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COWARD, Noël. Private Lives.London : 1930
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy from the author to Laurence Olivier, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Larry from Noël, 1930". An outstanding association copy marking Olivier's "breakthrough" stage appearance. The distinguished theatre critic Michael Billington writes: "Olivier's early years were marked by an impatient hunger... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 121721
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MILLER, Henry. The Angel is my Watermark.Fullerton, CA : 1944
Signed limited edition, number 8 of a small number of copies signed by Henry Miller and enclosing one of Miller's original watercolours. The number of copies is estimated by Porter as 15, by Riley as 15 or 16, and at any rate a very small number, each unique with a different water colour. Alongside the original watercolour, the publication contains... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 136512
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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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(BORGES, Jorge Luis.) GÜIRALDES, Ricardo. Don Segundo Sombra.Buenos Aires : 1926
First edition, first printing, a major association copy, being the copy of Jorge Luis Borges, with his ownership signature dated Buenos Aires 1936 on the title page. Güiraldes and Borges were friends, and both influenced the literary career of the other. They met around 1924-5, and Borges helped Güiraldes launch the magazine Proa. It was Güiraldes... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 130488
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FROST, Robert. A Boy's WillLondon : 1913
First edition of Frost's first published book, inscribed by Frost on the blank facing the first printed poem with the then-unpublished 12-line poem "The Same Leaves" written out, signed, and addressed "For Martha Shanner, July 1927". Frost has also signed both the front cover and the title page, both retrospectively dated May 1913. The copy is accompanied... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 122696
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ORWELL, George. Archive of retained correspondence from the files of his first publisher, Victor Gollancz, relating to the publication of The Road to Wigan Pier.29 Oct 1936-27 Aug 1958
Victor Gollancz's archived correspondence regarding the publication of George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier, including the original contract for the work. Orwell's classic study of industrial poverty in the north of England remains in print today, and is among the most esteemed and best-known of his non-fiction books.
After Orwell finished... Learn More£35,000.00Stock Code: 131757
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ORWELL, George. Archive of retained correspondence from the files of his first publisher, Victor Gollancz, relating to the publication of Inside the Whale.1 Jan 1940-13 Oct 1966
Victor Gollancz's archived correspondence relating to their publication of George Orwell's first collection of essays, Inside the Whale, including the original contract. Orwell began work on the essays in May 1939. The outbreak of the war led to an unproductive period, but by mid-December he had finished the book and sent the manuscript to Gollancz.... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 131758
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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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ORWELL, George. Archive of retained correspondence from the files of his first publisher, Victor Gollancz, relating to the publication of A Clergyman's Daughter.8 Nov 1934-22 July 1983
Victor Gollancz's archived correspondence regarding the publication of George Orwell's first novel, A Clergyman's Daughter, including the original contract for the novel. Present are two typed letters, two autograph letters, and two autograph postcards, all signed by Orwell; all such material is uncommon in the market.
