Poo-Poo and the Dragons.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and illustration to spine and front, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Full page and vignette illustrations throughout by Lawson. Spine faded, some marks...
View ArticleThe Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm.
Two volumes, small octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jackets. With 25 loose illustrated plates in an orange paper sleeve and blue cloth folding case. All housed in the...
View ArticleThe Kite Runner.
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the title page "To Penny, thank you for your kind words... best, Khaled [additionally signed in Farsi], 6/17/03". Also includes a hand...
View ArticleEverything is Illuminated.
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the title page, "For Stephen, with thanks, Jonathan Safran Foer, 5/2/2002". Foer's novel earned him the first Saroyan Writing Prize. Copies...
View ArticleLeaves From a Missionary’s Notebook.
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed by Tennant on the front free endpaper, "for Peter St John, from Stephen Tennant, April 1962, This gay absurd little book may amuse you - I...
View ArticleSonnets [together with] Lyrics.
First editions, first impressions, presentation copies inscribed by Lord Alfred Douglas on the front free endpapers of both titles "Hazel Hergenhahn from Alfred Douglas, April 1943". This presentation...
View ArticleEconomic Studies.
First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author's widow on the half-title: "From Mrs Walter Bagehot". Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) married Eliza Wilson (1832–1921), who was the eldest daughter...
View ArticleBiographical Studies.
First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author's widow on the half-title: "From Mrs Walter Bagehot". Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) married Eliza Wilson (1832–1921), who was the eldest daughter...
View ArticleVers de Collège.
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the editor to Enid Starkie, one of 100 copies on pur fil lafuma, of Rimbaud's student poems. The exceptional association inscription, to the half-title,...
View ArticleIrish Fairy Tales.
Quarto. Original quarter vellum, cream-coloured covers, titles to spine and front cover gilt, image blocked in gilt to front board, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour...
View ArticleThe Allies’ Fairy Book.
Small quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, pictorial design blocked in gilt to front cover, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece...
View ArticleLittle Brother and Little Sister and Other Tales.
Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, pictorial gilt titles on a white ground to front board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates...
View ArticleThe Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Quarto. Original vellum, titles and decoration to spine gilt, pictorial title block to front board gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates mounted on heavy white...
View ArticlePeer Gynt.
Quarto. Original vellum, gilt lettered and decorated spine and front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. With the publisher’s card slipcase (with hand-numbered label). Colour...
View ArticleThe Night Before Christmas;
Together 4 works, octavo. Original limp vellum, titles to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. With the original slipcases, with hand-numbered labels to spines (that...
View ArticlePoor Cecco.
Quarto. Original vellum spine, gilt-lettered black morocco label, cornflower blue sides. Housed in a fleece-lined, blue quarter morocco solander box. Colour frontispiece and 6 colour plates mounted and...
View ArticleThe Wind in the Willows.
Quarto. Original pale yellow buckram spine lettered in gilt, patterned covers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the publisher’s green card slipcase, gilt lettered spine (edition number in pencil)....
View ArticleA Midsummer-Night’s Dream.
Quarto. Original vellum covers, titles to spine and front cover gilt, image blocked in gilt to front cover, brown endpapers, original silk ties detached and laid in. Colour frontispiece and 39 colour...
View ArticleThe Arthur Rackham Fairy Book.
Octavo. Original vellum, titles and decoration to spine gilt, front cover lettered in gilt within three-line gilt border, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 7...
View ArticleImagina.
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to front board and spine gilt, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in a grey solander box. Colour frontispiece and colour plate by Rackham,...
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