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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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DISNEY, Walt (inscr.); 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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BRANSOM, Paul (illus.); COOPER, Frederick Taber (ed.) 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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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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GOLDING, William. The Inheritors.London : 1955
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription on the title page "For Michael Curtis with best wishes from William Golding." Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 85188
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FAULKNER, William. Pylon.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, limited issue. Number 310 of 310 copies only signed by the author; one of Faulkner's smallest limitations. Learn More£1,925.00Stock Code: 26303
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WELLS, H. G. The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance.London : 1897
First edition, first impression. With Wells's fine contemporary presentation inscription to the half title page, "W. W. Jacobs from H. G. Wells". With the recipient's embroidered silk bookmark laid in. An excellent association: Jacobs (1863-1943) was a close contemporary of Wells, the highest earning writer of his day, and a superb technician. His masterful... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 67963
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WAUGH, Evelyn. Scott-King's Modern Europe.London : 1947
Two copies, first editions, first impressions. Both presentation copies, inscribed by the author to Anthony Powell. The first, in blue biro, in a scrawling hand: "For Tony, the host of Bats with deep respect from Evelyn" and with a half-page caricature drawing by the author, of a woman with curly hair and a veil and a man (self portrait?) in evening... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 103235
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler.1931
Limited edition of 775 copies, signed by Rackham. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 47610
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KENT, Rockwell. Voyaging Southward from The Strait of Magellan.New York : 1926
Presentation copy from the author, inscribed in pencil at the head of the dedication page, "To my friend Nat Horwitt this 'voyage' (so far the only one we've sailed together on) is inscribed by me Rockwell Kent Au Sable Forks, March 1929". The recipient was the celebrated industrial designer Nathan G. Horwitt (1889-1990), "Horwitt is best known for... Learn More£1,925.00Stock Code: 60017
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FAULKNER, William. The Town.New York : 1957
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Ruth Ford from Bill Faulkner (See what you can do with this) Oxford 9 October 1959". Ford was an actress and model who had been a long-time family friend of Faulkner. She said of him, "one of the nicest people in Hollywood is William Faulkner, who I had... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 124320
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DETMOLD, E. J. (illus.) The Arabian Nights.London : [1924]
Signed limited edition, number 99 of 100 copies only signed by the artist. "On the strength of The Arabian Nights, Detmold could have become one of the greatest illustrators of fantasy and fairy stories" (Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, pp. 98). Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 30661
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[POTTER, Beatrix.] HEELIS, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan.Philadelphia : 1929
Signed limited edition, number 48 of 100 copies signed by the author. The bibliographic story of this book is strangely charming and endearingly amateurish. Potter considered this story of a miniature animal-run travelling circus as "too personal and autobiographical" for her comfortably to allow publication in England. She arranged for the Philadelphia... Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 105980
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WELLS, H. G. Kipps.London : 1905
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wells to Ford Madox Ford on the half title: "To F. M. Hueffer with affection from H. G. Wells". A superb association linking two of the heaviest hitters of Edwardian fiction. Hueffer - who changed his name during the War to the less Teutonic sounding Ford Madox Ford - was part of the coterie... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 28390
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HILBESEIMER, L. Mies van der Rohe.Chicago : 1956
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author and signed by Mies van der Rohe on the title page, dated September 1960, and signed by over 80 other architects on the front free endpaper who were associated with Mies, either working for him, taught by him, or were associated with him in a professional capacity. Though the exact date of the ceremonial... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 110932
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WAUGH, Evelyn. Vile Bodies.London : 1930
First edition, first impression of Waugh's second novel. Presentation copy inscribed to David and Tamara Talbot Rice on the front free endpaper: "For David & Tamara with love from Evelyn (published Jan. 14th 1930)." David Talbot Rice was a member of the group at Oxford known as the Hypocrites' Club, along with Waugh, Anthony Powell, and Harold Acton.... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 91174
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BELLOW, Saul. Dangling Man.New York : 1944
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the first blank. Learn More£1,675.00Stock Code: 41558
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NASH, Paul (illus.); SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer Nights Dreame.London : 1924
The Players' Shakespeare, limited to 106 copies, signed by the art editor Albert Rotherston, the illustrator Paul Nash, and the introduction writer Harley Granville-Barker. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 117387
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FORESTER, C. S. Flying Colours.Boston : 1939
First US edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the binder's front blank "To Mr. A. R. W. Robertson gratefully for kindness received in British Guinea, from C. S. Forester." Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 106985
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APTHEKER, Herbert. To Be Free.New York : 1968
Second edition. First published in 1948; this edition with a new preface by the author. Inscribed on the half-title " Feb 1969 For Bobby Seale with best wishes Herbert Aptheker." Aptheker was an American Marxist historian and political activist. Seale was co-founder of the Black Panther Party which he formed with Huey Newton in 1966. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 60782
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FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.London : 1963
First edition, first impression, of the eleventh James Bond book. Author's presentation copy inscribed to Denise Robins on the front free endpaper, "To Denise with best wishes from Ian". In October 1963 Fleming presented the awards at the Romantic Novelists' Association, where he met Denise Robins, the then-president of the Association, and they "chatted... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 101798
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BERNSTEIN, Leonard. Typed letter signed to Renée Longy-Miquelle; with presentation copies of two of his books, The Joy of Music (1959) [and] The Infinite Variety of Music (1966).New York : 1945
A touching and resonant group, gifts of gratitude from the composer to his former music teacher, Renée Longy, who taught him at the Curtis Institute. The letter, undated but the envelope postmarked 5 January 1945, was written shortly after the opening of Bernstein's first Broadway musical, On The Town.
