Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photography

Shakespeare, William. The Works, 10 volumes bound in 40 parts, Edinburgh Folio edition, original boards, spines defective, folio, Edinburgh: Grant...

Smollett, Tobias. The Works, 8 volumes, engraved portrait frontispiece, some light spotting and browning, contemporary straight-grained calf gilt,...

Solomon, Simeon. A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, first edition, photogravure frontispiece by Frederick Hollyer after the author, some browning...

Twiss, Horace. The Carib Chief: A Tragedy in Five Acts, third edition, London: Longmans, 1819; Is He Alive? or, All Puzzled!! A Farce in Two Acts,...

Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de. Oeuvres completes, 71 volumes, half-titles, engraved portraits and plates, tissue guards, some leaves creased,...

Yeats, William Butler. The Wanderings of Oisin and other Poems, first edition, [one of 500 copies], half-title, original cloth gilt, head of spine...

Yeats, William Butler. Poems, first edition, [one of 750 copies], half-title, decorated title-page, tissue guard, original cloth decorated gilt, u...

Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Twenty-First Birthday Anniversary Performance, 27th December 1925, 12pp., 2 tipped-in portraits, original wrappers, Dublin:...

Amis, Martin. The Information, lettered Y of twenty-six copies, signed by the author, original cloth, slipcase, 8vo, London: Flamingo, 1995; Keena...

Barrie, J. M. Works, 10 volumes, The Kirriemuir Edition, number 482 of 1000 sets, signed by the publisher, original half cloth gilt, top edge gilt...

Beerbohm, Max. A Book of Caricatures, first edition, frontispiece and 48 mounted plates, guards, a few guards loose, with edges chipped, original ...

Bridges, Robert. The Testament of Beauty, one of 50 copies signed by the author from an edition of 250, original cloth, dust-jacket, slightly chip...

Clemens, Samuel L. [The Works of Mark Twain], 20 volumes, original cloth gilt, 8vo, London: Chatto and Windus, c.1910

Conrad, Joseph. The Works, 20 volumes, number 650 of 780 sets, signed by the author, endpapers browned, original cloth-backed boards, slightly soi...

Crowley, Aleister. Ambergris, first edition, portrait frontispiece, 2pp. of advertisements at end, some spotting, original boards, gilt, extremit...

Eliot, Thomas Stearns. Marina, number 364 of 400 copies, signed by the author, illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, original boards, soiled, 8vo,...

Esdaile, Arundell. Moments, Epigrams and Verses, first edition, inscribed 'Cecil & Jean Stott from A.E. Christmas 1932', original wrappers, 8vo, L...

Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and the Living Daylights, Uncorrected Proof Copy, the dust-jacket flap marked 'Proof Only Provisional publication date 23 ...

France, Anatole. The Works, 30 volumes, Autograph Edition, number 474 of 1075 sets, signed by the author, contemporary red half morocco gilt, top ...

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies, first edition, half-title, a few leaves with very minor browning, endpapers and endleaves spotted, original c...

Grahame, Kenneth. The Piper and the Gates of Dawn, number 30 of 100 copies, privately printed, original wrappers, remains of glassine dust-jacket,...

Hardy, Thomas. A programme for Tess of the D'Ubervilles... performed by the Hardy Players at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester, Wednesday, November 26...

Hudson, William Henry. Works, 24 volumes, one of 750 sets, light spotting to fore-edge, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt, 8vo, London: J.M. Dent...

Huxley, Aldous. Essays Old and New, number 495 of 650 copies, signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed,...

Kennedy, Edward M. True Compass, first edition, letter Y of a limited signed edition, full morocco, all edges gilt, 8vo, New York: Twelve, 2009; T...

Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers, first edition, first issue, half-title, cancelled title, 20pp. publisher's catalogue at end, somewhat spotted, ori...

Lawrence, D.H. Pansies, first edition, number 72 of 250 copies, signed by the author, light spotting, especially to end-papers, original vellum-b...

Meredith, George. The Works, 24 volumes, original cloth gilt, 8vo, London: Times Book Club, 1912

Pound, Ezra. Exultations, first edition, first issue, 10pp. of advertisements at end, occasional light spotting, original boards, with 'of' on upp...

