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As we celebrate International Women's Day, it is important to remember and honour the pioneering women who have paved the way for future generations in various fields, including literature and art.
As we celebrate International Women's Day, it is important to remember and honour the pioneering women who have paved the way for future generations in various fields, including literature and art.
Today, we specifically pay tribute to some of the most influential women writers and artists of all time. These women have inspired countless individuals through their creative works, as well as their bold and daring approach to life. Join us as we take a closer look at their contributions to society and the lasting impact they have left on the world.
The first edition, first printing and first state of Eliot's most deeply autobiographical novel. A masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of provincial Victorian life. The narrative depicts Maggie Tulliver's coming of age, in a bourgeois Victorian community, resistant to change and resistant to strong-willed women. The result is a tragedy, on many levels, as the deep love Maggie has for her brother is thrown into question, whilst she can neither adapt to the provincial life she was born into, nor escape from it
Here we have a very attractively illustrated and bound set of the major works of Jane Austen (comprising Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Pride & Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Sense & Sensibility).
In eleven volumes, this Thornton Edition of the Novels of the Bronte Sisters is regarded as the definitive edition.
Woolf’s story was her contribution to the Hogarth Press’s inaugural publication, Two Stories (1917). The edition sold out and in 1919 she had 1000 copies of her piece printed under its own title. Kirkpatrick records this printing as A2b.
The staunch campaigner for woman's rights, Sylvia Pankhurst first found herself the victim of an archaic social system on the 24th of October, 1906. Protesting in court at the treatment of fellow suffragettes at the hands of a magistrate who would neither listen to the Defendants, nor allow witnesses to take the stand, Pankhurst found herself charged with obstruction and sentenced to pay a pound fine or go to prison for fourteen days. At the young age of 24, she chose prison and was taken to the women’s gaol at Holloway. She was released on November 6th and would go on fighting for the rights of woman. Shining a light on a less enlightened time in English history, Writ on Cold Slate is a historically important collection of the legendary suffragette's poems.
Marked with the humorous sympathy and integrity that have distinguished all of Margaret Irwin's work, Knock Four Times is a story of Twenties London, the London of little flats and haphazard hospitality, the London of the young and poor and friendly. A London holding the dream of another world round the corner.
Collection of hitherto uncollected poems, limited to 10 copies on vellum and bound by Zaehnsdorf.
‘...the poems in this volume are hitherto uncollected. A few of them will be included in Winter Trees, a collection of Poems by Sylvia Plath, to be published shortly by Faber & Faber, London, ...’ (publisher’s note).
A collection of Poirot short stories. A fine association copy with the author’s signed presentation inscription to the title-page, ‘To Daphne Honeybone from Agatha Christie’. The recipient was for many years Christie’s personal secretary.
A lesser-known side of Barbara Hepworth’s sublime artistic oeuvre is her works on paper. Showcasing her incredible draftsmanship, these screenprints in colours from 1969-70, are signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 60.
Helen Frankenthaler came of age in the midst of the avant-garde art scene in New York in the 1950s. From an early age she had a profound interest in understanding how painting worked and delighted in deconstructing Old Masters, creating her own lyrical abstract responses to them. Frankenthaler became a leading member of the second generation Abstract-Expressionists and eventually transitioning into Colour Field painting.Orient Express #6 is exemplary of her individual approach to painting with the use of thinned paint applied to pastel coloured paper from all sides to create floating fields of colour with interjections of bright pigments and open surface space.
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Following several rejections from various publishers for The Professor, Charlotte Brontë concentrated her attention on Jane Eyre, finishing her 'f...
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Following several rejections from various publishers for The Professor, Charlotte Brontë concentrated her attention on Jane Eyre, finishing her 'f...
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A stunning copy of part of the early Spark oeuvre, containing four plays and six short stories.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked inte...
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The author's second novel, with intriguing jacket artwork by Edward Bawden (1903-89), one of the most influential artists of his generation. Hard ...
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A very attractively illustrated and bound set of the major works of Jane Austen (comprising Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Pride & Prejudic...
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Complete set of Brock colour illustrated first editions. A most handsome set of this very desirable edition, in exceptionally good condition. C.E. ...
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A charming, very readable set in the original bindings.Sixth edition; 10 vols, 8vo (176 x 118 mm); monochrome illustrations with tissue-guards, pu...
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Presentation copy of the author's first novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper, 'For Adeline Dan...
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First edition of the author's first book.'One of Goodison's achievements is that her poetry inscribes the Jamaican sensibility and culture on the ...
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Campbell's second collection of stories, published following the success of her first collection, The rag doll and other stories.First edition, fi...
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First edition of the Nigerian author's first novel.First edition, first printing; 8vo; toning to text block, else unmarked internally; publisher's...
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A handsome example of Charlotte Brontë's iconic gothic novel, Jane Eyre, in contemporary half morocco by Mudie.After several rejections from vario...
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Last of the 'three-deckers'. A scarce lifetime edition, and the last of the three-volume sets of Charlotte Brönte's classic Gothic novel, Jane Eyre...
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Bell's account of her five-month journey along the Euphrates. Scarce.Second edition, 8vo. xvii, 370 pp., frontispiece and 235 illustrations, large...
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The Pax Britannica trilogy. James (later Jan) Morris was a British historian, author and travel writer. Educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, a...
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First edition in the scarce dustjacket of Nancy Mitford's translation of Madame de Lafayette's sensational and controversial novel, originally pub...
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In anticipation of the approaching London Antiquarian book fairs, this May, we are spotlighting rare African exploration works. Featured, are four first editions, with inscriptions linking them to historical figures, enhancing their collectability.
Join us as we journey through time to discover some of the rarest books in the world. The following texts have shown an extraordinary ability to survive, with some books having survived the ravages of flood and fire, and others counting only a single surviving copy.
The public perception of the East India Company, an organisation which was to become one of Britain's most notorious colonial ventures, was mediated by a collective of artists. Diplomatic wrangling, imperial posturing, trade and warfare became the subjects of a significant artistic movement, aimed at depicting and dissecting the Company’s involvement in the political and social life of the period.
The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor. Join us this Easter as we travel through the imaginary places and winding roads of children’s literature.
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