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Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech and C. Elliot, 1788. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 12mo, pp [viii], 532. Contemporary tree calf, red morocco label, spine divided by gilt rolls. Some soiling, scattered ink stains not obscuring text. Scratched and somewhat rubbed. Numerous ownership inscriptions of Henry Oliphant of Kirkaldy to endpapers including one to front pastedown dated 1803 and three on title page, sums in pencil and ink to endpapers. Signed by the author to verso of title page beneath the legend ‘The warranted correctness and established character of the Author’s Books, induce him to inform the Public, That no copy of any of them is genuine but what is signed by his own hand, as under.’ This 1768 text was reprinted many times well into the 19th century, with 18th century reprints comparatively scarce - ESTC records 7 locations for this edition. ESTC T98104.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1805. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 12mo, pp. viii, 532. Contemporary dark brown sheep, spine divided by gilt rules, red morocco label. Toned and foxed. Binding marked, rubbed and a little worn, small loss to head of spine. Title-page verso signed by the author to prove authenticity, various ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers. The verso of the title-page is printed: ‘The warranted correctness and established character of the Author’s Books, induce him to inform the Public, That no copy of any of them is genuine but what is signed by his own hand, as under’, followed by the author’s signature. This 1768 text was reprinted many times well into the 19th century, though this was likely the last edition signed by Thomson, who died in 1807. WorldCat and Library Hub cite only three copies of this edition at the BL, NLS, and University of Aberdeen.

Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1984. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, ff. [ii], 20, [3]. Interleaved with glassine as issued. Original white card wrappers, pale yellow dustjacket printed in black. Rear panel of dustjacket just a touch soiled. An exhibition catalogue produced in an edition of 1000 copies.

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1767. 8vo, pp. v, [iii], 95, [1]. Extracted from a bound volume. Some spotting, outer leaves a little soiled. A rare Foulis edition, the only printing they produced of this masque based on Fenelon's popular novel. George Graham (d. 1767) was an English writer, though with family connections to the Duke of Montrose which may explain how the London printing of his major work was followed not only by a Dublin reprint but this Scottish edition. The play received mixed reviews, though Samuel Johnson praised it, and it saw a musical adaptation. While the London first is reasonably widely held, this edition is located by ESTC in the BL and NLS only. ESTC T126027; Gaskell 466.

London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1715. 8vo, pp. 52, [4, ads] + frontispiece. Later blue paper wrappers. Somewhat spotted and soiled (especially half-title), margins of frontispiece and first three leaves repaired. The second edition, same year as the first, of Pope’s modernisation of Chaucer’s ‘House of Fame’. The major difference between the two editions is the advertisements at the end, which in the first edition are entirely for Urry’s edition of Chaucer, then in preparation, while in the second edition they are a general catalogue of Lintot’s publications (perhaps due to Urry’s death in March 1715; his Chaucer was thereby delayed until 1721). ESTC T5754; Foxon P975.

London: Printed by T.M. for S.S. and are to be sold by W. Jacob, 1670. 12mo, pp. [x], 72, 75-158. Recased in contemporary unlettered sheep, boards ruled in blind. Edges a touch worn at beginning and end, a few leaves with thin short wormtracks in blank margins. Corners and edges a touch worn, leather stained and marked. Ownership inscription of William Douglas dated 1684 to front flyleaf, with his name repeated again on several other leaves. The rare second edition of this long-running guide to Tenants Law, first published 1666 and continually updated and expanded well into the eighteenth century. ESTC locates just one copy in the UK, at Senate House, plus 3 at Harvard and one each in the Huntington and Library of Congress. The first edition is equally rare, with only the BL copy recorded in the UK. ESTC R203704.

London: Printed for R. Snagg, No. 129 in Fleet Street, R. Cruttwell in Bath & Hodgson & Johnso[n] in Salisbury, 1776. 8vo, pp. [2, engraved title-page], 336, [345]-376, 385-424, [433]-496, 505-552 + 12 plates (of 24). Lacking the final gathering of the September issue, the repeated gathering ‘3O’ in the November issue, and 12 of the 24 plates listed by Matyas. Bound from parts (stab holes visible) in contemporary quarter sprinkled calf, marbled boards, spine divided by raised bands, red morocco label. Engraved title-page and several leaves printed slightly askew and consequently trimmed at fore-edge with loss of a couple of characters, top inner corner of one leaf torn away causing loss to 3 lines of text, one or two other lesser paper flaws, some spotting and staining. Rubbed, spine creased, extremities a touch worn. Ownership inscription of J. Chaplin to title-page, a few pen trials elsewhere. A rare and early printing of the Declaration of Independence,… Read More

London: W. H. Allen; Macmillan; W. H. Allen, 1965. FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. 317, [1]; 447, [1]; 299, [1]. Original boards (black, grey and blue), spines lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjackets. First two dustjackets a touch rubbed to edges and marked, the third price-clipped. Each book signed to title-page by the author with ‘all best wishes’ or ‘best wishes’. An attractive signed collection of Sillitoe’s three novels following the anarchist Nottingham factory-worker Frank Dawley. Gerard A12; A14; A27.