Proust, Marcel. A la recherche du temps perdu, 6 volumes in 11 [of 13] parts only, lacking volumes 1-2, mixed edition, somewhat spotted, original ...

Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man... with Illustrations by William Nicholson, number 139 of 300 copies, signed by the author and ar...

Spark, Muriel. Not to Disturb, first edition, number 61 of 500 copies, signed by the author and Michael Ayrton, frontispiece etching by Michael Ay...

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Works, 26 volumes, Vailima Edition, number 51 of 1060 sets, frontispieces, contemporary blue half calf by Riviere and...

Thatcher, Margaret. The Path to Power, first edition, number 69 of 500 copies, signed by the author, original full morocco, all edges gilt, slipca...

Thatcher, Margaret. The Path to Power, first edition, number 130 of 500 copies, signed by the author, original full morocco, all edges gilt, slipc...

Thatcher, Margaret. The Downing Street Years, first edition, number 226 of 250 copies, signed by the author, original full morocco, all edges gil...

Thatcher, Margaret. The Path to Power, first US edition, letter d of of 26 copies reserved for private distribution, signed by the author, origina...

West, Vita Sackville. Garden Craft in Europe, by Indigo Triggs, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed 'Oliver Hill, for his birthday June 15...

Yeats, William Butler. The Collected Works, 8 volumes, first edition, presentation copy, free-endpaper inscribed 'Cynthia Bonham-Carter from M J Y...

American Settlers, c.1818-1857. A group of six ALS by and on behalf of Sarah Manning (nee Cutmore) to her father, Henry Cutmore, and later to her ...

Bodenheim, Maxwell. A typescript poem 'To A Rose', 1pp., 24 lines, signed in blue ink, 'Maxwell Bodenheim', c.1953 Maxwell Bodenheim (1892-1954) w...

Brooks, Mary Alice. A rough study for the cover of Enid Blyton's bedtime Book, depicting two children gazing out a window, on paper, folded, 430mm...

Dordogne, France. A collection of manuscripts documenting civil, legal and judicial matters near the town of Bergerac, including calculations of d...

Dorset. Indenture made the [?] day of April in the year of the reign of King Charles [1635] between John Senoir of Waymouth and Richard Thorne of ...

Dorset. Report on the Coast of Dorsetshire 1798... [by William Morton Pitt], 19pp., signed 'William Pitt Mar. 28 1798', with a chart illustrating ...

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A fine autographed letter signed to Ruby Paulson, responding to her query regarding his famous detective, 'Sherlock has becom...

Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. The Order of the Iron Crown, awarded to George Stojakovic, 1856, a manuscript title on vellum, 7pp., elaborate...

Grant of Arms. A manuscript grant of arms to Albert Edward Fisher Smith, the watercolour design bearing the motto 'Dum Spiro Spero', dated 1887, o...

Indenture, Irish. A framed indenture concerning the recovery of tithes in the Parish of Ratoath, Ireland, dated 29 June 1664, portrait of Charles ...

Notes on Artillery. A manuscript volume by G[eorge] Swetenham, dated March 1856, 356pp. approx., divided into eight chapters, with contents list, ...

Palm Leaf Prayer. Two sections, joined, possibly Burmese, the text on the inner leaf decorated, 244mm x 59mm, [date unknown] ...[more]

Rackham, Arthur. An ALS to Biddy Phelps, in response to her enquiry, 'I was very pleased to get your letter and to hear that my books are your fri...

Russo-Turkish War. An illustrated manuscript titled 'A True and Veracious History of the War waged between The Turkey and the Great Bear', 95 leav...

Schindler, Emilie. A small personal archive of correspondence, photographs and personal effects, including c.70 letters and cards, most expressing...

Shorthand. Five manuscript volumes of John Ruskin's work, in shorthand, c.1880, full limp morocco, top edge gilt, each titled gilt on upper cover,...

Spencer, Stanley. [Catalogue] Exhibition Cookham 1958, upper cover signed by the artist, the lower cover inscribed 'At the night + above the wall ...