Our showcase books are a selection of some of our best and most valuable first edition books. Most are in exceptional condition or exceedingly rare to find
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Richard Wright – Native Son – First Edition 1940
£2,750.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Native Son’ published by Gollancz in 1940. A very good book with wear to the edges and spine tips and corners. Small name (Charles…
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Evelyn Waugh – Scoop – SIGNED First Edition 1938 – In the first issue dust wrapper
£9,750.00A first edition, first printing published by Chapman and Hall in 1938. A near fine book with some lightening to the spine. No inscriptions. Small brown mark to the top…
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James Joyce – Dubliners – First UK Edition 1914
£17,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Dubliners’ published by Grant Richards in 1914. A very good copy with a touch of spotting to the page edges. Some light dulling to…
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Nancy Mitford – The Radlett Trilogy – The Pursuit of Love/Love in a Cold Climate/Don’t Tell Alfred – All First Editions – ALL Inscribed by MitfordÂ
£17,500.00A set of first editions of Mitford’s masterpiece, The Radlett Trilogy. All three are first edition, first printings. Comprising: ‘The Pursuit of Love’: A very good book without inscriptions -…
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George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984] – First Edition 1949 – in maroon wrapper
£7,500.00A first edition, first printing ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ published by Secker and Warburg in 1949. A very good book with some light fading to the boards and a little spotting to…
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H.G. Wells – The Time Machine – First Wrappered Edition 1895
£7,500.00A first edition, first printing, wrappered issue, with 152 pages but no catalogue of advertisements to the rear. Bound in card wraps – possibly later, but perhaps a printer’s copy,…
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Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair At Styles – First UK Edition 1921
£20,000.00A first edition, first printing ‘The Mysterious Affair At Styles’ published by John Lane in 1921. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some light wear to the edges which are…
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Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle – A Unique Preparatory Sketch Used on Page 22 of the Book
£27,500.00A preparatory sketch for 1905 first edition of ‘The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle’ depicting Mrs Tiggy-Winkle taking something out of the clothes basket, pencil on paper, mounted, framed and glazed,…
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Ian Fleming – For Your Eyes Only – First UK Edition 1960 – SIGNED and INSCRIBED to Nancy Cunard
£37,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘For Your Eyes Only’ published by Cape in 1960. A near fine book without inscriptions in the near fine (or better) unclipped wrapper which…
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Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward – All The President’s Men – First US Edition 1976 – SIGNED by Woodward, E. Gordon Liddy and Richard Ben-Veniste
£3,750.00A first edition, first printing (full numberline) published by Simon & Schuster in 1976. SIGNED by Woodward, Richard Ben-Veniste and E. Gordon Liddy to the title page. A near fine…
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A.A. Milne – Winnie The Pooh – First UK Edition 1926
£4,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Winnie The Pooh’ published by Methuen in 1926 – illustrations by E.H. Shepard, map endpapers, original publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., dust jacket…
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George Orwell – Animal Farm – First Edition 1945 – In custom-made box
£12,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell, published by Secker and Warburg in 1945. A near fine book (or better) without inscriptions. A touched browned to…
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Terry Pratchett – The Colour Of Magic – First UK Edition 1983
£22,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Colour of Magic’ published by Colin Smythe in 1983. A fine book without inscriptions. In a fine unclipped wrapper WITHOUT the overprint to…
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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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The Cocktail Key 1930
£250.00Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1930. Small hardcover (13 x 9cm) in original cloth covered boards. Crease to right corner of the front panel. Some very minor shelfwear and one neat name…
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Laurie Lee – Cider With Rosie – First UK Edition 1959 – SIGNED by the Author
£975.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Cider With Rosie’. Published by The Hogarth Press in London, 1959. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is finely designed by…
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