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FORESTER, C. S.
[The complete Hornblower:] 1937–62
£10,000
All 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...
10 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and ship motifs to spines, raised bands, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy... Read more
STEINBECK, John.
A Russian Journal 1948
£9,750
First edition, first printing. An astonishing presentation copy to Nathaniel Benchley inscribed by Steinbeck on three full pages, "Well now, Capa and I went to Russia, a big country...
Large octavo. Original yellow/grey/tan cloth backed blue boards, titles to upper board and spine in blue, top edge stained blue. With the dust jacket. An excellent... Read more
FLEMING, Ian.
Goldfinger. 1959
£9,750
First edition, first impression. Signed by Ian Fleming on the front free endpaper. The seventh James Bond novel.
Octavo. Original black boards, skull to upper board in blind and gilt, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made... Read more
AMIS, Kingsley.
Lucky Jim 1953
£9,750
First edition, first impression. Amis's epochal first novel. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Sincerest good wishes to James and Elsa...
Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine in gold. With the dust jacket probably supplied from another copy. Housed in a quarter green morocco solander box made... Read more
RAND, Ayn.
The Fountainhead. 1943
£9,750
First Edition, First Printing, First Issue Binding. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the half title page, "To Gary Miller – Cordially – Ayn Rand...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, top edge stained red, fore edge untrimmed. Housed in a burgundy quarter morocco solander box made by... Read more
WHITE, Patrick.
The Living and The Dead. 1941
£9,750
First edition. The author's second novel and one of the great rarities of 20th-century Australian literature.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in green. With the price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a green quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery.... Read more
TOLKIEN, J. R. R.
The Lord of the Rings. 1954–5
£9,750
First editions, first impressions. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is certainly one of the most popular works of literature in the 20th century, containing richly rendered detail of a...
3 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt, top edges stained red. With the dust jackets. Folding map by the author at end of each volume. Spines... Read more
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
The Nursery Alice. 1890
£9,750
Second (First Published) Edition. With "PRICE FOUR SHILLINGS" on the title page. With the author's presentation inscription to the half title page, "For Margery, from the author,...
Small quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, decorations to boards gilt, two raised bands, titles to spine gilt, with inset coloured onlay to... Read more
STEINBECK, John.
The Wayward Bus. 1947
£9,750
First edition, first printing. With the author's remarkable presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "For Marge and Nat - If as utilitarians say glass eggs will make...
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, pictorial decoration to upper board blind stamped, green top-stain. With the dust jacket. An... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Watt. 1953
£9,750
First edition, first impression. One of just 25 lettered copies printed on handmade paper each signed by the author. The smallest limitation of any of the author's major works and a...
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers a little toned, particularly to... Read more
BRONTË, Emily.
Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By the author of "Jane Eyre." 1848
£9,750
Second edition overall, and the first American edition, published in April 1848, at 75 cents. The second English edition was not published until December 1850. The first edition,...
Duodecimo. Publisher's plum wavy-grain cloth, covers with elaborate overall design blocked in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Cloth just a little worn at... Read more
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POWELL, Anthony.
[Dance to the Music of Time:] 1951–75
£9,750
First editions, first impressions.
12 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles to spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A fine set. Read more
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(ARABIAN LITERATURE) MORIER, Sir James Justinian.
[Oriental romances; a collection of his fictional works in first edition.] 1824–47
£9,750
First editions of all nine works, including four presentation copies from the author, most inscribed "From the Author" at the head of title, but the sixth inscribed to Sir Robert...
9 works in 24 volumes. Bound in handsome uniform mottled calf by Rivière & Son, boards with small Greek key border in gilt, spines gilt in compartments with red... Read more
THOREAU, Henry D.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. 1849
£9,500
First edition of Thoreau's first book. Thoreau published at his own expense an edition of 1,000 copies: less than 300 sold, and in 1853 the remainder was returned to him - 256 bound...
Duodecimo (197 × 122 mm) in sixes. Original brown cloth (BAL binding variant T, trade binding), title gilt to spine with blind rules forming compartments filled... Read more
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1866
£9,500
First edition, second issue: the first practically obtainable issue of the original sheets, with the Appleton cancel title page. Macmillan printed around 2,000 copies of the book in...
Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt rules at head and tail of spine and on covers, covers with round devices in gilt at centre, Alice on... Read more
WHARTON, Edith.
Hudson River Bracketed. 1929
£9,500
First Edition, UK Issue with the revised title page and the number 2 in brackets at the end of the text. The dedication copy with the author's presentation inscription to the...
Octavo. Original blue pebble-grained cloth, titles and decoration to upper board and spine gilt. Housed in a burgundy quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea... Read more
HARBOU, Thea von.
Metropolis. 1926
£9,500
First edition, first impression, in the preferred deluxe binding. Based on the original screenplay written by German director Fritz Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou in 1924, this...
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt on red ground, ruling and titles to upper board gilt, yellow top-stain. With the dust jacket. Housed in a crimson... Read more
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
Murder on the Links. 1923
£9,500
First edition, first impression. Christie's third novel and the scarcest by a margin.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine in black, top edge stained black. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box made... Read more
HUGO, Victor.
Notre-Dame de Paris. 1831
£9,500
First edition, first impression. According to the publisher's own statement in the Journal des débats (10 May 1831), the first impression of 1,100 copies was separated into four...
2 volumes, octavo (220 × 137 mm). Uncut in contemporary quarter calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, black spine labels, sprinkled paper-covered boards,... Read more
DONNE, John.
Poems, By J. D. With elegies on the authors death. 1635
£9,500
Second edition, with the addition of 17 original poems by Donne not included in the first edition of 1633.
Small octavo (136 × 90 mm). 19th-century calf, red morocco spine label, date in gilt at foot, sides blind-panelled with fleur-de-lys design, bevelled edges,... Read more
GERSHWIN, George.
Porgy and Bess. 1935
£9,500
First edition, first printing, limited issue being one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by George and Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward, and Rouben Mamoulian.
Quarto. Original red hard-grained morocco, top edge silver, Japanese paper endpapers, titles to spine in blind. With the original raffia slipcase. Housed in a red... Read more
JOYCE, James.
Ulysses. 1933
£9,500
Second Odyssey edition. Signed and dated by the author on the half title page of the first volume, "James Joyce Paris 6.iii.'35". Stuart Gilbert edited the text of this edition with...
2 volumes, octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in red. With the original card slipcase. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box. Some light marks to the... Read more
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STEINBECK, John.
[The novels and short stories.] 1929–61
£9,500
First trade editions, first issues. A complete collection of the novels and short stories by the 1962 Nobel Prize winner for Literature: Cup of Gold, The Pastures of Heaven, To a God...
17 volumes. Octavo. Recent dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. An excellent set... Read more
(ARABIAN NIGHTS) BURTON, Richard F.
A plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights' entertainments, 1885–88
£8,750
First edition, the authentic Benares edition, issued in a limited subscription of 1,000 copies. Richard Burton's celebrated translation "has become the pre-eminent English...
16 volumes, octavo (237 × 145 mm). 20th-century brown half morocco for Henry Sotheran. Titles to spines and raised bands gilt, light brown cloth sides, marbled... Read more
KOLB, Peter.
Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum Das ist: 1719
£8,750
First edition of this important early account of South Africa at the beginning of the eighteenth century, which was rapidly translated into Dutch, English and French, becoming the...
Folio (326 × 207 mm). Contemporary vellum, titles to spine gilt, edges stained green. Portrait frontispiece, folding map and 23 engraved plates. Ownership... Read more
