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Chateau-Lyon (D'Aquin de)<P> ALMANACH LITERAIRE, OU ETRENNES D'APOLLON Paris, 1785. Sm. 8vo. Engr. title device. Cont. mottled calf. G...

Percy (Thomas)<P> RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY 1784. 4th edn. 3 vols. Forntis. Engr. title vignettes. Front free endpapers loose. Cont. ...

Hawkins (Sir John) <P> PROBATIONARY ODES FOR THE LAUREATSHIP 1785. Half-title. Mod. boards. Printed label. £80-100

Milton (John)<P> PARADISE LOST. Ills: after Sir J.B. Medina 1688. 4th edn, 1st illustrated. Folio. Engr. port. frontis & 12 plates. Occasi...

Shakespeare (William)<P> COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES 1904. Folio. Facsimile of 1685 edn. Port. frontis. Ink stamp to title verso. Partl...

Dickens (Charles)<P> SPEECHES LITERARY AND SOCIAL [1870]. 1st edn. Orig. wraps bound-in. T.p. spotted. Cont. cloth gt. Pemberton (T.E.)<P&g...

Le Sage (Alain Rene)<P> THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE Trans: B.H. Malkin. Ills: R.Smirke, 1809. 4 vols. 4to. L.P. copy. India proof...

Burns (Robert)<P> THE COMPLETE WORKS. Philadelphia, n.d. [ca 1886]. 6 vls. Etched plates, maps, text-ills etc. Orig. cloth. Leather title labe...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)<P> THE PARASITE, 1894. 1st edn. 1st issue. Sm. 8vo. 2 half-titles. Engr. title page. Orig. printed wraps. A little we...

Dickens (Charles)<P> THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Ills: S. L. Fildes, 1870. 1st edn. Port. frontis. Added engr. title. 12 plates. Advt. leaf at...

Haggard (Sir Henry Rider)<P> COLONEL QUARITCH, VC. 1888. 1st edn. 3 vols. Half-titles. Private owner's stamp to front endpaper. Orig. prin...

Kipling (Rudyard)<P> SOLDIERS THREE. Allahabad & L. 1890. No. 1 in the Indian Railway Library. Orig. printed wraps. Some chipping at head ...

James (Henry)<P> EMBARASSMENTS. 1896. 1st edn. 1st issue [1250]. Half-title. Title in red-black. Booklist. Orig. cloth gt. with blind-tooled a...

Waugh (Evelyn)<P> ROBBERY UNDER LAW: THE MEXICAN OBJECT-LESSON 1939. 1st edn. Orig. cloth gt. Sl. spotting of edges. In d/w with a few small t...

Amis (Martin)<P> THE INFORMATION, 1995. ltd edn (206/350). Signed by the author.<P> Orig. cloth gt. Slip-case. £40-50

De La Mare (Walter)<P> THE CAPTIVE NY, 1928. Ltd edn. [600]. Signed by the author.<P> Orig. cloth-backed boards. POEMS 1906. 1st edn. Ha...

[detective fiction] Brand (Christianna)<P> THE THREE CORNERED HALO, 1957. 1st edn. Inscribed by author on f.f.e.p.<P> Clipped d/w. Allin...

Pym (Barbara)<P> THE SWEET DOVE DIED, 1978. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w A FEW GREEN LEAVES, 1980. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. Gellhorn (Martha)<P>...

Fowles (John)<P> A MAGGOT, 1985. 1st edn. Signed by author on title.<P> Unclipped d/w. Waugh (Evelyn)<P> OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN, 1...

Brookner (Anita)<P> FAMILY AND FRIENDS, 1985. Ltd edn (172/250). Signed by the author.<P> Orig. cloth-backed boards. Glassine wrap. Fore...

James (Henry)<P> A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS, 1913. 1st English edn. Port. frontis. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth gt. Auden (Wystan Hugh) & Mac...

Eliot (Thomas Stearns)<P> ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH BY SOAME OF OXFORD. Merton College Freshmen, 1914. Approx. 29.5cm x 36cm. Eliot appears with 19 ...

MacBeth (George)<P> THE COLOUR OF BLOOD, 1967. 1st edn. Signed by the author of f.f.e.p. and with the signatures of Iris Murdoch, John Bayley ...

Hughes-Stanton (Blair) & Gantillon (Simon)<P> MAYA Trans: V & F. Vernon. Golden Cockerel Press, 1930. Ltd edn. (466/500). Wood engr. ...

[Golden Cockerel Press] Scott (Walter Sidney) <P> HARRIET & MARY. L. 1944. Large 8vo. Ltd edn. (166/500). Port. frontis. Partly untrimmed....

