Recent Arrivals from Roz Hulse

Empsom., William. The Gathering Storm. Faber and Faber, 1940. 1st Edition, 8vo. Hardcover. Blue cloth glt titles to spine. Pp71. Dustwrapper lacks spine and some loss to front and edges, unclipped. Neat ownership mark on front free endpaper of Edgell Rickward. This book is from the library of Arnold Rattenbury and inside the book is a lose handwritten note to… Read more about this item

Dostoevsky. Thedor Mikhailovitch. The Brothers Karamazov, Translated by Constance Garnett. London, J M Dent and Sons, Everyman Library No 802, 803. 1927. 1st edition. 2 Volumes. Hardbacks in library reinforced cloth, blind stamp publishers device to front covers, titles to spine. Decorative endpapers. Vol 1 pp377, ads 17. Vol 2. pp440. Cloth boards a little frayed spine edges, spine… Read more about this item

Blunden, Edmund. The Poems of Wilfred Owen. London, Chatto and Windus, Phoenix Library 1st Edition 1933. 12mo. Purple boards, gilt title to spine. Pp135, Ads16. Boards rubbed at edges, sunned and ring stain to front. Neat ownership marks on front free endpaper of AF Rattenbury dated Winter 1937 together with the initials E.M.R and H.B.R. Arnold Rattenbury a noteable writer… Read more about this item

Brewster. David. Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Optics. London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and JohnTaylor, Upper Gower Street. 1831, 1st Edition. Small 8vo. Brown Boards, Title to Spine. Pp 8 ads,Half title, title, Illustrated frontis, 6 index, pp383, 2nd title page, Front Board lose, part of spine missing, binding becoming lose. All pages, with line illustrations within text, tight, bright and clean.… Read more about this item

Sadoveanu. Mihail. The Mud-hut Dwellers. The Book Publishing House. Bucharest 1952. Small 8vo. 1st Edition. Grey Cloth Covered boards. Title, black and white full page photograph of author, pp130, 4 full page balck and white illustration. Cloth boards, brown printed title and blind stamp authors name to front. Binding and page edges age tones, otherwise tight, bright and clean throughout.… Read more about this item

Pilling. Christopher, Foreign Bodies. Flambard Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1992. Ist Edition. 8vo. Card Covers. PP64. Author inscription on title page " Christmas 1992/To Arnold [Rattenbury]/with affection/and in admiration/from Chris/Christopher Pilling. Covers and pages tight, bright and clean, in excellent order. A small bump at top edge of spine. A neat book with an interesting provenance.

Llywelyn, Robin. White Star. Parthian, Cardigan, 2004. 8vo. Softcover. Pp129. Unread in excellent order. An english translation from Seren Wenar Gefndir Gwyn which won the 1992 Welsh National Eisteddfod Prose Medal. Inscribed by author on title page to Sim and Arnold Rattenbury, dated 12.02.04. An interesting author to author provenance.

Llywelyn, Robin. From Empty Harbour to White Ocean. Parthian Books, 1996. 1st Edition of the translation of O'r Harbwr Gwag I'r Cefnfor Gwyn. Softcover, front cover illustraton of Llandudno by Kyffin Williams. PP157. Inscribed by author on title page to Sim and Arnold [Rattenbury] dated 12.11.96. there is also a lose signed handwritten letter of the same date to Sim… Read more about this item

Thomas. R.S. Good. Selected Poems 1946-1968. Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd, Granada Reprint 1980. 8vo. Brown Cloth, Gilt title to Spine. Unclipped dustwrapper. PP134. Neat signature of author Arnold Rattenbury on front free endpaper. Dustwrapper a little sunned to spine. Binding and all pages in tight, bright and clean condition throughout. A good Poetic Provenance.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. A penny plain and twopence Coloured from Memories and Portraits. Bound with Jack The Giant Killer by George Speaight. 1972. Pollock'S Toy Theatres Ltd, London. Illustrated Soft Cover. 4to, Pp 32, 4 full page colour Background illustrations on Card. Text in five languages with instructions for assembling theatre and performing play. Covers age tones, all pages tight,… Read more about this item

