Children's Books, Literary Autographs, 19th & 20th Century First Editions

Dickens (Charles). A Tale of Two Cities, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, etched frontispiece, additional title and 14 plat...

Dickens (Charles). Little Dorrit, 1st book form edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by H....

Dickens (Charles). Little Dorrit, 1st edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by H.K. Brown...

Dickens (Charles). Our Mutual Friend, 1st edition in the original parts, London: Chapman & Hall, 1864/5, 20 monthly numbers in 19 original parts a...

Dickens (Charles). Our Mutual Friend, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1865, bound from the parts, half-titles, 40 engraved plate...

Dickens (Charles). A Christmas Carol: in Prose; being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1907, colour frontispiece and ad...

Dilke (Lady Emilia Francis). The Shrine of Death, 1st edition, London & New York: George Routledge, 1886, woodcut illustrations, a little minor sp...

Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll'). Sylvie and Bruno, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1889, illustrations by Harry Furniss, 4 pp....

Eliot (George, i.e. Marian Evans). Felix Holt the Radical, 3 volumes, 1st edition, William Blackwood, 1866, without half-titles and lacking publis...

Fenn (George Manville). George Alfred Henty. The Story of an Active Life, 1st edition, London: Blackie and Son, [1907], portrait frontispiece, 10 ...

[Fitzgerald, Edward]. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse, 3rd edition, London: Bernard Quaritch,...

Frend (William). Evening Amusements; or, The Beauty of the Heavens Displayed. In which several striking appearances, to be observed on various eve...

Haggard (H. Rider). Maiwa's Revenge; or the War of the Little Hand, 1888; Mr. Meeson's Will, 1888; Montezuma's Daughter, 1893; The People of the M...

Hardy (Thomas). Wessex Novels, 17 volumes, London: Osgood, Mcilvaine and Co., 1895-97, etched frontispiece to each, a little light marginal toning...

Henty (G.A.) The March to Magdala, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868, lacking rear free endpaper, a little minor spotting, front hinge b...

Henty (G.A.) The Young Franc-Tireurs and their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War, 1st edition, London: Griffith and Farran, 1872, 8 wood-engra...

Henty (G.A.) The March to Coomassie, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874, a few light fingermarks and spots, previous owner signature at h...

Henty (G.A.) Friends Though Divided. A Tale of the Civil War, 1st edition, London: Griffith & Farran, 1883, 8 wood-engraved plates, 32 pp. adverti...

Henty (G.A.) With Clive in India, 1884; In Freedom's Cause, 1885; The Dragon and the Raven, 1886; For Name and Fame, 1886; The Lion of the North, ...

Henty (G.A.) The Bravest of the Brave, 1887; A Final Reckoning, 1887; The Young Carthaginian, 1887; In the Reign of Terror, 1888; For the Temple 1...

Henty (G.A.) The Young Carthaginian, 1887; By Pike and Dyke, 1890; One of the 28th, 1890; By England's Aid, 1891; By Right of Conquest, 1891; Thos...

Henty (G.A.) A Jacobite Exile, 1894; A Knight of the White Cross, 1896; Through Russian Snows, 1896; The Tiger of Mysore, 1896; With Cochrane the ...

Henty (G.A.) Both Sides of the Border, 1899; Won By the Sword, 1900; A Roving Commission, 1900; No Surrender, 1900; With Buller in Natal, 1901; Ou...

Henty (G.A.) By Pike and Dyke, 1st edition, London: Blackie & Son, 1890, 10 illustrations, 32 pp. catalogue at end, a little minor toning, previou...

Henty (G. A., contributor). The Art of Authorship. Literary reminiscences, methods of work, and advice to young beginners, compiled and edited by ...

Henty (G.A.) Those Other Animals, [1891]; The Dash for Khartoum, 1892; Held Fast for England, 1892, Condemned as a Nihilist, 1893; Beric the Brito...

Henty (G.A.) The Dash for Khartoum, 1892; In Greek Waters, 1893; A Jacobite Exile, 1894; A Woman of the Commune, 1895; A Knight of the White Cross...

Henty (G.A.) Rujub, the Juggler, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1893, 32 pp. catalogue at end of volume III (dated October 1892)...

Henty (G.A.) Dorothy's Double, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1894, half titles, 32 pp. catalogue at end of volume III dated Feb...

Henty (G.A.) The Tiger of Mysore, 1896; With Cochrane the Dauntless, 1897; On the Irrawaddy, 1897; Colonel Thorndyke's Secret, 1898; With Moore at...

