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FLEMING, Ian.
Moonraker. 1955
£12,500
First edition, first impression. Signed by the jacket designer, Kenneth Lewis, on the front flap.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and upper board in silver. With the dust jacket. Housed in a quarter red morocco drop down box. Contents very lightly... Read more
DARWIN, Charles.
On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 1869
£12,500
Fifth edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher's clerk, "From the author", on the half-title, as usual. This edition sees the first use by Darwin of Herbert Spencer's...
Octavo. Original green fine sand-grain cloth, titles to spine gilt, decorative panels blocked in blind to sides, black endpapers: Freeman's variant "c" binding. Housed... Read more
CAMUS, Albert.
L'Étranger. 1942
£12,500
First edition, first printing. Camus's masterpiece was written in Algeria during the first years of the war. The manuscript was brought covertly to France and published in an edition...
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black and red. Housed in a black cloth rounded spine solander box. Contents browned as always, very minor creasing to the... Read more
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Inscribed photographic portrait of Hemingway holding a black Persian kitten. 1950
£12,500
An unusually intimate image in uncommonly large format. With Hemingway's magnificent presentation inscription on the white portion of his shirt, "To Alfred Rice from his friend,...
13 × 11 ins, original monochrome print from the negative. With the photographer's stamp on the verso. Glazed and framed. Fine. Read more
FAULKNER, William.
Inscribed original photograph of the author with Sally Emrich on the deck of a yacht in a Greek harbour. [1957]
£12,500
With Faulkner's signed presentation inscription to a blank portion of the image in the upper left corner, "For Miss Sally with love from William Faulkner". Sally Emrich was the wife...
10 x 8 inches. Framed and matted behind glass. A little negligible creasing to the edges of the image but a superb print. Read more
MILNE, A. A.
Pooh and Piglet plush dolls. [c. 1930]
£12,500
Stuffed toys with presentation inscriptions by A. A. Milne in ink on the left foot, "To Babs [Seligman]" and on the right foot, "from A. A. Milne". These dolls – apparently...
Two plush toys (Pooh 290 × 140 mm; Piglet 270 × 70 mm). Pooh: brown velour, thread-knot eyes, red clothing. Piglet: brown velour, plastic eyes, brown silk... Read more
HIRST, Damien.
Skull and Crossbones. 2004
£12,500
Unique drawing signed across the forehead of the skull by Damien Hirst. With Hirst's reference number to verso and entered into the Damien Hirst archive.
Sheet size 27 x 36.5 cm. Pen and ink drawing on handmade wove paper. An original drawing of a skull and crossbones. Fine condition. Presented in a black and gilt hand... Read more
(BLAKE, William) YOUNG, Edward.
The Complaint, and The Consolation; or, Night Thoughts. 1797
£12,500
First edition of Blake's designs for Young's Night Thoughts, first published in 1742–6. "With his usual attention to what he called 'minute particulars' (Blake, 194), Blake...
Large quarto (411 × 317 mm). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, probably for the publisher, spine divided in six compartments by wide low bands,... Read more
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Beautiful and Damned. 1922
£12,500
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles to cover blind stamped. With the dust jacket. Housed in a green quarter morocco solander box made by The... Read more
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. 1892 & 1894
£12,500
First editions.
Two volumes, octavo. Original dark and light blue cloth, pictorial decoration to spine and boards gilt. In a custom cloth solander box with chemises. The Adventures... Read more
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
Tender is the Night. 1934
£12,500
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original ribbed green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a dark green quarter morocco solander box. Decorations by Ernest Shenton.... Read more
MITCHELL, Margaret.
Gone With the Wind. 1936
£12,500
First edition, first printing, first state dust jacket listing this title second in the right-hand column on the rear panel. Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the front free endpaper....
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and decoration to upper board and spine in blue, top edge stained tan. With the dust jacket. Very mild toning to corner of the... Read more
HAGGARD, H. Rider.
Eric Brighteyes. 1891
£12,500
First edition. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to Robert Louis Stevenson seven days after publication. "To Robert Louis Stevenson / with the author's best regards / 20 May 91"....
