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By: Bevis Hillier
Price: £100.00
Publisher: London, Hopcyn Press: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 82112
Condition: Very good
From the library of Harold and Mary Wilson. Inscribed "Mary with much love Bevis 12.X.14". The book also contains a presentation postcard from Hillier with a view of Magdalen College, Oxford where he was educated. Mary Wilson was an English poet and the wife of Harold Wilson, who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The only prime ministerial spouse to become a centenarian, she died at the age of 102 years, 145 days in 2018. Provenance: Hansons Auctioneers - A Prime Minister's Life - The Collection of Harold & Mary Wilson - Friday 10 May 2019. First edition, soft cover: compil... View more info
By: Clifford Dryment
Price: £100.00
Publisher: London, Dent: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 82111
From the library of Harold and Mary Wilson. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication "Harold and Mary Wilson with very warm regards Clifford Dryment July 1970", Dryment died a year later. Introduction by Cecil Day Lewis, who also wrote crime novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. Inside the book there is ephemera of the Wilson's, including several snapshots of their cat and dog. Provenance: Hansons Auctioneers - A Prime Minister's Life - The Collection of Harold & Mary Wilson - Friday 10 May 2019. First edition in a dust jacket. The book is tightly bound. Top edge a little greye... View more info
By: D H Lawrence
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Martin Secker: 1933
Seller ID: 82032
Edited with an introduction by Richard Aldington. The book is tightly bound. The front board is faded at the top in a 2 inch strip, below there are ink marks. Top edge faded gilt, pages are rough cut and a little browned. Some toning to text block but generally clean and free of markings. View more info
By: Dylan Thomas
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, J M Dent & Sons: 1944
Seller ID: 82069
Publisher's file copy. Word "FILE" stamped on covers, endpapers and text block. Boards are grubby, spine sunned/faded; corners scuffed. View more info
By: Edmund Waller
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Fenton: 1844
Seller ID: 81999
Leather bound, ribbed spine. The boards are scuffed and worn, gilt text and decoration on spine faded. Previous owner's inscriptions on the end papers. Scattered foxing and markings throughout the book but essentially clean. Edges are browned. View more info
By: George Meredith
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Constable: 1922
Seller ID: 81945
Mickleham edition first issued 1922. The book is tightly bound. The dust jacket is complete with only minor shelf wear; sticker over original price showing 6/-, on the inside flap there is a stamp showing a revised price of 2/-. The green boards and gilt text are clean and bright. Light browning on endpapers otherwise the book is clean, free of markings and foxing. View more info
By: John Drinkwater
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Beaumont Press: 1917
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 81917
First edition. Quarter cloth and decorated paper covered boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. One of 250 numbered copies on hand-made paper, this is 268. First book by Beaumont Press. Very good condition. Book tightly bound; corners a little scuffed. Internally the book is clean, free of markings and foxing. View more info
Price: £115.00
Publisher: London, Kaye Ward: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 81491
First edition, pictorial boards. 112 pages. Inscribed to Richard Adams by illustrator with his bookplate on the paste down. "Inscription reads to Richard with very best wishes From Carol. Very rare, Boards are a little marked otherwise in good condition. Edges a little browned. Some Browning on the end papers but the text block is clean and free of markings or foxing. Contains all the original illustrations which are clean and free of any foxing. Illustrated by Carol Barker View more info
By: Mark Seaward
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Wakefield, E P Publishing: 1980
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 82216
A scholarly edition with facsimile title page from the first edition. Inscribed "To Lady Wilson with kindest regards Mark Seaward 4.vii.1983. From the library of Harold and Mary Wilson. Provenance: Hansons Auctioneers - A Prime Minister's Life - The Collection of Harold & Mary Wilson - Friday 10 May 2019. The book is in very good condition; tightly bound, internally clean and free of markings and foxing. The dust jacket is complete, worn at extremities, spine faded/sunned. View more info
By: Rod McKuen
Price: £350.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Harper & Row: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 82141
From the library of Harold and Mary Wilson. Inscribed by Rod McKuen to Harold Wilson on the endpaper "H.W. please see page 30 R.M." Page 30 is marked with a Rod McKuen bookmark, the first entry on the page is March 11. This is Wilson's birthday, McKuen has written " Dear Sir Harold - I hope you have the best & most beautiful birthday ever - Warmest Regards Rod". Each day in the diary has a list of 6-7 notable birthdays and Wilson's is included in the list for March 11. Very nice association between a notable American poet and a former British Prime Minister. The book features ... View more info
By: Samuel Johnson
Price: £375.00
Publisher: London, Methuen: 1896
Seller ID: 82107
From the library of Harold & Mary Wilson (there is nothing in the books to indicate this), 3 volumes bound in Baytun Riviere bindings. Red half calf, contrasting green and blue labels, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Provenance: Hansons Auctioneers - A Prime Minister's Life - The Collection of Harold & Mary Wilson - Friday 10 May 2019. Very good condition. Page edges slightly browned. View more info
By: Sylvia Plath
Price: £200.00
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1972
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 82223
5th impression in a dust jacket. Inscribed "To Mary & Harold, May you have some peace & quiet in the next few weeks. Best wishes Bill Harding October 1974". Bill Harding - Sir William Harding was a diplomat in the Foreign Office: the date, October 1974 and the sentiment expressed indicating that this was a reference to the 2 General Elections fought by Wilson in the space of 8 months. Sylvia Plath's last poems are, perhaps, not the best aid to peace and quiet! Provenance: Hansons Auctioneers - A Prime Minister's Life - The Collection of Harold & Mary Wilson - Friday 10 May 2019. The b... View more info
