Search results for: 'the works'
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works.New York : [1903]
The Author's edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies of which this is number 650. A rare US issue which, unlike the UK edition, includes The Hound of the Baskervilles.
The author wanted a set that contained only the works for which he wanted to be credited, as he states in the preface: "Outside of this edition there is no work of mine up to... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 141237
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.New York : [early 1900s]
A beautifully bound set of the collected works of Dickens, with illustrations throughout. Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 68471
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works.London : 1903
Signed limited edition, number 217 of 1,000 sets signed by the author. The set collects Doyle's stories written between 1891 and 1903.
The Author's Edition was a joint publication, consisting of 12 volumes (omitting The Hound of the Baskervilles) published in the UK by Smith, Elder & Co. and 13 volumes published in the USA by D. Appleton & Co.... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 141692
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : 1881-82
Limited "Édition de Luxe", number 614 of 1,000 sets. Out of the many collected works of Dickens which were published in the late 19th century, the present edition has good claim to be the largest, boldest, and most striking. Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 140460
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : 1899
The Gadshill edition, "printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by the author in 1867 and 1868" and including H. K. Browne and George Cruikshank's beloved illustrations. A handsome set of what is generally considered one of the best editions of the collected works of Charles Dickens. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 141805
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : [c.1890]
A handsomely bound set of the Library Edition of Dickens's collected works. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 107311
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : 1874-6
A most handsome set of Dickens's works in 30 volumes, uniformly bound with a further two volumes of John Forster's biography of Dickens. Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 139247
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.New York : 1891
An extremely attractive library set of the works of Charles Dickens. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 106052
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DUMAS, Alexandre. The Works.Boston : [c.1894]
The Artists' Edition, number 44 of 100 sets only, strikingly bound. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 141248
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : [c.1900]
A handsomely bound set of Dickens's works. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 106143
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works [together with] The Life by John Forster.London : [1902-1903]
The Biographical Edition, edited by Arthur Waugh, father of Evelyn Waugh, with his introduction in each volume. Waugh had been appointed managing director of Chapman and Hall in 1902 and wasted no time in capitalizing on the firm's most famous asset. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 134043
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(DICKENS, Charles.) HATTON, Thomas, & Arthur H. Cleaver. A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens.London : 1933
First edition, signed limited large-paper issue, number 35 of 250 copies signed by both Hatton and Cleaver. An essential reference work for Dickens's publications in parts. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138145
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DAVENPORT, Herbert Joseph. Outlines of Economic Theory.New York & London : 1896
First edition, first printing, for which Davenport is credited as "one of the first respectable economists to give serious attention to unemployment", suggesting that "the best ameliorative device was to be found 'in the postponement of all works of national or municipal improvement to seasons of labor stagnation'". Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 108304
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DONLEAVY, J. P. The Ginger Man.Paris : [1955]
First edition, first printing (priced 1,500 francs on rear cover), of Donleavy's first novel. Published in the same year as the most famous of all Olympia publications, Nabokov's Lolita, Donleavy's debut novel was issued, to the author's horror, as a pornographic novel in the Traveller's Companion Series. Donleavy went to considerable effort to rescue... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 130315
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(DICKENS, Charles.) SMITH, Walter E. Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth.Los Angeles : 1982-1983
First editions, first printings, of Walter Smith's essential bibliography to the works of Charles Dickens. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138143
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DERLETH, August. The Memoirs of Solar Pons; The Return of Solar Pons; The Reminiscences of Solar Pons; The Casebook of Solar Pons.Sauk City, WI : 1951-58-61-65
First editions, first printings, inscribed copies of four early titles in Derleth's Solar Pons series, of which there were 11 works. All these copies are inscribed by the author to F. H. Hollander (1915-2000) of the American Astronomical Society. The dust jackets were designed by Frank Utpatel, who also produced jackets for Arkham House. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 122564
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DICTIONARIES. A Dictionary of the English Language …London : 1794-95
A most attractive trio of 18th-century desk dictionaries and geographical-historical reference works, housed together in a book-form case. Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 104275
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914.London : 1916-9
Volume I, third edition - more correctly impression, same year as the first - the rest first editions. Doyle had aspirations to write the official history of the campaign, and a was disappointed to be passed over; "The six-volume history was one of the author's most ambitious works and one which he felt he never received the credit it deserved: 'I would... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 137665
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DAHL, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile.London : 1978
First edition, first impression, of the first of Dahl's works to be illustrated by Blake. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 135664
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DUNSANY, Edward Plunkett, Lord. Time and the Gods.London : 1922
Signed limited edition, number 61 of 250 copies, signed by Sime on each plate and by Dunsany on the preface. Only the first edition of 1906 and this 1922 edition contains illustrations by Sime. A close collaborator with Dunsany, Sime illustrated Dunsany's first book The Gods of Pegāna (1905) as well as a number of his later works. Time... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 128456
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DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. Zapiski iz mertvago doma (Notes from the House of the Dead).St Petersburg : 1862
First complete edition, very rare presentation copy to Aleksandr Petrovich Miliukov (1817-1897), inscribed by the author in Russian at the head of the first half-title, "Aleksandr Petrovich Miliukov, from the author, in memory, with respect and sincere devotion".
