Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Byron (Lord George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron, poet, 1788-1824) Autograph address panel signed to Dr Samuel Butler, Headmaster of Shrewsbury S...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Wordsworth (William, poet,1770-1850) Letter signed to Messrs Bell Brothers & Co., Lon...

Wordsworth (William) The Poetical Works, 6 vol., the first volume with two almost word for word duplicate presentation inscriptions by Wordsworth ...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Hebrew Melodies, first edition, first issue, with 4-line announcement of Samuel Rogers' Jacqueline on verso of fi...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Hebrew Melodies, first edition, half-title, lacks final advertisement leaf (issue thus unknown), occasional penci...

Byroniana.- [Agg (John), attributed to] Lord Byron's Farewell to England; with Three other Poems, viz. Ode to St. Helena, To my Daughter, on the m...

[Polidori (John)] The Vampyre; A Tale, first edition, third issue, half-title, most leaves with corners or margins repaired, original drab wrapper...

Byroniana.- [Colton (Charles Caleb)] Remarks Critical and Moral on the Talents of Lord Byron, and the Tendencies of Don Juan, first edition, half-...

Byroniana.- [?Todd (Henry John)], "Oxoniensis". A Remonstrance addressed to Mr. John Murray, Respecting a Recent Publication, small embossed stamp...

Fore-edge paintings.- White (Henry Kirke) The Remains... With an Account of his Life by Robert Southey, 3 vol., engraved additional titles, engrav...

Byroniana.- [Murray (John)] Notes on Captain Medwin's Conversations of Lord Byron, 8pp., title and verso of final leaf soiled, [Privately Printed,...

Byroniana.- Howitt (William) A Poet's Thoughts at the Interment of Lord Byron, first edition, 14pp., wood-engraved title-vignette, title and verso...

Byroniana.- Medwin (Thomas) Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: noted during a Residence with his Lordship at Pisa, first edition, half-ti...

Broadside announcing the death of Byron.- The particulars of the melancholy Death of Lord Byron, who died at Missolonghi, in Greece, on the 19th o...

Byroniana.- Lake (J.W.) A Poetical Tribute to the Memory of Lord Byron, first edition, ex-library with small embossed stamp to half-title and ink ...

Byroniana.- Blaquiere (Edward) Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece, including Facts connected with the last days of Lord Byron, first edition, p...

Byroniana.- Battaglia (Alessandro) Sopra il Risorgimento della Grecia, first edition, errata slip at end with 2 ms addenda, broken, contemporary r...

Edgeworth (Maria, novelist and educationist, 1768-1849) One page of a leaf of the autograph manuscript of her novel Garry Owen, or, The Snow-Woman...

Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, "Parlour Library, vol. CXLIV", half-title, title within ruled border, Thoma...

Byroniana.- Cornell (J.H.), translator. Manfred: A Dramatic Poem by Lord Byron...Adapted for the Use of the N.Y. Philharmonic Society, first editi...

Zimmermann (M.) Solitude considered with respect to its Influence upon the Mind and the Heart, first English edition, contemporary ink ownership i...

Grenville Homer.- Homer. Iliav Kai Odduseia [The Iliad and the Odyssey], 4 vol., one of 25 large paper copies, the Marquis of Stafford's copy with...

Exhibition pamphlets.- A Collection of 20 Pamphlets, including: 16 panorama exhibition guides, of which 12 with original folding panorama key, 1 w...

Austen (Jane) [The Novels], 5 vol. in 4, 'Standard Novels' series, comprising: Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey [&] Persuasion; Sense and Sensibil...

Dickens (Charles) Sketches by "Boz": Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. The Second Series. Complete in One Volume, first edition...

Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition in book form, early issue, cut signature of the author to front pasted...

Dickens (Charles) Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, 3 vol., first edition, second issue with "Boz" on titles and 'Rose Maylie and Olive...

Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition in the original monthly parts, 20 parts in 19, early issues, engrave...

