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Photo of "The marsh arabs"
THESIGER, Wilfred. The marsh arabs. London. Longmans, green & co ltd , 1964. First edition. 8vo. 242pp, [14]. With 109 black and white photographic illustrations, and three maps. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt and black, with the photographic dustwrapper. Some edgewear, with the bookplate of Richard Calvert Williamson. Inscribed to Henry Williamson by his wife 'To my darling husband on his birthday, August 1964, with all my love. Anne.' followed by a transcription of At the Wedding March by ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27253
Photo of "Carl and anna"
FRANK, Leonhard. Carl and anna. London. Peter davies, 1929. First edition in English. 8vo. 117pp [3], including two pages of publisher's advertising. Original publisher's tan cloth boards stamped in (now faded) gilt, with the tan dustwrapper printed in black. Minor shelf-wear, chipping to edges, browned to spine with some further marks. Henry Inscribed by the translator to FFEP 'With every good wish to Henry Williamson from Cyrus Brooks'. A short annotation in Williamson's hand compares the final line of ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27249
Photo of "Men under fire"
THOMPSON, R. W.. Men under fire. London. Macdonald & Co. Ltd, [1945]. First edition. 8vo. 160pp. Original publisher's red cloth boards, lettered in white, with the striking unclipped dust wrapper by Redgrave. Boards slightly bumped, wrapper torn and faded without major loss. Internally bright and clean, decorative endpapers showing warfare scenes from the London Illustrated News. Annotated throughout by Henry Williamson with his reactions to the text. Some passages marked in red pencil, highlighting his true feelings about the Holocaust, ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28115
Photo of "New poems"
HOOLEY, Teresa. New poems. London. Jonathan Cape, 1933. First edition. 8vo. 64pp. Original publisher's green cloth boards lettered in navy, with the unclipped cream dustwrapper printed in black. Wrapper a little marked and scuffed. With an ink inscription to Henry Williamson from the author dated July 25th 1934. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27248
Photo of "In the line"
BUCHER, Georg. In the line. London. Jonathan Cape, 1932. First English edition. 8vo. 325pp. Original publisher's red cloth boards lettered in black, with the unclipped printed dustwrapper. A few stains and marks to boards, wrapper a little toned with minor water marks. Unusually for Williamson's war memoirs, the book is neither annotated or otherwise marked, save a crude pencil sketch of a male face on the FFEP. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27165
Photo of "What hope for green st?"
HAWKS, Olive. What hope for green st?. London. Jarrolds Publishers Limited, [1945]. First edition. 8vo. 128pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the unclipped green dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, chipping to edges, losses to spine with some further marks. A note on the front free endpaper in Williamson’s hand: 'I rewrote a rather crude TSS for a newcomer, & I suppose about 60% of this is mine - but not the characters. I did dialogue & improved some ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 27240
Photo of "All or nothing"
BERESFORD. J. D. All or nothing. Indianapolis. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1928. First American edition. 8vo. 327pp. Original publisher's indigo cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the unclipped illustrated dustwrapper. Fore and bottom edges uncut, spine a little cocked, with some further bumping. Wrapper shows losses to all panels, and light soiling. Internally a little toned but still clear. Inscribed on the front free endpaper from the author to Henry Williamson 'To my dear old Henry from his friend J. D. ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27256
Photo of "A Screw Loose my story ..."
CARON, Sue. A Screw Loose my story so far. London. B&T Publishers, 1977. First edition. 8vo. 272pp. Original publisher's mulberry cloth boards lettered in silver, with the pink dustwrapper. Minor bumping to corners and spine ends, with few other marks, wrapper slightly worn. Internally bright and clean. With a full page of manuscript notes to FFEP by Henry Williamson's son Richard Calvert Williamson, noting having met 'this woman... Susan Gibson' whom 'Henry had met 4th August 1964, and on till 1966'. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28111
Photo of "Chatterton"
SHEPPERLEY, William. Chatterton. London. Published by the Bowyer Press...and sold by the author on his city stand in Lothbury, [1914]. First edition. Quarto. 32pp. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Extremities rubbed, creased, and marked. Foxed. Presentation copy, inked ownership inscription to verso of title page: 'Very Sincerely, / William Shepperley / Jan. V. MCMXIV.' More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29029
Photo of "William Howard Lister"
SETON, Walter. William Howard Lister. London. Printed for Private Circulation by Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society, 1919. First edition. Quarto. Limited edition of 505 copies on handmade paper, of which this is number 165. 93pp, [3]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and five further photographic plates. Uncut in original publisher's cream buckram-backed light blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Endpapers browned, near contemporary inked gift inscription to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29014
Photo of "Imperial Map of South Africa: ..."
[SOUTH AFRICA]. Imperial Map of South Africa: Rouxville. Cape Town & Johannesburg. Wood & Ortlepp, 1900. First edition. Dimensions, unfolded: 620 x 490 mm, folded in cover: 110 x 179 mm. Colour lithograph map. Scale 1:250 000. Linen backed. Original publisher's buff printed cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, faded ownership inscriptions to covers. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29039
Photo of "Bethulie"
[SOUTH AFRICA]. Bethulie. [Cape Town]. [Wood & Ortlepp], [1900]. Dimensions, unfolded: 620 x 490 mm, folded in cover: 110 x 179 mm. Colour lithograph map. Scale 1:250 000. Linen backed. Original publisher's limp red cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked. Hinge exposed, short tear to one fold. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29042
Photo of "The new world, or the ..."
HOMES, Nath. The new world, or the new reformed church... London. Printed by T[homas]. P[aine]. and M[atthew]. S[immons]. for William Adderton, 1641. First edition. Quarto. [4], 79pp, [1]. Later half-calf, brown cloth boards, recently rebacked, all edges red. Boards worn and marked, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, marginal chipping to title page, damp-staining to fore-edge. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24304
Photo of "A treatise of the bulk ..."
FAIRFAX, N[athaniel], M.D.. A treatise of the bulk and selvedge of the world. Wherein The greatness, littleness and lastingness of bodies are feely Handled. With an Answer to Tentamine de Deo, By. S.P. D.D.. London. Printed for Robert Boulter, 1674. First edition. 8vo. [38], 201, 200-201pp, [5]. Without initial blank (A1), but with two terminal advertisement leaves. Contemporary blind panelled calf, rebacked, with gilt tooling and remains of a morocco lettering-piece to spine. Worn and rubbed; with surface loss to joints and corners, chipping to head and foot of spine, and lettering-piece, upper board detached. Later endpapers, with pencilled notes regarding the text, some browning and spotting to ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28721
Photo of "The small canteen: How to ..."
[EMPIRE TEA BUREAU]. The small canteen: How to plan and operate modern meal service. London. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press [Printed at the Curwen Press], 1947. First edition. Quarto. [8], 108pp. Numerous photographic illustrations in the text. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper designed by design by Diana Wilbraham. Rubbed and marked, dustwrapper chipped and lightly soiled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29008
Photo of "South american scenery"
ALCOCK, Frederick. South american scenery. London. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, [1909]. German-Spanish-Portuguese edition. Oblong 8vo. 8pp, [2]. Parallel German, Spanish, and Portuguese text. With 24 watercolour sketches, reproduced in lithography. Tied, as issued, in original publisher's pictorial limp cloth. A trifle rubbed, chipping to spine. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24160
Photo of "San Francisco Destroyed"
[SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco Destroyed. Milwaukee. C. N. Caspar Co., [1906]. Oblong 8vo. [24] leaves. Original publisher's brown wrappers, lettered and decorated in gilt and black. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24161