A superb association for this novel. Miliukov and Dostoevsky's brother Mikhail were... Learn More£185,000.00Stock Code: 125557
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DAHL, Roald. The Gremlins.London and Glasgow : [1944]
First UK edition, preceded by the first US edition of the previous year. A special copy, bound for presentation, signed by 32 assorted dignitaries, probably at a special dinner in London in aid of the RAF Benevolent Fund. The eclectic group of signatories include Air Marshall Richard Peck, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, London, and Dahl's superior, to... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 83206
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DAHL, Roald. The Roald Dahl Treasury.London : 1997
First edition, first impression, of this story collection, that includes eight previously unpublished works by Dahl ("Letter from America"; "Letter from Abroad"; "The Owl and the Pussy-cat"; "Hickety, Pickety"; "The Crocodile"; "A poem in reply to schoolchildren"; "Roald Dahl talking"; and "As I grow old"), together with extracts from Charlie and the... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 134400
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DE CHAIR, Somerset. The First Crusade.London : 1945
First edition in English, signed limited issue of 500 copies, of which 100 were specially bound in full vellum; this copy being number 4. Additionally inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Gathorne, from a tired Crusader, this account of those who enjoyed on the road to Jerusalem 'a Happy Martyrdom,' Somerset de Chair, Wingfield Morris... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 120134
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DICKENS, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son.London : 1846-8
First edition, in the original monthly parts published from September 1846 to March 1848, here an especially fresh and clean set of the novel "now recognized as one of the greatest of all his works... It is also the first one to have an explicitly contemporary setting" (ODNB).
The parts are accompanied by Hablot K. Browne's additional... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 136251
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur. The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales.London : [1910]
Signed limited edition, number 800 of 1,000 copies signed by the artist. This collection includes four classic French tales: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Blue Beard, and Beauty and the Beast. This copy with a four-page leaflet advertising Hodder & Stoughton's similar works laid in. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 123585
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DRYDEN, John. The Fables …London : 1796
First editions with these Bartolozzi engravings, the only two works illustrated by Lady Diana Beauclerc, here together in handsome contemporary full morocco. Dryden's adaptations of Chaucer and Boccaccio were among the chief reasons for his perhaps surprisingly high place in the esteem of the Romantic poets, especially Coleridge, Keats, Byron and Scott,... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 118718
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DICK, Philip K. The Collected Stories.Los Angeles, CA, Columbia, PA : 1987
First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number 64 of 100 copies with the author's signature mounted to the limitation leaf of Volume 1, this example cut from a cancelled cheque. A further 400 numbered copies were also released. This posthumous collection of Dick's works include a preface by the author adapted from a letter written in... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131750
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DONNE, John. Poems. With Elegies on the Authors Death.London : 1633
First edition of the principal collection of Donne's poetical works, issued two years after his death. This copy has the two inserted leaves with "The Printer to the Understanders" and the publisher John Marriot's Hexastichon Bibliopolae, not always present, and has the leaf Nn1 in the earlier uncorrected state with 35 lines of text on p. 273 instead... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 82696
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DICKENS, Charles. Original autograph leaf from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.[London : before April 1837]
Original autograph manuscript leaf with authorial deletions and insertions from Pickwick Papers, the novel that transformed an obscure 25-year-old journalist into England's most famous author in a matter of months. One of only five such leaves remaining in private hands, this leaf is from the setting manuscript used by the printers. Fewer than 50 of... Learn More£97,500.00Stock Code: 124911
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DICK, Philip K. The Collected Stories.Los Angeles, CA, Columbia, PA : 1987
First edition, first impression, signed limited issue. An unnumbered "presentation copy", with the author's signature mounted to the limitation leaf of Volume 1, from a total run of 100 signed copies. A further 400 unsigned copies were also released. This posthumous collection of Dick's works include a preface by the author adapted from a letter written... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131931
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DICKENS, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop.Philadelphia : 1842
Second US edition in book form, inscribed by the author on his first visit to America on the title page: "George Morris from Charles Dickens New York. First June 1842".