Dickens (Charles) A Tale of Two Cities, first edition in the original monthly parts, 8 parts in 7, etched frontispiece, additional title and 14 pl...

Fore-edge painting.- Dickens (Charles) Christmas Stories... and Other Stories, plates, near-contemporary green half morocco, gilt, with fore-edge ...

Smith (Albert) and Angus B. Reach, editors. The Man in the Moon, nos. 1-30 (complete), first edition in original parts, parts 1-21 with folding pl...

16th century English dialogue.- [Shepherd (Luke), ?pseudonym]. The Enterlude of John Bon & Mast Person; a dialogue on the festival of Corpus Chris...

Rossetti (Christina) Goblin Market and other Poems, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title after Dante Gabriel Ro...

Supernatural.- Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan).- Dreamland and Ghostland: An Original Collection of Tales and Warnings from the Borderland of Substance a...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, first issue with 'Miss Violent Hunter' in the last sentence on p.317 an...

Grossmith (George and Weedon). The Diary of a Nobody, first edition in book form, signed presentation inscription from both authors “To Mrs Whiteh...

Judaica.- Herzl (Theodor) A Jewish State. An Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish Question, first edition in English, translated by Sylvie d...

Falkner (J. Meade) Moonfleet, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed "Thos. Hardy from the Author 1898" on title, 2pp. advertisements and 32p...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) A collection of 32 works uniformly bound in 50 vol., first or first Englsih editions (various states), comprising:...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The Second World War, 6 vol., first editions, one or two foxing marks, modern crimson morocco, g.e., ruled in gilt...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 vol., first editions, modern half morocco over marbled boards, g.e., sp...

Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne) The Works of The Brontës, 6 vol., "The Heather Edition", later red calf, gilt-ruled borders, green and black moro...

Ballard (J. G.) The Drowned World, first English [and first hardback] edition, very faint spotting to fore-edge, original boards, light bumping to...

Beat Generation.- Floating Bear (The), no.1-38, complete set of first editions, some toning, original mimeograph wrappers, top-or side-stapled, li...

Beerbohm (Max) Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story, first edition, rear endpapers toned, original cloth, spine a little dulled, ends bumped, la...

Betjeman (John) Collected Poems, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "inscribed for Godfrey Smith with gratitude for th...

Bond (Michael) A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, first printing, illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth,...

Čapek (Karel) R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots, modern half reverse calf, Prague, Fr. Borovy, 1935; Bílá Nemoc, first edition, original upper cove...

Chandler (Raymond) Farewell, My Lovely, first edition, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, split running down lower joint fr...

Dick (Philip K.) The Penultimate Truth, first English [and first hardback] edition, ink ownership inscription from same year as publication on fro...

Donaldson (Julia) The Gruffalo, first edition, illustrations by Axel Scheffler, original pictorial boards, very light rubbing to spine ends and co...

Eliot (T.S.) The Waste Land, "Second Edition" [but first edition, second impression], one of 1000 copies,  original boards lettered in gilt, fine,...

Fleming (Ian) Dr No, first edition, original second state boards with silhouette in brown, spine lettered in silver, fore-edge very lightly spotte...

Forster (E.M.) A Passage to India, one of 200 copies signed by the author, light browning to endpapers, light marking where stamp or sticker skill...

Greene (Graham) The Power and the Glory, first edition, usual light browning to half-title, light marginal toning, small bookseller's sticker on p...

Hemingway (Ernest) A Farewell to Arms, first edition, first issue with Scribner's seal to title verso and without legal disclaimer, original cloth...

James (M.R.) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, first edition, frontispiece and 3 plates by James McBryde, 16pp. advertisements at end, ink ownership ...

Joyce (James) Finnegan's Wake, first edition, one of 425 copies signed by the author in turquoise ink, title mounted on stub, very light scattered...

Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, "second edition" [but first edition, second issue], one of 200 copies  signed by the author, light spotti...

Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, first edition, one of 1000 copies signed by the author, original brown pictorial boards, unopened and unc...