Presentation copy. Author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'For Ragnar & Greta (my collaborator) with love from Gr...

The rare special issue of Nicholson's London Types, in an uncommon variant vellum binding. The Bus Driver was omitted from this edition and only a...

A wonderful example of this book, in an edition thought to run to two hundred & seventy-five copies; the tissue guards have kept the illustrat...

Engraved score . John Gay's (1685-1732) musical play The Beggars Opera opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields on 29th January 1728 to critical and commerci...

Strawberry Hill Press. A famous [re]issue of the first work ever printed by the Strawberry Hill press, which has been the source of considerable bi...

Strawberry Hill Press. An attractive, contemporarily bound example of this the first printed edition of the Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury...

A specially-bound edition of these further memoirs of a brilliant World War II desert campaigner, recounting his experiences on the Levant-Caspian...

The numerous plates represent not only Bakst most celebrated costumes, but also drawings and theatre settings. André Levinson (1887-1933) was born...

A very good first edition of the second in the Madeline book series, which won the 1954 Caldecott Medal for 'most distinguished picture book'. The...

Inscribed to civil rights photographer gordon parks. An attractive dedication copy of Karsh's striking portraits. The photographer has inscribed th...

Rare first edition of Nabokov's second novel. Nabokov declared in the foreword of the 1967 English translation of King, Queen, Knave, 'of all my no...

Edith Wharton is famous for having written novels that lift the lid on the society in which she lived. The House of Mirth, her second novel, shock...

An unusual children's book, without question uncommon. The adventures of Mrs Ticklefeather and her puffin called Paul as they try to find the perf...

They are very charming and excellent illustrations, precise with bright colouring, showing more aquatint ground than in the stories Alken illustra...

The book contains some of Brooke's best remembered poems, Tiare Hahiti and The Soldier, with its famous opening line, 'If I should die, think only...

John Papworth was the architect responsible for the design of Ackermann's showroom at 101 Strand. He adopted the second name of Buonarroti after h...

Signed limited edition. A very good first edition of Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, the text that was to become chapter eight in Finnegans W...

Large paper copy with plates in two states. Fine set of classic Thames views. Large paper copy with the plates in 2 states, and superior colouring....

A very good example of this popular title from the Uptons' Golliwogg series of thirteen books; one of the best in terms of subject matter and the ...

A very rare, first edition. Thomas Mayne Reid (1818-1883) was a Scots-Irish American novelist, who fought in the American-Mexican War. In additi...

From the library of avant-garde artist Mikahil Larionov . Simple like mooing was Maykovsky's first major collection of poetry to be published and a...

Excellent copy with wide margins . an interesting architectural record of Imperial Russia's vigorous building programme before the invasion by Napo...

Signed and numbered by the artist. A monumental book with striking full-page etchings by Frink depicting the figures, animals and birds that charac...