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JOYCE, James.
Verbannte. 1919
£12,500
First German edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription, "To Scofield Thayer with grateful regards James Joyce Zurich Switzerland 8.ix.919". Published in Switzerland...
Octavo. Original green wrappers printed in blue. Unopened; errata slip tipped in, lightly discolored at edges. Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Waiting for Godot. [1956]
£12,500
Evergreen paperback edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "For Nancy [Cunard] with love from Samuel Paris April 1956", and with Cunard's...
Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black. Housed in a quarter black morocco box. Browning to two leaves from inserted newspaper clipping, wrappers lightly marked... Read more
THOREAU, Henry D.
Walden; or, Life in the Woods. 1854
£12,500
First edition. Following the failure of his first book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden was not a runaway success. The edition of 2,000 took five years to sell...
Octavo. Original brown ribbed cloth, title gilt to spine, large decorative device within blind panels to the boards, pale yellow endpapers. In a custom blue quarter... Read more
![[Decamerone, in English] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation.](/content/store/products/9094/2/10502.jpg)
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
[Decamerone, in English] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. 1625
£12,500
The Decameron in English: second edition in English of volume I; first edition of volume II, as often. Boccaccio's Decamerone, composed between 1348 and 1351, a collection of one...
2 volumes bound in one, folio (274 × 170 mm), first volume gathered in sixes, second volume in fours. Contemporary dark calf, rebacked with original gilt spine... Read more
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
[The Prominent Novels and Short Stories.] 1925 - 1986
£12,500
With the exception of Three Stories & Ten Poems they are all first editions, first printings. Three Stories & ten Poems was first published in 1923 with a limited print run of only...
17 volumes, octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. The occasional minor... Read more
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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
[The Second World War, in Dutch] Memoires over de tweede wereldoorlog. 1949–54
£12,500
Deluxe Dutch edition, inscribed by the author, vols. 1–7 signed "W S Churchill" on the front free endpaper, vol. 6 additionally dated 1952 by him in the same place; vol. 8...
10 volumes, octavo. Publisher's quarter calf, green lettering pieces, tan cloth boards, dates blocked in green on front boards, top edges yellow. Photographic... Read more
BRADBURY, Ray.
Fahrenheit 451. 1953
£12,000
First edition, first printing. Limited issue, one of 200 copies signed and numbered by Bradbury and bound in Johns-Manville Quinterra, a form of fire-resistant asbestos. This copy is...
Octavo. Original white boards, titles to spine and cover in red. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Black and white... Read more
MITCHELL, Margaret.
Gone With the Wind. 1936
£12,000
Unbound pre-publication proof sheets.
Unbound proof sheets. With the original shipping box. Housed in a blue morocco solander case and chemise. "To be published" written on title page in pencil. Excellent... Read more
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.
Poems. 1856
£12,000
Fourth edition, a fine presentation copy from Browning to John Ruskin, inscribed by her on the front fly leaf of volume one: "To John Ruskin with grateful regard from EBB -1856...
3 volumes, duodecimo. One leaf of publisher's advertisements bound at the end of vol. 3. Vols 1 and 2 bound in original purple cloth, vol. 3 bound in original green... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Three letters and a telegram from Churchill to Professor R. V. Jones, wartime head of the Air Ministry scientific intelligence branch. 1946-53
£12,000
A fascinating series of letters offering insights into Churchill's working methods, as war leader, team-builder and writer. Oxford physicist Professor R. V. Jones was a new addition...
Two 2-page octavo typed letters signed, telegram, and single page octavo typed letter signed; four pieces of correspondence. The first with salutation ("My Dear... Read more
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
A Farewell to Arms. 1929
£11,000
First edition, first printing, large paper issue being one of 510 numbered copies signed by Hemingway. A superior example of an impressive and somewhat vulnerable production.
Octavo. Original japon-backed blue paper boards, with gilt lettered black leather lettering label, top edge trimmed with the other edges uncut, original glassine... Read more
JOYCE, James.
Haveth Childers Everywhere. 1930
£11,000
First edition, one of 100 copies printed on imperial handmade iridescent Japan paper signed by Joyce under the limitation notice (in pencil, as the paper would not take ink), the...
