Books & Works On Paper - A Collector's Library

Wodehouse, P. G. - The Gold Bat, 1904. First edition, first issue, published by Adam & Charles Black. 2pp publisher's advertisements to rear, with...

Folio Society. Rand, Ayn - 2018 Atlas Shrugged in three volumes. Introduced by Michael Dirda, illustrated by Anna and Elena Balbusso. Published by...

Bronte, Charlotte under pseudonym Currer Bell. 1849-1853 6vol copyright edition publ. Bernhard Tauchnitz comprising 1850 Jane Eyre, 1849 Shirley &...

Einstein, Albert & Infeld, Leopold. 1938 The Evolution of Physics, the Growth of Ideas from the Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta. First edi...

Edward Earl of Clarendon. 1707 The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the Year 1641. Printed at the Theater, Oxford 1707...

Lanyon, Andrew.1990 Peter Lanyon 1918-1964 - signed limited edition in dust wrapper and slipcase. Signed and numbered 368/500, produced for subscr...

Lewis, C. S. The Chronicles of Narnia - 1952 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. First edition, published Geoffrey Bles. With illustrations by Pauline...

1827 Amour et Cloire - an early 19th century French micro miniature book bound in gilt tooled leather & measuring less than an inch. 63pp, publ. C...

Parry, Edward Abbott. a collection of five late 19th & early 20th century works of children's fiction. The lot comprising 1899 The Scarlet Herring...

Bell, William (ed.). 1945 Poetry from Oxford in Wartime & 1947 More Poetry from Oxford. Publ. The Fortune Press, each in original unclipped dust w...

Crowquill, Alfred illus. Two mid 19th century Victorian circa 1860 untearable children's books. Comprising c1865 Nursery Rhymes No. 2, stated illu...

Folio Society. Murakami, Haruki, and Banks, Iain M. - 2021 Kafka on the Shore, and 2023 Consider Phlebas. The Murakami translated by Philip Gabrie...

Addison, Joseph. 1830 The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison in four Volumes, published D. A. Talboys. In contemporary fine half calf binding w...

Phillips, Tom. 1985 The Heart of a Humament, publ. edition hansjorg meyer, flat signed by the author to the half title page; and 1985 Dante's Infe...

Rowling, J. K. The Harry Potter Gift Set, comprising 1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, fourth impression with number line 10 9 8 7 6 ...

Bindings. A collection of mostly 18th & 19th century bindings. Comprising 1902 2vol Obiter Dicta publ. Elliot Stock in full gilt calf, 1847 2vol M...

Cricket interest. A collection of ten late 19th century & later sport reference works on cricket and its history, including the Ashes. Comprising ...

Hamilton, Sir William. 1814 Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the late Sir William Hamilton, ...

Botanical interest. A 19th century Victorian circa 1878 & later book of pressed flowers. Containing pressed chamomile, wild cabbage, milk thistle,...

Two mid 19th century Victorian circa 1860s copies of Pussy's Tea Party, from T. Nelson & Sons' Untearable Toy Books series. One copy with publishe...

1888 Q. Horati Flacci Opera - the Works of Horace. Publ. Kegan Paul, Trench & Soc. Bound in a full crushed morocco signed binding by Hatchards of ...

Lefebure, Molly. 1968 Scratch & Co. The Great Cat Expedition. First ed, published by Victor Gollancz. Illustrated by A. Wainwright. Presented in p...

Gardening and botanical interest. A collection of six Victorian & later works. Comprising 1896 The Stories of the Trees by Mrs. Dyson, ownership i...

Gardner, John. Three late 20th century James Bond first editions starring 007, after the novels by Ian Fleming. Comprising 1988 No Deals Mr. Bond ...

Baxter, William. 1834 British Phaenogamous Botany; or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering Plants. Second edition, publish...

Folio Society. A collection of fifteen volumes of literature, including ancient. Comprising 1991 Plato Symposium, 1984 The Oresteia by Aeschylus, ...

Cricket interest. A collection of ten late 19th century Victorian sport reference works regarding cricketing. Comprising 1898 With Bat and Ball by...

[Philips, Ambrose]. 1728 A Collection of Old Ballads. Corrected from the best and most Ancient Copies EXtant. With introductions Historical, Criti...

Potter, Beatrix. A collection of six early 20th century circa 1920s editions of Potter's children's books. The lot comprising The Tale of Squirrel...

