Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Atherton (Jeffrey) Black-letter. An Interpretation of Events Relating to the Time and Presence of Johann Gutenberg, one of 26 lettered copies sign...

Chivers of Bath "vellucent binding".- Malory (Sir Thomas) [Le Morte d'Arthur] The Birth and Life and Acts of King Arthur, 2 vol., one of 1500 copi...

Lloyd (Trevor, binder).- Chambers (Sir William) A Treatise on Civil Architecture, first edition, list of subscribers (bound after preface), 50 eng...

Meunier (Charles, binder).- Haraucourt (Edmond) L'Effort: La Madone. L'Antéchrist. L'Immortalité. La Fin du Monde, 4 parts in 1, number 11 printed...

Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binders.- Khayyám (Omar) Rubaiyat, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, with an introduction by A.C.Benson, printed on japanese...

Sangorski (Alberto).- Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Woodman and the Nightingale and To Night, calligraphic manuscript on vellum with 4 miniatures, 10...

Binding.- Verlaine (Paul) Poèmes Saturniens, number 408 of 500 copies on Vélin, from an edition limited to 550, pochoir illustrations by H.Bouché-...

Ashendene Press.- James (Henry) Refugees in Chelsea, one of 50 copies on paper, one initial printed in red, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, s...

Ashendene Press.- Vita di Santa Chiara Vergine composta per Vgolino Verino Cittadino Florentino, Reprinted from the Original Manuscript with an In...

Ashendene Press.- Apuleius (Lucius) XI. Bookes of the Golden Asse containing the Metamorphosie..., translated by William Adlington, one of 165 cop...

Ashendene Press.- Thucydides. [History of the Peloponnesian War], [one of 260 copies], printed in red and black with text in Ptolemy type, side-no...

Ashendene Press.- Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach (The) commonly called Ecclesiasticus, [one of 328 copies on paper], printed in red and black i...

Gooden (Stephen).- Aesop. Fables, translated by Sir Roger l'Estrange, Kt., number 122 of 525 copies on hand-made paper signed by the artist, 1936 ...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Keats (John) Endymion, one of 500 copies, 58 wood-engraved illustrations by John Buckland Wright, some full-page, foxing t...

Midnight Paper Sales.- Verhoeven (Ben) & Gaylord Schanilec. Sylvae: Fifty Specimens printed directly from the wood with historical anecdotes & obs...

Adams (Douglas) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first edition, signed by the author on upper inner wrapper, original publisher's purchase s...

Anderson (Maxwell) Key Largo, first edition, two signed presentation inscriptions from the author "Dear Victor [Samrock] - When the writing comes ...

Bradbury (Ray) Fahrenheit 451, first edition, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, light browning to endpapers, original boards, lettered yellow (Currey...

Bulgakov (Mikhail) Sobach'e serdtse [Heart of a Dog], samizdat typescript, light staining to inner margin of final few leaves, original printed st...

Burgess (Anthony) A Clockwork Orange, first edition, abrasion marks to endpapers, staining to pp.1-7, mostly not affecting text, original boards, ...

Dahl (Roald) James and the Giant Peach, first edition, first issue with five-line colophon including "Bound by H. Wolff, New York", illustrations ...

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first edition, signed bookplate by the author laid down on title, illustrations by Joseph Schindel...

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first edition, first issue with the six line colophon, fifth line reading "Paper manufactured by S...

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Vickie love Roald Dahl"...

Dahl (Roald) Dirty Beasts, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Lucy" to endpaper, illustrations by Rosemary Fawcett...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first issue with 'Miss Violent Hunter' in the last sentence on p.317 and without name ...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Sign of Four, ink ownership inscription to head of title, browning to endpapers, second edition, original pictorial c...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, first edition, first issue with "you" for "your" on p.13, half-title, 16 plates by Sidney ...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) His Last Bow, 6pp advertisements, foxing to endpapers, light toning to spine, extremities a little rubbed, 1917; The Case...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Complete Sherlock Holmes. With a preface by Christopher Morley. Introduction by John Dickson Carr, 2 vol., one of 147...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Return of Sherlock Holmes, first English edition, half-title, 16 plates by Sidney Paget (2 detached and tipped in), 4...