The recipient was the noted American journalist and poet George Pope Morris (1802-1864), editor and founder of various papers including the New-York Mirror and Ladies'... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 143159
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DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.London : 1871
First edition, first issue of both volumes (vol. I with "transmitted" on p. 297; vol. II with errata on the verso of the title leaf). Here the word "evolution" appears for the first time in any of Darwin's works, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species the following year.
Darwin had hoped that one of his supporters... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 142082
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DEFOE, Daniel. A New Voyage Round the World.Edinburgh : 1810
A most attractive copy of Defoe's fabricated travel narrative, first published in 1724, in which an "unnamed English captain-entrepreneur... leads three ships in a trading (and occasional privateering) circumnavigation that also includes encounters with native peoples, sometimes violent but more peaceable and profitable" (Richetti p. 222). Howgego remarks... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 127590
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DISNEY, Walt. Pinocchio production cel of a Dutch milk maid from the"Give a Little Whistle sequence".Burbank : 1940
An original Pinocchio production cel, with an early inscription. Blue pencil signature and inscription, "To Peggy Fox, from Walt Disney," (possibly studio hand) on a brown 4.25 x 2 inch card affixed to the mat of an original production cel featuring a little Dutch milk maid, who was one of the carved characteras featured on the clock in Geppetto's workshop... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 102774
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DERRIDA, Jacques. The Work of Mourning.Chicago & London : 2001
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by Derrida to the poet and photographer Ira Cohen on the title page, "Pour Ira, de tout coeur, J.D." The book is a collection of eulogies, essays and condolences on the deaths of 14 writers and thinkers who were Derrida's friends or colleagues: Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 111353
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Complete Sherlock Holmes Long StoriesLondon : 1931–32–37–39
A handsomely bound set of the Sherlock Holmes stories together with the author's historical fiction. Mixed editions:both volumes of The Historical Romances are first editions while the Sherlock Holmes Stories are reprints. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 140849
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(DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall.) MORE, Sir Thomas. A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty Work, of the best State of a Public Weal, and of the new Isle called Utopia.London : 1808
First Dibdin edition of More's Utopia, a very attractive edition by the great bibliophile, which includes a bibliography of the early editions, and uses the text of the first English translation of 1551. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 138538
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DUNSANY, Lord. Selections from the Writings.Dundrum : 1912
First edition thus, first impression, one of 250 copies. Lord Dunsany, "unquestionably one of the most important writers of heroic fantasy of the century" was a friend of W. B. Yeats's through their mutual involvement in the Abbey Theatre, where Dunsany's first contribution to the to the Irish theatre movement, The Glittering Gate, was performed... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 139300
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DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet:London : 1738-41
Second and most complete English edition of Du Halde's encyclopaedic survey, "the first definitive European work on the Chinese empire" (Hill) and a cornerstone of any collection of books on China. It was first published in French in 1735; the first English edition published the following year contained just 19 plates and 4 maps.
Du Halde (1674-1743)... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 143967
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); HOUSMAN, Laurence. Stories from The Arabian Nights.London : 1907
First Dulac edition with the plates bound in at the back. Dulac's work rivalled Rackham's in popularity and was largely confined to deluxe editions. Among the popular stories included in this edition is Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 111583
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DAHL, Roald. The Minpins.London : 1991
First edition, first impression. This was Roald Dahl's final work written for children, published posthumously. Minpin was the nickname Dahl used for his daughter, Ophelia, to whom he dedicated the book. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 130124
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DICKENS, Charles. The Pic Nic Papers.London : 1841
First edition, the copy of Dickens's bibliographer Thomas Hatton, with his bookplate to the front pastedowns. This is a later issue without the incorrect "publisher young" on p. 3 of the introduction and with Palmer as the printer of both volumes. Charles Dickens edited the first two volumes of the work and wrote the introduction as well as The Lamplighter's... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 138220
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DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories.London : 1876
A handsomely bound copy. The author's final work, it remained unfinished at the time of his death, in June 1870, and has prompted much speculation as to the resolution of the mystery. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 141619
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DYSON, Freeman. Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman.Lancaster, PA and New York, NY : 1949
First edition, first impression of the paper that demonstrated the equivalence between Richard Feynman's diagram-based approach to quantum electrodynamics and Julius Schwinger and Sinltiro Tomonaga's operator method approach. Both theories were presented for the first time at the Pocono Conference in April 1948, with Feynman and Schwinger going head-to-head,... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 86342
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DYSON, Freeman. Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman.Lancaster, PA and New York, NY : 1949
First editions, first impressions of the papers that demonstrated the equivalence between Richard Feynman's diagram-based approach to quantum electrodynamics and Julius Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga's operator method approach. Both theories were presented for the first time at the Pocono Conference in April 1948, with Feynman and Schwinger going... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 86336
