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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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DISNEY, Walt. Walt Disney: the Art of Animation.Burbank : 1957
An important early draft, corrected and annotated by Walt Disney throughout, for The Art of Animation, "one of the pillars of Disney bibliography" and the definitive work on Disney animation to that date. In addition to corrections, Walt provided steer to the content, such as noting on p. 103, "Bob possibly too much history & not enough of Sleeping... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 142454
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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. 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 a holograph... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 143142
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DARWIN, Charles. Autograph letter signed, to Henry Colburn.[late October 1837]
An unrecorded early letter from Charles Darwin to his publisher Henry Colburn, regarding the proofing of his upcoming first book, the Voyage of the Beagle, the seminal account of probably the most important voyage in the history of science.
Darwin completed the first draft of the book in June 1837, and in late September sent the manuscript to... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 142676
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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 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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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 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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DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England.London : 1863
Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page "Charles Dickens To Katie Cornelius November, 1864", the recipient being the six-year old daughter of his and his wife Catherine's longtime housemaid Anne Cornelius (neé Brown).
Anne was a most trusted housemaid for the Dickens household, even accompanying the novelist and his wife... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 143169
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DICKENS, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller.London : 1861 [i.e. 1860]
First edition in book form, presentation copy from Dickens to his friend William Harness, inscribed by the author on the title page "The Rev: William Harness From Charles Dickens Christmas, 1860".
Dickens's friendship with the Shakespearean scholar William Harness (1790-1869) probably began at the Athenaeum - where both were members - in 1838,... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 143168
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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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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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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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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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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 "Four Portraits",... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 136251
