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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 th...

Native American language.- Nantes (Bernardo de) Katecismo Indico da lingua Kariris, first edition, with blank leaf Z7 but lacking final blan...

Islamic Incunabula.- Kitab-I Ligat-I Vankuli [The Crown of Language and the Correct Arabic] , translated by Mehmed ibn-i Mustafa el-Vani [or Van...

Japan.- Noh play.- Utaibon (Koetsu) Kurama tengu [The Goblin of Kurama], single jo or volume, bound in tetchoso style, Saga-bon movable ty...

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

Robinson (William Heath).- Hunter (Norman) The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, first edition, with original captioned pen and...

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

Woolf (Virginia) The Years, first edition, signed presentation inscription "Janet [Case] with love from Virginia" to front free endpaper, sh...

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

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

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

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , eleventh printing paperback edition, signed presentation inscription from the auth...

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

Middle East.- [Abu Dhabi: On the Sixth Anniversary of His Highness the Ruler of the Emirate Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan] , text in Arabic...

Voyages.- Mutiny on the Bounty.- Christian (Fletcher) Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian, containing a Narrative of the Transactions on boa...

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

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

Dali (Salvador).- Sandoz (Maurice) The Maze, first edition, signed by Dali and dated 1945 on front free endpaper, plates by Dali, original...

America.- Singh of Kapurthala ( H. H. Maharaja Jagatjit) My Tour in South, Central, and North America , first edition , presentation copy...

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

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

Russell (Bertrand) My Philosophical Development, first edition, signed by the author on title, cut newspaper clipping laid down on pastedown...

Potter (Beatrix).- Weatherly (Frederic E.) A Happy Pair, first and only edition , 6 chromolithographed illustrations, each monogrammed H....

Middle East.-Sandys (George) Sandys Travailes: Containing a History of the Originall and present State of the Turkish Empire , engraved additio...

Pharmacopoeia .- [ Dubois (Jacques)], "Jacques Silvius". La Pharmacopee. Qui est la maniere de bien choisir & preparer les simples, & de bien...

Szyk (Arthur) The Haggadah , one of 125 copies, this out-of-series , edited by Cecil Roth, text in English and Hebrew printed in russet and ...

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

Potter (Beatrix) Autograph Letter signed with drawing of Hunca-Munca , 4pp., replying to a young fan "it is the first that I have had from a...

Mathematics.- Stewart (Matthew) Some general theorems of considerable use in the higher parts of mathematics , first edition , 4 folding e...

Moore ( Sir Jonas) A New Systeme of the Mathematicks , vol.1 ( only , of 2), comprising 7 sections of those listed on title, first edition...

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

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

Dodgson ( Rev. Charles Lutwidge)"Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, second (first published) edition, half-title, frontispiece...

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

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first paperback edition with "Joanne Rowling ", no space between "Taylor" and "199...

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

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first hardback edition, first printing with "Joanne Rowling " and no space between...

[Wyndham (John)], "John Beynon". The Secret People, first edition , original green cloth lettered in black, a little rubbed, dust-jacket pr...

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

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...

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

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

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

Doyle ( Sir Arthur Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first issue with 'Miss Violent Hunter' in the last sentence on p.317 and w...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings , 3 vol., first editions, first impressions, The Return of the King without signature mark '4'...

Waugh (Evelyn) Decline and Fall, first edition, first printing with ""Martin Gaythorne-Brodie"" and ""Kevin Saunderson"" unchanged on pp.1...

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

Hawking (Stephen) A Brief History of Time , signed with author's thumb-print and with ink inscription reading "Thumb-print of S.W. Hawking wi...

Chinese medicine.- Cleyer (Andreas) Specimen Medicinae Sinicae , 6 parts in 1, first edition , title in red and black with engraved vignet...

Indonesia.- Sacrifice Manual, manuscript in Batak script, on Bast, 50 leaves, each with 11-12 lines of Batak characters in black ink to recto ...

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

Repton (Humphry).- Malins (Edward) The Red Books of Humphry Repton , 4 vol., number 243 of 515 sets, plates, some colour and with overlays,...

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

Steinbeck (John) The Grapes of Wrath, first edition , original cloth, spine a little faded, dust-jacket, small portion of loss to spine head ...

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

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

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 ...

Wells (H.G.) The Time Machine, first edition, first issue with 16pp advertisements at end including those for 'The Manxman' and 'The Naulahk...

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

Wodehouse (P.G.) Right Ho, Jeeves, first edition , 8pp. advertisements, neat ink ownership inscription from the year of publication to front ...