Books and Ephemera

Rudyard Kipling, 9 titles: 'The City of Dreadful Night', London, Sampson Low, [1891], 1st English edition, errata slip bound in before title page,...

Modern fiction, modern first editions etc, 9 titles, including Iris Murdoch: 'The Unicorn', London, Chatto & Windus, 1963, 1st edition, original c...

Charles Palliser: 'The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffam', Edinburgh, Canongate, 1989, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper

John Sladek: 'The Muller-Fokker Effect', London, Hutchinson, 1970, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, Irvine Welsh: 'Porno', L, Cape, 2002...

Alsdair Gray, 3 titles: 'A Life on Pictures', Edinburgh, Canongate, 2010, 1st edition, 30399, colour and b/w illustrations throughout, 4to, origin...

Folio Society, a collection of 14 assorted volumes, including Mardrus & Mathers: 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night', 1973, 3rd impres...

Ten assorted Folio Society titles, including Paul Brickhill 'The Dam Busters', [nd], c.2015, original pictorial cloth, slipcase, in original shrin...

George Bellairs: 'Murder Adrift', London, John Gifford, 1972, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, John Verney: 'Friday's Tunnel', L, Collin...

James Lees-Milne: 'Diaries [A Complete First Edition Set of Published Diaries Covering The Years 1942-1997 in 12 volumes]', 1975-2005, all UK firs...

Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe Novels, a near complete set of Cornwell's Sharpe Novels, 22 (of 23 volumes), all first edition, first impressions, all pu...

Evelyn Waugh, 2 titles, both first editions published London, Chapman & Hall, both original cloth gilt, dust wrappers: 'Men at Arms', 1952, 'Uncon...

George Eliot: 'Novels', Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood, c.1890, 8 volumes in 7, uniform half morocco gilt, spines gilt in compartments, mar...

William Shakespeare: 'The Works of William Shakespeare', edited William Aldis Wright, "The Cambridge Shakespeare" edition, London, Macmillan, 1894...

Jane Austen: 'Works: Pride & Prejudice; Sense & Sensibility; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion; Shorter Works', London, Folio Soc...

Jane Austen, novels, "Peacock Series", London, Macmillan, 1896-97, 5 volumes in 4, frontispieces and full page illustrations by Hugh Thomson, orig...

Victor Hugo: 'Les Miserables', Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press, limited edition, No. 44 of 500 copies only, 5 volumes, a facsimile recreati...

Anna Sewell: 'Black Beauty. His Grooms and Companions. The autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the original Equine by Anna Sewell.', London,...

Charles Dickens: 'Master Humphrey's Clock', London, Chapman & Hall, 1840-41, 1st edition, 3 volumes, engraved plates & ills. by George Cattermole ...

Charles Dickens: 'Master Humphrey's Clock', London, Chapman & Hall, 1840-41, 1st edition, 2 volumes in 3, engraved plates & ills. by George Catter...

Charles Dickens: 'The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale.', London, Chapman & Hall, 1841, 1st separate edition, bound with unaltered stereotype sheets fro...

Paul Verlaine: 'Oeuvres Completes; Oeuvres Posthumes', Paris, Albert Messein, 1920-23, 7 volumes, portrait frontis, ex library, old half calf gilt...

Alexander Pope: 'The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope', London, W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintot, 1717, 1st edition, 1st issue (without Tonson's name in th...

'The Genuine Works of William Hogarth, illustrated with Biographical Anecdotes, a Chronological Catalogue, and Commentary; by John Nichols and the...

(Fine Binding.) Richard Aldington: 'The Crystal World', London, Heinemann, 1937, 1st edition, finely bound in full decorative vellum gilt, coloure...

Four Royalty biographies in fine leather bindings, comprising Rev. Mandel Creighton: 'Queen Elizabeth', London, Paris & Edinburgh, Boussod, Valado...

(Bindings.) A.P. Wavell: 'Other Men's Flowers. An Anthology of Poetry compiled by A.P. Wavell. Memorial Edition.', London, Cape, 1963 reprint. Ful...

Rev. W. Lucas Collins (ed.): 'Ancient Classics for English Readers', William Blackwood & sons, circa 1872-1879, 23 volumes, various works includin...

Reverend Edward Forster (translated); Robert Smirke (illustrated): 'The Arabian Nights, in Five Volumes', London, William Miller, 1802, 5 volumes,...

Assorted 19th & early 20th Century bindings, leatherbound literature etc, including Ralph Nevill: 'Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton C...

