There certainly were books published before the 1920s and here are our picks of the best. They are, to us, very old, but still love them.
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E.M. Forster – The Celestial Omnibus – First Edition 1911
£175.00A first edition, first printing o ‘The Celestial Omnibus’ published by Sidgwick and Jackson in 1911. A very good book with a trace of spotting to the page edges. No…
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Daisy Ashford – The Young Visiters – First UK Edition 1919 – SIGNED and DATED
£1,250.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Young Visiters’ published by Chatto and Windus in 1919. A near fine bright book in the elusive dust wrapper, which is a little…
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Henry James – The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw and Covering End – First Edition 1898
£1,750.00A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1898. A very good (or better) copy with previous owner’s bookplate to the front pastedown. No inscriptions. Some light wear to…
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Frances Hodgson Burnett – Little Lord Fauntleroy – First UK Edition 1886
£1,350.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ published by Warne and Co. in 1886. A very good book without inscriptions. A little wear to the head and tail…
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Henry James – A Passionate Pilgrim – First Edition 1875
£650.00First edition, first printing, first state binding (the gilt stamp to the foot of the spine bearing publisher’s name ‘J.R.Osgood & Co’ without a full stop), published by the same…
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James Joyce – Dubliners – First UK Edition 1914
£17,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Dubliners’ published by Grant Richards in 1914. A very good copy with a touch of spotting to the page edges. Some light dulling to…
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H.G. Wells – The Time Machine – First Wrappered Edition 1895
£7,500.00A first edition, first printing, wrappered issue, with 152 pages but no catalogue of advertisements to the rear. Bound in card wraps – possibly later, but perhaps a printer’s copy,…
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Robert SOUTHEY [Lord Nelson] – Life of Nelson [with] a walking stick made from the oak and copper from Nelson’s flagship
£1,950.00A first edition, two volume set of Southey’s ‘Life of Nelson’ published by John Murray in 1813. A very good pair – endpapers renewed. Bound in contemporary half-calf with gilt…
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Titanic, an In Memoriam Number – Framed
£225.00An original graphic, first published in 1912 after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Printed just five days after the tragedy on April 15th 1912. Illustrated with black…
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Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle – A Unique Preparatory Sketch Used on Page 22 of the Book
£27,500.00A preparatory sketch for 1905 first edition of ‘The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle’ depicting Mrs Tiggy-Winkle taking something out of the clothes basket, pencil on paper, mounted, framed and glazed,…
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E. Nesbit – The Magic City – First Edition 1910
£350.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Magic City’ published by Scribner in 1910. A very good/near fine book without inscriptions – some rubbing to the corners and a little…
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Thomas Hardy – Tess Of The D’Urbervilles – First Edition – First Issue in Three Volumes 1891
£4,500.00A set of first edition, first printings published by James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co. in 1891. Complete volumes 1-3. In the original brown publisher’s gilt tooled cloth binding as…
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E.M. Forster – A Room With A View – First Edition – With Handwritten Letter from Forster asking for the vet to ‘put our dear old cat away’Â
£7,500.00First edition, first printing of ‘A Room With A View’ by E. M. Forster published by Edward Arnold, London in 1908. A very good copy free from internal inscriptions with…
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Charles Dickens – Dombey and Son – First Edition 1848
£975.00First Edition, First Issue. 624pp., 3/4 brown leather and marbled paper boards, marbled edges and endpapers. Gilt stamped spine with 5 raised bands. Non-textual issue points: No page entry for…
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[Charles Dickens] A Strand of Charles Dickens’ Hair – A Mezzotint and a First Edition of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubÂ
£4,500.00London Chapman and Hall 1837
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) – a single hair from the head of Charles Dickens, taken from a lock belonging to Georgina Hogarth (Dickens’ sister-in-law). The hair is…
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Rudyard Kipling – Puck of Pook’s Hill – First Edition 1906
£185.00First edition, first printing of Puck of Puck’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling, published by MacMillan, London in 1906, a First Issue with adverts at rear. Red boards with gilt elephant…
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