise on Electricity an first edition, 2 vol., 20 lithographic plates, illustrations in text, contemporary calf, gilt, armorial device incorporating the royal coat of arms to covers, spines rubbed, [Norman 1466, PMM 355no.11], 8vo, Oxford, 1873. *** "The greatest theoretical physicist of the 19th century Einstein equated Faraday with Galileo and Maxwell with Newton" (PMM). .
[Rossetti (Christina)] The Poetical Works of Chris first edition, fifth reprint, inscribed by Rossetti`s brother William Micheal on the front free endpaper, and tipped-in A.L.s from Christina to William on title, frontipiece, foxed, original cloth, rubbed at extemeties,with spine darkened, small splits at head and tail, library stamp and small label to front pastedown, 8vo, 1914
Aldington (Richard) Roads to Glory first edition, original blue cloth, dust-jacket with design by Paul Nash, slightly worn & browned, 1 small repair and tear, otherwise very good, 1930; Images (1910-1915), some spotting, original colour pictorial wrapper, spotted, spine rubbed, [Kershaw 1], [1915], 8vo & 4to(2)
Brooke (Rupert) 1914 and Other Poems "first American edition", ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, original printed wrappers, slightly rubbed and a little light dust-soiling, 8vo, New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. *** A bibliographical rarity. After the London publication in 1915 of 1000 copies, Doubleday, Page & Co. set up and printed 87 copies in anticipation of being awarded publication rights. The rights actually went to John Lane Company and this edition was never formally published..
Gray (John) The Long Road first edition, contemporary leather, gilt dentelles, worn at spine edges, g.e., 8vo, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1926. *** Scarce. John Gray (1866-1934), Poet, known for his friendship with Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, before converting to Catholicism and being ordained as a priest..
L.H. (W., editor) Charles` Wain first edition, number 22 of 95 copies signed by the contributors, frontispiece portrait signed by Nina Hamnett, pictorial endpapers, original cloth, spine darkened, worn slip-case lacking one section, t.e.g., 8vo, 1933. *** A work created to provide financial support for publisher & literary figure Charles Lahr. Signatories include friends H.E.Bates, John Brophy, T.F. Powys, Seán O`Faoláin, Liam O`Flaherty, Charles Duff and Rhys Davies..
MacInnes (Colin) Absolute Beginners first edition, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed on title, original cloth, dust-jacket, extremities a little rubbed and creased, 8vo, 1959. *** Inscription reads: "For Israel Weinberg / from the writier, / Colin MacInnes, / to the lifelong enemy / of all writers - the / printer! / All kindest / thoughts & wishes / Nov. 59". .
O`Flaherty (Liam) The Fairy Goose the author`s first book, jacket with subtle repairs to spine ends and corners, 1923; The Fairy Goose and two other stories, limited edition signed by the author on half-title, gilt device on title, original cloth-backed patterned boards, New York & London, 1927; Famine, spine slightly darkened, 1937; first editions, first 2 original cloth & dust-jackets, 16mo & 8vo(3)
Owen (Wilfred) Poems introduction by Siegfried Sassoon, first edition, photogravure portrait frontispiece, tissue guard, browning to title, original cloth with printed spine label, spine slightly sunned and label slightly browned, damp-mottling to lower fore-corners, small 4to, 1920. *** The most important book of poetry from the first world war. The power of Owen`s poetry is as significant today as it was when first written, under the encouragement of Siegfried Sassoon (who wrote the introduction to this posthumously published collection), in the trenches of Flanders, mostly in 1917 and 1918. Owen was killed one week before the armistice was signed in 1918. .
[Pound (Ezra)], "E.P." Hugh Selwyn Mauberley first edition, second state with inverted `p` for a `d` in "age-old" in line 16, p.12, number 170 of 200 copies, woodcut device, initials and colophon, Wiston Old Rectory booklabel on front paste-down, original cloth-backed boards, small scraped area to right corner of upper board, corners and spine ends a little bumped, printed label on upper cover, uncut and unopened, [Gallup A19], 8vo, Ovid Press, 1920.
Powell (Anthony) Venusberg first edition of the author`s second novel, contemporary dedication from the author on front free endpaper to John Wyndham, some spotting to extremities, original cloth, dust-jacket by Misha Black, minor edge-wear, slight spotting to panel, spine browned, an unusually good example, 8vo, 1932. *** The book is inscribed to travel writer and poet John Wyndham who was also published by Duckworth as "Writer of Verse". His best known work, The Curse of Obo: A Tragedy of Benin was published in 1926 and it can is possible that Powell and Wyndham met in Henrietta Street in Covent Garden where the publishing house was located..
Powell (Anthony) From a View to Death first edition of the author`s third novel, contemporary dedication from the author on front free endpaper to John Wyndham, slight spotting to extremities, original cloth, dust-jacket by Misha Black, slight edge-wear and minor creasing, spine browned, an unusually good example, 8vo, 1933.
Verne (Jules) Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa, first English edition, frontispiece and plates, bookplate and gift inscription on front endpapers, hinges pulled with splitting to endpapers, original green cloth decorated in gilt & black, rubbed at edges, small split near head of spine, g.e., 8vo, 1873.
Verne (Jules) The Mysterious Island: The Secret of the Island, translated by W.H.G.Kingston, first English edition, plates, 40pp. publisher`s catalogue at end, minor marginal marking, bookplate, original blue cloth decorated in black & gilt, slightly rubbed at extremities, g.e., 8vo, 1875. *** The third volume of the Mysterious Island trilogy..
Waugh (Evelyn) Robbery Under Law first edition, presentation copy from the author to Lady Maxwell-Scott inscribed on half-title, lightly browned, bookplate on front free endpaper, original cloth, spine a little faded, 1939; Scott-King`s Modern Europe, signed by the author on title, browned, ex-St.John & Red Cross Hospital Library copy with ink stamps and labels, original cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed and chipped at edges, 1947(2)
Woolf (Virginia) The Voyage Out first edition of the author`s first book, signed on front free endpaper in ink `E.H.R.Altounyan/1915`, and another, a morse alphabet on front pastedown, 22pp. advertisements, spotting to beginning, end and extremities, original green cloth, rubbed and soiled, [Kirkpatrick A1(a)], 8vo, 1915. *** Earnest Haig Riddell Altounyan was an admirer of T.E.Lawrence and wrote a poem addressed to him 6 months after his death called `Ornament of Honour`. Although a doctor he considered himself more a poet. He was friends with the Woolf`s and visited them on several occassions and it appears that he presented manuscripts to them in 1919..
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