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Moore (Patrick) Caverns of the Moon, Burke, 1964, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 10s 6d)

Handel's Messiah at St. Paul An engraved invitation to 'the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, and after Sermon to accompany them from thence t...

Lewis (Clive Staples) A.L.S., A single page autograph testimonial for Mr Dawson who 'has been my pupil for the final Honour School of English Lang...

Taylor (G.S.) edit. The Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry, The Verona Society, 1930, un-numbered limited edition of 500 printed at the Alcuin P...

Jonson (Ben) The Works of Ben Jonson, Which were formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are now Reprinted in One, To which is added, A Comedy called the...

[Bronte (Charlotte)] Bell (Currer), Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, Smith, Elder and Co., 1848, third edition, three volumes, some foxing and corner ...

[Bronte (Anne)] Bell (Acton), The Tennant of Wildfell Hall, T.C. Newby, 1848, first edition, second issue with 'second edition' title page, three ...

Byron [George Gordon Noel, Lord] The Works of Lord Byron, with his Letters and Journals , and his Life by Thomas Moore, John Murray, 1833-40, seve...

Bindings An attractive collection of books, eighteenth century and later, all in leather bindings (35)

Gilchrist (Alexander) Life of William Blake, 'Pictor Ignotus' With Selections of his Poems and Other Writings ..., Macmillan, 1863, two volumes, p...

Congreve (William) The Works of Mr William Congreve, Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1761, three volumes, portrait f...

Austen (Jane) Mansfield Park, A Novel, Groombridge, no date [1875, Gilson E43], litho title and seven plates after A. F. Lydon, original green clo...

Shakespeare (William) A Reprint of Mr William Sakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Lionel Booth, 1864, small quarto in sixes, all edges g...

[Scott (Sir Walter)] Ivanhoe; A Romance, Archibald Constable, 1820, first edition, issue not stated, three volumes, lacking half titles, contempor...

Churchill [Charles] The Works of C. Churchill, John Churchill and W. Flexney, 1774, fifth edition, four volumes, three engraved title vignettes, e...

Charles I (King of England) Eikon Basilike, The Porutraicture (sic) of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings ..., 1649, double page ...

Kipling (Rudyard) The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Macmillan, 1937-39, numbered limited edition of ...

Conrad (Joseph) The Uniform Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, Dent, 1923-25, twenty volumes, portrait frontis in one volume, original red clo...

Pepys (Samuel) The Diary of Samuel Pepys ..., Bell, 1928, ten volumes, portrait frontis to each volume, plates, original cloth

Swift (Jonathan), The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1939-68, first edition, fourteen volu...

Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, Chatto & Windus, 1932, original cloth; idem, Beyond The Mexique Bay, Chatto & Windus, 1934, numbered limited edit...

Dostoevsky (Fyodor) White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Heinemann, 1918, translated by Constance Garnett, first edition thus, ori...

Nietzsche (Friederich) The Complete Works ..., part of, comprising; Vol 3, The Birth of Tragedy, Foulis, 1909, numbered limited edition of 1500; V...

da Vinci (Leonardo) The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, OUP, 1939, second edition, enlarged and revised by Jean Paul Richter and Irma A. Ric...

Yeats (W.B.) The Trembling of the Veil, Werner Laurie, 1922, numbered limited edition of 1000, signed by the author and privately printed for subs...

Wells (H.G.) The Door in the Wall and Other Stories, Grant Richards, [January, 1915], numbered limited edition of sixty copies for the UK, large q...

Dante Alighieri La Divina Commedia or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English, Nonesuch Press, 1928, numbered limited of 1475, f...

Blok (Alexander) The Twelve, Chatto & Windus, 1920, translated from the Russian by C.E. Bechhofer, eight plates by Michael Larionov, original illu...

Doves Press - Cobden-Sanderson (T.J.) Catalogue Raisonne of Books Printed & Published at the Doves Press, 1900-1916, Doves Press, 1916, limited ed...

Doves Press - Shakespeare (William) Shake-Speares Sonnets, Tercentenary Edition, Doves Press, 1909, limited edition of 250 copies on paper, printe...

