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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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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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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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Roger Hunt – Hunt For Goals – SIGNED First Edition 1969
£750.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Hunt For Goals’ published by Pelham Books in 1969. A very good (or better) book. SIGNED ‘Best wishes/ Roger Hunt/’ on the title page….
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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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TIME Magazine – May 7th 1945 [Hitler’s Been Cancelled]
£750.00Volume XLV – Number 19 – May 7, 1945. Hitler with the red cross to the front panel. Iconic issue. Having been named as one of their ‘Men of the…
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D.H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover – Pre-publication Proof – Withdrawn by Hazell Watson and Viney
£12,500.00A pre-publication ‘dummy’ or proof copy of Penguin’s unexpuragted version of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, printed before the landmark trial of Regina vs Penguin Books.
The proof, bound in buff coloured card…
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John F. Kennedy – The Strategy Of Peace – First US Edition 1960 – SIGNED and INSCRIBED by JFK
£6,500.00A first edition of ‘The Strategy of Peace’ published by Harper in 1960. A very good book inscribed ‘To Don (Mitchell)/With many thanks and/ my personal regards/Jack Kennedy’. A little…
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William Powell [Peter Bergman] – The Anarchist Cookbook – First Edition 1971
£2,650.00First edition softcover. No later printings – published by Lyle Stuart, $5.95 price on back, spine slightly worn with loss to lower end and front corner, covers have some limited…
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Stephen King – CUJO – First US Edition 1981 – With SIGNED Promotional Mask
£1,450.00A first edition, first printing of ‘CUJO’ published by Viking in 1981. A very good book without inscriptions in a very good unclipped wrapper. Complete with one of the weirdest…
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The Archive of Ivy Godley, assistant to Sir Norman Hartnell – including a sample of the Coronation dress worn by Elizabeth II
£50,000.00An archive from the estate of Ivy Godley, assistant to Sir Norman Hartnell, holder of the Royal Warrant as dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and to Queen Elizabeth…
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Ian Fleming – Moonraker – First UK Edition – 1955
£4,850.00First edition, first printing of ‘Moonraker’. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1955. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, designed by Kenneth Lewis, is slightly toned throughout,…
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Shirley Jackson – The Haunting of Hill House – First Edition 1960
£1,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ published by Michael Joseph. A very good book, without inscriptions. In the unclipped wrapper with some wear to the…
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William Powell [Peter Bergman] – The Anarchist Cookbook – First Edition 1971
£2,950.00First edition softcover. No later printings – published by Lyle Stuart, $5.95 price on back, spine slightly worn with loss to lower end, covers have some limited soiling, owner name…
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Ian Fleming – The James Bond Collection – All First Editions in Dust Wrappers 1953-66
£85,000.00Cape – 1953-66. Sixteen volumes, all first editions, all first printings. A very good to fine set of books. Comprising: Casino Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds are Forever;…
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