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PASTERNAK, Boris.
Doctor Zhivago. 1958
£175
First English language edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Gift inscription to front pastedown. Spotting to endpapers and title pages, contents toned. A... Read more
PELÉ
Pelé. The Autobiography. 2006
£200
First UK edition, second printing. Signed by the footballer on the half title, "To Brett, Best wishes, Pelé". The first printing was issued as a pictorial hardback in slipcase...
Large octavo. Original yellow boards, titles to spine in green. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with colour and monochrome photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Read more
PHILLIPS, G. A. R.
The Rock Garden and Alpine Plants. 1946
£50
First Edition.
Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, lettered in red on spine and front cover; in the photographic dust jacket, not price-clipped. Slight rubbing to jacket, faint... Read more
POTTER, Beatrix.
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. 1904
£375
First edition, first impression.
Small octavo. Bound in recent green half morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, original pictorial paper covered boards, original pictorial... Read more
POTTER, Beatrix.
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. 1910
£375
First edition. The first two printings are identical.
Sextodecimo. Bound in recent dark blue half morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, original pictorial paper covered boards, original pictorial... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur)
Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. [1913]
£500
First edition, first impression.
Tall quarto. Original grey cloth decorated in red, blue, and green, green top-stain. Colour frontispiece and 12 plates with printed tissue guards, line drawings... Read more
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(RACKHAM, Arthur) BROWNING, Robert; Clemet C. Moore; Christina Rossetti.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin [together with] The King of the Golden River [and] The Night Before Christmas [and] Goblin Market. 1939
£375
A handsomely bound collection of four children's stories illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
4 volumes bound in 1, octavo (210 × 140 mm). Contemporary turquoise half morocco, spine gilt in compartments with floral tools, blue cloth sides, marbled... 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
(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
(RACKHAM, Arthur) EVANS, C. S.
The Sleeping Beauty. 1920
£450
First trade edition.
Octavo. Recent pink morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. 1 colour mounted plate, 3 double page... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) POLLARD, Alfred W.
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table. 1917
£375
First Rackham edition.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt with pictorial illustration to front board. With 16 colour illustrations, captioned tissue guards and... 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
(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
(RACKHAM, Arthur) STEEL, Flora Annie.
English Fairy Tales. 1918
£475
First trade edition. A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (206 × 156 mm). Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 16 colour... 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
REYNOLDS, Don.
Champion of Champions. The Story of Nornay Saddler. 1950
£75
First edition, first printing. The biography of Nornay Saddler, a smooth-haired fox terrier who won a record fifty-nine best in show awards.
Octavo. Original pictorial boards, green top-stain. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout, including flipbook-style photos of Nornay Saddler... Read more
(ROBINSON, Charles) WILDE, Oscar.
The Happy Prince 1924
£475
Reprint. First illustrated by Charles Robinson in 1913. An attractive copy of this beautifully illustrated classic tale.
Quarto. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in crimson polished calf, two blue morocco labels, floral motifs to spine, single rule to boards with title block, roll to... 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
(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
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
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
SANDYS, William.
Christmastide. Its History, Festivities, and Carols. [1852]
£250
First edition. Sandys (1792–1874) was a music writer and antiquary whose work "laid the foundations for the discovery of the ballad carol which was then in danger of...
Octavo (200 × 130 mm). Contemporary brown calf by Morrell, spine gilt in compartments with holly tools, red morocco labels, grey endpapers, triple-line ruling to... 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
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Dramatic Works. c.1900
£350
A particularly handsome set of Shakespeare's tragedies, poems and sonnets.
2 volumes, small octavo (153 × 103 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in contemporary pale tan morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands,... Read more