Folio in 4s. Untrimmed and partly unopened in original white paper covers printed in black and green, in the original glassine. Enclosed in the original folding card... Read more
HARDY, Thomas.
The Works. 1919
£10,500
The Mellstock edition. This edition consists of 500 copies signed by the author on the limitation page of volume 1. This collected edition is named after the mythical "Mellstock" of...
37 volumes, octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, decorative roll to boards and top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With... Read more
STEIN, Gertrude.
Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded. [1931]
£10,000
First edition first printing. From a total edition of just 120 copies this is number XVIII of 18 copies numbered in Roman numerals and reserved for the author. With Stein's signed...
Small folio. Original grey wrappers printed in black. With the original unprinted glassine. Housed in a black quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Stitching loose... Read more
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
Inscribed photograph.
£10,000
Photograph inscribed by Fitzgerald "Yours in ironic humor, F. Scott Fitzgerald". Also inscribed by the recipient "Recieved as given in gentle humor, J. Biggs". This passport photo...
Single photo (75 × 75 mm) inscribed by Fitzgerald. Mounted, glazed and framed. Light tape residue to upper and lower edges slightly affecting inscription. Read more
SHAKESPEARE, William.
Julius Caesar. A Tragedy. [after 1691]
£10,000
An unusually good example of an early quarto edition, surviving examples of which are commonly found trimmed and in poor condition. There is no lifetime quarto of Julius Caesar,...
Quarto (227 × 166 mm). Early twentieth-century full red morocco by Riviere & Son, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands, sides ruled in gilt with a... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
Mrs. Dalloway. 1925
£10,000
First edition, first impression. An honest and fair copy of a very uncommon book to find in the dust jacket.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the Vanessa Bell dust jacket. Contents rather browned, lower edge lightly marked, small loss to blank margin... Read more
FLEMING, Ian.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service. 1963
£10,000
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by Fleming on the front free endpaper: "To Kay with all my love, from Ian." The recipient was Fleming's aunt (his...
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, decoration to upper board in white. With the dust jacket. In a quarter red morocco solander case. Paper... Read more
FAULKNER, William.
Sartoris. 1932
£10,000
First UK edition, first impression, second binding but with the third state ads at the end, and with an example of the remainder dust jacket. With the author's signed presentation...
Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine in red, top edge stained red. With 8pp advertisements at the rear. With the Centaur Library issue dust jacket supplied from... Read more
JAMES, Henry.
The Bostonians. 1886
£10,000
First edition of James's enduringly controversial American novel about ideological conflict in 1870s America. Edel & Laurence state that the first printing was of 500 copies,...
3 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, boards panelled in black, black coated endpapers. Spines rolled, slight wear to extremities in places,... Read more
HERBERT, George.
The Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations. 1633
£10,000
First edition of Herbert's poems, collected by his friend Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding and posthumously published the same year as those of John Donne, with whom Herbert is...
Duodecimo (143 × 77 mm). Skilfully rebound in full tan calf, red morocco label, plain endpapers. Title within typographic border, typographic head- and... Read more
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Treasure Island. 1883
£10,000
First edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic adventure tale, with the following points: "dead man's chest" not capitalized on pages 2 or 7; the first letter of "vain" broken in...
Octavo. Original scarlet cloth, covers ruled in blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers. Housed in a black cloth solander box. Frontispiece map... Read more
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. 1852
£10,000
First edition of probably the most socially influential American book ever published. "Even before the publication of the serial [in the abolitionist newspaper The National Era] the...
2 volumes, octavo. Original purple vertical-fine-ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, front cover vignette stamped in gilt, other decoration stamped in blind, cream... Read more
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O’BRIAN, Patrick.
[Complete set of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels:] 1970-99
£10,000
All first editions, first impressions. The Far Side of The World has a second state dust jacket as usual. The publisher printed the incorrect price on the jacket, an error solved by...
20 volumes, octavo. Original boards. With the dust jackets. Master and Commander a little creased and rubbed at the top but still nice and bright, neat ownership... Read more
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CHANDLER, Raymond.
[Complete set of the Philip Marlowe novels.] 1938-58
£10,000
All first editions, first printings. Chandler's first four novels were first published in America; the last three appeared first in the UK.
7 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, titles and decoration to spines, single rule to boards, inner dentelles, dark blue endpapers,... Read more
