Before the 1920s, there were two decades – here we have first edition books from both of these decades – they are, to us, very old, but still love them
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Oscar Wilde – De Profundis – First UK Edition 1905 – With Wilde’s Silver Hallmarked Cigarette Holder Taken From His Cache of Items Following His Death at the Hotel D’Alsace in Paris
£9,500.00London/Paris Methuen 1905
A first edition, first printing of ‘De Profundis’ by Oscar Wilde, published posthumously in 1905 by Methuen. A near fine book, a little spotted to the page edges…
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Mark Twain – A Tramp Abroad [with] More Tramps Abroad – First Editions 1880-97
£285.00A pair of first edition, first printings published by Chatto and Windus between 1880 and 1897. ‘A Tramp Abroad’ is a good book with browning to the spine and wear…
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E.C. Gaskell – The Life of Charlotte Bronte – Author of “Jane Eyre,” “Shirley,” “Villette,”
£1,450.00A set of two volumes of ‘The Life of Charlotte Bronte’ published by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1857. Both volumes bound in the original publisher’s cloth with wear to…
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Charles Darwin – The Descent of Man – First UK Edition 1871
£15,000.00John Murray, London, 1871. First edition, first issues of both volumes (with “transmitted” the first word on p. 297 in the first volume; in the second, the printer’s note on…
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Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island – First UK Edition 1883
£8,750.00A first edition, first printing, first state half-title, map frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements at end dated 5G-783, very light browning to half-title and margins, few chips or small portions of loss…
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Beatrix Potter – The Tale Of The Two Bad Mice – First Edition 1904
£1,450.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Tale of The Two Bad Mice’ published by Warne in 1904. A very good (or better) copy with rubbing and wear to the…
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Currer Bell [Charlotte Bronte] – The Professor – First UK Edition 1857
£4,500.00A first edition, first printing, first issue of ‘The Professor’ published by Smith Elder in 1857. Two volumes bound in the original publisher’s cloth – no inscriptions. Good copies with…
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Beatrix Potter – The Pie and the Patty-Pan – First Edition 1905
£600.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Pie and the Patty-Pan’ published by Warne in 1905. A very good book with some splitting to the foot of the spine. Gift…
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Arthur Conan Doyle – The Valley of Fear – First UK Edition 1915
£975.008vo, pp. 306 – advertisements at rear. Original red boards, lettered in gilt. Edges uncut. Frontispiece by Frank Wiles. Offsetting to endpapers, and some foxing to the preliminaries, title page…
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Beatrix Potter – The Tale Of Mrs. Tittlemouse – First Edition 1910
£600.00A first edition of ‘The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse’ published by Warne in 1910. With date on title, colour frontispiece and 14 colour plates, plain title vignette and illustrations in…
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Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – First Edition 1884
£1,750.00A first edition, first printing, first state of ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, with publisher’s catalogue dated ‘October, 1884’ at the rear of the book. Publisher’s red cloth, with titling…
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E. Nesbit – The Railway Children – First UK Edition 1906
£975.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Railway Children’ published by Wells Gardner Darton & Co. 1906. 8vo; half-title, pictorial title with frontispiece by C. E. Brock, 10pp publisher’s adverts…
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J.M. Barrie – Little White Bird – First UK Edition 1902
£450.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Little White Bird’, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1902. A near fine book without inscriptions. Spotting to the tissue frontispiece which is…
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Winston Spencer Churchill – Savrola – Sevenpenny Library Edition 1905
£50.00Hodder & Stoughton’s Sevenpenny Library edition. Small volume, 16mo. pp 260. Frontispiece illustration. Red cloth in very good condition with wear to the extremities. Hole to around forty pages.
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Thomas Hardy – The Well-Beloved – First Edition 1897
£95.00A first edition of the Collected Osgood Edition of the Wessex Novels – this being volume 17, published in 1897. A very good book without inscriptions – Rubbing to the…
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P. Wyndham Lewis – Tarr – First Edition 1918
£95.00A first edition, first printing of Tarr by P. Wyndham Lewis published by The Egoist Ltd, London in 1918. A near fine book, boards bound in publisher’s original copper-brown cloth,…
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