Search Results: Titles starting with A from Christian White Rare Books Ltd.

Maidenhead: Air Transport Auxiliary, November 1943. pp 62 Very good in cream boards with blue titles, covers lightly soiled and marked, internally fine with a few pencil annotations to the text. Black and white photograph laid in of two pilots in uniform working on the fuselage of an aeroplane. Ownership inscription of Flight Officer J D H Radford, ATA Authorisation Number 455. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. Very good 1943

Early nineteenth century oil-painted copy of Fuseli's lost 1789 painting which depicts the ghost of Hamlet's father beckoning away his son to hear the terrible story of his death. Oil on wooden panel, 44.5x57.5cm, label to verso from its appearance at the 1969 Zurich Fuseli exhibition, wood repair to verso reinforcing a vertical split in the wood which rises 12cm from the base of the image, just visible in the painting itself. The panel is mounted in a heavy period frame with modern retainers holding the work in place.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. Full length authorial typescript of Tranter's novel 'The Marchman', the 16th century story of John Maxwell, Warden of the West March of the Borderland between Scotland and England. Typed by the author who entitles his book "-Marchman- A Novel by Nigel Tranter'. Minor authorial corrections throughout. The typescript is bound in a homemade cardboard cover sheet, hole punched and tied with a shoelace. The main text is preceded by what the author calls: 'Proposed Cover-blurb for Marchman'. Accompanied by [ff374] the proofreader's marked set, and a fine, illustrated dust jacket of the first edition.Collates: [ff] 3 ff 37 Nigel Tranter's normal method of composition was described in his Guardian obituary thus: 'Each morning he would leave his house in East Lothian and begin a long walk... In stout boots, flat cap and sensible tweeds, he looked just like any other bird-watcher but for one oddity: in his hands he carried small sheets of paper, protected by a polythene bag… Read More

London: Dent, 1954. Autograph musical manuscript (with editorial annotations) by Dylan Thomas's lifelong friend Daniel Jones which were reproduced in exact facsimile in the first edition of Under Milk Wood. Eight pages of manuscript score in the hand of Daniel Jones contained within a large manila envelope with the typed reference number from the Dent publishing archive: 'UNDER MILK WOOD - Dylan Thomas 74153-74166'. The first four pages cover two individual leaves of pre-printed 'R.C.I.' music manuscript paper, recto and verso, a vertical fold close to the margin reducing their size to that of the subsequent bifolium which contains pages 5-8, concluding half way down page 8 as in the printed version. There are several forms of annotation. The pencil notes are editorial: pencilled square brackets are placed around the title with 'omit' - the titles are in letterpress in the printed version. Where Jones has run onto the second song at the tail of the first leaf there are instructions to 'fit up with… Read More

London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1895. Excellent. Near Fine. pp 573 A splendid leather bound volume presented by St Stanislau's College, Beaumont to Henry Charles Dickens for merit in Geography, 1895. In a particularly fine binding of red leather with gilt titles and decoration, the arms of the school embossed to front cover. With marbled end papers and edges, high quality paper and tissue guards to all illustrations. Near fine, the book appears to be unread with some rubbing to the spine being the only blemish. Henry Charles Dickens was the novelist Charles Dickens's eighth child and a successful barrister. Near Fine Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1895

Nottingham: University College Nottingham, 1932. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. pp 12 The Abbott Memorial Lecture on Stone Age Man in the East Midlands delivered by Professor Swinnerton on Friday 4th March 1932. Pamphlet in near fine condition in blue wrappers, the pages are very fresh. Illustrated in black and white. Ownership inscription and stamp to verso of upper cover. Near Fine 1932

London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard,......etc, 1824. Excellent. Very Good. pp346 An English history text book covering the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of George II by Oliver Goldsmith, and continued by "an eminent writer" to the end of 1823. A new edition which includes over 1000 questions upon the history of England and 12 pages of adverts for school books published by Simpkin and Marshall. A handsome copy bound in tree calf with gilt lines to the spine, illustrated with portrait heads by John Bewick. The book is in very good condition, the pages are clean and undamaged, no inscriptions. Very Good 1824

London: Mary Hinde, 1773. Hardcover. Good. [vi] pp338 [xxix] Biography of Yorkshire Quaker John Fothergill "to which are added Divers Epistles to Friends in Great Britain and America". Good in dark red cloth, spine and corners worn, front board nearly detached. Bookplate of the Friends' Library, Manchester and inscription stating "Belongs to Manchester Meeting". Good 1773

