Rare Books & Works on Paper

EOIN O'BRIEN. THE BECKETT COUNTRY. SAMUEL BECKETT’S IRELAND By Eoin O’Brien (1986) Black Cat Press. Hardback. Photography by David H Davison. Fore...

PETER CAREY THE FAT MAN IN HISTORY By Peter Carey (1980) Faber and Faber. Signed first edition. Together with BLISS (1981) First edition. Small in...

SAMUEL JOHNSON INTEREST ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON LLD DURING THE LAST TWENTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE By Hester Lynch Piozzi (1786) London : C...

ASTRONOMY INTEREST - FRANK McCLEAN F.K. McCLEAN. Report of the Solar Eclipse Expedition to Flint Island January 3rd, 1908. Bungay, Suffolk: Richar...

BERYL BAINBRIDGE ANOTHER PART OF THE WOOD By Beryl Bainbridge (1968) Hutchinson. First edition. Together with ENGLISH JOURNEY (1984), FILTHY LUCRE...

CORNWALL INTEREST. SECRET SHRINES. IN SEARCH OF THE OLD HOLY WELLS OF CORNWALL By Paul Broadhurst (1988) Number 468 of signed limited edition of 5...

THOMAS PYNCHON VINELAND By Thomas Pynchon (1990) Secker and Warburg together with another copy (1990) 1st US edition published by Little, Brown an...

TIMOTHY MO AN INSULAR POSSESSION By Timothy Mo (1986) Together with THE REDUNANCY OF COURAGE (1991) Both published by Chatto & Windus. First editi...

JOHN FOWLES. DANIEL MARTIN By John Fowles (1977) First edition. Together with MANTISSA (1982) and WORMHOLES (1998). All published by Jonathan Cape...

Max Beerbohm. 'Yet Again,' original cloth, unclipped edges, some spotting, Chapman and Hall, London, 1909; 'The Poets Corner,' toning to pictorial...

Walter De La Mare. Six works. 'Ding Dong Bell,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Selwyn & Blount, London, 1924; 'Songs of Childhood,' ...

Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett). Three first editions. 'Time and the Gods,' first edition, cloth backed boards, turned corners and tears to cloth, ...

Wilfrid Noyce. Three works. 'South Col,' first edition, original cloth, vibrant clipped dj, lacks frontis, some spotting, William Heinemann, 1954;...

FOLIO SOCIETY. THE FOLIO POETS - Wordsworth, Kipling, Coleridge and John Keats, each with cardboard sleeve. ...[more]

Seven 19th century children's books of humor and verse. ERNEST AMES. 'Really and Truly,' pictorial boards with staining and toning, texblock loose...

CORNWALL INTEREST. CORNISH BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS By Rev RS Hawker (1869) James Parker and Co. Together with A CORNER OF OLD CORNWALL By E Bonham...

Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe Illustrations. RALPH STEADMAN. 'Quasimodo Mouse,' first edition, pictorial boards, colour illustrations throughou...

James Thurber Illustrations. Seven works. 'The Thurber Carnival,' original pictorial cloth, spotting to edge of textblock, booksellor label 'Preec...

Seven Illustrated works. 'Printers Pie: A Festival Souvenir of the Printers Pension, Almshouse and Orphan Asylum Corporation,' pictorial card wrap...

'The Puppet-Show'. Volume I. Original embossed cloth with gilt tooled puppet master to front board, illustrated throughout, published at The Offic...

Five satirical illustrated works. CARAN D'ACHE Illustrations. 'The Story of Marlborough,' text by Hon. Frances Wolseley, original cloth with picto...

Capt W.E. JOHNS KING OF THE COMMANDOS By Capt WE JOHNS (1943) Together with ADVENTURE BOUND (1959) Thomas Nelson, Price clipped. Presentation labe...

JILLY COOPER. JOLLY SUPER By Jilly Cooper (1971) First edition. Together with CLASS (1979) First edition with signed inscription. Both published b...

MILAN KUNDERA THE FAREWELL PARTY By Milan Kundera (1977) John Murray. First edition. Fine copy (1) ...[more]

Ivy COMPTON-BURNETT I COMPTON-BURNETT : TWO WORLDS AND THEIR WAYS (1949) By I Compton-Burnett. Victor Gollancz. First edition Some spotting to edg...

TASH AW - SIGNED THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY By Tash Aw. (2005) Fourth estate. Signed first edition (1) ...[more]

WILLIAM BURROUGHS NOVA EXPRESS By William Burroughs (1966) Jonathan Cape. Not price clipped. Water stain to top edge. First edition (1) ...[more]

Fougasse Illustrations. Sixteen works. Including 'Both Small and Great Beasts', 'Home Circle', 'Just a Few Lines', 'The Second Century of Humour',...

Nineteen illustrated books of Nonsense and other juvenile works. 'Nonsense for Somebody Anybody or Everybody Particularly the Baby-Body,' original...

John Leech Illustrations. 'The Comic History of England,' by Gilbert Abbot A'Beckett, two volumes, ten coloured plates including frontis, half lea...