Edward Gibbon: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', London, Warne, 1890-92, 4 volumes, The "Chandos Classics" series, uniform contemporary ...

Frances Trollope: 'Domestic Manners of the Americans', London, Whittaker, Treacher & Co, 1832, 1st edition, 24 lithograph plates complete (volume ...

James Boswell; George Birkbeck Hill (ed.): 'Boswell's Life Of Johnson. Including Boswell's Journal Of A Tour To The Hebrides And Johnson's Diary O...

Samuel Maunder: 'The Treasury of Knowledge - History - Scientific and Literary Treasury - Geography - Biographical Treasury - Natural History', Lo...

E.C. Gaskell: 'The Life of Charlotte Brontë, author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," "Villette," &c.', London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1857, 1st edition, 2 v...

(Fore-edge painting.) Rev. Ingram Cobbin: 'The Bible Reader's Handbook', London, Knight & Son, c.1844, 11th thou., engraved plates, 16mo (13 x 8cm...

(Fore-edge painting.) James Thomson: 'The Seasons', London, John Sharpe, 1824, 6 engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt, fore edge painting depic...

A collection of assorted leather bindings, including Arthur Conan Doyle, 'Sir Nigel', 1918, and 'The White Company', 1923, uniform Sandroyd School...

William Makepeace Thackeray: 'The Works', London, Smith Elder, 1869-1886, 24 volumes, additional pictorial titles, plates and illustrations, unifo...

David Hume: 'The History of England', Oxford & London, 1826, 8 volumes, engraved portraits throughout, uniform contemporary half calf gilt, top ed...

Thomas Bewick: 'The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood', Newcastle, Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, 1818, 1st edition,...

A folio album containing approximately 150 valentines and friendship cards, plus other 18th & 19th Century ephemera, including some scraps, colour...

An early 19th Century German music manuscript album, manuscript pen & ink title: 'Zwolt Deutscher Lieder, von Carl Muechler, mit Begleitung des Fo...

A mounted monochrome photograph of the 1943 oil painting of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears by Kenneth Green, signed & inscribed in blue ink to c...

(Heraldry.) A circa late C19th/early C20th album containing examples of finely executed manuscript pen & ink heraldic crests & arms, comprising 1 ...

Assorted ephemera, including an early 20th Century commonplace album containing manuscript pen & ink sketches and other written entries, c.1911-19...

A packet of assorted early 20th Century London Underground, LGOC, and railway booklets & ephemera, including four Charles White booklets 1915, inc...

'Konigin Elizabeth in Munchen 21. Mai 1965. Queen Elizabeth in Munich 21 May 1965', Munich, F. Bruckmann, [1966], tipped in colour plates from pho...

Elizabeth II (1926-2022), Queen of the United Kingdom 1952-2022, document signed "Elizabeth R" as Queen, 29th August 1962, blue ink signature uppe...

An uncommon document signed, signed by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900-2002), “Elizabeth R.," and Princess Margaret (1930-2002), "Margaret,...

Edward VIII (1894-1972), King of the United Kingdom 20 January 1936 until his abdication, 11 December 1936, document signed "Edward R I" as King, ...

George VI (1895-1952), King of the United Kingdom 1936-1952, document signed "George R I" as King, 23 February 1938, black ink signature upper cen...

A collection of sports autographs and programmes, comprising an autograph album containing a good quantity of Rugby signatures 1950's, including S...

An album containing photographs and signatures of cricketers 1920's-30's, "Gedling St. Mission Cricket Club", presumably Gedling Street, now Gedli...

(Golf.) Bernard Darwin: 'A Round of Golf on the L.N.E.R.', York, B. Johnson & Co, [1924], 1st edition, 127,[1]pp, black & white illustrations from...

(Motor Racing, Grand Prix Sunbeams.) An early 20th Century photograph album containing 50+ mounted photographs in total of Grand Prix motor racing...

A collection of Norwich City FC Programmes and handbooks 1930's-1950's, including 'The Canaries Official Weekly Journal', No. 13, Nov. 7th 1931, N...

A suitcase containing an archive of material having belonged to Sir Alf Ramsey (1920-1999) and relating to his tenure as manager of the England na...

(Astronomy.) James Ferguson: 'Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics', Lo...

Amédée Guillemin: 'The World of Comets', translated and edited by James Glaisher, London, Sampson Low, 1877, 1st English edition, 10 plates (5 chr...

Thomas Keith: 'A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes', London, Longman, 1834, new edition, 7 copper engraved folding plates complete, contempora...