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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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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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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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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 very good book – no inscriptions – some rubbing to the edges…
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Thomas Hardy – Far From The Madding Crowd – First UK Edition 1874
£4,500.00First edition, one of only 1,000 copies printed of Hardy’s fourth novel published by Smith Elder in 1874. A very good pair of volumes – spotting within and throughout, reading…
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Edith Sitwell [Wilfred Owen] – Wheels 1919 – Fourth Cycle – First appearance of Owen’s Poetry
£1,500.00A first edition, first printing, published by C. Daniel in 1919. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards featuring a magnificent colour design by William Roberts who also contributes colour decorations to the…
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