Books, Works On Paper & Maps - Antiquarian, Modern Firsts, Ephemera & Maps

Orwell, George. 1935 The Clergyman's Daughter. First edition, publ. Victor Gollancz Ltd. Publisher's original full cloth binding, yellow lettering...

Rowling, J. K. 2012 The Casual Vacancy. First edition, publ. Little, Brown. Flat signed by Rowling to title page in marker pen; complete with loos...

Private Press:- Nonesuch Press. 1931 The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer, trans. Alexander Pope. Two volumes, printed at the Nonesuch Press. Limite...

Trials, divorce & violence against women. 1701 A Letter from a Peer to a Member of the House of Commons, about the Countess of Anglesey's Bill. De...

[Abbott, Edwin A. as A Square]. 1884 Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions. First edition, first issue, publ. Seeley & Co. Publisher's orig. card...

Gill, Eric. 1927 Art and Love. Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, for Douglas Cleverdone, Bristol. L...

London topography:- Stow, John. 1618 The Survay of London: containing the Originall Antiquitie, Encrease, and more Moderne Estate of the sayd Famo...

Vonnegut, Kurt. 1968 Mother Night. First UK edition, published by Jonathan Cape. Publisher's original full cloth binding in clipped dust wrapper a...

Repton, Humphry. 1980 Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Facsimile of the 1803 edition published by Phaidon Press Lim...

Games & playing cards. A mid 19th century Victorian complete set of fifty-one playing cards, presented in the original gilt & blind tooled blue mo...

Folio Society. Taylor Coleridge, Samuel. 2010 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and three other poems. Illustrated by Harry Brockway. Limited editio...

Verve Magazine. 1939 Verve, an Artistic and Literary Quarterly No. 4 January - March 1939. Published at Rue Ferou Paris by Teriade. Including illu...

1680 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Ch...

du Maurier, Daphne. 1938 Rebecca. First edition, first impression, publ. Victor Gollancz Limited. Publisher's orig. full cloth binding, Rebecca in...

Childish, Billy (pseudonym of Steven John 'Bill' Hamper) & Brown, Neal. 2008 Billy Childish, a Short Study L-13. Published by the aquarium. One of...

Rackham, Arthur (illus.) & Swift, Jonathan. 1909 Gulliver’s Travels. Publ. J. M. Dent & Co. Publisher's original full cloth binding, gilt tooled s...

An Asprey & Co. Ltd Miniature Reference Library, presented on original carved oak shelf desk stand. Titles comprising French and English Dictionar...

British topographical interest:- Thoresby, Ralph. 1816 Ducatus Leodiensis: or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populous town and parish of Leede...

Poetry. Riding, Laura:- 1930 Poems, a Joking Word. First edition, publ. Jonathan Cape. Publisher's original full cloth binding in unclipped dust w...

Military history. A large collection of one hundred works published by Osprey for their Military & History series, covering battles and armies acr...

A mid 19th century Victorian manuscript arithmetic exercise book. The workbook by John Holly of Huntingdon School, commenced March 21st 1866. Cont...

1922 The Pageant of Peking, comprising sixty-six Vandyck photogravures of Peking and environs from photographs by Donald Mennie, with an introduct...

Mystery. A collection of four early 20th century works. The lot comprising 1924 The Specimen Case by Ernest Bramah (publ. Hodder & Stoughton), 194...

Bindings. Homer & Pope, Alexander (trans.):- 1796-7 The Odyssey of Homer and the Iliad of Homer. A New Edition, with additional Notes, Critical an...

A mid 19th century dated 1857 Victorian paper puzzle purse love token. The love letter of tragic tone, with hand painted watercolour hearts & flow...

Joseph Hallam Hawksworth (1827-1908) - a mid 19th century Victorian sketchbook containing seventy original pencil landscape drawings by Hawksworth...

An early 20th century Edwardian autograph album, complete with scraps, cartoons, drawings and sketches. The album belonging to a C. M. Atkinson, 5...

Second World War military interest. A WW2 period photograph album containing photographs of British troops in training for winter warfare. Contain...

Folio Society. A collection of works, incl. literature & scientific texts, all bar one presented in orig. dust wrapper. The lot comprising War and...

Dulac, Edmund (illus.). 1928 A Fairy Garland, being Fairy Tales from the Old French illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Publ. Cassell & Company, Limited....

