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Original colour fashion illustration, 1930s Riviera Resort Wear
With a lovely hand-painted sailing boat design to the dress
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£30.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration, Chinoiserie style
A nicely detailed oriental style dress
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£25.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration, Indian dress
Well-painted with detailed jewellery
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£25.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration: bridal dress
Painted in watercolour / gouache, on a pinkish background
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£25.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration, Thai / Siamese dress
A very detailed design
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£30.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: three ladies and the fashions of 1939
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, the three ladies wearing the latest styles
Not stated
Not stated, 1939
£60.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: couture showroom of fur coats
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, featuring a client, the model and a vendeuse
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£50.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: an elegant sweeping lady
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, the style suggesting late 1930s
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£50.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: three ladies at the opera
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, a very elegant piece
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£60.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
A Dedicated Fan, Julian Jebb 1934–1984 (first edition, 1993)
A book of reminiscences, tributes, letters, and fragments
Tristram Powell, and Georgia Powell, editors
Peralta Press, London, 1993
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Persian Fire (2005, signed first edition)
Signed by Tom Holland
Tom Holland
Little, Brown & Company, London, 2005
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
John Arthur Roebuck, Radical Bath MP autograph
from an envelope sent to journalist Cyrus Redding in 1834
John Arthur Roebuck
Not Published, Christchurch, 1834
£15.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Catherine Sinclair (1800–1864), Scottish author signature
Cut from a letter sent from Edinburgh in 1841
Catherine Sinclair
Not Published, Edinburgh, 1841
£20.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Charles John Kean, Irish actor, handwritten letter (1841)
Excusing himself from an engagement due to illness
Charles John Kean
Not Published, Edinburgh, 1841
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Charles John Kean, Irish actor, autograph
Signed in Edinburgh in March 1841, with his red wax seal
Charles John Kean
Not Published, Edinburgh, 1841
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Corydon
A good hardback edition of Gide's Socratic dialogues on homosexuality
Andre Gide, translated with a preface by Richard Howard
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1983
£15.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
London and India Docks, original documents 1889–1898
a bound collection of booklets, from the Chief Clerk's Office. including police, messengers, pay, regulations etc
London and India Docks
Port of London, London, 1889
£80.00
Ephemera | Hard Cover | First Editions
Nausea, The Wall and other stories
Jean-Paul Sartre's 1938 novel and short fiction
Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction by Hayden Carruth, translated by Lloyd Alexander
MJF Books, New York, 1998
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
A Happy Death (1972, first edition)
The first English language edition of Albert Camus's first novel
Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, afterword and notes by Jean Sarocchi
Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1972
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939, first BC edition)
Antoine de Saint Exupery's memoir, this being the first Book Club edition
Antoine de Saint Exupery, translated by Lewis Galatiere, decorated by John O'H Cosgrave, II
Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1939
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus | Illustrated
Living (1948)
The second impression of Henry Green's Modernist novel centred around a Birmingham factory
Henry Green
The Hogarth Press, London, 1948
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Night Thoughts (1956, first edition)
David Gascoyne's long poem for radio
David Gascoyne, dustwrapper by Julian Trevelyan
Andre Deutsch, London, 1956
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
de Havilland DH.60 Moth (Signed first edition)
Signed by Stuart McKay to a Moth owner whose plane is in the book
Stuart McKay
Midland, Hinckley, 2005
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Viceroy of India State Ball invitation and dance card 1919
Held at the viceregal lodge in Simla in October 1919
Viceroy of India
Viceroy of India, Simla, 1919
£25.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Mark Lemon, handwritten & signed envelope c1860
Addressed to British journalist Cyrus Redding
Mark Lemon
Not Published, 1860
£40.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