Du Maurier (Daphne) Rebecca, first edition, signed Book Society bookplate by the author, laid down on pastedown, the odd spot, page margins lightl...

Eco (Umberto) Il Problema Estetico in San Tommaso, first edition, initialled presentation inscription from the author to Folco Portinari “E’ spera...

Eliot (T.S.) Ara Vus [sic] Prec, first edition, one of 220 copies, woodcut decorations by Edward Wadsworth, occasional corner creasing, ink owners...

Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Cats, first edition, original pictorial cloth lettered in red, thin light band of toning to foot of upper cover,...

Finney (Jack) The Body Snatchers, first English edition, light browning to text, original boards, dust-jacket, very slight fading to spine, minor ...

Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, original black boards with heart motif in red to upper cover, spine lettered in red,...

Forester (C.S.) [The Hornblower novels], 10 vol., first editions, the odd very faint spot, modern navy half morocco, spines gilt in compartments w...

Forster (E.M.) A Room With a View, first edition, autograph card signed by the author on his King's College Cambridge letterhead notecard and stam...

Futurism.- Marinetti (Filippo Tommaso) Zang Tumb Tumb. Adrianople October 1912, first edition, first issue with "18° migliaio", signed presentatio...

Green (Henry) Living, first edition, some scattered spotting to prelims, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, lig...

Harbou (Thea von) Metropolis, first English edition, first issue with no mention of this work in list on p.[7], light browning, original cloth, de...

Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, one of 324 copies signed by the author, light browning to endpapers, original yellow buckram with blue gilt-lette...

Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, very light sunning to spine, dust-jacket, slight toning to spin...

Ishiguro (Kazuo) Never Let Me Go, uncorrected proof, one of 130 copies signed by the author, original boards, light sunning to spine, else fine, 8...

Joyce (James) Finnegans Wake, first trade edition, browning to endpapers and final text p., faint tape markings to endpapers, original cloth, dust...

King (Stephen) Christine, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author dated "5/10/83" to endpaper, light foxing to endp...

Levy (D.A.) The North American Book of the Dead, parts 1 and 2, first edition, deluxe issue, one of 7 copies with 3 original paintings on thicker ...

Lewis (C.S., writer, 1898-1963) Perelandra, Autograph Letter signed from the author to C.L.M Hartley, 2pp., thanking the recipient for his review ...

Lewis (C.S.) Prince Caspian. The Return to Narnia, first edition, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, light foxing to title a...

Lowry (Malcolm) Ultramarine, first edition, some scattered foxing, original cloth, spine lettered in white with very slight toning, slight bowing ...

Meer (Fatima) Higher Than Hope: A Biography of Nelson Mandela, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Simon & ...

Milne (A.A.) [The Christopher Robin books], 4 vol., comprising When We Were Very Young, second issue with numbered contents page, neat pencil owne...

Milne (A.A.) When We Were Very Young, fourth impression, signed by the author on title with autograph poem comprising the first half of the first ...

O'Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, first edition, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original first issue black cloth lettered in g...

O'Flaherty (Liam) The Informer, first edition, occasional light finger-soiling, mostly marginal, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, slight fading ...

Orwell (George) [Animal Farm], first Czech edition, illustrations, renewed wrappers but preserving original upper wrapper neatly joined at spine, ...

Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, light spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, original cloth, fading to lower edge, top-edge col...

Rand (Ayn) Atlas Shrugged, first edition, original cloth, slight bumping to corner tips, first state dust-jacket with 10/57, neatly price-clipped,...

[Rodker (John)] Memoirs of Other Fronts, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "For Kathleen from John, Aprl 1932" to end...