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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 (illus.); COOPER, Frederick Taber (ed.) 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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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan In Kensington GardensLondon : 1906
First Rackham edition. Barrie asked Rackham to illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained unpublished until 1928) but make a new book from those chapters from The Little White Bird (1902) that had first introduced the character. Signed by Rackham on the half-title. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 134784
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); 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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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', though... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 131996
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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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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); 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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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 (illus.); GRIMM, [Jacob & Wilhelm]. Little Brother & Little Sister and other tales.London : 1917
Signed limited edition, number 340 of 525 copies signed by the artist, with the extra plate that is often missing ("He Hurried Away with Long Strides") also signed by the artist bound in at the back. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 102175
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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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DETMOLD, E. J. (illus.) 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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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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FAULKNER, William. Pylon.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, limited issue. Number 310 of 310 copies only signed by the author; one of Faulkner's smallest limitations. Learn More£1,925.00Stock Code: 26303
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); 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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NASH, Paul (illus.); 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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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM Brothers. Grimm's Fairy Tales.New York : 1909
Large paper copy, signed by the artist to the verso of the half-title. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 124151
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 588 of 1,130 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 111922
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); 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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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage.New York : 1936
First illustrated edition, signed limited issue, number 483 of 751 copies signed by both author and artist. Of Human Bondage was first published in 1915 and Maugham contributed a new foreword for this handsome illustrated edition. Randolph Schwabe (1885-1948) "was a draughtsmen, painter and etcher who was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at University... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 117173
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) 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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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); 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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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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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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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. 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 (illus.); 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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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 890 of 1,030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 94954
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 305 of 500 copies. This 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 (illus.); 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
