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Tove Jansson, 3 titles: 'Finn Family Moomintroll', translated Elizabeth Portch, London, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1950, 1st English language edition, foldi...

Tove Jansson: 'Moominpappa at Sea', translated Kingsley Hart, London, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1966, 1st English language edition, black & white illustrat...

Tove Jansson: 'Moominland Midwinter', translated Thomas Warburton, London, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1958, 1st English language edition, black & white illu...

Tove Jansson: 'Moominsummer Madness', translated Thomas Warburton, London, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1955, 1st English language edition, black & white illu...

Tove Jansson: 'Comet in Moominland', translated Elizabeth Portch, London, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1951, 1st English language edition, black & white illus...

A.A. Milne; E.H. Shepard (ill.), 3 titles: 'The House at Pooh Corner', London, Methuen, 1928, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt (worn), '...

Alfred Bestall, four Rupert Annuals 1946, 1947, 1948 & 1950, all with "This Book Belongs To" filled in and all price clipped, 1946-48 annuals orig...

Enid Blyton: 'The Brown Family, London to the Seaside and Building a New House', London, The News Chronicle, [1945], 1st edition, full page colour...

Lewis Carroll; A.E. Jackson (illustrated): 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', London, Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton, [1915], 1st edition, 16 m...

Lewis Carroll: 'The Hunting of the Snark; an Agony in Eight fits', illustrated Henry Holiday, London, Macmillan, 1898 reprint, full page and in te...

Rudyard Kipling: 'Just So Stories', London, Macmillan, 1902, 1st edition, full page and in text b/w illustrations by Kipling throughout, original ...

Rudyard Kipling: 'The Jungle Book', London, Macmillan, 1896, 5th printing, frontis + numerous full page and in text b/w illustrations by Kipling, ...

Beatrix Potter: 'Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes', London, Frederick Warne & co, [1917], 1st edition, 1st or 2nd printing with correct end papers, ...

Beatrix Potter: 'Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes', London, Frederick Warne & Co, [1922], 1st edition, 1st printing, colour frontispiece, plain vig...

Beatrix Potter: 'The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin', London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1903, 1st edition, 3rd printing, title page bears the words "Author o...

Barbara Euphan Todd: 'Worzel Gummidge', illustrated Elizabeth Alldridge, London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1936, 1st edition, 6 full page b/w...

"E.V.B." [i.e. Eleanor Vere Boyle]: 'The Peacock's Pleasaunce', London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908, 1st edition, signed in intitials & inscr...

Alice B. Woodward, 4 illustrated titles, all original pictorial cloth gilt, comprising Sheila E. Braine: 'To Tell the king the Sky is Falling', Lo...

Fritz Kredel (illustrated); Jean Hersholt (translated): 'The Complete Andersen: All of the 168 Stories by Hans Christian Andersen', New York, The ...

Elsie McCutcheon, 2 juvenile fiction titles, both signed 1st editions published London, J.M. Dent, both original cloth gilt, both in dust wrappers...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Fellowship of the Ring. Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings', London, George Allen & Unwin, February 1956, 5th impr...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; 'The Return of the King', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1968, ...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King', London, George Allen & Unwin, vols 1...

Hilary Mantel: 'Wolf Hall', London, Fourth Estate, 2009, 1st edition, 1st impression, publisher's bookplate signed by author affixed to title page...

Hilary Mantel, The Thomas Cromwell trilogy, all signed UK first editions published London, Fourth Estate, all generally fine/fine in unclipped wra...

Hilary Mantel: 'A Place of Greater Safety', London, Viking, 1992, 1st edition, signed piece affixed to title page, original cloth gilt, dust wrapp...

Laurie Lee, the autobiographical trilogy: 'Cider With Rosie', London, The Hogarth Press, 1959, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (18s...

Patrick Leigh Fermor, [Travel trilogy]: 'A Time of Gifts', London, John Murray, 1977, 1st edition, portrait frontis, double page map, original clo...

Patrick Leigh Fermor: 'Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese', London, John Murray, 1958, 1st edition, b/w frontispiece by John Craxton + b/w ...

Patrick Leigh Fermor: 'The Violins of Saint-Jacques', London, John Murray and Derek Verschoyle Ltd, 1953, 1st edition, 1st printing, signed & insc...

