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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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Andrew Lang – The Yellow Fairy Book – First Edition 1894
£350.00First edition, first printing of ‘The Yellow Fairy Book’, by Andrew Lang. Published by Longmans in London, 1894. This is a very good copy. Issued without a dust wrapper. The…
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W.G. Grace – Cricket – First Edition 1891
£95.00A first edition, first printing of Cricket by W. G. Grace, published by J. W. Arrowsmith, London in 1891, illustrated throughout. A very good copy free from internal inscriptions, boards…
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J.M. Barrie – Peter and Wendy – First Issue 1911 – In superb condition
£2,250.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1911. A fine book with some rubbing to the corners. No inscriptions. Absolutely no dulling to the gilt titling….
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Rudyard Kipling – Rewards and Fairies – First Edition 1910 – The appearance of Kipling’s Poem ‘If’
£450.00A first edition, first printing of Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling, printed by Macmillan in 1910, illustrations by Frank Craig. A near fine book, boards bound in publisher’s original…
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H.G. Wells – Ann Veronica – First Edition 1909
£95.00A first edition, first printing published by Fisher Unwin in 1909. A near fine book without inscriptions, with the publisher’s prospectus laid in. A little rubbing to the corners. Stain…
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Emmeline Pankhurst – My Own Story – First Edition 1914
£650.00A first edition, first printing of My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst, with photographic illustrations throughout, published by Eveleigh Nash in London, 1914. A very good book inscribed by a…
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Ezra Pound – Quia Pauper Amavi – First Edition 1919 – with Pound’s hand correction to page 34
£600.00A first edition, first printing of Quia Pauper Amavi by Ezra Pound, published by The Egoist Press in 1919. A very good book, with original quarter green cloth and plain…
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E.M. Forster – A Room With A View – First UK Edition 1908
£3,750.00First 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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George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss – First Editions 1860
£1,500.00A set of three volumes published by Blackwood in 1860 of George Eliot’s ‘The Mill On The Floss’. All three are in very good condition indeed. All have had their…
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Major-General [William] Tweedie – The Arabian Horse – Blackwoods’ Working Proof Copy of the Limited 1/100 Large Paper Edition Not Numbered
£8,500.00This, the Blackwoods’ Office uncorrected proof copy, stamped by Blackwoods on title page and finals – this, the limited edition in large paper stock and not numbered, although the colophon…
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Oscar Wilde – The Sphinx without a Secret, The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire – Private Printing
£875.00First Edition, softcover of 64 pages, stated ‘Privately printed’. Place and date of publication unknown. 4to, original printed blue-grey wrappers. First edition of this collection, 127 of 300 numbered copies….
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Beatrix Potter – The Tailor Of Gloucester – First Edition 1903
£950.00A first edition, first printing published by Warne in 1903. A very good book without inscriptions, rubbed to corners and a little to the spine – square and compact binding…
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Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher – First Edition 1906
£750.00A first edition published by Warne in 1906. A former retailers sticker on front paste down, previous owner’s inscription in blue ink on the dedication page, with colour frontispiece and…
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Edith Sitwell – Mother – First Edition 1915 – Privately Printed 1/500 Copies
£600.00A first edition, first printing published by Blackwell, Oxford in 1915. A very good book/pamphlet. One of 500 copies printed. Of the 500 copies, around 200 are believed to have…
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George Bernard Shaw – Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion (My Fair Lady) – First Edition 1916
£250.00A first edition, first printing published by Constable and Company in 1916. A very good book, with one contemporary name which has shadowed through to the next page. Some bumping…
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