The Chelsea Bindery 20th Anniversary
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(DETMOLD, E. J.) KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book.London : 1908.
First Detmold edition. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 131834
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(DULAC, Edmund.) ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen.New York and London : 1911
First English trade edition. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 111588
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(KAUFFER, E. McKnight.) DEFOE, Daniel. The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner.London : 1929
Limited edition, number 510 of 500 unsigned copies, from a total edition of 535, printed on T. H. Saunders mould-made paper. Kauffer was born in the United States but settled in England in 1914. He was a member of both Wyndham Lewis's Group X and the Cumberland Market Group. A good painter, Kauffer's real genius was in advertising art; he produced seminal... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 125858
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(NIELSEN, Kay.) East of the Sun West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North.London : [1914]
Signed limited edition, number 83 of 500 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 114031
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan In Kensington GardensLondon : 1906
First Rackham edition. Barrie asked Rackham to illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained unpublished until 1928) but make a new book from those chapters from The Little White Bird (1902) that had first introduced the character. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 121585
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(ROBINSON, W. Heath.) KIPLING, Rudyard. Collected Verse.New York : 1910
First and only edition in this form, with illustrations by the cartoonist, illustrator and author W. Heath Robinson. Learn More£1,575.00Stock Code: 127295
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AMBLER, Eric. The Mask of Dimitrios.London : 1939
First edition, first impression, of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone in detective fiction. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 78304
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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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BAUM, L. Frank. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.Indianapolis : 1902
First edition, first printing. Baum is best known for the Wizard of Oz books, in two of which Santa Claus features as a guest of Oz. Learn More£3,950.00Stock Code: 107961
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BLIXEN, Karen. Out of Africa.London : 1937
First edition, first impressiono of Blixen's masterpiece, her memoir of her 17 years in British East Africa. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 135374
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BLOCH, Robert. Psycho.New York : 1959
First edition, first printing. The work was the basis for Hitchcock's seminal film of the same title, released a year after the book was published. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 101725
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BULGAKOV, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita.London : 1967
First Glenny edition, first impression. Although the Glenny translation was beaten to the press in 1967 by that of Mirra Ginsburg, Ginsburg had taken as her copy text the heavy bowdlerized Soviet version. This version is complete and remains the standard English translation of one of the 20th century's literary masterworks. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 132074
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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of The Apes.Chicago, : 1914
First edition, first printing, with printer's name to copyright page in old English type. A wonderful example of the Chelsea Bindery's work. Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 124600
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CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's.New York : 1958
First edition, first printing of Capote's classic novella, the basis for the much-loved film. Gorgeously hand-bound by the Chelsea Bindery in deep rose-pink and black morocco leather, the front cover features a silhouetted Audrey Hepburn in that iconic Givenchy little black dress and foot long cigarette holder. Diamond embellishments on the jewellery... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 131220
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CARROLL, Lewis. The Nursery Alice.London : 1890
First published edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Maggie Bowman from the Author. Mar. 31 1890". Dodgson took charge of Maggie Bowman during her stay in Oxford to act in Bootle's Baby (9 to 13 June 1889), and commemorated this event in his poem "Maggie's Visit to Oxford". Her older sister, Isa Bowman, who at that... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 98292
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CAVAFY, C. P. The Poems.London : 1951
First edition, first impression, of the first translations of Cavafy's collected poems into English, translated by John Mavrogordato (1882-1970, Oxford professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek), published by the Hogarth Press, and now quite scarce. Constantine P. Cavafy (1864-1933) is now acknowledged as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 135772
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CHANDLER, Raymond. Complete set of the Philip Marlowe novels.New York / London : 1938-58
All first editions, first printings. Chandler's first four novels were first published in America; the last three appeared first in the UK. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 106986
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CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia.London : 1977
First edition, first impression, of the author's first book. A landmark travelogue and Chatwin's best book. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 111374
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CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Mysterious Mr. Quin.London : 1930
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,575.00Stock Code: 27137
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. My African Journey.London : 1908
First edition, first impression. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 120930
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life.London : 1937
