Important Books & Manuscripts

Dickens (Charles) - A Christmas Carol, first edition, Gimbel's third state, title printed in red & blue, half-title and verso of title printed...

Morrison (Jim).- Melville (Herman) - Moby Dick, first American edition, Jim Morrison's copy, some scattered light foxing, heavier to endpapers, ...

Trollope (Anthony) - The Warden, first edition , 24pp. publishers' catalogue at the back dated 1854, a few faded spots to preliminary leaves, so...

Trollope (Anthony) - Framley Parsonage, first edition in book form , 6 wood-engraved plates by E.Millais, 16pp. Publisher's catalogue at the e...

Brereton (Austin) - Henry Irving, a Biographical Sketch, extra-illustrated with numerous inlaid portraits, 15 playbills (one signed by Irving)...

Melville (Herman) - The Works…, 16 vol., Standard edition, limited edition of 750 copies The Works , 16 vol., Standard edition, limited editi...

Regimental History [31st Punjabis], 8 mounted silver gelatine-print photographic plates, original cloth, 8vo, Bombay, Printed by Thacker, 1926....

Kipling (Rudyard) - The Complete Works, 28 vol., Burwash Edition , number 248 of 1010 copies, half navy blue morocco, gilt, t.e.g., other edges...

Coward (Noel) - The Lyrics, presentation copy to Noel Coward from numerous friends and colleagues signed by them on the front endpapers, signat...

Joyce (James) - Ulysses, first edition printed in England, number 52 of 100 copies signed by the author, from an edition of 1000 , title in bl...

Kelmscott Press.- - Proof sheet of the opening page from the Kelmscott Chaucer, bifolium (pp.[1]-2 & [15]-16) comprising 2 illustrated pages and...

-. - Sir Perecyvelle of Gales, one of 350 copies on Flower paper, [Peterson A33], 1895; Psalmi Penitentiales, one of 300 copies on Flower...

Kokoschka (Oskar) - Jerusalem Faces, number 24 of 150 sets , from an edition limited to 180, suite of 6 lithographed portraits by Kokoschka on Ja...

Minchin - The Legion Book , out-of-series copy from a de luxe edition... (Capt. H.Cotton, editor ) The Legion Book , out-of-series cop...

Vale Press.- Gray (John) - Spiritual Poems, chiefly done out of several languages, [one of 210 copies], wood-engraved frontispiece and elaborate ...

Miniature Book.- Boreman - Curiosities in the Tower of London, 2 vol (Thomas, publisher ) Curiosities in the Tower of London , 2 vol., firs...

History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (The), otherwise called Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes, wood-engraved frontispiece and 32 vignette illustrations, some...

World Turned Up-side Down (The), or the Comical Metamorphoses, a work entirely calculated to excite laughter in grown persons, and promote moralit...

[Russell (John)] - The Adventures of Guildford Jack-Daw, 15 woodcut vignette illustrations, lacking frontispiece, original blue pictorial wrapp...

Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle, containing the most celebrated Songs and Lullabies of the old British Nurses, wood-engraved fr...

Infant Prattle; or, Early Lessons for Children, 2 vol. (Parts III and IV only ?of 4), wood-cut frontispieces with contemporary hand-colouring an...

Chapbooks.- - My Little Primer, ink stamp to upper cover, Worcester, MA, S.A.Holland, [c.1835] § Dancing Taught Without a Master, fore-edge ni...

Kendrew - .- The History of Whittington and his Cat, ink stamp to title p (J., printer ).- The History of Whittington and his Cat, ink stamp...

Scotland.- - Story of the Bitter Wedding, Glasgow, n.d. § The Mermaid of Golloway, n.p., n.d. § The Wandering Shepherdess; or the Betrayed Dams...

Aldin (Cecil) - The Romance of the Road, number 54 of 200 de luxe copies signed by the author/artist , 11 mounted colour plates, most by Aldin...

Clarke (Harry).- Walters - The Year's at the Spring: An Anthology of Recent Poetry (L.D'O, editor ) The Year's at the Spring: An Antholog...

Quiller-Couch - The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales, from the Old French ( Sir Arthur) The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales, fr...

Shakespeare (William) - The Tempest, number 7 of 500 copies signed by the artist , decorative title and 40 colour plates by Edmund Dulac mounted...

