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WENCESLAUS HOLLAR: LA TRIOMPHE DE LA MORT D'APRES LES DESSEINS DE HOLBEIN, [London?] [1790?], engraved portrait of Hollar, etched portrait of Holb...

ANTHONY BURGESS: 2 Titles: TIME FOR A TIGER, London, William Heinemann, first edition, original cloth d/w (very small part losses and some stainin...

H G WELLS: 5 Titles: THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH, London, MacMillan 1904 first edition, 18pp adverts at end, original cloth wor...

IAN FLEMING: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, London, Jonathan Cape, 1965 first edition, original cloth (second state) d/w ...[more]

AGATHA CHRISTIE: THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY, London, W Collins, 1929 first edition, 6pp adverts at end, original black cloth red bordered and lettere...

AGATHA CHRISTIE: TOWARDS ZERO, London, Collins for The Crime Club, 1944 first edition, contemporary inscription on ffep, original cloth first issu...

PATRICK WHITE: THE AUNT'S STORY, A NOVEL, London, Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1948 first edition, original cloth, spine gilt letted d/w (small part l...

ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR "GEORGE ORWELL": SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT AND OTHER ESSAYS, London, Secker & Walburg, 1950 first edition, original cloth, top board ...

ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR "GEORGE ORWELL": 1980/4, London Secker & Walburg, 1949 first edition, inscription on ffep, original cloth spine red lettered and...

GRAHAM GREENE: THE POTTING SHED A PLAY IN THREE ACTS, New York, The Viking Press, 1957 first edition, signed and inscribed to Cyril Charles Marti...

JOHN STEINBECK: THE LOG FROM THE SEA OF CORTEZ, London, Heinemann, 1958 first edition, original cloth d/w (very minor losses) ...[more]

VIRGINIA WOOLF: THE CAPTAIN'S DEATH BED AND OTHER ESSAYS, London, The Hogarth Press, 1953 first edition, original cloth d/w (price clipped and spi...

WYNDHAM LEWIS: THE APES OF GOD, London, Nash & Grayson, [1931] first edition, original cloth ...[more]

JAMES JOYCE: ULYSSES, Paris, The Odyssey Press, 1935-33 third impression, 2 vols, original wraps (2) ...[more]

JOHN FOWLES: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, London, Jonathan Cape, 1969 first edition, original cloth d/w (very minor rubbing), vgc ...[more]

P C WREN: 2 Titles: VALIANT DUST, London, John Murray, 1932 first edition, 8pp adverts at end, original cloth d/w (part losses), PORT O'MISSING ME...

L A G STRONG: THE ENGLISH CAPTAIN AND OTHER STORIES, London, Victor Gallancz, 1929 first edition, signed and inscribed to Barry K Barnes (1906-196...

LAURENCE HOUSMAN: LITTLE PLAYS OF ST FRANCIS..., second series, London, Sidgwack & Jackson, 1931 first edition, signed and inscribed to a Mrs Hale...

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: 2 Titles: THE FIFTH COLUMN.., London, Jonathan Cape, 1939 first edition, contemporary inscription on ffep, original cloth, ACROS...

ANTHONY BURGESS: 5 Titles: DEVIL OF A STATE, London, Heinemnn, 1961 first edition, original cloth d/w, vgc THE WANTING SEEDS, London, Heinemann, 1...

SIDNEY LEE: A LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, London, Smith Elder, 1899 "Illustrated Library Edition" first edition thus, coloured frontis and six ph...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE WORKS, New York, The Nonsuch Press 1929-33, (1050) (550), 7 vols numbered (1443) original tan niger morocco spine gilt, l...

ALAIN RENE LE SAGE: HISTOIRE DE GIL BLAS DE SANTILLANE, [Ill Robert Smarke], Londres, Longman Hurst Rees et Orme, 1809, 4 vols, 24 engraved plates...

[WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY]: THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND..., London, for Smith Elder, 1853 second edition, 3 vols, contemporary half calf marble...

REV RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM "THOMAS INGOLDSBY": THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MYTHS AND MARVELS, London, Richard Bentley, 1878, new edition, contemporary...

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON: THE WORKS, London, McMillan, 1887 decorative dark blue morocco gilt, spines gilt in compartments, inner dentelles gilt, all ...

TORQUATO TASSO: LA JERUSALEMME LIBERATA, Milano, Giovanni Silvestri, 1824, engraved port frontis, decorative elaborate morocco gilt, inner dentell...

[SAMUEL JOHNSON]: THE PRINCE OF ABISSINIA, London, for R & J Dodsley and W Johnston, 1759 first edition, 2 vols, vol 2 second issue with page 106 ...

VIRGIL: P VIRGILLI MARONIS OPERA CUM INTEGRIS AND EMENDATIORIBUS COMMENTARIIS SERVII PHILAGRYRII PIERII..., Amsterdam, Jacobi Wetstenii, 1746, 4 v...

[ELIAS ASHMOLE]: THE ENTIRE CEREMONIES OF THE CORONATIONS OF HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES II AND OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY CONSORT TO JAMES II..., Lon...

THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE OF KNOWLEDGE AND PLEASURE..., London, John Hinton, 1760, vol 27, engraved title frontis and 18 plates, maps etc as list inc...

SAMUEL JOHNSON: THIRTY-SIX SELECT DISCOURSES DOCTRINAL AND PRACTICAL UPON THE MOST IMPORTANT POINTS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, London, printed for...

