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  1. MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.

    Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the north west coast of America. To...

    London, T. Jefferys, 1764.

    Second edition (first 1761) of this key work devoted to discoveries in northeastern Asia and northwestern America, including the Bering Strait, published by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to George III, ‘remembered in particular for some of the most important eighteenth-century maps of the Americas’...

    £6500

  2. HUMBLOT, F.

    Journal de voyage ...

    France, June-September 1866.

    A handsome manuscript on mining engineering, apparently unpublished, recording visits undertaken by the engineer F. Humblot to coal mines and iron works in eastern and southern France in 1866, containing well over one hundred beautifully executed technical drawings.

    £3500

  3. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Mrs Dukes’ Million.

    Toronto, The Coach House Press, 1977.

    First edition, Lewis’s first novel, written in 1908-10 but never before published.

    £75

  4. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    A Soldier of Humour and selected Writings. Edited with an introduction by Raymond Rosenthal.

    New York & Toronto, A Signet Classic, 1966.

    First edition, inscribed by the editor: ‘Geoffrey I thought you would be interested in this new anthology’.

    £75

  5. MEYERS, Jeffrey, editor.

    Wyndham Lewis, A Revaluation. New essays.

    London, The Athlone Press, [1980].

    First edition, printing on pp. 238-251 Bridson’s essay ‘The Human Age in Retrospect’, his last published work.

    £50

  6. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    ‘A note on Michael Ayrton’ in Spectrum Volume 1, Number 2. Spring-Summer, 1957.

    Santa Barbara, University of California, 1957.

    Printing the forthcoming foreword to Golden Sections, along with Ayrton’s ‘The Act of Drawing’, and a ‘Homage to Wyndham Lewis’ by Eliot, Bridson and Ayrton.

    £50

  7. GAWSWORTH, John.

    Apes, Japes and Hitlerism, a Study and Bibliography of Wyndham Lewis …

    London, Unicorn Press, [1932].

    First edition.

    £50

  8. MACNEICE, Louis.

    Christopher Columbus, a radio play …

    [London,] Faber & Faber, [1944].

    First edition of MacNiece’s early radio play, first broadcast on 12 October 1942 to mark the 450th anniversary of the ‘discovery’ of America, with the role of Columbus played by Laurence Olivier.

    £300

  9. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    Burns Today and Tomorrow …

    Edinburgh, Castle Wynd Printers, [1959].

    First edition, inscribed ‘To Geoffrey Bridson, With best wishes from Hugh MacDiarmid’.

    £150

  10. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    Stony Limits and Scots Unbound and other Poems ...

    Edinburgh, Castle Wynd Printers, [1956].

    First edition thus, including some poems that were excluded from the original edition of Stony Limits (1932) over libel fears, and the title-poem only of Scots Unbound (1934), correcting the printers’ errors from the first edition. Bridson had reviewed the first edition of Stony Limits...

    £100

  11. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    A Lap of Honour.

    [London,] MacGibbon & Kee, [1967].

    First edition, published to coincide with MacDiarmid’s seventy-fifth birthday.

    £40

  12. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    Three Hymns to Lenin …

    Edinburgh, Castle Wynd Printers, [1957].

    First collected edition, inscribed ‘With love and best wishes to my friend Geoffrey Bridson from Hugh MacDiarmid 17/3/63’. The poems published here had originally appeared separately between 1930 and 1955.

    £200

  13. [MACDIARMID, Hugh.]

    WESTON, John C. MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle.

    Preston, Akros Publications, 1970.

    First edition, inscribed ‘To Joyce and Geoffrey Bridson with warmest regards from Valda and Hugh MacDiarmid’.

    £100

  14. [MACDIARMID, Hugh.] WESTON, John C.

    Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle.

    Preston, Akros Publications, 1970.

    First edition, inscribed ‘To Joyce and Geoffrey Bridson with love from Hugh MacDiarmid 15/12/70’.

    £100

  15. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 …

    Edinburgh, K.D. Duval, [1963].

    First edition.

    £25

  16. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    ‘Direadh’ in Agenda Vol 2,7-8,

    May-June 1962.

    £25

  17. POUND, Ezra.

    Collected early Poems …

    London, Faber & Faber, [1977].

    First English edition.

    £50

  18. POUND, Ezra.

    The Literary Essays … Edited with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot.

    London, Faber & Faber, [1954].

    First edition, first impression.

    £75

  19. POUND, Ezra, and D.G. BRIDSON.

    ‘An Interview with Ezra Pound’ in New Directions 17. Norfolk, Conn.,

    New Directions, [1961].

    First edition, printing the majority of the interviews recorded in 1956 and broadcast in 1959. Other contributors to this issue included Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Williams.

    £100

  20. POUND Omar S. and Philip GROVER.

    Wyndham Lewis a Descriptive Bibliography … With a Checklist of B.B.C. Broadcasts compiled...

    Folkestone, Dawson / Archon Books, [1978].

    First edition. Bridson’s checklist appears on pp. 163-75.

    £50