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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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DERRIDA, Jacques. Signéponge.Paris : 1988
First French edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Pour Serge et Michele ? fidèlement, J. Derrida". Derrida's tribute to the poetry of Francis Ponge was originally published in the US in 1984, in a bilingual edition entitled Signésponge-Signsponge. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 115229
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(DICKENS, Charles.) ECKEL, John C. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values.London : 1913
First edition, signed limited large-paper issue, number 21 of 250 copies signed by the author and the publishers. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 138141
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(DICKENS, Charles.) ECKEL, John C. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens Their Points and Values.New York : 1932
Revised and enlarged edition, number 42 of 750 copies only. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138142
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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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DUCREST, [Charles Louis,] marquis de. Essais sur les Machines Hydrauliques,Paris : 1777
First edition. On hydraulics, the construction of hydraulic machines, and shipbuilding, illustrated with a fine set of technical illustrations, this work includes the general principles of the resistance of fluids, and of the mechanics of paddle-wheels and their application in mills and pumps. One chapter is devoted to the resistance of fluids against... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 68900
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DICKENS, Charles. Signed invitation card with holograph entry in Dickens's hand and annotated playbill for the production of Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, given by Dickens's company, the Amateur Players.London : 1845
A superb memento of Dickens's theatrical high-water mark, his bravura performance as the "craven and boastful" Captain Bobadil in his own "strictly private" production of Ben Jonson's comedy Every Man in his Humour. The invitation card - in effect a ticket to the performance - carries his characteristic flourished signature on the verso and... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 143142
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DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol.London : 1846
First Bradbury and Evans edition (although stated eleventh edition); very uncommon. It was first published in 1843, and this edition was first issued after Dickens fell out with Chapman and Hall over dwindling returns, and he had Bradbury and Evans publish separate issues of the "Eleventh" and "Twelfth" editions under their imprint. "The second, seventh,... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 136717
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DAVY, Charles. Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing.London : 1772
First edition, in which Davy discusses the Chinese, Hebrew, and Greek writing systems, as well as the "symbolic writing" of the Egyptians. The folding tables show Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, Syriac, Persian, Arabic, and Coptic letters. Davy's observations on the origin of writing are "conjectural" because he argues that, besides the account of God giving... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 114068
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DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock.London : 1840-41
FIRST EDITION, IN THE ORIGINAL WEEKLY PARTS, the rarest of the three formats in which it was issued, this set in attractive condition and partly unopened. Gordon Ray described this work, which issues two novels together, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge, as "the pinnacle of Dickensian Gothic".
This publishing experiment... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 142940
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DOUGLAS, Sir Howard. Naval Evolutions; A MemoirLondon : 1832
First edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To my Dearly beloved Daughter Mary Gartshore, Green Street, Sept. 28 1844, Howard Douglas"; Mary (d. 1851) married John Murray-Gartshore of Ravelston in 1836 (Gartshore served on the committee of the Naval and Military Bible Society); Howard's address was 15 Green... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 130442
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.Philadelphia : 1836-1837
First US editions, first states. Parts 1 to 4 (appearing between 5 November 1836 and 20 September 1837) precede the first book edition in London, which was published by Chapman and Hall on 17 November 1837. The fifth part of the American edition appeared on 29 December. Part I is particularly scarce in first state, being issued in only 1,500 copies... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 138128
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. De l'Origine et des Progrès d'une Science Nouvelle.London & Paris : 1768
First edition of undoubtedly one of the scarcest of Dupont's works, and probably one of the most successful publications promoting physiocracy. This copy has leaf B1 in the rare, uncancelled state. Schumpeter, in his discussion on the physiocrats, calls Dupont "by far the ablest of the lot" (p. 226) and Palgrave notes; "If Quesnay was the father of... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 112212
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles.London : 1902
First edition in book form. The Hound of the Baskervilles was Sherlock Holmes's comeback after his shocking demise on the Reichenbach Falls stunned his loyal Victorian readership. When first serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1901 it was a great success, with queues at the publisher's office and throughout the country. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136147
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.London : 1837
First edition, early issue, with most of the first issue points. All the plates are in early states with page numbers as called for but no titles or imprints, and the vignette title page with the signboard reads "Veller" (corrected to "Weller" in later issues). Robert Seymour provided the illustrations until he committed suicide; Robert William Buss... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 116613
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DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House.London : 1853
