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English Books - 1801 onwards

CROMPTON, Richmal. William. London. George Newnes, [1929]. First cheap edition (not so stated). 8vo. 256pp, [3]. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. Without dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed, spotting to edges. Endpapers and half-title browned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24751
MONRO, Harold. Strange meetings. London. The Poetry Bookshop, 1917. First trade edition. Quarto. 63pp, [1]. With a final page of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Extremities a trifle creased and marked, chipping to wrapper edges. Bookplate of Arthur Lloyd-Taylor to verso of upper wrapper, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24819
PERRY, Walter Copland. The boy's odyssey. London. Macmillan and Co., 1902. [Second edition]. 8vo. [10], 204pp. With an illustrated frontispiece and a further seven illustrated plates by Jacomb Hood. Handsome contemporary Ormskirk Grammar School prize-binding of gilt-tooled calf, gilt supralibros to upper boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, prize plate to FEP, bookplate of R. J. Dickinson to verso of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24844
SWAFFER, Hannen. Hannen Swaffer's who's who. London. Hutchinson & Co., [1929]. First edition. 8vo. Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is number five. Flat signed to dedication page. With a portrait frontispiece. 255pp, [1]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24916
MACKENZIE, Compton. Echoes. London. Chatto & Windus, 1954. First edition. 8vo. 187pp, [3]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper chipped, lower joint split, a trifle marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To Bryan Matheson / with all good wishes / from / Compton Mackenzie'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24918
KINGSLEY, Charles. Andromeda and other poems. London. Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1862. Third edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 169pp, [3]. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, marked, and bumped. Contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 25081
[CHURCHILL, Winston]. SKYES, Adam. SPROAT, Iain [compilers]. The Wit of Sir Winston. London. Leslie Frewin, 1965. First edition, second impression. 8vo. xi, [1], 13-93pp, [3]. With numerous photographic illustrations. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear. Internally immaculate. Armorial bookplate of Field Marshal William Slim to FEP, likely pasted-in by his son John Douglas Slim (1927-2019), as was his custom. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 25934
CHAPMAN, F. Spencer. The jungle is neutral. London. Chatto & Windus, 1954. 8vo. 378pp. With a photographic frontispiece, a further seven photographic plates, and four maps in the text. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Inked ownership inscription of John Douglas Slim (1927-2019), son of Field Marshal William Slim, to title page. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 25944
HUGHES, Gorden. Stiffen the sinews. Johannesburg. Printed by Camera Press, 2003. First edition. 8vo. 296pp. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Minor shelf-wear. A fine copy. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of initial leaf to John Douglas Slim, second Viscount Slim (1927-2019), son of Field Marshal William 'Bill' Slim, first Viscount Slim (1891-1970). T.L.S. from the author, addressed to John Slim, recalling a meeting with his father, pasted to blank verso of first leaf of text. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26264
SHERWOOD, Mrs.. Little Henry and his bearer. London. T. Nelson and Sons, 1862. 12mo. 62pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's purple cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Near contemporary inked gift inscription to verso of FFEP: 'John Williams / Gift of Friend's first day school / 5 mo. 25th. 1863'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26267
KENNEDY, Grace. Jessy Allan, the lame girl: a story founded on facts. Edinburgh. William Oliphant and Son, 1842. Tenth edition. 12mo. 107pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, lightly marked. Ticket of McWatters, bookseller and stationer of Armagh to FEP, near contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26270
LAWRENCE, T. E.. Oriental assembly. London. Williams and Norgate, [1939]. First edition, second impression. 8vo. xii, 164pp. With a photographic frontispiece, and a further 130 photographic plates. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in gilt. Minor shelf-wear. Inked inscription of R. W. S. Livingstone to recto of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26298