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MacDiarmid. Hugh. A Drunk man looks a the Thistle. Castle Wynd Printers, Edinburgh. Third Edition. 1956. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. PP116. Lacks dustwrapper. Binding in good condition, all pages in excellent clean and bright condition throughout.

McLoughlin. Paul, What Moves Moves. Shoetring Press, Nottingham. 2004. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wraps, stapled. Pp32. Inscribed by author "for Sim and Arnold [Rattenbury] with all best wishes. Paul October 2005. Fine condition throughout.

Longden. John Miles, LPs and Singles. 1995. 1st Edition. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Back cover has printed an incorrect ISBN number. Pp112. In almost 'as new condition throughout. A scarce book.

Cook, Frederick A. & Robert E. Peary, edited by miller J.M. Discovery of the North Pole. Large 8vo. Red cloth gilt titles to front and spine. Inset blue and white illustration of explorers planting the flag. All edges red. Pp12, p1, 141-428, 32 plates. Binding bumped and rubbed. All pages and illustrations tight and bright. Accounts given from contemporary journals and illustrated with cartoons of the period regarding the controversy between Cook and Peary and on the Artic in general. Arctic Bibliography 11467.

Valle Crucis Abbey. Original uncoloured lithograph, R Bowyer, 87 Pall Mall. Ca 1800. Drawn by Miss Smirke, engraved by J Harriden. Sheet size 495mm x 340mm, Print size 405mm x 280mm. With wide blank margin, engraved frame and title. Two very small ink marks on title, otherwise in tight, bright and clean condition with strong plate inprint. A delightful print, empahsising the more rural aspect of this area.

Monin, Charles : La Gaule Divisee en dix sept provinces. ca.1844. Paris. Size approx 230mm x 300mm. Hand coloured map with decorative border and scales. Bright and clean.

Monin, Charles : Monde Conne Des Anciens. ca.1844. Paris. Size approx 230mm x 300mm. Hand coloured map with decorative border showing most of Europe, North Africa, Middle East, India and West Asia. Clean and bright with scales.

Moore, George : Ulick and Soracha. Nonesuch Press, London. 1926, 8vo, 1st edition. Limited No. 1154 of 1250 numbered copies signed by the author with copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden. Natural buckram with gilt titles to spine. Stiff paper dust wrapper, with red stencil design, a small tear to op edge (6mm). Edges rough cut. PP286 on Japon Vellum. In excellent clean and bright condition throughout. The book is dedicated by Moore to Lady Cunard, with whom he conducted a long lasting love affair. He writes " I have come to think of you as an evening fountain under embosoming trees…" the imagery of which Stephen Gooden has captured this in his engraving.

Moore, Henry. Henry Moore at the British Museum. British Museum Publ. London. 1981 1st ed. 4to Black cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper. Pp128. Black and white illustrations throughout. Authors inscription in thick dark ink on half-title to James Shurmer dated September 1981.

An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894. London Longmans & Co. at the Chiswick Press. 1898. 8vo. Boards, printed title to front. Pp25. Boards age discoloured at spine, Library card affix to front pastedown, Neat ownership mark of 1898 on front endpaper together with a memorial bookplate. Small red stamp of St Augustines Abbey Ramsgate on blank lower area of first page. All pages clean and bright throughout with a very strong imprint. A very interesting address filled with William Morris's thoughts and views on art, beauty and the capacity of man to enjoy art. A good book with a respectful provenance.

Drury Lane Plays. Gil Blas A Comedy, The Regicide or James the first of Scotland a Tragedy, Coriolanus, The Foundling. Bound in one volume. 8vo Approx 120mm x 190mm. Recent half calf on cloth, 5 raised bands, leather title piece with gilt titles, hand sewn headbands. New end papers, early hand written note retained on front pastedown, by Delrue. Gil Blas As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane By Mr Moore. London R Franklin, in Russell Street, Covent Garden, 1751. Title page with woodcut motif, Contemporary handwritten page indexing 5 of the 4 dramas included in this volume., Dedication, iv, Prologue, I, PP92 Introduction close cropped to edge. Woodcut motif at Finis. Publishers Advert. The Regicide or James the first of Scotland a Tragedy by the author of Roderick Random [Tobias Smollett ]. Preface v, Persons of the Drama i, PP80. Title page torn with loss, missing Publ details. [Osbourne and Millar 1749]. Woodcut motif at Finis. Coriolanus A Tragedy As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in… Read More

Murat, Princesse Lucien : La Fayette. Illustrated by Alice Halicka. ca.1930. [Paris], France, Fontenay-Aux-Roses. Tall 4to size approx 350mm x 220mm. Stiff wrappers covered with illustrated paper by Alice Halicka. pp20 illustrated throughout by Alice Halicka, a contemporary of Picasso and more famous for her cubism work and that of her husband Louis Marcoussis. Cover papers a little bumped at end with 1cm square loss to edge, not touching illustrated area. Bright and clean throughout. Personal inscription from author across front free endpaper. Scarce.