Gift Ideas (all items)
We offer free shipping
AUSTEN, Jane.
Emma. 1991
£175
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine.
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine. Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Emma. Complete in one volume. 1833
£1,500
First Bentley edition, second overall. Bentley’s Standard Novels was an extremely successful series of reprints published monthly between 1831 and 1854, and it included the...
Octavo (169 × 105 mm). Later brown quarter morocco, tan cloth sides, green morocco label to spine, top edge gilt. Engraved frontispiece and title, series... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Emma: A Novel. 1816
£16,500
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, 12mo (168 × 102 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked to Regency style, covers with gilt scroll borders, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges,... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Mansfield Park. A Novel. 1833
£1,750
First Bentley edition, the third edition overall, also the first one-volume edition. Bentley bought the copyrights of all Jane Austen's works to include them in his Standard Novels...
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, gilt paper labels to spine. Housed in a modern purple morocco backed solander case. Engraved frontispiece and title, series... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Novels. 1892
£1,750
First Dent edition. Dent's ten-volume set of the novels is the first to have any critical apparatus.
10 volumes, small octavo (170 × 103 mm). Contemporary half calf, morocco labels crimson and brown, floral decoration to spines, raised bands, marbled boards and... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Pride and Prejudice. 1991
£175
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine.
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine. Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Sense and Sensibility. 1864
£475
First Tauchnitz edition, released surprisingly late in the century and indicative of Austen’s continuing popularity.
Octavo (153 × 108 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, brown morocco label, marbled sides, green endpapers, edges speckled red. Pencilled ownership signature to front... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Sense and Sensibility. 1992
£175
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine.
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine. Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. 1833
£1,500
First Bentley edition, third overall. Bentley’s Standard Novels was an extremely successful series of reprints published monthly between 1831 and 1854, and it included the first...
Octavo (168 × 105 mm). Later brown quarter morocco, tan cloth sides, green morocco label to spine, top edge gilt. Engraved frontispiece and title, series... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Complete Novels. 1928
£1,250
First One-Volume Edition.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and extra decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels and Letters ... 1915
£2,250
An excellent edition of Austen’s complete works, including the letters and unfinished novels. The text is printed in a very readable type on good quality paper and is...
12 volumes, octavo. Bound in recent full tan morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1892
£2,750
Large Paper Edition Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 22. After Richard Bentley, J. M. Dent was the next publisher to take up Jane Austen's novels, and continued...
10 volumes, octavo. Recent tan morocco, double morocco labels terracotta and green, decoration to spines, single rules to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt,... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1911-12
£3,500
The Winchester edition; considered the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen’s works produced around this time. In this enlarged issue, the set has two...
12 volumes, octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed.... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Works. [1923]
£1,200
The Adelphi Edition.
7 volumes, octavo. Recent green morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. In excellent condition. Read more
BAUM, L. Frank.
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. 1902
£675
Published the same year as the first edition.
Large octavo, pp. ix + 205. Recent full red morocco, lettering and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.... Read more
(BIBLE; English.)
The Holy Bible. 1858
£300
A handsome copy of The National Comprehensive Family Bible.
Quarto. Contemporary dark green morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, elaborate decoration to spine and boards, inner dentelles, cream endpapers, gilt edges.... Read more
(BIBLE; English) BROWN, Rev. John.
The Self-Interpreting Family Bible. c.1880
£275
A handsomely bound and attractive family bible in excellent condition.
Quarto. Contemporary full black morocco, raised bands, titles and elaborate decoration to spine and front board in blind and in gilt, raised bands, brass corners and... Read more
BLAKE, Quentin.
The Quentin Blake Book of Nonsense Stories. 1996
£45
First UK edition.
Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the ever so slightly marked dust jacket. Read more
BOSSCHÈRE, Jean de.
Christmas Tales of Flanders. 1917
£350
First English edition, first impression. A lovely book and very scarce in the dust jacket.
Quarto. Original pictorial orange cloth, with titles to both spine and upper board in black, pictorial endpapers, top edge stained orange. With the dust jacket. 12... Read more
BRAMLEY, Henry Ramsden.
Christmas Carols, New and Old. [c.1900]
£95
A selection of Christmas carols, with music, including “God rest you, merry gentlemen”.
Octavo. Original maroon straight-grain morocco, upper cover lettered and decorated gilt, gilt rules and edges. Bookplates of John William Pease and Lord Wardington.... Read more
(BRIDGE)
A set of four decks of cards and scoring sheets for bridge, in an elegant book-form case. [1920s]
£450
Finely bound for Asprey’s of London, a book-form solander case in blue morocco, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, pale tan suede edges with brass catch to fore edge,...
Finely bound for Asprey’s of London, a book-form solander case in blue morocco, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, pale tan suede edges with brass catch to... Read more
[BRONTË, Charlotte]
Jane Eyre. 1991
£175
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine.
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine. Read more
[BRONTË, Charlotte]
Shirley. A Tale. 1849
£1,750
First Edition. Her second published novel, completed in the same year as the deaths of her brother and two sisters, set during the Luddite Riots at the beginning of the 19th century....
3 vols, Post octavo. Rebound in burgundy quarter morocco, titles to spines gilt, marbled paper boards, tissue guards before and after contents. Housed in a brown cloth... Read more
BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily & Anne.
Poems, by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. 1846 [1848]
£2,250
First Edition, second issue with cancel title page (as usual). The first issue is extant in tiny numbers and is now virtually unobtainable. Published pseudonymously to forestall...
Octavo. Original olive green cloth, boards stamped in blind, titles to the spine gilt. With final advert leaf. Ownership inscription dated 1873 on front pastedown,... Read more
BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily & Anne.
Poems, by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. 1846 [1848]
£1,750
First edition, second issue with cancel title page (as usual). The first issue is extant in tiny numbers and is now virtually unobtainable. Published pseudonymously to forestall...
Octavo. Later green full morocco by Wood, London, titles to spine, ruling, turn-ins and top edge gilt, red onlay and gilt decoration to boards and spine, marbled... Read more