WILLIAM HAYLEY: POEMS AND PLAYS, London for T Cadell, 1788 new edition, 6 vols, old half calf marble boards, some vols lacking spine labels (6) ....

JONATHAN SWIFT: "LEMUEL GULLIVER" : TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, London, printed for C Bathurst 1766, vol 2 of the works of, ...

[SAMUEL JOHNSON]: THE RAMBLER, London for A Millar et all, 1761, fifth edition, 4 vols, 12mo old mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments (4) .....

[SIR RICHARD STEELE & JOSEPH ADDISON]: THE LUCUBRATIONS OF ISAAC BICKERSTAFF [THE TATLER], London for E Nutt et al, 1733, 4 vols, revised and corr...

[CHARLES DE SECONDAT BARON DE MONTESQUIEU]: CONSIDERATIONS SUR LES CAUSES DE LA GRANDEUR DES ROMAINS ET DE LEUR DECADANCE, Paris aux Depens de la ...

SIR WALTER SCOTT: WAVERLEY NOVELS, Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1856, 48 vols, added engraved titles frontis pieces, contemporary half calf ma...

ANSELMO MARIA BANDURI: NUMISMATA IMPERATORUM ROMANORUM A TRAJANO DECIO AD PALAEOLOGES AUGUSTOS ACCESSIT BIBLIOTHECA NUMMARIA..., Lutetiae Parisior...

TITUS LUCRETIUS: TITI LUCRETII CARI DE RERUM NATURA LIBRI SEX..., Londini, Jacobi Tomson, 1712, engraved frontis and 6 plates including 1 folding ...

ROBERT MURDOCH MCDONALD: LONELY AS A CLOUD, New York, 1938 first edition, litho title, 15 (of 16) litho plates including one coloured, signed and ...

FOLIO SOCIETY 50 ASSORTED TITLES INCLUDING 40 IN SLIP CASES (50) ...[more]

GEORGE GORDON LORD BYRON: THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON, London, John Murray, 1823, 4 vols, engraved broad frontis, contemporary diced calf gilt worn, (...

ROBERT BURNS: THE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS INCLUDING HIS LETTERS TO CLARINDA AND THE WHOLE OF HIS SUPPRESSED POEMS WITH AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE, GENIUS ...

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: THE POETICAL WORKS, Ed William Michael Rossetti, Ill Thomas Seccombe, London, Ward Locke [1882] contemporary decorativ...

THOMAS CAMPBELL, OLIVER GOLDSMITH & JAMES BEATTIE: THE POETICAL WORKS OF CAMPBELL, GOLDSMITH AND BEATTIE WITH MEMOIRS OF THE AUTHORS, London, T Ne...

CHARLES LANGDALE: MEMOIRS OF MRS FITZHERBERT WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HER MARRIAGE WITH HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES AFTERWARDS KING GEORGE FOURTH, London, R...

SIR WALTER SCOTT: 4 Titles: A LEGEND OF MONTROSE AND THE BLACK DWARF, Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1870, THE HEART OF MID- LOTHIAN, Edinburgh,...

PERCY FITZGERALD (Ed): THE LIFE LETTERS AND WRITINGS OF CHARLES LAMB, London, T & A Constable [1924] 6 vols, Enfield Edition, frontis pieces, pict...

SAMUEL PEPYS: THE DIARY, Ed Henry B Wheatley, London, George Bell & Sons, 1893-1910, 10 vols, vols 1 to 2 first edition, vols 3 to 10 reprints, or...

THE ILLUSTRATED EXHIBITOR A TRIBUTE TO THE WORLDS INDUSTRIAL JUBILEE COMPRISING SKETCHES BY PEN AND PENCIL OF THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS IN THE GREAT E...

JACQUES HENRI BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE: PAUL ET VIRGINIE, Port-Louis, L Carl Achille Imprimeur du Gouvernement, 1973, 'toutes les illustrations s...

JEAN COCTEAU: 2 Titles: THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING, Trans Elizabeth Sprigge, London, Peter Owen, 1966 first edition, original cloth d/w, MY CONTEMPOR...

THOMAS WOLFE: OF TIME AND THE RIVER A LEGEND OF MAN'S HUNGER IN HIS YOUTH, London, William Heinemann, 1935 first edition, original cloth worn, inn...

WILLIAM MORRIS: THE WATER OF THE WONDEROUS ISLES, London, Longmans Green, 1897 first edition, original cloth, printed paper spine label worn and d...

KATHLEEN MANNINGTON CAFFYN "IOTA": A COMEDY IN SPASMS, London, Hutchinson [1895] first edition, The Zeit-Geist Library Series, pictorial title fro...

FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON: LONDON LYRICS, London, C Whittingham, Chiswick Press, 1881, privately printed, large paper, engraved frontis by Ranolph ...

THOMAS DE QUINCEY: CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER AND OTHER ESSAYS, London, McMillan, 1901, contemporary calf gilt prize binding, spine gil...

HERBERT SALISBURY SQUANCE (Ed): SELECTIONS OF THOMAS COKE SQUANCE, Sunderland for the Editor, 1899 (100), printed for private circulation, number ...

MARIE C STOPES & JOJA SAKURAI: PLAYS OF OLD JAPAN THE "NO", London, The Eclipse Press, 1927 second edition facsimile of the first, original patter...