Recent Arrivals from Christian White Rare Books Ltd.

New York: New York Herald, 1924. Very uncommon guide to Paris published by the New York Herald newspaper for Americans planning to visit the city during the Olympic Games of 1924, exactly a century before this summer's XXXIII Olympiad returns to Paris. We can't find any institutional holding of this title Small octavo in red printed wrappers, priced at… Read more about this item

Florence: Unpublished, 1863. A comprehensive manuscript journal of an independent and adventurous English woman's Continental tour, including lengthy stays in Florence and Rome before continuing to Slovenia, Vienna and Prague. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Quarto format, full black roan, single blind ruling to boards. Boards with gentle edgewear. All edges marbled; cream endpapers, darkened by binder's glue, front inner hinge starting,… Read more about this item

London: R and J Dodsley, 1760. An important early source for Handel's life and work which has been elaborately annotated by the English composer, Thomas Sterndale Bennett. Full 18th century speckled calf, pleasingly rebacked and with new endpapers and the stamp of 'T G Odling' to the front flyleaf - the Gloucestershire collector, Thomas G Odling (1911-2002) was Clerk… Read more about this item

San Francisco: James H Barry, 1923. Uncommon first edition bound in quarter tan buckram over printed textured paper covered boards. Rubbing to the binding which remains sound. Hollywood gift inscription to the front pastedown by 'H H Dunn'; title page by the American painter Remington Schyler, a little stained. Clean text with just a few light brown spots. Pope… Read more about this item

Hampshire: Unpublished, 1850. Manuscript catalogue of a mid-nineteenth century private Hampshire library, featuring Cambridge University titles, Shakespeare in different editions and William Wilberforce. Octavo format, quarter bound calf over brown-marbled boards. Boards rubbed, losses to paper and calf, corners worn and rounded. Single gilt ruling and lettering to spine, spine sunned, 'Hants' struck through in black; all edges… Read more about this item

London: John Nichols etc, 1777. A compelling collection chronicling the short-lived Antiquaries' Presidency of Edward King, owned and annotated by a friend of King's and including 5 unrecorded imprints. Large quarto (27x21.5cm), 18th-century full calf; narrow gilt border to the boards, spine prettily tooled in gilt, red morocco label, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges - binding carefully repaired. Armorial… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley, 1838. Unrecorded perhaps unique surviving set of Cruikshank's illustrations to Oliver Twist, issued by the book's publisher as a loose, possibly promotional, set simultaneous with first publication. ($1750) 20 plates (150x243mm) are loosely contained in a bifolium printed wrapper which has separated along the spine. This bears a modified version of the title page of the… Read more about this item

Various: Various, 1703. 30 high quality books from nearly 3 centuries, annotated by their writers and readers including an American Presidential biography annotated by the subject's mother; a British Prime Minister's school text; dramatic prompt copies, review copies, books annotated for radio adaptation, a massively corrected proof by a popular novelist, an opera annotated by a leading tenor and… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1972. Inscribed by the President's former Special Assistant - and with an excellent letter written from the White House in September 1962 thanking friends in Houston where Kennedy had just given his speech declaring 'we choose to go to the moon'. 6th printing of this memoir of the Kennedy years, warmly inscribed by Powers… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1950. Signed first edition of Evelyn Waugh's only historical novel, based on the eponymous heroine's search for relics of the true cross. Blue publisher's cloth, small dent at the top of the front board; uniformly deep blue cloth, sharp corners. In a near very good jacket, lightly nicked at head of the spine and… Read more about this item

Paris: Unpublished, 1690. 500 engravings from the late 17th century made by Louis XIV's chief engraver which include celebrated depictions of the fountains of 'le labryrinthe de Versailles', costume at the court of the Sun King and the Fauxbourgs of Paris. Three large quarto volumes (21x26cm) bound in worn calf; marbled endpapers with the bookplate of 'Abercairny' (Scottish ancestral… Read more about this item

London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1767. Collection of Acts of Parliament printed between 1767 and 1812 legislating on Britain's relationship with its American colonies and subsequently the newly fledged United States. These Acts are disbound and altogether the 25 Acts run to 114 pages. Subjects under British law include the vexed problem of taxation on imports from… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1824. Richly provenanced Nelson family association copy presented by Horatio Nelson's niece Charlotte Nelson to the future Admiral Richard Crozier. Two handsome small octavo volumes bound in straight grain red morocco with gilt decoration; all edges gilt; grey coated endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Richard Crozier to both front paste-downs. Charlotte Hood - formerly Nelson -… Read more about this item

UK: Unpublished, 1940s onwards. A substantial archive - c600 items - of Henry Williamson's incoming letters and his replies in the form of notes, typescripts and annotated letters relating to his creative work in the 1950s and 1960s, in particular his extended sequence of novels about his experience in the First World War. Among the collection is a fan… Read more about this item

Australia: N/A, 1894. Sketchbook and diary recording a round trip to Australia aboard Conrad's last ship, written by the wife of the Commander in Chief of the Australia Station and including a drawing of a kangaroo hunt. Quarto hessian-covered sketchbook with tie; worn and marked, possibly a pencilled sketch on the upper cover which is inscribed with the artist's… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1935. Autograph novel manuscript bound in two volumes by Neil Bell, AKA Stephen Southwold, together with the dedication copy of the printed work, inscribed on the dedication page with Bell's nickname 'Bunty'. Large quarto format in a custom binding with gilt labelling to the upper boards and spine. Bell has recorded the manuscript's provenance on the 2nd… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans [printed by] John Fowler, Dublin, 1856. Presentation copy of a collection of Newman's papers written while he worked on his 'great undertaking' in Dublin, the establishment of the Catholic University of Ireland. Newman spent most of the 1850s in Dublin working on this project as the university's first Rector from which emerged this… Read more about this item

London: Harrap, 1933. 1933 edition found here with its most uncommon dustjacket designed by Mabel Victoria Leith, (b. 1897), an English artist who, after working as a draughtsman for ship designs in the Great War, lived and made art in Australia and Canada. A very good copy with the name of 'R Carter' to the front flyleaf; the jacket… Read more about this item

London: James Flesher for R Royston, 1662. An attractive first edition which boasts all three double page engravings but lacks the preliminary portrait of Charles I and the engraved general title page. Folio (35 x 24.5m) bound in tree calf, red morocco spine label; the binding a little scuffed and rubbed but perfectly sound and serviceable and pleasing to… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. A good copy only of the 'new edition' of 1879. Decorative brown publisher's cloth binding, worn and with a split running up the outer hinge between front board and spine. Tape repair to gutter of front blue-coated endpapers; bookplate of 'William Bacon Crittenden', 1884; later ownership inscription of 'Howard Curtis 1954'. The sewing… Read more about this item