Folio Society. Roberts, David - 2014 The Holy Land: Syria, Idumea & Arabia; and 2014 Egypt and Nubia. Each complete in original slipcase. Illustra...

Simson, Robert. 1804 The Elements of Euclid, viz. the First Six Books, together with the Eleventh and Twelfth, also the Book of Euclid's Data, in ...

Rivers Larminie, Margaret & Langslow, Jane. 1938 Gory Knight, cheap edition publ. Longmans, Green & Co. November 1938. Publisher's original cloth ...

Bookbinding.1903 The Art of Bookbinding, a Practical Treatise by Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf, sixth edition published George Bell and Sons, illustrated w...

Masefield, John. A collection of sixteen first edition titles by Masefield, including poetry collections, fiction and non-fiction. The lot to comp...

A late Victorian circa 1870s and onwards handwritten manuscript combination recipe & map book. With elaborate calligraphic title page, dated Septe...

Folio Society. A collection of six Folio society editions of various classic sci-fi and horror works. Comprising 2014 A Clockwork Orange by Anthon...

1833 The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs, in six volumes. Publ. Charles Knight, Pall-Mall East 1833. Half crushed morocco binding, paper covere...

Milne, A. A. 1930 Winnie the Pooh, tenth edition. Published Methuen & Co. Ltd. Publisher's original full cloth binding with gilt illustration of C...

Peake, Mervyn. 1948 The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll & 1949 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Each a first edit...

Johnson, Samuel. 1816 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on his Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy, ...

Rackham, Arthur. Five early 20th century Rackham illustrated titles. Comprising 1921 A Midsummer Night's Dream told by William Shakespeare, publ. ...

Travel & Topography. Three 19th & early 20th century works on travel, comprising 1834 Turner's Annual Tour by Leitch Ritchie, illustrated with twe...

Peake, Mervyn. 1946 Titus Groan & 1959 Titus Alone. First editions, both published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Publisher's original full cloth binding...

Folio Society. Wyndham, John - 2011 The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos and The Chrysalids. Introduced by Adam Roberts, illustrated by Pa...

1776 An Account of the Rise Progress and Present State of the Magdalen Hospital for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes, Together with Dr. Dodd'...

Alan, A. J. 1928 Good Evening Everyone (third edition) & 1933 A. J. Alan's Second Book (third impression). Each in the publisher's original full c...

Egyptology / ancient history. 1842 An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34 and -...

Chesterton, Gilbert K. - The Napoleon of Notting Hill. First edition, published John Lane at the Bodley Head 1904. With seven full page illustrati...

Mudie, Robert. 1853 The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands (2vol). Published Henry G. Bohn 1853, fourth edition. Publisher's original green f...

Rackham, Arthur. 1920 The Sleeping Beauty, told by C. S. Evans and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, publ. William Heinemann and J. B. Lippincott Co....

A collection of six early 20th century Edwardian illustrated children's works. The lot comprising The Baby's Bouquet by Walter Crane publ. Frederi...

James, M. R. 1922 The Five Jars. Publ. Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. Publisher's original red full cloth binding. Ownership bookplate of lepidopterol...

Folio Society. le Carre, John (David Cornwell) - 2022 A Perfect Spy. Illustrated by Sam Green. Published by The Folio Society 2022, first printing...

Chaucer, Geoffrey. 1958 The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, a Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with the original 87 illustrations by E...

Wilberforce, William. (1759-1833) An 1808 indenture between William Wilberforce and Rev. William Beaumont Busby regarding Gore House, Kensington. ...

Lancelyn Green, Roger. Two scarce modern first edition fantasy works, comprising undated 1948 From the World's End and 1958 The Land of the Lord H...

Antiquarian. 1772 Junius, Stat Nominis Umbra. Printed for Henry Sampson Woodfall in Pater Noster Row, 1772. Two volumes. Contemporary full calf bi...

Ornithological interest. Lynx Edicions - Handbook of the Birds of the World - six volumes of sixteen, being volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 9 and 11. This orn...

Jane Austen bibliography. A collection of four previously unpublished manuscripts by the authoress. Comprising 1922 Love & Freindship (sic) and Ot...

Everard, Thomas. 1738 Stereometry; or The Art of Gauging Made easy, by the Help of a Sliding - Rule, by Tho. Everard Esq, the Tenth Edition Carefu...