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THOMAS, Dylan. New Poems.Norfolk, CN : 1943
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, "To Lord Howard de Walden, from Dylan Thomas, November 1944".
The recipient was influential Welsh arts patron Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, the 8th Baron Howard de Walden, who lived nearby Thomas at Plas Llanina, whilst Thomas was living in a coastal... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131353
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DUMAS, Alexandre. Les Trois Mousquetaires.Paris : 1844
First separate edition, extremely rare in the original wrappers. The author's best-known work and one of his two masterpieces, Les Trois Mousquetaires was originally published earlier the same year as a serial novel in the Parisian newspaper Le Siècle, from 14 March to 1 July 1844.
The Three Musketeers "has become the archetypal adventure story,... Learn More£125,000.00Stock Code: 124078
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DAHL, Roald. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.London : 1977
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed inscription to the verso of the half-title. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 99107
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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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COBURN, Alvin Langdon. New York.London & New York : [1910]
First edition, first impression, with the rare dust jacket: a remarkable survival, we have traced just two copies at auction since 1975. Coburn's New York is one of the cornerstone photobooks of the 20th century and considerably more scarce than the photographer's groundbreaking sister publication, London, put out in the same format in 1909. "Of the... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 114434
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KEYNES, John Maynard (ed.) Manchester Guardian Commercial. La Reconstruction de l'Europe.Manchester : 20 April 20 1922 – 4 January 1923
First edition in French of the scarce complete set of the Manchester Guardian Commercial, "a series of weighty supplements on European Reconstruction, with articles by the most distinguished authorities in each country" (Harrod), published under the general editorship of John Maynard Keynes, with contributions by other notable authorities including... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 138597
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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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CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The Worst Journey in The World.New York : 1930
First US one-volume edition, "reproduced exactly from the second English edition, and the first to be printed in America" (Rosove), this copy inscribed by Cherry-Garrard to a family friend: "Inscribed to Alice by Apsley Cherry-Garrard with best these two words blotted wishes, July 7 1936", with an earlier date beneath. Copies of Worst Journey are very... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 133368
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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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HOFFMANN, Heinrich. The English Struwwelpeter.Leipzig : 1848
Scarce first edition in English of the children's picture book Der Struwwelpeter, among the rarest of all children's books due to the fragility of the publication.
A publishing phenomenon that is still in print today, The English Struwwelpeter first appeared as a German children's Christmas picture book, Dr Heinrich Hoffmann's Lustige Geschichten... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 137787
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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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JEKYLL, Gertrude. Children and Gardens.London : 1908
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 95223
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Love Among the Chickens.London : [1921]
First edition thus, first issue, entirely rewritten from the first edition under this title of 1906. 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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WEST, Nathaniel. The Complete Works.1957
First UK edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 65670
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MARX, Karl. Kapitaal en Arbeid.The Hague : [1881]
First appearance in Dutch of Marx's Lohnarbeit und Kapital, with a flattering dedication to Marx by the translator and compiler, Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (1846-1919), a Dutch socialist. "Originally a Lutheran pastor (1870-1879), he left the church, founded the socialist weekly Recht voor Allen (1879). He played a leading part in developing the Social-Democratic... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 137927
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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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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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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
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FORSTER, Johann Reinhold. Descriptiones animalium, quae in itinere ad maris Australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774Berlin : 1844
First edition of Forster's study of the Australasian fauna encountered on Cook's second voyage, listing 305 animal species; "the most important zoological work with full results" (Rookmaaker, p. 48). This a particularly desirable tall copy in the original boards, largely unopened. LibraryHub cites copies at just 4 British libraries (BL, ZLS, Cambridge,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 140525
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WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol.London : 1898
First and limited edition, number 6 of 30 copies printed on japon. Wilde was in France at the time of publication, and the limitation notice was written in purple ink by Smithers. Even though the limited edition was intended for presentation, Wilde personally inscribed only a handful of copies. A further 800 unnumbered copies printed on handmade paper... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 143981
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FIELDING, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.London : 1749
First edition, with the errata leaf in volume I. One of only three 18th-century English novels (with Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels) still widely read with real pleasure by modern audiences, with all the points to distinguish it from the virtually identical reprint of the same year: vol. 1: errata leaf after contents, cancels B9 & B10; vol.... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 84920
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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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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Across the River and Into the Trees.New York : 1950
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 48514
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DAVID, Elizabeth. French Provincial Cooking.London : 1960
First edition, first impression of the author's most influential work. David (1913-1992) taught herself Mediterranean-style cooking while living abroad during the early 1940s, and began writing a food column for Harper's Bazaar in 1949. Her first book was published to wide acclaim the following year, and she is now recognized for her profound influence... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 138099
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); HOUSMAN, Laurence. Princess Badoura.[1913]
First Dulac edition. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 28745
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing.New York : 1933
First edition, first printing. This collection contains 14 short stories, of which six ("The Light of the World", "A Way You'll Never Be", "The Mother of a Queen", "One Reader Writes", "A Day's Wait", and "Fathers and Sons") were printed here for the first time. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 45602
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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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FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary.London : 1886
First edition in English of Flaubert's masterpiece. The translator was Karl Marx's daughter, then living openly with Edward Bibbens Aveling, a married man whose name she used in conjunction with her own. Flaubert's debut novel was five years in the making, and originally serialised in the Revue de Paris. It provoked charges of obscenity and immorality... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 114497
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ELIOT, T.S. The Four Quartets.London : 1944
First UK edition, First impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 125440
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WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob's Room.London : 1922
First edition, first impression. Jacob's Room, Woolf's third novel, was the first full-length book to be published by the Hogarth Press, and marked the point from which the Woolfs decided to run the Press as a genuine business concern. Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 28033
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Vegetable or from President to Postman.New York : 1923
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 43653
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Fifth Column.New York : 1938
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 64609
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AMIS, Kingsley. Lucky Jim.London : 1953
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 102290
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O'CONNOR, Flannery. Wise Blood.New York : 1952
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 109887
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WALRAS, Léon. Éléments d'économie politique pure ou théorie de la richesse sociale.Lausanne : 1874
First edition of part I only (pp. 1-208), written by one of the leading mathematical economists. Three years after Jevons and Menger, but independently of them, Walras here enunciated the theory of marginal utility. In this work he continued and refined the work inherited from his father and was successful in developing the law of general equilibrium... Learn More£13,750.00Stock Code: 112640
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JEKYLL, Gertrude. Annuals & Biennials.London : 1916
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 95233
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DARWIN, Bernard, et al. A History of Golf in Great Britain.London : 1952
First edition, first impression. The other contributors are H. Gardiner-Hill; Sir Guy Campbell; Henry Cotton; Henry Longhurst; Leonard Crawley; Enid Wilson; Lord Brazabon of Tara. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 134580
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SMITH, Pamela Colman. Annancy Stories.New York : 1899
First and only edition of this celebrated collection of Jamaican folktales, rare in such well-preserved condition.
