The Compleat Angler,
Small quarto. Original vellum, titles to spine and front cover gilt, three-line gilt border on front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 11 coloured...
View ArticleThe Tempest.
Quarto. Original quarter japon, titles to spine gilt, cream-coloured covers, title and mermaid design to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. With the dust jacket....
View ArticleThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Original vellum, titles to spine and front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates mounted on the same paper as the letterpress with...
View ArticleThe Vicar of Wakefield.
Small quarto. Original vellum, gilt title to spine and front cover, triple rule to front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates, black and...
View ArticleThe Chimes.
Quarto. Original tan cloth, titles to spine gilt, bells and imps design to front cover in gilt and black, pictorial endpapers. With the publisher’s pictorial card slipcase. Black and white...
View ArticleThe King of the Golden River.
Octavo. Original limp vellum, titles to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. With the original slipcase (with hand-numbered spine label). Housed in a custom made...
View ArticleThe Peter Pan Portfolio,
Deluxe extra-limited edition, number 13 of 100 copies signed by the publisher and engraver on the limitation page and each plate signed on the mount by the artist, bound in full vellum. According to...
View ArticleCostume through the Ages.
Small octavo. Wire-stitched in original printed wrappers. 2 black and white folding plates by Arthur Rackham, one double-page, the other larger and showing 5 drawings. A couple of spots at foot of...
View ArticleThe Greatest. My Own Story.
Octavo. Original brown boards, title to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Gift inscription to rear free endpaper. A couple of spots to edges of text block; an excellent copy in the jacket with slightly...
View ArticleNew Hampshire.
First edition, first impression, signed on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Robert Frost, Amherst, December 1923". New Hampshire is one of Frost's most notable books, and won him...
View ArticleA Miscellany.
First edition, first printing, number 19 of 75 copies signed by Cummings on the limitation leaf. This handsome edition "consists of a cluster of epigrams, forty-nine essays on various subjects, a poem...
View ArticleGaudier-Brzeska.
First edition, first impression, review copy sent by the publisher to art critic C. Lewis Hind, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, "C. Lewis Hind, May 1916", and the blind stamp...
View ArticleThe Background of Islam, being a Sketch of Arabian History in pre-Islamic Times.
First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Philby, this numbered 316. Philby had originally approached John Murray to publish the present work with the intention of establishing himself as...
View ArticleThe Luciad,
First edition in English, a superb presentation copy from the translator, inscribed by Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666) to his brother-in-law Sir George Boteler on a separate slip tipped to the Dedicatory...
View ArticleThe Catcher in the Rye.
First UK edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author in red ink on the front free endpaper, "To Joyce Williams, who nursed my mother so selflessly and beautifully. With gratitude, J. D....
View ArticleProfiles in Courage.
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Patty Cavin, with very best regards, John Kennedy". Patty Cavin was a pioneering woman...
View ArticleA Pilgrimage to Palestine.
First and only edition. Presentation copy of this attractive, privately-printed travel account, inscribed by the author "To W. H. Luther, Esq, with the author's kind regards, James Smith" on the front...
View ArticleA Pilgrimage to Egypt.
First and only edition. Presentation copy of this attractive, privately-printed travel account, inscribed by the author "To Mr W. H. Luther, from the author in remembrance of many happy days spent...
View ArticleEinführung in die Philosophie.
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Für Herrn Wakayama, in alter Erinnerung herzlichst, Karl Jaspers". First published in English the following year,...
View ArticleSaudi Arabian Portfolio.
First edition, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia's copy of this splendid photoessay, inscribed by the photographer "To His Majesty King Khalid ibn Abdulaziz, with many thanks for the encouragement and...
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