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STARK, Freya. Seen in the Hadhramaut.London : 1938
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the half-title. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 108169
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(BRANSOM, Paul.) COOPER, Frederic Taber. An Argosy of Fables.New York : 1921
Large paper edition, number 22 of 365 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 32201
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ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets.New York : [c.1945]
Inscribed by the author on the title page "Inscribed for Allen Hawkridge by T. S. Eliot 7. vi. 47." The four poems which make up Four Quartets ("Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding") were published separately between 1940 and 1941; this is a later printing of the first collected edition, which was published in the US... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 114849
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HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles.London : 1926
Signed limited edition, one of 325 large paper copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author, the first edition illustrated by Vivian Gribble: "Perhaps her finest work was done for an edition of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, published by Macmillan in 1926 and containing 41 exquisite wood engravings. Gribble's engravings were always... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 132503
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(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest.London : 1926
First Rackham edition. With a signed presentation inscription from the author and his wife to the half-title "To May from Edyth and Arthur Rackham Christmas 1926" alongside an original ink drawing of Ariel by the artist. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 130882
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APTHEKER, Herbert. To Be Free.New York : 1968
Second edition. First published in 1948; this edition with a new preface by the author. Inscribed on the half-title " Feb 1969 For Bobby Seale with best wishes Herbert Aptheker." Aptheker was an American Marxist historian and political activist. Seale was co-founder of the Black Panther Party which he formed with Huey Newton in 1966. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 60782
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(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream.London : 1908
First Rackham edition, trade issue, with an original ink drawing of Bottom to the half-title signed "Arthur Rackham Xmas 08." Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 135382
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold.1919
First English edition and first revised edition with corrections not incorporated in the American first edition. Signed "from Joseph Conrad 1919" on the half-title. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 48434
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MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner.London : 1928
Signed limited edition, large paper copy, number 85 of 350 copies signed by both the author and the illustrator. The House at Pooh Corner, the final Pooh book, was received by critics with a delight tinged by sadness. "The Times Literary Supplement congratulated Milne on avoiding 'the temptation to repeat his successful formula mechanically',... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 131996
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(NIELSEN, Kay.) QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur. In Powder and Crinoline.London : [1913]
Signed limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 45, signed by the artist. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 117368
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FAULKNER, William. Pylon.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, limited issue. One of 310 numbered copies of which this is number 310, signed by the author. One of Faulkner's smallest limitations. Learn More£1,925.00Stock Code: 26303
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(NIELSEN, Kay.) East of the Sun West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North.London : [1914]
Signed limited edition, number 83 of 500 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 114031
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DAHL, Roald. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.London : 1977
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed inscription to the verso of the half-title. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 99107
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(DETMOLD, E. J.) The Arabian Nights.London : [1924]
Signed limited edition, number 99 of 100 copies only signed by the artist. "On the strength of The Arabian Nights, Detmold could have become one of the greatest illustrators of fantasy and fairy stories" (Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, pp. 98). Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 30661
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GOLDING, William. The Inheritors.London : 1955
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription on the title page "For Michael Curtis with best wishes from William Golding." Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 85188
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.London : 1906
Signed limited edition, number 381 of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist. Barrie asked Rackham to illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained unpublished until 1928) but make a new book from those chapters from The Little White Bird (1902) that had first introduced the character. Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 117385
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FORESTER, C. S. Flying Colours.Boston : 1939
First US edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the binder's front blank "To Mr. A. R. W. Robertson gratefully for kindness received in British Guinea, from C. S. Forester." Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 106985
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 588 of 1,130 numbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 111922
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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Cakes and Ale.London : 1930
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author to the binder's front blank "For Woods Gray W. Somerset Maugham." Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 71616
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KENT, Rockwell. Voyaging Southward from The Strait of Magellan.New York : 1926
Presentation copy from the author, inscribed in pencil at the head of the dedication page, "To my friend Nat Horwitt this 'voyage' (so far the only one we've sailed together on) is inscribed by me Rockwell Kent Au Sable Forks, March 1929". The recipient was the celebrated industrial designer Nathan G. Horwitt (1889-1990), "Horwitt is best known for... Learn More£1,925.00Stock Code: 60017
