Publishers' Deluxe
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THOMSON, Hugh (illus.); BARRIE, J. M. Quality Street.London : [1913]
Signed limited edition, number 507 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 130162
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ETCHISON, Dennis (ed.) Lord John Ten: A Celebration.Northridge, California : 1988
First edition, signed limited edition, deluxe issue. Number 3 of 75 specially bound copies, signed by the contributors: Robert Bloch, Dennis Etchison, James Purdy, Patrick W. Magee, Robert B. Parker, Bruce Francis, James Crumley, Whitley Strieber, Robert Lannes, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, William F. Nolan, Lorri Ziegler, Barry N. Malzberg, Jack... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 105651
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester.London : 1903
First edition, first impression, deluxe issue, in an unrecorded morocco binding, apparently a publisher's binding, although not lettered as such. Bound in before the frontispiece is the extra illustration intended for the front cover label of regular copies. With the first impression points: the single endpaper occurring four times and the title page... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 109235
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); ANDERSEN, Hans [Christian]. Fairy Tales.London : 1932
First Rackham trade edition in the publisher's deluxe binding. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 85331
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ROYCROFT PRESS: STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Lodging for the Night:East Aurora, NY : 1902
Limited edition on Japanese vellum, one of 100 copies signed by the illuminator and Elbert Hubbard, or more probably on his behalf by one of the Roycrofters. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 88108
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); King Albert's Book.London : 1914
Deluxe Edition. Not recorded in either of the bibliographies. The book was published in aid of the Belgium fund. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 113114
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco.New York : 1925
Deluxe edition, number 78 of 105 copies signed by the author. Unlike many of Rackham's deluxe editions this one was not signed by him, nor was it issued in the UK in a deluxe version. This is the rarest of all Rackham limited editions. Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 113178
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ROLLING STONES - MANKOWITZ, Gered. I Con.tact. Rolling Stone Archive.Guildford : 1998
First edition, first impression. Limited to 950 copies. This is one of the 100 deluxe copies signed by Gered Mankowitz but comes without the photographic print as issued. Together with the original prospectus. A complete archive of Mankowtz's Rolling Stones contact sheets, taken from 1965 - 69, 3000 images. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 114867
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle.London : 1905
Signed limited edition, number 26 of 250 copies signed by the artist. This copy also includes a charming original pen and ink portrait of Rip van Winkle by Rackham, dated 17 July 1918. This was the first book wholly illustrated by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition format and it immediately established him as the leading illustrator of lavishly... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 123180
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CARUSO, Enrico - KEY, Pierre V. R., & Bruno Zirato. Enrico Caruso.Boston : 1922
First edition, first printing, deluxe issue, number 90 of 99 copies signed by Caruso's widow Dorothy and the authors; this copy subscribed for by the celebrated American soprano Marion Talley and presented here in a particularly handsome binding.
Of humble origins, Talley (1906-1983) revealed at an early age "unmistakable musical talents" and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132883
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HESSE, Hermann. Siddhartha.Berlin : 1922
First edition, first printing, with "Erste bis Sechste Auflage" on the copyright page, publisher's deluxe vellum-backed issue, with a paper-backed issue also produced, either contemporaneously or slightly later. Hesse's landmark novel of spiritual discovery, Siddharta's presentation of Buddhism and the struggle for enlightenment would go on to have... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 125332
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BLAKE, William; ELLIS, Edwin John, & W. B. Yeats (eds.) The Works of William Blake.London : 1893
First edition, one of 150 large paper copies in the deluxe binding; there were also 500 copies in cloth. Yeats had "marked down William Blake as a master early on, and with Edwin Ellis produced a large-scale commentary on Blake's prophetic writings in 1893. While often erratic and idiosyncratic, it helped establish the importance of Blake's esoteric... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136158
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.London : 1905
First edition, deluxe issue. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 121243
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt.London : 1936
Deluxe edition, number 6 of ten "special copies" reserved by the publisher, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a delightful full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham (signed "Arthur Rackham 36"), showing Peer Gynt being swarmed by the trolls and surrounded by anthropomorphic trees. Describing his... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 135675
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life of Our LordLondon : 1934
First edition in book form, first impression, in the scarce publisher's deluxe leather binding with the dust jacket, printed on japon. The History of Jesus Christ was written by Dickens for his children between 1846 and 1849, and the author later claimed that the book was "an inseparable part of their earliest remembrances" (see Letters, Vol. IX, Oxford,... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 138148
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MONCRIF, Francois-Augustin Paradis de. Moncrif's Cats.London : 1961
First edition; number 8 of 100 copies specially bound by E. W. Hiscox. Moncrif (1687-1770) was a French writer, courtier, and academician now best known for his Histoire des Chats, first published in 1727. In letter form, Moncrif discusses the role of cats throughout history and his work can be read both as a satire of pedantic academic writing and... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 144025
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.London : 1999
First deluxe edition, first impression, signed by the author on the half-title. The first deluxe edition of Prisoner of Azkaban was issued simultaneously with the first trade edition in July 1999. This was the first deluxe edition of any of the Harry Potter books, with Bloomsbury capitalizing on the surging collector's and gift market for the series.
