Collectables

LEIGHTON, Clare. The Farmer’s Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry. London: Collins, 1933. First edition, a loosely inserted slip with Clare Leig...

CHESS. – William CAXTON. The Game of the Chesse. [London:] Vincent and James Figgins, 1855. Deluxe facsimile of Caxton’s Second edition, 8vo (272 ...

NASH, Paul (illustrator). Genesis. Twelve Woodcuts by Paul Nash with the First Chapter of Genesis in the Authorised Version. [London:] by the Curw...

CHURCHILL, Winston S. The River War, an Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. 2 vols., first...

HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, first impression, 8vo (190 x 117mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue c...

LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan. The Watcher and Other Weird Stories. London: Downey & Co., [1894.] First edition, 8vo (189 x 120mm.) Title printed in re...

DONOVAN, Edward. The Natural History of British Insects. London: for the Author and for F. C. Rivington, 1792-1813. 16 vols. in 8, first edition, ...

CHINA. – James ORANGE. The Chater Collection Pictures relating to China, Hong Kong, Macao, 1655-1860. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1924. ...

COOK, James and James KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemis...

WAUGH, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., September 1934. First edition, 8vo (184 x 114mm.) Frontispiece, 3pp. advertisemen...

LE FANU, Jospeh Sheridan. The Evil Guest. London: Downey & Co., [1895.] First edition, 8vo (187 x 118mm.) Frontispiece and title printed in sepia,...

SOUTH SEAS. – James BURNEY. A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. London: by Luke Hansard for G. and W. Ni...

CAMDEN, William. Britannia, Newly Translated into English: with Large Additions and Improvements… by Edmund Gibson. London: F. Collins for A. Swal...

CLARKE, Edward Daniel. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810-1823. 6 vols., first edition...

SHIP-WRECK. – John BULKELEY and John CUMMINS. A Voyage to the South-Seas in 1740-1. London: Jacob Robinson, 1743. First edition, 8vo (199 x 119mm....

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – Kenneth GRAHAME. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co., 1951. Limited 100th edition, this being number 3...

LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan. The Purcell Papers… with a Memoir by Alfred Percival Graves. London: Richard Bentley, 1880. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo ...

[MOTTE, Benjamin.] Oratio Dominica… Nimirum, plus Centum Linguis, Versionibus, aut Characteribus Reddita & Expressa. London: Dan Brown and W. Kebl...

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

[REMI, Georges.] HERGÉ. The Adventures of Tintin: Destination Moon. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1959. First English edition, 4to (295 x 226mm.) (T...

HARDY, Thomas. – Clare LEIGHTON (illustrator). Return of the Native. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Limited edition, this being num...

MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen, 1926. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (M...

CONJURING. – [Angelo J. Lewis.] ‘Professor Hoffman’. More Magic. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. First edition, 8vo (190 x 128mm.) Illust...

EROTICA. – Raymond ABIGEO and Jean-Claude PERETZ. Erotoscope. Paris: Marie Concorde, 1970. First edition, 4to (270 x 209mm.) Photographic illustra...

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First trade edition, 4to (249 x ...

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

DULAC, Edmund (illustrator). – Léonard ROSENTHAL. The Kingdom of the Pearl. London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., [1920.] Limited edition, this being number ...

SIGNED BOOKS. – John le CARRÉ. A Legacy of Spies. London: Viking, 2017. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 128mm.) (Mild toning.) Ori...

JONES, Owen (designer). The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments, According to the Authorised Version. London: Ward, Lock and Co., [ci...

BEWICK, Thomas. A History of British Birds. Newcastle: for T. Bewick, 1826. 2 vols., sixth edition, 8vo (215 x 128mm.) Numerous wood-engraved illu...

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

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

BEATON, Cecil. The Book of Beauty. London: Duckworth, 1930. First edition, 4to (278 x 216mm.) Colour frontispiece, 27 black and white photographic...

TILT & BOGUE (publishers). Etiquette for Gentlemen with Hints on the Art of Conversation. London: Tilt & Bogue, 1843. Nineteenth edition, 16mo (11...

SOWERBY, John Edward. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants… edited by John T. Boswell Syme. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1892....

SIGNED BOOKS. – Kazuo ISHIGURO. Klara and the Sun. London: Faber and Faber, 2021. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (233 ...

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongue And with the former Tran...

[FOXE, John.] [Actes and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church… London: Printed by Peter Short, 1596-1597.] Fol...

MINIATURE BOOK. The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. London: E. Newbery, 1780. 64mo (38 x 26mm.) 2 engraved...

HORSE-CARRIAGES. A Catalogue of the Valuable Stock and Property of Messrs. Hobson & Co. Coachmakers, Whose Partnership Has Become Dissolved by Eff...

TOMLINSON, H.M. – Clare LEIGHTON (illustrator). The Sea & The Jungle. London: Duckworth, 1930. Limited edition, this being number 25 of 515 copies...

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

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

CONJURING. – George G. KAPLAN. The Fine Art of Magic. Pennsylvania, York: Fleming Book Company, 1948. First edition, 8vo (235 x 153mm.) Illustrati...

WORSLEY, Richard. The History of the Isle of Wight. London: A. Hamilton, 1781. First edition, 4to (307 x 229mm.) Large folding engraved map of Isl...

CAPEK, Karel. R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). London, Edinburgh etc.: Humphrey Milford for the Oxford University Press, 1923. First British ed...

MINIATURE BOOK. The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. London: E. Newbery, 1780. 64mo (38 x 26mm.) 2 engraved...

DULAC, Edmund (illustrator). The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales… retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1910.] ...

LEIGHTON, Clare. Woodcuts, Examples of the Work… with an Introduction by Hilaire Belloc. London, New York etc., 1930. Limited edition, this being ...

BIBLE, In English. [The Bible Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and Conferred with the best Translations in divers Languages.] London:...

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

BOWDLER-SHARPE, R. (editor). Lloyds Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd, 1896. 15 vols. (of 16). 8vo (181 x 115mm.) Numerous colour plates. (Ton...

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – Christina ROSSETTI. Goblin Market. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1923. 4to (218 x 140mm.) 4 colour plates....

LEIGHTON, Clare. The Philosophy of Gardening. An Address Given at a Horticultural Meeting St. Paul, Minnesota, June 1947. [Berkshire: Croft Public...

BIBLIOGRAPHY. – Montague SUMMERS. A Gothic Bibliography. London: Fortune Press, [1968.] Reprint, 8vo (213 x 134mm.) (Mild toning.) Original red cl...

BOTANY. – William RHIND. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom; Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with Their Uses to Man and the Lower Animals. Lon...

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly translated out of the original Tongues, And with the former Tran...

DULAC, Edmund (illustrator). – Edward FITZGERALD (translator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. but 1909]. Printed fr...

POE, Edgar Allan. The Poetical Works… with a Notice of his Life and Genius by James Hannay. London: Addey and Co., 1853. First London edition, 8vo...

CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Graham GREENE. The Little Fire Engine… illustrated by Dorothy Craigie. London: Max Parrish, [1950.] First edition, oblong 8vo ...