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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
ROWLING, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. 1997
£7,500
True first edition, first printing, with all the requisite points: Bloomsbury imprint, 10-down-to-1 number line, copyright Joanne Rowling, and (a lesser known but crucial point to...
Octavo (193 × 123 mm). Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery, the spine and front cover in orange-red morocco, the back cover in purple morocco; spine with five... 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
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RAND, Ayn.
The Fountainhead; [together with:] Atlas Shrugged. 1943 & 1957
£6,000
First editions, first printings.
2 works, octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red (The Fountainhead) and green (Atlas Shrugged) morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands,... Read more
LAWRENCE, D. H.
Lady Chatterley's Lover. 1928
£4,750
First edition, first Impression. Number 984 of 1,000 copies issued.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine, raised bands, rules to boards with decorative corner... Read more
WARHOL, Andy.
Sam. (Yellow cat with green eyes sitting.) 1954
£3,950
Edition of 190. Plate 13 from the book 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy. Printed by Seymour Berlin. Andy's mother Julia Warhola did the calligraphy.
Offset lithograph on wove paper hand coloured by Warhol and friends with Dr. Martin's aniline watercolor dye. Fine condition. Presented in a handmade white gold leaf... Read more
HARDY, Thomas.
Far From the Madding Crowd. 1874
£3,750
First edition.
2 volumes, octavo (200 × 125 mm). Near contemporary blue half morocco for Hatchards, spines gilt in compartments, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, ruling to... Read more
ROWLING, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. 1997
£3,750
First edition, first impression, paperback issue, with all the requisite points of first printing: Bloomsbury imprint, 10-down-to-1 number line, and the list of equipment on p. 53...
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, titles to front cover in yellow, white and dark green, titles to spine in yellow, white and black. Issued without dust jacket.... Read more
SHELLEY, Percy.
The Complete Poetical Works. 1904
£3,750
Handsome Cosway-style binding over a significant edition of Shelley's complete poetic works, including previously unpublished material.
Octavo (215 × 130 mm). Contemporary red morocco Cosway-style binding by Bayntun, spine gilt in compartments, upper board with oval miniature of Shelley under... Read more
HILTON, Harold H., & Garden G. Smith.
The Royal & Ancient Game of Golf. 1912
£3,750
First edition printed for subscribers. One of 900 numbered copies. One of the highspots in all of golfing literature, this sumptuous volume contains a good history of the game,...
Folio. Original red morocco, decoration and titles to upper board and spine gilt. 3 colour plates, 2 photogravures, numerous illustrations in the text. An exceptional... Read more
(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) KARSH, Yousuf.
Portrait photograph, 1941. 1949
£3,500
Karsh's most famous image. Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002), the Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage known as Karsh of Ottawa, is widely regarded as one of the most famous and...
Large gelatin silver print. Presented in handmade black and moongold frame. Framed size: 580 x 700 mm 510×402 mm. Deep and strongly contrasted studio print. Read more
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Great Gatsby. 1925
£3,250
First edition, first printing, first state with "chatter" p.60:16, "northern" p.119:22, "sick in tired" p.205:9-10, and "Union Street station" p. 211:7-8. Rare in such excellent...
Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in blind. Housed in a dark blue full morocco solander box by The Chelsea Bindery. Only... Read more
FLAUBERT, Gustave.
Madame Bovary 1886
£3,000
First edition in English of Flaubert's masterpiece, one of the best titles in the famous sequence of English translations of French and Russian novels published by Henry Vizetelly in...
Octavo. Publisher's blue-green diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth, front cover with gilt scroll borders enclosing medallion at top and bottom and with title in gilt on blue... Read more
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MEYER, Stephanie.
[The Twilight series:] Twilight; New Moon; Eclipse; Breaking Dawn. 2005-08
£3,000
All first editions, first printings. Eclipse and Breaking Dawn are signed by Meyer to the title page. Together with a loose photograph of Meyer signing Eclipse and an advance...
4 volumes, octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jackets. Spines bumped, dust jacket lightly creased to foot of spine of Twilight... Read more
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FORESTER, C. S.
[The Complete Hornblower]. 1937–62
£2,950
First editions, first impressions. Forester (real name Cecil Smith) was called to Hollywood to write a pirate film, working under Arthur Hornblower. However, before they had finished...
10 volumes, octavo. Bound in recent full burgundy morocco, gilt titles and gilt ship decoration to spines, gilt rule on boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The... Read more
CAPOTE, Truman.
Breakfast at Tiffany's. 1958
£2,750
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in pink morocco, black morocco title label, title to spine silver, black leather onlay silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as... Read more
BLIXEN, Karen.
Out of Africa. 1937
£2,750
First edition, first impression of Dinesen's masterpiece. Quite scarce in the dust jacket.
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An unusually nice copy in the rubbed and rather sunned dust jacket with a single internal... Read more
DU MAURIER, Daphne.
Rebecca. 1938
£2,750
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the Book Society bookplate specially created for this title.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Cloth rubbed and marked, spine a little rolled and faded, spotting to edges... Read more
(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey) MALORY, Sir Thomas,
Le Morte D'Arthur. 1893
£2,500
First edition. One of 1500 ordinary paper copies, out of a total edition of 1800. In 1892, seeking to emulate the books of the Kelmscott Press, John M. Dent commissioned the...
2 volumes, large octavo. Bound from the original parts with the wrappers in half brown morocco with green boards, titles to spines gilt, top edges gilt, other edges... Read more
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.
Poems on Various Subjects. 1796
£2,500
First edition of Coleridge's first collection, beginning with his "Monody on the Death of Chatterton" and ending with the long "Religious Musings", where he eulogized both Priestley...
Small octavo. Modern crushed blue morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, gilt edges. Bound without half title as often but with errata leaf and terminal advertisement leaf as... 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
SEUSS, Dr.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas. 1957
£2,000
First edition, first issue with the advertisement for The Cat in the Hat on the back. A beautiful copy.
Tall quarto. Original pictorial boards, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Very slightly rubbed at extremities. A... Read more
SEUSS, Dr.
Original drawing of a Seussian bird. [c. 1960–80]
£2,000
Signed in black felt tip below the image by Dr. Seuss.
Black felt tip, yellow, orange and purple crayon on wove paper. Fine condition. Presented in a black wooden frame with UV glass. Sheet size: 23 x 14 cm Read more
MURAKAMI, Takashi.
Red Cliff Flower Ball 3D. 2008
£2,000
Edition of 300. Signed and numbered in pen along lower right edge by Murakami.
Diameter size: 71 cm. Offset lithograph with cold foil stamp and high gloss varnishing on UV paper. Fine condition. Read more
DAHL, Roald.
The Commemorative Limited Edition of the Works. 1991
£2,000
First edition thus, limited to 500 numbered sets.
15 volumes, octavo. Original quarter blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, weave pattern paper boards, top edges gilt, each copy housed in a matching weave pattern paper... Read more
