Children's Books & Illustrations, Playing Cards, Modern First Editions & Autographs

Patchen (Kenneth). Sleeper Awakes, 1st edition, New York: Padell, 1946, original publisher's white buckram, original painting to front board, titl...

Peake (Mervyn). The Gormenghast Trilogy, 1st editions, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946-59, some spotting to edges, Titus Groan in second impress...

Peters (Ellis). The Cadfael Chronicles, 1st editions, various publishers, 1977-1994, plus some duplicates and two loose jackets, all in dust jacke...

Pratchett (Terry). The Colour of Magic, New York: Hill House Publishing, 2004, facsimilie of first edition, signed by the author, publisher and ot...

Priestley (J.B.) Angel Pavement, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1930, original cloth, dust jacket, small nicks at head of spine, 8vo, tog...

Rickword (Edgell). Invocations to Angels and The Happy New Year, 1st edition, London: Wishart & Company, 1928, partly uncut, original black cloth-...

Robert Hale Ltd, publishers. A collection of 65 titles, thrillers, murder mysteries and others published by Robert Hale, London, 1950's-60's, incl...

Rothfuss (Patrick). The Name of the Wind, 1st edition, London: Gollancz, 2007, signed by the author to title page, inscription reads 'you may have...

Rowling (J.K). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st edition, 11th printing, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, tipped in author's signature 'with ...

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1st edition, 1st printing, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, slight marginal toning to textblock (...

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Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st paperback edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, original wrappers, spine a little faded,...

Rowling (J.K.) The Prisoner of Azkaban, 1st edition, 1st printing, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, 1st printing with 'Joanne Rowling' to the colophon, o...

Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, 1st edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2007, signed by the author to title page, original publisher'...

Sassoon (Siegfried). Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, limited illustrated edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1929, illustrations by William Nicholson, a...

Sassoon (Siegfried). Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, 1st illustrated edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1931, 15 colour plates by Barnett Freedman, i...

Scalzi (John). Old Man's War, 1st edition, New York: Tom Doherty, 2005, original publisher's cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, together with: The Sagan Dia...

Sitwell (Edith). The Mother and Other Poems, 1st edition, Oxford: printed for the author by B.H. Blackwell, 1915, a few light spots, original wrap...

Smith (Elizabeth Thomasina Meade, "L.T. Meade"). Three Girls from School, 1907; A Wild Irish Girl, 1910; The Chesterton Girl Graduates, 1913, 1st ...

Steinbeck (John). Of Mice and Men, 1st edition, 2nd printing, New York: Covici Friede, 1937, 2nd printing with 'loosely' to page 9 and no dot betw...

Stephen (Adrian). The "Dreadnought" Hoax, 1st edition, London: The Hogarth Press, 1936, frontispiece, two photographic plates, armorial bookplate ...

Stoker (Bram). Dracula, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Archibald Constable, 1897, 1st issue with four titles listed to half title verso and no ad...

Stopes (Marie). Married Love, A New Contribution to the Solutions of Sex Difficulties, 9 presentation copies signed by the author to her husband, ...

Stopes (Marie). Wise Parenthood, 4th edition, presentation copy signed by the author to her husband, London: A.C. Fifield, 1919, inscribed by the ...

[Thomas, Dylan Marlais, 1914-1953]. The Life of William Blake, by Mona Wilson, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948, illustrations, some light spotting...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 13th impression, 1963; The Two Towers, 10th impression, 1963; The Return of the Ki...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Fellowship of the Ring, 8th impression, 1959, folding map at end, top edge red, original red cloth, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Sign...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 5th impression, 1956; The Two Towers, 2nd impression, 1955; The Return of the ...

Verne (Jules). Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877, frontispiece, 89 illustrations, ...

Verne (Jules). The Chase of the Golden Meteor, 1st English edition, London: Grant Richards, 1919, 24 monochrome illustrations by George Roux, a li...

Verne (Jules). The Master of the World, 1st UK edition, London: Sampson, Low & Co Ltd, 1914, 30 black & white plates, hinges cracked, occasional s...