Second impression of The Keystone Library edition. Inscribed by the author to the binder's front blank "To Patrick Monkhouse from Winston S. Churchill May 1938." The recipient, Patrick 'Paddy' Monkhouse (1905-1981) joined the Manchester Guardian in 1927 as reporter, leader writer and critic, before joining the Evening Standard from 1936-1940. He rejoined... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 134668
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The River War.London : 1899
First edition, first impression, of Churchill's second book, preceded only by The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), "2000 copies published on 6 November 1899" (Woods). It includes, of course, his account of the charge of the 21st Lancers, to whom he was attached, at Omdurman on 2 September 1898, described by the Dictionary of National Biography... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 125178
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Thoughts and Adventures.London : 1932
First edition, first impression. The second volume of Churchill's autobiographical writings, covering his early political career, the battle of Sidney Street, a near silence on Gallipoli, service on the Western Front, the negotiation of the Irish settlement, thoughts on the "Mass effects of modern life" and life "Fifty years hence". A collection of... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 109106
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Liberalism and the Social Problem.London : 1909
First edition, first impression, of this uncommon title which collects speeches by the young Churchill during his Liberal phase, addressing such issues as the conciliation of South Africa, Imperial Preference, Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 108580
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.London : 1900
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 96682
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CLARKE, Harry (illus.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust.London : 1927
Signed limited edition, number 910 of 1,000 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 125665
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent.1907
First edition, first impression. One of Conrad's very best works - a stunning novel of detection, espionage and revolution. "The Secret Agent depicts the atmosphere of Edwardian London in a psychological thriller of the anarchist underworld. Conrad's wit and chivalrous magnanimity are at their airiest in this novel." (Connolly) Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 70386
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DAHL, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox.New York : 1970
First edition, first printing. Fantastic Mr Fox formed the basis for Wes Anderson's 2009 film of the same name and has been successfully adapted into both a stage play and an opera. The US edition preceded the UK edition. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 132891
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DAHL, Roald. The Witches.London : 1983
First edition, first impression. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel in 1983, the book was adapted into a stage play and a two-part radio dramatization for the BBC, a 1990 movie directed by Nicolas Roeg which starred Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson, and an opera by Marcus Paus and Ole Paus. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 132374
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DAHL, Roald. The BFG.London : 1982
First edition, first impression. A wonderful example of the Chelsea Bindery's work. Dahl's fantastical tale was expanded from a short story within his 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World. A film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released in 2016. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 132372
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DAHL, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile.London : 1978
First edition, first impression, of the first of Dahl's works to be illustrated by Blake. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 135664
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DAHL, Roald. The Gremlins.New York : 1943
First Edition, First Printing. Roald Dahl's first book and his only collaboration with Walt Disney, The Gremlins was written as a promotional device for a feature-length Disney animation that was never produced, partly because the studio could not establish firm copyright in the "gremlin" characters (Dahl claimed to have invented them, though they had... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 88956
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DAVID, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking.London : 1951
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 127585
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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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DAVIS, S. C. H. Motor Racing.London : 1932
First edition, first impression, written in hospital by the British racing driver Sammy Davis while recuperating from his spectacular crash at Brooklands in 1931. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 71123
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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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DINET, Alphonse-Étienne, & Sliman Ben Ibrahim. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah.Paris : 1918
Limited edition of 875 numbered copies of which this number 74. Alphonse-Étienne Dinet (1861-1929), a French-born and Paris-trained painter, lived and worked for almost fifty years in Algeria. His conversion to Islam in 1908 was made formal in 1913. This is one of many collaborative works he produced with Sliman Ben Ibrahim, who originally served as... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136218
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DISNEY, Walt - TAYLOR, Deems. Walt Disney's FantasiaNew York : 1940
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 127456
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DIXON, Franklin W. The Tower Treasure.New York : 1927
First edition, first printing of the first Hardy Boys title, long considered one of the holy grails of American children's book collecting. Developed by the American publisher Edward Stratemeyer, The Hardy Boys books were one part of a range of juvenile detective fiction released by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 118415
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DOYLE, A. Conan. The Sign of Four.London : 1890