Stories from The Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman, number 149 of 350 copies signed by the artist , title-vignettes in orange and 50 colo...

Goble (Warwick).- James (Grace) - Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales, one of 500 de luxe copies , 40 colour plates by Warwick Goble m...

Nielsen (Kay).- Andersen (Hans Christian) - Fairy Tales, out-of-series copy from the Edition de Luxe limited to 500 copies, signed by the artis...

-. Andersen (Hans Christian) - Fairy Tales, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Kay Nielsen, captioned tissue guards, illustrations and decorations, ol...

[Barham (Richard)], - “Thomas Ingoldsby”. The Ingoldsby Legends Thomas Ingoldsby . The Ingoldsby Legends , number 320 of 560 large paper cop...

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, number 214 of 500 copies signed by the artist , title-vignette and 50 colour plates by Arthur Rackham mounted o...

Barrie (J.M.) - Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 45 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue guards, contemporary ink inscript...

Dickens (Charles) - A Christmas Carol, 12 colour plates by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue guards, original pictorial purple cloth, gilt, spine ...

Grahame (Kenneth) - The Wind in the Willows, the 100th edition, number 305 of 500 copies on handmade paper , 12 tipped-in colour plates by Arth...

Irving (Washington) - Rip Van Winkle, French edition, hors commerce copy from an edition limited to 200 on Whatman paper , title in green and b...

Steel (Flora Annie) - English Fairy Tales, number 70 of 250 large paper copies , title-vignette, illustrations and 16 mounted colour plates by A...

Wagner (Richard) - The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, translated by Margaret Armour, number 307 of 1150 copies signed by the artist , title-vignette...

Walton (Izaak) - The Compleat Angler, number 601 of 775 copies signed by the artist, pictorial title in green and black, illustrations and 12 co...

Robinson (W.Heath).- Kipling (Rudyard) - A Song of the English, out-of-series copy from the de luxe edition limited to 500 copies, signed by th...

Banbury Cross Series (The), edited by Grace Rhys, comprising: Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk; Jack the Giant Killer and Beauty and th...

Disney Studio.- - Sneezy and the carving! 5 original pencil sketches in sequence allegedly drawn for the feature length cartoon of Snow White and...

Disney Studio.- - Deer lazily chewing cud, original preliminary pencil drawing for a scene for Snow White the Seven Dwarfs, produced at the Disn...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], “Lewis Carroll”. - Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, first edition, first issue with wade o...

Lang (Andrew) - A collection of c.120 titles by or contributed to by Lang, including [The Fairy Books], 12 vol., comprising The Blue Fairy ...

Potter (Beatrix) - The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, first issue , [one of 500 copies], 16 colour plates by the author, one or two smal...

Potter (Beatrix) - The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, art fabric deluxe issue , 27 colour plates and title vignette by the author, first...

Potter (Beatrix) - The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, first edition, art fabric deluxe issue, 27 colour plates and title vignette by the author, up...

Potter (Beatrix) - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, first edition, deluxe issue, 27 colour plates and title vignette by the author, colour pictori...

Potter (Beatrix) - The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, first edition, deluxe issue, 27 colour plates and title vignette by the author, colour pictoria...

Cruikshank (George) - The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales , 4 vol., first edition , additional etched titles and 36 plates, al...

Cruikshank (Robert) - Lessons of Thrift, hand-coloured engraved vignette title and 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates, occasional spotting, contemp...

Hogarth (William) - The Works... from the Original Plates restored by James Heath, with essay and explanation by John Nichols, 155 etched and en...

Jenkins (James) - The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies, from 1799 to 1815, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, engraved tit...

Waterloo.- Mudford (William) - An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands , in 1815 An Historical Account of the Campaign in the N...

Alken (Henry) and George Augustus Sala. - [An Elaborate Panoramic View of the Funeral Procession of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, original hand-col...

Bakst (Leon) - Original costume designs for a 19th century young lady and gentleman, a pair of watercolours over graphite on laid paper, each c.4...

Binding.- Grasset (Eugene, - artist ) Histoire de Quatre Fils Aymon , one of 100 on Chine artist ) Histoire de Quatre Fils Aymon , one of 1...