Rare Books & Works on Paper

Thomas Bewick Illustrations. 'A General History of Quadrupeds,' second edition, full green morocco with gilt tooled spine, spotting to title page,...

Myth and Legend in Literature, eight decorative bindings. Including Indian Myth and Legend, Myths of Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europe, Teutonic Myth an...

HELEN ALLINGHAM MARCUS. B HUISH Happy England As Painted By 1903, together with Happy England As Painted By, November 1909, and two copies of Ruba...

Dr B FRIEDMANN Die Ostasiatische Inselwelt first volume Java 1868, together with volume two Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas and New Guinea ...

THE VALE SHAKESPEARE Hacon & Ricketts, Much Ado About Nothing 1903 green cloth. ...[more]

ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON. 'South'. 'The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917,' original pictorial blue cloth, sunbleached with loss to s...

HENRY M STANLEY Through the Dark Continent or The Sources of the Nile Around the Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingston River to the A...

LADY MAGARET NEWBOLT The Later Life and Letters of Sir Henry Newbolt 1st edition 1942, together with HESTER RITCHIE & JOHN MURRAY Letters of Anne ...

THOMAS HUGES & RICHARD DOYLE The Scouring of the White Horse,1859 together with G.A.A BECKETT The Comic History of England, Heaths Picturesque Ann...

Signed John Le Carre. Eight signed works with fifteen other works. Signed works include The Night Manager, A Legacy of Spies, The Tailor of Panama...

G.K CHESTERTON The Incredulity of Father Brown 1st edition 1926, together with The Scandal of Father Brown 1st edition 1935, Tales from Boccacci...

KENNETH GRAHAME Dream Days 1930, together with The Golden Age 1928 with dj, The Wind in the Willows 15th edition with dj, CECIL BEATON Ballet clip...

JOSEPH CONRAD The Arrow of Gold 1919, together with W.R. INGE God and the Astronomers 1933, JOHN OSBORNE Look back in Anger third impression, ROBE...

A.A MILNE 'The World of Pooh' 1st edition 1958, with dj unclipped chipped and frayed, mold to cloth; 'The Christopher Robin Verses,' first combine...

J.G FRAZER The Golden Bough 1927, together with SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft addressed to J.G LOCKHART Esq second ...

HENRY DRUMMOND. 'The Monkey That Would Not Kill'. First edition, original pictorial cloth, full-page illustrations including frontis, Hodder and S...

THOMAS KENEALLY SCHINDLER’S ARK (1982) Hodder & Stoughton. First edition. (1982) Booker Prize winner. Together with A PASSENGER By Thomas Keneally...

THE CAPTAIN AND THE ENEMY By Graham Greene. (1988) New York: Viking, First US edition, Not price clipped In protective wrapper. ...[more]

JULIA FRANKUA. 'Eighteenth Century Colour Prints' 'An Essay on certain Stipple Engravers and their Work in Colour,' small elephant folio, original...

WILLIAM NICHOLSON. 'The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences'. Six vols A-Z, half leather with marbled boards, rubbed and bump...

Nine books on England and Wales including John Cary and Paterson. Lt. Col. PATERSON. 'A New and Accurate Description of all the.. Roads in England...

Nine works by Allan Mallinson. A CLOSE RUN THING By Allan Mallinson (1999) London : Bantam Press. Together with the NIZAM.S DAUGHTER By Allan Mall...

Willam Camden interest. Collected text extracts from the 1637 edition of 'Britannia,' bound in two volumes including Wiltshire, Hampshire, Isle of...

Signed Helen Dunmore. BURNING BRIGHT By Helen Dunmore (1994) Viking. First edition. Together with INGO By Helen Dunmore (2005) Harper Collins Firs...

RELIGIOUS Interest. 'The Life of our Saviour Jesus Christ: Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Compositions from the Four Gospels,' two volumes, inscribe...

THE NORTON FACSIMILE. THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE Prepared by Charlton Hinman. (1996) New York: WW Norton & Company. Second edition. Folio. In ...

FRANCIS SANDFORD and SAMUEL STEBBING. A Genealogical History....' ...'of the Kings and Queens of England, and Monarchs of Great Briitain, &c. From...

Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE. 'Monasticon Anglicanum' 'The History of the Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral & Collegiate Churches,' full le...

EDAWARD THOMAS. 'In Pursuit of Spring.' First Edition, original cloth, top edge gilt, colour illustrations, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1914; With 'Ri...

HENRY WILLIAMS. 'The Wet Flanders Plain,' First limited edition, 314/400, cloth backed abstract boards showing a sickle, rifle, plough and a sabre...