Smith's illustrations "are the first known published drawings of Anansi, a traditional African folktale character who is also one of the most important characters in Caribbean folklore.... The setting of Pamela's tales is distinctly... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 137852
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Pothunters.London : 1902
First edition, first impression, of the author's rare first book. The first issue in blue cloth with silver lettering and cup designs. Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 87821
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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. Garden Ornament.London : 1918
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 96866
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Swoop! Or, How Clarence Saved England.London : 1909
First edition, first impression. McIlvaine couples this work with the notoriously difficult to find The Globe by the Way Book (1908) as being "among the rarest Wodehousiana". It is exceptionally scarce in this attractive condition. Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 88495
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. All the Sad Young Men.New York : 1926
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 46292
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JEKYLL, Gertrude. Old West SurreyLondon : 1904
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 111273
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JEKYLL, Gertrude. Lilies for English Gardens.London : 1901
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 95230
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MEDINA, Pedro de. Regimiento de navegacion.Seville : 1552
Very rare first edition of Medina's great navigational treatise, an appealing copy in contemporary vellum. Praised for its fine woodcuts, which are among the earliest to depict man's use of astrolabes, the Regimiento offers the essentials of seamanship in a practical format, and was intended for ship-born pilots; Francis Drake carried a copy during... Learn More£225,000.00Stock Code: 139149
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BURKE, Thomas. Limehouse Nights:London : 1916
First edition, first impression, presentation copy from the author to the publisher, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Grant Richards, novelist and patron of letters. Thomas Burke". Examples in the jacket are rare and we have been unable to trace another inscribed copy. Grant Richards's first novel, Caviare, was published in 1912, followed by... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 136021
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LEWIS, Sinclair. Main Street.New York : 1920
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 122949
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GOLL, Yvan; BRAUNER, Victor (illus.) Le Char triomphal de l'antimoine.Paris : 1949
First and limited edition, pre-publication presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title, "à Adolphe de Milly avec mon trés amical souvenir, Yvan Goll, Paris 11 avril 1949"; number 90 of 300 copies on Rives (from a total edition of 333). The colophon notes that "cet ouvrage a été achevé d'imprimeur le 15 Mai 1949". The recipient was a French-born... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 122170
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Vegetable or from President to Postman.New York : 1923
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 46291
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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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KAFKA, Franz. The Castle.London : 1930
First edition in English, first impression. The Castle will never attain the fame of its sister The Trial, but in literary terms it is more than a match. This was the first publication in English of any of Kafka's books, preceding English editions of The Trial and Metamorphosis by some seven years. It is far scarcer than either. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 83324
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WEST, Nathaniel. The Day of the Locust.New York : 1939
First edition, first printing. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 124045
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JEKYLL, Gertrude. Wall and Water Gardens.London : [1901]
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 101101
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ROBINSON, W. Heath (illus.); HUNTER, Norman. The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm.London : 1933
First edition, first impression, of the first Professor Branestawm title, the first in an unusually extended series, written over a 50-year period, and the only one illustrated by Heath Robinson. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138696
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories For Little Children.London : 1902
First edition, third printing (two months after the first), inscribed by the author, "Janet Aitken from her obliged and obedient servant the author Jul. 1911", on the title page; Kipling has struck through his printed name and signed it below. Then three years old, Janet Gladys Kidd, née Aitken, later Campbell, later Montagu (1908-1988), was the daughter... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 137861
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NABOKOV, Vladimir, as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin. Despair.London : 1937
First English edition, first impression, first issue in the black cloth. Nabokov's second English publication was put out by the small imprint John Long who specialized in unconventional, quirky books, especially mystery, fantasy, and crime novels. They had previously published Nabokov's Camera Obscura with very little success and fared no better with... Learn More£13,750.00Stock Code: 124322
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TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.London : 1876
First edition, published on 9 June, thus preceding the first American edition that appeared in mid-December by some six months. Twain chose to have the book published first in London to ensure copyright and perhaps also because he was more highly esteemed in Britain than at home.
"The irresponsibility, the love of odd adventure, and the sense... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 134119
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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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JEKYLL, Gertrude. Wall and Water Gardens.London : [1901]
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 106258
