Search results for: 'chelsea bindery'
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(WHITTINGTON, Dick.) ANON. The Life and Times of Dick Whittington:London : 1841
First edition, beautifully bound by the Chelsea Bindery. Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 26722
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DAVID, Elizabeth. A Book of Mediterranean Food.London : 1958
Second edition, improved with revisions. Beautifully bound by the Chelsea Bindery. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 60075
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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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![The Case of Mr. John Harrison [drop-head and docket title].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/9/4/94021.jpg)
HARRISON, John. The Case of Mr. John Harrison [drop-head and docket title].[London] : 1773
A rare and significant survival, this is the third of three editions published, the first undated in 1767, and another in 1770 (though no extant copy of that printing is recorded). This third was published the year before Harrison was awarded most of the prize offered under the terms of the 1714 Longitude Act, and indeed may never have been issued;... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 94021
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![[Complete detective novels:] Red Harvest; The Dain Curse; The Maltese Falcon; The Glass Key; The Thin Man.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/116919_3.jpg)
HAMMETT, Dashiell. [Complete detective novels:] Red Harvest; The Dain Curse; The Maltese Falcon; The Glass Key; The Thin Man.New York & London : 1929-34
First editions, first printings, of the complete series of Hammett's seminal full-length detective novels. As usual The Glass Key is the first American edition; the first impression was printed in London in the same year during Knopf's ill-fated attempt to break into the British market and is scarce. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 116919
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SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Das Wesen und der Hauptinhalt der theoretischen Nationalökonomie.Leipzig : 1908
First edition of the author's first major work, "which was probably conceived during his days as a graduate student and written in Cairo. It was a brilliant statement of general equilibrium theory, making clear both what static theory could explain and what it could not" (IESS). The work established Schumpter's fame as an outstanding figure among the... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 106913
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LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera.London : 1911
First UK edition, first printing, in English of this mystery thriller which formed the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical and several film adaptations. In his day Leroux was considered "the foremost of the modern French writers of detective fiction." Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 93931
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BECKETT, Samuel. Comment c'est.Paris : 1961
First and limited edition, number 4 of 10 copies hors de commerce, inscribed by author on the title page, "pour Alan Clodd, Samuel Beckett. Nov. 72". Alan Clodd (1918-2002) was a noted Irish publisher, book collector, and dealer. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 124190
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[BAUM, L. Frank; as] BANCROFT, Laura. Twinkle's Enchantment.Chicago. : 1906
First edition, first printing. Part of a six volume series of short fairy tales L. Frank Baum wrote using the pseudonym Laura Bancroft. Learn More£700.00Stock Code: 95673
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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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HUMBOLDT, Alexander von. Des lignes isothermes et de la distribution de la chaleur sur le globe.Paris : 1817
First separate issue, the work also being issued in periodical form in Mémoires de physique et de chimie de la societe Arcueil 3 (1817). The work is notable for containing the first map to show the use of isotherms, a term Humboldt coined for lines of equal average temperatures. The chart extends only across the northern hemisphere, from America to... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 90281
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MAYR, Ernst. Five offprints on birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition.New York : 1938-41
Offprints of five ornithological papers by Ernst Mayr (1904-2005) that appeared in the American Museum Novitates. Notes on New Guinea Birds IV is inscribed on the front wrapper by Mayr to Hubert Lynes (1874-1942), admiral and noted ornithologist: "To Admiral Lynes with Kindest regards, E. Mayr." In 1929, Mayr, who was already in New Guinea on behalf... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 91310
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(FLEMING, Ian.) CONNOLLY, Cyril. "Bond Strikes Camp. An Extravaganza."London : 1963
First edition of this Bond pastiche, superbly inscribed by Fleming to his close friend Richard Hughes on the front cover, "Dikko - Ouch! Ian", and with a mark in his hand next to the title of the Bond story. Richard Hughes was a good friend of Fleming's and the dedicatee of You Only Live Twice (published in 1964). In 1959, Ian Fleming was given a licence... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 124681
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BOYLE, Robert. Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica.London : 1690
First edition of "the first tract in English upon the determination of specific gravity" (Fulton, p.128). At the end is "A catalogue of the philosophical books and tracts, written by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq." (Wing B3928A) at end, which has been marked by a contemporary hand. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 108077
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JOYCE, James. Dedalus.Paris : 1924
First French edition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. With the translator's signed presentation inscription to the first blank leaf. The name of the recipient has been excised and the inscription partially obscured by a one-page autograph letter from Joyce written in French on the back of one of the advertisement leaves which were laid into... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 46464
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LAWRENCE, D. H. Women In Love.New York, [but issued in London : 1920
First edition, UK issue, being one of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Martin Secker bought 50 sets of sheets from the 1,250 copies printed for the true first American edition, and bound them very much in the Secker style, though the publisher's name does not appear anywhere in the book. This is the first signed limited issue, as the US copies... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 124407
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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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WAUGH, Evelyn. Black Mischief.1932
First edition, first impression of Waugh's "satire on European notions of 'progress' imitated by an imaginary African nation" (ODNB). Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 31085
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MURDOCH, Iris. Under The Net.London : 1954