Bloomsbury... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 141694
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MITFORD, Nancy. The Sun King.London : 1969
Signed limited issue, number 83 of 265 copies signed by Mitford on the limitation leaf and specially bound by Zaehnsdorf. Nancy Mitford (19041973) won great acclaim with this lavishly illustrated biography of the French King Louis XIV. Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 144643
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.London : 1839
First edition, presentation copy from the author to Lady Holland in a publisher's presentation binding of red morocco gilt, together with Dickens's original autograph letter signed accompanying the presentation, two pages, mounted by its last page within the front free endpaper.
The presentation letter reads: "In begging you, My Lady Holland,... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 143166
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KEYNES, Geoffrey. William Blake's Illustrations to the Bible: A Catalogue.Clairvaux, France : 1957
Limited edition, copy V of 20 copies with additional proof states of the frontispiece at rear and bound in full morocco, out of 506 copies in total.
A fine copy of this grand book, here from the Garden collection of Haven O'More, with his black morocco monogram book label to the front pastedown. One of the greatest book collectors of the latter... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 145346
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ROYAL AIR FORCE; WORLD WAR TWO. …So Few. A folio dedicated to all who fought and won the Battle of Britain, 10th July - 31st October 1940.London : 1990-5
First editions, deluxe signed issues, both volumes number 96 of 401 copies, each containing 25 superb colour silhouette portraits of distinguished RAF pilots from Britain and the Commonwealth, all signed by both the pilot and artist Michael Pierce, and with his embossed stamp. Additionally signed in the edition by six members of the creative and design... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 145852
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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS: SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Epipsychidion.London : 1921
First Shakespeare Head Press edition, one of 500 copies only, scarce deluxe issue bound in vellum, of Shelley's love poem to the "poor captive bird" Teresa "Emilia" Viviani, a beautiful Italian countess "imprisoned" in St Anna convent while her father sought a suitable husband for her. Epipsychidion was first published a century earlier in 1821. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 146016
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KAY, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature EtchingsEdinburgh, : 1877
New edition. First published in 1837. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 71813
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.London : 1911
First edition, deluxe issue, in red cloth. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 109492
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.London : [1912]
Deluxe edition, issued unsigned and without statement of limitation. This edition is a revision of the 1906 edition, with an entirely new setting of type, a new coloured frontispiece, and seven full-page black and white drawings not in the earlier edition. The plates are distributed throughout, not gathered at the end as in the 1906 edition. The edition... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 112982
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM, [Jacob & Wilhelm]. Little Brother and Little Sister and Other Tales.London : 1917
Deluxe edition, number 505 of 525 copies signed by the artist; with the extra plate signed by Rackham (in its original printed envelope), a repeat of that facing p. 178 ("He hurried away with long strides"). Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 113145
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); MARTINEAU, Harriet. Feats on the Fjord.London : 1899
First edition featuring Rackham's illustrations, this copy in the more deluxe leather binding, was also issued in blue cloth. Part of the series of The Temple Classics For Young People. Learn More£110.00Stock Code: 113061
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.London : 1909
First edition, deluxe issue. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 118304
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DOVES PRESS: SHELLEY, Percy. Poems. Selected and Arranged by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson.Hammersmith : 1914
Limited edition, one of 200 copies printed on paper, from an edition of 212 (the additional 12 were printed on vellum). The book was printed just two years before Cobden-Sanderson threw the Doves typeface into the Thames, thus concluding the bitter dispute between him and his partner Emery Walker, and bringing the era of the Doves Press to a close. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 118500
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WALEY, Arthur. More Translations from the Chinese.New York : 1919
First and limited edition, deluxe issue, number 5 of 50 copies on Fabriano handmade paper. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 116479
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LINDSAY, Norman. Water Colour Book.Sydney : 1939
First edition, deluxe signed limited issue, number 65 of 120 copies signed by the artist. Best-known for his sometimes-controversial nude paintings, Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest artists.
Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 125013
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Rudyard Kipling's Verse.London : 1919
First UK edition, first impression, deluxe limited issue, 90 of 100 sets numbered and signed by Kipling on the limitation page of each volume. "This edition was brought together at the publisher, Frank N. Doubleday's suggestion after much talk. It was to be tried out in the USA and if successful republished in England... The idea of the book was born... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 126105
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM, The Brothers. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales.London : 1917
Deluxe signed limited issue, number 21 of 525 copies signed by the illustrator and with an extra plate signed by Rackham in its original printed envelope, tipped in at rear. The plate is a repeat of the one facing p. 178 ("He hurried away with long strides").
Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 125959
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CURTIS-BENNETT, Noel. The Food of the People, being The History of Industrial Feeding.London : 1949
First edition, deluxe limited issue, number 51 of 100 copies, presented to Eric Simonds by the directors of Peter Merchant Ltd, with their numbered presentation bookplate. A highly attractive copy of this study of the history of the feeding of employees in the workplace, from the middle ages to the factory canteen. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 128771
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WREN, Percival Christopher. Beau Geste.London : 1927
First illustrated and first deluxe edition, number 729 of 1,000 copies signed by the author. Beau Geste was originally published in 1924 and it is no coincidence that this edition followed the success of the silent film version of 1926. The book is rarely found with the dust jacket preserved. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 127427
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SHAW, Henry. Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages.London : 1843
First edition in book form following issue in parts in 1840, one of six deluxe large paper copies. An exceptional, highly regarded book: McLean states that "it has considerable claim to be called the most handsome book produced in the whole of the nineteenth century" (McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, p. 66). Upon Henry Shaw's bankruptcy... Learn More£3,850.00Stock Code: 129144
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester.London : 1903
First trade edition, deluxe issue in art fabric, first issue with single-page endpapers. Only this work and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin were issued in the present patterned cloth, provided by Beatrix Potter's grandfather's calico printing factory in Manchester, at her request. The Tailor of Gloucester was first printed privately in 1902, with the author... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 130129
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Jeremy Fisher.London : 1906
First edition, deluxe issue. The first and second impressions, printed in July and September 1906, are indistinguishable. The deluxe cloth binding was issued at 1s. 6d. rather than 1s. for the standard binding of paper-covered boards. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 130133
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.London : 1909
First edition, deluxe issue, one of two indistinguishable printings in July and October 1909. The deluxe cloth binding was issued at 1s. 6d. rather than 1s. for the standard binding of paper-covered boards. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 130134
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Blue Fairy Book.London : 1889
First edition, large paper copy, number 13 of 113 copies, the deluxe limited issue of the first in Lang's series of "coloured" fairy books, which continued through to The Lilac Fairy Book in 1910. Only four of the titles (Blue, Red, Green, and Yellow) from the series of 12 were issued in this deluxe format. The Blue Fairy Book was immediately successful,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132247
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POUND, Ezra. Imaginary Letters.Paris : 1930
First edition, first printing, deluxe signed limited issue, number 46 of 50 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author. There were also 350 ordinary copies issued unsigned on Navarre, and 25 hors commerce. Imaginary Letters is one of the exquisitely produced books put out by the Black Sun Press, founded by the wild and wealthy avante-garde... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 133236
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GRAVES, Robert. I, Claudius.London : 1977
Signed limited edition, number 46 of 100 copies specially bound and signed by the author. Originally published in 1934, when it garnered both the Hawthornden and James Tait Black memorial prizes; this edition was issued in response to the huge success of the BBC television series. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 135824
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ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets.London : 1960
First Bodoni edition, number 87 of 290 copies signed by the poet. A magnificent piece of book production executed in Verona under the direction of Giovanni Mardersteig, the greatest printer of the 20th century. Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 136811
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POUND, Ezra. Cavalcanti Poems.New York : 1966
Signed limited edition, no. 9 of 190 copies signed by the author and printed on Perscia paper. The poems were first published in 1953 in The Translations of Ezra Pound.
Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136812
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester.London and New York : 1903
First trade edition, first impression, deluxe issue in the publisher's flower patterned cloth. This published edition was preceded by the author's privately printed edition of 500 copies, issued in December 1902. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 121242
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club.London : 1837
First edition, bound from the original parts, in the rare primary publisher's trade binding of plum coloured full morocco. Upon completion of the publication in parts, Chapman and Hall issued The Pickwick Papers in book form in cloth for 21s., half-morocco for 24s. 6d., and the present full morocco with gilt edges for 26s. 6d. (Patton, p. 326).
They... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 138130
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MANDEVILLE, Sir John. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt.,New York : 1927
First Grabhorn edition, number 129 of 150 copies only. A very attractive production, finely printed, delicately illustrated by Angelo, and handsomely bound. The text is taken from the English edition of 1725, which was taken from a 15th-century manuscript in the Cottonian library, collated against seven other manuscripts. Angelo's decorations are after... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 138808
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island and Kidnapped.London : 1909
First combined edition (first published thus in August 1907), fifth impression, in an attractive deluxe binding. Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886) were the first of Stevenson's novels to be published by Cassell, both first serialized in Young Folks, then afterwards published in book form, and they remained among the best-sellers on Cassell's... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 138093
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PAUL, Evelyn. Aucassin and Nicolete.London : [1917]
First Evelyn Paul edition, deluxe signed limited issue, number 117 of 125 copies signed by the illuminator Evelyn Paul, and bound in decorated full vellum. Paul's designs are based on the decoration of mediaeval manuscripts, a fine accompaniment for Michael West's translation of the French tale, composed around the late 12th to early 13th century. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139446
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BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (illus.); JONSON, Ben. Volpone: or the Fox.London : 1898
First Beardsley edition, deluxe issue copy, being number 29 of 100 copies printed on japon and specially bound in full vellum, with a further 1,000 copies on art paper also issued and bound in blue cloth. In November 1897 Beardsley was commissioned to produce the artwork for a deluxe edition of Volpone, with 24 illustrations including a frontispiece,... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 137872
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BLAKE, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.Clairvaux : 1960
First edition thus, deluxe limited issue: copy VIII of 20 deluxe copies with an original guide sheet and stencil, and a set of hand-coloured plates showing progressive stages, as well as colour collotype proofs, from a total edition of 526 copies on Arches pure rag paper made to match that used by Blake, with each page watermarked with Blake's monogram.... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 136923
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ROLLING STONES - SYKES, Christopher Simon. The Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas 1975.Guildford : 2006
Signed limited edition, number 29 of 2,500 copies signed by the photographer Christopher Simon Sykes and the Rolling Stones tour manager Peter Rudge; this is one of 350 deluxe copies bound in full leather (the rest of the edition bound in quarter leather), with an additional photographic print of Mick Jagger signed by Sykes and a facsimile of the "Starship"... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 141063
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MAJOR, John. The Autobiography.London : 1999
Signed limited edition, number 43 of 126 copies signed by John Major, being his memoir of his life and service as British prime minister from 1990 to 1997. A handsome volume, the Tory-blue morocco binding matches the signed limited edition of Margaret Thatcher's prime ministerial autobiography, but with an edition limitation half the size; future prime... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 141595
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AUSTEN, Jane; BROCK, C. E. (illus.) Persuasion.London : 1909
First revised Brock-illustrated edition, deluxe issue in the richly gilt vellum binding, the second overall, with new plates re-drawn from the first Brock-illustrated edition of 1898. Demonstrating his mastery in using ink and watercolour, Brock provided colour illustrations for all six Austen novels published by Dent between 1907 and 1909.
Charles... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 142228
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RANKIN, Ian. Beggars Banquet.Gladestry : 2002
First edition, signed limited issue, number 32 of 99 copies signed and numbered on the limitation page, a further 15 deluxe copies were issued lettered and signed. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 144088
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LOCKER, Frederick. London Lyrics.London : 1881
First privately printed edition, large paper issue with frontispiece and illustration (not present in the ordinary issue), this copy in the deluxe vellum binding, other copies issued in cloth.
"Austin Dobson made the selection for the privately printed edition, and prefixed the prefatory sexain... very few copies were printed" (Murray); the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 144310
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Gesammelte Werke.Munich : 1920-29
First complete collected edition of Nietzsche's works, in the original German, number 198 of 1,600 sets, this one of 185 special copies printed on rag paper and bound in full vellum. Arranged chronologically, with an introduction by Richardo Oehler, notes and indexes, this was the first edition to claim completeness, and has only been surpassed by the... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 144914
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MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh.London : 1976
Rare presentation copy of the 50th anniversary edition, number 27 of 300 copies signed by Christopher Robin Milne. This copy has been fulsomely inscribed by Christopher Robin to the winner of "The Hum with Pooh" poetry competition:"Dear Mubina Punjani, this book tells you that you have been awarded First Prize in your age group in The Hum with Pooh... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 145209
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War.London : [1955]
First edition of the Chartwell Edition, the first illustrated edition of Churchill's masterly account of the Second World War, here in the publisher's deluxe quarter morocco binding, issued at a higher cost than the standard red cloth binding and notably scarcer.
The Chartwell Edition, incorporating Churchill's final revisions and adding illustrations,... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 145389
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MILNE, A. A. Complete set of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, in the deluxe leather bindings and original boxes.London : 1925-28
First deluxe editions of the complete set of the Winnie-the-Pooh series, in their original leather bindings and publisher's boxes.
The first book in the series, When We Were Very Young, was first issued in a deluxe format for the seventh edition (all prior editions since the first of the previous year issued in cloth only), with the publisher... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 144214