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BELLOW, Saul. Dangling Man.New York : 1944
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the first blank. Learn More£1,675.00Stock Code: 41558
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(NASH, Paul.) SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer Nights Dreame.London : 1924
The Players' Shakespeare, limited to 106 copies, signed by the art editor Albert Rotherston, the illustrator Paul Nash, and the introduction writer Harley Granville-Barker. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 117387
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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.London : 1962
Signed limited edition, number 56 of 500 numbered copies. Durrell's enduring masterpiece. Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 76495
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler.1931
Limited edition of 775 copies, signed by Rackham. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 47610
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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage.New York : 1936
First illustrated edition, signed limited issue, number 203 of 751 numbered copies signed by the artist and the author. Maugham wrote a new foreword for this edition of his autobiographical masterpiece. Of Human Bondage was first published in 1915. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 114279
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) AESOP. Aesop's Fables.London : 1912
First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, and first edition of this translation; number 1,071 of 1,450 copies signed by the artist. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful... Learn More£2,950.00Stock Code: 115168
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(SHEPARD, Ernest H.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1931
Signed limited edition, number 115 of 200 large paper copies signed by both Grahame and Shepard. Wind in the Willows was first published in 1908 with only a frontispiece for illustration, and Shepard, well-known by then for his illustrations of A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh series, was asked to illustrate a new edition, following on from Milne's popular... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 135649
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GREENE, Graham. The Bear Fell Free.1935
First Edition, First Impression. Signed Limited Edition of 250 copies of which this is number 171. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 36910
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SEUSS, Dr. On Beyond Zebra.New York : 1955
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author together with an original drawing on the verso of the original front free endpaper, "For Daisie Ford Wright with kindest regards Dr. Seuss". An alphabet book which picks up after the letter Z. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 111745
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales.London : 1920
Signed limited edition of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 135277
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FAULKNER, William. Absalom, Absalom!New York : 1936
First edition, first printing, limited issue. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 91991
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, one of 1030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 48431
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 166 of 1,030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 61468
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.New York : 1940
Signed limited edition, number 1077 of 2,020 numbered copies signed by the designer Bruce Rogers. Rackham had been asked to illustrate the first edition of 1908 but was unable to accept the commission. He deeply regretted the decision, but just before his death he was able to illustrate this Limited Editions Club edition. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 122097
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ROBINSON, W. Heath. Bill The Minder.London : 1912
Signed limited edition, one of 380 copies, of which this number 167 signed by the artist. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 18290
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
Signed limited edition, one of 575 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 20927
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CARROLL, Lewis. The Nursery Alice.London : 1890
First published edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Maggie Bowman from the Author. Mar. 31 1890". Dodgson took charge of Maggie Bowman during her stay in Oxford to act in Bootle's Baby (9 to 13 June 1889), and commemorated this event in his poem "Maggie's Visit to Oxford". Her older sister, Isa Bowman, who at that... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 98292
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest.London : [1926]
Signed limited edition, number 118 of 520 numbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 110585
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 305 of 500 copies. This is the one-hundredth edition of Grahame's timeless classic, which was originally published in 1908, with just a frontispiece, by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club edition of 1940, and it was the last work he illustrated. "During his last illness... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 107331
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRIMM, [Jacob & Wilhelm]. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.London : 1909
Signed limited edition, number 302 of 750 copies signed by the artist. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the work originally published in 1900 with some new illustrations, as well as others redrawn and coloured. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 115169
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) LA MOTTE-FOUQUÉ, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de. Undine.London : 1909
Signed limited edition, number 464 of 1000 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 101815
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SEUSS, Dr. Thidwick. The Big-Hearted Moose.New York : 1948
Early printing. Inscribed by the author at the bottom of the dedication page "For the Hessels with best wishes Dr. Seuss." Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 98906
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SEUSS, Dr. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.New York : 1938
First edition, later printing with the hats on the endpapers going from small to large. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the bottom of the verso of the original front free endpaper "With best wishes to Jack Macpherson Dr. Seuss." Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 80761