First edition, bound from the original parts as issued between March 1852 and September 1853. "The satire of Bleak House focuses on the obfuscations and delays of the court of chancery which result in widespread human misery and suffering, but the novel's complicated plot and centripetal organization bring into the picture a great cross-section of contemporary... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 143648
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. De l'origine et des progrès d'une science nouvelle.London & Paris : 1768
First edition of undoubtedly one of the scarcest of Dupont's works, and probably one of the most successful publications promoting physiocracy. Schumpeter, in his discussion on the physiocrats, calls Dupont "by far the ablest of the lot" (p. 226) and Palgrave notes: "If Quesnay was the father of physiocracy, Dupont was its godfather, for he gave it... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 123576
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DOUGLAS, Sir Howard. Naval Evolutions; A Memoir by…1832
First edition. The third son of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Douglas, Douglas was originally intended for the Navy, but after his father's death, his guardians, without consultation, obtained a place for him at the Royal Military Academy. He was subsequently superintendent of the senior department at Sandhurst, and served with distinction as assistant quartermaster-general... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 60040
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DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House.London : 1853
First edition, bound from the original parts as issued between March 1852 and September 1853. "The satire of Bleak House focuses on the obfuscations and delays of the court of chancery which result in widespread human misery and suffering, but the novel's complicated plot and centripetal organization bring into the picture a great cross-section of contemporary... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 143645
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DAVIES, W. Robertson. Shakespeare's Boy Actors.1939
First Edition, First Impression of the author's first book. Still a standard in the field. In a letter to a collector written in 1951 Davies reported having no spare copies of this book and that his best guess was that no more than 600 were in existence. Scarce in dust jacket. Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 38548
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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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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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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles.London : 1902
First edition, first impression. The Hound was Sherlock Holmes's "comeback" novel after his shocking demise on the Reichenbach Falls stunned his loyal Victorian readership. When first serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1901 it was a feverish success, with queues at the publisher's office and throughout the country. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 132284
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DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England.London : 1852-4 [i.e. 1851-3]
First editions in book form, first issues with the advertisements at the ends of each volume with the relevant points. Dickens's history of England for children, "intensely anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchical" (ODNB), originally appeared anonymously in Household Words between January 1851 and December 1853, with the volumes published in... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 138215
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DAHL, Roald. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.London : 1985
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front blank, "To Justin, with love Roald Dahl 14/10/85". This copy was purchased at Dahl's local bookshop and inscribed close to publication (October 1985). The books' owner spent much time around the Dahl house in Great Missenden and had an after-school job at Dahl and Son Antiques on... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 120075
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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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DUNSANY, Lord. The Blessing of Pan.London : 1927
First edition, first impression. Lord Dunsany was "unquestionably one of the most important writers of heroic fantasy of the century; a writer of great originality and charm" (Bleiler). The Blessing of Pan, "one of a great number of modern fantasies that champion paganism against Christianity" is "light and ironic in tone" and describes the gradual... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132841
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DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.New York : 1964
First edition, first printing, first issue. The first issue can be distinguished by the six lines of printing information on the final page: this was cut to five in all subsequent issues. The US edition precedes the UK edition by three years. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 139124
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PUNSHON, E. R. The Bath Mysteries.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. A gruesome mystery from the Sergeant Bobby Owen series, and published in the US in 1942 under the title The Bathtub Murder Case. This is the publisher's retained copy with their stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket and the front pastedown, from the archive of Victor Gollancz (1893-1967), one of the revolutionary... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 93706
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DOLMEN PRESS. The Dolmen Chapbook: A Miscellany in Twelve Parts.Dublin
Rare complete set of the Dolmen chapbooks in the original paper wrappers. "The idea behind the Dolmen chapbooks was to print short texts with illustrations, using various type formats and techniques within a uniform page size The series gives a fair picture of the very personal interests which informed the Press at this time, and several of the titles... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 79449
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. De l'origine et des progrès d'une science nouvelle.London & Paris : 1768