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DOS PASSOS, John. The 42nd Parallel.New York : 1930
First Edition, First Printing. The first novel in Dos Passos's major work, the trilogy U.S.A. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 32963
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DAVENANT, Charles. Discourses on the Publick Revenues, and on the Trade of England. In two Parts.London : 1697-8
First edition of this important early work on economics. Sir Charles Davenant (1656-1714), MP and, at the end of his life, Inspector-General of Exports and Imports, took many years to become recognized as an economist of the first rank, a fact explained by the sophistication of his thought. Part I of the present Discourses contains five essays, on "Political... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 114857
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DAHL, Roald. The BFG.London : 1982
First edition, first impression. A wonderful example of the Chelsea Bindery's work. Dahl's fantastical tale was expanded from a short story within his 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World. A film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released in 2016. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 132372
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.) Stories from the Arabian Nights.London : 1907
Signed limited edition, number 302 of 350 copies numbered and signed by the artist. It was this book that first announced Dulac's status as a popular artist, confirming him as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham... The exotic stories he illustrated struck a new chord in Dulac. They allowed him to enlarge... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 131648
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DARWIN, Charles. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom.London : 1876
First edition. Darwin's research on fertilisation in plants was an offshoot of his work on evolution and natural selection. To demonstrate that genetic variation gave organisms an advantage in the struggle for survival, he performed experiments demonstrating that self-fertilisation weakened plants in comparison with those that had been cross-fertilised.... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 142069
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DICK, Philip K. Galactic Pot-Healer.New York : 1969
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Greetings to Bill! Philip K. Dick". The recipient was a doctor at Yorba Park Medical Group in Orange, California, where Dick was a patient in 1972; inscribed copies of this work are notably uncommon. This copy is the hardback issue, with code "08L" on p. 145; the work was also... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 131533
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club.London : 1838
First edition in book form, of the work that transformed Dickens from an obscure journalist into England's most famous writer in a matter of months. This is a later issue with the two Buss plates replaced with those by Phiz (facing pages 52 and 74), titles and imprints for the plates, and the vignette title page with the signboard reading "Weller" (spelled... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 121406
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club.London : 1837
First edition, bound from the original parts, the scarcer two-volume issue, of the novel that transformed the obscure journalist into England's most famous writer in a matter of months. The novel was first published in serial form from March 1836 to November 1837. This copy has the earlier issue "Veller" on the engraved title page, and mixed plate/textual... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138120
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DUNSANY, Lord. Time and the Gods.London : 1906
First edition, first impression, of this influential fantasy text, with a four-page autograph letter signed from the author to William Roughead tipped-in to the front free endpaper, and Roughead's bookplate to the front pastedown. Roughead (1870-1952) was a Scottish lawyer and popular true crime author with whom Dunsany shared a long-held correspondence... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 139315
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DE ANGELI, Marguerite. The Door In The Wall.Garden City, New York : 1949
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by author to Julie F. Carter on the verso of the title page, 'For Julia Carter, with my warm greetings and in memory of a happy dinner party long ago, affectionately Marguerite De Angeli, 1949.' Winner of the 1950 Newbery Medal. Julia F. Carter, was the first full time children's librarian at the New York Public... Learn More£775.00Stock Code: 89564
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DILKE, Lady Emilia Francis. The Shrine of Death.London : 1886
First edition, trade issue, of Lady Dilke's first work of fiction. The Shrine of Death is a collection of literary fables, the title story telling the tale of a girl instructed to marry Death himself. There was also a large-paper issue of 150 copies in stiff paper wrappers. Lady Dilke is best remembered as an influential art historian, feminist, and... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 107917
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DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.London : 1819
Second and best edition of one of the most important translations of Dante of the Romantic era, following the very scarce first edition which appeared in 1814 in such a diminutive format that it was barely legible. When found, copies of this larger format edition are more usually seen rebound or with repair - this example survives unmolested in attractive... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 139500
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DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,London : 1866
Fourth edition of "the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman). "The fourth edition of 1866 was of 1,500 copies. It was again extensively altered, and it is in this one that the date of the first edition, as given on the verso of the half title, is corrected from October 1st to November 24th 1859" (ibid.) The 32 pp. of adverts bound at... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 121494
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DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,London : 1869
Fifth edition of "the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman). "The fifth edition of 1869 was of 2,000 copies and was again much revised. It is in this one that Darwin used the expression "the survival of the fittest", Herbert Spencer's term, for the first time; it appears first in the heading of Chapter IV" (Freeman). This copy with... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 120387
