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WILDE, Oscar.
An Ideal Husband. 1899
£12,500
First edition, first impression, large paper issue. Being one of 100 numbered copies each signed by Wilde.
Quarto. Original pink cloth, titles and decoration to spine and boards gilt, edges untrimmed. Pencilled ownership signature to front free endpaper. Corners bumped,... Read more
CAESAR, Julius.
C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissimè cum libris editis & MSS optimis collata, recognita & correcta. 1712
£12,500
First edition, deluxe issue on large and thick paper, of Samuel Clarke's Caesar, justly regarded as one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century English publishing: "The most...
Royal folio (488 × 326 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked and recornered. Double-page engraved title dated 1712 (ESTC notes the existence of copies... 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
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
(GREEK ANTHOLOGY)
Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum in septem libros, in Greek. 1503
£12,500
First Aldine edition, a handsome copy. Based on the 1494 editio princeps edited by Janus Lascaris, this was the second edition of the anthology assembled by the early 14th century...
Aldine octavo (149 × 93 mm). 19th-century French red straight-grained morocco by Thouvenin, covers panelled with gilt fillets and blind foliate tooling, gilt... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
Flush. A Biography. 1933
£12,500
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Ottoline Morrell Virginia Woolf". With the occasional marginal tick as...
Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine gilt. With a first impression dust jacket supplied from another copy. Housed in a quarter black morocco solander box made... 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
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
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
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
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POE, Edgar Allan.
Tales; [and] The Raven and Other Poems. 1845
£12,500
First edition thus, this the first combined issue, with first edition, second printing sheets of Tales bound with first printing sheets of The Raven (later copies have third printing...
2 works issued together in one vol., crown octavo. Original brown cloth, sides blocked in blind, spine lettered gilt "Library of American Books" etc, endpapers printed... 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
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.
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
COOPER, James Fenimore.
The Complete Works. 1859-61
£12,500
Townsend edition. A particularly handsome set of the American author, including his most famous novel, The Last of the Mohicans. Tipped into "The Deerslayer" are two autograph signed...
32 volumes, octavo (191 × 129 mm). Finely bound in bright blue crushed morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, the head of a red Indian blocked to... Read more
[CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne] TWAIN, Mark.
The Complete Writings. 1922
£12,500
The Definitive Edition, signed "S L Clemens / Mark Twain" in volume 1, limited to 1024 numbered sets. The publisher states that Twain intended a definitive collected edition and so...
37 volumes, octavo. Bound in recent full burgundy morocco, crimson and dark green labels, decoration to spines, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, top... Read more
STEVENSON, Robert Louis, & Lloyd Osbourne.
The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and Quartette. 1894
£12,500
First edition, first issue (the cloth is indicative). The second of two novels with South Seas settings written in collaboration with his stepson, The Ebb-Tide "had its origins in a...
Octavo. Original dull gold pebble-grained cloth, pictorial decoration and titles to upper board and spine in black. Housed in a terracotta solander box made by The... Read more
WELLS, H. G.
The Invisible Man. 1897
£12,500
First edition of one of Wells's most famous science fiction tales. Although the first edition only sold well for a single month, the title secured Wells financially for life,...
Octavo. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt title to spine and front boards, pictorial centre piece in black to front board. Housed in red quarter morocco solander box by... Read more
WELLS, H. G.
The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance. 1897
£12,500
First edition, first impression. With Wells's fine contemporary presentation inscription to the half title page, "W. W. Jacobs from H. G. Wells". With the recipient's embroidered...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, device to upper board in black. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea... Read more
JAMES, Henry.
The Novels and Tales. 1907 - 1917
£12,500
The New York edition. The first collected edition complete with the two pendent volumes separately issued in 1917. Rare in such an attractive contemporary binding.
26 volumes, octavo (210 × 140 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, marbled boards and... Read more
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
The Sign of Four. 1890
£12,500
First edition. With the bookplate of noted collector and bibliographer Adrian Homer Goldstone.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, decorative border to boards and ends of spine in black, black coated endpapers. Housed in a green... Read more
FAULKNER, William.
The Unvanquished. 1938
£12,500
First UK edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "William Faulkner for Else 11 Dec 1950". Signed and dated (1938) on the front...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to upper board and spine in black, top edge stained maroon. Contents somewhat toned, spine rolled, binding a little faded at the... Read more
MELVILLE, Herman.
The Works . 1922–24
£12,500
The standard edition, limited to 750 copies. The Standard Edition was published episodically, and includes, among other pieces, the first edition of the novella Billy Budd, which...
16 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in recent full blue morocco, double red morocco labels, spines with gilt ship motifs in compartments, gilt rules to spines and sides,... Read more
LEE, Harper.
To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960
£12,500
First edition, first printing. Only 5,000 copies were printed. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To my dearest Ruth [Hart] Ole! Nelle...
Octavo. Original green cloth-backed brown boards, titles to spine in brown. With the dust jacket. Housed in a burgundy quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
To the Lighthouse. 1927
£12,500
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, yellow top-stain. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the rubbed, nicked, and lightly toned jacket with... Read more