First edition. This copy has both internal issue points, "138" on the contents page is incomplete and appears as "13" and "wishes" is misspelt on p.56 as "w shed". However, these issue points are present in both the first and second issue of the first edition, the only way of determining between the two issues is by the binding. The second issue was... Learn More£3,975.00Stock Code: 48026
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DOYLE, Richard In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World.London : 1870
First edition of one of the masterpieces of Victorian colour printing. As Percy Muir describes it in his Victorian Illustrated Books (1971), In Fairyland "has 16 colour plates many with more than one subject to a page, and there is not one bad one among them... Edmund Evans surpassed himself in the printing of the blocks... it is now considered as a... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 130950
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DU MAURIER, Daphne. Jamaica Inn.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. Jamaica Inn was Du Maurier's first book, and her strengths in "narrative drive and the evocation of atmosphere" (ODNB) made it an instant best-seller and later a successful film. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 83157
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.) Sindbad the SailorLondon : [1914]
First Dulac edition. "The exotic stories he illustrated struck a new chord in Dulac. They allowed him to enlarge his skill at caricature, and at the same time to sharpen his miniaturist's technique and to develop his lyrical sense of tone and composition. The sources he turned to were Japanese prints, which he had studied in his youth, with their flat... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 111191
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.) Lyrics Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z.London : 1908
First edition of this humorously poetic alphabet. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 66581
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); Edward FitzGerald (trans.) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.London : [1909]
First Dulac edition, first impression. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 132279
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); QUILLER-COUCH, Sir Arthur. The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales.London : [1910]
Edition de Luxe, limited to 1000 copies, of which this is no. 233 signed by the artist. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 137668
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DURRELL, Lawrence. [The Alexandria Quartet:] Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea.London : 1957-60
First editions, first impressions. Perhaps Durrell's greatest success, a study of love and political intrigue in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 121818
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ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets.New York : [c.1945]
Inscribed by the author on the title page "Inscribed for Allen Hawkridge by T. S. Eliot 7. vi. 47." The four poems which make up Four Quartets ("Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding") were published separately between 1940 and 1941; this is a later printing of the first collected edition, which was published in the US... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 114849
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FAULKNER, William. Go Down, Moses and other stories.New York : 1942
First edition, first printing of Faulkner's third collection of short stories. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 36186
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FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.New York : 1929
First edition, first printing. Sartoris is a revised version of Faulkner's Flags in the Dust, the full text of which was not published until 1973. It was the first of Faulkner's tales set in Yoknapatawpha County, and introduces many of the characters that appear in his later works Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 29322
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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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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Flappers and Philosophers.New York : 1920
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 62670
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FITZGERALD, Zelda. Save Me the Waltz.New York : 1932
First edition, first printing of Zelda Fitzgerald's first and only novel. Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 41986
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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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FLEMING, Ian. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car.London : 1964-5
First editions, first impressions, of the complete set of Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stories. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 127060
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FORESTER, C. S. [The complete Hornblower:]London : 1937-62
First editions, first impressions. Forester (real name Cecil Smith) was called to Hollywood to write a pirate film, working under Arthur Hornblower. However, before they had finished the script, another studio released Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn, and using the same historical incidents that they had counted on. Rather than seeking another position,... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 109292
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FORESTER, C. S. The African Queen.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 98902
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FORSTER, E. M. Howards End.London : 1910
First edition, first impression. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 127775
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FORSTER, E. M. A Passage to India.1924
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 71077
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FRANK, Robert. The Americans.New York : 1959
First US edition, originally published in France on 15 May 1958 by Robert Delpire as part of its Encyclopédie Essentielle series. In the French edition Frank's photographs were accompanied by text by authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck. In this edition the photos are not accompanied... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 125101