Orwell began to write the... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 131751
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ORWELL, George. Archive of retained correspondence from the files of his first publisher, Victor Gollancz, relating to the publication of Keep the Aspidistra Flying.16 Jan 1936-23 June 1944
Victor Gollancz's archived correspondence regarding the publication of George Orwell's second novel, Keep the Aspidistra Flying. The correspondence, often bitter, shows how far concerns with libel altered the final text of the novel, and how unhappy Orwell was about this; it contains two typed letters, two autograph notes, and one full autograph letter,... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 131753
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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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BALLARD, J. G. The Drowned World.London : 1962
Rare proof copy, signed by the author on the title page, with the trial dust jacket (priced 0/0). The first UK edition was the first in hardback and is preferred to the US paperback that preceded it earlier in the same year. A seminal climate change science fiction novel, The Drowned World depicts the year 2145, where global warming has left... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 138843
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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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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank to his sometime lover, Margaret Case Harriman, "For Margaret Harriman, who has inspired all my books this tale of our life together in Switzerland, France & U.S.S.R. from Her Chattel F. Scott Fitzgerald July 1935", together with a line clipped from a pencilled... Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 125792
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.London : 1927
First Dulac edition, signed limited issue, number 49 of 50 copies signed by the illustrator, bound in vellum and printed on handmade paper, and notably rare due to the unusually small limitation. Hughey describes Dulac's watercolour illustration for Treasure Island as his "most careful and superb painting", and Dulac himself considered them... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131651
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YEATS, W. B. The Wanderings of Oisin and other poems.London : 1889
First edition, first impression, inscribed by Yeats on the front free endpaper, "To James A. Healy, most of the subscribers for the book were found by John O'Leary, the Fenian leader. W. B. Yeats." James Augustine Healy (1890-1975) was an Irish-American stockbroker, bibliophile, and patron of Irish writers, who donated the James Augustine Healy Collection... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 112219
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. This is a superb copy of Fitzgerald's magnificent yet maligned follow-up to The Great Gatsby. It is one of 19 copies specially signed by the author for the booksellers Hochschild, Kohn & Co. of Baltimore, with their ticket on the rear pastedown.... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 136034
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ORWELL, George. The Road to Wigan Pier.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, signed by the author ("Geo. Orwell", his customary form when signing books with his nom de plume) on the front free endpaper, very scarce thus. Orwell originally believed The Road to Wigan Pier would not be included in Gollancz's Left Book Club as "it is too fragmentary and, on the surface, not very left-wing" (Fenwick).... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 130355
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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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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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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise.New York : 1920
The "Author's Apology" edition, signed by the author; first edition, third printing, prepared for distribution to American Booksellers Association, with a tipped-in leaf entitled "Author's Apology" signed by Fitzgerald, "Sincerely, Scott Fitzgerald". Issued the same month as the first, the third printing included an unknown number of copies prepared... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 111821
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JAMES, P. D. Cover Her Face.London : 1962
First edition, first impression of the debut novel of this great crime writer. This is copy is inscribed by the author, "To Geir Moe Sorensen with every good wish from the author P. D. James" on the front endpaper, and inscribed "To Moe P. D. James" on the title. Cover Her Face is uncommon in the dust jacket, and especially so inscribed. Learn More£8,000.00Stock Code: 135464
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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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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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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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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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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 bungalow,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131353
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HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles.London : 1926
Signed limited edition, one of 325 large paper copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author, the first edition illustrated by Vivian Gribble: "Perhaps her finest work was done for an edition of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, published by Macmillan in 1926 and containing 41 exquisite wood engravings. Gribble's engravings were always... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 132503
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WELLS, H. G. Tales of Space and Time.London & New York : 1900
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author with one of his characteristic "picshuas", a caricature portrait on the first blank: "H. Hick from H. G. Wells", with a small sketch of a medicine bottle with label reading "To be taken as required" below. Dr Henry Hick came to know Wells through his old school friend George Gissing. When Wells... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 115293
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RAND, Ayn. We the Living.New York : 1936
First edition, sole printing, presentation copy of Rand's first novel, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper just a few days after publication on 7 April, "Johnny and Lucille - - who sympathize with my cause - Ayn. 4-13-1936". The first printing of 3,000 copies sold out within 18 months of the book's publication, but in the meantime Macmillan... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 125120
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(BRAUNER, Victor, illus.) GOLL, Yvan. 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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(GONNE, Maud, illus.) YOUNG, Ella. Celtic Wonder-Tales.Dublin : 1910
First edition, first impression, signed by the illustrator on the title page, and with an original initialled drawing in black ink on the front free endpaper (and expanded version of the ornament printed on p. 20.) Edith Maud Gonne (1866-1953) was one of the boldest figures of the Irish Literary Revival; a suffragette and artist, she remains best known... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 137680
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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 not been able to trace another inscribed copy. Grant Richards's first novel, Caviare, was published in 1912, followed... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 136021
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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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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream.London : 1908
First Rackham edition, trade issue, with an original ink drawing of Bottom to the half-title signed "Arthur Rackham Xmas 08." Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 135382
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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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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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BUNYAN, John. The Heavenly Foot-Man:London : 1708
Fourth edition. In 1668 Bunyan "begun to prepare 'The Heavenly Foot-Man', a sermon on the Christian life, for publication. Internal evidence suggests it may have been preached, or at least prepared for the pulpit, late in 1659 or in 1660. Directed to the spiritually indolent, the sermon urges people to repent before the day of grace has passed, a concern... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 138643
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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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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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HEINLEIN, Robert A. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.New York : 1966
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Polly, with love, Bob", additionally signed by the author above his printed name on the title page. The recipient is believed to by Polly Freas, wife of Frank Kelly Freas, the illustrator to Heinlein's The Door into Summer (1957). Polly... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 131839
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BORGES, Jorge Luis. Inquisiciones.Buenos Aires : 1925
First edition, first impression, a superlative presentation copy of the author's first work of prose. One of 505 copies printed, this is a uniquely untrimmed, unnumbered, and specially bound presentation copy inscribed by Borges on the first blank to his fellow Argentine author, and muse, Norah Lange (1905-1972).
