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  • The Royal English and Foreign Confectioner:

    FRANCATELLI, Charles Elmé.
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    The first edition of this guide to the 'chief elements of a Fashionable Dessert' by the mâitre d'hotel to Queen Victoria, Charles Elmé Francatelli...

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  • Pride and Prejudice.

    AUSTEN, Jane; BROCK, H.M (illustrator).
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    A beautifully illustrated copy of Jane Austen's classic novel of manners, first published in 1813. Pride and Prejudice follows the character devel...

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  • The Gun at Home and Abroad.

    OGILVIE-GRANT, W.R.
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    One of only 500 copies. The work comprises: British Game Birds and Wildfowl; British Deer and Ground Game; The Big Game of Africa & Europe; Th...

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  • The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain.

    BOURCHIER, John, Baron (translator); HEATH, Charles (illustrator).
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    Illustrated with 25 hand-coloured plates. A lovely copy in burgundy morocco of Bourchier's History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain, ...

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  • France. Riviera and South-Eastern France and Corsica.

    BAEDEKER, Karl.
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    First and only edition of this title in English. This volume covers a wide area including the Italian Riviera as well as the French.Issued c.1931....

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  • Rider's Bermuda.

    RIDER, Fremont (editior], COOPER, Frederic Taber.
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    This unusual guide-book was designed for passengers on cruise-ships.Second edition. 8vo (16.5 x 11 cm), pp. liv, adverts, 158, xxxvi index, one la...

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  • The life of Sir Richard Burton.

    [BURTON, Richard Francis] WRIGHT, Thomas.
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    Wright's biography of Burton was very popular going through three printings in one year. It proved controversial for mentioning Burton's shortcomi...

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  • Narrative of a journey round the World,

    SIMPSON, Sir George.
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    Simpson was head of the Hudson Bay Company and the dominant figure in the American fur trade in the nineteenth century. The narrative documents Si...

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  • Ruhnma'i Futagrafi Ma'ruf bi Usul Masuri

    IBRAHIM, Hafiz Muhammad.
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    Photography in India. A rare witness to the spread in popularity of photography in India in the late nineteenth-century, with no other copies trace...

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  • The Lorax.

    SEUSS, Dr [pseud., GEISEL, Theodor Seuss].
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    One of the most famous and much-loved of the Dr Seuss titles, an environmental tale pitting the Lorax, speaking on behalf of the trees, against th...

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  • The history of Nadir Shah,

    FRASER, James
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    Blackmer copy. Fraser was Resident at Surat from 1730-40 and then returned as Factor for the East India company, 1743-9. This work is important for...

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  • Reconnoitring in Abyssinia:

    WILKINS, H. St. Clair.
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    Wilkins (1828-1896), 'commanded the Royal Engineers throughout the Abyssinian expedition of 1868, where the difficult terrain required engineering...

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  • The Cat's Quizzer.

    SEUSS, Dr. [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss].
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    A very rare title from the Dr. Seuss canon and more so in such good condition. It is one of the six titles Dr. Seuss Enterprises withdrew from pub...

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  • Emma.

    AUSTEN, Jane; THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator).
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    Published on the back of the success of Thomson's highly successful, illustrated edition of Pride and Prejudice in 1894.Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) r...

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  • Lady Chatterley's Lover.

    LAWRENCE, D.H.
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    One of 1000 copies - signed by the author. This novel shines as an example of Lawrence's finite skill in conveying the nature of relationships and ...

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  • The Bostonians.

    JAMES, Henry.
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    A superb set of one of James' most famous but controversial novels. The Bostonians was from its initial publication in serial form, a divisive wor...

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  • A Girl Like I:

    LOOS, Anita.
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    Presentation copy. Presentation copy to the actress Rosalind Russell and stage manager Charles Forsythe, inscribed by the author on the half-title:...

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  • An Artist of the Floating World.

    ISHIGURO, Kazuo.
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    Signed by the author. The author's second novel. A lovely signed example of the author's breakthrough work.First edition, first issue, signed by th...

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  • The Grapes of Wrath.

    STEINBECK, John.
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    'muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man'. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of t...

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  • Kiss Kiss.

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

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  • Islands in the Stream.

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
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    The first of Hemingway's fictional works to be published posthumously.First edition, first printing; 8vo; internally fine; publisher's green cloth...

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  • Blood Meridian.

    McCARTHY, Cormac.
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    First UK edition of McCarthy's epic novel Blood Meridian. This is McCarthy at his most baroque and apocalyptic.First UK edition; 8vo; slight tonin...

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  • Matilda.

    DAHL, Roald; BLAKE, Quentin (illustrator).
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    A first edition of Dahl's superb tale of a little girl whose innate genius has her pitted against her inane parents and irate headmistress. A clas...

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  • The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner [together with] The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    DEFOE, Daniel; CRUIKSHANK, George (illustrator).
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    A charming second impression of the first edition featuring George Cruikshank's illustrations.First edition thus, second impression with Cruikshan...

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