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 48515
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(DISNEY, Walt.) PALMER, H. Marion. Walt Disney's Surprise Package.New York : 1944
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper in crayon to "Mimi Bonesteel, Happy Easter, Walt Disney." Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 89991
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ROSENBERG, Isaac. The Collected Works.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 98133
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GREENE, Graham. The Man Within.London : 1929
First edition, first impression. Greene's first novel, preceded only by a slim volume of poetry. Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 78752
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POWELL, Anthony. From a View to a Death.London : 1933
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Clara from the author, Tony Powell. Oct 17th 1933". The recipient was potentially Powell's cook, Clara Warville. Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 83172
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ORWELL, George. Inside the WhaleLondon : 1940
First edition, first impression, one of 1,000 copies printed. The publisher's retained copy with their rubber stamp to the half title leaf. Orwell may well have been the finest essayist England produced in the entire century. Despite his radical credo in his essays he remains the last of the great Victorian prose stylists. Besides the title essay, this... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 124300
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JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.London : 1917
So-called second edition; the first edition to be printed in the UK. This edition was preceded by the English issue of the Huebsch edition of 1916. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the half title page, "To George and Mary Slocombe James Joyce Paris 7. i. 926"; George Slocombe was an English journalist writing for the American papers.... Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 77029
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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, "Three Forces", read to the Society of Amateurs of Russian Literature in April 1877.
"In the academic year 1876-7 Soloviev returned to teaching and worked on a second book, The Philosophical Principles of Integral... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 86058
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SPENDER, Stephen. (John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter, Josef Hecht, Dalla Husband, Wassily Kandinsky, Roderick Mean, Joan Miró, Dolf Rieser, Luis Vargas.) 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. Compiled to protest against the rise of fascism in Europe. The engravings were printed by Atelier 17 and Henri Hecht. Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 91467
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[BERKELEY, Anthony; as] ILES, Francis. Before the Fact.London : 1932
First edition, first impression; rare in the jacket, which prints Gollancz's sensational list of the possible identities of "Francis Iles", including E. M. Forster, R. Austin Freeman, Patrick Hamilton, Aldous Huxley, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Eden Phillpotts, Osbert Sitwell, Hugh Walpole and H. G. Wells. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 86219
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LAWRENCE, D. H. The Prussian Officer and Other Stories.London : 1914
First edition, first impression, in a stunning example of the rare dust jacket. Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 95594
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LOVELACE, Delos Wheeler; Edgar Wallace & Merian C. Cooper. King Kong.New York : 1932
First edition in book form. The novelization was serialized in Mystery Magazine the same year and published in book form slightly before the film was released. Lovelace was a former newspaper reporter, author of several books, including biographies of football coach Knute Rockne and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The original concept was Merian C. Cooper's,... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 40361
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The People's RightsLondon : 1910
First edition, first general paper wrappers issue, first state, with index, and just a single appendix; and p. 71 - section title for "The People's Trade" - misnumbered 1. "All issues of The People's Rights are extremely scarce" (Cohen) despite a print run of 40,000, this largely due to the low quality of the materials, and the cheap and clumsy method... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 88138
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(WARHOL, Andy.) DENBY, Edwin. C: a Journal of Poetry. Vol. 1, No. 4 (September 1963).New York : 1963
First and only edition. The front cover image shows Edwin Denby seated, with Gerard Malanga standing behind him; the back cover Malanga and Denby are kissing. Warhol took the photographs with a polaroid camera and this is the first known Warhol silkscreen from a polaroid. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 93906
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BARRIE, J. M. The Plays.1928
First edition, first impression. The first play in this book is the version of Peter Pan by which the character of Peter Pan was established in the form we know today. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 32040
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(BRANSOM, Paul.) COOPER, Frederic Taber. 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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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Love Among the Chickens.[1921]
Second edition, entirely rewritten, first issue. This title was Wodehouse's first novel for adults and the one in which he found his voice. Initially published in 1906 the author rewrote the work for publication in 1921. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 41766
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BEERBOHM, Max. Zuleika Dobson.1911
First edition, first impression. "In 1911 he published to great critical acclaim his only novel, Zuleika Dobson. This fantasy about the beautiful young woman whose visit to Oxford occasions the suicide of all the undergraduates has proved his most popular prose work; it has been the most continuously in print of all his books. An expanded edition,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 41557
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(GOBLE, Warwick.) KINGSLEY, Charles. The Water Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby.London : 1910
First octavo edition of Goble's Water Babies, following the quarto edition of the previous year. "Goble moved into the big time in 1909 when he became the resident gift book illustrator for the large publishing firm of Macmillan. The first of his classic de luxe volume in the Macmillan series was The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley. Containing 32... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 31785
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WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob's Room.Richmond : 1922
First edition, first impression. One of 40 "A" subscribers' copies with the part-printed limitation label to the front free endpaper completed in ink by Virginia Woolf and signed by her. These copies were issued in advance of the trade publication and were not issued in dust jacket; they were given to the active subscribers who had supported the press's... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 65828