Nine first editions including a signed Kingsley Amis. WILLIAM GOLDING. 'Rites of Passage,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, spotting t...

A collection of Diverse works including Ruskin, E.V.B, Ardizzone and Gibbings. Six works by Ruskin include Art, Lectures on Architecture and Paint...

Quilting Interest. Twenty-six books on quilting including 'The Centinela Weavers of Chimayo: Unfolding Tradition', 'Kaffe Fassett: Glorious Needle...

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN. Edited by his son Francis Darwin (1887) London : John Murray Three volumes Original green cloth (3) ...[m...

CUMMY’S DIARY By Alison Cunningham (1926) London : Chatto & Windus. Limited edition of 780 copies this numbered 195. A diary kept by RL Stevenson’...

DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON By Ernest Hemingway. (1932) NewYork : Charles Scribner’s Sons (1) ...[more]

OF MICE AND MEN By John Steinbeck. (1937) William Heinemann. First UK edition. Bound by Bayntun in illustrated blue leather gilt binding. In slipc...

Two books on Edward Lear. TEAPOTS AND QUAILS By Edward Lear Edited by Angus Davidson and Philip Hofer (1953) Together with EDWARD LEAR AS A LANDSC...

Five books on politics. ENOCH POWELL by Robert Shepherd (1996). Together with PENHALIGON By Annette Penhaligan (1989) Together with MO MOWLAM By J...

Twenty-one Greyhound Stud Books. The earliest being 1890, original cloths with gold tooled greyhound to front boards, all rubbed and bumped. (22) ...

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. 'Goblin Market and Other Poems'. Original cloth, rubbed and bumped, front board loosening, Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1866....

Poetry Interest. Two works by C. Day Lewis and The collected poems of Phillip Larking. COLLECTED POEMS 1954 By C Day Lewis (1954). Together with T...

Six works by Roald Dhal. THE TWITS By Roald Dahl (1981) Alfred A Knopf. First US edition Together with ESIO TROT (1990) Jonathan Cape. Together wi...

SUMMONED BY BELLS By John Betjeman (1960) John Murray. First edition Second printing. In protective wrapper. Price clipped (1) ...[more]

Signed limited edition Evelyn Waugh. BASIL SEAL RIDES AGAIN OR THE RAKE’S REGRESS (1963) Little Brown and Company. Signed limited edition of 1000 ...

Seven books on mountaineering. ANNAPURNA By Maurice Herzog (1952) Jonathan Cape. First edition. Together with THE MATTERHORN By Guido Rey ((1946) ...

Four books on Newcastle. A DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE INCLUDING THE BOROUGH OF GATESHEAD By ...

CROSSING THE WATER By Sylvia Plath. (1971) Faber and Faber First edition Reprint (1) ...[more]

Five various first editions. THE MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR By Doris Lessing (1974) London : Octagon Press. Together with JULY’S PEOPLE By Nadine Gordi...

Thomas Willis. 'An Essay of the Pathology of the Brain and Nervous Stock,' AN ESSAY OF THE PATHOLOGY OF THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS STOCK : IN WHICH CON...

Five volumes by Dr Andrew Wilson. THE MODERN PHYSICIAN BEING A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE ATTAINMENT AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH By Dr Andrew Wilson (nd...

SURGERY OF MODERN WARFARE By Hamilton Bailey. (1941) Edinburgh : E&S Livingstone (1) ...[more]

THE STUDIO MAGAZINE. 'English Water-Colour', Six parts with two missing, card with cloth spine, colour illustrations tipped in, The Studio, Londo...

SANDERS (Charlotte) The Little Family, 2 vols in 1, later quarter-calf, Bath, 1797. ...[more]

'Public Debate on Spiritualism between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe'. Pamphlet, original card wraps with advertisements to rear wrap, ...

GEORGE EDWARD MOORE 'Principia Ethica,' first edition, original cloth, soiling to boards, owner signature to endpaper, At the University Press, Ca...

JOHN LE CARRE 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,' first edition, original cloth, small tears to top and sun bleaching to unclipped dj, spotting to edge o...

C. HAZELWOOD SHANNON (ed) The Pageant,' vol I of II, limited edition, 20/150, slight bubbling to original cloth, illustrated throughout, Henry & C...

WYNDHAM LEWIS 'America and Cosmic Man,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, some uncut leaves, spotting to edge of textblock, ex libris l...

The private stud book of A. C. W. Norman of Wilcote Manor, Oxfordshire, with photos, prizes, prices etc, 1944-1970. ...[more]