Original green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover. Housed in a dark green cloth solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Stevenson's Vailima bookplate... Read more
![Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.](/content/store/products/18935/2/22207.jpg)
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. 1866 & 72
£12,500
First editions. A handsomely bound set.
2 volumes, octavo (187 × 120, 180 × 120 mm). Recent red morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, pictorial decorations to... Read more
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1866
£12,500
First edition, second issue: the first practically obtainable issue of the original sheets, with the Appleton cancel title page. Macmillan printed around 2,000 copies of the book in...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine, triple-line rules to boards, and pictorial roundels to each board gilt, green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in... Read more
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Across the River and Into the Trees. 1950
£12,500
First edition, first printing, one of only 24 copies in the presentation binding. With a hand-written note tipped-in on the rear free endpaper signed by Charles Scribner and listing...
Octavo. Publisher's presentation binding of blue cloth, titles and horizontal ruling to spine and author's name to upper board gilt. In a blue half morocco solander... Read more
BLIGH, Lieutenant William.
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; 1790
£12,500
First edition of Bligh's personal account of "one of the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history", published two years before his full official version of the...
Quarto (288 × 230 mm) Later speckled calf, black morocco labels, panel of French fillet gilt to the boards, spine gilt in compartments with repeated wavy line... Read more
![A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings; [together with:] A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.](/content/store/products/522/2/35118.jpg)
(ACKERMANN, Rudolph)
A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings; [together with:] A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. 1814 & 1815
£12,500
'These two books are among the finest ever executed. A. Pugin, F. Nash, F. Mackenzie and W. Westall were associated in the drawings, which are worthy even of the splendid...
[Oxford] 2 volumes, large quarto (13 1/4 x 10 13/16 inches; 336 x 275 mm.), pp. xiv + [4] + xxv + [1] blank + 275 + [1] blank + [6] index; [4] + 262 + [6] index.... Read more
PEAKE, Mervyn.
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. 1939
£12,500
First Edition, First Impression, with a fine original pencil sketch by Peake on the front free endpaper, showing Captain Slaughterboard sitting on a rock holding a piece of paper....
Quarto. Original decorated paper boards with green cloth spine. With the Peake designed dust jacket printed in colours. Housed in a green quarter morocco solander box.... Read more
FLEMING, Ian.
Casino Royale. 1953
£12,500
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and heart device to front board in red. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by The... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. 1816
£12,500
First edition of perhaps the most perfectly constructed of Jane Austen's novels. She had fallen out with Egerton over publication of Mansfield Park and transferred to Murray, who...
3 volumes, octavo (170 × 100 mm). Bound without half titles in contemporary black half calf, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides. Housed in a dark blue... Read more
[NIELSEN, Kay]
East of the Sun and West of the Moon. [1914]
£12,500
First Edition Limited Issue. One of 500 copies. Signed by Kay Nielsen on the limitation page.
Quarto. Original vellum, decoration and titles to spine gilt, decoration to boards gilt with bright blue trim. With 25 tipped in colour illustrations and many other... Read more
[LEWIS, C. S., as] "Clive Hamilton".
Dymer. 1926
£12,500
First edition, first impression. Lewis's second book and a noted rarity in dust jacket. Only a tiny handful of examples are known. Dymer is a narrative poem deliberately mediaevalist...
Octavo. Original streaky blue cloth, decoration to upper board in black and titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a terracotta quarter morocco solander... Read more
CAESAR, Caius Julius.
Commentarii. 1478
£12,500
A handsome early incunable edition of the Commentaries of Caesar, the fifth overall, with contemporary rubrication. The text comprises the seven books of the Gallic War with the...
Folio (326 × 234 mm). 151 leaves (of 152), medial blank fol. 132 (sig. r6) present as a stub only, as often. Collates: a–p8 q6 r6 A8 B8 C4. 42 lines to a... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. 1956–58
£12,500
First American editions, inscribed by the author, Vol. 1 signed and dated, Vol. 4 inscribed "Emery from Winston S. Churchill, April 1958", the other volumes unsigned. It was Emery...
4 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth-backed linen boards, spines lettered gilt on red panels, facsimile signature in gilt on front covers, in the printed dust... Read more