"Well the show has opened and is a phenomenal... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 50137
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FAULKNER, William. The Marble Faun.Boston : 1924
First edition, sole printing, presentation copy of Faulkner's first book. This copy has been inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Dink Cearley from Bill Faulkner" and also signed and dated 31 December 1924 on the title page. C. L. ("Dink") Cearley was in 1924 the 19-year-old son of Abb W. Cearley (69 years old, married at age 36) and Mollie Cearley.... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 118733
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HARRISON, William Henry. Remarks of General Harrison, Late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Colombia, on Certain Charges Made Against Him by that Government.Washington : 1830
First edition of this extremely uncommon publication, this a presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Harrison on the title-page: "John C. Wright Esq. of Steubenville Ohio from his friend W. H. Harrison." This is the only presentation copy of Harrison's Remarks ever to have appeared at auction, at the Streeter sale, 1967 (ticket to front pastedown).... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 83709
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 166 of 1,030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 61468
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur. In Powder and Crinoline.London : [1913]
Signed limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 45, signed by the artist. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 117368
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 890 of 1,030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 94954
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DICK, Philip K. A significant archive of correspondence from the collection of his third wife and biographer Anne Williams Rubinstein Dick.Los Angeles, CA, and elsewhere : c.1965-91
Philip K. Dick was married to his third wife Anne Williams Rubinstein from 1 April 1959 to October 1965. Long after their divorce, in mid-1973, Anne burned most of their earlier correspondence, but they renewed contact in December 1973. The ultimate fruit of this was her biography, Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982; A Memoir and Biography of the... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 97282
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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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GREENE, Graham. The Bear Fell Free.1935
First Edition, First Impression. Signed Limited Edition of 250 copies of which this is number 171. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 36910
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BALFOUR, Ronald (illus.) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.London : 1920
Signed limited edition, number 22 of 100 copies signed by the artist. This is one of the most striking editions of the Rubáiyát, the illustrations by the little-known Ronald Balfour (1896-1941) combining the eroticism and grotesquerie of Beardsley with elements of Kay Nielsen and art deco to give a flamboyant Jazz Age rendering. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 121584
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DICKENS, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop.Philadelphia : 1842
Presentation copy, inscribed by Dickens to William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), editor of the New York Evening Post and a leading poet of his generation, inscribed by Dickens: "William Cullen Bryant From his friend and admirer Charles Dickens", signed with his characteristic lavish underscores, and with two accompanying autograph letters signed. In the... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 90111
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[LLANOS Y GUTIERREZ, Valentin Maria.] Sandoval: or, the Freemason.London : 1826
First edition, presentation copy to George Keats, inscribed by the author, his brother-in law, "George Keats, the gift of the author", on the title page of all three volumes. George Keats (17971841), younger brother of the poet John, never met Llanos, but was pleased to have as "a friend and brother" a man of letters, and enjoyed both his published... Learn More£13,500.00Stock Code: 102920
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FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.London : 1932
First UK edition, first impression, second binding but with the third state ads at the end, and with an example of the remainder dust jacket. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "William Faulkner for Else 11 Dec 1950". Signed and dated (1937) on the front free endpaper by the writer and journalist Thorsten Jonsson (1910-1950).... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 67135
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ROBINSON, W. Heath. Bill The Minder.London : 1912
Signed limited edition, one of 380 copies, of which this number 167 signed by the artist. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 18290
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
Signed limited edition, one of 575 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 20927
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.Philadelphia : 1842
Presentation copy, inscribed by Dickens to William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), editor of the New York Evening Post and a leading poet of his generation: "William Cullen Bryant From his friend and admirer Charles Dickens", signed with his characteristic lavish underscores. Dickens met Bryant for their first private audience on his American tour on Tuesday... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 90110
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WHARTON, Edith. Hudson River Bracketed.London, New York : 1929
First edition, UK issue. The dedication copy, with the author's presentation inscription to the dedication leaf incorporating the printed dedication, "To A.J.H.S. From E.W. December 1929". The dedicatee was John Hugh Smith, a wealthy English banker who met Wharton at Stanway in 1908. The two became fast friends and "embarked on a friendly, even flirtatious... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 131588
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); LA MOTTE-FOUQUÉ, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de. Undine.London : 1909
Signed limited edition, number 464 of 1000 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 101815
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USTINOV, Peter. House of RegretsLondon : 1943
First edition, first impression, and typescript. The typescript, which precedes the publication in book form by a year, is inscribed by Ustinov on the title page. In the top fore corner: "In memoriam, a great goose, ever, Peter A. Ustinov, 32 William Mew, Knigtsbridge, London SW1"; and again at the bottom of the page "No longer property of Peter Ustinov,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 95750
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PUGIN, Augustus Welby Northmore. Autograph letter, with original captioned ink sketch, to Henry Ridgard Bagshawe.Ramsgate, Kent : 1841
A wittily satirical sketch by Pugin, the Roman Catholic architect, sent to his friend Henry Ridgard Bagshawe (1799-1870), a prominent Catholic lawyer. Bagshawe sat on the committee of the Lincoln's Inn Fields district New Church Erection Fund. That area already had the Sardinian Chapel, well-known as the oldest Roman Catholic chapel in London and restored... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 46369
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CRADDOCK, Harry (comp.) The Savoy Cocktail Book.London, : 1930
First edition, first impression, a superb presentation copy of the scarce signed limited issue, copy number 3 (of an unspecified number) signed by Harry Craddock on the limitation page and additionally inscribed "To my dear wife". For his wife's delectation, Craddock has also added by hand, to the blank notes pages at the rear, a recipe for "Champagne... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 78819
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CONRAD, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands.London : 1896
First edition, first impression, of An Outcast of the Islands, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. W. T. Hornaday with the Author's most friendly regards. 22 March, 1896". Hornaday (1854-1937) was an American zoologist and conservationist who is credited with the preservation of a number of species including the North American... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 63484
