Antiquarian & Collectors' Books

POETRY. – Ted HUGHES. Collected Animal Poems. London: Faber and Faber, 1995. 4 vols., first impression, signed by Ted Hughes, 8vo (199 x 123mm.) I...

BINDINGS. – [Miss HUDSON.] ‘Israfel’. Ivory Apes & Peacocks. London: at the Sign of the Unicorn, 1899. 4to (196 x 137mm.) (Mild toning.) Original ...

FOX, Shirley. An Art Student’s Reminiscences of Paris in the Eighties. London: Mills & Boon, 1909. First edition, 8vo (222 x 131mm.) 8 black and w...

GRAHAM, Winston. [The Poldark Novels.] London: Ward, Lock and Co. and Collins and Macmillan and Chapmans, 1945-2002. 12 vols., first editions, 8vo...

BINDINGS. – John KEATS. The Poetical Works… edited by Harry Buxton Forman. London: Reeves & Turner, 1884. 8vo (189 x 125mm.) Portrait frontispiece...

SIGNED BOOKS. – Jonathan COE. The Rotters’ Club. London: Viking, 2001. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 147mm.) (...

CHURCHILL, Winston S. The World Crisis. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1923-1929. 5 vols. (only) of 6, first editions, 8vo (232 x 146mm.) H...

CHURCHILL, Winston S. Post-War Speeches. London: Cassell, 1948-1961. 5 vols., first editions, 8vo (215 x 136mm.) (Toning, pencil marks to list of ...

CHURCHILL, Randolph S. and Martin GILBERT. The Official Biography: Winston S. Churchill. London: Heinemann, 1966-1988. 21 vols., first editions, 8...

BENSON, E.F. The Inheritor, a Story of Youth. London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., [1930.] First edition, 8vo (185 x 118mm.) 6pp. publisher’s advertisem...

LARKIN, Philip. All What Jazz, A Record Diary 1961-1971. London: Faber and Faber, 1985. 8vo (197 x 125mm.) (Mild toning.) Original brown cloth, du...

EAST ASIA. – R.L. JARMAN (editor). Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports. 1841-1941. [London:] Archive Editions, 1996. 6 vols., 8vo (246 x 151mm...

WISDEN, John (publisher). Cricketers’ Almanack. London: Sporting Handbooks Ltd., 1970-2017. 11 vols., 8vo (158 x 101mm.) Advertisements, numerous ...

WISDEN, John (publisher). Cricketers’ Almanack. London: John Wisden and Co., 1922-1934. 4 vols., 8vo (158 x 93mm.) Advertisements, numerous illust...

WISDEN, John (publisher). Cricketers’ Almanack. London: John Wisden and Co. and Sporting Handbooks, 1945-2007. 41 vols., 8vo (158 x 93mm.) Adverti...

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). – Richard DAWKINS. The Selfish Gene. London: Folio Society, 2019. Third edition, 8vo (234 x 152mm.) Colour illustration...

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). – Andrew WHEATCROFT. The Habsburgs. London: Folio Society, 2001. 8vo (222 x 165mm.) (Mild toning.) Original decorative ...

FOLIO SOCIETY. – Anthony TROLLOPE. The Novels of Anthony Trollope. London: Folio Society, circa 1981-1999. 48 vols., 8vo (224 x 221mm.) Illustrati...

SIGNED BOOKS. – Clare and Michael MORPURGO. Where My Wellies Take Me… Surrey, Dorking: Templar Publishing, 2012. Limited edition, this being numbe...

SIGNED BOOKS. – Antonia S. BYATT. Possession, a Romance. London: Chatto & Windus, 1990. Sixth impression, inscribed by the author, 8vo (233 x 147m...

BOTANY. – Miss [Sarah] SMITH. Studies of Flowers from Nature. Doncaster: Aldwick Hall for the author, [circa 1818.] First edition, folio (380 x 26...

LENORMANT, François. Chaldean Magic: Its Origin and Development. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, [1877]. First edition, 8vo (213 x 132mm.) 2pp. p...

[WILDE, Oscar.] The Ballad of Reading Gaol... by C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Fifth edition, 8vo (224 x 134mm.) (Toning, browning to pas...

ACCOUNT BOOK. [A hand-written account book containing the personal expenses of an English gentleman. N.p.:] 1789-1831.8vo (183 x 115mm.) Approxima...

[THOMS, William J.] ‘Ambrose Merton’. The Old Story Books of England, Illustrated with Twelve Pictures by Eminent Artists. City of Westminster: fo...

CAMPBELL, Marie. Folks Do Get Born. New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company Inc., 1946. First edition, 8vo (204 x 136mm.) Illustrations by Clar...

CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Mabel DEARMER. The Cockyolly Bird. The Book of the Play. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. First edition, 4to (214 x 163mm.)...

FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 122mm.) (Toning, marginal spotting pp.96-106.)...

BOND, Michael. A Bear Called Paddington. London: Collins, 1959. First edition, second impression, 8vo (198 x 134mm.) Illustrations by Peggy Fortnu...

BOND, Michael. More About Paddington. London: Collins, 1959. First edition, 8vo (198 x 130mm.) Illustrations by Peggy Fortnum. (Light spotting to ...

TROLLOPE, Anthony. Mr. Scarborough’s Family. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition in book form, 8vo (185 x 122mm.) Half-titles, 32pp. of p...

TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace… A New and Complete Translation From the Russian by Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1904. 3 vols., ‘Libr...

WOOLF, Leonard. Quack, Quack! London: Hogarth Press, 1937. Cheap edition, 8vo (180 x 113mm.) (Mild toning.) Original grey cloth, dust-jacket desig...

FASHION. – Jean LABUSQUIÈRE (editor). Gazette du Bon Ton: Art, Modes et Chronique. Paris: Lucien Vogel, March 1924. No. 7 (only), 4to (249 x 203mm...

POPE, Alexander (translator). The Odyssey of Homer. London: Bernard Lintot, 1725-1726. 5 vols., 12mo (163 x 92mm.) Half-titles, engraved head and ...

QUARLES, Francis. Divine Poems, Containing the History of Jonah, Ester, Job, Sampson, Together with Sions Sonnets, Elegies… newly augmented. Londo...

[DU PIN, Louis Ellies and Jean de VAYRAC.] ‘Abbot Vertot’. The History of the Revolutions in Spain… made English from the Paris Edition by Mr. Mor...

DAILLE, John. – Thomas SMITH (translator). A Treatise Concerning the Right Use of the Fathers, in the Decision of the Controversies that are at th...

DURHAM, James. Clavis Cantici: Or, an Exposition of the Song of Soloman. London: J.W., 1669. Small 4to (173 x 128mm.) Title, woodcut initials and ...

QUAKERS. – William PENN. No Cross, No Crown. A Discourse Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ. London: T. Sowle, 1702. Si...

NALSON, John. The Common Interest of King and People: Shewing the Original, Antiquity and Excellency of Monarchy, Compared with Aristocracy and De...

SEARLE, Ronald (illustrator) and Bill RICHARDSON and ALLEN ANDREWS. Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines. London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. F...

ROSSETTI, Christina G. Goblin Market and Other Poems. London and Glasgow: Gowans and Gray Ltd., 1914. No. 7 Gowan’s International Library, 12mo (1...

SLAVERY. – Thomas CLARKSON. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parli...

WILSON, Alexander. American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States… with a Continuation by Charles Lucian Bonapart...

GOLBERRY, Silvester Meinrad Xavier. Travels in Africa. Performed During the Years 1785, 1786, and 1787, in the Western Countries of This Continent...

AMERICA. – Mary HOWITT. A Popular History of the United States of America. London: Longmans, Brown, Green et al., 1859. 2 vols., first edition, 8v...

AMERICA. – George CAITLIN. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. London: David Bogue, 1844. 2 vo...

MURRAY, Charles Augustus. Travels in North America During the Years 1834, 1835, & 1836. Including A Summer Residence With the Pawnee Tribe of Indi...

SOUTHEY, Thomas. A Chronological History of the West Indies. Longman, Rees et al., 1827. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (214 x 130mm.) Half-titles to...

AMERICA. – Frances TROLLOPE. Domestic Manners of the Americans. London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832. 2 vols., second edition, 8vo (198 x 115m...

MARTINEAU, Harriet. Society in America. London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (187 x 111mm.) (Toning.) 21st century half c...

HALL, Basil. Travels in North America, in the Years 1827 and 1828. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (189 x 114mm.) Fol...

UNITED STATES. – James STUART. Three Years in North America. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (190 x 113mm.) Large fold...

AMERICA. – James BUCHANAN. Mr. Buchanan’s Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1866. First edition, 8vo ...

CAREY, Henry Charles and Isaac LEA. The Geography, History and Statistics of America and the West Indies; Exhibiting a Correct Account of the Disc...

BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. London: J. D...

FARJEON, Eleanor. – Clare LEIGHTON (illustrator). Perkin the Pedlar. London: Faber and Faber, 1932. First edition, with a loosely inserted slip wi...

PLANTIN PRESS. – CATULLUS, TIBULLUS & PROPERTIUS. Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Cor. Galli Fragmenta. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1560. 16mo i...