Westminster: Nichols and Sons, 1884. Soft cover. Near Fine. [4 plates] pp 8 The first separate publication of Parker's account of the Hospital of St John the Baptist with a letter from the author. The book is bound in most attractive original green boards with gilt lettering to the front. Trivial wear only to the corners leaving the binding near Fine. Internally Fine, with the letter from Parker tipped onto the front endpaper. Writing on 'High Wycombe' headed paper Parker presents this 'clean copy' of the volume to his correspondent, adding on the endpaper: 'With the Author's Compliments Sept 1884'. Altogether a very superior copy. Near Fine 1884

London: The Bodley Head, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. Michael Ayrton designed jacket on this near fine first edition, very good book in good jacket, not price-clipped. An attractive copy. Near Fine 1957

London: M Cooper, 1745. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. [4] pp47 [1] In near fine condition in modern blue card wrappers with title label to upper cover. The pamphlet concerns a dispute between Admiral Thomas Mathews and his second in command Richard Lestock over their defeat at the Battle of Toulon. Near Fine 1745

C F Kant, 1970. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Martin Doernberg, Adagio fur Streichorchester, C F Kahnt, 1970; small folio in card wrapper. This score is from a large collection of scores that belonged to the conductor Sir Colin Davis, many annotated and used in performance, almost all from the post-war period and including at least two examples of scores from which Davis conducted the work's premier: Thea Musgrave's Clarinet Concerto (Davis was himself originally a clarinettist by training) and Malcolm Williamson's The Stone Wall which Davis premiered at the Last Night of the Proms in September 1971. Most of the scores are full size performance versions, several very large indeed in order to accommodate the scoring of a post-Schoenberg orchestra. Davis achieved global recognition for his conducting with a particular enthusiasm for the music of Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett. Very Good 1970

London: Charles Letts, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. pp 64; page/week. A young London mother's diary for 1921. Adele Margate's ownership signature appears on the first endpaper above the adverts: she has made around 150 short diary entries in the printed grid which allows one page per week. She reveals herself as a married woman living in the vicinity of Richmond in south west London. At least two of her children have died and are remembered on their birthdays: 'Took up some flowers to dear little Baby. She has been dead four years tomorrow.' This causes Adele still further anxiety when she records that 'Peter [is] better but baby much worse. The doctor says he has bronchial pneumonia. Temp v high.' There are trips into London apparently to meet her husband: 'Went up to Town met Lew and we had dinner at Hatchets [Piccadilly] with Mrs Cooper and Margery and went on to see 'Sunday' by Barclays Bank Amateurs.' There are occasional political comments as on May 17th: 'The coal strike settlement as far off… Read More

London: Thomas Nelson, 1961. Near fine book in green cloth in a good dustjacket, 1cm hole near the top of the hinge between upper panel and spine of jacket; closed tear to lower panel of jacket. A very nice clean copy of this combined Latin and English translation. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1961

London: J Downing, 1726. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. pp 31 [1 advert] In modern blue card wrappers with title label to upper cover. Near Fine condition with crisp, bright pages. Near Fine 1726

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. No Binding. Near Fine. An excellent first edition, near fine in near fine jacket - particularly brights and unblemished. Near Fine 1962

Dublin: John Cumming, 1821. pp 215 Blue paper covered boards, strengthened to corners, rebacked with a vellum spine, handwritten paper spine label. Ownership inscription of Samuel Lawrence to first flyleaf; foxing to endleaves and sporadically throughout. Text block not trimmed. An attractive copy of a work credited to Bishop Berkeley but actually by Simon Berington. Very good 1821

Dublin: T Henshall, 1800. Uncommon example of this Dublin imprint which formed part of Henshall's Pocket Library. Full calf binding, cracking along outer hinges, morocco label to spine. Old ownership signature of 'Caswell' to first pastedown. Browning and soiling to early leaves, worm trail to last few leaves. Engraved frontispiece. Undated but around 1796. 1796

Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp46 A limited edition publication of 1000 copies reprinted from the Senate Calendar number 734 for private distribution. Near fine in buckram with red frame, within a fragile glassine wrapper which is chipped to edges and split along the spine. Laid in: offprint of the Congressional Record, 75th congress, first session, March 1937. This book comes from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, 1910 - 2001, the son of Ellen Walters Delano who was a first cousin to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Adams became a passionate bibliophile who served as director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City for two decades and compiled a significant personal collection relating to F.D.R.. In 1969 he married his third wife who was a Swedish princess and with whom he shared the final years of his life in France. Adams' move to France explains the presence of his books in the United Kingdom. Near Fine 1937

London: Eliot Stock, 1903. Hardcover. Good. The author's sister's copy of African Items. Signed "Muriel Gibbon Feb 8th 1911" to end paper, which is nearly detached. Good in dark red bevelled cloth, browning to pages. A fragile volume of South African poetry. Good 1903