Borges's inscription, using the... Learn More£35,000.00Stock Code: 129496
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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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(NASH, Paul.) 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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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.London : 1962
Signed limited edition, number 56 of 500 numbered copies. Durrell's enduring masterpiece. Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 76495
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FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.London : 1963
First edition, first impression, of the tenth James Bond novel. 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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FALKNER, J. M. Moonfleet.London : 1898
First edition. Presentation copy inscribed to publisher Reginald J. Smith on the front free endpaper, "Reginald J. Smith, from the author, 1st December 1898". Smith was editor of The Cornhill magazine (in which Falkner subsequently published a story) and head of Smith Elder publishing house from 1894. This copy bears several pencilled marginal corrections... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 115523
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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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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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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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JOYCE, James. Yurishizu. [Ulysses.]Tokyo : 1931 & 1934
First edition in Japanese, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the translator to fellow novelist Narasaki Tsutomu on the front free endpaper of volume 1, transcribed on a loosely inserted slip, "Ito Sei - Narazaki Tutomu". This edition is the first non-European translation and predates the publication of the work in England and the United... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 131239
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DETMOLD, E. J. (illus.); AESOP. The Fables of Aesop.London : 1909
Signed limited edition, number 88 of 750 numbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 115164
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FAULKNER, William. Absalom, Absalom!New York : 1936
First edition, first printing, limited issue. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 91991
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FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball.London : 1961
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To Margot from Ian Fleming"; a fascinating presentation. The recipient was the wife of Jack Whittingham, who wrote an original Bond film screenplay named Thunderball, a collaborative project that predated the book. Fleming used the screenplay... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 139816
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(PASTERNAK, Boris, trans.; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.) Faust.[Leningrad] : 1953
First edition of Pasternak's Russian translation of Goethe's masterpiece, presentation copy inscribed to a close friend and fellow poet, "to one of the most interesting people and the best poets of the present times, Simon Chikovani, with love and devotion, B. Pasternak, 9 February 1954", on the front free endpaper.
Chikovani (1902-1966) was... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 132166
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FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love.London : 1957
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by Fleming on the front free endpaper: "To Erich Hartmann from his impatient patient. Ian Fleming". The recipient, Erich Hartmann (1922-1999), was the head of Magnum Photo, who "throughout his career, pursued many long-term personal projects, and photographic interpretations with literary... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 138464
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.London : 1997
First edition, first impression, paperback issue, inscribed by the author "To Paul, Best Wishes, J K Rowling" on half-title and dated "18/3/98". Rowling signed this copy during a school visit in Wales for a young boy who had been given the book as a present by his aunt.
This is one of 5,150 copies in wrappers, with all the requisite points of... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 135240
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RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged.New York : 1957
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author: "To Lenore McConnell, - wishing you a great future. Ayn Rand. February 4, 1959." Atlas Shrugged was named by a 1991 Library of Congress survey as the most influential book in the US, second only to the Bible. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 99376
