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

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. pp 221 First edition, very good in bright green boards, lightening to spine, spotting to edges and extremities. In a stiff card dust wrapper; foxed to panels with lightly tanned and rubbed spine but otherwise very good. Fifty tributes in honour of Mr Eliot's birthday including contributions from school children, one of whom has inscribed the book: 'To B.S.S to whom I owe this premature literary debut 7.10.58'. Very Good 1958

Edinburgh: Unpublished, 1850. Portraits in childhood of the Edinburgh-born women's rights campaigner and future author of British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege, Charlotte Carmichael, by her father, the landscape artist James Ferrier Carmichael and by herself. Charlotte Carmichael (1840-1929) was part of the first university level classes for women in Edinburgh under Professor David Masson at a time when the university was not open to women. She was active in dress reform for women, published widely and contributed to Shakespeare studies, marrying Henry Stopes with whom she had a daughter, Marie Stopes who curated this collection - most of the drawings have her notes on the verso and on the portfolio containing the collection. The collection is housed in a large portfolio on which Marie Stopes has written 'M C Stopes - art' as well as adding explanatory annotations to many of the works. Thus a portrait of Charlotte Carmichael has Stopes's note: 'By [James Ferrier] Carmichael - of mother etc -… Read More

1960. Remarkable collection of Tibetan Sherpa art collected, and possibly commissioned, by a member of Sir Edward Hillary's 'Silver Hut' expedition to Mount Makulu in the Himalayas, including an image of the mountaineers scaling the peak. This collection is introduced by its owner, an unidentified member of Hillary's 1960 expedition (possibly George Lowe), in a two page pencilled text which he has written over the disbound opening pages of a large sketch pad (26x37cm). This seems to have been drafted after the expedition left Kathmandu and before their lengthy acclimatisation at altitude had begun. There are a couple of gaps in the text, possibly left to be filled in later with the relevant information. The mountaineer describes himself as 'a layman with this largely scientific expedition' who is admiring of the 'painstaking research our physiologists are even now preparing to undertake under never-before experienced conditions' - the expedition yielded now standard research findings into human… Read More

Frankfurt am Main: S Fischer Verlags, 1958. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. pp 8 Special edition produced as a Christmas and New Year's greeting for the friends S Fischer Verlags, German publisher of Dr Zhivago. Near fine, printed on good quality paper in monochrome card wrappers. Contains the poem"Tagesanbruch" (Daybreak) and a facsimile letter from Pasternak to Frau Fredeke Ruge. A very pleasing publication. Near Fine 1958

Flushing, New York: [Unidentified], 1910. Inscribed copy of this scarce fashion guide: 'To dear Hilda with Auntie's love/ Flushing New York June 1910' on the first flyleaf. Bound in decorative tan buckram with spine lettering. Frontispiece with printed signature. Good binding; internally near fine. Very much of its era, the book begins: 'Good dressing, nowadays as every woman known, who is at all interested in clothes - and all nice women are - is not, by any means, a question of money.' Very scarce publication, just 4 copies held institutionally, all in the USA Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1910

Cambridge: W Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1930. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. Reprinted from A Miscellany of Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures, pp 188-206. In near fine condition in printed brown card wrappers; there is one stain on the front cover which shows through on the first few pages, otherwise clean and crisp. Near Fine 1930

London, Menston, Yorkshire: Richard Jones, The Scolar Press Limited, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. pp313 Facsimile edition, reproduced in original size (octavo) from a copy of the second edition of 1593, by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. With introductory note by Roma Gill of Sheffield University. Very good in brown cloth with gilt titles, covers rubbed to one corner, the pages are clean and crisp. A handsome volume. This book comes from the collection of Walter Stein, a British writer, literary critic and Catholic moral philosopher. Born in 1922, Stein was a Jewish refugee from pre-war Austria, educated by the Quakers in York and eventually a Catholic convert who worked in the Department of Extramural Studies at Leeds University. Very Good 1973

London: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. pp390 English translation by Ernest Newman, German text revised by W Golther. Initials of English composer and musicologist Norman F Demuth in gilt to upper cover and signed by him to front free end paper. Tipped in: one sheet of manuscript music in Demuth's hand relating to the Pilgrim's Chorus. Very good in green cloth, spine sunned, edges tanned, binding firm, pages crisp and clean. Extra shipping charges may apply for overseas orders as this is a heavy volume. Very Good 1910

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. pp 48 A near fine first edition of this collection by Welsh poet and Anglican priest, R S Thomas. The hardback book is spotted to the edges but covers are bright and clean, no marks or inscriptions. A very attractive copy. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. 1961

