Antiquarian & Collectors' Books

LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan. The Rose and the Key. London: Downey & Co., [1895.] First one-volume edition, 8vo (189 x 122mm.) Half-title, illustrated...

LE FANU, Jospeh Sheridan. Checkmate. London: Downey & Co., [1898.] 8vo (191 x 123mm.) Half-title, illustrated title. (Mild toning.) Original green...

LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan. The Poems of… Edited by Alfred Perceval Graves. London: Downey & Co. Limited, 1896. First edition, 8vo (171 x 107mm.) Ha...

LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan. Willing To Die. London: Downey & Co., [1895.] 8vo (189 x 122mm.) Half-title, illustrated title. (Spotting to pastedowns ...

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First edition, first impression, 8vo (193 x 125mm.) (Toning.) Or...

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First edition, first impression, 8vo (194 x 126mm.) (Toning.) Or...

FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first impression, 8vo (187 x 120mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth wi...

FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition, 8vo (188 x 123mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth with blind-stamped sk...

FLEMING, Ian. Dr. No. London: Jonathan Cape, May 1958. First edition, second impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth wi...

TRANSGENDER. – Michael DILLON. Poems of Truth. London: Linden Press, 1957. First edition, 8vo (186 x 123mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, g...

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Hobbit. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966. Sixteenth impression, 8vo (183 x 124mm.) 4 colour plates, black and white illustra...

MCCARTHY, Cormac. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. London: Picador, 1989. First U.K. edition, 8vo (213 x 131mm.) (Toning.) Orig...

HEANEY, Seamus. Door into the Dark. London: Faber and Faber, 1969. First edition, first impression, 8vo (216 x 134mm.) (Mild toning.) Original bla...

SIGNED BOOK. – Douglas ADAMS. The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1981. 17th impression, signed and inscribed by Douglas...

SIGNED BOOKS. – Clive BARKER. Books of Blood. London: Sphere Books Limited, 1984-1985. 6 vols., all signed and inscribed by the author with 3 orig...

LONDON. Lord Mayor’s Show, or The 9th November. London: R. Miller, [1810.] 16mo (96 x 89mm.) 8 engraved hand-coloured plates with 4 lines of verse...

MANUSCRIPT. – Thomas BEALE and Thomas Beale COOPER. [A hand-written book of cures and remedies. N.p.: 1764-1796.] 76pp., manuscript, 8vo (181 x 11...

MEDICINE. – John CURIO. Medicina Salernitana: Id est, conservandae bonae valetudinis praecepta, cum luculenta et succincta Arnoldi Villanovani in ...

LANG, Andrew (editor). The Crimson Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. First edition, 8vo (184 x 120mm.) 8 colour plates, numerous...

LANG, Andrew. The Pink Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. First edition, 8vo (179 x 122mm.) Frontispiece, numerous illustrations ...

[COMBE, William.] – Thomas ROWLANDSON (illustrator). The English Dance of Death… with Metrical Illustrations by the Author of ‘Doctor Syntax’. Lon...

MILITARY. Encyclopédie Militaire, par Une Société D’ Anciens Officiers, et de Gens de Lettres… Janvier 1770. Paris: Chez Valade, 1770. 8vo (167 x ...

DARWIN, Charles. The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1874. Second edition, revised, 8vo (179 x 113mm.) 3 f...

WAIN, Louis (illustrator) and ‘KARI’. Madame Tabby’s Establishment. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. First edition, 8vo (183 x 117mm.) Half-title,...

WAIN, Louis (illustrator) and Jessie POPE. The Cat Scouts, a Picture-Book For Little Folk. London: Blackie and Son Limited, [1912.] First edition,...

THE PICCANINNIES LIBRARY. – Louis WAIN and Cecil ALDIN and John HASSALL and M. York SHUTER and Percy J. BILLINGHURST (illustrators). [The Picture ...

Programme of the Charles Dickens Fete, Broadstairs, July 7,8,9 and 10, 1897. Broadstairs: J.H. Snow, 1897. 8vo (217 x 124mm.) Portrait frontispiec...

DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boys Progress… a Drama in Three Acts. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, [circa 1870.] Lacy’s Acting Editi...

DICKENS, Charles (contributor). The Piccadilly Annual. London: John Camden Hotten, [1870.] 4to (248 x 176mm.) Containing Dickens’s ‘Hunted Down’, ...

BINDING. – George Gordon Noel BYRON. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, A Romaunt. London: John Murray, 1853. 8vo (191 x 115mm.) 32 steel-engraved plates...

BINDINGS. – William Makepeace THACKERAY. The Works of… London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1869-1876. 21 vols. (of 22). 8vo (203 x 126mm.) Numerous plates...

HARDY, Thomas. The Wessex Novels. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912-1920. Mixed editions, 8vo (223 x 138mm.) Half-titles, photogravure fron...

[BROWNE, Hablot Knight.] ‘Phiz’. A Dozen Pair of Wedding Gloves. London: James Blackwood, 1855. First edition, 16mo (164 x 101mm.) Engraved title,...

PRINTING. – B.F. GANDEE. The Artist, or Young Ladies’ Instructor in Ornamental Painting, Drawing &c. London: Chapman and Hall, 1835. First edition...

BINDING. – Percy B. SHELLEY. Poems… Edinburgh: Otto Schulze & Co., 1903. Limited edition, this being number 7 of only 40 copies on Japanese vellum...

AUCTION CATALOGUE. The Singularly Interesting Freehold Residential Property Known As Gadshill Place, the Home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870...

[LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan.] London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation. London: 8, New Bu...

LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan. The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O’Brien. London: Downey and Co., Ltd., 1896. 8vo (200 x 141mm.) Plates by ‘Phiz’ [Hablot...

BEATTIE, William. The Castles and Abbeys of England. London and New York: George Virtue, [circa 1850.] 2 vols., second series, 4to (277 x 183mm.) ...

GILBERT, Stuart (editor). The Letters of James Joyce. London: Faber and Faber, 1957-1966. 3 vols., 8vo (232 x 144mm.) (Toning, gift inscriptions t...

WALLER-BRIDGE, Phoebe. Fleabag, The Scriptures. London: Sceptre, 2019. Limited edition, this being one of 5000 copies signed by Phoebe Waller-Brid...

SIGNED BOOK. – Philip ROTH. Operation Shylock, A Confession. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. First edition, first impression, signed and inscrib...

KING, Stephen. Rose Madder. New York: Viking, 1995. First edition, first impression, signed by Stephen King, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) Mounted colour pho...

SIGNED BOOK. – [Mary Phelps JACOB.] ‘Caresse Crosby’. The Passionate Years. London: Alvin Redman Limited, 1955. First edition, signed by Caresse C...

MANUSCRIPT. [A journal of an English soldier, E.L. Cook, of the 9th Armoured Division, Royal Army Medical Corp of the British Army in India. Bomba...

WILLIAMS, James. The Footman’s Guide: Containing Plain Instructions to the Footman and Butler, for the Proper Arrangement and Regular Performance ...

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. Edinburgh and London: A. Fullarton and Co., [1853.] 2 vols., 8vo (254 x 160mm.) 72 ...

CHEMISTRY. – [Joseph ROBERTSON.] An Essay on Culinary Poisons. Containing Cautions Relative to the Use of Laurel-Leaves, Hemlock, Mushrooms, Coppe...

DEVON. – Thomas SHAPTER. The Climate of the South of Devon and Its Influence Upon Health. London: John Churchill, 1862. Second edition, signed by ...

ENTOMOLOGY. – W.E. SHUCKARD (editor). The British Coleoptera Delineated, Consisting of Figures of all the Genera of British Beetles. London: W. Cr...

RUPERT THE BEAR ANNUALS. – [Alfred BESTALL et al.] Rupert the Bear. London: Daily Express Publications, 1944-1953. 7 vols., 4to (243 x 175mm.) Num...

FISHERIES EXHIBITION. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature. London: William Clowes, 1883. 12 vols. (only, of 14). 8vo (216 x 128mm.) Folding plates...

DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boys Progress. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1895. Limited edition, this being on...