London: Michael Joseph, 1958. FIRST EDITIONS, 3 vols., 8vo, pp. 157, [1]; 158, [2]; 157, [1]. Original red, blue, and green cloth respectively, spines lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjackets designed by James Broom-Lynne. Some spotting and toning. Binding extremities slightly rubbed, dustjackets a bit worn at edges, dampstain to front board of second book. Ink gift and ownership inscriptions to front endpapers of first two volumes, bookplate to front flyleaf of third volume. Bates’s original trilogy about the Larkin family; two more volumes would follow in later years. Eads A86a, A87a, A90a.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. LARGE-PAPER EDITION, ONE OF 250 COPIES, 8vo, pp. xlii, 210. Original limp vellum, fore-edge extensions, spine lettered in gilt, two green silk cords exposed on each board near the spine. Endpapers lightly spotted. Some spotting to vellum, rear joint with a small split near head. First published in 1880, this is the second edition of Andrew Lang’s translations of the Greek bucolic poets, in its limited large-paper issue and in the special publisher’s vellum binding (normally seen in blue cloth).

[Heidelberg]: Ex Bibliopolio Commeliniano, 1604. 4to, pp. [xxviii], 432. Near-contemporary vellum boards, boards bordered in blind with a small centrepiece and cornerpieces of the same tool in blind, spine lettered in ink, front board lettered ‘MCG / 1614’ in gilt, edges blue. Lightly browned, some spotting. Vellum somewhat soiled and showing some creasing on spine and a few scratches to boards, hinge strained at title-page. Old stamp of a German school library to title-page, first 20 leaves of text with underlining in red ink and several annotations in black ink (most of them on the first page of text), a binder’s blank at the end also filled with notes in the same hand. The second Heinsius edition of Theocritus, which followed an octavo of 1603 that Heinsius reportedly tried to suppress. The second ‘is preferable, and is, in fact, a very excellent edition.... Heinsius’s readings are learned, sagacious, and ingenious’ (Dibdin). VD17… Read More

A Geneve [Geneva]: Chez Barrillot & Fils, 1747. 12mo, pp. xx, 239, [1]. Contemporary half sheep, sprinkled paper boards, tan label to spine. Some gatherings browned. Binding the merest touch rubbed at extremities. Armorial bookplate of H. Trouchin to front pastedown, along with small shelfmark label. An early edition of this small treatise on human pleasure and its moral purpose. First appearing as a shorter text based on correspondence with Lord Bolingbroke within an anthology in the 1730s, the author was convinced to expand upon it for proper publication the following decade, with the first authorised printing not long before this one. Louis-Jean Lévesque du Pouilly (1691-1750) was an early reader of Newton and hosted David Hume in Rheims.

London: Eyre & Spottiswood, 1961. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. 56. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream dustjacket printed in green and black. Top edge sunned. Inscribed to the flyleaf ‘Ronald [?] with best wishes, Iain Crichton Smith’. Smith’s second English-language collection, following 1955’s ‘the Long River’ and ‘Bùrn is Aran’, in Gaelic, from 1960. This copy is inscribed in the poet’s spidery hand to the flyleaf.

London: Longmans Green And Co., 1882. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. xviii, 432; vi, 495, [1] + frontispiece in each vol. and 4 additional plates. Contemporary tree calf, boards bordered in gilt rolls, spine divided by raised bands, red morocco labels, other compartments tooled in gilt, top edges gilt. A few scratches, a little rubbed. Bookseller’s labels of Hugh Hopkins, Bookseller, Glasgow to pastedowns.

Deya, Majorca: The Seizin Press, 1930. FIRST EDITION, NO. 182 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, folio, pp. [iv], 29, [1]. Original quarter buckram, decorated paper boards by Len Lye, spine lettered in gilt. A few marks to cloth, outline sellotape stains to corners of endpapers.

Glasgow: The N.U.W.M. [National Unemployed Workers’ Movement], 1933. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 20. Stapled as issued in pale pink wrappers printed in black. Paper a little toned. ‘Box 12’ in ink to front wrapper and first page. A pamphlet commemorating the Scottish hunger march of June 1933, one of a series of marches in the 1930s under the aegis of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, in which hundreds of men marched from Glasgow to Edinburgh to present their demands to the Secretary of State for Scotland. A reprint by Edinburgh-based publishers A.K. Press was produced in 1994.

London: Faber and Faber, 1985. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 141, [1]. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjacket. Dustjacket bottom edge just a touch bumped. The first edition of this collection of three novellas: ‘I See A Long Journey’, ‘On Ice’ and ‘Blessed Art Thou’.

London: Privately Printed, 1973. FIRST EDITION, NO. 154 OF 536 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, large 8vo, pp. vii, [i], ff. 19. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pale blue dustjacket printed in two shades of darker blue. Top edge of dustjacket slightly rumpled. Higginson & Williams A135.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1930. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [viii], 206, [2]. Original blue boards, spine lettered in black, cream dustjacket printed in blue. Boards a touch soiled, jacket unevenly darkened, a little worn to edges with small hole to spine panel. MacDiarmid’s 4th collection, in the second issue binding.

[Glasgow]: [The Citizens’ Theatre], 1962. Small broadside (204 x 252 mm). A touch toned to edges. A rare printing of a poem by MacDiarmid reflecting on a verse from psalm 106 (‘And He gave them their request; but sent leanness into to their soul’), written for the Citizen Theatre’s production of the Bertholt Brecht play Der gute Mensch von Sezuan. It was issued with the programme of the 1962 production and is institutionally scarce, with Library Hub and Worldcat recording NLS only; The University of South Carolina also holds a copy.