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SHAKESPEARE, William. Venus and Adonis.Oxford : 1905
Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies, in a superb binding by the Chelsea Bindery, of this Oxford University facsimile reprint of the earliest surviving editions of Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, the Sonnets, The Passionate Pilgrim, and the play Pericles, as a supplement to the reproduction of the First Folio issued by the Oxford University Press in... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 65822
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![[Original illustrated manuscript] "Giselle: A Romantic Ballet In Two Acts. Presented by Les Ballet St Trinian's."](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/9/0/90918.jpg)
SEARLE, Ronald. [Original illustrated manuscript] "Giselle: A Romantic Ballet In Two Acts. Presented by Les Ballet St Trinian's."[1956?]
A fine comic manuscript, with eight large original drawings, showing Searle's immortal naughty schoolgirls in a variety of scenes from a nightmarish production of the romantic ballet. The manuscript is unpublished and undated, but it was probably inspired by the Bolshoi's legendary 1956 visit to Covent Garden; Searle undoubtedly saw the ballet then,... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 90918
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SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat.New York : 1957
First edition, first issue, with the price listed on the dust jacket as 200/200 and the boards not laminated as in later issues. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 99963
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![[Othello.] Othllo.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/131742.jpg)
SHAKESPEARE, William. [Othello.] Othllo.Istanbul : 1293 [1876]
First edition in Ottoman Turkish, done by Hasan Bedreddin and Mehmet Rifat from the French translation of Jean-Francois Ducis, and performed 186777 in Gedikpasa theatre in Istanbul, the first theatre in Turkey where plays were performed by Turkish actors rather than travelling troupes. Shakespeare was becoming popular at this time, after the Armenians... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 131742
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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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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. An Address to the Irish People.Dublin : 1812
First edition of Shelley's very rare political pamphlet in support of agitation to repeal the Act of Union and to secure Catholic emancipation, energetically distributed by the young aristocrat, who threw copies at likely passers-by from his balcony in Sackville Street, tucked them into ladies' bonnets, and attempted to sell them in public houses.
The... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 101947
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SPENDER, Stephen; John Buckland-Wright & others (illus.) Fraternity.Paris & New York : 1939
First edition, first printing. Limited to 101 numbered copies plus 12 hors-commerce signed by Spender, Aragon and each of the nine artists: John Buckland-Wright; Stanley William Hayter; Josef Hecht; Dalla Husband; Wassily Kandinsky; Roderick Mean; Joan Miró; Dolf Rieser; and Luis Vargas. Compiled to protest against the rise of fascism in Europe. The... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 91467
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SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are.New York : 1963
First edition, first printing, first issue, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "For Janet Anderson, Maurice Sendak 4/15/82". With the ticket for a book signing at Newcomb Hall Bookstore at the University of Virginia loosely inserted, signed by Anderson on the back; Janet Anderson served as a book designer at the University of Virginia Press.
There... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 133220
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SOLOVIEV, Vladimir. Tri sily. Publichnoe chtenie. (Three Forces; A Public Reading.)Moscow : 1877
Scarce first edition of the Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic Vladimir Soloviev's rousing lecture read to the Society of Amateurs of Russian Literature in April 1877. Mankind, he argues, is subject to three forces: the urge towards social unity, the urge towards individualism, and the urge to recognise God in other... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 86058
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses.London : 1885
First edition, one of 1,000 copies published. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 132801
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STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath.New York : 1939
First edition, first printing. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 135684
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SYNGE, J. M. The Playboy of the Western World.Dublin : 1907
First edition, first impression. Considered the playwright's most important work it was first performed in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin on 26 January 1907. The central theme of apparent patricide attracted a hostile public reaction and on the second night riots broke out and the rest of the play had to be performed in dumb show. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 78823
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STEINBECK, John. Cup of Gold.New York : 1929
First edition, first printing with the top stain and final blank. Steinbeck's rarest book. Only 1,537 copies of the first printing were issued and this one, with fresh cloth and the top-stain and jacket spine largely unfaded, is the best we have ever seen. A superb copy. Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 84781
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SHAKESPEARE, William. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: a Tragedy.[Hamlet] Dublin : 1725
Second Dublin edition of Hamlet, following the first of 1721, which is notable for being the first printing of Shakespeare outside his native country, together with the first Dublin editions of Macbeth (1723) and Henry VIII (1734).
Having moved from Scotland to Dublin some years earlier, George Grierson (c. 1680-1753) set up his own printing... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 138226
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SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems.London : 1919
First edition, first impression. The volume includes 63 poems of the war, most written while Sassoon was in hospital recovering from his injuries. "Sassoon's savagely realistic and compassionate war poems had established his stature as a fully fledged poet, and despite all his later prose and verse, and his growing aversion to the label, it was mainly... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135908
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![The House at Pooh Corner. [With an original pen and ink drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh.]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/138703comp.jpg)
MILNE, A. A.; SHEPARD, E. H. (illus.) The House at Pooh Corner. [With an original pen and ink drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh.]London : 1929
Third edition. With an original pen and ink drawing on the title page by Shepard of Winnie-the-Pooh in full traditional Russian costume including a fur hat and playing a balalaika, signed beneath the image. Rare thus.
