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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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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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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 with a neat contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper….
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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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E. Nesbit – The Phoenix and The Carpet – First Edition 1904
£385.00A first edition first printing of ‘The Phoenix and The Carpet’ published by Newnes in 1904. A good copy with some shaking to the binding. Front hinge browned and one…
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Oscar Wilde – Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime [The Canterville Ghost] – First Edition 1908
£375.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’ published by Methuen in 1908. Bound in the publishers original ivory coloured buckram with gilt title lettering to spine and…
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Edith Sitwell [Wilfred Owen] – Wheels 1919 – Fourth Cycle – First Edition – First appearance of Owen’s Poetry
£950.00A first edition, first printing of the Fourth Cycle of ‘Wheels’, published by C. Daniel in 1919. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards featuring a magnificent colour design by William Roberts who…
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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 ParisÂ
£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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Ernest Shackleton – SOUTH – First UK Edition 1919
£2,250.00A first edition, first printing of ‘South’ published by Heinemann in 1919. A very good book with fading to the titles on the spine and some repair to the gutters…
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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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