First edition of undoubtedly one of the scarcest of Dupont's works, and probably one of the most successful publications promoting physiocracy. The work is based on Le Mercier de la Rivière's L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des Sociétés politiques (with which it is here bound), which Adam Smith referred to as "the most distinct and best connected account... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 93587
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DUNSANY, Edward Plunkett, Lord. The Last Revolution.London : 1951
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Dunsany (1878-1957) was "unquestionably one of the most important writers of heroic fantasy of the century; a writer of great originality and charm" (Bleiler). Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 100857
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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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DUNSANY, Edward Plunkett, Lord. The Little Tales of Smethers.London : 1952
First edition, first printing in second state green cloth binding. A Bleiler listed fantasy novel as well as a Queen's Quorum title. Dunsany (1878-1957) was "unquestionably one of the most important writers of heroic fantasy of the century; a writer of great originality and charm" (Bleiler). Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 100855
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DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed.1842
Autograph letter signed from Charles Dickens to Thomas C. Grattan (1792-1864), Irish novelist and British consul in Boston, upon Dickens's return from his first trip to America, in total around 200 words in his hand. A bitter Dickens reflects upon his trip, generally seen as unsuccessful following controversies over copyright, and has come back to find... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 137058
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DISNEY, Walt - OUSSENKO, Alexis. Original artwork for Bambi sticker book.Berne : [c.1950]
A remarkable and unique collection of original gouache designs by illustrator Alexis Oussenko. These designs depict Disney's Bambi and were produced for a Bambi and Cinderella sticker book published as a collectible album by the Swiss chocolate company Tobler in French, German, and Italian. The 32 designs collected here are mounted in the final page... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 137327
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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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DONNE, John - SYLVESTER, Josuah. Lachrimae lachrimarum.[London : 1612 & 1613]
First appearance of a rare lifetime publication of a poem by John Donne, in the third edition of these funerary verses for Prince Henry, bound together with the second edition. The sombre theme is echoed in the mise-en-page, the text predominately set in deep black woodcut borders with funerary ornaments either side. The promising life of Henry Frederick,... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 118729
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DOUGLAS, Norman. Looking Back.London : 1933
First and limited edition, first impression, number 36 of 535 numbered copies signed by the author. "Douglas published Looking Back in 1933, a discursive, leisurely autobiography drawing upon material accumulated over several decades, and brought out as a two-volume limited edition of 535 copies under the guidance of Charles Prentice, his friend and... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 105292
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DRINKWATER, John. A Narrative of the Proceedings of the British Fleet, Commanded by Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. in the Late Action with the Spanish Fleet, on the Fourteenth of February 1797, off Cape St. Vincent's.London : 1797
First edition of "one of the most important eye-witness accounts" of Jervis's famous victory (National Maritime Museum), at which Nelson so signally distinguished himself and was afterwards at pains to ensure that his role was emphasized, this book playing a key role in the creation of his legend; this is an attractive, well-margined copy of an uncommon... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 143622
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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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DUNSANY, Edward Plunkett, Lord. The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders.London : 1950
First edition, first impression in the second issue binding (the first issue being black cloth). From the author's library, inscribed as such by Dunsany's wife on the front free endpaper, and dated 1958. In this work Colonel Polder's is put under a spell causing him to live the life of variety of animals, and a short time that of a jinn. Dunsany (1878-1957)... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 110365
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. Sur l'éducation nationale dans les États-Unis d'Amérique. Seconde édition.Paris : 1812.
Stated second edition but apparently the first printed. Schelle cites a "Philadelphia 1800" edition (no. 74) but we have been unable to locate a copy and it is apparently unrecorded. Dupont had published in 1793 a work of 47 pages entitled Vues sur l'éducation nationale par un cultivateur ou moyen de simplifier l'instruction, de la rendre à la fois... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 113624
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DUNSANY, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord. Tales of Three Hemispheres.London : 1920
First UK edition, first impression, using the sheets of the American edition (published by Luce in Boston in 1919); most uncommon in the jacket, whose blurb describes this as "a collection of twelve fantastic stories, nearly all Oriental, or semi-Oriental". Dunsany (1878-1957) was "unquestionably one of the most important writers of heroic fantasy of... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 106480
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DOYLE, A. Conan. The Sign of Four.London : 1890
First edition. This copy has both internal issue points, "138" on the contents page is incomplete and appears as "13" and "wishes" is misspelt on p.56 as "w shed". However, these issue points are present in both the first and second issue of the first edition, the only way of determining between the two issues is by the binding. The second issue was... Learn More£3,975.00Stock Code: 48026
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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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DALÍ, Salvador. Le Mythe Tragique de L'Angélus de Millet.Paris : 1963
First edition, first printing. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 71472