Henty (G.A.) On the Irradawaddy, 1897; A March on London, 1898; Under Wellington's Command, 1899; Both Sides of the Border, 1899; At Aboukir and A...

Henty (G.A.) The Queen's Cup, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1897, half titles, bound without the 32 pp. catalogue at end of vol...

Henty (G.A.) A Roving Commission, 1900; No Surrender!, 1900; In the Irish Brigade, 1901; Out With Garibaldi, 1901; To Herat and Cabul, 1902; With ...

Henty (G.A.) A collection of 51 titles, 1890's-1900's, later printings, re-issues etc, including The Lion of St. Mark, In Times of Peril, The Youn...

Henty (G.A.) A collection of 63 titles, 1880's-1900's, including The Young Buglers, The Cornet of Horse, Winning His Spurs, Friends Though Divided...

Henty (G.A.) A collection of 52 titles, 1890's-1900's, later printings and re-issues, including Out on the Pampas, The Lion of St. Mark, The Lion ...

Henty (G.A.) A collection of 130 titles, 1890's-1950's, later printings and re-issues, including At Aboukir and Acre, With the British Legion, The...

Kipling (Rudyard). Quartette, The Christmas Annual of the Civil & Military Gazette, by four Anglo-Indian writers, [i.e. John Lockwood, Alice, Rudy...

Lever (Charles). Davenport Dunn, or the Man of the Day, 22 parts in 21 (as issued), 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, July 1857 - April 1859,...

Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth). The Song of Hiawatha, 1st edition, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855, 12 pp. advertisements at end dated November 185...

Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus [... The Ghost-Seer! From the German of Schiller. In two volumes. vol. I], ...

Stevenson (Robert Louis). Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes, 1st edition, London: C. Keegan Paul & Co., 1879, wood-engraved frontispiece by Wa...

[Thackeray, William Makepeace]. The Yellowplush Correspondence, 1st edition, Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838, title and a few leaves deta...

Tuer (Andrew W.). History of the Horn-book, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London: Leadenhall Press, 1896, photogravure frontispieces and hand-coloured v...

Verne (Jules). Around the World in Eighty Days, translated by George M. Towle, 1st US illustrated edition, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 18...

Verne (Jules). Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, 1st UK edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1873, 112 monochrome illustrati...

* Bloomsbury Group. Bell (Vanessa, 1879-1961). Autograph Letter Signed, 'Vanessa Bell', Charleston, Firle, Sussex, 25 April, no year, to Miss [Mon...

* Casals (Pablo, 1876-1973). Catalan Cellist, Composer and Conductor. Signed portrait, 1955, head and shoulders portrait of the cellist with his l...

* Coster (Howard, 1885-1959). Portrait of the Politican David Lloyd George (1863-1945, Prime Minister, 1916-1922), [1934], gelatin silver print, h...

* Davis (Miles, 1926-1991). Don Quixote, circa 1985, colour screenprint, printed signature, red seal and signature in blind lower right, 59.5 x 44...

* Dickens (Charles, 1812-1870). Novelist. Autograph Signature (‘Charles Dickens’) in brown ink, no date, with attached red wax seal, neatly trimme...

* Dubuffet (Jean, 1901-1985). French Painter & Sculptor. Typed letter signed, 'Jean Dubuffet', vence, 10 October 1959, to Georges Fall, in French,...

* Dufy (Raoul, 1877-1953). French Painter. Autograph letter signed, 'Raoul Dufy', no place, no date, a brief 4-line note in French, written in pen...

* Dunhill (Thomas, 1877-1946). English Composer and Writer. A collection of six autograph musical quotations from his work Tantivy Towers, a total...

* Durrell (Gerald, 1925-1995). English writer and naturalist. A sheet of drawings by Gerald Durrell, signed 'Gerald Durrell, France, [1973]', a se...

* Durrell (Gerald, 1925-1995). English writer and naturalist. Autograph Manuscript (unsigned), no place, no date, circa 1973-78, outlining ideas t...

* Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). English Composer. Autograph Musical Quotation signed, 'Edward Elgar', 5 September 1901, 4 bars on a hand-drawn stave ...

* Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). English Composer. Autograph letter signed, 'Edward Elgar', on Master of the King's Musick letterhead, St. James's Pal...

* Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). English Composer. Autograph letter signed, (Edward Elgar), Plas Gwyn, Hereford, 10 February, 1910, to [Henry] Clayton...

* Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). English Composer. Autograph letter signed, 'Ed. Elgar' Plas Gwyn, Hereford, 14 September 1908, to Alfred Littleton [o...