3 vols, 8vo (227 x 160 mm); First vol: frontispiece photogravure of Lewis Carroll, 40 black & white illustrations by Peter Newell, further tex...

Presentation copy. A collection of short-stories by one of the masters of that medium, Kiss Kiss includes the apiologically disconcerting 'Royal Je...

8vo (227 x 160 mm); frontispiece photogravure of Lewis Carroll, 40 black & white illustrations by Peter Newell, further text decoration by Rob...

'When Bentley decided to publish Oliver in book form before its completion in his periodical, Cruikshank had to complete the last few plates in ha...

A near fine copy of Roald Dahl's third children's book The Magic Finger.First UK edition, small 4to, illustrations by William Pène du Bois, light ...

One of Churchill's more important collections of essays.First edition, first impression; 8vo (23 x 16 cm); frontispiece; publisher's blue cloth, t...

A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their impact on the development of t...

This magnum opus took the ageing Churchill some years to complete although he started making copious notes as early as 1940. Interestingly enough ...

Commissioned by the Royal Society following Cook's death, this is the rare silver issue: one of only 322. News of Cook's death in Hawai'i in 1779...

One of 500 copies. One of the major titles of the Golden Cockerel Press and an extraordinary collaboration between the press director and book desi...

First edition in book form in variant binding.Dickens would write in his preface to the 1869 edition of David Copperfield, that: 'Of all my books,...

With important Australian provenance. Darwin's first published, and his most widely read book: the account of the most important 19th-century voyag...

Two of these leaflets are described by Woods (A18/1 and A18/2) and both have sections for personal details of prospective applicants to apply to j...

'the pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again'. 'Nicholas Nickleby originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly p...

A superb set. A very pleasing set of the works of Charles Dickens, handsomely illustrated and uniformly bound in thirty very readable volumes.30 vo...