Fine jewellery historian Vivienne Becker selects the quintessential bijoux that represent the milestones of jewellery design of the last one hundr...

Rare inscribed copy. Probably the most famous of H.G. Wells' 'scientific romances', in which a scientist finds a way of turning himself invisible w...

First editions. A finely bound set of the first editions, first printings of Kipling's classic novel The Jungle Book, and its sequel The Second Jun...

Inscribed presentation copy of the most important medical biography. Fourth printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one great physicia...

Signed by the author. Comprising 51 songs by the doyen of dramatic, lyrical and musical wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called 'a sense of...

Of all my books, I like this the best...'. First edition in book form in variant binding. Dickens would write in his preface to the 1869 edition of...

An attractive, illustrated eight-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays, including his doubtful works, with a biography of the bard by the editor C...

Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere. A superb copy of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of the sonnets and narrative poems of England's most famous dra...

This edition was based on Edward Fitzgerald's translation, first published in 1859. The poem presents an interesting challenge to any reader tryin...

Presentation copies inscribed and initialled. A stunning set of Churchill's magnum opus, signed in vol. I and then initialled by him in all the rem...

Conrad's thriller was based on a true incident from the late nineteenth century - a bombing in Greenwich Park. His treatment of the psychology of ...

Rare first UK edition of Pinocchio. The rare first UK edition of Collodi's classic for children, originally published in book-form in Florence, Ita...

Churchill's first book. First edition, first issue of Churchill's first published work. It gives a detailed account of the 1897 military campaign o...

Inscribed by Annie Maria Harris nee Armitt. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: 'Mary Mackenzie from Mrs. Stanford Harris, Rydal Cottage, August ...

A near fine example. The story of Timmy and Goody Tiptoes is the only Beatrix Potter story apparently set in North America - although this is impli...

Inscribed by the President, First Lady, and Caroline Kennedy to Grandpa Joe. A superb association copy of this illustrated guide to The White House...

The Wind in the Willows, is a far more interesting book than its popular and often juvenile audience might suggest. First, it is the work of a wri...

The first complete edition of Chaucer printed in roman letter, also the first to provide descriptions of the manuscripts of Chaucer's works and th...

The best edition - signed by the author . The best edition of Wells' works, with the author's revisions to the texts, special Preface to each volum...

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...

A superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War. It is still regarded as a defining work of twentieth-century history, r...

In the original dust-jacket. The second volume of Churchill's autobiography including his early political career, the First World War...Gallipoli, ...