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JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.New York : 1916
First edition, first printing, and a very attractive copy of Joyce's first novel. Due at least in part to the adverse reception of the Egoist serialisation of A Portrait, no English printer would print the book for fear of prosecution under the obscenity laws. It was Huebsch who undertook the true first publication in book form, first published on 29... Learn More£5,250.00Stock Code: 77507
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POUND, Ezra. The Pisan Cantos.New York : 1948
First edition, first printing, inscribed twice by the author on the front free endpaper: "Eileen from Ezra full benedictions S. Liz 1949", and with his subsequent inscription, "having been forgot returned and re returned repeat 'benedictions' June 58". A superb relic from the St Elizabeth years: the recipient was Eileen Lane Kinney, a member of the... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 124333
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HODGSON, William Hope. The Ghost Pirates.London : 1909
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy of Hodgson's landmark work, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "N. Rendall, Esq. from William Hope Hodgson - 'May we be friends e'en though we disagree'. Sept. 21st '09." Rare inscribed, with no other copies traced. Hailed as one of the best novel-length works of supernatural fiction... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 101607
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WEST, Nathanael. Miss Lonelyhearts.New York : 1933
First Edition, third issue with the Greenberg title page. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 29911
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GREENE, Graham. The Confidential Agent.London : 1939
First edition, first impression. This is one of the author's key pre-war mystery novels featuring an "intricate duel between good and evil", written in only six weeks (ODNB). Uncommon in the dust jacket. Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 124277
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HARTLEY, L. P. Night Fears and Other Stories.London & New York : 1924
First edition, first impression of the author's first published work. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 75396
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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.London : 1962
First combined edition. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 59975
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WAUGH, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust.London : 1934
First edition, first impression, of the book now widely regarded as his masterpiece. Scarce in the jacket. Learn More£9,250.00Stock Code: 126378
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![[The Gormenghast trilogy:]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/2/9/29899.jpg)
PEAKE, Mervyn. [The Gormenghast trilogy:]1946-59
First editions, first impressions of Peake's masterpiece. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 29899
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BLOCH, Robert. Psycho.New York : 1959
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 101725
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Islands in the Stream.New York : 1970
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 47413
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LEFÈVRE, Edwin. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.New York : 1923
First edition, a remarkably well preserved example of this book which is extremely hard to find in anything like good condition, having been literally read to pieces. The so-called fictional "Reminiscences" of a stock operator, the work is in fact the result of a series of interviews made by Edwin Lefèvre, a Wall Street journalist, with the renowned... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 99933
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JEKYLL, Gertrude. Lilies for English Gardens.London : 1901
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 95231
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COLLODI, Carlo. The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio.1892
First edition in English. The London and New York editions are from the same sheets and both dated 1892, although the inscription here suggests that the London edition at least was issued the previous year, presumably for the Christmas gift market. First issued in magazine instalments in the Giornale dei bambini (Rome, 7 July 1881 on), Pinocchio was... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 44582
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POWELL, Anthony. Caledonia. A Fragment.London : 1934]
First edition, sole impression, one of fewer than 100 copies printed for Powell himself. This is the dedication copy of Powell's droll Anti-Scots pastiche, inscribed by the author on the dedication leaf, "And Wyndham Lloyd, Esquire being the latter of these two gentlemen referred to the in the printed dedication and this copy being presented by the... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 77382
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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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BRAMAH, Ernest. Max Carrados.London : 1914
First edition, first impression. The first book in Bramah's series of stories with Max Carrados, "a detective of a totally new and unexpected type, for he is blind; but the alluring peculiarity of his case is that his blindness is more than counterbalanced by an enormously enhanced perception of the other senses" (from the dust jacket). A Haycraft-Queen... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 86236
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FORSTER, E. M. A Passage to India.London : 1924
First edition, first impression. Copies in the dust jacket are very scarce. "Up to the last moment Forster had been assailed by doubts and despairs about his novel, but its reception removed all his fears. The book suited the moment, and friends and reviewers alike called it a masterpiece and his finest achievement" (P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 126380
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JEKYLL, Gertrude. Children and Gardens.London : 1908
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 95223
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WEST, Nathaniel. The Complete Works.1957
First UK edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 65670
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O'HARA, John. Appointment in Samarra.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing in lovely fine binding. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 86667
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MEIBOM, Marcus. De Fabrica triremium liber.Amsterdam : 1671
First and only edition of this uncommon treatise on ancient shipbuilding, drawn from classical and Biblical sources, illustrated with a beautiful, etched frontispiece by de Hooghe. Born in Tönningen, Schleswig-Holstein, around 1630, Meibom was a Danish philologist and polymath scholar probably best known for his work on music in antiquity. His Antiquae... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 67473