Walpole, Hugh. Roman Fountain. Macmillan, London. 1940. Advance Copy, 1st Edition. 8vo. Brown Card Covers. Printed paper title label to front, with ink stamp "A bound Copy follows when ready" . Pp292. The Frontis is not included in the Advance Copy. Dedicated to Harold Cheevers. Edges bumped and spine leaning. All pages tight, bright and clean throughout. A scarce item.

Wolfe. Bertram D., Three Who made a Revolution. Beacon Press, Boston. 1962. 8th Printing. 8vo. Recent red cloth boards. Paperback front Board, pp661, paperback back card. Ownership book plate of Historian Ian Grey on front pastedown. Pencil note on verso of title page by Grey states that book was purchased in London Library and Bound in 21/04/1976 for… Read more about this item

Edited By Susan Tranter. Pitch. Issue I Spring 2001. Bookcase, Carlisle. 2001. ist Edition. 8vo. Soft Cover. PP 64. A collection of Poems by 22 poems including Christopher Pilling, William Scammell and Andy Croft. Gift inscription on title page "Arnold and Sim/love from Chris and Sylvia. Therew is also a lose note reading "Arnold/ One… Read more about this item

Cole, Barry. Moonsearch. Metheun, London. 1968. 1st edition. 8vo. Softcover. PP55. Blue card wrapper, blue printed titles to front and spine. Unclipped wrapper with a little shelf wear to edges and age tone, bumped qat top edge. Foyles bookseller label laid on inside front cover, behind wrapper. All pages tight, bright and clean. A neat book.

Cabell, James Branch. Jurgen. Penguin, London, 1940. Penguin 1st edition. Softcover with Dustwrapper. Pp 247, ads 8. Dustwrapper tanned to spine with very small loss. Covers clean. Pages age toned to edges, tight bright and clean throughout. A very good example of this early Penguin First Edition.

LENIN, Vladimir Ilych. Lenin on Britain. A compilation, with an Introduction by Harry Pollitt. London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1941. 1st Edition in the Marxist-Leninist Library. 8vo. Soft cover. Pp316. Covers and page edges age toned. In clean, bright and tight condition.

Gladys Scott Thomson. Catherine the Great and the Expansion of Russia. London, The English Unversities Press. 1959, Fourth Impression. 8vo. Beige boards, black titles to spine. Illustrated Endpapers with map of Russia and Romanov genealogy. Pp294. Book plate of Russia historian Ian Grey on title page. Some handwriting in green pencil by Ian Grey on pages commenting on the… Read more about this item

Leonard Schapiro. The U.S.S.R. and the Future. New York, London, Frederick A Praeger. 1963. 1st Edition. 8vo. Black boards, white titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper. PP324. Bindng and all pages in tight, bright and clean condition throughout. Dustwrapper age toned with shelf wear to edges. Book plate of Russia historian Ian Grey on front pastedown and his signature on the… Read more about this item

Isaac Deutscher. Ironies of History. Essays on Contemporary Communism. London, Oxford University Press. 1966. 1st Edition. 8vo. Blue Boards, gilt red label to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper. PP278. Binding and all pages in tight, bright and clean order throughout. Dustwrapper age toned to edges and spine with some shelf wear to edges. Price label of 38/- on dustwrapper front… Read more about this item

Erik P Hoffmann. The Soviet Union in the 1980s. The Academy of Political Science. New York. 1984. 1st Edition. 8vo Soft Cover. PP244. Shelf wear to edges and spine sunned. Ink stamp "Received 24 OCT 1984 on front cover and half title page. Book plate of Russia Historian Ian Grey inside front cover. A neat commentary of our time.