London: Longmans, Green, 1932. Soft cover. Very Good. pp 308 Bound in yellow typographic wrappers, very good, spine tanned and covers lightly soiled and creased, the pages are crisp and clean. This book comes from the private collection of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife Mary who died recently at the age of 102. During his lifetime Harold Wilson kept the book in the Ashley Gardens mansion flat in Westminster that the couple shared until his death in 1995. After she lost her husband Mary Wilson continued to live in the couple's flat, surrounded by a lifetime's accumulation of books and memories until 2016. Very Good 1932

Bratislava: Q 111, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp120 1953 Everest mountaineer George Band's own copy of this well illustrated guide book to the High Tatras mountains of Slovakia, with historical notes in Slovakian with English translation, and an album of vintage photographs of the area taken between 1900 and 1950. Gift inscription to front free end paper "80th Anniversary of the Himalayan Club from Slovak Mountaineering Union, Igor Koller, The President Vlado Linek". From the collection of English mountaineer George Band who was the youngest member of John Hunt's successful team which conquered Mount Everest in 1953. A very attractive volume with good mountaineering associations. Near Fine 1997

Barcelona: Index Book, 2006. Hardcover. As New. pp 430 An anthology of 460 unique tattoo designs by the world's most iconic graphic artists and designers. As new, slightest signs of handling to covers, complete with three pages of tattoo transfers. As New 2006

Franeker: Idzardus Alberti, 1651. Octavo. Study of the Papal Chancellery bound in contemporary pigskin with ink lettering to the spine. Staining to endpapers, tiny oval label to first free endpaper followed by the engraved title page and the letterpress version in red and black. First few leaves with small tear up 1cm of gutter, not affecting text. Traces of insect damage to final pastedown. Overall a sound copy, about very good. Collates: [16] pp410 [30] Banck was Swedish jurist and author who lived and died in Holland. Burley 1651

Wellington: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1938. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Offprint from New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, Vol XIX, No 12, 1938, pp 721-731. In very good condition, lightly creased and marked, with stamps of the Gold Coast Geological Survey. Inscribed to the upper cover. Very Good 1938

London: Kronos Press, 1973. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Philip Cannon, Te Deum for choir, organ and brass, 1973, Kronos Press; small folio with personal letter laid in to Colin Davis discussing Cannon's works including Son of Man. 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 1973

Harlow, Essex: Longman Group for The British Council, 1972. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. No 227 in the Writers and their Work series published by the British council. Very good in green card wrappers. A presentation copy inscribed by the author. This book comes from the collection of Walter Stein, a British writer, literary critic and Catholic moral philosopher. Born in 1922, Stein was a Jewish refugee from pre-war Austria, educated by the Quakers in York and eventually a Catholic convert who worked in the Department of Extramural Studies at Leeds University. Near Fine 1972

Bradford: The Bradford and District Newspaper Company Ltd, 1944. No Binding. Very Good. D Day edition Tuesday 6 June 1944. Page 4 dedicated to the invasion. Very Good 1944

London: Hutchinson, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp 784 First edition 1954, well illustrated, ownership inscription of Harold Wilson in pen to front free end paper. Very good in blue cloth, lightly marked, text block edges finger marked, clean pages in a firm binding. This book comes from the private collection of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife Mary who died recently at the age of 102. During his lifetime Harold Wilson kept the book in the Ashley Gardens mansion flat in Westminster that the couple shared until his death in 1995. After she lost her husband Mary Wilson continued to live in the couple's flat, surrounded by a lifetime's accumulation of books and memories until 2016. Near Fine 1954

New York: Duffield and Green, 1933. Soft cover. Near Fine. pp58 The author, writing under the pseudonym of George Grey, discusses the first 10 days of the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, beginning on March 4th 1933, seeing it as a turning point in American psychology. Near fine in stiff grey card wrappers, protected by a clear plastic folder, a little spotting to covers and title page. 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 1933

London: The Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control, March 1930. pp 44 CBC Bulletin No 1. Near fine in blue card wrappers, lightly sunned and rubbed to the spine, a few spots and a little black mould in the inner margins of the text. No inscriptions. This book comes from the collection of the scientist and pioneer birth-control campaigner Marie Stopes (1880-1958) which was inherited by her son the philosopher Harry Stopes Roe (1924-2014) and sold following the death of his widow Mary Stopes Roe in May of this year. Mary was herself an academic and author, the daughter of the engineer and inventor of the bouncing bomb, Sir Barnes Wallis. 1930