Phil May Illustrations. Six works including 'A Phil May Picture Book', 'Humorists of the Pencil', 'Winter Annual 1893', 'Winter Annual 1897', and ...

Guillermo Mordillo Illustrations. Three works. 'Opus,' volumes 1,2 and 3, pictorial boards, French language, colour illustrations, Glenat, 1978-19...

'The Queen: An Illustrated Journal & Review' 'Containing Several Hundred Engravings of Fine Art Subjects, Events of the Day, and Designs in Needle...

A folder of 19th Century sheet music. With coloured engraved front pages, in varying conditions, including a third edition '50 Sailors Songs or Ch...

George Cruikshank Illustrations. Seven 'The Comic Almanack'. Years 1838, 1840, 1841, 1843, all in original thin card wraps, cellophane tape to spi...

George Cruikshank Illustrations. '1851: Or, The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and Family Who Came Up to London....,' first edition, early issu...

George Cruikshank Illustrations. 'My Sketch Book'. No I, scarce publication, forecast 'to be continued occasionally', plain coloured, chips and ni...

George Cruikshank Illustrations. 'The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder'. A rare survivor, thirty-first edition, leaves are loose and debound, nibbles an...

George Cruikshank Illustrations. Original parts. 'Hop O My thumb and the Seven League Boots,' Fairy Library, thin blue card wraps rebacked on line...

Jean De Brunhoff Illustrations. Five works. 'Babar's Travels', second English edition, splitting to inner joint, Methuen & Co, 1936; 'Babar and Fa...

Kathleen Hale Illustrations. Three 'Orlando' works. 'A Seaside Holiday,' rubbed extremities to pictorial boards, loosening textblock, spotting to ...

Georgia Roberts and Katharine Greenland. 'The Toy Village,' first edition, cloth backed pictorial boards, couple of loose leaves, toning to edges,...

Gertrude M. Bradley Illustrations. 'The Run-a-way Puff Puff,' pictorial boards rubbed and bumped, spotting to front and rear leaves, colour illust...

B. Parker and N. Parker. 'The A. A. A. A.s. and the K. K. K. K.s. or Twice Three is Six,' illustrated paper covered boards, double page colour ill...

John Hassall and Cecil Aldin Illustrations. 'Two Well-Worn Shoe Stories,' cloth backed pictorial boards, nibbles and bumps, some finger soiling, c...

ANTIQUARIAN CURIO INTEREST THE DUMB PHILOSOPHER; OR GREAT BRITAIN’S WONDER CONTAINING A FAITHFUL AND VERY SURPRISING ACCOUNT HOW DICKORY CRONKE, A...

ANTIQUARIAN MEDICAL INTEREST DOMESTIC MEDICINE OR A TREATISE ON THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF DISEASE BY REGIMEN AND SIMPLE MEDICINES By William Buch...

JOHN BANVILLE. ANCIENT LIGHT By John Banville (2012) Viking. Signed first edition. Together with ECLIPSE (2000) Picador. First edition VG copies (...

ANTIQUARIAN MEDICAL INTEREST A TREATISE ON EXPERIENCE IN PHYSIC By Zimmerman (1782) London : G Wilkie. Two volumes with front board detached from ...

OLIVER GOLDSMITH THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD By Oliver Goldsmith (1886) Preface by Austin Dobson. London : Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co. Full vellum. Teg...

MICHAEL DIBDIN CABAL By Michael Dibdin (1992) Faber and Faber with THE DYING OF THE LIGHT (1993), DEAD LAGOON (1994) and DARK SPECTRE (1995) Signe...

MEDICAL ANTIQUARIAN PRACTICAL TREATISE ON CONSUMPTIONS By John Stephens MD (1761) London W Owen Ex libris Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. Bo...

DEVON INTEREST. THE STORY OF EXETER CATHEDRAL By Arthur Huxley Thompson (1933) Raphael Tuck & Sons. Together with A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE WITH SKE...

E. Nesbit. Eleven reprints. 'The Railway Children,' second edition, illustrations by C.E. Brock, original cloth with pictorial gilt decorations, l...

W. Heath Robinson Illustrations. 'Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales'. original red cloth with gilt decorations, small tears to unclipped dj, colour fron...

ANNIE PROULX ANNIE PROULX : THE SHIPPING NEWS By Annie Proulx (1994) Together with ACCORDION CRIMES (1996) Fourth Estate. Two copies. First UK edi...

MARGARET FORSTER THE SEDUCTION OF MRS PENDLEBURY By Margaret Forster (1974). Together with THE BRIDE OF LOWTHER FELL (1980) Secker & Warburg and P...

Nineteen diverse works VICTOR CANNING. 'His Bones are Coral,' first edition, original cloth and dj, Hodder & Stoughton, 1955; JAMES HADLEY CHASE. ...

Collection of travel books. GEORGE SAVA. 'Surgery & Crime,' origianl cloth and dj, The Quality Book Club; GARRY HOGG. 'Portuguese Journey,' origin...

Early to mid-century popular fiction. LENNOX KERR. 'The Blackspit Smugglers,' original cloth, clipped dj, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd; CHARLES VIPONT...