Margaret Thatcher, 4 titles, all signed first UK editions, first impressions, all published London, Harper Collins, all original cloth gilt, all i...

Dick Francis: 'Dead Cert', London, Michael Joseph, 1968, 5th impression, signed by author to title page, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (a cris...

John Le Carré: '[The Karla Trilogy]: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley's People', New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, 1977,...

John Fowles, 3 titles: 'The Magus. A Revised Version', London, Jonathan Cape, 1977, 1st edition thus, signed by the author on title page, original...

Maggie O'Farrell, 2 titles: 'The Distance Between Us', London, Review, 2004, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Hand that First Held ...

T.E. Lawrence, 2 titles: 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom', London, Jonathan Cape, 1935, 1st trade edition, portrait frontis + 4 folding maps + numero...

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'Never Let Me Go', London, Faber & Faber, 2005, 1st edition, signed piece mounted to title page, original paper covered boards (cl...

Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘The Remains of the Day’, London, Faber & Faber, 1989, 1st edition, signed piece mounted to title page, original cloth, dust wrapp...

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'A Pale View of Hills', London, Faber & Faber, 1982, 1st edition, signed bookplate mounted to title page, former library copy, wit...

Sebastian Faulks [The French Trilogy], comprising 'The Girl at the Lion d'Or', 1989, signed piece mounted to title page; 'Birdsong', 1993, signed ...

Stephen Hawking: 'A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes', London, Bantam Press, 1988, 1st edition, printed Mackays of Chatham ...

Stephen Hawking, 2 titles: 'Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays', London, Bantam Press, 1993, 1st edition, original cloth lettered in ...

Anthony Burgess: 'Time for a Tiger', London, William Heinemann, 1956, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. The author's first novel, se...

V.S. Naipaul, four UK first editions, all published Andre Deutsch, all original cloth, all in unclipped dust wrappers, comprising: 'Mr Stone and t...

Cormac McCarthy: '[The Border Trilogy]: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain', London, Picador, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1st UK editi...

Lance Thirkell: 'A Garden Full of Weeds', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1962, 1st edition, signed & inscribed presentation copy "Violet from Lance as a...

Michael Arlen: "Piracy" A Romantic Chronicle Of These Days. London, W. Collins & Sons, 1922, 1st edition, presentation copy, signed & inscribed on...

Vita Sackville-West: 'Heritage', London, Collins, 1919, 1st edition, 250pp, original red cloth, spine and edge of upper board slightly faded, blac...

Vita Sackville-West: 'Orchard and Vineyard', London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1921, 1st edition, 101pp + [2]pp adverts at end, original quarter ...

Virginia Woolf: 'Jacob's Room', London, Hogarth Press, 1922, first edition, half title, 290pp + 14pp catalogue of adverts at end, Ex Boots circula...

Sylvia Plath: 'Ariel', London, Faber & Faber, 1966, 3rd impression, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (slightly worn, 12s 6d price intact) ...[m...

Stevie Smith, 11 titles: 'Novel on Yellow Paper', London, Jonathan Cape, December 1936, 2nd impression, original cloth, dust wrapper, together wit...

George R.R. Martin: 'A Game of Thrones', London, Voyager/Harper Collins, 1996, 1st edition, 1st impression, 2 black & white maps + head and tailpi...

Ian Fleming: 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', London, Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1st edition, original black cloth lettered in gilt, blindstamped whit...

Ian Fleming, 3 titles, all published London, Jonathan Cape: 'You Only Live Twice', 1964, 1st edition, original cloth, spine lettered in silver, fr...

Ian Fleming: 'Diamonds are Forever', London, Jonathan Cape, 1956, 1st edition, original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, silver diamond moti...

Ian Fleming: 'Dr. No', London, Jonathan Cape, May 1958, 1st edition, 2nd impression, original pictorial cloth with dancing girl silhouette to fron...

Ian Fleming: Moonraker', London, Jonathan Cape, November 1955, 1st edition, 2nd impression, original cloth lettered in silver, facsimile dust wrap...

Ian Fleming: 'Live and Let Die', London, Jonathan Cape, 1956, 1st edition, 3rd impression, original cloth gilt, facsimile dust wrapper

Ian Fleming: 'Casino Royale', London, Jonathan Cape, 1957, 4th printing, [new edition], original black cloth lettered in red to spine, red heart b...

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