Verne (Jules). Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Seas, 1st edition in English, London: Sampson, Low & Searle, 1873, 112 illustrations, half-title,...

* Vidal (Gore, 1925-2012). Reflections upon a Sinking Ship, reprint, Heinemann, 1969, author's signed presentation inscription to half-title, 'Mic...

Von Harbou (Thea). Metropolis, 1st edition in English, 1st issue, London: The Reader's Library, 1927, front hinge cracked, pen marking to front pa...

Waugh (Evelyn). Scoop, 1st edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1938, 1st issue book, 2nd issue dust jacket, original publisher's boards, bookplate to...

Waugh (Evelyn). The Holy Places, London: The Queen Anne Press, 1953, 4 monochrome wood engravings Reynolds Stone, previous owner mark to the front...

Wilde (Oscar). The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Virginia Water: Carpathian, 1999, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, blue morocco gilt, boards faintly m...

Williamson (Henry). Tarka the Otter; 1945; The Peregrine's Saga, 1945; The Lone Swallows, 1945; The Old Stag, 1946; Salar the Salmon, 1946, togeth...

Wodehouse (P.G.) Louder and Funnier, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1932, a few spots, top edge red, original cloth, in dust jacket designed ...

Woolf (Virginia, 1882-1941). Jacob's Room, 1st edition, Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1922, some spotting, untrimmed, original crocus-yellow cloth with...

Yeats (William Butler). Three Things, London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1929, monochrome illustration to half-title and one colour plate by Gilbert Spen...

Zelazny (Roger). Nine Princes in Amber, 1st edition, Garden City: Doubleday, 1970, faint staining to hinges, original publisher's cloth, dust jack...

Zelazny (Roger). The Hand of Oberon, 1st edition, Garden City: Doubleday, 1976, original publisher's boards, dust jacket, 8vo, together with: the ...

* 1984 AD. Vehicle Registration Number Retention Certificate V778, DVLA, date of issue 15 February 2016, together with the original pair of number...

* Alexander (Cecil Frances nee Humphreys, 1818-1895). Hymn-writer, poetess and wife of the Bishop of Derry. Autograph Manuscript Signed with initi...

* Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. An uncommon collection of autographs relating to the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo, 1958, consisting of the signatur...

* Anne (1665-1714). Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1702-1707, and Great Britain and Ireland, 1707-1714. A fine autograph signature, ‘Anne...

* Apollo 11. Man’s First Landing on the Moon Photograph Signed, 20 July 1969, vintage black and white photograph taken from film exposed by the 16...

* Apollo Mission Programme Autographs. A collection of 30 items with 28 NASA space programme autographs, including autographs of all 12 Moonwalker...

* Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Founder of the Scout movement. Typed Letter Signed, 'Robert Baden-Powell', 116 Victoria Street, London, 3 June...

* Baillie (Isobel, 1895-1983). Scottish soprano. An archive of signed material by Isobel Baillie, comprising a series of 23 Autograph Letters Sign...

* British Composers. A good series of 11 Autograph and 5 Typed Letters Signed, many with musical content, 20th century, comprising Herbert Howells...

* Bannister (Roger, 1929-2018). British middle-distance athlete and neurologist who ran the first sub-4-minute mile. The non-running Nero Lemania ...

* British Prime Ministers. A complete and professionally presented collection of all 55 autographs British prime ministers from Robert Walpole to ...

* Britten (Benjamin, 1913-1976). English composer. An important series of 8 Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Ben’, undated except one dated 24 January 1...

* Brontë (Patrick, 1777-1861). Irish Anglican priest and author, and the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell ...

* Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). Autograph signature in black ink, 'Winston S. Churchill', no date, signed along a printed dotted line an...

* Coward (Noel, 1899-1973). English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer. A series of three, apparently unpublished, photographs of No...

* Czerny (Carl, 1791-1857). Austrian composer and pianist. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Carl Czerny', no place, 18 September 1832, to M. de Liebenber...

* Davies (Peter Maxwell, 1934-1916). English composer, conductor and Master of the Queen’s Music. An important Autograph Literary Manuscript, Lond...