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NANSEN, Fridtjof.
"Farthest North" 1897
£350
First edition in English, published in Norwegian in the same year. "Narrative of the First Fram Expedition, 1893-1896, led by Nansen, with the object of investigating the polar basin...
2 volumes octavo, original green combed cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, gilt pictorial vignettes to the upper boards. Etched portrait frontispiece to... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson." c. 1968
£400
Holmes and Watson, as played by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, confer with a station master outside the waiting room.
Sheet size: 132 × 190 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
(ROLLING STONES.) GRUEN, Bob.
25 Years of the Rolling Stones in the USA. Crossfire Hurricane. 1997
£550
First edition, first impression. Limited to 1750 copies. This is no. 144 signed by Bob Gruen. Together with the original prospectus.
Quarto. Original full white leather screenprinted in three colours with Mick Jagger on the front cover and Keith Richards on the back, titles to spine in black and... Read more
WILSON, Colin.
A Book of Booze. 1974
£45
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt, yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the price-clipped dust jacket a touch faded at the... Read more
DAVID, Elizabeth.
A Book of Mediterranean Food. 1958
£1,250
Second edition with revisions.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, titles to spine, raised bands, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. The occasional... Read more
DICKENS, Charles.
A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. 1956
£375
A facsimile of the first edition of Dickens's first and most enduring Christmas gift book which was first published in 1843.
Octavo. Finely bound by Lauriat's of Boston in crimson half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, matching cloth boards, marble endpapers, top edge gilt. With 4... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) DICKENS, Charles.
A Christmas Carol. [1915]
£450
First Rackham edition.
Octavo. Recent purple morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, with... Read more
(GOLF) OUIMET, Francis.
A Game of Golf. 1963
£425
Anniversary Printing, facsimile reprint this copy inscribed "With every good wish Francis Ouimet" on the half-title. Gift inscription to, and bookplate of, book-collector Arthur G....
Octavo. Original green cloth, title to upper board and spine in black, eighteenth hole device to upper board in black and red. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7... Read more
MANLEY, Michael.
A History of West Indies Cricket. 1988
£350
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 112 numbered copies signed by Manley and Lloyd on the limitation leaf, this copy being out of series.
Octavo. Original burgundy morocco, titles to spine gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt. In a marbled slipcase. 32 plates from photographs. A fine copy. Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1908
£875
First US trade edition.
Octavo. Contempoary black half morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine, black cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With forty... Read more
[ROBINSON, W. Heath] SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1914
£350
First US edition, originally published in the UK in the same year.
Tall quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in red and green. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 11 plates, 32 engraved... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1977
£275
First edition thus. Rackham and Hewitt were commissioned to do this manuscript in 1928 by The Spencer Collection, New York Public Library. This is the first UK edition of the...
Quarto. Finely bound by Asprey in blue half morocco, titles and decoration to spine in compartments, raised bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpapers, gilt... 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, internal...
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... Read more
DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel.
Adventures of Don Quixote de La Mancha; [c.1890.]
£175
Part of Beeton's boy's own library series.
2 volumes, octavo (204 × 134 mm). Contemporary dark blue half calf, red and black morocco labels, decoration to bands, purple cloth boards, cream endpapers,... Read more
BALDWIN, William Charles.
African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi 1863
£650
First edition, a book most frequently encountered in the second edition issued in the same year with a slightly variant title, and the third edition of 1894. "A work of early sport...
Octavo (211 × 127 mm). Later nineteenth-century half-morocco on marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, red and dark tan labels to the spine, spine gilt in... Read more
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1866
£6,000
First London edition.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles and Alice motifs to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, Alice devices to boards, twin... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [1907]
£2,250
Limited edition of 1,130 numbered copies. Rackham was travelling when this book was published, and so it was issued as a limited edition but not signed.
Large quarto. Original white publisher's cloth, with title and pictorial decoration to spine and front board gilt, decoration to back board blind, pictorial endpapers,... Read more
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1898
£875
Eighty-seventh thousand.
Octavo. Finely bound by Riviere & Sons in crimson crushed morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine, raised bands, decoration to turn-ins, marbled endpapers,... Read more
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1893
£500
Thirty-eighth thousand. People's edition.
Octavo (175 × 117 mm). Contemporary crimson calf, green morocco label, decoration to spine, roll to front board gilt and in blind, crest to front board, roll to... Read more
VARIOUS.
An Anthology of Modern Verse. 1926
£125
First published in 1921. Covers a variety of poets including; Rupert Brooke, T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence and Rudyard Kipling,...
Small octavo (158 × 102 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in blue calf, brown morocco label, elaborate decoration to spine in compartments separated by... Read more
WILDE, Oscar.
An Ideal Husband. 1899
£1,750
First edition, first impression.
Small quarto. Original pink cloth, titles to spine and leaf devices to boards gilt. A little rubbed at extremities, spine very slightly faded. An excellent copy. Read more
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry in the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 1839
£475
A new edition, corrected throughout and greatly enlarged.
Octavo (210 × 133 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, crimson morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine in compartments, raised bands, marbled boards, buff... Read more
KANE, Elisha Kent.
Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. 1856
£450
First Edition. "In a brief life of thirty-six years, mostly in ill health, Elisha Kent participated in two Arctic expeditions and by the time of his death in 1857 was regarded as a...
2 volumes, octavo ( 220 × 140 mm) Near contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red and black morocco labels, edges and endpapers marbled. With engraved vignette... Read more
BRUNHOFF, Jean de.
Babar at Home 1936
£275
First UK edition, first impression. The sixth Babar book by Jean de Brunhoff.
Quarto. Original red boards with blue cloth spine, illustration to front cover, titles to front cover in white. Illustrated throughout by Jean De Brunhoff Bright... Read more
BRUNHOFF, Jean de.
Babar scene. "The country of the elephants faded from sight". 1936
£350
A charming scene showing Babar and Celeste at the beginning of their travels in a ballon, overlooking the coast. From 'Babar's Travels'.
Original print. Printed colour. Fine condition. Framed size 50 x 66.7 cm. Size: 35 x 51.8 cm. Read more
