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Rudyard Kipling – Puck of Pook’s Hill – First Edition 1906
£185.00First edition, first printing, First Issue with adverts at rear. Red boards with gilt elephant vignette to front board & gilt titles. A very good copy. Clean boards with no…
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Beatrix Potter – The Tale Of Peter Rabbit – First Edition 1902
£7,500.00First commercially published edition, first issue – brown boards – leaf-patterned endpapers – all first issue points sated. A very good (or better) copy with one neat gift inscription to…
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M. YOUNG – The Secrets of Ancient and Modern Magic – From the library of Paul Daniels
£250.00Very good/near fine green pictorial wraps depicting a floating woman to centre. Issued in green, black and white, and red, with no authority given as to publication. A charming booklet…
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E.H. Shackleton – The Heart Of The Antarctic – First Editions 1907-09
£750.00First edition, first printings published by William Heinemann, London, 1909. Two volumes. Large 8vo. Pp xlviii, 372; xvi, 419. Tissue-guarded photographic frontispieces to both volumes. Both volumes feature 6 colour…
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E.M. Forster – A Room With A View – First UK Edition 1908
£4,250.00First edition, first printing, published by Arnold in 1908. 324pp + [1]-2,7-8 (ads). Bound in publisher’s original ribbed maroon cloth. A very good copy with evidence of removal of previous…
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John Roberts – Billiards For Beginners – First Edition 1901
£150.00First edition of Billiards For Beginners written by eight times world champion John Roberts Jr. Published in 1901 Sands & Co (UK). Very good condition for its 120 year life…
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Beatrix Potter – The Tale Of Benjamin Bunny – First Edition 1906
£1,250.00First edition published by F. Warne & Co. in 1906; with “muffatees” misprint on p.15 and “we” in Roman type on page 15. Publisher’s lettered boards with oval colour illustration…
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E.M. Forster – Howards End – First Edition 1910
£3,500.00A first edition, first printing published Arnold in 1910. One of 2,500 copies of the first edition were printed – 4 pages of adverts to the rear and 8 page…
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Tolstoi – War and Peace – First British Edition 1889
£750.00Walter Scott 1889. First British Edition, wear to edges, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif & gilt decoration to front board, 359pp (vol1), 392pp (vol2),…
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Beatrix Potter – Squirrel Nutkin – First Edition 1903
£1,350.00A first edition, first printing without “Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit” on title, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, light finger-soiling to margins, a little…
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Jack Spurr – Conscript “Tich” – First Edition 1917
£395.00First edition, first printing. Published by W. & R. Chambers in London, 1917. This is a very good copy. This copy is with the only commercially available dust wrapper. Printed…
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Templar – The Poker Manual – The International Code of Poker Laws by Templar 1895 – First Edition
£275.00A first edition, first printing published by Mudie in 1895. A practical course of instruction in the game, Together with illustrative hands and chapters on bluffing, and jack-pots. 119 pages….
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George du Maurier & John Masefield – Trilby- First Edition 1895 – SIGNED by Masefield with original artwork
£225.00First UK edition, first printing. Published by Osgood, McIlvaine and Co in London, 1895. This is a very good copy. Unfortunately lacking the dust wrapper, the original buckram boards are…
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Mark Twain – Life On The Mississippi – First UK Edition 1883
£195.00First UK edition, first printing. Published by Chatto & Windus, London, in 1883. This is a near fine copy. The red pictorial boards are generally clean and beautifully illustrated by…
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Thomas Hughes & John Masefield – The Scouring of the White Horse ETC., with John Masefield watercolour
£185.00New Edition (11th Thousand). Published by Macmillan & Co in London, 1889. This is a very good copy. Issued without a dust wrapper, the original publisher’s black and gilt tooled…
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The Trustees of The British Museum – The Rosetta Stone – First Edition 1913
£350.00First edition, first printing. Published in 1913 by The British Museum, London. This is a very good copy. The soft covers, printed on textured paper, are bold in a dark…
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