Dore, Gustav. circa 1870-1880 The Dore Gallery: containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings selected from the Dore Bible, Milton, Dante'...

Military and First World War interest. A collection of books, reference works and ephemera relating to the World Wars. Comprising The Eleventh at ...

An early Victorian 19th century manuscript arithmetic exercise book. The work with hand written title page reading Academy Bletchingly Master Jame...

Two early 20th century 1930s & 1940s art exhibition catalogues / pamphlets. The lot comprising 1936 Exhibition of Masterpieces by Braque - Matisse...

Thackeray, Lance. Two early 20th century works on Egypt, its people and customs. Comprising 1912 The Light Side of Egypt, publ. Adam and Charles B...

Rowling, J. K. A complete set of all seven Harry Potter novels, some later impressions, some first editions, all hardbacks in dust wrappers. Publi...

Illustrated works. A collection of three early 20th century works. The lot comprising Drake's Drum and other Songs of the Sea by Henry Newbolt ill...

Mercer, W. H. & Collins, A. E. The Colonial Office List: comprising Historical and Statistical Information respecting the Colonial Dependencies of...

1913 Gems of Japanese Art and Handicraft by George Ashdown Audsley, LL.D. Architect. Publ. Sampson Low, Marston & Company Ltd. Artist proofs, text...

First Civil War interest. circa 1642 The Second Part of Vox Populi. Being the Peoples Report unto the King, upon the Severall Appeales Declared in...

Folio Society. Pullman, Philip:- 2008 His Dark Materials Trilogy, presented as three volumes in slipcase being Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife a...

Childish, Billy (pseudonym of Steven John Bill Hamper). A collection of four first edition novels & works. The lot comprising 1998 notebooks of a ...

Bateman, Henry Mayo. Two 1920s first edition satirical cartoon works in dust wrappers. The lot comprising 1922 Suburbia, Caricatured by H. M. Bate...

Sporting & hunting interest. 1914 Modern Pig Sticking by Major A. E. Wardrop. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, Captain J. K. Gatacre et al. First ed...

Photography interest:- Blossfeldt, Karl. 1929 Art Forms in Nature, Exmples from the Plant World Photographed Direct from Nature. With an Introduct...

Ishuguro, Kazuo et al. 1981 Stories by New Writers. Publ. Faber and Faber. Containing works by J. K. Klavans, Steven Kupfer, Tim Owens and Amanda ...

Travel and British topography. Mogg, Edward. 1826 Paterson's Roads; being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of all the Direct an...

Private Press. Ten early 20th century works & limited editions printed at various British presses. The lot comprising 1921 The Deserted Village by...

Doyle, Arthur Conan. 1902 The Strand, an Illustrated Monthly edited by George Newnes. Vol. XXIII January to June. Publ. George Newnes Ltd. Contemp...

Natural history & phycology interest. A mid 19th century Victorian 1850s album containing approx. eighty specimens of pressed seaweed & algae, all...

Travers, P. L. 1934 Mary Poppins. First US edition, first impression, publ. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York. Illustrated by Mary Shepard with black &...

Military First World War interest. A collection of First World War works, accounts and histories. The lot comprising Over and Above by J. E. Gurdo...

Folio Society. A collection of maj. 21st century Folio Society editions, all in slipcases and a number still in orig. shrinkwrap. The lot to compr...

Three early 20th century 1930s hand painted children's books from Peking, China. Comprising The Oil Vendor and the Sing Song Girl, a Chinese Tale ...

Kipling, Rudyard. 1914 If - . Publ. Macmillan and Co. Limited. A scarce early separate edition in paper wraps of this timeless classic poem by Kip...

An early 20th century original woodblock poster printer's block, used to advertise the 1894 comedy play Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw, Frid...

Potter, Beatrix. A collection of early to mid 20th century editions, maj. later and with ISBN number, to include an early edition of The Tale of M...

A Second World War time photograph album containing photographs taken between 1943 to 1945 of India and Ceylon, including photographs taken in cit...

Thomson, James. 1805 The Seasons. Embellished with engravings on wood by Bewick, from Thurston's designs. Printed for James Wallis by T. Bensley, ...

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. 1950 The Beautiful and Damned. First U.K. edition, publ. The Grey Walls Press. Publisher's orig. full cloth binding presente...