Present Perfect 2024
We are delighted to present our seasonal end-of-year catalogue, comprising rare books, manuscripts, maps and modern art. Make this season truly memorable with timeless treasures that hold stories from the past.
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Sparkling Cyanide.
CHRISTIE, Agatha.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /First published in the USA in February 1945 under the title of Remembered Death, it was published in the UK in December of the same year under Chr...
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Stikhotvoreniia [Poems].
AKHMATOVA, Anna.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £0.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00| /the first of Akhmatova's works to be published after the death of Stalin.Akhmatova (1889–1966) was one of the legendary figures of modern Russian ...
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Sto chetyre risunika k poeme N. V. Gogolia 'Mertvye Dushi' [One hundred and four illustrations for 'Dead Souls' by N.V.Gogol].
[GOGOL]. AGIN, Aleksandr. (illustrator)Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /An attractive copy of Agin's celebrated series of illustrations. Alexander Agin (1817-75) was a Russian graphic artist and illustrator and this se...
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Stories from the Pentamerone.
GOBLE, Warwick (illustrator).Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £1,650.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /A rarity in the original binding. The collection of Italian folk-tales by Giambattista Basile, Conte di Torrone, 1566-1632, (who is believed to hav...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [with] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Produced in significant numbers at the time but heavy and heavily read through the years, copies do not survive often in anything approaching the ...
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The Art of Archerie.
[MILITARY]. MARKHAM, Gervase.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /How the Bow and Arrow may againe profitably bee employed'. I have... shewed how the Bow and Arrow may againe profitably bee employed, and Revived, ...
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The Artists of My Life...
BRASSAÏ (pseud. HALASZ, Gyula).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Deluxe issue with signed print. The deluxe issue of Brassai's last book, specially bound and with a signed gravure print: 'Henri Matisse drawing fr...
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The Cat's Quizzer.
SEUSS, Dr. [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /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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The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke.
BROOKE, Rupert.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Containing some of Brooke's best remembered poems, Tiare Hahiti and The Soldier, with its famous opening line, 'If I should die, think only this o...
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The Complete Herbal.
[MEDICINE]. CULPEPER, Nicholas.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /An excellent commemorative edition, published on the 300th anniversary of Culpeper's Complete Herbal, reproducing the exact text and plates in col...
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The Complete Works of Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters.
[BRONTË SISTERS].Original price £825.00 - Original price £825.00Original price £0.00£825.00£825.00 - £825.00Current price £825.00| /Comprising: Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, The Professor, Villette, Shirley, Jane Eyre, Emma, Poems (by all three) an...
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The Crown Jewels.
[JEWELLERY]. BLAIR, Claude (editor).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /A sumptuous publication. A stunning and scholarly history of the British Crown Jewels, profusely illustratedLimited Edition, no. 171 of 650 numbere...
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The Fables of Aesop.
AESOP; L'Estrange, Sir Roger (translator).Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /An important illustrated edition. An exceptional copy of an important illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables, the text taken from the 1692 edition o...
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The Forsyte Saga.
GALSWORTHY, John.Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £0.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00| /With the dustjacket. The five volumes of the saga of the Forsyte family are here collected for the first time as 'The Forsyte Saga'. Very scarce in...
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The Golf Courses of the British Isles.
[GOLF]. DARWIN, Bernard.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /A comprehensive description of the most famous golf courses of the British Isles, accompanied by an attractive set of illustrations from original ...
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The Grapes of Wrath.
STEINBECK, John.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /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 te...
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The Grass is Singing.
LESSING, Doris.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Signed first edition of the author's first novel. An exceptional copy of the author's first novel, signed by her in black ink on the title page.Fir...
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The Gun at Home and Abroad.
[SHOOTING]. OGILVIE-GRANT, W.R.Original price £1,800.00 - Original price £1,800.00Original price £0.00£1,800.00£1,800.00 - £1,800.00Current price £1,800.00| /One of only 500 copies. Comprising of four works, entitled: British Game Birds and Wildfowl; British Deer and Ground Game; The Big Game of Africa &...
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The History of Ancient and Modern Wines.
[VITTICULTURE]. HENDERSON, Alexander.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Early account of modern winemaking. A lovely copy, in half-red morocco of Alexander Hamilton's History of Ancient and Modern Wines. One of the firs...
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The Holy Bible
[BIBLE. KING JAMES VERSION].Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Original silver 'furniture'. The King James Version, splendidly preserved in the original black morocco gilt binding furnished in silver. A handsom...
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The Holy Bible,
[SEDGLEY BINDING].Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00| /Exceptional contemporary mosaic binding. An exceptional example of the Oxford folio Bible in a striking contemporary mosaic binding by Thomas Sedgl...
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The Holy Bible,
[BIBLE. SILVER-GILT CASE].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Silver-gilt Renaissance Revival embossed Bible case. A sweet pocket King James Bible in a silver-gilt Renaissance Revival embossed case, the upper ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /The Hound of the Baskervilles is not merely one of the most famous of all Sherlock Holmes novels but also one of the great Edwardian novels. Belov...
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The Importance of Being Earnest.
WILDE, Oscar.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /One of 1000 copies. One of 1000 copies of Wilde's most celebrated play. First performed on 14th February 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest mark...
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