Lawrence (Thomas Edward)<P> THE MINT 1955. 4to. Ltd edn. (813/2000). Partly untrimmed. Cockerell endpapers. Orig quarter blue morocco gt. T.e....

Masefield (John)<P> MIDSUMMER NIGHT [1928]. Ltd edn. (179/250). Signed by the author.<P> Partly untrimmed. Orig. japon-backed cloth. D/w...

Stevenson (Robert Louis)<P> AN INLAND VOYAGE Ills: N. Rooke 1912. Ltd edn (51/250). 12 mounted col. plates. B/w ills. Untrimmed. Occasonal spo...

Armstrong (Martin)<P> PORTRAIT OF THE MISSES HARLOWE 1928. ltd edn (207/500) Signed by the author.<P> Orig. dec. boards. Some staining o...

Fitzgerald (Edward)<P> POLONIUS: A COLLECTION OF WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES Portland, 1901. Ltd edn. [450]. Untrimmed. Orig. morocco backe...

Plato<P> CRITO : A SOCRATIC DIALOGUE Trans: H. Cary. Privately printed, Montagnola, for the Pleiad, Paris - 1926. Ltd edn. [114/575]. Partly

Lawrence (David Herbert)<P> THE MAN WHO DIED 1931. ltd edn. [2000]. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth gt. over levelled boards. Powys (Lewelyn)<...

Coppard (A.E.)<P> FISHMONGER'S FIDDLE. 1925. Ltd edn. (9/60). Signed by the author.<P> Partly untrimmed. Orig. vellum, green leather...

THE BOOK OF GENESIS. Ills: F.C. Robinson, 1914. Ltd edn. (280/500). Mounted col. plates. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth-backed boards. Clayton (Francis

Whistler (James Abbot McNeill)<P> THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES. L. [1890]. 1st authorised edn.<P> Ltd ( 100 for US & 150 for UK)...

Moore (George)<P> HAIL AND FAREWELL, 1925. 2 vols. Ltd edn. (368/780). Signed by the author.<P> Partly untrimmed. Orig. japon-backed boa...

Anon<P> THREE GIFTS. An Arab Love Story, 1928. Ltd edn. (334/1500). 5 col. ills. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth-backed pattern boards. Chalmers...

[Nonesuch Press] Melville (Herman)<P> BENITO CRENO Ills: E. McKnight Kauffer, 1926. Tall 4to. Ltd edn. (1650) numbered. Hand-col. ills. Partly...

Tomlinson (H.M.)<P> ALL OUR YESTERDAYS, 1930. Ltd edn. (296/1025). Signed by the author.<P> Port. frontis. Untrimmed and largely unopene...

[Nonesuch Press] Hotson (J.L.)<P> THE DEATH OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 1925. B/w ills. Untrimmed & unopened. Orig. buckram gt. Voltaire (Fran...

Gray (Thomas)<P> ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD [ca 1946]. An anonymous sample of lettering entered for the Intermediate Examinatio

Ellis (Havelock)<P> KANGA CREEK. Golden Cockerel Pres, 1922. Orig. cloth-backed boards. D/w. The author's first work of fiction.<P> ...

Gogol (Nikolai Vasilievich)<P> THE OVERCOAT Ills: P. Annigoni, Verona, 1975. 4to. Ltd edn. [160]. Signed by the artist.<P> Etched plat...

Bannerman (David A. & W. Mary)<P> BIRDS OF CYPRUS Ills: D.M. Read-Henry & R. Green. 1958. 1st edn. Large 8vo. Fldg. map. Col. & b/...

Murphy (Robert Cushman)<P> OCEANIC BIRDS OF SOUTH AMERICA Ills: F.L. Jaques N.L. 1936. 2 vols. 4to. Col. & b/w plates. Text maps etc. Orig...

Butler (Arthur Gardiner)<P> BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS & EGGS Ills: F.W. Frowhawk n.d. [ca 1896]. 6 vols. 4to. 24 col. plates. B/w ils...

Jardine (Sir William)<P> THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HUMMING-BIRDS. Edin. 1833. 2 vols. 2 engr. ports. 2 hand-col. title vignettes. 64 hand-col pla...

Audubon (John James)<P> THE ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS.......FOR THE BIRDS OF AMERICA Ed: M.B. Davidson 1966. 2 vols. Large 4to. 431 col....

Adams (H.G.)<P> HUMMING BIRDS n.d. [ca 1860]. 8 hand-col. plates with tissue guards. orig. gt. pict. cloth sl. thumbed at spine. Ratcliffe (De...

Chapman (Abel)<P> RETROSPECT........Ills: J. Crawhall. 1928. 1st edn. 20 col. plates. B/w ills. Booklist. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth gt. Sl...