Milne began planning his final Pooh book in 1927. Three years of intense publicity were taking their toll on the family, and Milne... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 138703
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SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians.Melbourne, London, Toronto : 1956
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 72239
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STOKER, Bram. Dracula.New York : 1899
First U.S. edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Lady Errington from Bram Stoker 31.05.08". Lady Frances Helena Errington (d. c.1935) was the wife of Sir George Errington (1839-1920), 1st baronet, Dublin-born MP for Longford (1874-1885), High Sheriff of Tipperary (1888) and Wexford (1901). Errington was a prominent... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 121627
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis, & Lloyd Osbourne. The Ebb-Tide.London : 1894
First edition, first issue (the cloth is indicative). This is the only recorded copy of the first edition known to have survived in dust jacket. In this period the dust jacket, as its name implies, was intended to keep the book clean from the dust and soil of commerce. The outer paper jacket was designed to be discarded at the point of sale, to reveal... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 27986
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![[Wealth of Nations in Russian:] Issledovaniia o prirode i prichinakh bogatstva narodov s primechaniiami Bentama, Blanki, Bukhanana, Garn'e, Mak-Kulokha, Mal'tusa, Millia, Rikardo, Seia, Sismondi I Tiurgo.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/9/9/99950_1.jpg)
SMITH, Adam. [Wealth of Nations in Russian:] Issledovaniia o prirode i prichinakh bogatstva narodov s primechaniiami Bentama, Blanki, Bukhanana, Garn'e, Mak-Kulokha, Mal'tusa, Millia, Rikardo, Seia, Sismondi I Tiurgo.St Petersburg : 1866
First edition of the much-improved second Russian translation of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, reproducing the notes and apparatus from the 1843 Blanqui edition. This translation, published following the growing public dissatisfaction with an earlier version, encumbered with obsolete prose and unspecific terminology, appeared in the Library of Classical... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 99950
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SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat.New York : 1957
First edition, first printing, inscribed by Dr. Seuss on verso of front endpaper, "for Brent, best wishes, Dr. Seuss". This is the first issue, with the price code on the jacket 200/200 and the boards not laminated as in later issues. This is an exceptionally nice example of the landmark children's book, entirely unrestored. Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 138697
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SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians.London : 1956
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 88962
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SWIFT, Jonathan. Directions to Servants In General;London : 1745
First London edition, probably following the Dublin edition published the same year. The satire dated back to 1704, but Swift kept the manuscript by him; he is known to have been working on it in 1731 and probably the following year, though it shows some signs of remaining unfinished. It was finally published posthumously in the year of his death. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 108447
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SMITH, Adam. Ricerche sulla Natura, e le Cagioni della Riccezza delle Nazioni...Naples : 1790-1
Rare first Italian translation of the Wealth of Nations, probably the rarest of the 18th-century complete translations. No copy has appeared at auction since 1963. Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 85981
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SHUTE, Nevil. Marazan.London : 1926
First edition, first impression, of the author's first book. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 112480
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Taming of the Shrew.1940
Limited issue, one of 1,950 copies. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 87005
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SHEPARD, E. H. (illus.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1931
First Shepard edition, the first illustrated edition of this children's classic, which was first published in 1908. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 127194
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SEUSS, Dr. The Lorax.New York : 1971
First edition, first issue. Seuss's environmental masterpiece. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 101765
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SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems.London : 1919
First edition, first impression. Collects a number of the author's best known war poems and much previously unpublished work. This in many ways is Sassoon's key poetical statement on the war. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119624
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(SHEPARD, Ernest H.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1931
Signed limited edition, number 172 of 200 large paper copies signed by both author and artist. Wind in the Willows was first published in 1908 with only a frontispiece for illustration. Well-known for his illustrations of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh series, Shepard was asked to illustrate a new edition, following Milne's popular adaptation of the... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 138548
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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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SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. The Little Prince.New York : 1943
First edition, first printing. The original manuscript was in the author's native French, but it was both written and published in America, the English and French editions appearing in April 1943, perhaps simultaneously. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 137497
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SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat.New York : 1957
First edition, first issue. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 132903
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SHEPARD, Ernest H. (illus.); 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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SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are.New York : 1963
First edition, first printing. Where the Wild Things Are was criticized at the time of publication for its darker elements, but was soon acclaimed as a triumph of children's storytelling and book design; it has remained a classic of 20th-century children's literature, and was adapted into a film in 2009. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 133114
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SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Autograph manuscript.c.1952
An unpublished fragment from Sartre's unfinished novel, La Dernière Chance, the final volume of his projected tetralogy, Les Chemins de la liberté (Roads of Freedom). Two chapters had appeared in Les Temps modernes in 1949 under the title Drôle d'amitié (Strange Friendship), but Sartre dropped the work in 1952.... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 129308
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SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. Night Flight.London : 1932
First UK edition, first impression. Saint-Exupéry is most famous for his landmark children's book Le Petit Prince (1943), but Night Flight, first published as Vol de Nuit (1931), is his greatest literary work, a remarkable modernist treatment of the new age, man's position in it and the relationship of technology and humanity, selected by Connolly... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 129419
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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