Frazer (James George) The Golden Bough, A Study in Magic and Religion, Macmillan, 1930-36, twelve volumes, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt

Field (Michael) Julia Domna, Hacon & Ricketts, 1903, limited edition of 240 copies, some foxing, original quarter style decorative boards; Boccacc...

Johnson (Samuel) The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., to which is prefixed, An Essay on his Life and Genius by Arthur Murray, T. Longman et al, 179...

Shakespeare (William) The Plays of William Shakspeare ... with the Corrections of Various Commentators and Illustrations ... to which are added No...

Scott (Walter, Sir) The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833-34, twelve volumes, engraved title (with vignette) and ...

Chalmers (Alexander) The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Emin...

Scott (Walter, Sir) Waverley Novels, Edinburgh: Cadell and Co. and Robert Cadell, 1829-33, forty-eight volumes, engraved title vignette and fronti...

Bindings An attractive collection of gilt-tooled leather-bound books, calf, morocco and vellum (51)

Tolstoi (Leon, Count) [Tolstoy (Leo)] War and Peace, A Historical Novel, translated into French by a Russian Lady, and from the French by Clara Be...

Gibbon (Edward) The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon ..., John Murray, 1814, five volumes, portrait frontis, engraved plates, marbled edges, c...

Defoe (Daniel) The Works of Daniel De Foe, with a Memoir of his Life and Writings, by William Hazlitt, John Clements, 1840, three volumes, portrai...

Hooke (N.) The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth, Rivington et al, 1830, new edition, six volumes, four fol...

Queen Victoria Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands From 1848 to 1861 ..., Smith Elder & Co. 1868, Illustrated Edition, quarto, ei...

Bolingbroke (Henry St. John) A Letter to Sir William Windham. II, Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation. III, A Letter to Mr. Pope, ...

Robortello (Francesco) Francisci Robortelli Utinensis Paraphrasis in Librum Horatii ..., Basileae: Ioannem Heruagium Iuniorem, 1555, folio in sixe...

Hoyland (John) A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies; Designed to Develope The Origin of this Singular People...

Burroughs (William) Junkie, David Bruce & Watson, 1973, first English hardback edition, dustwrapper; Amis (Martin), Dead Babies, Cape, 1975, firs...

Wellington [Arthur Richard, Second Duke] Four page A.L.S., dated September 6, 1860, to 'My Dear Colonel' discussing the selfishness of the Colonel...

Orwell (George) The Works of George Orwell, Secker and Warburg, date not accessible, fourteen volumes, original cloth, slipcase, new, sealed in pu...

Binyon (Laurence) Dream Come True, Poems by Laurence Binyon, Eragny Press, 1905, limited edition of 175 copies on paper (150 copies for sale), des...

Kent (Alexander) Form Line of Battle!, Hutchinson, 1969, first edition, dust wrapper; idem, Enemy in Sight!, Hutchinson, 1970, first edition, dust...

Early Aviation Photographs An outstanding collection of forty-seven photographs, recording what is believed to be the first air race or aviation m...

Early Aviation Photographs Twelve glass positives recording a very early French air race, the Semaine d'Aviation de Lyon, 7th-15th May 1910, image...

Egglestone (William Morley) Letters of a Weardale Soldier, Lieutenant John Brumwell, Stanhope, 1912, frontis, illustrations as called for, origina...

de Hooghe (Romeyn) [1645-1708] Vertrek van S.K.H. ns Engeland den 11 Nov 1688, - Depart de S.A.R. Rour Angleterre, Le 11. No 1688, J. Covens & C. ...

Orme (Edward) Historic Military and Naval Anecdotes, of Personal Valour, Bravery, and particular Incidents which occurred to the Armies of Great B...

Shanghai Souvenir of the Shanghai Defence Forces, Volume 1, Shanghai: North China Daily News and Herald, no date [May 1927], landscape folio, [2],...

Johnson (Ian) Newcastle Battalion of World War One, 16th (Service) Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers, private printing, [2014], first edit...

Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Cape, 1935, first trade edition (first impression), dust wrapper (two copies); Smith (Clare Sydney), The ...

Sutcliffe (Frank Meadow) A small collection of photographs by F.M. Sutcliffe or studio, including two cabinet cards, photographs from various eras...