![Item #121 Poems [Kenneth Grahame association copy]. Algol, pseud. C. H. Bretherton](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600455818)
London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1945. First Edition. First edition featuring a presentation inscription from C.H. Bretherton's wife to the wife of Kenneth Grahame on the flyleaf. Bretherton was a frequent contributor to Punch magazine and an enthusiastic support of Grahame. Poems was published after the death of both Bretherton and.....
London: T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1764. First Edition. First Edition. Association copy with the ownership inscription of John Reeve, a notable actor during the middle of the 19th century, dated "Haymarket 1830", which were among his last performances at the Haymark Theatre. 2 vol. 12mo. Collated complete.....
![Item #99 Recollections of Paris: Volume II [Joseph Conrad's copy]. Captain the Hon. D. Bingham](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/99.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600472882)
London: Chapman and Hall, 1896. Joseph Conrad's copy with the Hodgsons 1925 auction dispersement label. Volume II only, the first volume's whereabouts remain a mystery despite our attempts to locate the same.
![Item #128 The Art of the Conquistadors [Graham Greene's copy]. Francois Cali, Claude Arthaud,...](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/128.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600481025)
London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. Graham Greene's copy with his signature on the flyleaf.
London: Charles Griffin and Co., [undated, circa 1860s, adverts dated 1864]. From the library of George MacDonald with his bookplate to the front pastedown. In addition to MacDonald's ownership, this volume comes from the library of Maude Egerton King with her bookplate on the flyleaf. Ms. King was a......
Oxford: Claredon Press, 1903. First Edition. Sir Winston Churchill's copy with his bookplate and the bookplate of his son, Randolph S. Churchill, both on the front pastedown. Letter of authenticity certifying the book as from the personal library of Winston Churchill, dated 1977, signed by Diana J. Rendell (of.....
New York: Printed for the Subscribers, 1846. First Edition. First edition and interesting association copy. Volume I inscribed by Abbott Lawrence to William Cabell Rives. Lawrence was noted as an ambassador to Britain while Rives was a senator and ambassador to France. Notably, this important friendship was the subject to.....
![Item #133 The Kon-Tiki Expedition [Hilaire Belloc's copy]. Thor Heyerdahl](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/133.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600472882)
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1950. Hilaire Belloc's copy with birthday inscription to him on the front free endpaper.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First Edition. First edition. Lytton Strachey’s copy, with his faded penciled ownership signature to the head of the upper wrapper and with his Dora Carrington-designed bookplate to the verso. Shortly before theirs deaths in 1932, Carrington wrote in her journal, “As I stuck.....
![Item #117 Six One-Act Plays [H.L. Mencken's Copy]. Margaret Scott Oliver](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/117.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600455818)
Boston: Roger G. Badger, 1916. First Edition. H.L. Mencken's copy with his bookplate. Also with the ownership stamp and signature of The Vagabond Theatre, whose first play was an original submitted by Mencken.
![Item #115 Shelley: Poetry & Prose [Richard Adams's copy]. Percy Shelley, A. M D. Hughes](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/115.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600455818)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931. From the library of Richard Adams, with his ownership signature on the the flyleaf. Also includes Adam's NHS receipt for dental treatment, presumably which he used as a bookmark for this book.
![Item #348 [Lytton Strachey’s copy]. Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade....](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/348.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713284898)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First Edition. First edition. Lytton Strachey’s copy, with his faded penciled ownership signature to the head of the upper wrapper and with his Dora Carrington-designed bookplate to the verso. Shortly before their deaths in 1932, Carrington wrote in her journal, “As I stuck the.....
![Item #349 [Lytton Strachey’s copy]. Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic, September...](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/349.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713284898)
London: F.S. Ellis, 1870. First Edition. First edition. Lytton Strachey’s copy, with his Dora Carrington-designed bookplate to the verso. With faded addresses which appear to be in Strachey’s hand on the rear wrap. Shortly before their deaths in 1932, Carrington wrote in her journal, “As I stuck the book.....
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. William Makepeace Thackeray’s copy with his blindstamped monogram to the title page. Later this was the property of Charles Francis Adams (junior or senior is unclear, being either the son or grandson of John Quincy Adams), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. 8vo.....
![Item #113 The Eloping Angels [presumed Eugene Field's copy]. William Watson](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/113.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600455818)
New York: MacMillan & Co., 1893. First Edition. Bears the signature and bookplate of Eugene Field. However, as with many books bearing Field's signature, same could be that of Eugene Field's son, Eugene Field Jr., who worked with accomplice Harry Dayton Sickles in "enlarging" his father's library, adding provenance by.....
![Item #98 Balzac [Jean Shepherd's Copy]. Stefan Zweig](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/98.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600472882)
New York: Viking Press, 1946. First American Edition. Jean Shepherd's (creator of The Christmas Story) copy with his bookplate.
